Porcupine Tree Drummer Gavin Harrison To Perform At Guitar Center's Drum-off Finals
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - Guitar Center is on the hunt to select America's next great undiscovered drummer in a nationwide competition: Guitar Center's Drum-Off. The ongoing beats battle consisting of more than 4,000 drummers nationwide culminates in a final event slated for ...
| Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess: 'We Are Each Very Connected With Our Roots, So This Induction Feels Especially Awesome!'
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Relations) - Just last night, The Long Island Music Hall of Fame held it's official ceremony to induct this year's crop of talented musicians and industry insiders alike into it's hallowed halls. And standing alongside rock icon Lou Reed and hip-hop legends Eric ...
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Porcupine Tree Drummer Gavin Harrison To Perform At Guitar Center's Drum-off Finals
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Relations) - Guitar Center is on the hunt to select America's next great undiscovered drummer in a nationwide competition: Guitar Center's Drum-Off. The ongoing beats battle consisting of more than 4,000 drummers nationwide culminates in a final event slated for ...
| Dream Theater's John Myung: 'Being Inducted Is Like Passing An Important Mile Marker In Our Career...'
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - Tonight Long Island-based prog masters Dream Theater will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Standing beside rock icon Lou Reed and hip-hop legends Eric B & Rakim amongst many other inductees, Dream Theater bassist John Myung checked ...
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Cavalera Conspiracy Announce 'Blunt Force Trauma'
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - Cavalera Conspiracy announced today the title of their second album, Blunt Force Trauma. The band released Inflikted in 2008 to much critical and fan acclaim. The album was a momentous occasion in the heavy metal universe, as it reunited brothers Max ...
| Tomorrow Never Comes For Beatallica, Catalog Is Already Available At Itunes
Los Angeles, CA (Top40 Charts/ Oglio Records) - For Beatallica, tomorrow never comes, it's already here as their entire catalog is available on iTunes including the rare Winter Plunderband EP. Beatallica is the the only band in the world legally approved to mash up Metallica and The Beatles into brand ...
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Berkleemusic And Guitar Wizard Steve Vai Join Forces To Deliver Online Guitar Course Featuring Vai's Signature Techniques
Boston, MA (Top40 Charts/ Berklee Music) - Berkleemusic, the online continuing education division of Berklee College of Music, is unveiling an exclusive new online course with guitar legend, Grammy award-winning artist, and Berklee alum, Steve Vai. Steve Vai Guitar Techniques provides an unprecedented ...
| Dream Theater's John Petrucci: 'It Is A Tremendous Honor For Us To Be Inducted Into The Long Island Music Hall Of Fame'
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - On Tuesday, November 16th, The Long Island Music Hall of Fame will hold it's official ceremony to induct this year's crop of talented musicians and industry insiders alike into it's hallowed halls. And standing alongside rock icon Lou Reed and hip-hop ...
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Dethcentrik Announces It Has Begun Work On Debut Full-length Album
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Dethcentrik Official Website) - Dethcentrik has announced today that they have begun work on their debut album entitled "Crucified Babies." Along with the announcement the band released a track elusively for stream on their MySpace page, and confirmed a list of that tracks ...
| Dream Theater Auditioning 'World Class' Drummers
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Gibson Official Website) - In an interview with Metal Messiah Radio, Dream Theater singer James LaBrie addressed the prog metal band's plans following the departure of drummer Mike Portnoy. LaBrie told DJ D.C. Green that the band is approaching the issue of Portnoy's replacement ...
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Slipknot Ask That Thieves Return Items Stolen From Paul Gray's Grave
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - As posted on Slipknot's official site> just moments ago, the band writes: "In a very upsetting turn of events we have learned that some gifts left for Paul at his grave site have been stolen. There were statues of a gargoyle as well as a Buddah that ...
| Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess Will Present His Award-winning Morphwiz At Sf Appshow
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - MorphWiz, chosen as 'Best Music Creation App' in the first-ever Billboard Music App Awards, will be demonstrated by its creator, Jordan Rudess, keyboardist of legendary progressive metal masters Dream Theater, at the one-year anniversary of the SF AppShow. ...
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Hail The Villain's 'Runaway' Named The Official Theme Song For WWE's Survivor Series
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - World Wrestling Entertainment has excitedly announced Hail The Villain's 'Runaway' as the Official Theme Song for this year's Survivor Series pay-per-view event. Survivor Series is the second longest running pay-per-view event in WWE history behind WrestleMania, ...
| Baptized In Blood Premiere 'Dirty's Back' With Noisecreep
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - "[Justin Timberlake] brought sexy back, now we're bringin' dirty back! Dig it," Baptized in Blood guitarist Josh Torrance told Noisecreep. ...
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The Parlor Mob Update: New Bassist In The Fold, New Album In Pre-production
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - Since releasing the debut album And You Were a Crow in the spring of 2008, The Parlor Mob toured incessantly for a little over a year. And once they finished their mission to bring their music to the masses last winter, the guys began on another journey: ...
| Sex, Drugs And Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi Unhappy With Former Tour Manager's Memoir
Santa Monica, CA (Top40 Charts/ 429 Records) - Bon Jovi's meteoric rise from small town New Jersey to international superstardom is the stuff legends are made of. Now, former Bon Jovi tour manager, Richard Bozzett guides us through his years on the road with one of the world's most iconic bands, with ...
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Nickelback Frontman Talks Touring, Songwriting And His Brand New Signature Les Paul
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ RoadRunner Records) - Nickelback just completed their encore tour for Dark Horse this past weekend with a big party in Las Vegas. But before the trek came to it's fitting end, Billboard.com caught up with singer/guitarist Chad Kroeger to discuss the art of crafting a set ...
| Dedicated To John Heartfield - The First Five Years Of Metal Postcard Records Releases
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Metal Postcard Records) - Metal Postcard Records started by founder Sean Hocking in 2005 to highlight Sydney's ignored underground acts such as electronica duo Ollo and mash up artists Wax Audio & Dsico (that no talent hack) has grown over the past 5 years to include artists ...
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Fear The State 'Goes Green' On Gangsters & Rockstars Video
New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Fear The State Official Website) - New England Independent band Fear The State, Marc Amendola, Guitar /Vocals, Jeff Sobon, Bass, and Jim Dizm, on Drums, have a new video, directed and edited by Greg Tsiales at RVP Studios, for the groups latest single 'Gangster & Rockstars', ...
| Metallica To Headline Call Of Duty: Black Ops Launch Event
Santa Monica, CA (Top40 Charts/ MTV Games) - Metallica has partnered with Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) to headline the Call of Duty: Black Ops launch event on November 4 at Santa Monica Airport's Hangar 8. The event will feature a performance by the GRAMMY-Award winning band, honor the ...
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