Metal / Hard Rock (19/07/2004)
Staind, Disturbed, The Crystal Method, N.E.R.D., Sevendust, Finch, Finger Eleven, Three Days Grace, Thornley and local bands join Velvet Revolver for the band's first major festival
LATROBE, PA. (Rolling Rock) - Rolling Rock's getting ready to rock Westmoreland Fairgrounds for its fifth anniversary and VELVET REVOLVER will be center stage to shake it up. Not only is the country's most anticipated one day music festival going back home to its Latrobe, PA roots on Saturday, July ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (19/07/2004)
Valerian - The Knight Errants of Rock
NEW YORK (City Canyons Records) - City Canyons Records, indie music's "new sound in town" is proud to announce the signing of a groundbreaking new group, Finland's Valerian. The three album-deal contract between the downtown Manhattan label and the Finnish group kicks off with the late fall 2004 release ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (16/07/2004)
The Germans X-Headz releases debut album 'Dirty Pounding Gasoline' on Aug. 3rd
BERLIN/NEW YORK (Locomotive Music) - Locomotive Music unleash another barrel of smoldering metal with Dirty Pounding Gasoline, the debut album from German artists The X-Headz on August 3, 2004. Originally a hardcore outfit formed in '92, The X-Headz redirected their sound with new vocalist Christoph ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (09/07/2004)
Scott Weiland sentenced to drug rehabilitation
LOS ANGELES (Velvet Revolver Fans Website) - Velvet Revolver Scott Weiland was sentenced Thursday to serve a six month stint in a drug rehabilitation program. The Velvet Revolver frontman also received three months of court enforced supervision. The judgment serves as the result of Weiland pleading ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (09/07/2004)
Axl loses Guns battle
LOS ANGELES (G'N'Roses Fans Website) - The ongoing soap opera that is Gun's N'Roses enters another chapter as Axl Rose was denied an injunction to the release of early GNR Recordings. In the early 80's, the band was known as Hollywood Rose and recorded a tape of demos financed by the parents of then ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (09/07/2004)
The summer of Sammy!
LOS ANGELES (Hip-O/UMe) - Sammy Hagar is on top of the world. It's a world of art and commerce that collides with a joyful noise. It's the best of both worlds and you're more than welcome to join. There's only one requirement: you gotta smile. That's right, smile. Just like Sammy. He always smiles ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (06/07/2004)
Scott Weiland pleads in DUI case
NEW YORK (Velvet Revolver newsletter) - Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland pleaded no contest to a DUI charge on Friday. Weiland was charged after he drove his BMW into a parked van in Los Angeles last October. The singer will be back in court for sentencing on Thursday. Velvet Revolver have been ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (06/07/2004)
Malice420 to appear at Metalfest XVIII in Milwaukee
SAN DIEGO, CA (www.malice20.com) - Malice420 will be performing at Metalfest XVIII at the Modjeska Theatre, 1134 E. Mitchell Street in Milwaukee on July 30th and 31st. Malice420, originally from San Diego have been together since April 2000. They have played about 200 shows in San Diego and LA bringing ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (03/07/2004)
Limp Bizkit not guilty
AUBURN, MI. (Limp Bizkit Fans Website) - Limp Bizkit will not be held accountable for injuries suffered by a fan at a 2000 concert in Auburn Hills, MI. A crowd member allegedly kicked a paramedic in the head after fans swarmed the floor during the show. The Michigan Court of Appeals said in a unanimous ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (01/07/2004)
Famed hard rock vocal star Paul Shortino will premiere live his powerful new single 'Freedom'
LOS ANGELES (Jensen Communications) - Renowned to many as the outrageous Duke Fame in the quintessential rockumentary 'This Is Spinal Tap,' veteran hard rocker Paul Shortino is best known for his stellar vocal pyrotechnics with Rough Cutt and Quiet Riot. Over the years, he's also won acclaim for a diverse ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (01/07/2004)
Aldo Nova and Warrant keep '80s real
NEW YORK (Chipster Entertainment) - The glamourization of all things '80s continues to dominate the culture wars with a vengeance – from VH-1 to the local fashion mall, from video rental stores to the mouse-clicks of eBay snipers around the world. Exemplified by the rags-to-riches sagas of musicians ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (30/06/2004)
The Donnas return to the studio and begins sessions for second Atlantic set
NEW YORK (Atlantic Recording press release) - Atlantic recording group the Donnas have entered the studio to begin work on the eagerly anticipated follow-up to their breakthrough 2002 label debut, "SPEND THE NIGHT." The Bay Area-based band is currently ensconced at Los Angeles' Conway Studio with producer ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (30/06/2004)
Muse drummer's father dies at Glastonbury Festival
LONDON, UK (Muse Fans Website) - The father of Muse drummer Dominic Howard has collapsed and died at the Glastonbury Festival. Bill Howard had been watching his son's band perform on the main Pyramid stage at the festival where they were one of the headline acts, just before he collapsed in the early ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (30/06/2004)
Retrospect Records releasing July 10th the new album by Boston band OK Panic titled 'Deafinition'
BOSTON, MA. (Retrospect Records) - In what promises to be a show to remember, Retrospect Records is hosting a July 10th release party with performances at the SKYBAR in Somerville, MA. Performing on the bill with OK PANIC will be original bands SED and STRING THEORY and some special guests will be making ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (29/06/2004)
White Stripes dis doc
NEW YORK (White Stripes Official Website) - When filmmaker George Roca asked if he could shoot the White Stripes at a past New York show, Jack and Meg said sure as long as he understood the band would own the film. They even signed a contract to that effect. So when the White Stripes were unhappy with ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (28/06/2004)
'Loose, High & Free' distributed in America
NEW YORK (Secret Heroes Official Website) - SECRET HEROES have set up a US-based distribution for their new album "Loose, High & Free". The critically acclaimed retro rock debut is now available online through CDBaby (https://www.cdbaby.com/secretheroes) and Tower Records (https://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=CDB0720950012). ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (25/06/2004)
Lostprophets latest album 'Start Something' certified RIAA gold
NEW YORK (Columbia Records) - News of the Lostprophets summer tour comes on the heels of the RIAA gold certification of Start Something, the Lostprophets' critically-acclaimed sophomore album. Released in the U.S. in February 2004, Start Something debuted at No 33 on the Billboard 200 bestselling albums ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (25/06/2004)
Bloodsimple sign to Bullygoat/Warner Bros. Records
BURBANK, CA - (Warner Bros.) - New York based hard rockers Bloodsimple have signed to Bullygoat Records with distribution through Warner Bros. Records. Bullygoat Records was founded by Chad Gray, vocalist for the rock band Mudvayne. This is the first signing under a new arrangement between the labels. ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (24/06/2004)
Metallica readies 'Monster' EP release on July 13
BURBANK, CA (Warner Bros.) - In conjunction with the July 9, 2004 opening of the Metallica documentary film "Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster," Elektra Records will issue a deluxe CD+T package of the same name. The package, set for release on July 13, will feature six live Metallica classics as well ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (24/06/2004)
Tommy Lee is a 'lousy Deejay'!
NEW YORK (Motley Crue Fans Website) - Pamela Anderson's husband Tommy Lee was thrown out of a party in Bellagio when he played lousy music and behaved in a disgraceful manner. "He was playing lousy music. Some of it was his own and most of it was totally unrecognizable, and the bottom line is, the crowd ...
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