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New Album From Janet Jackson Due In Februrary
New album on a new label in the new year!
Janet Jackson’s, as-yet-untitled, debut album with Island Def Jam will be released in February. The artist is also prepping a worldwide tour to promote the new album. This will be [...]
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Jackson 5 to tour next year?
courtesy of NME.com
Michael Jackson is set to rejoin the Jackson 5 for a world tour next year, according to his brother Jermaine.
The brothers–Tito, Jermaine, Michael, Jackie, Marlon, and Randy–last toured together as a six-piece in 1984 before Michael left, in between his massive-selling [...]
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Black Lips, Deerhunter, Mastodon to Appear in ATL Doc
Some twenty odd years ago, movie producer Bill Cody helmed Athens, Ga.: Inside/Out, a film detailing the vibrant music scene emerging from the Georgian college town in the mid-1980s. Cody, alongside music historian/documentarian Chris Dortch II and Silver Jew producer Matt Robinson, has begun crafting [...]
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Extreme set to return
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Extreme are set to reunite in the spring of 2008 with their first album of all new material in 13 years reports BW&BK.
The band features original members Nuno Bettencourt (guitar), Gary Cherone (vocals) and Pat Badger (bass), along with new drummer Kevin Figueiredo.
In the coming [...]
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Interpol release ltd edition album
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Interpol released a limited edition of their critically acclaimed album, ‘Our Love to Admire’ on 19th November on Capitol/Parlophone.
The album features a live DVD EP with songs taken from, ‘Our Love to Admire’ as well as the previous album, ‘Antics’.
Tracks were recorded at a show [...]
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Eazy E compilation released
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Twelve years after his death at the age of 31, the music world continues to celebrate N.W.A’s hardcore rap pioneer Eazy-E.
On December 4, Capitol/Priority will release Featuring… Eazy-E, a new 16-track collection of his best collaborations and rare solo recordings.
The compilation includes four previously [...]
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Quiet Riot’s frontman found dead
by: Marco Gandolfi
Quiet Riot frontman Kevin DuBrow was found dead in his Las Vegas home on Sunday by friends, according to a report on thevegaseye.com.
In 1983 DuBrow led Quiet Riot into the history books when the band’s debut album, “Metal Health,” became the first heavy metal [...]
