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“THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT”: EVANS BLUE SET TO RELEASE FIRST SONG FROM THEIR UPCOMING 4TH ALBUM ON iTUNES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4TH

Posted in Artist Watch, News, Releases with tags Evans Blue, Sounds+Sights Studios, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com, THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT on September 28, 2011 by Randy

Traverse City MI (28 September 2011) – Rock band EVANS BLUE is back in the Sounds+Sights Studios in Traverse City, Michigan, working on their 4^th studio album with long-time producer Trevor Kustiak. By popular demand from their fans, the band will release “This Time It’s Different,” the first song from the new album, on Tuesday, October 4^th, in honor of bass player Joe Pitter’s birthday. They will follow up the release with a Main Stage performance at BuzzFest 27 in Houston, TX on October 22^nd, guitarist Parker Lauzon’s birthday.

When asked about the new album, singer Dan Chandler said, “With the last record, we were writing songs before I even met the guys in person, really fast. Since then, we’ve grown a ton as a band: the chemistry between each member, the relationships, and the trust we have developed with each other.” He continues, “I think people will hear a big difference between this record and the last one; the album has a lot to say this time around, and it comes from every one of us in the band.”

Evans Blue plans to have the new album completed and ready to release in time for Christmas with a radio push for “This Time It’s Different” at the top of 2012.

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Evans Blue debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart in 2006 with The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume, which spawned the Top 5 single “Cold (But I’m Still Here).” They were nominated for a 2006 Juno Award for Best New Group. Their second album, THE PURSUIT BEGINS WHEN THIS portrayal OF LIFE ENDS, was released in July 2007 and debuted at #44* on the Billboard Top 200. Album 3, the self-titled evans|blue, was released independently in June 2009, and “Erase My Scars” went to #23* on the Billboard rock charts in 2010. Evans Blue has sold 1 million units worldwide.

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COAL CHAMBER Announces Plans to Reform for Australian SOUNDWAVE Shows

Posted in Artist Watch, News with tags COAL CHAMBER, Dez Fafara, SOUNDWAVE, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com on September 26, 2011 by Randy

Dez Fafara, co-founder and vocalist of 90’s alt-metal (or “spooky-core” as coined by devout fans) band COAL CHAMBER and current vocalist for Devil Driver, is announcing an upcoming reformation of the band specifically for SOUNDWAVE shows. COAL CHAMBER is highly-regarded for their countless high-energy performances with several of today’s biggest names and selling millions of albums worldwide.

Dez affirms, “COAL CHAMBER is playing SOUNDWAVE Down Under! These reunion shows are for the fans that want to see us again as well as all the people that never got to see COAL CHAMBER. It is and always will be a very special part of my life, so these few shows are for those people and for us. If you’re not from Australia, better get a ticket now to come see this event!”

“Australia has never seen us, nor have we seen them,” adds guitarist Meegs Rascón. “It will be an extraordinary exchange of energy and adrenaline. Hello Aussies, nice to meet you!”

Formed in 1993 by Dez and Meegs, COAL CHAMBER was busy selling out venues like The Roxy in West Hollywood, bringing out bands like System of a Downand Static X, and launching a new genre of metal in Los Angeles before they were even signed to Roadrunner Records in 1995. After what seemed like endless touring, the band recorded and released their debut self-titled album in February 1997. The album went RIAA Certified Gold in the United States. The band went on to tour several times with Pantera, Black Sabbath, and soon broke out in the UK while on tour with Machine Head and Napalm Death. During the first album cycle, Sharon Osbourne began managing the band.

Following the band’s headline run with Machine Head as direct support and Slipknot as opener (whom the band also helped bring to the masses), COAL CHAMBERreleased their next album, Chamber Music, in 1999. The album charted at #28 on the Billboard Top 100 chart and yielded a hit track, ‘Shock The Monkey’, featuringOzzy Osbourne.

In 2002, the band followed-up with their third and final album, Dark Days, which landed at #34 on the Billboard Top 100 chart. COAL CHAMBER released a compilation of several demo tracks and alternate studio recordings in 2003, entitled Giving The Devil His Due, and shortly after broke up due to personal reasons. Vocalist Dez Fafara went on to form his current band, DevilDriver.

“This reunion will mark a decade since we last played together, so staring at my brothers on stage face to face will be an emotional rollercoaster for me,” says Meegs. “Tears of joy would be an understatement to say the least. You know, all of us have gone through our separate journeys in life, but we’re coming back to rekindle this and throw the past in the past and put the future in our hands.”

Drummer Mike Cox adds, “Of all the great achievements COAL CHAMBER made in the past, getting back together after all we’ve been through will be the greatest achievement to date.”

“We’ve all grown up and put the personal past behind us now and are moving forward with these few shows in a spirit of friendship through music,” states Dez. “You must remember where you came from in order to know where you are going.”

For more information on COAL CHAMBER, please visit http://coalchamberofficial.com/.

REIMAGINE MUSIC PRESENTS: Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute To Nirvana’s Nevermind

Posted in News, Releases with tags Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute To Nirvana's Nevermind, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, REIMAGINE MUSIC, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com on September 25, 2011 by Randy

Featuring Homages to Nirvana from The Album Leaf, Maps & Atlases, Murder By Death, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s, mewithoutYou and Many More!

Out October 25th

September 24th marks the 20 year anniversary of the original release date ofNirvana’s Nevermind which hit store shelves and changed music on the same date in 1991. Reimagine Music is proud to help celebrate the twentieth anniversary of such an important album by releasing Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute To Nirvana’s Nevermind. This special tribute album features contributions from some of today’s best alternative and indie rock artists and will be available on October 25th. Bands that have contributed their unique takes on Nirvana classics includeHawthorne Heights, Story Of The Year, Anthony Raneri (of Bayside), Finger Eleven, The Album Leaf, Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s, mewithoutYou, Maps & Atlases, Murder By Death and Pitty.Promotional Stream: “On A Plain” as performed by The Album Leaf

Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute To Nirvana’s Nevermind 1. The Dutch Masters (featuring Brent and Courtney of The Dandy Warhols) “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

2. mewithoutYou “In Bloom”

3. Civil Twilight “Come As You Are”

4. Story Of The Year “Breed”

5. Hawthorne Heights “Lithium”

6. Finger Eleven “Polly”

7. Will Dailey “Territorial P*****gs”

8. Maps & Atlases “Drain You”

9. Murder By Death “Lounge Act”

10. Pitty “Stay Away”

11. The Album Leaf “On A Plain”

12. Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s “Something In the Way”

13. Anthony Raneri (of Bayside) “About A Girl”

“On A Plain” performed by The Album Leaf is the first single off of the compilation and will be available on iTunes Saturday, September 24th, the actual anniversary of original release date of Nevermind. Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute To Nirvana’s Nevermind will be available for pre-order on iTunes on Tuesday, September 27th.

The dark songs that make up Nevermind so eloquently personified teenage angst that it took FM radio and, subsequently, MTV by storm effectively ushering ‘alternative rock’ to a mainstream audience. Nirvana’s place in rock history would be secured by creating the most influential album of their generation. Kurt Cobain’s poetic, self deprecating, deeply introspective lyrics, and the stunning musical energy of Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic continues to attract countless listeners the world over, pulled into its orbit, and furthering Nevermind‘s status as one of the most celebrated albums of all time.

Come As You Are is produced by the acclaimed Jim Sampas whose other tributes to seminal albums such as Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska w/ Johnny Cash, Aimee Mann, Ben Harper and others and The Beatles’ Rubber Soul w/ Sufjan Stevens, Ted Leo, Low, and others, as well as the Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard album One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur, are regarded as touchstones of the genre. Each reimagining is a unique experience because Sampas comes at the music from a fresh perspective, combining the right artists with the perfect track, all with an eye toward producing insightful performances that capture the original intent of the tracks.

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PANIC! AT THE DISCO PREMIER NEW TRACK “MERCENARY” ON IDOLATOR

Posted in News, Releases with tags BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY, MERCENARY, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com on September 23, 2011 by Randy

TRACK TO BE FEATURED ON FORTHCOMING

BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY – THE ALBUM DUE OUT OCTOBER 4TH

Check out the brand new track “Mercenary” from Panic! At The Disco,

currently premiering on Idolator: HERE

Batman: Arkham City – The Album will be released in conjunction with the highly anticipated forthcoming videogame Batman: Arkham City. Featuring 11 new original tracks, Batman: Arkham City – The Album will be released on October 4th, two weeks prior to the game’s North American release on October 18th. The Batman: Arkham City Collector’s Edition of the game will include a download code for the album along with additional bonus content.

The artists featured on Batman: Arkham City – The Album approached their contributions to the album with their own unique interpretations of the stories surrounding Batman. The result is an eclectic mix of dynamic, atmospheric songs for an album that will appeal to fans of both the artists and Batman: Arkham City. Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez said, “I write in a very conceptual format with the stories that surround Coheed and Cambria, but Batman has a much larger, defined history and rules that go along with it. My goal was to find universal themes from Batman’s existing history to help give the lyrics legs and dimension so that the song could live within that world.”

Check out the track listing below:

1. Panic! At The Disco – Mercenary

2. Coheed and Cambria – Deranged

3. The Duke Spirit – Creature

4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Shadow On The Run

5. Blaqk Audio – Afterdark

6. The Raveonettes – Oh, Stranger

7. (Crosses) – The Years

8. The Damned Things – Trophy Widow

9. Daughtry – Drown In You

10. The Boxer Rebellion – Losing You

11. Serj Tankian – Total Paranoia