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GARBAGE RETURN :::: BAND PUTTING FINISHING TOUCHES ON NEW STUDIO ALBUM DUE OUT IN 2012

Posted in Artist Watch, News with tags Butch Vig, GARBAGE, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com on October 3, 2011 by Randy

Los Angeles, CA – October 3, 2011 – Garbage is currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on their fifth studio album and their first in seven years. The new album is being recorded in a basement in the Atwater Village area of Los Angeles, CA, the first to be recorded outside of Madison, WI. The as yet untitled album will be released in Spring 2012, and is being produced by Garbage, engineered by Billy Bush, and mixed by Butch Vig and Billy Bush.

“Years-worth of pent-up music came out in some bizarre ways- bleary cell phone memos became real songs, conversations turned into lyrics, and new computer gizmos inspired wicked tangents,” said the members of Garbage. “Ghosts came in, had their say. Everyone brought ideas, and everyone fought their corner. At the end of the day it all gets shoved through the four-way brain filter that is Garbage and it ends up sounding like nobody else. Red feathers and black tar.”

Even though it’s been seven years, there hasn’t been a female-fronted band since that has matched their inimitable sound, brashness and energy. Now free of all their corporate obligations, the band has been able to start again with a clean slate on their own terms. They add, “We are making a record filled with the music we love to hear. The new songs have been inspired more by what we haven’t been hearing rather than by what we have.”

After forming in Madison, WI, Garbage released their self-titled debut album in 1995 and rode a wave of visually arresting, female-fronted alternative rock bands. The album spawned the hit singles “Stupid Girl” and “Only Happy When It Rains” and was certified double platinum in Australia, theUnited Kingdom, and the United States. The band won the Breakthrough Artist Award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards. Their second album, Garbage 2.0, was released in 1998 and topped the charts in the United Kingdom. It was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. 2001’s Beautiful Garbage was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 10 Albums Of The Year. In 2005, Garbage released Bleed Like Me, earning the band it’s highest chart position with a No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart. In 2007, the band released a retrospective collection called Absolute Garbage. Garbage has sold over 12 million albums worldwide.

Garbage is Shirley Manson (vocals, guitar), Steve Marker (guitars, keyboards), Duke Erikson (guitars, keyboards) and Butch Vig (drums, loops).

www.garbage.com

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ED STONE ROCKWEAR™ Launches TEXTURES Clothing Line

Posted in Artist Watch, News with tags Dualism, TEXTURES, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com on September 30, 2011 by Randy

British clothing brand ED STONE ROCKWEAR™ and Dutch progressive technical metal band TEXTURES are proud to announce the launch of an exclusive t-shirt line based on song titles from the band’s new album Dualism, out now in North America, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia.

The 100% cotton t-shirts have a strictly limited run of 100 pieces per design. Once the first design sells out, the next design in the series will be revealed. The inaugural design, based on the TEXTURES song “Arms of the Sea,” was created by Jeremy Packer at ZombieYeti Studios and can be pre-ordered through October 14^th here. (NOTE: Pre-order only accepts English pounds.)

States the band on this new venture: “It’s really cool to be able to expand our collaboration with Ed Stone even more, with the release of the TEXTURES / Ed Stone clothing line! Oh yeah!”

The Dualism CD can be purchased physically at Nuclear Blast USA, Indiemerch.com, Amazon.com, FYE, Metal Club Stores, or your favorite local / national music retailer. Dualism can also be purchased digitally at Amazon.com MP3 and iTunes.

View the “Reaching Home” video on the band’s YouTube page.

GuitarWorld.com recently teamed up with the band to bring you an exclusive full album stream of Dualism. The exclusive also features a special video introduction recently filmed at the Guitar World studios in New York City. Head to GuitarWorld.com now to listen!

TEXTURES are currently on their first ever North American tour with Periphery, The Human Abstract and The Contortionist. Remaining “Frak The Gods” tour dates are:

29-09-2011 Mojoe’s Joliet, IL United States

30-09-2011 Rave Bar Milwaukee, WI United States

01-10-2011 MXTP Grand Rapids, MI United States

02-10-2011 Wreck Room Toronto, ON CANADA

03-10-2011 La Tulipe Montreal, QC CANADA

05-10-2011 The Palladium Worcester, MA United States

06-10-2011 Gramercy Theatre New York, NY United States

07-10-2011 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA United States

08-10-2011 The Kingdom Richmond,VA United States

Pre-sale tickets can be purchased via the online links on the band’s Facebook page.

Upcoming European shows for TEXTURES include:

German Release show

22-10-2011 Euroblast Koln Germany

Dutch Release show with TesseracT supporting

23-10-2011 Mezz Breda Netherlands

Face Tomorrow and Steak Number Eight supporting

17-11-2011 Vera Groningen Netherlands

18-11-2011 Tivoli de Helling Utrecht Netherlands

20-11-2011 LVC Leiden Netherlands

U.K. Co-Headline tour with The Ocean & opener Aliases

24-11-2011     Joiners                                  Southampton                United Kingdom
25-11-2011      Garage                                  London                        United Kingdom
26-11-2011    Rescue Rooms                    Nottingham                   United Kingdom
27-11-2011    Academy 3                       Manchester                  United Kingdom
28-11-2011    Cathouse                         Glasgow                       United Kingdom
29-11-2011      02 Academy 2                  Newcastle                    United Kingdom
01-12-2011    02 Academy 2                  Birmingham                 United Kingdom
02-12-2011    The Haunt                         Brighton                       United Kingdom

The Ocean supporting

03-12-2011 La Scene Bastille Paris France

Follow TEXTURES online at:

www.TEXTURESBAND.com
www.facebook.com/TEXTURES
www.youtube.com/TEXTURESTV
Twitter.com/TEXTURESBAND
www.myspace.com/TEXTURES

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Dan Chandler of Evans Blue: The Interview

Posted in 2011 Interviews, Artist Watch, News with tags Dan Chandler, Evans Blue, Randy Hall, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com, THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT on September 29, 2011 by Randy

While taking a break from Sounds+Sights Studios, Dan Chandler of Evans Blue dialed up Randy of The Rock Tribune. Listen below as he goes over recording the new album (due out December 20th), the Keeping Chase Foundation, and what Evans Blue fans mean to the band.

www.evansblue.com

www.twitter.com/evansbluemusic

Keeping Chase Foundation

A sneak preview of “This Time It’s Different” is available on EvansBlueTube here: http://youtu.be/34mSUhRv7_Q

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SLIPKNOT TO RELEASE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF IOWA ON NOVEMBER 1, 2011 DOUBLE CD/DVD SET WILL FEATURE ALL NEW ARTWORK AND MORE

Posted in Artist Watch, News, Releases with tags Iowa, Roadrunner Records, Slipknot, The Rock Tribune, TheRockTribune.com on September 28, 2011 by Randy

New York, NY: It’s been 10 years since Slipknot unleashed its second album, Iowa, on the world. Slipknot had impacted the music scene in revolutionary, unpredictable ways, and established themselves as a way of life for their fans with their 1999-released, self-titled debut. But Iowa was the album that further proved the band had fully arrived and had no intentions of leaving. It was the band’s statement that that they would continue to make music their way, according to their rules and always for their fans, with their middle fingers raised to the rest of the world.

To celebrate the album’s decade of existence, the band is releasing a special, tenth anniversary edition of this landmark release, which will drop on November 1, 2011.

The anniversary edition will include plenty of extras for the maggots and beyond to feast upon. It will be issued as a two-disc, one-DVD digipak with brand new artwork, including photography by M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan of the band. The first disc will comprise the originalIowa album, along with a remix of “My Plague” as an added bonus track. The second will include the full, live audio from the legendaryDisasterpieces DVD, where the band’s 2002 show at the London Arena was captured by 30 cameras and released as a concert film. The DVD will include Goat, a new film directed by Crahan, featuring never-before-seen interviews and footage showing the madness that surrounded the Iowa-era, plus four music videos.

The official track listings are as follows:

Disc 1: Iowa

People = Shit

Disasterpiece

My Plague

Everything Ends

The Heretic Anthem

Gently

Left Behind

The Shape

I Am Hated

Skin Ticket

New Abortion

Metabolic

Iowa

My Plague (New Abuse Mix)

Disc 2: Disasterpieces – Live In London 2002

People = Shit

Liberate

Left Behind

Eeyore

Disasterpiece

Purity

Gently

Eyeless

Drum Solo

My Plague

New Abortion

The Heretic Anthem

Spit It Out

Wait And Bleed

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Surfacing

Disc 3: Goat

Hour-long film capturing the insanity of Iowa – directed by M. Shawn Crahan.

Music Videos:

My Plague
Left Behind
The Heretic Anthem (Live)

People = Shit (Live)

In other Slipknot news, the band is bringing four tracks spanning its career to the Rock Band video game. Fans can download and play along to “Wait and Bleed,” “Left Behind,” “Pulse of the Maggots” and “Snuff” in Rock Band 3, available now.