The Used will headline the “Get A Life 2007” tour which is sponsored by Rockstar Energy Drink this summer. Say Anything, The Bled, Steet Drum Corps among others are also on the bill. The tour will kick off on September 1st and run through October 15th. Dates will be announced soon.
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Linkin Park will headline the Tokyo installment of the 24 hour, 7 continent Live Earth concert series on July 7, 2007, organizers announced today. The full artist lineup and ticketing information for Live Earth Tokyo, which is being staged at Makuhari Messe, will be announced on May 29.

Live Earth is setup to promote the awareness of the threat of global warming to our planet. Nine concerts are planned in various cities worldwide, including the United States (New York), United Kingdom (London), South Africa (Johannesburg), Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), China (Shanghai), Japan (Tokyo), Australia (Sydney), Germany (Hamburg), and Turkey (Istanbul).

Currently only the line-ups for the US, UK, and Australia shows have been named. Bands like The Police, AFI, Dave Matthews Band, Smashing Pumpkins, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, and more are set to converge in New York. London will play host to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Madonna, Duran Duran, Black Eyed Peas, and Foo Fighters, among others. Lastly, Australia will see the likes of Wolfmother, Jack Johnson, Ghostwriter, Eskimo Joe, and many others.
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The White Stripes have streamed the video to their latest single “Icky Thump”, check it out here.
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Stroke 9 have posted two more tracks, “Scream” and “7 Year Itch”, from their new album ‘Last of the International Playboys‘ on their MySpace page. The album is due out on June 5th.
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A new track from Will Haven entitled “Sammy Davis Jr’s One Good Eye” is now available on the bands new e-card.
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Once their current tour comes to an end on July 28th, Powerman 5000 plans to hit the studio to begin work on the follow-up to last years ‘Destroy What You Enjoy‘. The band hopes to have the album in stores by the end of the year.
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Bullets and Octane have announced they have parted ways with RCA Records. The band has completed work on their new album ‘Song for the Underdog‘ which will be release via Ares Records. The album will only be available at their shows for the time being but will be released digitally before being released to retail outlets this summer.

Summer tour dates with Unwritten Law are available here.
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Hungarian black metallers AETHERIUS OBSCURITAS and THOKKIAN VORTEX, the black metal solo project from Lord Kaiaphas (ex-ANCIENT), will release a split CD, entitled “The Saturnine Alliance”, at the end of June via Greece’s Sleazsy Rider Records.
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Belglian black metallers ICONOCLASM have posted the following message on their official web site: “After many years of joy during which we shared the stage with several great bands, ICONOCLASM has decided to go into a hibernation.
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ENTOMBED, DISASTER KFW and EVOCATION have been confirmed for the 2007 edition of the Up From The Ground festival, set to take place August 24-25 in Gemünden, Germany.
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Danish thrashers HATESPHERE have been confirmed as the headliners of the Rock Area festival, set to take place September 1-2 in Losheim, Germany.
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Christa Titus of Billboard.com recently conducted an interview with Ozzy Osbourne.
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C-187, the new band featuring former PESTILENCE mainman Patrick Mameli (guitar) alongside Tony Choy (bass; ATHEIST; ex-CYNIC), Sean Reinert (drums; CYNIC, ex-DEATH) and Tony Jelencovich (vocals; M.A.N, ex-TRANSPORT LEAGUE, MNEMIC), is putting the finishing touches on its debut album, entitled “Collision”, with Danish producer Jacob Hansen (RAUNCHY, INVOCATOR).
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