Tours: Hole / Foxy Shazam

Hole has announced that their upcoming month-long reunion tour will begin June 22nd and feature support from Foxy Shazam. Hole released Nobody’s Daughter this year, their first new album in eight years. First formed in Los Angeles in 1989, the band was together until 2002. Since then, frontwoman Courtney Love has become better known as gatekeeper of Kurt Cobain’s estate. The band’s most critically acclaimed album, Live Through This, was released just days after Cobain’s suicide in 1994.

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TESTAMENT Guitarist Remembers DEBBIE ABONO

TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick has issued the following statement regarding the passing of Debbie Abono, a well-respected and much-loved manager and promotional machine behind some of San Francisco Bay Area’s strongest metal bands (POSSESSED, FORBIDDEN, EXODUS, VIO-LENCE, SKINLAB): “In the mid-1980s, when most folks over forty were afraid of metal, there was Debbie Abono, a kind, sophisticat
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Skeleton Crew to release The Scandals’ new album

Skeleton Crew Records, the punk and hardcore label formed by Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance, has announced the release of a new album from New Jersey’s Scandals. The melodic punk band will be releasing their album, The Sound Of Your Stereo, in June.

Check out two songs from the band on their MySpace page. You can also check out the title video from their debut EP.
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Swingin’ Utters to release “Brand New Lungs” 7-inch

Swingin' Utters Prior to their upcoming new full length, Here, Under Protest, Swingin’ Utters will be releasing a new 7-inch titled Brand New Lungs. The release, due out June 22, 2010 on vinyl and digital, is their first new release since 2003’s Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones.

The band will also be hitting the road for a run of dates beginning in June. Check those dates out here. Earlier this year, the band was the subject of a tribute album titled Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute to Swingin’ Utters.

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