Pearl Jam to Headline Virgin Festival in Calgary

It has just been announced that Pearl Jam will headline the Virgin Festival in Calgary on Saturday, August 8th. This year’s Virgin Festival will be held at WinSport Canada’s Canada Olympic Park. Get all the ticketing info at http://www.virginfestival.ca/

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Paramore see with ‘brand new eyes’

Paramore has titled their highly-anticipated new record brand new eyes and announced it will be released on September 29. Co-produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance) and Paramore themselves, the 11-song album is the follow-up to their breakthrough 2007 record RIOT! The lead single, “Ignorance,” will be released digitally next Tuesday, July 7.

‘brand new eyes‘ will be offered as a standard CD, digitally and as a limited edition deluxe package, which includes a 40-page hardcover journal, a vinyl 7″ single with four bonus acoustic songs, a making-of DVD, a poster and much more.

Singer Hayley Williams spoke to MTV News about the deluxe package, saying, “We’re taking the journal where I wrote all the lyrics and the meanings of each song, as we were going through the writing process, [and] we’re putting that journal in a deluxe package of the record that will come out. And the other album titles are in there, from the actual discussion where we sat down in our kitchen in Malibu and hashed it out. There weren’t too many. One of them was ‘Misguided Ghost,’ which is actually the title of a song on the record… and then another one was ‘The Backwards Race,’ which was a pretty good one, I got to admit. But from very early on, we knew what we were going to call this album. We really felt like brand new eyes just felt right.”

Paramore is currently on tour opening up for No Doubt. They will kick off their own North American headlining tour later this summer, followed by dates in Europe and the U.K.

brand new eyes track list:

1. “Careful”
2. “Ignorance”
3. “Playing God”
4. “Brick By Boring Brick”
5. “Turn It Off”
6. “The Only Exception”
7. “Feeling Sorry”
8. “Looking Up”
9. “Where The Lines Overlap”
10. “Misguided Ghosts”
11. “All I Wanted”

Alice In Chains Tease New Track

Below is a teaser for the new song “A Looking in View” from Alice In Chains. This is the first sample of new music for the band’s forthcoming album, “Black Gives Way to Blue”, their first studio release in 14 years. The record will see a release through Virgin on September 29.

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Photo Courtesy Lindsey Martin

Taken at 2009’s Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio, May 16th. Watch the interview with Guitarist, Sameer Bhattacharya below.

Soundgarden Reunion In The Works?

For good or ill, all the music from the 90s is coming back. Sure, the return of Limp Bizkit, Sugar Ray, and that guy from Smash Mouth making a country record isn’t really good news, but at least we’ve got Creed and Blur reunions to wash that down. Now we can add an inevitable Soundgarden reunion to the list.

When the band, sans Chris Cornell, reformed for a set of old Soundgarden favorites with Tad Doyle and Tom Morello in late March, the reunion talk was sparked. Then Chris Cornell started using some cryptic language in interviews to suggest that he was open to the idea of getting the band back together, but he was careful not to turn the spotlight off the promotion of his current solo project.

Now in an interview by Kerrang! (via Blabbermouth) with Shinedown’s Brent Smith, the frontman let a new development slip: “There’s talk of a reuniting of Soundgarden in the States soon,” he said. “I know actually someone specific who told me that, who is actually specifically in their organization. Kinda told me that they’re talking about it.”

oops Brent you may have to divulge your sources more specifically

Wentz Denies Fall Out Boy Split

Fall Out Boy star Pete Wentz has denied the rockers are set to go their separate ways, even though they have no plans to make any more albums.

The bassist shocked fans earlier this week by taking to his Twitter page to admit the band’s last record, 2008’s “Folie a Deux,” may be their “swan song.”

But Wentz insists the band is set to continue, they just won’t be making any new music.

He tells MTV.com, “No, we’re not calling it quits, but we’ve no future album plans right now. We can’t quit, we’re waiting to get fired.

“I think it’s all in context. There aren’t any new Fall Out Boy songs because we don’t write for the sake of it. We will stop doing Fall Out Boy when it stops being fun.”

Marilyn Manson Demands Death Toll Recognition

Marilyn Manson says that if he’s going to be blamed when kids go wild in school shooting sprees, he’d like to see some credit for it.

The shock-rocker has been discussing the aftermath of events in May when 15-year-old Justin Doucet of Louisiana, USA, ordered a teacher to say “Hail Marilyn Manson” at gunpoint, and began shooting when she refused. He missed, but went to a toilet where he shot himself in the head, dying some days later.

“On the new record I say, ‘F*ck the TV and the radio.  I’m gonna take credit for the death toll’. It’s all I get blamed for. So if I’m going to get blamed for it, I want credit for it.” says Manson.  hmm

TV/TV

New York pop-rock outfit TV/TV: meet young Josh Ocean, Matt Walczak, Doc Holliday, and Camille Olivier, all friends from Manhattan, Brooklyn, North Jersey, and even Fire Island. TV/TV is New York, one listen to the band’s forthcoming EP entitled Not Enough Red and you will understand.
But when the band originally started in a small East Village apartment with a residency at well known New York club Pianos, little did they know where their journey would take them.

“Opening up for a band like The Bravery in our hometown, for one example, has really put in to perspective for us what it means to be a seasoned mainstream rock band that can tastefully combine elements of Indie and Pop” says bassist, Matt Walczak.

To imagine the band’s current sound, think The Killers and The Bravery with the extroversion of Jet and the Rolling Stones, that delicate balance between indie and power pop and you’ve got TV/TV.

In late 2007, TV/TV released their debut EP Something To Get Excited About, which they recorded with power-producer duo Zach and Kenneth (All Time Low, Mayday Parade, Cartel) at Treesound studios in Atlanta.  With the success of the release on iTunes, growing popularity in and around New York City and multiple sold out shows at The Knitting Factory and Bowery Ballroom — both legendary venues in NYC — it was clear that TV/TV was poised to become something special.

In late 2008, the press caught on, and the boys were featured in Seventeen, Pop Star, Billboard, Alternative Press, Blackbook, Amp and Substream, to name a few.  Additionally, TV/TV earned placement on MTV’s The Hills, The Real World, E! Channel’s Living Lohan and Flash Gordon. EA Sports asked TV/TV to supply a track for the NHL 2009 video game as one of the game’s main mantras, and, as if that wasn’t enough, the band packed up and hit the road to “do it the right way” as singer Josh Ocean puts it.

After nearly two months on the road and an even better live show than before, TV/TV headed home for their first attempt at headlining prestigious New York venue, the Highline Ballroom.  Earlier that week, MTV approached front man Josh Ocean to appear on hit reality show MADE. Josh’s mission: to turn a young girl into a rock star. Taping for the show kicked off that very weekend, just in time for MTV’s cameras to roll on the Highline performance.  The show sold out long before the band took the stage as all of America was watching, marking a major turning point in the band’s career. And it doesn’t look like things will slow down anytime soon.

The buzz was so intense that festival mogul Kevin Lyman caught wind of the band and asked them to be a part of the 2009 Van’s Warped Tour’s full schedule. When the band played the kickoff party in early 2009, Lyman even stated in his press conference that Katy Perry was the act to break on his tour in 08′, and TV/TV was one of the next acts to take the big step.

In early 2009, the band played a full week of SXSW showcases in Austin to packed clubs before heading for the west coast to record their second release with tastemaker artist and producer Bleu McAuley (Jonas Brothers, Boys Like Girls) and mega-mixer Mark Needham (The Killers). The result?  An EP of stadium-level rock songs slated to be released on June 30th via Itunes worldwide, Rhapsody, Emusic and Smartpunk. Early 2009 also found the boys at #1 and #2 on AOL Music’s Top 40 chart as well as #5 and #6 on Billboard’s AOL Music Total Monthly Streams chart. In mid-June, AOL honored TV/TV by naming them a band “About To Pop.”

Seeing the global reaction to the band’s music, TV/TV decided to devote the next few years supporting the new release, first by hitting the road with the Van’s Warped tour for the next three months of summer and then by finalizing plans to tour the UK in Fall. “It has been the plan since day one to make this an internationally touring act,” manager Lucas Keller says.

First Piano’s –  next Madison Square Garden!

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