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Kicking off in Scranton, PA on October 17th, Island Records recording artists, Thrice and Thursday join forces for a full scale U.S. tour. This pairing of incredible bands will give fans the opportunity to experience the unbridled energy and emotionally charged sounds of both artists. Thursday and Thrice are representative of a growing new musical scene. As the New York Times Magazine recently wrote, “What do you get when you mix crashing guitars, wrenchingly confessional lyrics and vocals that can peel paint? The new poetics of suburban living.” This two month tour will be sponsored by MTV2 and Alternative Press.… Read more »

Recording an album can put a lot of pressure on a band. Just ask the Strokes, who are getting ready to release their second album Room On Fire on October 20. Vocalist Julian Casablancas admits that he felt a lot of stress when working on the upcoming album, the follow-up 2001’s Is This It. Casablancas told MTV, “If you’re in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it’s a very special thing. It’s those sorts of… Read more »

DeKalb County authorities say they are looking for a member of the platinum-selling R&B group Jagged Edge after they found two guns, 13 pounds of marijuana and about $6,000 in the singer’s home. Deputies searched Kyle Norman’s Decatur home Thursday morning and reported finding the drugs, cash, a 9 mm handgun and an InterTec.45-caliber handgun. Deputies arrested seven men who were inside the home. They did not find 27-year-old Norman. “We want him to know that we are looking for him,” said Mikki Jones, spokeswoman for the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department. The Grammy-nominated group has released three albums, each of… Read more »

Sum 41 will start writing the follow-up to 2002’s Does This Look Infected?, next month in their hometown of Toronto. After putting the finishing touches on the songs this fall, Sum 41 plans to head into the studio early next year to record an album that’s a bit different from the rest of their material. Bassist Cone McCaslin told Rolling Stone, “It’s going to be more metal-ish-more of a Master Of Puppets thing, but Deryck Whibley can’t sing like [Metallica’s] James Hetfield, so there’s going to be a lot of choruses. Like ‘Still Waiting’ (from Infected)-heavy verses and melodic choruses.… Read more »

R.E.M. beings its six-week North American tour on Friday (August 29) at Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver-where the trio has been working on its next studio album. The new tour is not supporting a particular album, since the group’s next release, In Time: The Best Of R.E.M., 1988-2003, doesn’t come out until October 28. But bassist Mike Mills revealed that the group doesn’t feel like it has to have a specific reason to tour. “I don’t often think about tours as supporting albums, although the next one we do will,” Mills said. “This one, it’s touring around the Best Of, so… Read more »

A message on whfs.com annouced the cancellation of The Fall Edition of HFStival, which was to take place October 4. The message reads: “Due to scheduling conflict HFStival – The Fall Edition has been cacelled. Tickets can be refunded at place of purchase – or just hold on to ’em and we’ll see you next spring.” Sources indicate that Infinity Radio, corporate owners of WHFS, were unhappy with ticket sales for the event. Concerts in general have seen lower ticket sales this year. The annual HFStival was a two-day event, but was scaled back this year to only one day.

The guitarist with modern rock band Hoobastank is in serious but stable condition following surgery for a head injury sustained during a motorbike accident earlier this week in Myrtle Beach, S.C.. Dan Estrin suffered a blood clot caused by a small fracture in his skull, the band said in a statement, announcing it had canceled its tour while he recovers. “We were riding these little mini-motorbikes around the parking lot, and Dan drove into a dark roped-off area by the buses,” vocalist Doug Robb said in a statement. “The rope caught him in the chest and he fell and hit… Read more »

JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY is one of the most popular music films of its time and a time capsule of the era. Yet the entire hour-long second set by Jimi Hendrix from the famed 1970 Berkeley concert has never been released on any album in any format – until now. The JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE – LIVE AT BERKELEY (Experience Hendrix/UMe), released October 14, 2003, will be issued in both one-CD and numbered limited edition double LP packages. In addition, the previously unreleased performance will be heard in an audio-only 5.1 surround sound mix on the DVD debut of the film JIMI… Read more »

The Jagermeister Fall Music Tour is coming, and heavy metal icons, Slayer, will lead the assault! Produced and promoted by Clear Channel Entertainment, the tour will let loose on October 8th in Minneapolis, MN and finish up in Los Angeles on November 29th. Slayer’s recent release of their live DVD, War at the Warfield (American Recordings/UME), debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts in its first week. Their highly anticipated box set, Soundtrack to the Apocalypse (American Recordings/UME), due out on November 18, 2003, commemorates Slayer’s 20th anniversary as the undisputed thrash/punk/metal kings and will include classic Slayer tracks taken… Read more »

On August 28, 2003 Billboard Magazine officially awarded KOCH Entertainment with the coveted prize of Independent R&B/Hip Hop Label of the Year. “It’s been 3 years of hard work,” says KOCH/In The Paint President, Alan Grunblatt. “Bob Frank and Michael Koch have been side-by-side with me on this at every turn. Now that we’ve reached #1… we have to stay #1. If you look at our release schedule, that shouldn’t be a problem.” In October 2003, KOCH Entertainment will release new albums by platinum selling artists Montell Jordan and The Goodie Mob. “Montell Jordan’s album is entitled Life After DEF… Read more »