OZZFEST 2007 Makes History Again
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Live Nation) - When Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and the world's largest live music company, Live Nation, announced in February their plans to stage the 2007 OZZFEST as a free show, some industry people said it would never work. Today OZZFEST yet again has made history, ...
| Incubus Lightens Environmental Impact on Upcoming Light Grenades Tour
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Epic Records) - Incubus are known to many for their longtime commitment to the environment and social causes through their charitable foundation, The Make Yourself Foundation. That commitment will be on display this year on the band's 40-date North American Light Grenades ...
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Come What(Ever) May [Special Edition] Pre-Order
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Roadrunner Records) - On June 26th Roadrunner will release the CD/DVD Special Edition of Stone Sour's Come What(ever) May. The CD includes 6 bonus tracks and the DVD contains an entire concert, filmed live in Moscow, as well as all of the videos from the album. This is ...
| Dream Theater To Appear At Looney Tunes CDs
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Roadrunner Records) - You read it correctly folks. Dream Theater will be making a very rare in-store appearance at Looney Tunes CDs in West Babylon, NY (that's Long Island) before their show at the Jones Beach Amphitheatre on August 25th! It may be a couple of months away, ...
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Rock Band Yellowcard Headlines 2007 NHL Entry Draft Outdoor Concert in Columbus
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ NHL) - Yellowcard will play a free concert to launch the 2007 NHL Entry Draft Weekend in Columbus, Ohio. The double platinum-certified band will perform in Battelle Plaza, the heart of Columbus' downtown Arena District, in front of Nationwide Arena on Friday, June 22 as ...
| Korn's New Album 'Untitled' Set for July 31, 2007 Release
HOLLYWOOD, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Capitol Music Group) - On July 31st, Virgin Records will release the eighth studio album from the multi-platinum, award-winning hard rock band KORN. The untitled album was produced by Korn's See You On The Other Side producer Atticus Ross (Ross is also known for his revolutionary ...
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Cult's New Album Will Be Titled 'Born Into This'
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Roadrunner Records) - As reported last week, Roadrunner has signed The Cult, and we can now announce that the multi-platinum band's forthcoming CD - their first new studio album since 2001 - will be titled Born Into This. Born Into This is currently being recorded in London ...
| Trivium Kick Up Their Feet Before Family Values
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Roadrunner Records) - Trivium have returned from their grueling The Crusade tour in Europe. Sounds like they had a blast and have posted the below update to www.trivium.org and their MySpace page. Nice set of stats at the end. Make sure you check out their brand new video ...
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Blood Red Sun To Play Nxne
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Blood Red Sun Official Website) - BLOOD RED SUN (www.blood-red-sun.com) has been added to the impressive roster of artists at the 12th annual North by Northeast festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This will mark BLOOD RED SUN's first appearance at the famed music and film festival ...
| Poison Set to Release New Studio Album on June 5th and Summer Tour
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ EMI America Records/ Capitol) - Poison, one of rock's most iconic and enduring bands, has recorded a new album of cover songs, featuring many of their favorite rock classics. POISON'D!, the band's first new studio album since 2002, will be released June 5 on CD and digitally ...
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Get POISON'D! on June 5, 2007
HOLLYWOOD, CA. (Top40 Charts/ EMI Music Catalog Marketing) - Poison has confirmed national television and global online performances and interviews around the June 5 release of their new EMI America Records/Capitol album, POISON'D!. On POISON'D!'s June 5 release date, Poison will host a live webcast ...
| St. Madness Headlining Southern Metal Records Rockfest 2007
Baltimore, D.C. (Top40 Charts/ Southern Metal Records) - St. Madness has the honor of headlining the first Southern Metal Records Rockfest being held June 22, 2007 at The Masquerade in Atlanta, GA. Also appearing on the bill is Carrilla Zurda, Blacksmithz, Desperation Falls,and STiiLPOiNT. This is an ...
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Rock Group O.A.R. to Promote American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Safe Listening Message
ROCKVILLE, MD. (Top40 Charts/ American Speech- Language- Hearing Association) - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and the rock group O.A.R. announced today that they have joined forces to further ASHA's public education campaign about the risk of hearing loss from unsafe usage ...
| The High Court To Unleash Puppet Strings July 24; Rock N' Roll Debauchery To Follow On Vans' Warped Tour
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ I Surrender Records) - 'LIFE, LOVE, LUST, DEATH, PARTYING. No metaphors, just things worth talking about,' says John 'JB' Brown, lead singer of South Jersey's The High Court (THC anyone?). Such a bold statement certainly applies to the band's young career. In just over a year, ...
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Roadrunner Joins The Cult
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Roadrunner Records) - Roadrunner Records announces the signing of multi-platinum artist The Cult, the influential UK group who have built an extensive global fan base with hits such as "She Sells Sanctuary," "Rain," "Wild Flower," "Love Removal Machine," "Edie (Ciao Baby)," ...
| Within Temptation Supports Child Helpline
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Roadrunner Records) - Dutch female fronted rock act, Within Temptation, are using the video of their new single "Frozen" to raise public awareness for one of the last remaining taboos in our society: abuse within the family Sharon den Adel, singer of the band: "We decided ...
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Megadeth's European Abominations
New York, NY. (Roadrunner Records) - As reported earlier by our friends at Blabbermouth, Megadeth guitarist Glen Drover just posted a message to the "Forums" section of www.megadeth.com about their impending European tour: "Europe, here we come! I am really looking forward to this tour of Europe, as ...
| Locomotive To Release Chris Caffery's Pins And Needles
(Locomotive Records) - It's been over two years since Hard Rock guitarist Chris Caffery put out a solo album. Locomotive Records will release Caffery's eclectic Pins And Needles on June 5. The busy musician, despite continuing his key roles in Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra, was hellbent to ...
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Nightwish Announces New Singer Anette Olzon
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Roadrunner Records) - Anette Olzon was announced as the new singer for Nightwish. The band met Anetten on her first visit to Finland earlier this year, and after going through over 2,000 applications, knew they had found a match. In an official statement Nightwish said, ...
| Linkin Park Headlines Live Earth Tokyo
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Live Earth) - Grammy Award-winning band Linkin Park will headline the Tokyo leg 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 ...
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