The band will be fronted by Sunset Strip veteran - TUFF vocalist Stevie Rachelle. "I am honored to still be able to come and perform for the European fans. They have always embraced our music since my first visit with TUFF back in 1991. Now it's nearly 20 years later and to think I am going back yet again - it's a dream come true." Also on board will be drummer Jimi "Gunz" Lord who played drums for the band during the "Religious Fix" years. The SHAMELESS bookends on bass & guitar will be Alexx Michael and his
partner in crime BC.

The songs will be a mix of tracks from both bands. Including the TUFF Glam Rock classic debut "What Comes Around...Goes Around". Fan favorites like "The All New Generation", "I Hate Kissing You Goodbye", "So Many Seasons" and the new millenniums global mega smash "American Hair Band". The SHAMELESS tunes to be featured are "Non Stop City", "Steal The Girlz" & the Munich based bands most downloaded track, "Queen For A Day".

The groups past tours have featured Bruce Kulick of KISS (2000), Steve Summers of Pretty Boy Floyd (2007) and Davy Vain of VAIN showed up and jammed with the group in Germany (2009). This year will be no different, as the tour looks to welcome a yet to be named special guest or two. TUFF and SHAMELESS combined have released over a dozen discs of music, and have a catalog of over 20 releases (including DVDs) in the last 20 years that have featured countless stars from the 80s genre'. "We have friends everywhere, you never who might show up and jam." Says the TUFF front man.

Stockholm Rock Out Festival in Sweden will be the final date of the tour. The first Scandinavian appearance for any of the members. "We are beyond excited to play for our European fans again. Especially France, Belgium & Sweden as these will be new stops for us. We cannot wait." adds Alexx Michael "We have friends and fans on every continent and we vow that South America and Japan are next - but for now, Europe, get ready to rock!"

Dates, Venues, Cities & Countries are listed below.

August 26th 2010 "Garage Deluxe" Munich GERMANY
August 27th 2010 "Rock City" Uster SWITZERLAND
August 28th 2010 "Paunchy Cats" Lichtenfels GERMANY
August 29th 2010 "Rock It " Arnsberg GERMANY
September 1st 2010 " Banale Estivo" Ponte di Brenta ITALY
September 2nd 2010 "TBA" ITALY
September 3rd 2010 "TBA" Trentino ITALY
September 4th 2010 "Rock Club" Ronchi dei Legionari ITALY
September 5th 2010 "TBA" ITALY
September 7th 2010 "Thunderbird Lounge" Saint-Etienne FRANCE
September 8th 2010 "Classic Rock Café" Roeselare BELGIUM
September 9th 2010 "TBA" Copenhagen DENMARK
September 10th 2010 "Club Dirty Harry" Järnvägsgatan Växjö SWEDEN
September 11th 2010 "Stockholm Rock Out Festival" Stockholm SWEDEN

The Sword's legacy in the metal world has been rapidly growing since they formed in 2003.  Their recent stints opening for legends such as Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, and Motorhead has helped garner them praise from fans both young and old.  Now on the heels of the release of "Tres Brujas," the first single from their forthcoming new album, The Sword have set their sights on their next move - a headlining world tour in support of Warp Riders (August 23^rd; Kemado Records).

The band has amped up their sound on what is truly a behemoth of a new album.  Produced by Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Mastodon, Isis), The Sword stretched themselves with the new material to touch on other forms of heavy rock in addition to the pure metal that they're known for.  Warp Riders is also the band's first concept album, and consists of an epic sci-fi narrative loaded with dazzling imagery.  Stay tuned for a video trilogy that will shine more light on the storyline.

The Sword UK & Ireland Tour Dates:

Tickets now on sale - www.gigsandtours.com  |  www.kililive.com  |  www.seetickets.com  |  www.ticketmaster.ie

29^th Nov:  Portsmouth, United Kingdom @ Wedgewood Rooms

30^th Nov:  Bristol, United Kingdom @ Fleece & Firkin

1^st Dec:  Birmingham, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy 3

3^rd Dec:  Leeds, United Kingdom @ Cockpit 

4^th Dec:  Glasgow, United Kingdom @ G2 

5^th Dec:  Newcastle, United Kingdom @ O2 Academy 2 

6^th Dec:  Manchester, United Kingdom @ Academy 2 

8^th Dec:  Nottingham, United Kingdom @ Rescue Rooms 

9^th Dec:  London, United Kingdom @ O2 Islington Academy 

10^th Dec:  Brighton, United Kingdom @ Audio 

11^th Dec:  Ireland, Dublin @ Academy

12^th Dec:  Ireland, Belfast @ Stiff Kitten

One of the most distinctive and respected alternative-pop bands, The Posies, unite to unleash their long-awaited new album, Blood/Candy (Ryko), and launch their international tour on September 28, 2010.

 
Fresh off the Frosting On The Beater full-album shows and their work with Big Star, The Posies chart unforeseen territory on Blood/Candy while holding onto their well-known signature sound.  The Huffington Post states, "depending on how you want to hear it, it's a brilliant return to form or a daring move forward." The almost entirely self-produced record boasts melodic hooks, provocative lyrics and intricate layers of instrumentation that blend far-out, spacey sounds with sophisticated hues. The bulk of the album was recorded and mixed in Spain and their hometown of Seattle, with stops in Ecuador, Canada, Paris and Los Angeles.

"After the eclecticism of our last album, we thought it would be a good idea to make a kind of classic, back to our roots album, guitar pop with lots of harmonies, etc. We didn't end up doing that--however, what stands in place of that, is an album even more adventurous, more playful and more heartfelt than I think we've ever done. If I had to pick one album for us to be remembered by and delete all the others, no doubt that I would choose this one," says co-founder Ken Stringfellow.

Jon Auer, also original co-founder, adds, "With Blood/Candy, we definitely sound like us, but some of these songs are completely from an alternate Posies universe. We subscribe to the "evolve or perish" philosophy. We directed ourselves to new places with this recording and tried not to travel down familiar paths when it could be avoided. Expect the unexpected."

Since the band's inception in the late 80s in Seattle, The Posies - known for their cross-pollination of pop and rock - have maintained a consistent career throughout the years. Noted for hits like "Golden Blunders", recorded by Ringo Starr in 1992, along with "Dream All Day", "Solar Sister" and "Flavor of the Month" from their pivotal release Frosting On The Beater, the group has developed a massive cult following and critical acclaim.

The Posies will tour extensively this fall. The Europe tour schedule is below, and U.S. dates will be announced soon.

www.theposies.net

 www.myspace.com/theposies

Blood/Candy Tracklist:

Plastic Paperbacks

The Glitter Prize

Licenses To Hide

So Caroline

Take Care Of Yourself

Cleopatra Street

For The Ashes

Accidental Architecture

She's Coming Down Again!

Notion 99

Holiday Hours

Enewetak

Europe Tour Dates:

Sept. 28,  Sala Stereo (Murcia, Spain)
Sept. 30, Heineken (Madrid, Spain)
Oct. 1,Wah Wah (Valencia, Spain)
Oct. 2, Apolo 2 (Barcelona, Spain)
Oct. 4, Divan du Monde (Paris, France)
Oct. 5, Garage (London, UK)
Oct. 6, Trix (Antwerp, Belgium)
Oct. 7, Botanique Orangerie (Brussels, Belgium)
Oct. 8, Kazerne Fonck (Liege, Belgium)
Oct. 9,Melkweg Sugar Factory (Amsterdam, Holland)
Oct. 10, Vera (Groningen, Holland)
Oct. 12, Tivoli de Helling, (Utrecht, Holland)
Oct. 13, Gleis 22 (Munster, Germany)
Oct. 14, Comet Club (Berlin, Germany)
Oct. 15, Silber Club (Hamburg, Germany)
Oct. 17, Inkonst (Malmo, Sweden)
Oct. 19, Debaser Slussen (Stockholm, Sweden)
Oct. 20, Sticky Fingers (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oct. 21, John Dee (Oslo, Norway)
Oct. 22, Kvarteret (Bergen, Norway)
Oct. 23, Blaest (Trondheim, Norway)
Oct. 25, Tavastia (Helsinki, Finland)
Oct. 26, Klubi (Turku, Finland)

Michael Monroe's live album will be released in Europe and Japan on September 22nd. The album was recorded in early July during a private concert at the Tavastia club in Helsinki. The album will be mixed and mastered by Niko Bolas in LA, who has worked with Neil Young, Frank Sinatra, Keith Richards, Kiss and Spinal Tap to name a few.

The live album, 'Another Night In The Sun', features the highlights of Michael Monroe's solo career as well as a few Hanoi Rocks classics as well as two brand new songs: 'You're Next' and 'Motorheaded For A Fall'.

Michael Monroe comments on the live album: "Me and the guys in the band decided to record a live album - something for the fans to have, while they're waiting for our actual studio album, due to be released in the early part of next year. We also wanted to capture the live set we've been playing recently, pretty much as it is, before we start playing more of our newly written material live in the future.

The show was at the legendary Tavastia Club in Helsinki and the audience was mainly people from our fan club and street teams, plus some friends we invited. The setlist was basically songs from my solo albums, the Demolition 23 album, some old Hanoi Rocks and some of our favorite cover songs, as well as a couple of our new, previously unreleased songs. It's a very raw, "rough and ready-or-not" kind of live recording that I'm sure the fans will be pleased to have."

The legendary New York Dolls today confirmed that they will perform a one-off concert at "The Cluny" in Newcastle, England on Saturday September 4th.

Tickets for this intimate concert will be available on a first come, first serve basis.

Tickets go on sale at 9am, Friday July 30th. All tickets are priced £12 and can be purchased from 0844 447 1000 or can be booked online from www.ticketweb.co.uk.

Guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer and arranger, Steve Lukather is set to release his new solo album "All's Well That Ends Well" on Monday 11th October 2010.

The new album showcases Lukather's innate feel for rock and jazz guitar music, and is laden with extraordinary musicianship, performed across some of the best and most emotional songs of Steve's career.

For over 30 years Lukather has been known as one of the founding members of the multi million selling band Toto. He's played guitar on hundreds of albums with the biggest artists including Van Halen, Whitney Houston, Alice Cooper, Rod Stewart and also played guitar on Michael Jackson's multi-million selling milestone album 'Thriller'.

To coincide with the release of the album, Steve Lukather will perform three UK concerts in November which will showcase classics from his all his solo albums, Toto, plus songs from the forthcoming album. The dates are as follows -

Thursday 18th November - O2 Islington Academy, London
Tickets: £25 / Box Office: 0844 477 2000 / http://www.o2academyislington.co.uk/

Friday 19th November - The Robin 2, Bilston, Wolverhampton
Tickets: £23/£25 / Box Office: 01902 401211 / http://www.therobin.co.uk/

Saturday 20th November - The Brook, Southampton
Tickets: £23/£25 / Box Office: 023 80555366 / http://www.the-brook.com/

The A.v.D, keyboard/samples man with London Industrial Metal Mob THE DEFILED has checked in with the following statement ahead of their recently announced appearance at SONISPHERE FESTIVAL 2010:

"Well, the life style that we lead in The Defiled has taken its toll on one of our brothers... It is with great regret that today we finally announce that Drex has decided to leave the band. His decision to leave was made quite a few months ago, hence why we have been so quiet in the first half of 2010. All the members will miss him for different reasons but I think he was the voice of reason and the only member that ever brought any kind of normality to the band.  It's not all doom and gloom in the camp though! We happened to meet a reprobate called Vincent Hyde that is mentally ill enough to step up and take his rightful place in The Defiled. He's been rehearsing with us these past few months, and we are going to be showing off our brand new sick little puppy this Sunday at Sonisphere, Come Get Some!"

THE DEFILED play SONISPHERE's BOHEMIA stage at 12:25 Sunday 1st August

After the success of bringing together Fightstar and Lethal Bizzle in February this year to create for the first Jagermesiter 'Serve Ice Cold' session, we can now announce that the second edition will see British rock band G.U. Medicine duet with Ricky, a rockhopper penguin from ZSL London Zoo. 

The unlikely collaboration between a band and a penguin will be recorded at London's famous Strongroom Studios in Shoreditch on August 3 and 4th, and will be available for download from August 16th.

Ryan Senior, from G.U. Medicine said "When I was younger I visited London Zoo and saw the penguins but I never imagined that one day I would actually get the opportunity to record a song with one of them!  I thought feeding them would be the closest I ever got! Bring it on!"

Black Country Communion have announced that their self-titled debut album will be available in the UK, in three different formats, including a Ltd Edition 2-Disc CD/DVD, regular CD and 12" Vinyl.

Format #1 - Limited Edition 2-Disc CD/DVD
Featuring the 12 album tracks on CD, complete with an additional DVD jam-packed with band member interviews, exclusive studio and live images, Kevin Shirley's (Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes) album production notes, "The Great Divide" music video, 'Behind The Scenes' in-studio footage, plus live tracks as performed by BCC at Riverside, California.

Format #2 - Single Disc CD
Regular 1 disc CD edition

Format #3 - Vinyl
Double-sided 12" vinyl album edition

The Limited Edition 2-Disc CD/DVD edition, is available for pre-order now at Play.com, while all 3 formats are available to pre-order from Amazon.co.uk and HMV.com.

We ran a seductive competition recently to win a copy of the latest album from the legendary Butch Walker, 'I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart', and now we're ready to announce the winner!

Take a bow MARK EVANS from Leighton Buzzard who obviously knows his Southgang from his elbow!

While you curse your bad luck why not check out our interview with Butch and a review of his support stint on the stadium tour by P!nk

Coming soon - Onslaught, Snew & Ricky Warwick competitions!!!

The Dillinger Escape Plan's Ben Weinman recently remixed Violent Soho's current single 'Jesus Stole My Girlfriend' and now the band are offering it up for free download to coincide with the original track's release. Über Röckers can download the track from here! 

Weinman was impressed with what he heard of Violent Soho's music and had the following to say about the band -  "With all the wanna be art rock bands coming out today, relying on over produced and over done studio tricks, it was great to get my hands on Violent Soho's tracks. I really enjoyed putting my twist on this band and look forward to seeing what these guys do in the years to come."

Violent Soho's eponymous album will be released in the UK on 2^nd August through Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label. A copy of the album they recorded in their garage found its way into the Sonic Youth legend's hands and he was straight down the front head banging at their first gig in New York at the legendary Lower East Side hang out Pianos. The buzz around their punishingly hard live show spread to Rick Rubin, who personally invited them to play his condo in Malibu. Rock Godhead no.2 declared his fandom.

Thurston offered them a deal on his Ecstatic Peace! label and chose the most skilful producers in the genre. Gil Norton (Jimmy Eat World, The Distillers) made the record in Rockfields studio in the Welsh countryside, with mixing duties handled by Rich Costey (Mastodon, Muse, Mars Volta, Interpol). That's the production team behind the crunchy, layered sound of some of the biggest guitar records of all time.

The year 2010 marks the Twentieth Anniversary of Cathedral and in order to commemorate the occasion the band will perform a one-off show on December 3rd 2010 at the O2 Academy in Islington, North London. 

For one night only Cathedral will be performing two sets, including the entirety of their landmark debut album and doom metal classic 'Forest Of Equilibrium' where Lee Dorrian and Garry Jennings will be joined by the recording line up Mark "Griff" Griffiths, Adam Lehan and Mike Smail.

This will be followed by a second set of songs performed by the current line up of Lee Dorian, Garry Jennings, Brian Dixon & Leo Smee.

Vocalist Lee Dorrian elaborates: "Cathedral has come along way since those dirge-ridden smoke-filled, cheap lager and sweat infested early rehearsals back in 1990. To be brutally honest, back then we never imagined that we would have continued on a twenty year journey and still be here to tell the tale".

Cathedral - Friday December 3rd 2010 O2 Academy Islington N1 Centre 16 Parkfield Street London N1 0PS

Tickets available from www.kililive.com

Following last night's triumphant performance at the iTunes Festival at the London Roundhouse, Swedish rockers EUROPE are pleased to announce a nationwide February 2011 UK tour under the heading of the "Balls 'N' Banners" UK tour.

Tickets for all UK dates go on sale at 9am on Friday July 30th, the same day that the band will play the Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth, England.

Full dates for Europe's Balls 'N' Banners 2011 UK Tour include Glasgow 02 ABC (Feb 17), Birmingham 02 Academy (Feb 18), London 02 Shepherds Bush Empire (Feb 19), Oxford 02 Academy (Feb 21), Bournemouth 02 Academy (Feb 22), Bristol 02 Academy (Feb 23), Manchester Academy 2 (Feb 25), Leeds 02 Academy (Feb 26) and Newcastle 02 Academy (Feb 27).

"Hey Gang,

Sorry for the long wait in between mailouts but things have been crazy in not only the world of AP but the world of the people in AP.

First the real bad news:  I, Alex Kane, will not be performing at the Rock N Blues Festival (AP's fave UK festival, bar none!) with Marky and Clare.  I feel really badly about this as I have been waiting since AntiProduct's triumphant UK return over Christmas with Cap'n Ginger and the Wildhearts, and viewed it as another homecoming, back to the UK armed and loaded, attempting to always ser the bar (what's all this talk of "bars"?) for rock 'n' roll, let alone having the continued honor of crushing you guys with the Legendary Marky Ramone let alone The Mighty AP.  But alas... I can't go into all the details of why but suffice it so say if there had been anyway to make this show happen (I booked the thing for Christ sake!!) I would be there and want to be there more than almost anything.  I truly hope that my sub realises just how important you guys are to me/AP and that everything we do in music is based in our gratitude to the UK for giving birth to AntiProduct.  Plus, if you get on that stage and don't have your A++ game to hand, man oh man, you deserve to go down! 

Our Lady Clare, who will certainly be flying the AntiProduct flag at RNB (and she'll be toting AP merch for you at the gig so just go find her) has begun working with none other than the legendary Kim Fowley, most recently immortalized in The Runaways movie (he started that band with Joan Jett in addition to having hits with Kiss, Alice Cooper and Helen Reddy among others) on a variety of projects he is spearheading.

I've also been lucky enough to be invited to play with literally some of the best musicians in LA, who's resumes include Motley Crue, WASP, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Billy Idol, etc, etc.  We played some old Life Sex & Death tunes at the Key Club last week and to say it was awesome and weird would be no understatement! We all had such a blast we may do this some more!

Finally, as a small atonement for failing you on the Marky Ramone show next week, we are all but giving away some brand new AntiProduct must-have swag, including a two for one t-shirt deal as well as t-shirt/cd sale that will make you question if we all got syphillis!!! 

Be well, kick ass and never ever let those with agendas destroy what makes you you.  They will lose everytime!!

Your bitch,

Alex

ps.  there will be a brand new AntiProduct collection of songs before the end of the year.  This is the shit that was too heavy for PLEASE TAKE YOUR CASH."