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Another nifty little Ripple tidbit here. Ray Davies , the legendary lead singer of the Kinks , long one of our favorite bands, has a new project coming to disc soon. The Kings Choral Collection presents new versions of classics such as "You Really Got Me", "All Day And All Of The Night", "Waterloo Sunset" and many more, all featuring the 65 member Crouch End Festival Chorus . Choral Kinks. How cool is that? Produced by Davies himself and with uplifting, sometimes epic, choral arrangements by [...]

MUSIC NEWS - To celebrate their 20th anniversary of the release of their classic 1989 album Doolittle , the Pixies ; Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering, will start up a 21-date USA portion leg of their " Doolittle Tour " on Wednesday, November 4 at the Hollywood Palladium. Today,we get news of the support acts for the tour. Opening for the Pixies over the course of the " Doolittle Tour " will be Bad Lieutenant , the new project [...]

MUSIC NEWS - Sir Paul McCartney has joined the star-studded line-up for next month's Children in Need  concert event.   The charity concert, which will take place at London's Royal Albert Hall on November 12, has already announced there will be performances by  Muse, Lily Allen, Snow Patrol, Dizzee Rascal and Take That. Tickets to the show will be be allocated thru a random drawing. You must register on the  Children in Need / See Tickets website before 1200 BST on Tuesday, October 20 to be eligible to purchase tickets. More [...]

MUSIC NEWS - After re-scheduling their first six gigs on the new North American tour, AC/DC has now added a few more cities to their " Black Ice " tour  which resumed Friday, 10/16.  The hard rock legends started their anticipated second leg two weeks later than the run's planned start after lead vocalist Brian Johnson needed time off as a result of an unspecified medical procedure. "My insides were giving me lots of trouble, ulcers and such," Johnson said in a message put up on the band's website last month. "The doctors looked me over ... In [...]

MUSIC NEWS - Brooklyn, NY based trio School of Seven Bells have released a Deluxe Edition of their critically acclaimed debut album Alpinisms this week (via Vagrant/Ghostly International). p The digital only release includes nine bonus tracks including demo versions, alternate takes and new mixes of songs from the album (see tracklisting below). School of Seven Bells; p Benjamin Curtis and sisters Alejandra and [...]

MUSIC NEWS -  Canadian indie pop-rock stars, Tegan and Sara have announced that the launch of their first extensive tour of the USA in nearly two years in February 2010. The tour will kicks off February 12 in Northampton, MA, and hit cities across the country before wrapping up on April 6 in Salt Lake City, UT (full itinerary listed below) Twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin will be on the road to support of their upcoming sixth studio album Sainthood [...]

MUSIC NEWS - The final schedule for next weekend's San Francisco Treasure Island Music Festival (the 3rd annual) has been released. Treasure Island is becoming the West Coast's premiere boutique music event, with some of the best indie and electronica acts in the world. The roster for the dance-centric Saturday, October 17th and indie rock lineup on Sunday, October 18th is below. TREASURE ISLAND MUSIC [...]

MUSIC NEWS - Dead by Sunrise , the new band fronted by Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, is holding an exclusive listening party for their debut album -   Out of Ashes - on their MySpace page this week. Stream the album (releasing via Warner Bros. Records on October 13 - order here ), in its entirety at MySpace.com/DeadBySunrise  October 8 thru the 10.     The band is Bennington on vocals, guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh (from Orgy/Julien-K), bassist Brandon Belsky, drummer [...]

     MUSIC NEWS - Taking Back Sunday today released their  Live From Bamboozle ’09 , exclusively on iTunes.  The Live From Bamboozle ’09 album captures the band at its best, playing this spring to the Bamboozle Festival a crowd of over 30,000 fans on May 3 at  Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.   And, right off their tour with Blink-182 this summer, Taking Back Sunday returns to the road to promote Live From Bamboozle ’09 [...]

      MUSIC NEWS- Today, Farm Aid praised family farmers for their ingenuity and perseverance at the 2009  sold-out benefit concert that took place at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater just outside St Louis, MO in Maryland Heights. Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson (photographed at left, introducing the show), Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews , joined by artists performing at Farm Aid 2009 Presented by Horizon Organic , held up the innovation and commitment of family farmers in [...]

pppp MUSIC NEWS - The Black Eyed Peas have partnered with Richard Branson’s newest airline - V Australia - to create an once-in-a-lifetime experience to benefit the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Australia.pppT hrough an eBay auction, youe can bid for the chance to fly from Los Angeles, CApon V Australia to Melbourne where, after a night in the city, they will board a private flight headed for Perth with the Black Eyed Peas .p The lucky winners will experience a live Black Eyed Peas [...]

pppp MUSIC NEWS - The members of From Good Homes have announced today that the band will reunite for a weekend of special shows in NJ - their first in 10 years. The shows,pDecember 18 & 19 at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ will mark the first time the band has performed together since the band’s legendary “farewell show” in August 1999. The genesis of From Good Homes pdates back to a high school band, when childhood friends Todd Sheaffer, Brady Rymer, and Patrick Fitzsimmons came together in [...]

     MUSIC NEWS - L.A.-based Princeton released its debut record, Cocoon of Love , (sure, buy a copy below) this week on Kanine Records and has just announced tour dates for this October and November to support the release, finishing up their run with RA RA Riot then joining with OK GO and Art Brut !  To give you a taste of the new collection, listen to SADIE and ANDY below (with guest Meredith Metcalf ). [...]

     If you ever had to deal with the disappoinment of a cancelled or postponed concert, and with the continued health issues of many artists cancellations become more frequent (see recent   Aerosmith , AC/DC and Depeche Mode news for examples), you'll appreciate this list of top stories behind interrupted/cancelled concets that was compiled by Europe’s leading secondary ticketing company, viagogo .    The Doors topped the poll with their interrupted gig at the New Haven Arena in 1967; Jim Morrison was arrested [...]

      MUSIC NEWS - The Boss has announced that he and the E Street band will play full versions of three of their classic albums during the series of shows that begin this week and that will mark the final concerts (ever) at New Jersey's Giant Stadium. They'll perform their 1975 classic " Born to Run " on two nights of the five-night run, tomorrow night's (9/30) performance and the October 8 show; on October 3 and October 9 (closing night) you'll hear 1984's " [...]

        MUSIC NEWS - Dead by Sunrise , the new group led by Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington , have announced three live shows celebrating the release of their debut album, Out of Ashes , out October 13 via Warner Bros. Records. DbS , Bennington on vocals, guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh (from Orgy/Julien-K), bassist Brandon Belsky, drummer Elias Anda (also from Julien-K), and keyboardist Anthony Valcic, will play Wasted Space in the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas on October 1,  The Gramercy Theatre [...]

     MUSIC NEWS - Singer Leonard Cohen is expected to return to the concert stage on Monday after he fainted and collapsed during a concert in Spain on Friday.  He was immediately taken to local hospital after the incident.  The Canadian singer, who celebrates his 75th birthday today (Monday),  fainted while performing his song " Bird on a Wire " at a concert in Valencia. His manager later told the press that Mr Cohen had suffered recently from food poisoning but did not want to cancel the concert.    Cohen was released from hospital and is reported to be [...]

For the past fifteen years, while the mainstream continues to water itself down, confusing fashion with integrity and glossy production with heaviness, Detroit`s Small Stone Records has been searching out the best hard rock and metal the American and European undergrounds have to offer. After a string of successful showcases at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas and CMJ in New York City, Small Stone`s bringing the good fight to Boston. The inaugural Boston Small Stone Showcase , hosted by Boston Emissions own Anngelle Wood, will highlight both some of the up-and-coming and established bands [...]

MUSIC NEWS - No "official" Autumn tour news yet, but DEVO  is announcing two "full album" nites on November 3 & 4 at the Music Box Theatre  @ the H enry Fonda in L.A.  night 1, " Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo !" night 2 , "Freedom of Choice".   [...]

    MUSIC NEWS - Organizers of this year's Bridge School Benefit concert, scheduled for October 24 & 25, 2009 at the beautiful Shoreline Amphitheatre  in Mountain View, CA have announced the list of performers. The school's co-founder  and event host, Neil Young headlines the bill that will also have No Doubt, Jimmy Buffett, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Sheryl Crow  and Monsters of Folk , among others, performing. Day one boasts performances from those artists, plus Fleet Foxes, Wolfmother a nd Gavin Rossdale . Buffett performs on the first day one, [...]