Avenged Sevenfold has cemented their status as one of the country's favorite rock bands with their highly personal fifth studio album Nightmare, which bowed at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart and also No.1 on Billboard's Hard Music, Digital, Internet and Alternative Album Charts.

Avenged Sevenfold has cemented their status as one of the country's favorite rock bands with their highly personal fifth studio album Nightmare, which bowed at No. 1 on Billboard's album chart and also No.1 on Billboard's Hard Music, Digital, Internet and Alternative Album Charts. Its No. 1 debut is the band's highest first-week chart position ever, selling over 162,500 units in its first week thanks to the band's devoted and rabid fanbase, who consider themselves part of a worldwide A7X family. The fans came out in droves to buy the album and spent the past week exhorting one another to make the band's record No. 1 through Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and fansites. The band's previous album, 2007's Avenged Sevenfold, moved 94,000 in its first week of release.

Produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem) and mixed by noted engineer Andy Wallace, Nightmare was in the works when the band's beloved drummer, Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, passed away. The Los Angeles Times has praised Nightmare's "elegiac power ballads," and called it "the band's most personal effort yet."  On August 17th, Avenged Sevenfold will set out to co-headline the first annual Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival with Disturbed. Also on the bill are Stone Sour, Halestorm, and Hell Yeah. Mike Portnoy from Dream Theatre plays drums on Nightmare and will also tour with the band for UPROAR. The current tour dates are as follows. For complete ticket and tour information visit www.RockstarUproar.com and www.livenation.com.

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Who are Sheryl Crow's go-to artists on her iPod and who inspired the songs on her latest record, 100 Miles From Memphis?  Find out in the clip "Peaceful Feeling

For the first time in their 18-year career, three-time AP cover stars Weezer are on an independent label. The hugely influential alt-rock band have officially signed to Epitaph Records after a string of seven full-lengt

For the first time in their 18-year career, three-time AP cover stars Weezer are on an independent label. The hugely influential alt-rock band have officially signed to Epitaph Records after a string of seven full-lengths with major label Geffen. Epitaph head honcho Brett Gurewitz confirmed the signing on his Twitter earlier today, tweeting, "Rivers, Pat, Brian and Scott, Welcome to Epitaph homies! FT=W="

The band, who have sold more than 6 million records in America alone, will release their Epitaph debut, Hurley, on Sept. 14. Fall touring plans are to follow, as will a reissue of 1996's Pinkerton on the group's now-former label, DGC.

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Zoo Seven has created a one of a kind music video for the title track to their recently released Executive Music Group debut album, Lifesaver. The amazing stop motion visuals, created by Zoo Seven frontman Del Currie, features the band

Zoo Seven has created a one of a kind music video for the title track to their recently released Executive Music Group debut album, Lifesaver. The amazing stop motion visuals, created by Zoo Seven frontman Del Currie, features the band's plastic animal friends coming together to dance, crowd surf, and let loose as they enjoy the music. Check out the video now at www.YouTube.com!

Fans can still pick up Zoo Seven's debut album, Lifesaver, for free at www.ZooSeven.com!

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Black Tide will head out on the road this fall joining Bullet For My Valentine and Escape The Fate on their 31 date tour of North America.  The tour kicks off September 16th in Wichita, KS at The Cotillon and also includes Drive A on the bill.  See below for a complete list of tour d

Black Tide will head out on the road this fall joining Bullet For My Valentine and Escape The Fate on their 31 date tour of North America.  The tour kicks off September 16th in Wichita, KS at The Cotillon and also includes Drive A on the bill.  See below for a complete list of tour dates.

Black Tide broke onto the music scene in a big way in 2008 with their fist-pumping, fret-burning, fast-paced metallic anthems on their Interscope Records debut Light From Above.  The Florida based quartet is putting the finishing touches on their sophomore set which will be released in early 2011. The new album was recorded at Spin Studios in New York with producers GGGarth (Rage Against The Machine, Rise Against) and Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God). 

Black Tide is one of a young, new generation of rock bands who are equally at home in the metal, hard rock, and alternative worlds as evidenced by their inclusion on various package tours – Vans Warped Tour, Ozzfest, Mayhem Festival- and as support for artists such as Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, Escape the Fate and more. Lead vocalist/guitarist Gabriel Garcia, bassist Zakk Sandler, drummer Steven Spence and guitarist Austin Diaz immediately took to the road and to date has rocked over 300 shows in over 16 countries with over 1 million fans! Their debut, Light From Above, was released in March 2008 and garnered instant acclaim stateside with Rolling Stone naming the band one of the “Best Rookies of 2008” and “Metal’s New Teen Titans.”  Spin Magazine went on to tap them as one of the “Next Big Things” and overseas Kerrang named them the “Best New Band of 2008!”  Light From Above has sold over 100,000 albums and the band has had over 1 million views of their Youtube videos.

Tour dates for Black Tide on tour with Bullet For MyValentine and Escape The Fate:

September 16                    Wichita, KS                The Cotillion

September 17                    Oklahoma City, OK    Diamond Ballroom

September 18                    Houston, TX               Warehouse Live

September 19                    Austin, TX                  Stubbs

September 21                    Tampa, FL                   The Ritz Ybor

September 23                    Orlando, FL                House Of Blues

September 24                    Charlotte, NC                         The Fillmore

September 25                    Washington, DC         9:30 Club

September 26                    Norfolk, VA               The Norva

September 28                    Scranton, PA               Cultural Center

September 30                    Philadelphia, PA         Electric Factory

October 1                          New York, NY           Roseland Ballroom

October 2                          Albany, NY                Armory

October 3                          Atlanta, GA                *WKLS radio show / Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

October 5                          Providence RI             Lupo’s

October 6                          Montréal                      Metropolis

October 8                          Toronto                       Sound Academy                    

October 9                          Cleveland, OH            Tower City Amphitheatre

October 10                        Buffalo, NY                Town Ballroom

October 12                        Indianapolis, IN          Egyptian Room

October 13                        Madison, WI               Orpheum Theatre

October 14                        Fargo, ND                   The Venue

October 17                                    Edmonton, AB           Edmonton Events Centre

October 18                                    Calgary, AB                McEwen Hall @ University Of Calgary

October 20                                    Vancouver, BC           Commodore Ballroom

October 21                        Spokane, WA              Knitting Factory

October 22                        Seattle, WA                Showbox Sodo

October 23                        Portland, OR               Roseland

October 25                        Boise, ID                     Knitting Factory

October 26                        Reno, NV                    Knitting Factory

October 27                        Los Angeles, CA        Palladium

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In further efforts to turn the spotlight onto their fans, Thirty Seconds to Mars is announcing the continuation of its Faces of Mars campaign. Starting today, fans will now have the opportunity to create and own their own Faces of Mars CD by purchasing This Is

In further efforts to turn the spotlight onto their fans, Thirty Seconds to Mars is announcing the continuation of its Faces of Mars campaign. Starting today, fans will now have the opportunity to create and own their own Faces of Mars CD by purchasing This Is War at the band’s official webstore. As well as this, everyone that lent their image to the first Faces of Mars campaign in support of the band’s wildly successful launch of This Is War will now be able to view their contribution in mosaic form. The interactive mosaic can be found HERE

Started in 2009 to help launch the band’s new album, the innovative Faces of Mars campaign called on friends, fans and other notable persons to submit photos that were used to create over 2000 individual album covers for This Is War. The fan participation contributions did not stop there, events called The Summit were organized in 9 different countries around the world, and then expanded to online, The Digital Summit, where fans were invited to record a variety of sounds, choruses and verses to be used in the album. Their efforts can be heard on various tracks throughout This Is War.

If you want to be next, for a limited time, you can become a part of Faces of Mars by visiting the Thirty Seconds to Mars Webstore HERE

           or click below:

           http://30secondstomars.shop.musictoday.com/Dept.aspx?cp=366_39496&page=1

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Miracles do happen - Mr. Mister's classic unreleased album Pull (which was to be the last the band recorded together) is finally getting released officially. It looks like Sony are working on it with the band and original mix engineer Kevin Killen. It will also feature 2010 remastering fro

Miracles do happen - Mr. Mister's classic unreleased album Pull (which was to be the last the band recorded together) is finally getting released officially. It looks like Sony are working on it with the band and original mix engineer Kevin Killen. It will also feature 2010 remastering from the master himself Bob Ludwig.

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South Florida hard rock quartet, NONPOINT have announced new tour dates following their shows on the main stage of OZZFEST this summer.

Nonpoint has been on the road nearly nonstop since the beginning of the year, sharing the stage with Cold, S

Dead Country's video for "Euro Thrash" is currently up for voting on MTVu's "The Freshman."  Go

Dead Country's video for "Euro Thrash" is currently up for voting on MTVu's "The Freshman."  Go here and make sure to help them win!  It will only be up until the end of the week, so don't wait!

Dead Country released their self-titled EP in April which was recorded at the Foo Fighters' Studio 606 in Los Angeles, features four tracks "Euro Thrash," "The Shade," "Satori In Luzern" & "Sea Change."  You can purchase the EP right now from iTunes or Amazon.

Dead Country just finished up a two week tour with the Toadies which took them though the Midwest and up into the Northwest.  Before that they were out on a West coast tour with the reunited Far.  For three weeks in March the band went out on the road with The Bronx and also played shows with Sunny Day Real Estate in 2009. 

Lead singer Nick Long created Dead Country in late 2008 after he moved back to L.A. from Switzerland. Influences such as Nirvana, Fugazi, Jawbreaker and Rites of Spring propel the band's thought-provoking lyrics, rhythmic melodies and driving sound.

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