After months of speculation, WHITESNAKE are thrilled to announce their new bass player/singer... 35 year old MICHAEL DEVIN.

Recently MICHAEL has been playing with LYNCH MOB with new WHITESNAKE drummer, BRIIIAN TICHY.

This completes the new WHITESNAKE line-up &

After months of speculation, WHITESNAKE are thrilled to announce their new bass player/singer... 35 year old MICHAEL DEVIN.

Recently MICHAEL has been playing with LYNCH MOB with new WHITESNAKE drummer, BRIIIAN TICHY.

This completes the new WHITESNAKE line-up & MICHAEL will be featured on their new album, alongside guitarists DOUG ALDRICH & REB BEACH & keyboardist TIMOTHY DRURY.
  
MICHAEL DEVIN says... "It's an honor to be welcomed into the WHITESNAKE family. I'm a big fan. WHITESNAKE is notorious for exciting musicianship, Davids history is rich, and I'm very proud to be here."
  
The album is currently being recorded for release on Frontiers Records in early 2011. The band will be also returning to touring in support of the new album's release.

Plenty of musicians are angry about the BP oil spill that blanketed the Gulf Coast of the US for months. But City and Colour's Dallas Green has written and recorded a song about the disaster, called 'At the Bird's Foot,' that takes a different approach.

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Plenty of musicians are angry about the BP oil spill that blanketed the Gulf Coast of the US for months. But City and Colour's Dallas Green has written and recorded a song about the disaster, called 'At the Bird's Foot,' that takes a different approach.

"I talk about the thing that I think nobody is really talking about: the 11 guys who died on the actual rig," says Green of the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon.

"As much as I appreciate that people work for an oil company, and obviously [there] is concern with the families that are going to be affected by the oil spill and the wildlife -- it's like, 'Oh yeah, a lot of people died, as well.' So I bring that up. I never really write songs like that."

The Toronto singer-songwriter -- who is also in post-hardcore band Alexisonfire -- was traveling often at the time of the spill and clean-up attempts and read Time magazine's in-depth coverage while waiting at airports.

"It seemed like every one I was buying there was always some crazy new article about the oil spill," he says. "I think it crept into my subconscious and then I ended up writing a song about it. I just played my guitar and then started singing.

"The first thing I ever saw of it was a photo on the internet of one of the fires in the ocean where they had the controlled burns, where they were trying to burn out the oil," he explains. "And I just thought it was such a juxtaposition, there being a fire in the ocean. It was pretty haunting to me. So I wrote that line. I said, 'There's a fire in the ocean.' And I just wrote a song based on that line.

"I'm usually a pretty selfish person when it comes to songwriting. I usually write about myself, but it sort of arrived. I wrote it in a few hours, which is something that never happens for me."

The title, 'At the Bird's Foot,' was taken from an article he read just after the explosion and spill. "It talked about how the oil was now at the bird's foot, which is in regards to the fact that birds can only fly out so far before they have to come back to land and the oil had reached that point," Green explains. "It was basically getting worse and worse. That's how far it had reached the shore and I just thought that was a good title."

He recorded the song at Moneen frontman Kenny Bridges' house and contemplated what to do with it. Green didn't know if it made sense to save it for the next City and Colour album, "because it's sort of centralized, such a thing in itself," so he got the idea to team with a charity of some kind and release it as soon as possible.

"My management searched and searched and found out that Sophia Bush -- she's an actress [on 'One Tree Hill'] -- is apparently putting together a compilation with a bunch of bands on Vagrant Records, which happens to be the label I'm on in the States," he says.

The digital-only compilation will be out around October. No title or other artists have been confirmed.

"Pray Tell" will debut exclusively on Spin Magazine's official web site, www.spin.com.  This is the third taste of their new release, Dark is the Way, Light is a Place, that the band has given fans. Dark Is The Way, Light is a Place comes out Sept 7th.  

"Pray Tell" will debut exclusively on Spin Magazine's official web site, www.spin.com.  This is the third taste of their new release, Dark is the Way, Light is a Place, that the band has given fans. Dark Is The Way, Light is a Place comes out Sept 7th.  

"Pray Tell," is available for a limited time only as a free download.    

The album's first single, "Impossible" is top 10 at Alternative and Modern Rock radio and has been # 1 Most Added for 5 weeks in a row. Dark is the Way, Light is a Place sees Anberlin evolving while still engaging fans with the same uplifting and unique alternative soundscapes.  Dark is the Way, Light is a Place was produced by Brendon O'Brien.

Anberlin hits the road in September, go to http://www.anberlin.com for complete list of tour dates.

Green River Ordinance have recently departed ways with their label, Capitol/Virgin Records. But the band continues and says "We are going about things on our own for a while in hopes of involving our fans in the recording process and the development of our band more".

Green River Ordinance have recently departed ways with their label, Capitol/Virgin Records. But the band continues and says "We are going about things on our own for a while in hopes of involving our fans in the recording process and the development of our band more".

The band are also celebrating their10th Anniversary as a band and to celebrate they will doing a tour in the Fall and also putting together a DVD/photo package.

Platinum-selling hit-makers the Gin Blossoms have signed with 429 Records and are preparing for both the release of their highly anticipated new album, "NO CHOCOLATE CAKE" and an extensive U.S. tour. With total worldwide album sales topping 30 million units powered by their indelibly

Platinum-selling hit-makers the Gin Blossoms have signed with 429 Records and are preparing for both the release of their highly anticipated new album, "NO CHOCOLATE CAKE" and an extensive U.S. tour. With total worldwide album sales topping 30 million units powered by their indelibly melodic, Grammy-nominated Top Ten singles, Gin Blossoms—Robin Wilson, Jesse Valenzuela, Scott Johnson and Bill Leen, are back and in peak form! The eleven new tracks were written, produced and performed by the band with the help of John Richardson (drums) and Danny Wilde on keyboards and additional production (of The Rembrandts). The first single, "Miss Disarray," will be promoted at Hot Adult Contemporary radio outlets (add date 8/2). "NO CHOCOLATE CAKE" is set for release in North America on September 28th on 429 Records.

Four years after the critically acclaimed "Major Lodge Victory," Gin Blossoms have put together a seamless musical confection. The band continues to benefit from an innate chemistry and inspiration—a dynamic that helped catapult songs such as "Hey Jealousy," "Found Out About You," "Till I Hear From You" and "Follow You Down" into the collective musical consciousness and helped define an era as well as selling 30 million records worldwide.

Says Wilson, "There's just something about the way we play and sound together. It's those songs and the sound we make that add up to something indefinable."

"NO CHOCOLATE CAKE" track listing:

1. Don't Change For Me
2. I Don't Want To Lose You Now
3. Miss Disarray
4. Wave Bye Bye
5. I'm Ready
6. Somewhere Tonight
7. Go Crybaby
8. If You'll Be Mine
9. Dead Or Alive On The 405
10. Something Real
11. 11.Goin' To California

Although AURORA SKY has delayed the Commercial Rock Radio Add-Date of their single "Just Like You" to September 13th/14th, Away-Team Music will still release the track for download on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, Napster, Shockhound and others on Tuesday, September 7th.

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Although AURORA SKY has delayed the Commercial Rock Radio Add-Date of their single "Just Like You" to September 13th/14th, Away-Team Music will still release the track for download on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Rhapsody, Napster, Shockhound and others on Tuesday, September 7th.

For More information check out http://www.auroraskyband.com

Killswitch Engage guitarist, Adam Dutkiewicz and former vocalist, Jesse Leach are reuniting for a new project called Times Of Grace. Both Adam and Jesse say this album is a step in a different direction musicly for them.

“In all my life. I have yet to write a record that bares my soul as much as this record does,” Leach said. “Adam and I had a real spiritual connection while making this and I know that it comes through in the performances and lyrics. This record has our blood, sweat and tears flowing through it. It is painfully honest at times. In short this record is our catharsis.”

Times Of Grace’s debut album, “The Hymn Of A Broken Man” is set to be released November 9th on Roadrunner Records.

The tracklisting is as follows

‘Strength In Numbers’
‘Fight For Life’
‘Willing’
‘Where The Spirit Leads Me’
‘Until The End Of Days’
‘Live In Love’
‘In The Arms Of Mercy’
‘Hymn Of A Broken Man’
‘Hope Remains’
‘The End Of Eternity’
‘Worlds Apart’
‘Fall From Grace’