Extreme have completed the British leg of their European tour and are off to Japan for the next part of their comeback TAKE US ALIVE tour, when touring through the European mainland they were supported by able British rock band VOODOO SIX who have their debut album out and due for a stateside release in January 2008 entitled ‘The First Hit Is Free’ Voodoo Six play a classic metal rock sstyle that has a timeless sound. When Extreme embarked on their UK leg they took with them as support the Duval’s and the up and coming ‘HOTLEG’ who are fronted by former frontman of THE DARKNESS Justin Hawkins. Rock3 online magazine have captured all three bands this past year live you can see and hear the bands by following the links below. Bettencourt and Cherone were reported to be in fine form on tour and right back to their best.

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EXTREME - LIVE REVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPHS

HOTLEG - LIVE REVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPHS

VOODOO SIX - LIVE REVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Justin Hawkins of Darkness fame is now fronting a new band HOTLEG, and is looking and sounding as good as ever. In his Interview with Rock3 he talks about the days with The Darkness and plays down the impact that his new band is having which is quitely re-capturing a lot of the old fans with his distinctive vocal style and rocking tunes. To read the full interview visit Rock3 HERE Justin’s new band is composed of seasoned muscians who bring their own reputation to the party with ‘Pete Rinaldi’ on guitars who holds down a mean guitar while top skin man ‘Darby Todd’ has Hammered out a great partnership with Bass man ‘Samual SJ Stokes’. Hotleg release their Christmas single  ‘I’ve Met Jesus’  on the 15th December so make it a good one for the Lad and make sure you go out and buy it!. There is also a video out to support the single which you can view on the bands myspace page HERE

Los Angeles, CA (October 14, 2008) – Multi-platinum two-time Grammy-winning rock band LINKIN PARK has announced a November 25th release date for ROAD TO REVOLUTION (Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros. Records), an action-packed CD/DVD combo featuring 18 of the group’s biggest hits recorded live in concert.

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The double-disc set captures the band’s June 29, 2008 show at the Milton Keynes National Bowl during the sold-out European leg of this past summer’s Projekt Revolution tour. Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution has become one of the summer concert season’s annual heavyweights and the Milton Keynes gig—played to a packed house crowd of almost 50,000 people—was the biggest in the tour’s six-year history.

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“Over the course of the past few years, we’ve played more than two hundred Projekt Rev shows to hundreds of thousands of fans, and while each of those gigs has been special, the Milton Keynes show has been one of the most memorable,” says Linkin Park co-lead vocalist Chester Bennington. “It was one of those nights where the band and audience come together as one, and we wanted to share that experience with the fans that couldn’t be there.”

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TO READ THE REVIEW AND WATCH THE VIDEOS TAKEN FROM THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION DVD GO HERE

The Stone Gods are halfway through their UK tour which is due to continue until 14th December when it will finish at ‘ ‘ , the band keep an online tour blog going which you can read HERE, while on tour the Rock3 team caught up with them to cover the show at the Carling Academy where they once again have taken som great photos of guys on stage, even though as James Hope the Rock3 show co-ordinater and photographer grumbled about the lighting for the SG show, although he was cheered up for the headline act Airbourne when the lights were much better for him to do his stuff. You can read the show review and see the photos of the Stone Gods HERE. The Rock3 team also interviewed the Stone Gods before the show which you can read HERE

Los Angeles, CA (October 14, 2008) – Multi-platinum two-time Grammy-winning rock band LINKIN PARK has announced a November 25th release date for ROAD TO REVOLUTION (Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros. Records), an action-packed CD/DVD combo featuring 18 of the group’s biggest hits recorded live in concert.

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The double-disc set captures the band’s June 29, 2008 show at the Milton Keynes National Bowl during the sold-out European leg of this past summer’s Projekt Revolution tour. Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution has become one of the summer concert season’s annual heavyweights and the Milton Keynes gig—played to a packed house crowd of almost 50,000 people—was the biggest in the tour’s six-year history.

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“Over the course of the past few years, we’ve played more than two hundred Projekt Rev shows to hundreds of thousands of fans, and while each of those gigs has been special, the Milton Keynes show has been one of the most memorable,” says Linkin Park co-lead vocalist Chester Bennington. “It was one of those nights where the band and audience come together as one, and we wanted to share that experience with the fans that couldn’t be there.”

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Packed in recyclable eco-friendly materials, ROAD TO REVOLUTION features hidden bonus tracks and an eye-popping multi-page booklet that includes exclusive, never-before-seen live photos. The CD/DVD set highlights a mix of new hits, including latest single “Leave Out All The Rest,” classic tracks such as “Breaking The Habit” and “Crawling” and two special performances—““Jigga What/Faint” and “Numb/Encore”—featuring Grammy winning rapper Jay-Z. In 2005, “Numb/Encore” was awarded a Grammy for “Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

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The full track listing for ROAD TO REVOLUTION is as follows:

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“One Step Closer”

“From The Inside”
”No More Sorrow”
”Given Up”
”Lying From You”
”Hands Held High”
”Leave Out All the Rest”
”Numb”
”The Little Things Give You Away”
”Breaking the Habit”
”Shadow of the Day”
”Crawling”
”In the End”
”Pushing Me Away”
”What I’ve Done”

“Numb/Encore” (featuring Jay-Z)

“Jigga What/Faint” (featuring Jay-Z)

“Bleed It Out”

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Linkin Park spent the summer touring with Projekt Revolution in support of MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT, one of the highest-debuting and best-selling discs of 2007. In addition to “Leave Out All The Rest,” MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT spawned four other top ten hits (”Bleed It Out,” “What I’ve Done,” “Shadow of the Day,” “Given Up”) and according to the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), earned Linkin Park the title of 2007’s best-selling rock band, with sales of more than 6 million units worldwide.

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In other news, it was announced today that Linkin Park received an American Music Award nomination for “Favorite Artist—Alternative Rock Music.”

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www.linkinpark.com

New single ‘Old White Lincoln’ released December 1st

Limited Edition 7”/ CD Single / Digital

UK Dates and Vans in-store signing in December!

(Side One Dummy)

www.gaslightanthem.com  |  www.myspace.com/thegaslightanthem

“The Best New Band You’ll Hear In 2008” – Kerrang! Cover feature

“One of the most inspirational rock shows we’ve seen all year” – NME

The Gaslight Anthem hail from New Brunswick, New Jersey and their anthemic tales of Americana life have captured the imagination and hearts of fans and media alike.

The band’s sophomore album ‘The ’59 Sound’ is heralded as one of the best albums of 2008. Kerrang! magazine put the band on the cover before they had ever written a word about them, NME called it the “best album of 2008” and other immensely positive press has come from RockSound, Big Cheese, Q magazine and The Sun as well as great US press in the form of Alternative Press, Rolling Stone and Spin. 

After an incredible UK debut at the Reading Festival (followed by blinding sets at Leeds and 3 small hectic headline shows in Manchester, Nottingham and London) The Gaslight Anthem return to the UK in December to finish up what is becoming a very successful 2008. To coincide with the dates, they’ll be releasing their second single from ‘The ’59 Sound’ – the suitably anthemic ‘Old White Lincoln’ – on December 1^st. the band will also be signing copies at the London Vans Store on the same day.

The dates are as follows:

December

1^st        London, Vans Store (signing session)

3^rd:       Glasgow, Garage

4^th        Manchester, Academy 3

5^th        London, LA2

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Tickets are priced at £12.00 for the regional shows and £12.50 for London and are available from the usual agents.

I AM GHOST TO RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘BONE GARDEN’ ON 8^th DECEMBER

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PLUS UK Tour with Blessed By A Broken Heart in December

Sophomore Album Those We Leave Behind in stores now

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As I Am Ghost hit UK shores with their hard-hitting dark post-hardcore in December, they’ll also be releasing the first UK single to be lifted from recent sophomore album, Those We Leave Behind. The crushing Bone Garden is a great representation of the album’s seamless melding of metal, melodic-hardcore and scream elements. Sweeping sing-along choruses are also integrated to startling effect.

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Recorded with producer Paul Leavitt (Senses Fail, The Bled, Circa Survive) in Baltimore, MD, Those We Leave Behind contains fourteen turbulent tracks of brooding passion-fuelled rock infused with monstrously accessible hooks and Bone Garden is no exception.

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After a line-up change in late 2007, Steve Juliano (vocals) along with Timoteo Rosales III (guitars), Ron Ficarro (bass) and Justin McCarthy (drums) have re-focused the band’s direction, returning to the powerful raw rock that inspired them to make music in the first place.

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Blending fantasy and reality in his twisted tales of death and tragedy, Juliano seems to revel in showing the world’s beauty in decay on songs like the massive anthem Don’t Wake Up, the ode to the fallen Those We Leave Behind and the heart wrenching tale of The Saddest Story Never Told.  Those We Leave Behind is a sonic stake in the heart of safe, conformist music, defiantly confirming I Am Ghost’s place among the scenes most elite bands.

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With a reenergized passion and energy, I Am Ghost, are set to unveil their new music to their legion of fans on the band’s European tour this winter. They kicked off the tour in style in Greece and you can check out some of their adventures here:

I Am Ghost Tour Dates (co-headline with Blessed By A Broken Heart):

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Dec-03 Milton Keys The Pitz

Dec-04 Cardiff Barfly

Dec-05 London Uni of London

Dec-06 Plymouth White Rabbit

Dec-07 Wrexham Central Station

Dec-08 Liverpool Barfly

Dec-09 Glasgow Cathouse

Dec-10 Birmingham Barfly

Dec-11 Nottingham Rock City

Dec-12 York Fibbers Barfly

Dec-13 Brighton Concorde2

Dec-14 Poole Mr. C’s

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For More Information:
www.Epitaph.com

www.myspace.com/iamghost

Airbourne are gigging in the UK at the moment before shooting off to France and to conquor Europe and as usual their shows have been getting rave reviews with their true rock ‘n roll raucous act ..

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“All right people/Welcome to the show/Are you ready to rock?/Are you ready to go?/Now we’ve got what you want/And we’ve got what you need/So get your ass down here/And let your ears bleed.” – Stand Up For Rock’N’Roll

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It is as clear a statement of intent as you’re ever likely to hear. One verse that says everything you need to know about Melbourne, AU four piece Airbourne and their debut album, Runnin’ Wild: forget your worries, get down to the front of the stage and lose your mind to some ear-bleeding, sweat-soaked rock’n’roll. Or, as the song continues, “Drink your beer/Drink your wine/Let’s have a good time.” Stand up for rock ‘n’ roll indeed.

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Opening the show with the noisy track Rock N Roll from the ‘Running Wid’ album Airbourne declare their intention to play and have a good time doing it, to see the fabulous photographs and read the write up from Rock3 of their Birmingham show follow the link HERE

Funeral For a Friend have just completed a UK tour with Canadian band ‘Cancer Bats’ and Irish band ‘In Case Of Fire’, all three bands have just released either a single or in the the case of FFAF an album which is their first album release on their own record label ‘Join Us Records’ To see the bands live photos you will need to click HERE

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3 x Gold-Selling Welsh rockers FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND released their eagerly-anticipated fourth album ‘Memory & Humanity’  exactly five years to the day their debut record ‘Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation’ hit the shelves!
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It’s the first full-length to be released on their own label, Join Us, and features thirteen new tracks. Drawing fire from the muscular intensity of their earlier material and melding it seamlessly to the melodic intelligence of latter albums ‘Hours’ and ‘Tales Don’t Tell Themselves’, this album shows the band to be as incisively relevant as ever.