Order the “Live On Lansdowne” album through the DKM website before midnight on March 15th & you will automatically go into the draw for some fantastic prizes. Orders must be placed through the DKM website before midnight on March 15th, 2010 to go into the draw.

This is what you could get if you order your copy today:

+ A trip for 2 people to see Dropkick Murphys play live in Dublin at the Olympia Theater April 22, 2010. Trip includes round trip tickets & airport transfers for two people, plus two nights at U2’s Clarence Hotel on The Liffey and of course two tickets and VIP backstage passes for the show at the Olympia.

+ A signed guitar signed by all the members of DKM

+ A merch shopping spree, we’ll give you $500 credit to spend at our online store.

+ And for our Boston area fans a $200 bar tab at McGreevy’s, you pick the night & we’ll buy the drinks

+ Also all orders placed before midnight on Monday March 15th will receive a free download of a track from the album! The music file will be sent to the email address used to place the order for the album.

For complete details visit the DROPKICK MURPHYS

Well before Canada-philia ran rampant in conjunction with the 2010 Winter Olympics, The White Stripes made a point of hitting every single Canadian province during a 2007 tour — which meant touring everywhere from arenas to a bowling alley to a boat. The band’s escapades on that tour are preserved in Emmett Malloy’s new documentary, appropriately titled Under Great White Northern Lights, which captures the interactions between members Jack and Meg White as they make their way across some of the northernmost expanses of North America.

Of course, the Whites’ relationship represents only one side of The White Stripes’ story. Another side is built around blistering, white-knuckle performances like those documented on the no-nonsense live album which shares a name with the documentary.

To read the complete article and hear the new album visit NPR

Twelve years ago, Blur frontman Damon Albarn and Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett formed Gorillaz — a ”virtual band” whose animated avatars and woozy beats pastiche seemed custom-fit for a dawning era of smartphones, iPods, and other Jetson-y gizmos. ”I’m useless, but not for long/The future is comin’ on,” Albarn drawled on their first single, the dubby alt-chart hit ”Clint Eastwood.”

He was right: Gorillaz’ self-titled debut sold 
almost 2 million copies in the U.S. and made them stars, albeit in physical absentia (even in live performances, they are hidden behind 
 giant cartoon projections). A half decade after their last release, 2005’s multiplatinum sophomore outing Demon Days, the band has returned, once again gilding their four-character core with a delightfully random roster of guest stars: Snoop Dogg, legendary soul smoothie Bobby Womack, Lou Reed, and the Clash’s Mick Jones among them.

To hear some new tunes visit MYSPACE

To read the complete review visit ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

It’s almost as though Courtney Love doesn’t know it is her duty as a train wreck to announce a new record and then keep pushing the release date back and back and back until it disappears into a haze of Chinese Democracy-like proportions: Not two weeks after Nobody’s Daughter got a label and a release date of April 27th, the first single from the reanimated corpse of Hole is here… and it doesn’t suck.

To read the complete article visit ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

The bass player with Jane’s Addiction has quit the band, and will reportedly be replaced by former Guns N’ Roses rocker Duff McKagan.

Eric Avery, 44, announced his departure through a Twitter message on Monday, hours after the band completed a seven-date Australian tour in Perth

“That’s it,” he wrote. “With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane’s Addiction experiment is at an end.” Guitarist Dave Navarro confirmed Avery’s departure on Tuesday, saying on Twitter “We wish him all the best!”

Singer Perry Farrell also took to Twitter on Tuesday, offering a more-cryptic perspective: “Slipping out of that shell of a past. Gripping; wow we’re onto something faster now. And so worth the wait. It’s the Art Of Great Escape.”

McKagan, 46, will join Jane’s Addiction in the studio as it attempts to record the follow-up to its 2003 album “Strays,” according to various unconfirmed reports. Avery had previously indicated he was not writing songs for the album.

To read the complete article visit BILLBOARD

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MEGADETH kicked off its “Rust In Peace 20th Anniversary Tour” last night (Monday, March 1) at the Knitting Factory in Spokane, Washington.

According to a fan posting on the band’s official forum, MEGADETH’s setlist was as follows (not confirmed):

01. Set The World Afire
02. Wake Up Dead
03. In My Darkest Hour
04. Holy Wars…The Punishment Due
05. Hangar 18
06. Take No Prisoners
07. Five Magics
08. Poison Was The Cure
09. Lucretia
10. Tornado Of Souls
11. Dawn Patrol
12. Rust In Peace…Polaris
13. Head Crusher
14. Trust
15. Symphony Of Destruction
16. Peace Sells

To read the complete article visit BLABBERMOUTH