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CHILDREN OF BODOM: 'Are You Dead Yet?' Tops Finnish Album Chart

CHILDREN OF BODOM's new album, "Are You Dead Yet?", has entered the Finnish album chart at position No. 1. View the whole chart at this location. The CD has also sold 21,000 copies in Japan in its first week of release, where it debuted at No. 17. "Are You Dead Yet?" is scheduled ...

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Former RAMONES Drummer Becomes Radio DJ

Former RAMONES drummer Marky will become a Sirius Satellite Radio host on Tuesday, October 4 with the launch of "Marky Ramone's Punk Rock Blitzkrieg". The new weekly, two-hour show will feature punk music from its inception through its current incarnations, and will be heard live each Tuesday on com...

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Former RAMONES Drummer Says He Is 'Very Flatterred' By German Museum

Former RAMONES drummer Marky Ramone spoke to Greg Prato of Billboard.com about a German museum dedicated to the RAMONES, which is scheduled to open Friday (Sept. 16) in Berlin. "That could be the first of many," Marky said. "Just because it's in Berlin, it doesn't mean there can't be one in New York...

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CHILDREN OF BODOM: 'Are You Dead Yet?' To Receive U.S. Release In October

Finnish five-piece CHILDREN OF BODOM will release their new studio album, "Are You Dead Yet?", in the U.S. on October 25 via Spinefarm Records. "Are You Dead Yet?" has been declared to be one of the first priority UMG international releases through Universal's Fontana Distribution system. The U.S. v...

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RAMONES Museum To Open In Berlin

MTV.com is reporting that a museum dedicated to the RAMONES will open in Berlin on September 16. It will boast more than 300 original memorabilia items, collected between the band's earliest stages all the way up through the final RAMONES concert nine years ago. Along with hundreds of press clipping...

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FRANKENSTEIN 3000: Covers Album To Include Guest Appearances By NY DOLLS, THE RUNAWAYS Members

East Coast hard rockers FRANKENSTEIN 3000 will release their covers CD, "America's Hit Remakers", on October 4. Starting September 6, it will be available on a limited basis via the Main Man Records web site and exclusively at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ. The 17-song set includes the band's version o...

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IRON MAIDEN Inducted Into HOLLYWOOD ROCKWALK: Photos Available

IRON MAIDEN were officially inducted into Guitar Center's Hollywood RockWalk Friday evening (August 19). Band members added their handprints — with a fake skeleton hand to stand in for their album cover skeleton mascot, "Eddie" — to the sidewalk gallery outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard,...

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NEBULA Complete Work On New Studio Album

Cosmic rockers NEBULA have completed their much-anticipated follow-up to "Atomic Ritual". The band enlisted the help of producer Daniel Rey (THE RAMONES, MISFITS) to record "the most dynamic and diverse NEBULA opus yet," according to a press release. The band is currently in mixing and mastering pha...

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THE DICTATORS Unearthing Rarities Album

Greg Prato of Billboard.com is reporting that work has begun on assembling a single disc of demos, outtakes, and other previously unreleased bits from veteran New York proto-punk act THE DICTATORS. In the early days of CBGB, the group frequently shared the stage with like-minded acts such as the RAM...

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VELVET REVOLVER To Perform At Grand Opening Party For Hard Rock Cafe In Times Square

VELVET REVOLVER will perform at the grand opening party for the new Hard Rock International flagship cafe in the center of Times Square on Saturday, September 17. Hard Rock International will be moving from its original location on 57th Street to occupy the former site of the historic Paramount Thea...

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IRON MAIDEN To Be Inducted Into HOLLYWOOD ROCKWALK

IRON MAIDEN will be inducted into Guitar Center's Hollywood Rockwalk, located at 7425 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, CA, on Friday, August 19 at 7:30 p.m. This event is FREE and open to the public. Hollywood's RockWalk is the only sidewalk gallery dedicated to honoring those artists who have made a sign...

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Former VENOM Frontman TONY DOLAN To Be Featured In Upcoming Books, On Retrospective DVDs

Former VENOM/MANTAS and current ATOMKRAFT bassist/vocalist Tony Dolan's web site has been updated with the following message from Dolan's webmaster: "Tony is to feature in two more books to be released this year. The first is by legendary NWOBHM [journalist] John Tucker. The book, called 'Suzie Smil...

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KISS: Legendary Photographer BOB GRUEN's Exhibition To Open This Week

According to Kiss Kollector Online, legendary rock 'n' roll photographer Bob Gruen — best known to KISS fans for his pictures of KISS' '70s tours of Japan — will have an exhibition of his photos at The Morrison Hotel Gallery in La Jolla, California beginning on July 22. For the first time ever, ...

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CHEVELLE To Play CBGB Benefit Show

Launch Radio Networks reports: CHEVELLE will play a benefit show at legendary New York club CBGB on August 4, with all proceeds going to the "Project Save CBGB" campaign. The club, which launched the careers of the RAMONES, LIVING COLOUR, THE TALKING HEADS and countless others, is in danger of losin...

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Live albums? Greatest-hits packages? Re-recorded "latest and greatest" cash grabs? Pffft. These are the tricks of rank amateurs. It takes a true metal marketing genius, one as cunning as he is shameless, one with absolutely no sense of "too much," to release an album of easy-listening Muzak renditio...