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The expanded, remastered reissue of Queens Of The Stone Age’s classic 1998 debut out digitally March 8 and on CD and vinyl April 19 on Rekords Rekords/Domino can now be streamed in its entirety at the band’s website and social media channels, as well via the site of the band’s own Rekords Rekords imprint and label partner Domino.

Queens Of The Stone Age will be available on CD (REK001CD), double vinyl LP (REK001LP) and via digital download (REK001D). Pre-orders for the vinyl or CD formats will receive an instantly available digital download of the full record.

Queens Of The Stone Age is commemorating the upcoming reissue with a limited series of intimate shows at which the band will play the record in its entirety, plus B-sides and other rarities and hits from the early Queens catalogue up to the present. The tour kicks off March 16 in Austin TX and will now conclude with a just-added second Los Angeles show on April 13, the day after which Queens will appear on CONAN. At press time, the tour was nearly completely sold out, with tickets remaining for only four dates (Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis and Kansas City).

The genesis of Queens Of The Stone Age-the band and this first album-goes back to the 1995 dissolution of the criminally overlooked Kyuss, specifically founding guitarist Homme’s migration from the California Desert to the Pacific Northwest to work on a new project concurrent with spending time on the road as second guitarist in Screaming Trees. Homme discarded the sludgy low-end expanses of his former band for much tighter song structure (for the most part) and honest-to-goodness capital ‘H’ hooks and what was originally christened Gamma Ray was quickly changed to Queens Of The Stone Age shortly after its 1996 birth.

Homme returned to his old stomping grounds and reunited with latter day Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez to record as a fake trio (bass player “Carlo Von Sexron” is a nom-de-boom for Homme) and QOTSA came into full bloom, releasing the original version of this first album in 1998. If this re-issue doesn’t document “hour zero,” it’s only a few minutes past. “Regular John” introduces Homme as a smooth and assured vocalist with great melodic instinct. Tracks like “Avon” and “Walkin On Sidewalks” lock into heavy riffs that are in entrancing in their repetition and subtle shifts. And it’s hard to believe that insistently catchy “How To Handle A Rope” didn’t make a greater impact on mainstream radio upon its initial release.

The Rekords Rekords/Domino re-issue has been fully remastered from the original tapes and expanded by three tracks: “The Bronze” and “These Aren’t the Droids Your Looking For” from the  long out of print 1998 QOTSA/Beaver split EP and “Spiders and Vinegaroons” from the posthumous Kyuss/QOTSA split EP. The album will be the first released via a worldwide alliance between Queens’ Joshua Homme’s own Rekords Rekords and Domino to market, promote and distribute selected titles from their catalogue.

The complete itinerary for the Queens Of The Stone Age commemorative tour is as follows:

03/16/11 – Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa
03/18/11 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
03/19/11 – Birmingham, AL – Workplay Soundstage
03/20/11 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
03/21/11 – Atlanta, GA – Center Stage
03/23/11 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
03/24/11 – Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
03/25/11 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
03/26/11 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
03/27/11 – Montreal, Canada – Metropolis
03/29/11 – Toronto, Canada – Sound Academy
03/30/11 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
03/31/11 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
04/01/11 – Chicago, IL – The Riv
04/02/11 – Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
04/04/11 – Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom
04/05/11 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
04/06/11 – Kansas City, MO – Beaumont Club
04/08/11 – Denver, CO – Ogden
04/11/11 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
04/12/11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
04/13/11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern

SOLD OUT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ONE-OFF  TO BE FOLLOWED BY NINE-DATE MAY 2011 TOUR

In the wake of a December 11, 2010 Madison Square Garden one-off that sold out in 30 minutes and was described by The New York Times as “the kind of spectacle that has made Rammstein an arena and festival headliner across Europe,” RAMMSTEIN will return to North America for its first tour of the continent in 10 years.

The German sextet will play nine headlining arena dates beginning May 5 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford NJ and making stops in Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Edmonton, Tacoma, Oakland and Los Angeles before concluding May 21 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas NV.

Tickets for the shows went on sale the weekend of February 25 and are approaching sold out status in nearly every market.

The dates are the latest in a marathon worldwide touring campaign springboarding off the October 2009 release of Rammstein’s sixth album, Liebe Ist Für Alle Da, which entered the U.S. chart at a career high #13. More predictably Liebe Ist Für Alle Da hit #1 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Holland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, #2 in Poland, France and Russia, #3 in Sweden and Belgium, #4  in Mexico, Norway and Portugal, #5 in Spain, and Top 10 in Australia, Croatia and Hungary, among others.

Previous Rammstein albums include 1995’s Herzeleid, 1997’s Sehnsucht which has since become the only entirely German language album to be certified platinum in the U.S., 2001’s Mutter, 2004’s Reise, Reise, and 2005’s Rosenrot.

RAMMSTEIN
North America 2011

May 05 East Rutherford NJ – Izod Center
May 07 Montreal – Bell Centre
May 08 Toronto – Air Canada Centre
May 10 Chicago IL – Allstate Arena
May 13 Edmonton – Rexall Place
May 15 Tacoma WA – Tacoma Dome
May 18 Oakland CA – Oracle Arena
May 20 Los Angeles CA – The Forum
May 21 Las Vegas NV – Thomas & Mack Center

Nasty Little Man is excited and pleased to announce the latest addition to the family: White Rabbits!

See why NPR has raved “…Winning over fans with its energetic live shows — thanks in part to its unusual two-drummer lineup…Intense rhythms and sweeping, melodic choruses typify White Rabbits” catchy and often sinister sound,” as the Brooklyn-based sextet hits the road for a short run of underplays to iron out new songs before heading into the studio to record their tbd records follow up to 2009″s critically acclaimed It”s Frightening.

Last night at their sold-out Hoboken NJ show at Maxwell”s the band debuted 5 new songs alongside fan favorites to an enthusiastic and packed crowd.

The next four shows are likely to be your last chance to check out the band before their third record comes out later this year.

Check out the band”s performance of Percussion Gun (“One of the year”s best opening tracks” – PITCHFORK) on Letterman for a taste: 

Remaining dates:

Thu-Feb-24 Boston, MA @ Paradise
Fri-Feb-25 Williamstown, MA @ The Clark
Sat-Feb-26 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Sun-Feb-27 Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel

PRE-SALE TO BEGIN THIS WEEK AT

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Deluxe Edition To Include 300 page “Year of the Black Rainbow “Novel, Penned by Claudio Sanchez and Bestselling Author Peter David

Four Of Eight Pre-Release Club Shows Completely SOLD OUT Appearing April 17 at Coachella.

Coheed and Cambria has confirmed April 13 as the release date of Year of the Black Rainbow, its heavily anticipated fifth studio album. The eagerly awaited prequel to “The Amory Wars” tetralogy, Year of the Black Rainbow will be released by Columbia in both a standard format and a deluxe edition including a 352-page Year of the Black Rainbow novel, penned by the band’s Claudio Sanchez and New York Times Bestselling author Peter David.

Presale orders for the deluxe edition of Year of the Black Rainbow can be placed beginning this week at http://www.coheedandcambria.com. In addition to the CD and novel, the deluxe edition will include a “Making of” DVD featuring studio and interview footage as well as a Coheed and Cambria “Black Card,,”which will allow fans early entrance to shows, discounts on band merchandise and exclusive downloads and offers. Sneak peeks at the new album’s artwork and other exclusive visuals can be seen at http://www.coheedandcambria.com.

Year of the Black Rainbow provides the long awaited prequel to the band’s four previous inter-related concept albums – The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002); In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003); Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) and Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007) – which comprise “The Amory Wars,” the conceptual narrative driving the band’s lyrics, penned by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. Year Of The Black Rainbow is also likely to be the final installment of the narrative of “The Amory Wars.” Year of the Black Rainbow is produced by Atticus Ross (Nine Inch Nails, Jane’s Addiction) and Joe Baressi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool). According to the Sanchez, “They have helped us evolve our sound to be more powerful and dynamic than ever and we think it’s definitely our best work to date.” The new record also features the studio debut of Coheed and Cambria drummer Chris Pennie, who has been playing alongside Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever and bassist Michael Robert http://www.phpaide.com/?langue=fr&id=16 Todd since 2007 and was featured on Neverender: Children of the Fence Edition, the CD/DVD box set documentation of the fall/winter 2008 four-night stands during which the band played its catalogue in its entirety, one album per night, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London.

Year Of The Black Rainbow’s release will be preceded by a series of eight intimate club gigs on the northeastern U.S., four of which are already sold out. Earl Greyhound supports on the dates, which are as follows. Tue-Mar-23 – Rochester, NY – Harro East Theatre & Ballroom Wed-Mar-24 – Syracuse, NY – The Westcott Theater (SOLD OUT) Thu-Mar-25 – Clifton Park , NY – Northern Lights Fri-Mar-26 – South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground – Ballroom Sun-Mar-28 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall (SOLD OUT) Mon-Mar-29 – Hartford, CT – Webster Theater Tue-Mar-30 – Scranton, PA – Hardware Bar (formerly Tinks) (SOLD OUT) Wed-Mar-31 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (SOLD OUT) Sat-Apr-17 – Indio, CA – Coachella The complete track listing for Year of the Black Rainbow is: One The Broken Guns of Summer Here We Are Juggernaut Far The Shattered Symphony World of Lines Made Out of Nothing Pearl of the Stars In the Flame of Error When Skeletons Live The Black Rainbow

NYC, Charlotte, Atlanta Shows Confirmed

Them Crooked Vultures has confirmed its debut appearance on Saturday Night Live. The band – featuring SNL vets Dave Grohl and Josh Homme and, in his first ever appearance on the stage at 30 Rock’s famed Studio 8H, John Paul Jones – will be music guest on SNL’s February 6 show. Ashton Kutcher will host.

In addition, Them Crooked Vultures has confirmed three east coast shows immediately following the SNL festivities: February 8 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, February 10 at the Fillmore in Charlotte NC and February 11 at the Tabernacle in Atlanta.

For further information, sign up at themcrookedvultures.com.