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3 Pill Morning Kicks Off Midwest Tour

The Minneapolis-based rock band, 3 Pill Morning kicks off its Midwest tour dates on Feb 5. The band is playing show dates in support of its recently released EP, Singles. The album was engineered by heavyweight production team Corey Lowery and Brian Virtue (Chevelle, Deftones, Sevendust). The band is currently working on its third album with the same team.
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SoundExchange and MySpace to Identify and Register Thousands of Artists with Unclaimed Royalties

In a surprise announcement today at MIDEM, SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization charged with the task of collecting and distributing digital performance royalties, and MySpace unveiled a partnership to identify and register thousands of artists and indie labels with unclaimed digital royalties.
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How To Book a Show For Your Band

Before approaching a club about getting your band a gig, there are several things that must be taken into consideration, the most important being the appropriateness of your band to play that particular venue. Trying to book your metal band or your hip-hop group at the popular indie venue doesn't do you or the venue any good. Make sure the music you play fits, at least vaguely, with the music that is being featured regularly at the club.
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How To Kill Your Recording Studio Session

If you are booking time in a pro facility soon, the guys behind the glass will thank you to mind these 7 Deadly Session Sins, each of which is nearly guaranteed to drive a recording engineer absolutely batty.
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Jam For Ron Asheton – Tribute to Late Guitarist of The Stooges at The Roxy

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of his passing, friends, family and fans will gather on Wednesday, January 13 at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles for the ‘Jam For Ron Asheton—A Tribute to the Late Guitarist of The Stooges.’
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Waiting for Decay to play the 2010 NAMM Show

(Los Angeles, Calif.) Jan. 7, 2010 - For the second consecutive year the California-based rock quartet has been invited to perform at the annual NAMM Show in Los Angeles. The band will play a set which will include two previously unreleased tracks. The show will mark the first time the band has played publicly since the addition of new bass player, DJ Bartlett.
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Soundtrckr Launches Location-Based Social Music Network for Mobile and Web Users

Blending the best elements of Internet radio, social networks, and location-based mobile apps, soundtrckr has launched a free application and website that allows users to connect their mobile devices to the social and geographic aspects of music discovery. Users can create and broadcast their own fully licensed radio stations, tap into the streams of other users, and geo-tag places with songs. All content can be shared on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
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Global Indian Music Social Network Muzigle Launched

Largest Indian Music Network MUZIGLE (http://www.muzigle.com) launched at a grand ceremony in Hyderabad, India. More than three hundred lyricists, composers, singers and persons of repute from film and music industry attended the launch event held at Prasads Preview Theater. The doyens of Indian music Palagummi Viswanadham (91) and Rao Bala Saraswathi Devi (81) lighted the lamp as a mark of the launching of Muzigle. World renowned Kuchipudi dancer Padmabhushan Raja Reddy opened the Muzigle website.
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Couple sues Gene Simmons over alleged attack

Nathan Marlowe and his wife Cynthia Manzo said Simmons attacked them, threatened them and took their video camera at the upscale The Grove mall on Saturday after they started filming the rocker.
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Metallica’s James Hetfield gives 330 acres to CA county

Even Metallica members get into the spirit of Christmas giving. Takes James Hetfield, for example: the frontman recently donated 330 acres overlooking California's Lucas Valley for preservation as farmland.
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