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Frontiers Records is pleased to announce Whitesnake’s highly anticipated live concert ”Made In Japan” will be released on Deluxe 2CD/DVD Edition, Blu-ray and DVD in the UK on Monday April 22 (U.S release is April 23). “Made In Japan” captures the multi-platinum rock band’s co-headline performance at the “Loud Park” festival, which took place in Japan’s Saitama Super Arena on October 15th 2011.

Filmed on the Japanese leg of Whitesnake’s momentous Forevermore World Tour, in support of their 2011 album of the same name, “Made In Japan” is packed full of the incredible songs that continue to keep the band at the very forefront of rock’n’roll...

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“Joe Bonamassa – An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House” will be released in the U.K. on 2-CD, 2-LP, 2-DVD & Blu-ray formats by Provogue Records on Monday 25th March (followed by U.S. release on Tuesday 26th March). The release dovetails Bonamassa’s run of four exclusive London concerts which kicks off on March 26th at The Borderline.

The concert was recorded at the historic Vienna Opera House in July 2012 during a very special unplugged tour, played to a limited audience over seven exclusive European shows. Varying from Bonamassa’s predominantly electric blues shows, this presentation was an all-acoustic concert performance, making it a unique and very special show fans had been waiting years to experience.

The Opera House in Vienna, regarded as the “City of Music,” was ch...

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Provogue Records (a division of Mascot Label Group) is pleased to announce the UK release of Eric Johnson’s special edition album ”Up Close – Another Look” on Monday 1st April. The album coincides with Johnson’s nationwide UK tour which starts at London’s o2 Shepherds Bush Empire on Wednesday 3rd April (full tour dates listed below).

Grammy award winning guitarist, songwriter and singer Eric Johnson brings listeners up close to his stunning musicality with the release of this custom European version of his sixth studio album. The 13-track affair presents 12 new Johnson compositions, plus his version of the Electric Flag song ‘Texas’. The special edition includes revised and remixed tracks featuring guest appearances from Steve Miller, Jimmie Vaughan, Johnny Lang and Sonny Landreth...

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Journey and Whitesnake, with special guests Thunder, will appear onstage together for the first time ever taking in eight dates across the UK throughout May 2013. Tickets are available online from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk.

Journey, one of the most popular American rock bands of all time, are responsible for creating some of the best-known songs in modern music. Over the years they have gained multiple accolades including 19 Top 40 singles, 25 Gold and Platinum albums and the single Don’t Stop Believin’ holding the #1 digital catalogue song in history...

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Seminal thrash titans, EXODUS join the main stage ranks at this year’s hottest metal festival. The Nuclear Blast band are currently gearing up to release their eleventh studio album, and they tour the US next month in the company of Bloodstock buddies, Anthrax. Frontman Rob Dukes states: “We are stoked to be playing Bloodstock again. Last time we played, our set was unfortunately cut short because of timing issues. Not this year! We are going to destroy that place!!!!” Check out this footage of them slaying Wacken in ‘O8:

Also newly confirmed are thrash legends, DEATH ANGEL...

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THE TREATMENT CONFIRMED AS MAIN SUPPORT TO STATUS QUO ON THEIR UK TOUR THIS MARCH FEATURING THE CLASSIC ‘FRANTIC FOUR’ LINE-UP…

UK rockers, The Treatment, will be joining Status Quo on a UK tour that sees the most celebrated Quo line-up back together again!

Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster & John Coghlan, the original line-up of the mighty Quo, have invited The Treatment to play as sole Special Guests on a nine-date tour of major UK venues, starting at the Manchester Apollo on March 6th 2013!

Says Treatment front-man, Matt Jones…

“We absolutely cannot wait for the upcoming Status Quo tour. All of us have grown up listening to Quo, so to get the chance to open the shows for the original line-up is a true honour...

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BENEA REACH SET TO RELEASE THIRD STUDIO ALBUM, ‘POSSESSION’, ON MARCH 25TH 2013 VIA SPINEFARM RECORDS
+ BRAND NEW VIDEO FOR FIRST SINGLE, ‘THE MOUNTAIN’, OUT NOW.

Watch the video here:

Grammy-nominated Norwegian tech-metallers BENEA REACH will release their third full-length offering of epic progressive metal on March 25th via Spinefarm Records.
Titled, ‘Possession’, this latest album was produced by Benea Reach & Thomas Wang, then mixed & mastered by Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Mnemic, Raunchy) at Antfarm Studio.
Known for his bipolar vocal ability, BR frontman Ilkka Volume veers memorably from low belly-aching screams through to high manic shrieks – almost as if the band had a dual-vocal set-up. He’s excited about the new record, and can’t wait for it to be heard…
“We...

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VOLBEAT TO RELEASE OUTLAW GENTLEMEN & SHADY LADIES APRIL 8th,2013
Rob Caggiano Joins Volbeat As Second Guitarist

Danish metal band Volbeat has announced that the upcoming studio album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies will be released on April 8, 2013. The band has also shared that former Anthrax and The Damned Things guitarist Rob Caggiano has officially joined the band. Caggiano served as producer on Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies, alongside long-time production partner Jacob Hansen, who produced and mixed the band’s prior four albums. Caggiano’s producer credits include The Damned Things, Bleeding Through and Anthrax amongst others, and he was a member of Anthrax for two tenures from 2001-2005 and again from 2007-2013. Singer and guitarist Michael Poulsen shared,

”The band is very proud...

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WAMPIRE SHARES NEW SINGLE ”THE HEARSE” VIA PITCHFORK
DEBUT LP CURIOSITY DUE IN MAY VIA POLYVINYL
”THE HEARSE” 7″ OUT MARCH 5TH, AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW

After forming Wampire, Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps steadily began to make a name for themselves in the same Portland, OR, scene that has produced labelmates STRFKR as well as Unknown Mortal Orchestra. It makes sense, then, that Wampire came to Polyvinyl’s attention when the duo opened for STRFKR at a hometown Portland show and that UMO’s bassist Jacob Portrait produced Wampire’s debut full-length, Curiosity.

The choice of Portrait was a natural one, with both Tinder and Phipps believing he’d be able to contribute almost as much to the record as they would...

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WAY TO BLUE – THE SONGS OF NICK DRAKE – Navigator Records, April 15, 2013

Featuring Teddy Thompson, Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Robyn Hitchcock, Lisa Hannigan, Scott Matthews, Krystle Warren, Danny Thompson and more – recorded live in London and Melbourne

“Every week, somewhere in the world, singers gather in clubs and halls to sing the songs of Nick Drake. It is sobering to think that more people now hear his songs in a month than ever heard them in his lifetime.” – Joe Boyd

Undoubtedly one of the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years, Nick Drake found little mainstream success during his lifetime; however, since his untimely death at the age of 26, his fragile acoustic, autumnal music has touched the hearts of millions of people.

Over the years sin...