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Alternately reviled, worshipped, misunderstood, analyzed, interpreted, revisited, forgotten, revisited again, bought, sold, and bartered on eBay, the Dream Syndicate’s second album, “Medicine Show” was just reissued Water Records and this will be the first time the record has been available in almost 20 years.

Everyone’s favorite group of Tuareg rebel rockers is back. Tinariwen will be finishing their tour up with a free show at Central Park’s SummerStage on June 26th. Formed in rebel training camps in Libya, these exiled nomads turned rock stars have become the soundtrack for the Tuareg culture and people. Their latest album, Imidiwan: Companions (World Village), was recorded in the middle of the Saharan Desert and captures the power…

WHITECHAPEL’s upcoming release ‘A New Era of Corruption’ streaming this Friday iTunes pre-order of ‘A New Era of Corruption’ includes exclusive bonus track Trailer for upcoming music video now live on Metal Blade TV! AGOURA HILLS, Calif. – June 4, 2010 – In honor of WHITECHAPEL’s June 8th release, A New Era of Corruption, Metal Blade Records and WHITECHAPEL have teamed up to bring you an exclusive stream of the…

New England metal troupe THE BREATHING PROCESS are road-bound today, kicking off a 25-date US tour in support of their recently issued Candlelight full-length Odyssey: (Un)Dead. The journey begins in Albany, New York at Bogies and will blast its way across the country before winding down at Sounds Asylum in Goshen, New York. Tour dates are as follows: THE BREATHING PROCESS US Tour 2010 4/17/10 Lucky’s Pub – Wilmington, NC…

Pharoahe Monch is on the front lines once again and this time it’s bigger than just album talk. Monch is gearing up to release his new project W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) through a partnership with Duck Down Music, while establishing his company W.A.R. Media as a viable entertainment portal. W.A.R. is the follow-up album to Pharoahe’s “Desire” project from 2007. Fans can expect what they’ve come to love from Pharoahe…

Riding high from his awe inspiring performance at Audible Treat’s showcase at Southpaw in Brooklyn, Jern Eye caught up with the folks at Ignantwitted right after the show for a candid interview touching on topics ranging from his group Lunar Heights, his sophomore album Vision, and much more. Ignantwitted has done interviews with various emcees including Saigon, Cormega, Exile, and Kay Slay to name a few and their list of…

Phish willcap off an extraordinary 2009 – which included its first performances in over four years and the release of Joy, which Rolling Stone hailed as “a genuinely great album” – with four consecutive shows at American Airlines Arena in Miami on December 28th, 29th, 30th and 31s. Phish will perform three sets on the 31st, celebrating its first New Year’s Eve show since the band’s concert at the same…

The revolution is a long thread Easily twisted, hard to stretch I patch up the desert, the great desert The discord and hate, which is becoming widespread there I’m ready to die, my rifle and I the desert is thirsty, searching for freedom Those who desired to lead have failed the mission In which the martyrs have died, searching for freedom – The Long Thread, lyrics by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib,…

The opening of “Freak Waves” seems to give a nod to the grunge rock pushed forth by bands like Soundgarden and Kyuss about fifteen years ago; the vocals present on this track are perhaps the most obvious part of this. At nearly five minutes, the repetitive guitar lines are at the verge of turning most listeners off from the CD. With “Disjointed”, the band seems to bring disaster on itself…