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We have part two of the three part P.O.D. interview and we also catch up with the Parkway Drive lads while they’re in NZ.
And of course, we’ll try and play some more Slipknot and Machine Head videos in preparation of their concert taking place next Wednesday.
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I found this just today, if you’re a Slipknot fan, you can now buy replica Slipknot masks online!
Blabbermouth - Nuclear Blast Records is offering YOUR metal band the chance to sign a worldwide record deal!
In a unique contest in collaboration with MySpace, unsigned metal bands from around the world will have the opportunity to win a contract with one of the leading labels for (extreme) metal music.
How can your band enter the contest?
If you’re a fresh sounding metal band, you’ve already fulfilled part of the requirements to participate. All you have to do is send your MySpace band page link (make sure your band page has a biography and band picture) in a message to this location. Your songs will then be heard and judged by an international team of Nuclear Blast representatives.
Rules:
* Band must be unsigned
* Band should play metal
* Absolutely no cover bands
* Own your song material
* No offensive material - Fascism and racism will not be tolerated
* No song material older than two years
* Bands music should be in the English language
* Bands must be able to speak and communicate in English
The contest will run from May 5, 2008 to October 1, 2008. At the end of the contest, Nuclear Blast Records will select 10 bands that will go into the finals. Finalists will be contacted by Nuclear Blast, and then the grand prize winner will be announced. The grand-prize winner bill be contacted by Nuclear Blast Records directly and will receive a worldwide record deal with the label. Runner-up winners will win a download contract (your band songs will be available for sale) at the Nuclear Blast Music Shop. The Nuclear Blast Music Shop is the MP3 purchase platform of Nuclear Blast. In addition, your band will receive a touring support slot for a Nuclear Blast band.
NZ Music Month kicks off today and at 9pm tonight Alt TV will beginning streaming online, a first for a NZ television channel.
On Rockzilla this coming Saturday…
It’s an all NZ music special.
All going well, you’ll see tour footage craziness from my band, Redline, CD release tour that took place in April.
I also caught up with a few bands from Mammoth Metalfest from last Saturday and will show those interviews.
- Just One Fix
- Cripple Mr Onion
- Sinate
- Tainted
Dale from the 95BFM Hard, Fast & Heavy Show also has a chat with Paul Martin from the Axe Attack/World War 4.
A question for you…
“What does NZ Music Month mean to you?”
If you’re game enough, leave a comment and we’ll see whether NZ Music Month has any merit left to it or not.
Music Alive 08 is a live music extravaganza taking place today from midday to midnight at Auckland’s Powerstation.
All proceeds go to Youthline to raise awareness and help the prevention of youth suicide and prevention.
Even if you miss the event, please consider donating $10 towards the cause, while stocks last you’ll get a cd in return of the artists who took part.
Just email musicalive@slingshot.co.nz for details.
Alt TV is encouraging people to tune into its 100% advert-free Sunday Night ‘Madman Festival Movie and Documentary Season’, commencing this Sunday at 8pm.
Alt TV, SKY Digital 65 presents the commercial-free movie and documentary season in association with Madman Entertainment - Australasia’s leading distributor of Anime, Independent film, Asian Cinema, Bollywood, Action Sports and other special interest genres.
Alt TV Creative Director, Oliver Driver, says the Sunday Night Madman Festival Movie and Documentary Season will offer viewers regular exposure to some of the most non-vanilla, thought-provoking and socially conscious film projects ever produced.
Movie works to feature in Alt TV’s Sunday Night ‘Madman’ Festival Movie Season include; Palindromes (Venice Film Festival/Golden Lion Award nominated), Gerry (Sydney Film Festival and Sundance nominated), Young Adam (London Critics Circle Award winner for Best Film) and Princesses (Sundance Film Festival nominated).
Sunday Night Madman Festival Documentary titles include; Art of Rhyme, 5 Sides of a Coin, Madame Sata, Everest and Tibet Cry of the Snow Lion, to name but a few.
Kicking off the Sunday Night Madman Festival Movie Season this week is loudQUIETloud: a film about the Pixies, followed by an Alt TV documentary special: Big Day Out 2008 - where we follow a group of lucky punters around the BDO and capture every moment of their unworldly experience on camera.
The Associated Press reports that a 14-year-old suspended student, wearing a black MARILYN MANSON concert shirt, black jeans and black-painted finger nails, opened fire in his downtown high school Wednesday, wounding four people as terrified schoolmates hid in closets and bathrooms and huddled under laboratory desks. He then killed himself.
A fellow student at SuccessTech Academy alternative school said Asa H. Coon, who was suspended for fighting two days earlier, had made threats in front of students and teachers last week.
“He’s crazy. He threatened to blow up our school. He threatened to stab everybody,” Doneisha LeVert said. “We didn’t think nothing of it.”
Coon was armed with two .38 caliber revolvers, and police found a duffel bag stocked with ammunition and three knives in a bathroom, officials said. Parents were angry that firearms got into a school equipped with metal detectors that students said were intermittently used.
Officials said two teachers and two students were shot, and that a 14-year-old girl fell and hurt her knee while running out of the school.
Read more from The Associated Press.
Over the last few days, a few people have told me about “Metalocalypse”, a cartoon about the adventures of a death metal band.
It’s definitely not for kids as it’s brutally graphic but quite humorous at the same time.
Think of Spinal Tap meets Scooby Doo and you can start to imagine what it’s like.
It’s worth checking out as it seems to be gathering quite an online following.
How fast can a musician get? I found this interesting article called “Youtube’s Fastest Musicians” complete with videos the other day. Some of these guys actually hold official world records:
