Many artists are weighing in on Michael Jackson and tossing their proverbial two-cents into the fountain of tributes. Some are doing it to remind you they worked with Jacko years ago and they are not dead. Check out this Steve Perry interview over at Fan Asylum. Some have no ulterior motive and just want to hyperbolize about their favorite artist.

Such was the case with Demerol Methadone (drummer for Delaware badasses STASH). We covered STASH in our second party like a rockstar experience where Vic Wettner wretched all over my rental car. These guys are a cover band of sorts, but remake old classics into drug induced anthems.

Demerol called the BnR hotline yesterday to leave his thoughts, but a man of his star quality, you have to pick up. The conversation went like this.

Dem: Yo Craig, it's Demerol from STASH. I wanted to leave you a message about my thoughts on the passing of Michael Jackson.

BnR: Hey, no reason to leave it on our machine, let's do an interview for the site.

Dem: Great idea. Man you guys are marketing geniuses. So yea, about Michael Jackson. Michael taught me everything I know about rhythm and beats and really made me want to become a drummer.

BnR: What song was really the watershed moment for you? What song did you hear that made you really thing, I need to get into music?

Dem: I think it was Little Red Corvette. The drum machine beat and the slow synth build up in that song is brilliant. Plus all the metaphors to clits really got my young mojo flowing.

BnR: Um, Demerol, that was Prince.

Dem: Yea, the Prince of Pop man. I know. He was so cool and then his movie Purple Rain really redefined my teenage years. I remember I had Suzanne Comitski over my parents house. We were dropping acid and watching Purple Rain. She used to think the walls were raining purple and that the floor was a flood of purple rain. I somehow convinced her in my own drug induced state that the only way to save herself was to suck my dick. She did man, she sucked as if her life depended on it, because to her, it did.

BnR: Yea but Demerol that was the artist PRINCE, not Michael Jackson.

Dem: Yea. Didn't Prince die?

BnR: No, Michael Jackson did, you know the guy that created the Thriller album. Billie Jean, Black or White?

Dem: Oh, the kiddie toucher.

BnR: Well he was never convicted of that.

Dem: Yea, I know him. He died? And you are telling me Prince is still alive? Man that is trippy. I have been in mourning the last couple of days doing tremendous amounts of coke to cope with the loss of Prince man.

BnR: I don't know what to tell you other than you did all that coke in vain.

Dem: Coke is never done in vain man. So I guess I called you for nothing then. So how is everyone over there?

BnR: Well they are good, but let's talk about where you guys are in the recording process for Exile on Meth Street?

Dem: Pretty good though we only have two of our classic songs recorded. Bong a Gong and That Syringe are down, but we can't seem to find the time to do the rest. It is hard to get us all in the same room together, you know man? El Burro de la Druga is on vacation in Mexico this month, hopefully bringing back some of that fine white nose gold us 49ers appreciate.

Bud Glaucoma is having a colonospy done because he stuffed a glass bong up there to hide it from the police and it shattered.

Poppy Seed Jump was just released on bail for domestic battery. His partner called the cops on him after catching PSJ having their pug lick peanut butter off his dick. PSJ is a kinky dude like that. I remember one time we were on-stage playing the Rusty Rudder in Dewey and there are gulls, fucking gulls man, just circling over PSJ's head. Then I look down and there is an ant trail running from his crotch, he had mayonnaise all over his penis for some reason. He was really gone on Quaaludes and pop rocks that day.

I have been clean and sober for 12 hours now.

BnR: Oh that's great. The road to recovery is a long and arduous one. I wish you the best.

Dem: Recovery? Recovery is for quitters man. I am waiting for the 9:45 DART bus so I can go and pick up my shit man.

BnR: Hey Dem, I think we have another call coming in, looks like Chad Kroeger is calling the BnR office. I have to go.

Dem: Hey yea, you tell that asshole to put his dick in a blender for me and feed the remains to a junkyard dog. You tell him that Craig. You tell him STASH is waiting for his pussy band in Delaware.

BnR: I think you just told him yourself.

        

Revere Mount Rushmore is another band from Canada that has emailed in for an album review. I sat for days pondering what could be the reverse of Mount Rushmore and I determined a stone sculpture in the mountains featuring Jesus, Oprah, Obama, and Ted Danson would probably be the antithesis of the real Mount Rushmore.

This band is tough to categorize because they sound like a lot of their heroes. You have a heavy Black Sabbath influence, which can easily be heard in songs like Kicksand. There are other times they remind me of Queens of the Stone Age (Art School Project). And "A" Song sounds like a reject from the Eagles of Death Metal. But something you get from those three bands, Reverse Mount Rushmore is stoner rock.

I don't think you need to be high to appreciate Milk the Dead Horse, but it doesn't hurt. There are some great songs on this album, "A" Song, His Old Self, The Duke of Sit, and then some songs, which pale in comparison to the three I just mentioned (Art School Project).

The band is solid, great distorted guitar and vocals reminiscent of Tony Iommi; thick heavy bass and drum lines pushing the guitars and vocals to the eventual climax. All while helping you weave in and out of your thoughts while you enjoy your favorite medicinal remedy.

I think my only complaint are Brent Fagan's voice isn't used enough. His talent is pushed to the back on some, if not all the songs. I understand stoner rock is more about the laissez-faire attitude with only providing enough vocals to keep things moving and letting the bass and drums create a trippy dream, but his ethereal vocals are unnecessarily lost amongst the controlled billows of smoke.

Either way most sons had enough for casual music lovers to appreciate something in them. At the very least, you will be involuntarily banging your head and catch yourself tapping your feet. So smoke a bowl and put on Milk the Dead Horse. See where your thoughts go. Check out their MySpace page for all information on the band.

        

Chad Smith is currently the drummer for Chickenfoot and still the drummer for the "on hiatus" Red Hot Chili Peppers, but that isn't stopping him from starting another group.

Introducing Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats starring guitar star Jeff Kollman, multi-faceted keyboardist Ed Roth, and Motor City bass ace Kevin Chown. Together, they comprise what is easily one of the most interesting and unpredictable instrumental bands to come along in years; Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats. Their sound creates a cutting edge sonic experience with a plethora of influences, fusing together styles as diverse as classic rock, old school funk, punk, and '70s R&B.

The Meatbats sound is as uncalculated and spontaneous as their accidental beginnings, forged as an outgrowth of Jeff, Ed, and Chad's recording and touring with rock legend, Glenn Hughes (ex-Deep Purple, Black Sabbath). Kollman recalls, "Whenever I would jam with Ed and Chad at Glenn Hughes' rehearsals, we would warm up with some impromptu Jeff Beck kinds of grooves. One day Chad said, 'Hey, we should record something like this!' Next thing you know we were in the studio making an album!"

        

Queens of the Stone Age/Eagles of Death Metal Josh Homme's wife Brody Dalle has commented on Homme's rumored new project with John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) and Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters). The trio is said to be currently holed up in a Los Angeles recording studio working on an album that's been the biggest secret in rock for what seems like years now.

Dalle told Antiquiet.com, "I'm not at liberty to talk about it… but I think [the project] is pretty fucking amazing. Just beats and sounds like you've never heard before."

The prospect of this music is very great. I loved the stuff Homme and Grohl did for Queens of the Stone Age's Songs for the Deaf. Of course, that album had the gloriousness of Nick Oliveri (Mondo Generator). I can't wait to hear the first tracks from this band and I hope they do a small tour.

        

British heavy metal legends Judas Priest kicked off their "British Steel" 30th-anniversary tour last night (Monday, June 29) at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Rapid Fire
02. Metal Gods
03. Breaking The Law
04. Grinder
05. United
06. You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise
07. Living After Midnight
08. The Rage
09. Steeler
10. The Ripper
11. Prophecy
12. Rock Hard Ride Free
13. Victim Of Changes

Encore:

14. Freewheel Burning
15. Diamonds And Rust
16. You've Got Another Thing Comin'

I don't know what else you want in a Judas Priest set list. This is an iconic album and they are a typically great band to see. If you haven't seen Priest yet, this is the tour for you.

        

Adrian Morrow of TheStar.com reports: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada's loud campaign to bring heavy-metal heroes KISS to a city hushed by auto-plant layoffs may have paid off.

Voting in an online poll to determine KISS's route for a fall tour closed today, with Oshawa far in front with 14,573 votes, with Winnipeg next at 12,929. Organizers have said they'll weigh the results to take into account the size of cities in the running. Toronto is in eighth place with 5,304 votes.

So your city has been ravished by layoffs thanks to the Chevy Avalanche plant closing down. To make you feel better you will get to see 1/2 of KISS charge you $120.00 a ticket. This is, of course, if you have suitable venue that will hold the ego of Greed $immons and the insane amount of pyrotechnics.

        

Alice in Chains have announced a few more tour dates. Check them out below.

July 18             Detroit, MI                   Comerica Park (with Kid Rock)
Aug 1               Dublin, IE                    Marlay Park
Aug 2               Stevenage, GB           Knebworth House - Sonisphere
Aug 4               London, GB                 Scala
August 6          Cologne, DE                Essigfabrik
August 8          Berlin, DE                    Columbia Club
August 10        Hamburg, DE              Grunspan
August 12        Amsterdam, NL          Melkweg
August 22        Pomona, CA               Epicenter
Sept. 4             Washington, DC          9:30 Club
Sept. 5             Philadelphia, PA          Theatre of Living Arts
Sept. 7             Boston, MA                 Paradise Rock Club
Sept. 8             New York, NY             The Fillmore
Sept. 15           Toronto, ON                The Opera House
Sept. 16           Cleveland, OH             House of Blues
Sept. 19           Chicago, IL                  House of Blues
Sept. 20           Milwaukee, WI             The Rave
Sept. 21           Minneapolis, MN         First Ave
Sept. 26           Portland, OR               Roseland Grill
Sept. 28           San Francisco, CA     The Fillmore

        

The Used have released their single Blood on My Hands, from their upcoming release Artwork. You can buy the song here. I only heard the 30 second song clip and it sounds like The Used, but with a slightly harder edge. But I am not dumb enough to believe that 30 seconds from their single is indicative of their entire album.

The Used's guitarist Quinn Allman describes the song as it "sums up everything about The Used,” is confined chaos, brutally thrashing one moment and proffering a pop-driven, sing-along chorus the next." I don't know if it really is that grandiose, but I am willing to suspend disbelief and check it out.

        

It amazes me how fast singles/songs are remixed. Jet's single She's a Genius has already been out for like a week and here are two remixes. Jamie Fanatic Remix and the Bird Peterson Remix. Check out the original song below.

        

A new Alice in Chains track entitled "A Looking In View" is now available for purchase via iTunes and Amazon. Two short teasers for the song's accompaying video clip can be viewed below. Meanwhile, sources tell The Pulse of Radio that an official radio single called "Check My Brain" will head to rock stations in mid-August.




Alice in Chains - says Blogs N' Roses rules

        

To celebrate the impending release of Stay Hungry, Twisted Sister vocalist Dee Snider will play Call of Duty: World at War and guitarist Jay Jay French will play Gears of War 2 with Xbox LIVE Gold members on July 1.

Date: July 1st
Time: 3PM – 4PM EST
Game: Call of Duty: World At War and Gears of War 2
Gamertags: TwistedDee GwF (*Note: space between TwistedDee and GwF) and TwistedJay

        

John J. Moser of The Morning Call recently conducted an interview with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Morning Call: I've been reading about all the delays in recording your next album. What's the story behind that, and how much frustration does it present for you?

Perry: "Only about a million percent. I had to have my knee replaced over a year ago and I was just about healed up and it got infected and that happened around Thanksgiving and into Christmas. I think it was right after Christmas I had to have it operated on. That pushed everything back and we lost a lot of time trying to work out our schedules. And then finally we got some time and we got the ball rolling and we had the songs — we were getting ready to cut the songs and Steven got this bronchitis that turned into pneumonia at the same time was getting an ear infection and they had to pierce one of his eardrums and it was just one of those things. I mean this really bad flu bug that's been going around — not the swine one — but he got a really bad infection, just that bronchitis and he couldn't sing. So that just was one of those things. It was going to take four weeks for it to heal. And we just couldn't do it and still make the tour. And at that point the tour had been booked. We were hopeful we'd have the record out and then tour behind it, but it just wasn't meant to be. But the good side of it for me was I had time – all of a sudden I had this month and a half of time. I have songs — whenever I write I just write a lot and I had a bunch of stuff for a solo record that actually I wasn't planning on putting out for a while, but I said, ‘Wow, I got all this time, I got these songs. So I called up some friends and we started playing, and after about a month of around-the-clock work, through the weekends, we got finished the record. So I have a solo record coming out at the end of the summer."

The Morning Call: You think when this tour's done, you'll tour with that record?

Perry: "I'd like to, even if it's a short go-around to major markets at least and do that. I was so close to doing it on the last project but we were … I mean, I was getting offers from all over the world to play and it was the hardest thing to turn down 'cause I had like a month and a half before I was going to have to start touring with Aerosmith, and I just didn't want to step right off a Joe Perry tour right into an Aerosmith tour. I would have been fried at the beginning of a tour and that's a formula for a really big screw-up. So I couldn't do any more live gigs, but I would really like to do it this time."

I was watching Living with Michael Jackson again last night and Martin Bashir asked him how does he write a song. He said for Billie Jean he just wanted to come up with a good bassline. It wasn't coming to him in the studio so he left and as he was driving the road helped him come up with that distinctive bassline. Martin asked where did it come from and Jackson shrugged his shoulders and said God.

What this anecdotal story represents is what all creative persons experience. If you try to force something, it rarely happens. If I sat down here and tried to write something for the website, I would get nothing. I would watch porn or check email rather than writing what I should be. Same thing goes for writing songs. If you sit down with a pad and pen, creative rarely flows.

Injuries aside, this has to be what Aerosmith is dealing with. No member is in the same room at the same time which makes it hard to write a song. Then they have this compulsory need to tour every summer or fall. A year without Aerosmith on the road might make people clamor for them and ask where is another Aerosmith record?

        

SUICIDE CITY was first conceived when Biohazard vocalist/guitarist Billy Graziadei met Karl Bernholtz, vocalist of the south Florida band The Groovenics. The pair was joined by drummer Danny Lamagna, who had been recommended by members of Sworn Enemy. Soon after, Groovenics guitarist AJ Marchetta was added to the fold, and the lineup was finally rounded out by former Kittie bassist Jennifer Arroyo.

 

Not the type of band to just wait around for things to happen, SUICIDE CITY self-released an EP, ‘Not My Year,’ in 2005 and has since managed to sell over 7,000 copies sans label support. That year they also saw success in the form of a “Best Unsigned Band” award from East Coast Romper. In 2006 Kerrang! called them “a mesmerizing presence” and said that they had “manic wide eyed energy.” They have also self-produced and released a live DVD, entitled ‘Live From CBGB.’

 

The band has reputation for consistent and energetic touring, having spent time on the road with the likes of Otep, Taking Back Sunday, Gwar, Danzig, Life of Agony, Birthday Massacre, Mindless Self Indulgence, Despairs Ray, MXPX, Mushroomhead, and others.

 

Although the individual band members come from wildly different backgrounds, they all share a common passion for music and an unfaltering loyalty to SUICIDE CITY. As Arroyo says, “Suicide City inspires to me to reach new levels of sound and emotion.” Graziadei describes SUICIDE CITY’s sound as “punk rock, dirty rock ‘n roll with some big balls of metal and a touch of manic depression thrown in.” Lamagna’s precise percussion fury adds to the speed and aggression of the band’s sound, but is reigned in when a more melodic sound is required. The layers of Marchetta’s and Graziadei’s guitars succeed in laying down an aggressive onslaught as well as some impressive and unexpected melody while Arroyo’s bass holds down the low end of the party. Bernholtz vocalizes emotional poetry masterfully, and more than matches the music’s energy.

 

On August 4th, SUICIDE CITY releases their debut full-length effort, entitled ‘Frenzy,’ via Brooklyn label THE END RECORDS. “‘Frenzy’ is such an eclectic blend of music,” says Marchetta. “This band is unafraid and unapologetic about what we create, and because of that we have an album with a really wide musical landscape.” Graziadei points out, “In our short time together, Suicide City has achieved more on our own than most bands do in their whole career with the help of a label.”  Perhaps Bernholtz sums it up best: “Suicide City thrives on making people happy and smile through our music without having to candy coat anything. Life does not ‘suck and then you die.’ Life is great, dangerous, exciting, strange, and then you die. I guess that’s what we’re trying to portray with our music.”

        

Yes, this is a music website, but we just hosted a Transformers 2: IMAX viewing party. I need to review the movie because something happened that tainted it.

The critics have been hating on Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen for weeks now. They hate the character development, the annoying acting, and the piss-poor dialog. But the fact remains, this movie nor the franchise was ever about character development, acting, or dialog. It was always about giant fucking robots blowing each other up and the puny humans caught in the middle.

So those dumbasses going to see Transformers 2 looking for dialog or plot beyond giant fucking robots blowing each other up, should have stayed home or went to see a pussy movie. I would have enjoyed the extra room.

The movie starts out in medias res (or in the middle of the action). The Autobots have been fighting alongside humans to snuff out the remaining Decepitcons, who cares because it was entirely too long between the opening credits and the robots blowing each other up.

The CGI looks amazing and that's all I care about in a movie this big. Do the robots look real? Yes. Are they bad ass? Hell yes. Was that sex joke about Sam getting his cherry popped groan inducing? I don't know, I missed it because I was staring at Megan Fox's ass and waiting for the revival of Megatron (Galvatron).

But here is where the movie breaks down, for me. There is a party scene where all the freshmen go to a frat house rave (you remember your first day college rave, right?). Anyway, the big bad Decepitcon, who can apparent mimic human skin and body temperature flawlessly, comes into the room. She is hunting Sam, for no apparent reason because Soundwave doesn't learn about Sam's map to the Energon source until AFTER this scene. So why is the flesh mimicking Decepticon hunting Sam? Who cares, they are playing Nickelback!

That's right, this bas ass movie containing giant robots raping each other and destroying cities, has a Nickelback song in it. I don't know which one it is, but it is one of their "harder rocking" ones. It was playing in the background for at least two LONG minutes. It was long enough for me to puncture my ear canal with a Jujube.

Sadly, I couldn't hear the rest of the movie, but you don't need your hearing anyway. It is all visual, including even bigger robot testicles. The movie is saved by Jon Turturro, who ruined the first movie for me.

I recommend seeing this movie, but only if you are a fan of shit blowing up and giant robots killing each other. If you are looking for a dick cutting, sob fest, My Sister's Keeper is playing. SPOILERS: Abigail Breslin's character gets into a car accident shortly after being emancipated from her parents. She is brain dead and can't give her organs to her sister. Now, go sob, you pussy.

        

Sorry meatheads and bullies, Limp Bizkit has cancelled their UFC concert. Here is the official message from the band:

"Limp Bizkit did NOT, in any way, cancel the UFC 100 concert in Las Vegas. Truth is UFC and Interscope Records [LB's record label] could not come to an agreement on certain DVD rights. With all respect to Mandalay Bay, the UFC were also unhappy with LB's decision of wanting to switch the performance from the Beach at Mandalay Bay with its inappropriate layout for a heavy rock concert with LB, basically a stage in front of a pool, to a more standard concert venue also located at the Mandalay Bay, which was the House Of Blues. The UFC expressed they wanted a 'party vibe' for this event and would not settle for any venue besides the Beach for this and other reasons.

So it was all the UFC's fault. Why aren't these tawdry details worked out before they announce the fucking thing? I wouldn't have gone 200 miles near this event, but the people that were going probably wanted to see LB perform.

I am always one for a giant conspiracy theory, could this be a ticket sales problem? Could this be LB not wanting to play in the Vegas heat? Who knows. Maybe, Fred Durst's mom knows the REAL story.

        

Sebastian Bach, our hero, recently commented on the passing of Michael Jackson.

Sebastian Bach: "Another angel down... I am very sorry for my friend Jermaine's [Jackson, Michael's brother] loss. I lived with Jermaine for three weeks last year [during the filming of the second season of CMT's hit series, 'Gone Country'], and we talked about his brother frequently. He said to me, 'When you cut up my brother, you're cutting up me'. I feel for the Jackson family, because I know all too well how they feel. Unfortunately."

More dirt will come out about Michael Jackson's bizarre lifestyle. You can find that all over the internet. We are not going to pass any of that along. How he was able to continue to live with almost zero dollars is amazing. How he was able to squander away millions is also astounding.

One of my favorite documentaries on Jackson was Martin Bashir Living With Michael Jackson. The documentary is an eye-opening look at the bizarre lifestyle of The King of Pop. A scene that stands out is when he was in the Venetian in Las Vegas and just ran through buying everything. Every antique in the store he bought.

I visited the store shortly after he was there, sold signs everywhere, but with the price tag still attached. A chess set worth 15,000 dollars, a giant Bald Eagle statue for 21,000. All crap, not worth 50.00 bucks, but he didn't have a problem overspending.

The Times Online ran an article with the nanny, but it was taken down for an unknown reason. I will give the link in hopes it will be back up so you can read about it.

        

Velvet Revolver/ex-Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan's current project, Duff McKagan's Loaded, has reportedly been confirmed as one of the second-stage performers at Crüe Fest 2 tour, which stars MÖTLEY CRÜE and features additional support from Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool and Charm City Devils. As a result, Duff McKagan's Loaded's previously announced short run of U.S. club dates, which was scheduled for later this week, has been canceled.

We have a contact going to this show, so we will keep you informed of how it is. Here is our review of Duff's album.

        

Greed $immons has been doing press tours for his TV show Family Jewels. In one interview he answered, some interesting questions:

Inside TV: Do you mind if women are interested in you just because of your wealth and status?

$immons: Well, you just have to understand where the minefield is. I'm aware that if I didn't earn a lot of money and have a certain stature then I'm less appealing to women. Period. Shannon [Tweed, Greed's longtime girlfriend] included. Tell me if this is true: Two guys are talking, two girls are talking. The guy says to his friend, "I've got a blind date for you." The friend replies, "What does she look like?" Two girls are talking: "I've got a blind date for you." "Really? What does he do?" A guy pulls up in a Volkswagen from the 1960s and says, "Let's go on a date and eat beans and franks." Next day, same guy pulls up in a Rolls Royce and says, "I'm taking you to Paris" — which one do you want? But men don't care if you have a job, a dime or a car. We just don't care as long as you look good.

Inside TV: Adam Lambert's performance with KISS on "American Idol" was amazing. But I'm a little bummed you've been talking smack about him...

$immons: I don't think I've been talking smack at all. In fact, if anything, I've been soft-peddling. He's enormously talented, best talent "American Idol" has had, but I think he killed his career because now the conversation is not about his talent but about his sexual preference. He's done. You're forcing people to deal with issues they may not be interested in. Life is unfair, and the masses don't all live in L.A. They live in Wisconsin and Nebraska, and you're on crack if you think the same rules apply there. My advice is still the same, shut the fuck up, just sing and let people say whatever they want. But I do wish him the best because he's got all the talent in the world. If only the world was not homophobic, but it is. I would be the first one to vote for equal rights for gay women and men, and get the church and the state to stop telling everybody how to lead their lives, but do I think he's killed his career? Oh, in an instant. I hope I'm completely wrong. I hope he becomes the next Beatles and proves me wrong.

Read the entire interview from Inside TV.

Having seen his sex tape, I can assure you there is nothing going on there. It is all about sleeping with celebrity and money for the girls with him. He didn't even use his long tongue in the video. A bummer for the women, but you can all fantasize I suppose. Both my tongue and dick are small, but I put feeling and passion into it. By that I mean, I don't start crying like a bitch until at least the three minute mark.

        

Here is a press release about Buckcherry:

Eleven Seven Music has announced that BUCKCHERRY, dubbed “the next great American rock band” will now be distributed through EMI Music domestically and internationally through The Eleven Seven Music Group’s new global deal. Eleven Seven Music was sole home to the band leading into their hit “Crazy Bitch” which, along with their smash hit “Sorry” spurred their album 15 to sell over a million copies. Following a brief upstream deal, the band returns wholly to the Rock Label of The Year (2008, FMQB) and #1 Independent Rock Label (2008, Mediabase) with an enhanced version of their current CD, Black Butterfly which Entertainment Weekly called Album of the Year and iTunes critics picked as Best Rock Album. This release includes a new track, “Highway Star,” the TNT NASCAR theme, added to Black Butterfly beginning on Tuesday, June 30 on iTunes and other digital service providers. This week also sees the band’s latest single, “Talk To Me” grab the position of #1 most added at active rock radio immediately following its release.

This fall, Buckcherry joins KISS on their fall tour which is being routed through www.eventful.com/KISS, allowing fans to vote at the website through June 30th to “demand” what cities they want to see the tour hit. More than 8,000 cities and towns are already represented on the fan-submitted list.

“As an artist, there’s nothing better than knowing that our record label is as invested in our success as Eleven Seven is. Eleven Seven Music has proven itself and now joining forces with EMI Distribution, the band couldn’t be happier,” said Buckcherry’s Josh Todd.

Allen Kovac, Founder and CEO of The Eleven Seven Music Group notes, “Our formula is to time our records for a career, activating the fan base directly and allowing the content to find its audience over a period of time. It was two years between “Crazy Bitch” and “Sorry” and we kept working, the band kept working and we had a hit. Julie Greenwald and her team are amazing, dedicated professionals and we appreciate all that they contributed to this band. We look forward to all of the possibilities we have in front of us with our new global distribution partner EMI Music.”

Black Butterfly debuted at #8 on the Top 200 chart as the highest debuting rock album and has produced four multi-format hits including the latest rock track, “Talk To Me.” Buckcherry scored its first Top 10 single, “Sorry,” on the Hot 100 Billboard Chart in 2008, and in its 12-year career been best known for writing and performing anthemic rock songs.

        

Sick Puppies have just unveiled the album artwork for Tri-Polar, their second major label album, and follow-up to Dressed Up As Life. Tri-Polar will feature the anthemic single, "You're Going Down," which is being used as the theme song for the WWE's Extreme Rules pay-per-view as well as "Street Fighter War." The full track-listing can be seen below. Sick Puppies' Tri-Polar can be pre-ordered on the band's merch site, gomerch.com/sickpuppies/preorder/, before it hits stores on July 14th.

For a special countdown to release fans can watch a series of webisodes that give an in-depth look at the band in the studio, the process of recording Tri-Polar, picking their first single, rehearsals and the gossip on everything from members of the band to their peers in Papa Roach, Seether, and even The Killers' Brandon Flowers. All webisodes can be seen on Joost.com, with new pieces added weekly leading up to the release of Tri-Polar.

Tri-Polar Track Listing

1. War
2. I Hate You
3. Riptide
4. You're Going Down
5. Odd One
6. So What I Lied
7. Survive
8. Should've Known Better
9. Maybe
10. Don't Walk Away
11. Master Of The Universe
12. In It For Life
13. White Balloons