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Radio Woodstock, founder of the Mountain Jam Music Festival, has joined forces with world renowned guitarist Warren Haynes (Allman Bros. & Gov

Lucero is set to release a re-issue of The Attic Tapes on CD and vinyl April 11th on the band’s Liberty & Lament label, thru East West. It’s a re-release of their first EP which was originally co-released by Soul Is Cheap and Lucero guitarist Brian Venable’s own label.

Alternative Press once named The Attic Tapes “One of the top 5 home recordings EVER.” The recordings capture the sound of the band at its inception better than anything else currently in print. The re-issue includes 5 bonus tracks, including the original 7″ recording of “My Best Girl” and its b-side, a cover of Jawbreaker’s “Kiss The Bottle”. The latter has become a Lucero live staple. The limited edition LP version will feature a collectable re-pressing of the band’s first “My Best Girl/Kiss The Bottle” 7″ inserted inside the vinyl album.

To celebrate this reissue, as well as to road test new material, Lucero hits the road in March for SXSW and then 3 weeks of touring in April with Langhorne Slim supporting. The band are set to enter the studio in May with producer David Lowery at Sound of Music studios in Richmond VA to record the follow up to 2005’s Nobody’s Darlings.

Just a week after the new album, Youth was released, The New York Times reported today that Matisyahu has breached his contract with JDub Records (with a term of three years remaining), and dropped the non-profit independent label which gave the artist his start and supported his remarkable rise to stardom.

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As Matisyahu’s love for hip-hop and his dedication to Orthodox Judaism grew, he hit the clubs in a black suit, hat and full beard, and with JDub behind him made one of the most unlikely rises in pop music history. He is surely the only Hasidic reggae singer to sell out 2,000-to-3,000-seat concert halls regularly around the country, and last week he released “Youth” (JDub/Or/Epic), his major label debut, which is widely expected to make it high in the Top 10 when the charts are compiled later this week.

But a few days before “Youth” was released, Mr. Bisman and his partner, Jacob Harris, received an unexpected phone call from their prize talent, telling them their management services were no longer required. “He was in Kansas,” Mr. Bisman said. “He said, ‘I don’t know if you guys are old enough or have enough experience.’ ”

For Mr. Bisman, 25, and Mr. Harris, 26, it was a shock from an old friend and a potential blow to their business. They had shepherded Matisyahu through his early career, setting up gigs and handing out fliers and the like

A pair of apparent Ryan Adams fans ran afoul of a new law making it a crime to publish songs before their release to the general public when they made portions of the singer’s latest album available on a Web site frequented by his fans.

Robert Thomas of Milwaukee and Jared Bowser of Jacksonville, Fla., were indicted under a provision of the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) law that makes it a separate federal crime to pirate music and movies before they are released to the public, Memphis-based U.S. attorney Jim Vines and FBI special agent My Harrison said.

The indictments are believed to be the first under the prerelease provision of the 2005 FECA law. The men are alleged to have posted portions of Adams’ “Jacksonville City Nights” on a fan Web site about a month before its official release last September. Adams records for Lost Highway Records, whose Universal Music Group parent did not grant authority for the Internet distribution.

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The Allman Brothers Band kicked off its annual residency at New York’s Beacon Theatre last night (March 9) with an epic set highlighted by a cover of the Band’s “The Weight” and a guest appearance by longtime Howlin’ Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin.

Introduced by guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes as “someone who has influenced everybody,” 74-year-old Sumlin joined the Allmans for the first three songs of the second set, kicked off by a Gregg Allman-sung take on the late Wolf’s signature, “Smokestack Lighting.” One of the few remaining original Chicago bluesmen, Sumlin basked in the opportunity and took a seemingly unexpected turn at the mic, leaving band members smiling.

An annual tradition in New York since 1992, the Allmans’ Beacon stand routinely offers the iconic act an opportunity to spread its creative wings and tinker with the set list, as opposed to playing the hits-driven set expected on summer shed treks. This year’s 14-night Beacon run continues through March 26.

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The mainstage lineup for Ozzfest 2006 will boast founder and namesake Ozzy Osbourne for 10 shows, along with System Of A Down, Disturbed, Hatebreed, Lacuna Coil and another major act to be announced on May 23. The tour begins July 1 in San Francisco and will play 20 cities.

The second stage features Black Label Society, Atreyu, Unearth, Bleeding Through, Norma Jean, A Life Once Lost, Strapping Young Lad, the Red Chord, Full Blown Chaos, All That Remains and Between The Buried And Me.

The Ozzfest dates will be Osbourne’s first solo performances in three years; he has spent the last two summers on stage with his pioneering metal act Black Sabbath.

Ozzfest’s Village of the Damned concourse attractions will again be an active part of the tour and Ozzfest remains a valuable commodity for corporate sponsors. On board this year are Monster Energy, Hot Topic, Sony PlayStation, F.Y.E., Trojan and Jagermeister.

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Rock act Tool will break a five-year silence on May 2 with its next Volcano album, “10,000 Days.” No other details have yet been revealed about the project, which is the follow-up to 2001’s “Lateralus.” That set debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 2.3 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

As previously reported, Tool will play its first U.S. show since late 2002 when it headlines the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 30 in Indio, Calif. No other U.S. dates have been confirmed.

Afterward, Tool will spend the first portion of the summer playing the European festival circuit, with dates on tap through July 9 at Finland’s Turku Festival.

Here are Tool’s tour dates:

May 26: Lisbon (Parque Tejo)
May 27: Madrid (Festimad)

Mat 29: Barcelona (Razzmatazz)
May 30: Villeurbanne, France (Transbordeur)
May 31: Luxembourg (Rockhal)
June 2: Nurburgring, Germany (Rock am Ring)
June 3: Nuremberg, Germany (Rock im Park)
June 4: Landgraaf, Holland (Pink Pop Festival)
June 5: Hamburg (Sporthalle)
June 7: Berlin (Columbiahalle)
June 8: Dusseldorf, Germany (Phillipshalle)
June 9: Donington, England (Download Festival)
June 17: Nickelsdorf, Austria (Nova Rock Festival)
June 19: Milan (Filaforum)
June 21: Rome (Foro Italico Center)
June 22: Bologna, Italy (L.R. Arena)
June 24: Katowice, Poland (Spodek)
June 25: Prage (T-Mobile Arena)
June 28: Paris (Le Zenith)
June 29: Werchter, Belgium (Rock Werchter Festival)
July 1: Roskilde, Denmark (Roskilde Festival)
July 4: Kristiansand, Norway (Quart Festival)
July 7: Gothenburg, Sweden (Metal Town Festival)
July 9: Turku, Finland (Turku Festival)

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The T. J. Martell Foundation is proud to announce it will auction off on eBay a limited number of one-of-a-kind, numbered and framed concert poster prints of legendary guitarist Derek Trucks, beginning March 15, 2006, at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST, with proceeds going to Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research. The framed Derek Trucks concert poster prints will be autographed by Derek Trucks and the poster

Regina Spektor will release her new record entitled BEGIN TO HOPE (Sire Records) June 13, 2006 and will embark on a warm-up tour in support, beginning April 8th in Montreal, Canada. Spektor recently completed a tour of the UK and Ireland, which included sold-out shows at London’s Shepherd Bush Empire and Manchester’s Academy. The dates in the US are the first for Spektor since her 25-date sold-out tour in the summer of 2005.

Produced by David Kahne in New York City at New York Noise Studios, Spektor’s new record offers the touchstones of her last album, SOVIET KITSCH, which garnered praise from such magazines as Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and many others. BEGIN TO HOPE will reveal that this Russian-born, Bronx-bred musician isn’t the same artist that emerged from the NYC caf

Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes music and video store on Wednesday took its first step toward a monthly subscription model with a new service called Multi-Pass that lets users buy TV shows on a monthly basis.

The service is being launched by iTunes in partnership with Viacom Inc.’s Comedy Central cable network, which is rolling out “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” on the service.

Fans will be able to buy the next month’s series of 16 new episodes via Multi-Pass for $9.99, or to pay $1.99 per episode. Four episodes air each week and viewers can download each episode after it’s been broadcast.

TV shows and other video have been available for sale on iTunes since late last year. Comedy Central announced a relationship with iTunes six weeks ago with shows including “South Park,” “Drawn Together” and “Comedy Central Stand-Up.”

Michele Ganeless, executive vice president at Comedy Central, said there would be no advertising on the service for the time being, similar to the network’s DVD business.

Apple has so far resisted calls from media companies and competitors to adopt a monthly subscription fee favored by the likes of Napster and Real Networks Inc.’s Rhapsody, preferring an a la carte download model where music tracks cost 99 cents and videos $1.99.

Videos downloaded from the iTunes Music Store can be played back on a personal computer or an Apple iPod portable media player, among other devices. More than 8 million videos have been sold since it launched at the end of last year.

Shows including Walt Disney Co.’s “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” were among the first to be made available on the service.

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