The New Panic Tour 2006 has announced the addition of Takeover Records bands Stole Your Woman, HeyMike! and Strike Fire Fall to this year's line-up. The nationwide, 60-city tour, which runs from late February through early May, also features indie bands Blood On The...[read more]

Here's the list of bands and the dates they play on this years Take Action Tour. Online Presales through www.musictoday.com will be starting on Jan 10th-19th.

Take Action Tour

MATCHBOOK ROMANCE Headliner
SILVERSTEIN Direct Support 3/1-3/29
THE EARLY NOVEMBER 3 of 5 slot 3/1-3/29, Direct Support 3/30-4/23
CHIODOS 3 of 5 slot 3/30-4/23
AMBER PACIFIC 2 of 5 slot
PARAMORE ...[read more]

Here are the bands on TV for this upcoming week.

1/2 - Fall Out Boy on David Letterman [CBS]
1/3 - M.I.A., Simple Plan, Team Sleep on Daily Download [FUSE; R]
1/3 - Wolf Parade on Craig Ferguson [CBS]
1/3 - Louis XIV on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
1/4 - Autolux on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC]
1/5 - Spoon on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
1/6 - Iron And Wine with Calexico on Craig Ferguson [CBS]
Check your local listings for times.

Source: Alt Press

Two new featured bands: June and Words Now Heard. Hit refresh if you don't see them. They both come highly recommended for fans of the pop-persuasion.

Taken from NME.com: Bono reveals U2 tensions. His campaigning nearly made him leave the band

U2 singer Bono has revealed that he thought he was going to be thrown out of the band over his campaigning against global poverty.

The star has said that at one stage he was concerned that his commitment to the cause may force him to quit the group.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he explained that his campaigning activities had "raised eyebrows" amongst fellow band mates The Edge, Adam...[read more]

Atreyu has been offered a spot on the 2006 Ozzfest. At this point in time there is no word on whether or not they have accepted.

Source: Mammoth Press
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Paulson will be headed out on tour this January with Between Home and Serenity. For the first half of the tour, the bands will be joined by Just Surrender (East/West) and The Forecast (Victory), while later in the month they will meet up with Classic...[read more]

So - what's on TV this coming week? Well, a lot of re-runs.

12/26 - My Chemical Romance on Daily Download [FUSE; R]
12/26 - Death Cab For Cutie on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC; R]
12/27 - Fall Out Boy on Daily Download [FUSE; R]
12/28 - Morningwood on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC; R]
12/28 - The Hold Steady on Conan O'Brien [NBC; R]
12/28 - Juliette & The Licks on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
12/30 - Brian Wilson on Jay Leno [NBC; R]
12/30 - Fall Out Boy on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
12/31 - The All-American Rejects, Fall Out Boy on New Year Of Music [MTV]read more]

Wynona Records has signed a total of 4 new bands: The Gaia Corporation, Sevenlowdown, Doomsday and The Rituals.

Check out whats on President Bush's iPod.

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The first round of bands who will be playing Austin, TX's "South By Southwest Music Festival", which will be held March 15th through 19th, were revealed, and you can find those below.

SXSW Bands Confirmed

The Adored
Annie
Arctic Monkeys
Belle & Sebastian
The BellRays
Be Your Own PET
Blockhead
The Boy Least Likely To
The Brokedown
Calexico
Neko Case
Cat Power
Clap Your Hands...[read more]

Look for a Hawthorne Heights, Emery, June, Anberlin and Bleed The Dream tour in February.

Revolution On Canvas has confirmed the following bands for Volume II: Atreyu, Something Corporate, Less Than Jake, The Starting Line, Fall Out Boy, Underoath, A Static Lullaby, JamisonParker, Armor For Sleep, Hidden In Plain View, Saosin, Circa Survive, and Days Away. More to come.

Taken from The Prp : Despite having left the band sometime ago, guitarist John LaMacchia will in fact be writing and recording new material for the next Candiria album with the group, though he has no plans to tour with them. Instead, he looks to focus his time on his Spylacopa project, which is planned to feature contributions from members of Isis, Poison The Well and The Dillinger Escape Plan. For now, a split release between the group and Souvenir's Young America was recently released through Underadar Records and can be snagged read more]

Here are the bands on your boob-tube this coming week, please check local listings for times.

12/12 - Coldplay on Jay Leno [NBC]
12/12 - The New Pornographers on Conan O'Brien [NBC; R]
12/12 - Keane on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
12/13 - Brian Wilson on the View [SYN]
12/13 - Death Cab For Cutie on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC]
12/13 - Nada Surf on Craig Ferguson [CBS]
12/13 - Spoon on Carson Daly [NBC]
12/16 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on Conan O'Brien [NBC]
12/16 - Fireball Ministry on Carson Daly [NBC]
12/12-12/16 - Melee, Shout Out Louds,...[read more]

The Academy Is..., Motion City Soundtrack and Armor For Sleep will be on MTV2's "Artists To Watch In 06" show. Show times are: 12/12 at 7:00 pm, 12/13 at 3:00 am, 12/13 at 2:00 pm, 12/15 at 4:00 am, and 12/15 at 10:00 am.

The final four bands competing in the Ernie Ball/Warped Tour "Battle of the Bands" are: Glass Intrepid, The Felix Culpa, Race the Sun, and Your Name in Lights. The bands will go to war next Friday, December 16th, at the Key Club in Hollywood, CA.

In addition to Fall Out Boy and Taking Back Sunday, The Bamboozle recently added the following bands to the festival's lineup: Hawthorne Heights, The All-American Rejects, Say Anything, read more]

Here are your bands on TV for the upcoming week:

12/5 - Hawthorne Heights, Silverstein on Daily Download [FUSE]
12/5 - Ryan Adams on David Letterman [CBS; R]
12/6 - Brian Wilson on Jay Leno [NBC]
12/6 - Matisyahu on David Letterman [CBS; R]
12/6 - Patti Smith on Conan O'Brien [NBC]
12/7 - Antony & The Johnsons on David Letterman [CBS; R]
12/7 - Coldplay on Conan O'Brien [NBC]
12/8 - The Bravery on Daily Download [FUSE]
12/8 - Franz Ferdinand on Craig Ferguson [CBS, R]
12/8 - The Sounds on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
12/9 -...[read more]

Two new featured bands (Ctrl+F5 to clear your cache if you don't see them).

Circa Survive were recently denied entrance into Canada so they missed their Ottawa date. The band are going to give it another shot and will hopefully make the rest of their dates with My Chemical Romance and Thrice.

Here are the bands on your television this coming week:

11/28 - Neil Diamond on Ellen DeGeneres [SYN]
11/28 - Queens Of The Stone Age on Leno [NBC]
11/28 - The Bravery on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
11/29 - The Darkness on Daily Download [FUSE]
11/30 - Juliette And The Licks on Carson Daly [NBC]
12/01 - The All-American Rejects on Jay Leno [NBC]
12/01 - Liz Phair on Carson Daly [NBC]
12/02 - Beck on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC]
12/02 - The White Stripes on Conan O'Brien [NBC]
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I really don't post much news and Absolutely Unsigned is being given a face lift, so I just wanted to take the time to point out three incredible unsigned bands. The Morning Of: They are currently number seven on Smartpunk's top 100 list of CD's sold and I'm guessing that once these guys hit the road they will start turning heads. They already have a very strong following in the hometown they just need to tour to generate more label attention. All Time...[read more]

Fan Reports In: "At last nights show at the Rave in Milwaukee, Gratitude announced that it was one of their last few shows. Jonah said something along the lines of "this is almost the end of a short yet great band." I'm assuming they'll finish out the tour and then that will be the end.

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Geffen has dropped Alien Ant Farm.

According to the Taste Of Chaos website, the bands listed below are confirmed for Taste Of Chaos tour 2006. The tour starts February 15, 2006 and the internet ticket pre-sale begins December 2, 2005, at http://tasteofchaos.ducatking.com.

The 2006 US Taste Of Chaos tour kick-off party will be held at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on December 10, 2005, and will feature artists like: Street Drum Corps (with special guests), Gym Class Heroes, Bleed The...[read more]

Next in Line Records (home of Midnight Aria and Reasons for Leaving) is looking for some new talent to sign to its roster. They are only looking for bands from the Midwest and Eastern regions of the United States at the moment. For more information on demo submission, head over to the Next in Line Records website.

Paint By Numbers will be touring w/ An Angle (Drive Thru), Ever We Fall (Hopeless) and Small Towns Burn A Little Slower (Triple Crown) from Jan 5 - 27th. It will be a west coast, midwest tour. An Angle on the west coast, STBALS in the midwest.