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Official Cover Art of Eminem's New Album 'Relapse'

Cover art of 'Relapse' provides a look at Eminem's headshot in mosaic, which is composed of thousands of pills prescribed by Dr. Dre.

Eminem has brought forward an official cover art of his forthcoming sixth studio album "Relapse" through his Twitter feed. The artwork shows his headshot mosaic composed of thousands of "250MG CAPSULES

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The Jadewalkers Limited Edition Vinyl

(Puta) Puta Records, a burgeoning all-vinyl micro-label out of NYC, announces the release of The Jadewalkers, EP II, a limited edition 7 inch record of 500 copies.

The Jadewalkers are a punk influenced rock-n-roll quartet originally from Gotenberg, Sweden. Singer-guitarist-writer Emma Viking Skull relocated the band to NYC in 2005. The album is engineered by Ivan Julian of seminal 70’s Punk band The Voidoids, and is mastered by underground Garagepunk baron Tim Warren of Crypt Records.

The record will be distributed both stateside and abroad, exclusively through the label’s in-house distribution network, a hand-picked bevy of boutique scale and independently owned record shops. Online distribution is via Puta Records website, www.Putarecords.com.

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The cover art for Velocifero, Ladytron’s latest album, was done by installation artist Eli Sudbrack, who met the band in Liverpool.






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The Jonas Brothers took to Twitter to reveal the cover art for their next album, Lines Vines And Trying Times, due out June 15. The album cover photo shoot apparently took place in Corisica, Texas at Caleb’s Diner.

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Eagles Member Close To Releasing Solo Effort

Timothy B. Schmidt is adeptly mixing his time touring with the Eagles with putting the final touches on his first solo album in eight years, Expando. Helping out on the LP is Dwight Yoakam, Graham Nash, Kid Rock, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Keb' Mo', Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Van Dyke Parks and Garth Hudson of The Band. Look for an autumn release date.

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Richie Havens News

Richie Havens, the act that kicked off the first Woodstock in 1969, is scheduled to appear at Noon on August 14 at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts to celebrate the original festival.

A big part of Haven's Woodstock legend, of course, is that he was scheduled to be the festival's fifth performer, not its first, but he was drafted into service when traffic impeded those due on before him.

"It was 5 o'clock and nothing was happening yet," Havens remembers. "I had the least instruments and the least people (in his band). But they had to catch me first. I felt like, 'They're gonna kill me if I go up on stage first. Give me break. I need those four people in front of me to warm up the crowd. But the people were great. I was supposed to sing 40 minutes, which I did, and from the side of the stage they go, 'Richie, four more song?' I went back and did that, then it was, 'Four more songs...' and that kept happening 'til two hours and 45 minutes later I had sung every song I know," including an epic version of Freedom."

Read more of the interview here: billboard

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Velvet Revolver’s Singer Search Is Not Over

Velvet Revolver do not have a new lead singer. However, turns out all those recent reports that the band was close to naming their guy also were true.

“We thought we landed on the singer. We all did,” Duff McKagan says. “We played with him and we said, ‘OK, we got our guy. He’s great.’ ”

But he tells Rolling Stone, without calling out the singer who came oh so close, the group simply had second thoughts.

“Maybe if we would’ve got there and had gigs booked right then and there it would’ve been a different story,” McKagan says. “But we didn’t have gigs booked. We were given too much time and we were able to go, ‘Ah, fuck, I don’t like that about the guy.’ ”


Read the rest of this Rolling Stone article here: rollingstone