New AC/DC single hits Web and radio

Song besides tapped for 'Criminal Minds' promo, episode




NEW YORK -- AC/DC's first-class honours degree new single in ashcan School years, "Rock'n'Roll Train," attain the band's Web situation and U.S. radio outlets Thursday. A video for the song was shot Aug. 15 in London and will premiere side by side month.

A few stations jumped the grease-gun yesterday and spun the track, including KCBS and KLOS Los Angeles, according to Nielsen BDS.

"Rock'n'Roll Train" will be utilized in promo ads for the CBS show "Criminal Minds" beginning Sept. 1. It also will appear in the Oct. 22 episode of the series.

Verizon has the undivided on the "Rock'n'Roll Train" ringtone via its on-line media storehouse. AC/DC's medicine remains unavailable at Apple's iTunes Music Store.

"Rock'n'Roll Train" heralds the Oct. 20 U.S. spillage of "Black Ice," which will be sold only via Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores, as well as ACDC.com.

An extensive spell is mark to begin in October, with dates to be announced.

Gwen Stefani Gives Birth To Second Son

Singer Gwen Stefani and her married man, Gavin Rossdale, welcomed their second son on Thursday (August 21), according to a statement from Stefani's label, Interscope Records. The child, Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, was born at 12:46 p.m. PT and weighed eighter from Decatur and a half pounds.

"Mother, baby and family ar all well-chosen and healthy," the statement read.

Zuma is the couple's second boy, joining Kingston, who off 2 on May 26.

The birth of her minute child crests an already busy year for Stefani, who earlier this summer told fans that she was getting back together with No Doubt to record their first studio album in seven years.

At the time of the announcement, Stefani said she was operative throughout her pregnancy.

"Feels screwball to be pregnant all over once more!!!!!" she wrote on the message boards of her band's Web site. "We have been spending every day up in the little studio in our house, trying to write music. My favorite portion so far is just seeing the guys every day and hanging out. We have so practically fun together. The songwriting part is a minute slow on my part. ... I think it has something to do with the baby in my belly, but I'm indisputable it is all of the process, and I really believe this could be the most elysian No Doubt record so far. Can't wait to see what happens."

It is unknown whether the birth of her second child will hold up the album, which had been pegged for an early 2009 release.

It's besides unclear how the 38-year-old Stefani and 40-year-old Rossdale settled on the make Zuma, although it's worth nothing that there's a Malibu, California, beach called Zuma not far from the couple's Los Angeles home. Neil Diamond named one of his albums Zuma in honor of the same beach. Zuma is also a popular surname in South Africa. Also, the baby shares one of his midsection names, Nesta, with Bob Marley.

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`Traveling Pants' lose some magic in sequel

Yes, the pants still exist, merely now they're covered in patches and jewels and etched with the memories and dreams of the four young women who've been wearing them. And they still travel - to New York and Vermont, Turkey and Greece, and various points in between.

But the magic in those jeans, and in the bond that linked the friends who've shared them over the days, seems to have faded in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2."

The sequel to 2005's surprisingly tolerable "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" finds our eclectic radical of heroines a short bit sr. and wiser and a lot less connected, despite the anticipate they made to ship the jeans to each other along with a note containing the juicy details of their latest adventures. Now, they barely have

K.D. Lang returns to US this fall

K.D. Lang has added another US leg to the world tour supporting her latest album, "Watershed."The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, who's already been through the US, Australia and New Zealand this year, is currently touring her home country of Canada. She continues tomorrow night (5/29) in Montreal, and will wrap with a mid-June, two-night stand in Vancouver before heading to Europe for a month.Lang's next US run is set to kick off Sept. 27 in Westhampton Beach, NY, and make its way across the country through mid-November, with pianist Dustin O'Halloran continuing his role as special guest. Lang's North American dates are detailed below, while overseas shows can be found at her website."Watershed," which debuted at No. 8 on The Billboard 200 in February, marks Lang's 10th studio album and her first time as sole producer. In putting together the collection of all-original songs, the performer said she didn't feel the need to be genre specific."Watershed is like a culmination of everything I've done--there's a little bit of jazz, a little country, a little of the Ing�nue sound, a little Brazilian touch," Lang explained in her bio. "It really feels like the way I hear music, this mash-up of genres, and I think it reflects all the styles that have preceded this in my catalogue."A few songs from the record are streaming at the singer's MySpace page.The new album follows 2004's "Hymns of the 49th Parallel," on which Lang interprets songs from fellow Canadian artists including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. Her last set of all-new material before "Watershed" was 2000's "Invincible Summer."

Holmes talks about love at first sight

Actress Katie Holmes has spoken about the moment that she fell in love with her husband Tom Cruise, saying that time stopped.
In an interview with In Style magazine, Holmes said: "It happened in an instant. When you fall in love, it's like time stops."
Speaking about their relationship now, she said: "I try every day to make Tom know how much I love him. It gets better and better."
"[He] and I stay in really good communication with each other. I talk to him about anything, at any time."
"He works 48 hours straight, comes home, and if I ask, 'Would you help me with this?' he'll do it."

Underoath Get Experimental On 'Desperate' Album; Plus Black Tide, Lamb Of God & More News That Rules, In Metal File

On Tuesday, the pride of Tampa, Florida, Grammy-nominated Christian metalcore outfit Underoath, invited Metal File out to Elmwood Park, New Jersey, to producer David Bendeth's House of Loud studios — where Paramore's breakthrough album, Riot!, was tracked — and gave us a quick foretaste of their upcoming 42-minute-long LP, which they'd finished mixing just hours earlier. All told, the mix, which is due in stores this fall, had the boys in the Garden State for nearly two weeks.

When we arrived, we found the band relaxing in the studio's living-room-like lounge, playing "Wii Sports" and abusing the "Addams Family" pinball machine. After a quick photo shoot, Underoath played us six tracks from the disc, which they've given a title that they're keeping under wraps (although guitarist Timothy McTague did slip, saying the name of the record ends with "ation" and that "it will make all album titles up to 2008 disintegrate"). It was the first time the band played any of the new material for anyone outside its inner circle.

According to frontman Spencer Chamberlain, the 11 songs, which were tracked over six weeks in March and April with producer and Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz for the follow-up to 2006's Define the Great Line, were actually written over a two-year time span, and much of the lyrical content was inspired by the singer's struggles and triumphs during that period.

"We write really slow," he confessed, "because we're really anal about what we keep and what we don't. We're not like other bands. We don't go in with 20 songs and pick the best ones. We can barely get out of a room with the six of us agreeing, so, normally, to get 11 songs we all agree on takes two years.

"[This record's] about the last two years of my life," Chamberlain continued. "The rough times, the good times. You know, our band almost broke up, and I had some issues with substance abuse — all kinds of things. Just real life and how I dealt with things. It's definitely some of the darkest [stuff we've done], but that doesn't mean I'm always totally desperate. It's a pretty desperate record."

The six songs we heard — still carrying working titles like "Viper," "Elephant" and "Jam" — were, for the most part, furiously paced, with lots of layers and almost Nine Inch Nails-esque spooky electronic effects. Several of the songs were anthemic, feedback-filled numbers that build slowly to their thunderous, ear-splitting crescendos, and there were breakdowns aplenty. Chamberlain's vocals are intense, passionate and sounding better than ever over the shredding guitars. Aaron Gillespie's adroit drum-pummeling adds even more fury and force to the tracks, which are sprinkled with blistering, steely guitar solos. The songs — which, at times, stop and start on a dime effortlessly — sounded huge and unpredictable, never really heading in those directions you might expect. It's also clear that the band wanted to experiment this time around, injecting almost prog-like elements here and there.

"You've got to step it up every time," Chamberlain explained. "That was the key. This is the first record [we started working on] where we haven't completely hated what we did before. From [2002's] The Changing of Times to [2004's] They're Only Chasing Safety, we hated it. So we changed, and then, by the time Chasing came out, we hated that too. Then we wrote Define the Great Line, and I feel like this record's kind of similar to that. I was worried, at first, but I think we took it and stepped it up a lot. It's the same style — we didn't completely change who we are. But we had to push each other, raise the bar and experiment and explore things we haven't done before. This is our band, and this record — this is our sound."

Underoath, who are releasing their Survive, Kaleidoscope live CD/DVD May 27, are looking forward to previewing the new material for their fans this summer when they head out with Disturbed, Slipknot, Mastodon, DragonForce, Airborne, Five Finger Death Punch, 36 Crazyfists, Machine Head, Black Tide, Suicide Silence, the Red Chord and Walls of Jericho on the inaugural Rockstar Energy Mayhem festival.

"It's cool for us to do at least once," Chamberlain said. "We've done Warped Tour so many times, and we love Warped. I think the shows on Warped, for us, are incredible. But for this record, we wanted to expand musically and lyrically and push ourselves. So why not push ourselves into a market where some may not know about us? Why not play to Slipknot fans — fans that may not like us, and maybe, if they heard us, would? On Warped, we know what's going to happen: Our fans are going to be there. With this, there will be a lot of people who haven't heard us, so it's something totally new for us."

The rest of the week's metal news:

As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis has launched a new side project, the Arnold Schwarzenegger-inspired Austrian Death Machine. The band's debut disc, Total Brutal, will land July 22, and feature 17 songs, including "I Am a Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over (Metal) Endoskeleton," "Who Is Your Daddy, and What Does He Do?" and "If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It." According to Lambesis, Arnold "is the embodiment of everything brutal and stereotypically metal." ...

Barely legal metallers Black Tide played a free gig on May 15 at the Whisky a Go-Go in Hollywood during a release party for James Frey's book "Bright Shiny Morning." But things didn't go so well. According to the New York Post, there were a number of scuffles with security during the band's set, and "literary types were horrified as the brawl spilled out to the sidewalk, where it took 20 cops to quell the violence. Three men were arrested." ...

Pantera/ Hellyeah kitman Vinnie Paul has been tapped by Connecticut hardcore heroes Hatebreed to produce, document and record the band's May 27 gig in Dallas for a CD/DVD set. "We can't even begin to explain how excited we are to be recording our live album with Vinnie Paul," Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta commented. "It's a great honor and privilege to be working with him on this." ... Soulfly plan on releasing two editions of their forthcoming album Conquer on July 29. One will be the standard version, while the other will be a special edition with three bonus cuts: "My Path," a cover of Bad Brains' "Sailin' On" and a rendition of Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People." ...

The lineup for this year's Trash and Burn Tour has been revealed. The tour, which kicks off July 29 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will feature Darkest Hour, Misery Signals, Winds of Plague, Stick to Your Guns, Arsis, Light This City and Arsonists Get All the Girls. Dates are booked through September 3 in Seattle. ...

Lamb of God's upcoming two-DVD set, "Walk With Me in Hell," has been plotted for a July 1 release. The effort will contain footage captured during the band's recent appearances on Ozzfest, the Gigantour and the Unholy Alliance runs. ... Strapping Young Lad's upcoming CD/DVD best-of collection, titled 1994-2006 Chaos Years, will hit stores May 27. Band mastermind Devin Townsend remastered 17 of the band's tracks — including "Detox," "Love?" and "All Hail the New Flesh" — for the offering. ...

Danish death-metal act Compos Mentis have been working on material for their next LP, which they'll start tracking June 23 with Christian Bonde. Lyrically, the band said the disc will "be centered around the parish pump and different moments in Danish history, as well as various aspects of a 'typical' Danish mentality."






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Cannes Film Festival - Cannes Winner Likely A Dark Film

The Cannes Film Festival jury will have a roster of mostly mercilessly gloomy
films from which to select this year's Palme d'Or winner this weekend. Film
buyers looked at them at screenings during the past week and passed. "With the
dollar riding so low, a number of film companies going out of business, and the
fact that the films haven't been all that terrific here, it really impacted
film sales," Eamonn Bowles, head of distribution at Magnolia Pictures, told
USA Today. But Daily Variety commented that the obits over the
film market at Cannes "may have been premature," noting that many of the buyers
were non-American. Nevertheless, some of the most high-profile U.S. films
screened at the festival have found no takers, including Steven Soderbergh's
Che, James Gray's Two Lovers, Barry Levinson's What Just
Happened? and Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.

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