The News Review:

- Hair bands forever! Grunge never!
- Metal Blade artist updates
- Metal Music Promotions Signs Metal Band f The Year Hemoptysis
- Heavy Metal mayhem @ the Tonys – Brett Michaels gets dropped

Hair bands forever! Grunge never!
msnbc.com
What all these bands had in common of course was hair so they were lumped into the same category ? the same way the Rolling Stones and Herman?s Hermits got categorized as British Invasion bands because they both wore bangs. The hair bands also all had something else in common that really united them: a keen pop sensibility. They made singles that were as well-crafted as they were underappreciated.

Metal Blade artist updates
Altsounds.com
‘Ruination’ will see a July 6 2009 UK release date via Metal Blade Records. The follow up to the quintet’s celebrated debut album ‘Genesis’ ‘Ruination’ was recorded at Audio Hammer Productions in Sanford FL with Producer Jason Suecof. The album features ten tracks of state-of-the-art heavy metal music and marks the JB FR A CWBY recording debuts of drumming prodigy Jon “The Charn” Rice who has toured with the band since the release of ‘Genesis’ and guitarist Al Glassman. In the two short years since the release of the band’s full length debut JB FR A CWBY has progressed from “the band with the different name” to one of the leading lights for heavy music in the 21st century. The quintet has toured the world to out-and-out acclaim highlighted by main stage appearances at distinguished music jubilees such as the UK’s Download Festival and Germany’s Wacken pen Air. JFAC delivered scintillating live performances as handpicked support to metal titans Megadeth (on both its North American and UK "Gigantour" treks) and co-headlined the highly successful "Radio Rebellion" tour with Polish metal champions Behemoth. In addition to Davy Rice and Glassman JB FR A CWBY features guitarist Bobby Thompson and bassist Brent Riggs.

Metal Music Promotions Signs Metal Band f The Year Hemoptysis
Top40-Charts.com
Riding high off the release of their 5 song EP `Who Needs A Shepherd?` The band appear poised and ready to conquer the metal realm. Hemoptysis continue to receive both internet and terrestrial radio airplay garnering plenty of media attention and have been dubbed `Metal Artist of the Year` by The Phoenix Music Awards! More recently guitarist Musaki Murashita received an endorsement through Krank Amplification.
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Heavy Metal mayhem @ the Tonys – Brett Michaels gets dropped
TheInsider.com
Those damned sludgers don’t know how to work with pro theater people – they’re as bad as movie stars. Now really that sounds a lot like “Don’t blame us cause we didn’t do it” and a defensive position for a potential law suit. If Michaels’ nose is broken it could completely screw up his vocals and end his metal career. With a bent beak and a warped warble the only thing left would be country music! So you see how it could be the basis for a law suit. Personally I think the Tony Awards committee did it – they gotta generate interest in Broadway somehow! I hear they’re planning to maim Jeremey Piven at next year’s ceremonies! Then again maybe this sort of hooliganism is just trickling down – Reaganomically – to the mid brow from the high brow. Hopefully by the time it reaches the low brow it will be too diluted to make much difference – just like actual Reaganomics! By then with most of it’s force spent that upper class aggression will have to find lower class expression in the form of dirty jokes and naughty songs that are peppered with vulgarities!PS. If you think I’m being facetious – then try thinking of the past 8 years as an example of the trickle down theory of aggression.