The big news this week was the truckloads of copies of the new album Progress sold by Take That. However, there was plenty of additional chart news particularly on the UK pop singles chart. Read more details in this week's coverage of the UK pop music charts.
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Roadrunner Records’ Within Temptation is currently in the studio finalizing long awaited fifth studio album, The Unforgiving. This is the band's first concept album, and is based on a comic book by writer Steven O’Connell (BloodRayne & Dark 48). The release, set for March, 2011, will coincide with the band’s European tour.
Within Temptation guitarist Robert Westerholt comments, "On this album, we've taken a totally different approach. Each song on 'CThe Unforgiving' was written along Steven's narrative. The main characters of the comic are reflected in the characters of our songs. The concept pushed us and gave us inspiration to come up with a new approach to our sound. It resulted in writing our best songs so far.
Renowned for their visual presentation, Within Temptation have asked Romano Molenaar (Witchblade, Darkness and X-men) to draw the characters and scenery for The Unforgiving.
Sharon den Adel, Within Temptation's stunning vocalist, continues, "We have been big comic fans since our childhood. With this album we felt the time was there to take a new step in our creative development, to take it further and broaden our horizon. Next to the concept of the album, the songs are more diverse than ever before. It was the late 80’s when we started to read comic books, and that sound has certainly has left a mark on The Unforgiving.
The band has also redesigned its website, www.within-temptation.com. The new site will give fans the chance to discover clues about The Unforgiving, as well as uncover unreleased images from the album. The new homepage is a community for the Within Temptation family, and has been engineered to be fully interactive. Fans can become official ‘reporters’ for their country, writing news stories about Within Temptation or bout other lifestyle and entertainment topics. A very popular new section is WT TV, where the band will provide video updates, like the recent Fan Club Day footage, an event fans from around the world attended.
Within Temptation's symphonic rock, crowned by the crystalline voice of Sharon Den Adel, has brought the remarkable band a decade-long international career. The band has sold more than 3 million albums and DVDs world-wide, has attained Platinum status in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, and Gold status in Spain, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, Portugal, and Russia. Within Temptation has won a host of international awards, including a World Music Award, Golden God Award, and an MTV Europe Music Award. Numerous sold-out headline tours have seen Within Temptation through performances at major festivals like Loud Park (JP), Download (UK), Pinkpop (NL), Lowlands (NL), Rock Werchter (BE), Rock Am Ring (DE), Bilboa BBK Live (SP), Sweden Rock (SW), Ruisrock (FI), Aerodrome (AT), Gurtenfest (CH), Roskilde (DK) and many more
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Murderdolls are gearing up to premiere their brand new video for "Nowhere" -- the latest track off their crushing sophomore album Women and Children Last -- at murderdollsband.com this coming Monday, November 29th. But as if fans weren't already salivating at the prospect of a new video from these devilish dudes, an exclusive still from the forthcoming video has been revealed on the Murderdolls' Facebook page!
Head on over to THIS LOCATION to check out the shot, and check back tomorrow for the next big reveal as we near the premiere of "Nowhere."
"Nowhere" marks the second video from the band's long-awaited new album Women And Children Last, which is in stores now. If you haven't done so already, grab your copy of the angst-driven album right here.
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Black Eyed Peas smooth things out to a pleasing glide on the latest single from the upcoming album The Beginning. Listen to this a couple of times. It will grow on you quickly as a top-notch late night jam. The Beginning is looking like a very solid follow up to The E.N.D.. The group's current single "The Time (Dirty Bit)" debuted at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 last week, but should climb higher as it is sitting comfortably inside the top 5 of the iTunes chart and is already top 20 at pop radio. Check out "Light Up the Night" below.
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New York, NY: Roadrunner Records has announced a new imprint, Roadrunner Comedy. Stand-up comedian and author Doug Stanhope is Roadrunner Comedy’s inaugural artist.
Roadrunner Comedy represents the spirit in which Roadrunner Records was originally founded: highlighting brilliant artists that are inherently irreverent and provocative. The ideals that have made Roadrunner a recognizable brand worldwide are the guidelines by which Roadrunner Comedy will develop. 30 years of representing the best of rock, metal and alternative music have shown that Roadrunner is adept at reaching fans on a widespread and meaningful level, a function Roadrunner seeks to replicate with the launch of Roadrunner Comedy.
Cees Wessels, CEO of Roadrunner Records, said, “We are very excited to launch Roadrunner Comedy, yet another innovative iteration of the Roadrunner brand. We look forward to welcoming a variety of like-minded comedians to the Roadrunner family—new artists with dynamic talents—that will be making us laugh for years to come.”
Partnering with the talented Doug Stanhope to launch Roadrunner Comedy was an obvious move. Stanhope’s brutally honest style is shockingly uninhibited, ranging from biting social commentary to the crass and obscene. His cutting stand-up has landed him appearances on The Howard Stern Show, Comedy Central Presents, Premium Blend, The Man Show, Fox News with Greta Van Sustern, BBC’s Newswipe and The Jerry Springer Show. Stanhope has taped TV specials for Showtime and UK’s Channel 4. He was also featured in controversial film The Aristocrats alongside legends like George Carlin, Don Rickles and Chris Rock. Keep an eye out for new material by Stanhope, slated for a 2011 Roadrunner Comedy debut.
Brian Hennigan, Doug Stanhope’s manager, said, “We needed to find a supportive partner who would let Doug Stanhope be Doug Stanhope. There are millions of people all over the world that Doug hasn't offended and with Roadrunner's help we should be able to reach them all.”
Want to see Stanhope live? Catch him on tour:
12/3 @ Martini Ranch – Scottsdale, AZ
12/4 @ Club Congress – Tucson, AZ
12/8 @ Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA
2/17 @ Doug’s Warehouse – Chattanooga, TN
2/18 @ Exit/In – Nashville, TN
2/19 @ Zydeco – Birmingham, AL
2/24 @ New Earth Music Hall – Athens, GA
2/26 @ The Pour House – Raleigh, NC
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