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(PCM) Detroit, MI’s Battlecross made a HUGE impact at Orion Music and More last weekend and are continuing to receive praise from fans and critics alike! The band is keeping busy gearing up for the upcoming release of their new album “War Of Will” on July 9th and are absolutely blowing people away with their outstanding live performances. Joining the band for their Orion Music + More  performance was revered metal drummer, Kevin Talley, who has previously performed with Six Feet Under, Chimaira, The Red Chord, Dying Fetus, and more. With less than two weeks to go before the beginning of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Fest, Battlecross is excited to announce that Kevin Talley will also be performing with them all summer long!

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(PCM) Taylor Swift is always getting a lot of slack for writing songs about her ex-boyfriend’s with the most recent being “Dear John” which is rumored to be about ex-John Mayer. Mayer even commented to Rolling Stone about the song saying it made him “feel terrible” and coming from a songwriter’s perspective he thought it was “cheap songwriting” however many are saying he was being a bit hypocritical as he new track “Paper Doll” just may just be about Taylor Swift.

Here’s why: Taylor Swift’s latest single is called “22″ and in the chorus for “Paper Doll” Mayer sings “You’re like 22 girls in one” and wait, there’s more!  In “Dear John” Swift has the lyric “You paint me a blue sky, and go back and turn it to rain” and in “Paper Doll” Mayer retorts “Someone’s gonna paint you another sky”

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• Taking Back Sunday premiered a live, acoustic video of “Bike Scene” today that is taken from their upcoming release – TAYF10 Acoustic. TAYF10 Acoustic will be released on June 18th. The digital-only acoustic concert film and album captures a rare, intimate live performance of the band’s platinum-selling debut album, Tell All Your Friends, in celebration of its 10^th anniversary.

• Toby Keith’s Oklahoma Twister Relief Concert will be held Saturday, July 6 at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman. Doors open at 1:30pm, show time is 3pm. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 21 at 10am; all seats are $25, all inclusive, all seats reserved - eight-ticket purchase limit...

• Jimmy Eat World  have released their newest album, Damage (RCA). Damage is the band’s seventh studio album, the follow-up to their 2010 album Invented. The Damage US tour has just been extended, with an additional leg for September and October. Presales start Wednesday, 6/12, and public on-sales begin Friday, 6/14.  The band will perform the first single from Damage, “I Will Steal You Back,” on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight; tune in at 11:35/10:35 central.

• After performing 73 shows and counting, Aaron Carter brings “The After Party” tour across the nation. “The After Party” is a reference to his well known record Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) released in 2000. On the tour Aaron has been performing his girl-screaming induced songs that made his fans fall for him years a...

(PCM) Metallica, using the fake band name Dehaan, surprised fans by performing an unannounced set on Saturday afternoon at the band’s Orion Music + More festival in Detroit, MI. The band took to one of the festivals smaller stages, The Vans Damage Stage, to perform their debut album “Kill ‘Em All” in it’s entirety and it was glorious!  The surprise set lasted for nearly an hour and fans were delighted to hear not often performed tracks such as “Jump In The Fire”, “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth”, and “Whiplash”.  Metallica came up with the idea to use the band name Dehaan as a bit of homage to the actor Dane Dehaan, who is starring in the band’s film “Metallica Through The Never”.

Once the opening riffs of “Hit The Lights” were heard throughout the festival, fans came running for every dir...

• Cherrytree/Interscope/A&M Records is pleased to announce a new album of original material from Sting, entitled The Last Ship, scheduled for release on September 24, 2013. The album is inspired by Sting’s forthcoming play of the same name and explores the central themes of homecoming and self-discovery, drawing upon his memories of growing up in the shadow of the Swan Hunters Shipyard in Wallsend. His personal reminiscences illuminate universal truths – the complexity of relationships, the passage of time and the importance of family and community – to form an affecting, complex parable for our modern times. The play, in which Sting has been creatively immersed for nearly three years, debuts on Broadway in 2014 and is a collaboration with Tony Award winners Joe Mantello (director; Wicked, ...

• Mountains Of Sorrow, Rivers Of Song, Amos Lee’s fifth studio album, will be released on October 1 by Blue Note Records. Lee recorded the 12-song collection in Nashville with Jay Joyce (Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Eric Church, Cage the Elephant). “I’ve always enjoyed it down there, so I thought I’d bring my band and see how a bunch of Philly guys fit in,” says Lee. “Jay brings a musicality, a different kind of ear. He definitely hears things in ways that I don’t, and brings out extra dimensions in the songs.” The convenient location allowed several remarkable guests to participate in the sessions. Alison Krauss joins Lee on “Chill In The Air” and Patty Griffin sings harmony on “Mountains of Sorrow,” a song inspired by Lee’s visit to Levon Helm’s barn in Woodstock, where he appeared at ...