Biffy Clyro on QuckTime

Biffy is being featured front and center on the QuickTime Guide web site and in the Quicktime player. Check it out at www.quicktime.com.

Theory of a Deadman's "Got It Made" on the JVC Mobile Website

Sent by Elias:

Theory of a Deadman's "Got It Made" will be featured on JVC Mobile's web site starting on 4/15 at www.mobile.jvc.com.

On their homepage the song will come up instantly. It will be the only song played on the homepage for the next 12 months. They chose the song because of the lyrical lean, the fact that it rocks and it's a good fit for their mobile push.

The band name, song title and album title will be on the player and a launch button featuring the artwork and a link to their website will be in place.

In Der Pitten

All about In the Pit this week:

Amy gives us her opinion on the Top 3 Mosh Songs of All Time in Ask Amy.

An aunt blames Slipknot for her son's suicide in the Mailbag.

Let us know what you think the Top 5 Roadrunner Videos of All Time are in the Forum.

A poll has been posted to let us know what you think of buying music direct from the site.

Theory of a Deadman has a new album coming out next week, Scars & Souvenirs. Ask vocalist/guitarist Tyler Connolly about it in our Ask the Artist section.

Finally, there's a really cool cartoonized version of Dream Theater in the Fan Art section.

De Novo Dahl on Spinner

AOL Music is offering a full-album, pre-release stream of De Novo Dahl's "Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound" on its Spinner platform. Spinner.com receives approximately 1.5MM unique visitors per month.

Click here to see it.

The Parlor Mob - First Week Digital Sales News

Another Roadrunner first.

We released our first album digitally prior to a physical release with The Parlor Mob's AND YOU WERE A CROW with great initial success. Although on the surface this number may seem low what is incredible is that this band is literally starting from ground zero. No previous touring, no previous releases, no real fan base outside of Red Bank, NJ and we sold over 600 albums in their first week of release.


Check out some quotes from iTunes where the average rating was "5 Stars":

"I saw this band twice at SXSW and this is by far the best band I have seen live. That's a BIG statement, as I have seen thousands of band's live - but this band plays twice as good live as they do on the album - and they sound great on this album. I'd rate this album with 6 stars if I could"

"This album blindsided me because I had never heard of them. Just think Wolfmother but instead of 4 good songs, the entire album is awesome"

"Could Easily be mistaken for a new White Stripes CD" -

"WOW, This band right here gives me confirmation I needed that everything in the rock genre won't just be pop rock or punk rock and can actually be good! Definitely buying this"

"First time I've ever heard of them. I feel sort of left out now. White Stripes meets Led Zeppelin"

"Music speaks for itself. Shit is Legit"


Some hard facts to know:
The band has been on tour with Nicole Atkins for the last month and the tour ends at the end of this month.
We have a Residency Tour in the works starting in late April. Markets to include Boston, Philly, DC, NYC, Burlington, VT, Baltimore.
Band is CONFIRMED for LOLLAPALOOZA this Summer.
We will have a video for "Cant Keep No Good Boy Down", along with an EPK , by Mid April .

Sent by Elias

Theory - Airbourne Take NEW! By Storm

As we noted earlier in the month, Theory of a Deadman and Airbourne were both accepted into the ClearChannel NEW! program for March and were noted as "Artists to Watch." The program supports radio stations and their web campaigns with rich media and marketing.

I am pleased to report that Theory of a Deadman's "So Happy" is the #2 rock song this month so far, with labelmates Airbourne rounding out the top 10 at #10.

Top 10 Marketing Hits 3/14

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TOP 10 MARKETING HITS

Week Ending March 14th, 2008

10. Dream Theater will appear on the cover of the summer issue of Limelight Magazine for their "New York Bands" special.

9. 3 Inches Of Blood's video for "Trial of Champions" is one of the featured videos on MySpace's A Place for Metal this week.

8. Theory of a Deadman shot their first video from Scars & Souvenirs, "So Happy," in Vancouver last week as label mates, Airbourne took over the streets of Los Angeles and shot their second video from their debut, for "Runnin' Wild" that features a cameo appearance by the legendary Lemmy of Motorhead. Both videos will be available mid-March.

7. Megadeth's Dave Mustaine will play with Dave Navarro for an upcoming episode of Dave Navarro's TV show on Mania TV. The footage will also be used for the second season's opening credits.

6. Revolver is running a Cavalera Conspiracy guitar giveaway contest in their April issue, on sale 3/25, with a coinciding online component. Winner receives an autographed ESP guitar signed by the legendary Max and Iggor Cavalera.

5. Airbourne secures new licenses with a 2nd track on NASCAR 2009 ("Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast") and Madden NFL 2009 ("Stand Up For Rock n' Roll"), bringing their song placement in games total to FIFTEEN!

4. Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy jams on Motorhead's "Overkill" with Overkill's Bobby Blitz and Anthrax' Frank Bello on FUSE's Talking Metal. Episodes airs tonight, 3/14.

3. DevilDriver is destroying on their first headlining tour which kicked of two weeks ago. The band recently shot a video for "Clouds Over California" with director Nathan Cox (Airbourne, Linkin Park, System Of A Down). It is due in-house at the beginning of April.

2. Airbourne GameStop promotion will run for the entire month of April with a 1:30 clip airing on the chain's Channel M in over 4,000 locations. The link to their interview clip will be circulated soon.

And The # 1 HIT for Roadrunner Records for the week ending March 14th, 2008 is...

1. Roadrunner Records hosts its first ever label showcase at SxSW tomorrow! The showcase is sponsored by Revolver, Guitar World and Heineken and features Airbourne, The Parlor Mob and De Novo Dahl. Editorial coverage will run in May issues (on sale April) in both magazines. Footage of the live show and b-roll content will appear on Guitar World's DVD, which comes with every issue. Footage and coverage will also run on both magazines' websites for a month following the event. In addition, all three bands will be interviewed by Xbox. The interviews will be spliced with performance footage and air on Xbox Live which has over 10 million subscribers. De Novo Dahl is also taking part in a "Game For Fame" appearance where they will challenge Xbox Live subscribers to a game of Rockband over the internet.

QuickTime Guide Features

We've got several upcoming video features in Apple's QuickTime Guide and Player.

3/24: De Novo Dahl - Shout
3/24: Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse
3/31: Madina Lake - One Last Kiss
3/31: Dream Theater - Forsaken

I'll post links when these are live.

De Novo Dahl on Artist Direct

The "Shout" video is being featured on the home page video section and alt. rock section of ARTISTdirect.com starting today. In addition, an interview with the band is in the works right now to go up next week.

3 Inches of Blood - Trial Of Champions on MySpace

The new 3IOB video for "Trial of Champions" is being featured on A Place for Metal. Check it out!

Airbourne On ClearChannel

Airbourne has been added to ClearChannel's NEW! Program for March. This will feature the band on dozens of radio station web sites with a focus on "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast." The band is also one of 14 "Artists to Watch" this month, getting major focus on the main ClearChannel properties. With each feature there are direct links to purchase the album.

http://www.clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/new/6/indexrock.html
http://clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/new/6/indexrock.html
http://clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/new/6/player.html?art=1466&dartSplitName=local&gateway=exiting

Gamestop Update

Via Madelyn Scarpulla

As promised, here is the Dragonforce clip that airs in all GameStop locations for the month of March. It's also streamed on the Channel M (GameStop TV) website. This was originally a :60 piece featuring the video and some of the interview footage edited by GameStop. As you will see, Channel M gave us more than TWICE what was committed: a full minute of intro from the host as well as 1:30 of video/interview footage for a total of 2:30 minutes of Dragonforce!

Enjoy: http://www.channelm.com/gstv/march2/dragonforce.html

Additionally, GameStop cameras conducted their own interviews with Airbourne last week in LA. Airbourne will be featured in a similar way for the month of April. Stay tuned!

Cavalera Conspiracy Beating it at Radio

Via Mark Abramson

The band is doing amazingly well in its second week. Without even truly putting the press on to be #1 yet, CC is easily #2, vaulting over other established bands. It’s the #1 album at Metal Specialty (we’re specifically addressing those stations that haven’t played it so far and ensuring that it will chart next week). WSOU is lined up to feature the entire album this week as well. Most importantly, Metal radio really likes the album, and it’s going to be played for a long time to come. We’re in a great position to be #1 next week, and we’re going to push hard to make sure that it is. Here’s the details:

CMJ Loud Rock - #2 (from 40)

FMQB Metal Detector - #2 (from 15), 184x/+83

Mediaguide Metal Specialty Albums - #1 (from 3), 49x/+16

Mediaguide Metal Specialty Songs:

“Sanctuary” - #1 (from 10), 17x/+9

“Inflikted” - #3 (from 1), 13x/-3

“Dark Ark” - D38, 5x

CMJ Loud Rock Select Albums - #9 (from 57), 43x/+28

CMJ Loud Rock Select Tracks

“Sanctuary” - #19 (from 98), 22x/+17

“Inflikted” - #41 (from 99), 9x/+4