Wednesday, February 27, 2008

WWE Microsite - Airbourne & Theory of a Deadman

WWE: The Music, Volume 8 microsite is now up and running on WWE.com! The album features the tracks "No Chance in Hell" by Theory of a Deadman as Mr. McMahon's entrance song, as well as "Turn Up the Trouble" by Airbourne as Mr. Kennedy's entrance song. Pre-order the album today and receive a WWE ringtone! Check it out for more details here.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Airbourne Added to AOL Radio: Hard Rock

That's right, our very own Australian rockers are now playing on AOL Radio's Hard Rock station!

Monday, February 11, 2008

Theory of a Deadman: Xbox Live

Started working on the pitch for this and have reached out to my Xbox contacts. More on this soon, but I'd like to get them featured as the Xbox Live Artist of the Month some time after release.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Week of 2/4 Top Ten

10. 3 Inches Of Blood appear on FearNet, Comcast's horror on-demand video channel.

9. TUNE IN TO THE PREMIERE EPISODE OF TALKING METAL.....On Friday, 2/29 at midnight make sure you tune in to FUSE. Interviews we filmed with Killswitch Engage, DevilDriver and Airbourne will all be in the premiere episode of Talking Metal! It will repeat the following Friday @ 12:30am.

8. The artwork for the new Theory of a Deadman album, SCARS & SOUVENIRS, has been posted everywhere online! Check it out here (attached).

7. Airbourne secures new licenses with "Runnin' Wild" to be featured in NASCAR 2009 and "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast" will be featured in film Lost Boys 2.

6. De Novo Dahl's licensing streak continues with "Shout" being included in the SCI-FI Channel's new commercial for their hot Friday night line-up including Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who and more. The commercial will run for 13 weeks and the song and band name are prominently chyroned throughout the spot as well. Check out the clash of De Novo and Dr. Who here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbkdUfiqmZM&eurl
Don't forget to hear "Shout" in the premiere of VH1's new comedy Free Radio - Friday night at 9:30 PM.

5. Cradle Of Filth's Harder Faster Darker: Thornography Deluxe MVI is in stores this week. Check out a remix that guitarist Paul Allender did of "Under Huntress Moon" using the U-Myx program on the MVI (Music Video Interactive) at Cradleoffilth.com just scroll down and click on the U-Myx logo.

4. The legendary Max and Iggor Cavalera spent the week in NYC doing press and promo for the upcoming Cavalera Conspiracy release. While in town they completed a cover shoot and interview for Metal Edge, photoshoots and interviews for features in Revolver, Metal Maniacs, Hails & Horns, Drum! Magazine and Guitar World, visited Sirius' Hard Attack and recorded video content for Headbangers Ball and Hot Topic as well as RR.com.

3. DragonForce "Through The Fire And Flames" single review in Billboard!

"Imagine a band running a power-prog-themed amusement park with speed metal rollercoasters that do loops and hairpin turns at 150 mph."

2. Roadrunner Records, Nickelback, WEA Corp and Warner Chappell presented almost $600,000 in charitable donations to Amnesty International and International Children's Awareness Canada last Friday February 1, the one year anniversary of the start of the charity campaign. The donation was collected from proceeds of the sale of the smash "If Everyone Cared" digital single and video.

And the #1 HIT for Roadrunner Records for the week ending February 8th, 2008 is....

1. ROADRUNNER HAS THE #1 & #2 RECORDS ON THE BILLBOARD HEATSEEKERS CHART WITH AIRBOURNE DEBUTING AT #1 WITH 7,018 SCANNED AND DRAGONFORCE AT #2 WITH 4,446 SCANNED!

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Grammy.com Pre-Telecast Stream

For the first time in GRAMMY Awards history, the Pre-Telecast awards presentation will be broadcast live online on Sunday February 10. By logging on to GRAMMY.com from 4 - 7:30 p.m. EST, you will be able to view awards given in each category announced during the Pre-Tel.

As a reminder, our nominees are:

NICKELBACK "If Everyone Cared" for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

MACHINE HEAD "Aesthetics of Hate" for Best Metal Performance.

Both of these awards are currently scheduled to be announced during the Pre-Tel. Tune in on Grammy.com!

Airbourne, Theory and MLB

I have just pitched a video interview and acoustic performance to Major League Baseball for Theory and Airbourne. These would be featured on MLB.com and possibly in stadium jumbotrons. MLB.com gets roughly like 10MM unique visitors a month and is looking for a lot of musical content as we approach the opening of the 2008 season.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Fuse - Talking (RR) Metal

On Friday, 2/29 @ midnight (ok, technically 3/1) make sure you tune into FUSE (wherever you will be with beverage in hand).

Interviews we filmed with Killswitch Engage, Devildriver and Airbourne will all be in this episode of Talking Metal!

It will repeat the following Friday @ 12:30am.