Scars On Broadway follow up debut album with tour

After the double-headed achiever of System of a Down's 2005 releases "Mesmerize" and "Hypnotize," the band went on hiatus, with guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan scene to work on a new project, Scars On Broadway. The latter group's self-titled Interscope debut is set for a July 29 release, and piece there are certainly similarities between the two outfits, this is definitely a new venture.

"I think the main difference is the music," Dolmayan offers. "[Scars is] more rock and song oriented, whereas System is more metal-oriented and schizophrenic, peppy from one style to another." "Scars On Broadway" was recorded at Hollywood's Sunset Sound, and produced by Malakian.

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Scars is currently touring Europe through Sept. 21, and will begin an American go in October. Rounding out the total live lineup are guitarist/vocalist Franky Perez, keyboardist/vocalist Danny Shamoun, and bassist Dominic Cifarelli (Pulse Ultra).

"They're all really salutary guys," Dolmayan says. "The most important thing when you're touring is that you enjoy the hoi polloi you're with. Otherwise it can be a selfsame miserable see. You're in close living quarters, and you've got to be around each other a portion. So when you're about people you actually revel, it makes life a lot easier."

With the buzz building around the Scars tracks "They Say" (which also has a video recording) and "Chemicals," there has been much speculation about System of a Down's future.

"Everything is cool," Dolmayan explains. "I hardly hung out with Shavo about a week agone, hung out with Serj about triad weeks agone, we had dinner. The guys are doing great. Of path we support each other in our projects. System will eventually play once more, but right now Daron and I are concentrating all of our energy on Scars, because that's what you have to do to make something into a success."


[Note: The following tour dates have been provided by artist and/or term of enlistment sources, wHO verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this story. Changes may come before go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for late updates.]

October 200819 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade20 - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues22 - Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts23 - Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live25 - New York, NY - The Fillmore26 - Boston, MA - Paradise28 - Montreal, Quebec - Le Medley29 - Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix31 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's HallNovember 20081 - Chicago, IL - Metro2 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Club4 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue5 - Kansas City, MO - Beaumont7 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater8 - Salt Lake City, UT - Murray Theatre11 - Edmonton, Alberta - Edmonton Events Center12 - Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Ballroom14 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom15 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SODO16 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater22 - Phoenix, AZ - Marquee Theater24 - San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit25 - Austin, TX - Emo's26 - Houston, TX - House of Blues

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Crease

   
Artist: Crease

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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 Vindication

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 13

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Post-grunge saturated bikers Crease formed in Fort Lauderdale, FL, in 1994, their rank including three-quarters of a local rig dubbed Excessive. Singer Kelly Meister and brothers Eric (drums) and Fritz Dorigo (guitar) had been performing for several days, and when their bassist left hand the band to capture married, they refocused their get-up-and-go with the avail of new bassist Greg Gershengorn. Changing their send for to Crease, the grouping recorded an main album, Interference, which cemented their local repute. However, when their recording deal felled seam through and through, the band was forced to reorganize, outlay their clip honing their songwriting and performance chops on the South Florida gild scene. In 1997, their EP ...6 Pack Shy of Pretty (which was slated to be a full-length until the striation ran verboten of money) produced a local wireless hit with the single "Thwarting," and various high school profile gigs at home and on the East Coast helped ground Crease a deal with Roadrunner Records toward the destruction of 1999. The 5 songs on ...Six Pack Shy of Pretty were redone for cellular inclusion on Crease's Roadrunner debut, Defense, which was released during the summertime of 2000.

Wassabi Collective

   
Artist: Wassabi Collective

   Genre(s): 
funk
   

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Discography:


   
 Stories Not Forgotten

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11

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Amy dead in three months?

Amy Winehouse�s father Mitch says the Grammy-winning singer is suffering from emphysema and he fears she could be �dead in three months,� usmagazine.com reports.

�The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won�t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,� he told UK newspaper the Daily Mail.

Winehouse, 24, was taken to the hospital last week for tests after she fainted at home in London.

�With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up,� Mitch said. �There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She�s got 70 per cent lung capacity.�

If she doesn�t get treatment, she could need an oxygen mask to breathe, Mitch told the Daily Mail.

�The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid � she wouldn�t have been able to breathe,� he added. �If drugs mean more to her than breathing properly, then so be it.�

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Midnight

   
Artist: Midnight

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   

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 Sakada

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9

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Ellen Degeneres - Degeneres Plans Pre-wedding Trip To Meet De Rossis Family

TV host ELLEN DeGENERES is planning a trip to Australia to meet her fiancee PORTIA DE ROSSI's family - ahead of their planned wedding.

DeGeneres revealed her plans to wed the Australian actress during her daytime show last week (15May08), a day after samesex marriages were declared legal in California.

And now the lesbian couple is hoping to travel to de Rossi's native country, so DeGeneres can meet her grandmother - who won't be able to travel to the U.S. for the wedding.

DeGeneres says, "I've met Portia's mother and her cousins, and I mentioned last night that we should go (to Australia) for Christmas. I can't wait to get there.

"I'd like to get the show there. I'm going to push hard to make that happen."

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Bears hunt video game stocks

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Apparently, 68% growth just isn't good enough, so investors sold shares of the video game software makers Friday.


Research firm NPD triggered Friday's sell-off with a report that said the U.S. video game sector grew 47% in April, compared with the same month last year, to $1.23 billion, with software up 68% and hardware up 26%.


The data sent shares of Electronic Arts down 3.8%, Activision down 1.6%, Take-Two Interactive Software down 1% and Midway down 1.4%. THQ bucked the trend, with its shares rising 1%. The overall market finished little changed.


But the disappointment should pass, with Wednesday's massively anticipated release of Nintendo's fitness-themed game "Wii Fit." It is already sold out on Amazon.com.


That's why for May, "We look for a 160%-plus increase in software sales and a 100% increase in hardware sales," Kaufman Bros. analyst Todd Mitchell said.


The family-friendly Wii, as per usual, dominated hardware in April with 714,000 units sold, nearly twice as many as the combined sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 (188,000) and Sony's PlayStation 3 (187,000).


Sales of the PS3 and Xbox fell from the month before, a surprising development given that "Grand Theft Auto IV," available only on those platforms, was by far the biggest-selling game in April.


NPD said consumers snapped up 1.85 million units of the raunchy game in April even though it wasn't released until the penultimate day of the month. The second-best-selling game in April, with 1.1 million games sold, was "Mario Kart Wii."


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