I've got the opnly bit of news YOU are gonna wanna hear today and that's ROCK ON THE RANGE 2012 is announced! The line up is SICK! Mark down these dates Fri May 18-Sun May 20. Here's the line-up (details on which day each band is playing is TBA:) INCUBUS, ROB ZOMBIE, SHINEDOWN, MARILYN MANSON, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, SLASH, MEGADETH, CHEVELLE, CYPRESS HILL, MASTODON, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, VOLBEAT, HALESTORM, LACUNA COIL, ADELITAS WAY, P.O.D.,, REDLIGHT KING, BLACK STONE CHERRY, CAVO, TRIVIUM, DOWN, THE DARKNESS, ESCAPE THE FATE, ARANDA, EMPHATIC, JAMES DURBON, FALLING IN REVERSE, BOBAFLEX, BLACK TIDE, KYNG, SOIL, 12 STONES, RIVAL SONS, EVE TO ADAM, OTHERWISE AND GHOSTS OF AUGUST. Plus there's the Friday Night Free show starring FOXY SHAZAM, HAIRBALL, HELLS BELLS and more TBA! Three stages, three days! Total rock chaos! It's gonna be awesome! Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb 10th, and there will also be VIP packages and a layaway plan for tix (starts Feb 29th.) See www.rockontherange.com for more! YEAH BABY! We'll have a flyaway contest coming later this year, too!….Shinedown have posted 4 song samples from their forthcoming “Amaryliss” album, due Mar 27th. Hit www.shinedown.com for them and see the artwork, which reminds me of the work the dude that does Mastodon's art, actually. Can't wait to hear the whole thing…..Brian Johnson of AC/DC was 32 in a pack of 59 racers in the Daytona Rolex 24 Race last Saturday down in Florida. He did end up raising a lot of money for his charity, the Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer. Good on ya, son! ….A City Council member in Birmingham, England has called on the council to create a “Black Sabbath Day” in honor of the band, which formed in the industrial city in the late Sixties. According to the Birmingham Post, council member Philip Parkin brought up the idea in a report titled “Destination Birmingham,” saying, “Black Sabbath's reunion and their agreement to headline Download Festival in June is an opportunity we should not miss. Early discussions are taking place about how best the city should celebrate this and the council should be supporting any celebrations . . . we need to celebrate the fact these people come from Birmingham and there could be various ways we could do it.” (Pulse of Radio.)
