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(PCM) Alabama Shakes will kick off a U.S. headline run on March 1, 2013with a show at the Knitting Factory in Boise, ID. Michael Kiwanuka, Sam Doores and Riley Downing will be the supporting artists on all tour dates. A ticket pre-sale begins tomorrow, December 4, at http://alabamashakes.frontgatetickets.com/. Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday and Saturday, December 7 and 8. The group is touring in support of its debut album, Boys & Girls, which bowed at No. 1 on the Independent Label chart in April and spent 15 consecutive weeks in the top 50 of the Billboard 200, selling more than 325,000 copies to date. Photo credit: Pieter M. van Hattem / Contour by Getty Images

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings announce the release of She’s Got A Way: Love Songs, a new collection of 18 essential love songs drawn from three decades of recordings by music legend and composer/singer songwriter, Billy Joel. This collection comes just in time for Valentine’s Day. She’s Got A Way: Love Songs is a perfect distillation of the artist’s expressions of love and romance over the course of his life and career. The album brings together some of Billy’s finest and most heartfelt performances, iconic hits playing alongside under-appreciated deep catalog selections.

Turn it up!” This will be the resounding chant after hearing Coco Jones’ Hollywood Records debut single, “Holla At The DJ.” Coco, a Radio Disney N.B.T. finalist and star of Disney Channel’s “Let It Shine,” the #1 TV movie of 2012 to date in targeted youth demographics, is digitally releasing “Holla” December 7. Coco worked with several of today’s top producers and songwriters on “Holla,” including Brian Kennedy (Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson), Makeba Riddick (Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez) and LaShawn Daniels (Usher.) The result is an aural feast – a rhythmic, danceable celebration! Leading up to the single release, Radio Disney will Planet Premiere “Holla At The DJ” on December 6, and the lyric video will go live. On December 8, Coco will be performing live at Radio Disney’s N.B.T. Finale Concert in Los Angeles. The following week, the official video for “Holla” will premiere on Disney Channel (December 12) and VEVO (December 13.) The official video for “Holla At The DJ” was directed by award-winning director Chris Applebaum (Rihanna, Selena Gomez.) Coco Jones is currently writing and recording songs for her upcoming EP to be released in Spring 2013.

Grammy nominated band Dream Theater, one of rock’s most musically fearless and adventurous bands, has re-signed with Roadrunner Records. The group first signed with Roadrunner Records in January 2007 and has so far released three critically acclaimed albums with the label. The label first issued Dream Theater’s ninth studio album Systematic Chaos in 2007 and went on to release Black Clouds & Silver Linings in 2009 as well as their most recent album, A Dramatic Turn of Events in September 2011. The band will soon begin recording a new album as part of the new agreement with Roadrunner Records. In 2012 and while with Roadrunner Records, the band received their first-ever Grammy nomination for “On The Backs Of Angels” in the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category. The song was the first single from their eleventh studio album A Dramatic Turn Of Events, which had 14 Top 10 debuts around the world including the U.S. where it entered at #8 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. The band commented, “We are all very excited to be re-signing with Roadrunner Records! Over the past 5 years from the release of Systematic Chaos to our latest A Dramatic Turn of Events, we’ve developed strong creative and professional bonds with everyone at Roadrunner as well as many great friendships along the way.”

Earlier this year IMMINENT SONIC DESTRUCTION released their debut Recurring Themes. The album was produced by Roy Z (Halford, Bruce Dickinson), and features nine original tracks that showcase the band’s vocal harmonies soaring over original progressive-metal riffing, melodic compositions and the rhythms of ex-Tiles drummer, Pat DeLeon. Recurring Themes was financed entirely by the band andis available for purchase via the band’s website, iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, Lasers Edge, Dearborn Music and is now available through Nightmare Records. ISD recently completed work on a video for the song “Monster”. The video will be receiving its exclusive premiere in the coming weeks via Noisecreep. The band has released a teaser for the video and it can be viewed HERE.

THE CONTORTIONIST have debuted a brand new music video today for their single, “Dreaming Schematics.” For fans familiar with their last video for “Causality,” you will see a definitive correlation between the two! Front man Jonathan Carpenter comments, “We’re very pleased with the vibe captured in our new video. It has a very spacey look and that fits the ethereal sounds of the song.” The band recently announced their participation in HATEBREED’s “DIVINITY OF PURPOSE TOUR” heading out early next year. Tickets are on sale now here.

Legendary rock vocalist Sebastian Bach is currently working on the upcoming release of a brand new DVD/live CD package: ABachalypse Now is scheduled for release in Spring, 2013 via Frontiers Records. The DVD/CD includes never-before-seen footage from this year’s GrasPop Festival in Belgium, the full never-before-seen Hellfest set from France and the fully-remixed and remastered Club Nokia show from Los Angeles (originally broadcast on AXS TV). The exact track listing and table of contents is forthcoming. Bach commented, “I am so excited for all of you to witness and experience ABachalypse Now. We have included three recent concerts and the footage is totally kickass! It’s remixed and remastered for full audio and video quality. The performances and energy of the crowds are killer throughout the DVD and you really feel like you are at the shows. Prepare yourselves for the coming ABachalypse – now!” Photo credit: Katarina Benzova

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