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  <title>Joey McIntyre Exclusive Blog #1</title>
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  <description>Joey McIntyre gives ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino the scoop on his brand new video for &quot;Here We Go Again&quot; in the first of this exclusive blog series….

As soon as I decided on the video concept for &quot;Here We Go Again,&quot; I wanted to get the fans involved. I knew we were going </description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:54:54 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Joey McIntyre gives ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino the scoop on his brand new video for &quot;Here We Go Again&quot; in the first of this exclusive blog series….

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  <title>Interview: Megadeth</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/interview-megadeth/6222551</link>
  <description>Megadeth&#39;s Endgame is quite the statement. 

With a combination of intricate and symphonic guitar artistry and intelligent, insightful lyrics, Endgame stands out as a masterpiece in Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine&#39;s storied catalog. &quot;This Day We Fight!&quot; lets out a deafening, distorted battle cry, </description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:24:22 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Megadeth&#39;s Endgame is quite the statement. 

With a combination of intricate and symphonic guitar artistry and intelligent, insightful lyrics, Endgame stands out as a masterpiece in Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine&#39;s storied catalog. &quot;This Day We Fight!&quot; lets out a deafening, distorted battle cry, </media:text>
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  <title>Interview: Five Finger Death Punch Talks Horror Movies</title>
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  <description> Five Finger Death Punch&#39;s live show is something like a horror movie. Some songs creep in for the kill, while others stab repeatedly. Nevertheless, every single show is calculated, chaotic and undeniably killer. Each song cuts through the crowd like a well swung machete and, of course, the audience </description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:46:19 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html"> Five Finger Death Punch&#39;s live show is something like a horror movie. Some songs creep in for the kill, while others stab repeatedly. Nevertheless, every single show is calculated, chaotic and undeniably killer. Each song cuts through the crowd like a well swung machete and, of course, the audience </media:text>
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  <title>Interview: Tina Parol</title>
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  <description>&quot;Oh my God! Buzz Lightyear just walked by. That is so cool,&quot; laughs Tina Parol. 

Tina&#39;s standing near the Santa Monica pier, watching &quot;a little parade of tiny pre-schoolers dressed in Halloween costumes&quot; walk by.  What the sprouts don&#39;t know is that they&#39;re in the presence of pop&#39;s next iconic </description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:25:06 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">&quot;Oh my God! Buzz Lightyear just walked by. That is so cool,&quot; laughs Tina Parol. 

Tina&#39;s standing near the Santa Monica pier, watching &quot;a little parade of tiny pre-schoolers dressed in Halloween costumes&quot; walk by.  What the sprouts don&#39;t know is that they&#39;re in the presence of pop&#39;s next iconic </media:text>
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  <title>Playlist: Mike White and Jared Hess of &lt;I&gt;Gentlemen Broncos&lt;/I&gt;</title>
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  <description>Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Journey</description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:29 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Interview: Hyro Da Hero</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/interview-hyro-da-hero/6222311</link>
  <description>Hyro Da Hero deserves hip hop supremacy. 

He fires off clever and quick quips like nobody&#39;s business, and he&#39;s got a whole hell of a lot to say in his raps. If that weren&#39;t enough, he does it over a rock n&#39; roll backdrop. However, this isn&#39;t your older cousin&#39;s &quot;Nu Metal.&quot; This is something far </description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:05:15 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Hyro Da Hero deserves hip hop supremacy. 

He fires off clever and quick quips like nobody&#39;s business, and he&#39;s got a whole hell of a lot to say in his raps. If that weren&#39;t enough, he does it over a rock n&#39; roll backdrop. However, this isn&#39;t your older cousin&#39;s &quot;Nu Metal.&quot; This is something far </media:text>
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  <title>3-D Online Web Series Presentation &quot;13 Minutes to Midnight&quot;</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/3-d-online-web-series-presentation-13-minutes-to-midnight/6222253</link>
  <description>It has been announced that the brand new, ground-breaking web-series presentation, &quot;13 Minutes to Midnight,&quot; is premiering worldwide with the first episode, &quot;Halloween – Part 1,&quot; today, October 28, 2009.  

It is hosted in association with Dailymotion via the official website and additional plans </description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:12:11 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">It has been announced that the brand new, ground-breaking web-series presentation, &quot;13 Minutes to Midnight,&quot; is premiering worldwide with the first episode, &quot;Halloween – Part 1,&quot; today, October 28, 2009.  

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  <title>Playlist: Kristinia DeBarge</title>
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  <description>Queens of the Stone Age, The Beatles, Steely Dan</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:11:01 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Queens of the Stone Age, The Beatles, Steely Dan</media:text>
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  <title>Playlist: Flyleaf</title>
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  <description>David Crowder, Rise Against, Sleeping at Last</description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:38:18 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">David Crowder, Rise Against, Sleeping at Last</media:text>
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  <title>Metallica and Tapulous Announce Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica Game Now Available on App Store</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/metallica-and-tapulous-announce-tap-tap-revenge-metallica-game-now-available-on-app-store/6222211</link>
  <description>There&#39;s no such thing as &quot;enough Metallica.&quot;

Thankfully, you can bring the four horsemen anywhere now thanks to the Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica Game now available on the App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Tapulous, a leader in music games for the iPhone and iPod touch, today announced that </description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:40:55 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:content url="http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/a3/artist/90/467622_metallica08_90.jpg" alt="Metallica and Tapulous Announce Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica Game Now Available on App Store" type="images/jpg" />
  <media:text type="html">There&#39;s no such thing as &quot;enough Metallica.&quot;

Thankfully, you can bring the four horsemen anywhere now thanks to the Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica Game now available on the App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Tapulous, a leader in music games for the iPhone and iPod touch, today announced that </media:text>
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  <title>Playlist: Aaron Lewis of Staind</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.comhttp://www.playlisted.com/2009/10/27/aaron-lewis-of-staind/</link>
  <description>AC/DC, KISS, Pink Floyd</description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:05:43 PST</pubDate>
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  <title>Playlist: Wolfmother</title>
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  <description>Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, The Doobie Brothers</description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:27:29 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, The Doobie Brothers</media:text>
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  <title>Interview: Like a Storm</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/interview-like-a-storm/6222191</link>
  <description>Like a Storm conjure quite a ruckus on their debut album, The End of the Beginning &amp;#91;Prospect Park&amp;#93;.

There&#39;s no shortage of heavy distortion, but there&#39;s also an abundance of uber catchy melodies strewn throughout the songs. The band takes a classic grunge aesthetic and gives it a facelift </description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:26:14 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Like a Storm conjure quite a ruckus on their debut album, The End of the Beginning &amp;#91;Prospect Park&amp;#93;.

There&#39;s no shortage of heavy distortion, but there&#39;s also an abundance of uber catchy melodies strewn throughout the songs. The band takes a classic grunge aesthetic and gives it a facelift </media:text>
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  <title>Live Review: &lt;I&gt;Smokeout 2009&lt;/I&gt; featuring Slipknot, Deftones, Cypress Hill — San Manuel Amphitheatre, San Bernardino</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/live-review-i-smokeout-2009-i-featuring-slipknot-deftones-cypress-hill-san-manuel-amphitheatre-san-bernardino/6222173</link>
  <description>Revolution was in the air at Cypress Hill&#39;s 2009 Smokeout. In fact, the smell of revolution was just as powerful as the stench of that sticky icky wafting through the desert all day.

All stoner jokes aside, three revolutionary acts headlined the festival&#39;s main stage at the San Manuel </description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:23:34 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Revolution was in the air at Cypress Hill&#39;s 2009 Smokeout. In fact, the smell of revolution was just as powerful as the stench of that sticky icky wafting through the desert all day.

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  <title>Playlist: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor &amp; Tanedra Howard of &lt;I&gt;Saw VI&lt;/I&gt;</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.comhttp://www.playlisted.com/2009/10/26/tobin-bell-costas-mandylor-tanedra-howard-of-saw-vi/</link>
  <description>Coldplay, KISS, Citizen Cope, Van Morrison</description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:12:42 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Coldplay, KISS, Citizen Cope, Van Morrison</media:text>
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  <title>Playlist: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor &amp; Tanedra Howard of &lt;I&gt;Saw VI&lt;/I&gt;</title>
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  <description>Saw VI plays out like a symphony of destruction.

It&#39;s the most twisted entry into the franchise yet and, as with all of the previous installments, there&#39;s a malevolently musical undercurrent to the film&#39;s madness.B 

However, the stars themselves have quite different iPod selections. Though </description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:04:44 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Saw VI plays out like a symphony of destruction.

It&#39;s the most twisted entry into the franchise yet and, as with all of the previous installments, there&#39;s a malevolently musical undercurrent to the film&#39;s madness.B 

However, the stars themselves have quite different iPod selections. Though </media:text>
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  <title>Interview: Flyleaf</title>
  <link>http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/interview-flyleaf/6222151</link>
  <description>Flyleaf&#39;s Lacey is not a rock star.

She&#39;s something much more important. 

In fact, Lacey&#39;s got the potential to be the voice for an entire generation. With poetic lyrics and powerful, poignant and passionate vocals, Lacey sings truth over each note that Flyleaf plays. Fans connect with every </description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:59:31 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Flyleaf&#39;s Lacey is not a rock star.

She&#39;s something much more important. 

In fact, Lacey&#39;s got the potential to be the voice for an entire generation. With poetic lyrics and powerful, poignant and passionate vocals, Lacey sings truth over each note that Flyleaf plays. Fans connect with every </media:text>
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  <title>Live Review: Stone Temple Pilots — San Manuel Casino, Highland, Ca</title>
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  <description>Sometimes, nothing needs to be said.  

That was the case last night when Stone Temple Pilots played the San Manuel Casino in Highland, CA. The typically talkative Scott Weiland didn&#39;t speak much between songs. In fact, the enigmatic frontman took on a Clint Eastwood posture, with his scruffy </description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:42:26 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Sometimes, nothing needs to be said.  

That was the case last night when Stone Temple Pilots played the San Manuel Casino in Highland, CA. The typically talkative Scott Weiland didn&#39;t speak much between songs. In fact, the enigmatic frontman took on a Clint Eastwood posture, with his scruffy </media:text>
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  <title>Playlist: Leighton Meester</title>
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  <description>Empire of the Sun, Tom Petty, Jay-Z</description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:33:27 PST</pubDate>
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  <media:text type="html">Empire of the Sun, Tom Petty, Jay-Z</media:text>
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  <title>Playlist: Leighton Meester</title>
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  <description>Empire of the Sun, Tom Petty, Jay-Z</description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:30:32 PST</pubDate>
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