The album is set to be released on May 4, 2010, meanwhile the band has released the first official single from the album titled “Cryin’ Like a Bitch” which has been receiving radio play at 92 rock stations and has fared quite well. We reported that “Cryin’ Like a Bitch” had been receiving raidio play well before it’s scheduled release date, despite only being released to 92 stations, “Cryin’ Like a Bitch” peaked at #8 on the mainstream rock chart, while the previous single “Whiskey Hangover” – which was released in 2009 before ‘crue fest’ tour" – topped out at #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

“We’ve got some INSIDE news to share with YOU! The Oracle is only a little over two months away from its May 4 release and we’ve received the final track listing.”

The track listing as stated on the bands official website:

Cryin Like A Bitch!!
Saints And Sinners
War And Peace
Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
What If?
Devils Swing
Good Day To Die
Forever Shamed
Shadow Of A Soul
The Oracle

Godsmack’s management was not immediately available for comment as to whether the band had dropped “Whiskey Hangover” from the album.

In addition, the band also revealed the official art work for the single “Cryin’ Like a Bitch” on their web site.

“Diamond Eyes” was originally scheduled to be released on April 27, 2010 but was pushed back three weeks to May 18, 2010 through Warner Bros. Records/Reprise Records. On Tuesday, February 23, 2010 the band released the first single from “Diamond Eyes” as a free download on their official web site, the single titled “Rocket Skates”.

While “Rocket Skates” will not be receiving radio play its known that the first radio single will be the title track, "Diamond Eyes," and will be released for airplay on March 30, 2010.

Commenting on song writing, Moreno stated:

“ I don’t like listening to people’s problems — I like music. Music has been smothered with that complaining since the early-’90s. It gets old. Instead of going to the opposite side of the spectrum and listening to Black Eyed Peas, which is just straight silly, I choose to listen to more instrumental music. I do very little singing about myself on this record. I love songs where I can totally take myself out of being human. I can sing about really odd things, and they don’t necessarily have to pertain to me at all. It paints a picture. Those are the kind of lyrics I grew up with — like The Cure. Really visual images and no storytelling.”

Deftones wanted to make an optimistic record, as opposed to the dark and angry album they just finished. “Diamond Eyes” was recorded in two months with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Stone Sour). Deftones avoided using Pro Tools on the album in favor of writing songs together as a band and practicing them "a million times ’til they were perfect" in order to achieve a more raw and "personable" sound.

Overall the album is expected to include a total of 11 tracks including “Rocket Skates”, Nylons and Suspenders”, and “Diamond Eyes”. The entire albums track list is not currently available.

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After a two year hiatus to “recharge their batteries” and a tour with Motley Crue on their “Crue Fest 2” tour late last year, the band entered the studio in September of 2009 and worked on a new album.

The American heavy metal band from Lawrence, Massachusetts chose to work with producer Dave Fortman who has worked with bands such as Superjoint Ritual, Mudvayne, Otep and Simple Plan, as well as on both of Evanescence’s multi-platinum selling albums, The Open Door and Fallen.

In an interview, Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin described the albums sound is much more like the band’s self-titled album stating that: “It’s going to be a monster. The drums sound incredible, Sully’s [Erna] voice is on fire…it’s gonna be much more like the first record; much heavier, with simple, catchy guitar-driven riffs. We’re working with Dave Fortman who I was lucky enough to play with in UGLY KID JOE and who has done production for Slipknot and Mudvayne, to name a few. He and Sully are co-producing the record and they make a great team.”

On January 15, 2010, Godsmack joined forces with Rockpit.com to promote the album. Rockpit.com will contain exclusive clips directed by DanCatullo, updated weekly. Rockpit.com has created a series of 15 webisodes for Godsmack fans describing the process, rituals and methodology of making an album.

When Dan Catullo was asked about the idea behind documenting them making The Oracle, he stated that:

“We felt that over the course of 10 years of me filming the band we have done it all; the stadium show, the small initmate acoustic performance, the arena show and the mini-movie. The only thing we haven’t done was document the recording of a record. Quite frankly it was the only thing left to do with them that wouldn’t be repeating history!"

The first single off of this album is called "Crying Like A Bitch". The song is already receiving radio play, yesterday 95.1 Wiil Rock (pronounced Will Rock) a rock station out of Kenosha, Wisconsin played the new single every hour. In a tweet on the bands official twitter (Godsmack_Music)  the band stated today “get ready to start requesting #cryinglikeabitch at all local rock stations by godsmack end of the week ”(sic). If you’re a Godsmack fan, get ready, its coming to your local radio station this week and make sure you call, text, or email you’re favorite rock stations DJ and tell them to play “Crying Like A Bitch” from Godsmack.

In addition, the band has also set an official release date for the album, “The Oracle” will be released on Thursday, March 4, 2010 and will be available for purchase from all retail outlets.

The track listing for "The Oracle" is as follows:

1. "Whiskey Hangover"
2. "What If?"
3. "War & Peace"
4. "Good Day to Die"
5. "Forever Shamed"
6. "The Oracle (Instrumental)"
7. "Crying Like A Bitch"
8. "Blame You"
9. "Saints & Sinners"
10. "Love-Hate"
11. "Shadow of a Soul"
12. "Devil’s Swing"

NOTE: Track listings are not in order and most of them are just working titles.

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"It’s getting close to time to previewing a new song for all of you. Keep an eye out this week and next for a new song that we will post for everyone that has been waiting. We wanted to release a preview to the hardcore fans that have been with us, and give you a taste of what’s to come. Still putting together the final touches, but the second the song is ready we’ll have it up for all to hear. We want you to have something fresh to listen to to gear up for the new tour coming in February."

Today the band held true to their promise and delivered “Forever Dead” as an early preview of what’s to come on their upcoming album “Cold Day Memory”. “Forever Dead” is a perfect resemblance of their previous albums and I for one and really digging the track. While the band released “Forever Dead” today, Sevendust is planning to release the first official single titled “Unraveling”, according to Hard Drive’s Lou Brutus the single should be released soon.

“Cold Day Memory” will feature 12 tracks in total, the track listing is as below:

1. Splinter
2. Forever Dead
3. Unraveling
4. Last Breath
5. Karma
6. Ride Insane
7. Confessions (Without Faith)
8. Nowhere
9. Here and Now
10. The End Is Coming
11. Better Place
12. Strong Arm Broken

NOTE: track order subject to change when album is mastered.

For your listening pleasure, “Forever Dead” by Sevendust (Microsoft Silverlight is required):

We want to give you all a chance to experience the album in the best possible way, this time we’ve partnered with Radical Web Designs and we are using Microsoft Silverlight technology and streaming the album in 5.1 surround. If you have a 5.1 or 7.1 speaker setup you will experience the best possible sound.

Creed recently finished up their “Reunion tour” and are now planning a world wide tour starting sometime in 2010 in support of “Full Circle”. You may be wondering how long we are planning on streaming “Full Circle” for, well the answer is from October 28, 2009 through November 4, 2009.

The track listing for “Full Circle” is as follows:

1. "Overcome" 3:47
2. "Bread of Shame" 3:56
3. "A Thousand Faces" 4:54
4. "Suddenly" 3:31
5. "Rain" 3:27
6. "Away in Silence" 4:40
7. "Fear" 4:05
8. "On My Sleeve" 4:14
9. "Full Circle" 4:08
10. "Time" 5:55
11. "Good Fight" 3:55
12. "The Song You Sing" 4:08
13. "Silent Teacher" [iTunes pre-order bonus track] 3:44

Have a listen, leave a comment and tell us what you think about “Full Circle” and you may even be quoted in our review.

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The new soundtrack titled “NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack – Volume 2” will feature exclusive and unreleased tracks from some of today’s top artists. The soundtrack will be released in stores on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 and is available for pre-order through Amazon. The soundtrack will feature a song written by Micheal Weatherly who plays “Special Agent Tony DiNozzo” on NCIS. The track listing for NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack Volume 2 is as follows:

1. "California"   California 3:04
2. "That’s What I Said"   Norah Jones 2:42
3. "Every Time I Turn Around"   Joss Stone 4:24
4. "That Time Of Year"   Sick Puppies 3:51
5. "Genie In My Dreams"   Sharon Little 3:25
6. "Someday The Rains Will Fall"   John Mellencamp 4:33
7. "Murder In My Heart"   Sheryl Crow 3:31
8. "Grim Reaper"   Keaton Simons 2:58
9. "I’ve Got Dreams To Remember"   Otis Redding 3:35
10. "Bitter And Blue"   Michael Weatherly 3:51
11. "Move Slow"   Saosin 3:09
12. "The Elements"   Tom Lehrer 1:23

To coincide with the album’s release date, the November 3rd episode of NCIS will prominently feature Bob Dylan’s “California” – a never-before-released track that originally dates from the Bringing It All Back Home sessions and has remained locked in the vaults until now.  “California” has been newly mixed and mastered and is a true gem from one of music’s greatest artists.  The remaining tracks will be placed in NCIS episodes throughout the current season, which ends in May 2010.

On April 27, 2009, the band announced their reunion  and had plans to release a new album. The band is currently on tour in support of their new album titled “Full Circle”, which will be released on October 20, 2009. According to Mark Tremonti, "We’re all very excited to reconnect with our fans and each other after six long years."

The band has been on tour since August 6, 2009 and plan to conclude the reunion tour October 14, 2009 with their highly anticipated new album “Full Circle” being released a few days later. The first single from “Full Circle” will impact radio on August 19, 2009 (two days from now) with a digital release scheduled for August 25, 2009. “Overcome” will be their first single in seven years for their upcoming 2009 album.

Creed will be streaming “Overcome” on their website this coming Wednesday, August 19, 2009.

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The track began streaming at 8pm Eastern Time on Breaking Benjamin’s MySpace website and has received nearly 73,000 plays since it’s release Tuesday night. Shortly afterward, the song began appearing on YouTube, the popular video sharing website from various users of the service. After listening to “I Will Not Bow” for the first time, I took a minute to digest it and immediately played it again, from the very first listen it felt very strong. The band sticks to it’s roots with “I Will Not Bow” and take their unique sound to the next level.

“I Will Not Bow” should see similar positions on the US Mainstream Rock charts as “So Cold” and “Breath” when they were released in 2004 and 2007 respectively. With the release of the film “Surrogates” coming to theaters a couple of days after “Dear Agony” hits the street, that should help boost requests for “I Will Not Bow” as it is a feature track on the films soundtrack. Overall, “I Will Not Bow” is a great song, and I look forward to hearing it on my local rock station next week, I know I will text, call or email my request to have it played. “I Will Not Bow” should be one of the most popular songs from the bands upcoming album, but if it’s any indication as to what the rest of the album sounds like, we may just be in for surprise.

Benjamin Burnley’s vocals are really great, he maintains his previous sound from past Breaking Benjamin albums and that’s alright with me.

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The band has worked with famed producer Rick Rubin and toured the globe extensively with such bands as Slipknot, Slayer, Mudvayne and System of a Down.  Citing singer Cameron Heacock’s “inability to continue on a musical career path,” as to the choice of disbanding.

“This is not the kind of news I enjoy being the bearer of, but we’ve been ready and waiting for input from Cameron for almost two years; we’ve written and recorded two albums worth of material in that time.” says co-founder and bassist Chad Hanks. “At this point, he no longer gives being in this band any sort of top priority, which is so sad seeing as how he has such an amazing and unique voice; I couldn’t wait to hear it on these songs.”

The band has said they are going to change their name and start the search for a new vocalist, and if you’re interested in auditioning to send your EPK’s and demos to NewVocalist2009@gmail.com.

“However, we’re looking forward to some new blood; a young, hungry soul that doesn’t sound like anyone else and is ready to work his a** off. We’re more than eager to get back to the mines. This is what we do.”

This will be a recurring editorial, so please check back for updates and get all the latest "TV Chatter". In this part of the editorial, we will talk about "SCRUBS" and "NCIS: LOS ANGELES".

It seems like just yesterday that TV’s "finale week" has just ended, of course, that was just over a month ago and now the TV networks are announcing or have announced their respective upcoming fall schedules and new shows.

Over recent weeks, there has been a lot of chatter around the final season of "Scrubs", the hit-comedy (starring: Zach Braff, John C. McGinley, and Donald Faison) which originally broadcast on NBC, although last season was broadcast on ABC. On June 19, 2009, it was announced that the reformatted ninth season of Scrubs would "shift from the hospital to the classroom and make med-school professors of John C. McGinley’s Dr. Cox and Donald Faison’s Turk." According to Lawrence, the ninth season will "be a lot like Paper Chase as a comedy," with Cox’s and Turk’s students occasionally rotating through the halls of Sacred Heart and encountering former series regulars. McGinley and Faison will be joined by "a quartet of newbies (most of them playing students)" as full-time regulars, while one of the freshmen "will be fairly famous."

Scrubs will be back for Season 9, on ABC and will be broadcast Tuesdays at 9:00pm/8 CST, however, we cannot confirm the official start of the new season, only to say that it will begin in "late 2009" and run through "early 2010".

There are a lot of changes coming to CBS this year, the network has added six (6) new shows to it’s fall lineup. One of the highly rated and certainly most talked about is the addition of the NCIS spin-off "NCIS: Los Angeles". The NCIS producer Shane Brennen hinted at the new spin-off late last year during the 6th season of NCIS with a two-part introduction to the new cast members of the then known as "NCIS: Legend". In case you missed the introductory episodes for NCIS: Los Angeles, you can watch them both by visiting these links: "NCIS: Legend Part 1" and "NCIS: Legend Part 2".

NCIS: Los Angeles Synopsis
NCIS: LOS ANGELES is a drama about the high stakes world of undercover surveillance at the Office of Special Projects (OSP), a division of NCIS that is charged with apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals that pose a threat to the nation’s security. By assuming false identities and utilizing the most advanced technology, this team of highly trained agents goes deep undercover, putting their lives on the line in the field to bring down their targets. Special Agent "G" Callen (Chris O’Donnell) is a chameleon who transforms himself into whomever he needs to be to infiltrate the criminal underworld.

You can find out more about NCIS: LOS ANGELES by visiting CBS’ NCIS: LOS ANGELES website, but before you do that, take an exclusive look behind the scenes and meet the cast of NCIS: LOS ANGELES. Be sure to mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 22, 2009 and catch the original NCIS at 7pm CST and then stay tuned right after for the premiere of NCIS: LOS ANGELES at 8pm CST.

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This is an edited version of this article, please see the original “TV Chatter: Scrubs and NCIS: Los Angeles” and view a sneak peek at NCIS: Los Angeles.