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Dublin, Ireland based pop punk band Starters have announced that their debut EP, "Reasons To Stay" will be released on vinyl through City Of Gold Records on December 5.

San Diego punk rock supergroup Angels and Airwaves have announced a release date for their upcoming album. The band has also confirmed that their movie "LOVE" will be released on the same day - Valentines Day 2011.AVA will release their fourth studio album "Love: Part II" on February 14 next year, the follow-up to 2010's "Love" which was also released on Valentine's Day. Last week the Tom DeLonge-fronted outfit posted snippets of a new song to their Modlife page.Released on the same day, the film by the same name will be a science fiction movie driven by the music of Angels & Airwaves. The film is said to explore the fundamental human need for connection and the limitless power of hope. After losing contact with Earth, astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes...

My Chemical Romance have been announced to play before the NFL Pepsi Max International Series game at Webley Stadium in London on October 31st. The game, between the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos will be played in front of 85,000 fans.

Nevada goth rockers Escape The Fate are now streaming their new self-titled album. The band has uploaded the entire album to their myspace page.The follow-up to 2008's "The War Is Ours", Escape The Fate's third studio album is released tomorrow through DGC Records.

California indie pop group Hellogoodbye have made their rendition of The Misfits' "Halloween" available for streaming. Hellogoodbye obviously released the cover, which the influential horror punks released in 1981, to coincide with the holiday. The band are set to release their upcoming album "Would It Kill You", the group's second full-length since the popular 2006 release "Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!".

Jack's Mannequin have replaced ex-bassist Jon Sullivan, who left the band in September. Frontman Andrew McMahon announced Mikey "The Kid" Wagner as the new bass player for the group.

Slash has released the video for his new single 'Beautiful Dangerous' featuring Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas

Enduring Brazilian heavy metal outfit Sepultura have posted an online video, which captures the band recording their new album.

Renowned Swedish melodic death metal stalwarts In Flames have informed fans of the progress of their new album.

Rolling Stone magazine has employed the Prince of Darkness as their new resident agony aunt. The rocker of Black Sabbath fame hit the headlines earlier this year when he started offering medical advice to Sunday Times readers in the UK and now he's offering American fans the wisdom of his hellraising life in music magazine Rolling Stone's new Ask Dr. Ozzy column.

Iconic California record label Revelation Records is running a competition in which winners will receive limited edition Adidas. Ten pairs of the exclusive Rev Adidas Campus sneakers are on offer. The shoes were created to give to bands which recorded songs for the "Past Present" compilation and Rev employees. The new compilation features covers of classic songs from the Revelation back catalogue. The release features Terror, Set Your Goals, Sick Of It All, Bold, This Is Hell, Down To Nothing and others covering tracks from bands like Gorilla Biscuits, Youth Of Today, Chain Of Strength and Warzone. Revelation, along with the bands it put out in the late 1980s, is usually credited with creating and cementing the "youth crew" sound as well as early New York hardcore, which bridged the gap from the earlier bands of almost a decade before and helped carry the music through the early 1990s. To date, the label's best selling releases have been Gorilla Biscuits' "Start Today", Inside Out's...

Singer Shirley Manson has confirmed that Garbage will reunite for a new album. Manson reviled in a recent interview in Scotland that the band are currently working on new material and have recorded quite alot.