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PIERCE THE VEIL & BILLBOARD.COM GIVE FANS A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT “BULLS IN THE BRONX”

1Pierce The Veil has teamed up with Billboard.com to offer fans an exclusive “behind-the-scenes” look at their recent video shoot for their red-hot single  “Bulls In The Bronx.”  With ¾ of a million views in only a week, the band is once again on pace for viral gold with their latest video.

Watch the “behind-the-scenes” video for “Bulls In The Bronx” now, exclusively at Billboard.com: http://bit.ly/17ZDFWm
Beginning today, fans will have the rare opportunity to go behind the cameras at Pierce The Veil’s recent video shoot for “Bulls In The Bronx.”  Watch as director Drew Russ and Pierce The Veil take you step-by-step through the storyline and process of shooting the new video.
“Our new video features a beautiful Latin girl doing some flashy and seductive Spanish dancing, a valiant matador, an angry bull, and the 4 of us smashed in the middle of all of the spiciness,” singer/guitarist Vic Fuentes tells Billboard.com.  “We honestly had more fun making this video than anything we’ve ever done. We were able to create an idea and watch it come to life literally before our eyes. It was a similar feeling to when we started hearing our new album come together. The excitement and payoff is indescribable and we hope everyone enjoys it. “
In other Pierce The Veil news, the band recently came off a sold out U.S. “Spring Fever Tour” with co-headliners All Time Low in support of their latest album, Collide With The Sky, which has now sold a whopping 120,000 copies.  The band is now headed to the UK for a month of sold out headline dates, and then will tour South America and Mexico in July.
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Guy Gives Abercrombie & Fitch A Brand Readjustment By Giving Their Clothes To The Homeless

o-ABERCROMBIE-AND-FITCH-NEW-MODELS-facebookIn response to Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries not wanting “not so cool” kids or women who wear size large to wear his company’s clothes, Greg Karber has come up with a funny and creative way to readjust the Abercrombie & Fitch brand.

He’s giving their clothes to the homeless.
After scouring his local thrift shop’s “douchebag section,” Karber heads to LA’s Skid Row to dole out the clothes among the homeless population. Watch the stunt and find out how you can be involved in one man’s troll-job on a company with some pretty unflattering business practices in the video above.
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NXNE Interactive || Inspiring Ideas From Visionary Speakers, Including Mick Ebling / Keith Harris / Jared Ficklin

1NORTH BY NORTHEAST (NXNE) announces presenters and panels for the fourth and strongest year yet of NXNE Interactive (NXNEi) including philanthropist Mick Ebling, Black Eyed Peas drummer Keith Harris and SXSW Interactive Opening Party architect Jared Ficklin. The unforgettable solo talks and vibrant panels of NXNEi will animate the Hyatt Regency Toronto June 12-14, 2013. Tickets are now available online at www.nxne.com/tickets.

NXNEi will feature a roster of inspiring speakers, unforgettable presentations and invaluable panels focusing on practical business strategies and creative marketing and advertising.  NXNEi brings the world’s best business visionaries, bright minds and creative leaders to discuss the latest innovations in media, technology and culture.

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Night Moves Perform My Old Kentucky Blog Session || Announce Summer Headline Tour And Father John Misty Support Dates

1Night Moves is John Pelant (guitars/vocals), Micky Alfano (bass) and Mark Ritsema (multi-instrumentalist) and will be joined by drummer Jared Isabella for the tour, who also joined them on recent tours with Lord HuronDjango Django and Polica. The band has been named “Best New Band” by Minneapolis City Pages and received praise from the likes of NPR MusicSPINBullettMagnet,Minneapolis Star Tribune and more. They’ve also been getting steady airplay on public radio’s most esteemed stations including KCRW (Los Angeles),KEXP (Seattle), The Current (Minneapolis) andWXPN (Philadelphia).

Watch Night Moves Perform My Old Kentucky Blog Session!!!

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DANKO JONES Is Invading Your TV! Rock N’ Roll’s Most Notorious Frontman Scheduled to Make Guest Appearance on THAT METAL SHOW on June 15, 2013

1DANKO JONES is invading your TV on June 15, 2013! Podcast host and frontman DANKO JONES is scheduled to appear as a “surprise” guest on the June 15th episode of VH1 Classic’s THAT METAL SHOW. Danko will hop in for a quick Skype visit during the episode, which also features special guests Sebastian Bach and Rex Brown. For more information, visit the THAT METAL SHOW website at this location. Last week, DANKO JONES posted the new music video for the track ‘I Believed in God’ on their YouTube page, starring Zelda Williams (daughter of Robin Williams) and Jason Trost (featured in the ‘Full of Regret’ and ‘I Think Bad Thoughts’ videos and writer / director / star of movies like The FP and Vs) in a love story… of sorts. Check out the video here, directed by the Diamond Bros with photography direction by Kenny Stoff and Jessica Young (Dave Grohl’s Sound City): http://youtu.be/iLjwYpyGDZI. For a behind the scenes look on the shoot, check out the clip below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC2vZdRW5Mk Want more DANKO JONES? Tune into this week’s exclusive podcast featuring special guest Rob Caggiano (Volbeat) now at this location.   Recently, DANKO JONES announced that the band will be performing as part of this year’s Rockstar Energy UPROAR Festival!  Together with Alice In Chains, Jane’s Addiction, Coheed And Cambria, Circa Survive, Walking Papers, Middle Class Rut, New Politics and The Chuck Shaffer Picture Show, they will travel North America to rock stadiums and amphitheaters alike from August 13th and on. Tickets for most Rockstar Energy UPROAR Festival shows go on sale Thursday, April 25th at Noon local time and are affordably priced between $10.25 and $89.75 (plus fees).   JUST ANNOUNCED - The Rockstar Energy UPROAR Festival is celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a limited time $15 lawn ticket promotion. TheUPROAR Cinco de Mayo $15 Lawn Ticket Weekend kicks off Friday, May 3rd at noon local time and continues through Monday, May 6th at noon local time at www.RockstarUPROAR.com and www.LiveNation.com. There are no fees or service charges for these special $15 tickets. The STARRED DATES below are participating markets.   Starting on the east coast and ending on the west, Danko will miss the first three shows due to festival commitments in Europe and will join up in Saratoga, NY for a run of 20 shows. Go to www.RockstarUPROAR.com  and www.LiveNation.com for full details and to purchase tickets.   DANKO JONES on the 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival:   * = Participating in Cinco de Mayo $15 Lawn Ticket Weekend Aug 13th – Saratoga, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center * Aug 14th – Mansfield, MA – Comcast Center* Aug 16th – Bristow, VA (D.C.) – Jiffy Lube Live* Aug 17th – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center* Aug 18th – Wantagh, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Theater* Aug 20th – Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre* Aug 22nd – Tinley Park, IL (Chicago) – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre* Aug 23rd – Noblesville, IN (Indianapolis) – Klipsch Music Center* Aug 24th – Clarkston, MI (Detroit) – DTE Energy Music Theater* Aug 27th – Oklahoma City, OK – Zoo Amphitheater Aug 28th – Dallax, TX – Gexa Energy Pavilion* Aug 31st – Albuquerque, TX – Isleta Amphitheatre Sep 1st – Denver, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre Sep 2nd – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre* Sep 5th – Nampa, ID – Idaho Center Amphitheatre Sep 8th – Ridgefield, WA (Portland, OR) – Sleep Country Amphitheater Sep 11th – San Francisco, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre* Sep 13th – Phoenix, AZ – Desert Sky Pavilion Sep 14th – Chula Vista, CA (San Diego) – Sleep Train Amphitheatre* Sep 15th – Irvine, CA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater*   Following their hugely successful run supporting Volbeat, this will be the biggest tour of North America ever for the band and comes on the back of heavy radio rotation for ‘Just A Beautiful Day’. The lead single off their album Rock And Roll Is Black And Blue peaked at a career high #26 on the Active Rock chart in the US and a new single will be serviced to radio shortly.     Stay tuned for more news coming from DANKO JONES soon and keep up with his podcasts at www.dankojones.com .   Make sure to keep up with DANKO JONES online: www.dankojones.com www.facebook.com/dankojones www.twitter.com/dankojones http://instagram.com/danko_jones

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IWRESTLEDABEARONCE RECORDING THEIR THIRD FULL-LENGTH ALBUM

u34n_courtney2smallExperimental-heavy-rockers IWRESTLEDABEARONCE have announced they’re almost finished with tracking their forthcoming, third studio album, which is due out later this year.

Currently held-up in their band-compound/recording studio in Los Angeles, IWABO are pushing themselves musically like never before.  While known for their schizophrenic sound and unconventional song structure, IWABO is approaching their next record with a new focus and a determination to deliver an album that will surprise fans and entirely re-define who they are as a band.

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Drowners Sign To Frenchkiss Records || Announce Dates With The Vaccines + Brooklyn Bowl Show || Vogue Magazine Band Of Week, Look Out For New LP This Fall

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New York City’s Drowners formed in early 2012 when singer/guitarist Matt Hitt sent some demos he’d written to guitarist Jack Ridley and bassist Erik Snyder, friends he’d met in bars downtown. Drummer Lakis Pavlou joined a few months later and the band began playing shows regularly around the Lower East Side.

They released a 7″ in February in the UK called Between Us Girls.

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