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From the creator of Brain-Salad-Surgery.de - the exhaustive cybershrine to ELP’s masterwork - comes another tribute site, this time for Greg Lake’s I believe in Father Christmas. The website launches tomorrow (12/1) and can be found at:
www.i-believe-in-father-christmas.de

The good folks over at MVD Entertainment have announced the release of the following CD’s in the coming weeks:
Destroy All Monsters - Live In Tokyo
Live recordings of DAM performances in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, from 1996. This 17 track 72 minute CD contains early revamped DAM classics of “You Can’t Kill Kill” and “Evil Works” [...]

Dream Theater will be the Xbox LIVE Artist of the Month for December. Xbox 360 LIVE subscribers will have access to “exclusive performance, interview, and behind the scenes footage from Dream Theater’s recent tour”. Dream Theater will be playing over Xbox LIVE on December 5th in the Game with Fame program.
Learn more at: DreamTheater.net and/or [...]

Courtesy Vai.com
Steve Vai and MusicCares are giving you the chance to bid on a one hour private guitar lesson with Steve, with all procees being donated to the MusicCares Foundation.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from world-renowned, Grammy Award-winning guitarist, Steve Vai. From his early days with the legendary Frank Zappa to his 1985 [...]

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AllaboutJazz.com’s John Kelman has reviewed “Ewaz Vader”, the latest release from the French prog-art-fusion outfit One Shot. Formed back in 1999 by members of Magma, One Shot released its first, self-titled album the same year. The group ultimately continued, releasing the live Vendredi 13 (2001) and now Ewaz Vader.
Ewaz [...]

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No sleep for Nightwish. They began their European tour Wednesday night at Copenhagen’s KB Hallen. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert is shown above (courtesy of Blabbermouth & “Merlin2090″). Next, Nightwish will hold a signing session at Media Markt in Gothenburg, Sweden on Friday, November 30 beginning at 5:30 p.m. [...]

Recorded in New Jersey in 1995, this release will be the first time that this performance has been released on DVD although it was previously available as a VHS (unavailable for some time and is now a collectors item). As a bonus there is the promotional footage made to accompany Patricks debut solo album The [...]