KISS Announces North American ‘The Hottest Show On Earth Tour’

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Throughout their 37-year career, KISS (www.KISSonline.com) has sold 80 million albums, played in front of millions of people and become an integral part of American culture. Now, rock’s most iconic band is unleashing another assault on North America with The Hottest Show on Earth tour starting on July 23. KISS will perform such classics as “Detroit Rock City” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” as well as hits that they haven’t played in the US in many years.

The Hottest Show on Earth tour, produced by Live Nation, will trek through a mix of arenas and amphitheaters throughout North America. Tickets for shows produced by Live Nation go on sale to the general public in select markets beginning June 4 at LiveNation.com. Citi® cardmembers can access presale tickets beginning Wednesday, June 2 at 10 a.m. local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. KISS is also giving back to the United States Armed Forces by donating one dollar from each ticket sold to benefit the Wounded Warriors Project.

Bullet For My Valentine’s Fever Debuts at #1

Welsh rock band Bullet For My Valentine’s album Fever debuts this week at #1 on both the Rock and Alternative charts and #3 Billboard’s album chart. The highly anticipated 11-track record featuring the fuming single and video “Your Betrayal” was released on April 27 and is BFMV’s top selling debut to date, selling over 71,000 units in the first week, a 34% increase over BFMV previous 2008 release Scream Aim Fire.

The fever has spread across the globe where Fever has made its mark on international album charts, hitting #2 on Japan’s “international artist chart”, #2 in Austria, #3 in Germany, #4 in Switzerland and #5 in the United Kingdom and Australia!

USA Today calls Fever “The hot-zone of 2010 rock-metal discs,” while The Associated Press touts Fever’s “blistering drum attack, tight power chords and…old school-styled, soaring guitar solos” and the BBC raves that “BFMV are aiming for world domination, and with Fever they may well achieve it.”

Bullet For My Valentine is currently in the midst of a sold out national tour with support from Chiodos and Airbourne. Fans patiently await BFMV’s celebratory performance tonight at Cannery Ballroom in Nashville, TN and the band’s upcoming show at Ohio’s Rock On The Range May 23rd.

Download Bullet For My Valentine’s Fever on iTunes.

South Park Does Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face’

Hilarious!

The characters of South Park took on Lady GaGa’s hit single “Poker Face” while playing Rock Band.

Aerosmith is “Taking a Breather”

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Joe Perry gave Aerosmith fans a scare last week when he revealed that he and Steven Tyler haven’t spoken since the singer’s stage fall in South Dakota put the brakes on the band’s summer tour. Rumors of an inevitable breakup for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group quickly began circulating, but Perry calmed fans’ fears by telling the Boston Herald that he was disappointed by the tour’s sudden end, but doesn’t think this is the end of Aerosmith.

“Maybe we have three more records in us. Maybe we have five [and] seven years of touring,” Perry told the Herald. Perry added “Aerosmith is taking a breather” and that he hopes the band will reconvene in late spring to begin recording their next album and plot out a tour for next fall. Even though Perry and Tyler haven’t spoken in the last month and a half, Perry doesn’t see the radio silence lasting that much longer. “That day will come. Whether it’s him calling me or me calling him, it will happen,” Perry said.

Aerosmith might be “taking a breather,” but it’s only a short breath: Honolulu’s Star Bulletin reported yesterday that Aerosmith will perform a pair of concerts on October 18th and 20th in Maui as the result of a class action lawsuit decision from a Hawaii concert the band canceled two years ago. Plus, Aerosmith will head to the Middle East for a November 1st show at a Formula One race in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. “We’re getting our visas together and the papers drawn up and everything,” Perry said. “So as far as I’m concerned we’re doing these dates.”

Incase you missed Steve Tyler’s shocking fall in concert, watch the video below.

Arctic Monkeys Top U.K. Albums Chart

The English modern rock band’s third album “Humbug” (Domino) outsold the rest of the top five combined to debut at the top. Arctic Monkeys scored its third U.K. No. 1 album and Dizzee Rascal his third No. 1 single in the territory as the new charts were published Sunday by the Official Charts Company.

For the first time since his death, Michael Jackson surrendered the top spot on European Top 100 Albums, replaced by Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)” (Interscope/Universal). Pitbull’s “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)” (Ultra/B1) is in a sixth week at No. 1 on Eurochart Hot 100 Singles.