REPO! Road Tour 3 attendees, prepare for a surprise…In the spirit of the holidays, Lionsgate is gifting REPO! Road Tour attendees with great savings! Upon arrival to the theater the night of your local REPO! Road Tour engagement, a coupon giving fans $2 off their purchase of REPO! The Genetic Opera on DVD and Blu-Ray will be available. Pick up your coupon and pick up your copy of REPO: The Genetic Opera in stores nationwide January 20.
For further information and links to buy tickets, check out www.reporoadtour.com.
REPO! ROAD TOUR 3 dates:
World renowned tattoo artist Paul Booth has teamed up with MusicSkins.com to bring fans tons of new ways to personalize their cell phones, laptops, iPods, Guitar Hero and Rock Band guitars, and more! Select pieces of Booth’s frightening and provocative artwork are now available as removable vinyl decals for a huge number of personal devices! Check out http://darkimages.com/merchandise/music-skins.html for Paul’s entire MusicSkins collection.
La Coka Nostra Signs With Suburban Noize Records and Announces Bring Tha Noize Tour With Kottonmouth Kings; Debut Album "A Brand You Can Trust" In Stores Early 2009
La Coka Nostra Consists of Everlast, DannyBoy, DJ Lethal, Ill Bill, Slaine and Big Left
What better way to get into the holiday spirit than with a GWAR show??? Ok, if that isn't your thing, you may have enjoyed the "Not So Silent Night" show sponsored by 102.1 The X last night at Toad's Place in Richmond. The show featured Safety Suit, Anberlin, and Saving Abel as the headliners.
Photos are on the way from the GWAR show at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night 12-14 and from the Saving Abel show last night, so check back soon for those.
For all the Richmond fans of GWAR, don't forget the EXTRA special New Year's Eve show at The National!!!
By Leila Cobo, Miami
Gibson Guitar's new Dark Fire guitar is being produced in limited quantities of 2,000. It goes to retail today (Dec. 15).
The guitar features second generation Robot technology, expanding on the Robot guitar Gibson introduced in 2007, which, among other things, allows the guitar to automatically tune itself in less than a second.
The new model, which features the classic Les Paul form, also features Chameleon Tone Technology, which allows for multiple tone possibilities, computer hardware and software and an Internet community site.
By Lars Brandle, Brisbane
The Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) has forged a two-year deal with Jagermeister, which sees the drinks brand partner on the trade body's weekly and monthly sales charts.
Through the new agreement, the Suntory-distributed beverage will serve as headline sponsor of the AIR Charts until 2010. AIR says it is the only independent recording association to strike a charts deal of this kind.
Associated Press
Organizers of a military benefit concert in New York say Aretha Franklin missed an award presentation but showed up for the main event hours later.
The Queen of Soul was a no-show when she was to receive the Torch of Freedom Award on Sunday in Times Square. The award was given by the Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmen's Club.
A spokesman for the concert organizers says Franklin went on as scheduled later at the Nokia Theatre. She performed "New York, New York," a medley of military tunes and her classic "Respect."
Reuters
Apple Inc witnessed flat year-over-year overall sales in the United States for its Macs in November, while sales of rival Microsoft Corp's Windows PCs were up 7%, according to research firm NPD Group Inc, which tracks retail sales.
Sales of desktops were down 20% overall, with Windows desktops sales falling 15% and Macs down 38%.
Apple's notebook sales, however, were up 22% in November, while Windows sales rose 15%.
Reuters
Cable operator Virgin Media became the first Internet provider to roll out a mass-market super-fast broadband service in Britain, launching a 50 megabits per second offering.
The average broadband speed in Britain is between 4 and 5 MB.
Virgin said the new service, which had been heavily trailed, would be almost nine times the average headline U.K. speed and cost £51 ($77.73) per month on a standalone basis, or £35 ($53.35) a month when taken with an £11 ($16.77) phone line.
Virgin customers with other services such as TV would also benefit from package discounts.
By Reuters
The basics:
* EPS 35 cents vs. estimate 24 cents
* Revenue up 16 percent
* Buyout offered to corporate staff
* Store openings to be reduced next year
* Shares up 15.5 percent
Best Buy Co. reported better-than expected quarterly results on Tuesday and plans to offer buyouts and trim back store openings as consumers cut spending, sending shares up nearly 16 percent.
