With the addition of Black Earth, Monkey Mark, Oo Is An Instrument, Moemlin and Sewn Leather & Dj Dog Dick, the Incubate festival now has over 220 artists confirmed. Now that also the film program has been filled in, the sixth edition of Incubate is complete.

Incubate is the annual celebration of independent culture in Tilburg, The Netherlands. It is a festival exhibiting a diverse view on independent culture as a whole, including music, debate, film and visual arts. The festival presents more than 200 cutting edge artists in an intimate context to an international audience. Black metal next to free jazz. Refreshing art next to inspiring debate.

Incubate takes place from the 12th until the 19th of September 2010 in the city of Tilburg and its surroundings. From a bar to a nature theatre. From pop venue to museum. For more information visit the website www.incubate.org. Day tickets and passepartouts for Incubate 2010 are for sale through the website of Incubate. Prices range from 10 euros for a day ticket and 45 euros for a passepartout for the whole week.

Check our tourdates page for Incubate flyers and list of artists performing at this years festival.

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‘Blood O.D.’, a brand new song from the reunited Swedish death/thrash metal act The Crown, is available for streaming on the band’s MySpace page. The track comes off the group’s new album, ”Doomsday King”, which is scheduled for release on September 27 via Century Media Records.

The band was founded in 1990 in Trollhättan under the name Crown Of Thorns but was forced to change their name to The Crown in 1998 due to a band from the US using that name.

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Again there are some great shows coming up in Tilburg, The Netherlands. This friday Steve von Till and Harvestman play at the Bat Cave (club at the 013 venue), in August Slapshot and the mighty Nine Pound Hammer visit  the 013 venue in Tilburg. Go check them out!

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Reunited ’80s metal legends Sanctuary, which features in its ranks current Nevermore frontman Warrel Dane, will perform at the September 19 ”Thrash Domination 2010″ event at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Japan. Also scheduled to appear are Exodus, Overkill, Outrage and Agent Steel.

Dane recently announced that Sanctuary will record a new studio album. “[I've] been talking with Lenny [Rutledge, former Sanctuary guitarist],” Dane explained. “We are really good friends again and it feels good.” He adds, “I missed my relationship with him for many years.”

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Reprise Records will release a 6 track EP from Mastodon from the film’s original motion picture score Jonah Hex on June 29th, 2010.

Jonah Hex features an original score by Reprise recording artists Mastodon and Oscar®-nominated composer Mario Beltrami (The Hurt Locker, 3:10 to Yuma). Mastodon were asked to create the score personally by the film’s director, Jimmy Hayward who was inspired by repeated listenings of Mastodon’s 2006 album Blood Mountain.

Find out more at www.mastodonrocks.com

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Austin, TX:  A new release from Lost Art Records captures the legendary singer-songwriter Blaze Foley on his earliest known recordings.  Simple, straightforward and strong, “Sittin’ by the Road” contains a dozen tracks recorded during Blaze’s “tree house” days in Georgia.

The 12 tracks featured on “Sittin’ by the Road” were recorded by Blaze in the mid-1970s on the home reel-to-reel machine he carried with him on his travels between Texas and rural Georgia. These songs showcase Blaze’s talent in early form. The CD includes a number of Blaze’s songs that are now considered his classics. Sittin’ also boasts three Foley songs that do not appear on any of his previous recordings; ‘The Way You Smile’, ‘Fat Boy’, and the title track.

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Spaced-out Vancouver riff-rockers Black Mountain have spent much of the time since releasing their last album, 2008′s “In the Future”, concentrating on side projects like Pink Mountaintops and Lightning Dust. But this summer, the main band roars back into action. Jagjaguwar will release “Wilderness Heart”, their new album, on September 14 in the U.S. and a day earlier in the UK and Europe.

Here you can stream ‘Old Fangs’, the album’s chugging first single. If you head over to this site and cough up an email address, the download is yours for free.

The band will spend their entire summer and some of their fall touring through North America and Europe, check the dates below.

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Hank III is releasing his new record (and LAST on Curb Records) called “Rebel Within” on May 25th. Check out the brand new song ’Drinkin’ Ain’t Hard To Do’ on www.myspace.com/hank3

Nashville native Hank Williams III has built his musical brand around hard-hitting songs, an ornery Hellbilly attitude and a do-it-yourself ethos, as he wrote 10 of the album’s 11 original tracks, did the vocals, played drums and the acoustic rhythm guitar parts.  And he recorded and produced the album at his home studio.  “I don’t like being told what to do, and I don’t need to be told what my record should sound like,” says Hank.  “I got that covered.”

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Agent Steel have issued the following update: “As some of you may or may not have already heard the news that Agent Steel has parted ways with vocalist Bruce Hall. We as a band would like to acknowledge the accomplishments together with Bruce and the three solid metal offerings; “Omega Conspiracy”, “Order Of The Illuminati” and “Alienigma”. Together we had the fortune of touring and sharing the stage in some amazing places and visited some breathtaking countries. Bruce dedicated over a decade to Agent Steel and for this he should be recognized, and we part on good terms.”

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Austin, Texas technical metal godfathers Watchtower have released a preliminary mix of a song from their upcoming album ”Mathematics”, now streaming exclusively on their MySpace page. The track features the line-up from the legendary ”Control and Resistance” album, with Alan Tecchio (vocals) joining Ron Jarzombek (guitar), Doug Keyser (bass), and Rick Colaluca (drums) on this special release of ”The Size of Matter”.

Engineered and mixed by Ron Jarzombek, with vocals mixed by Jon “Jonny Rod” Ciorciari and mastering done by Jacob Hansen, ”The Size of Matter” marks the band’s first new piece of original music since 1989′s ”Control and Resistance”.

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