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Travis Barker has his hand in so many different projects right now it will be a wonder if any of them actually see the light of day. The drummer, who has promised a solo record in September as well as a new Blink-182 disc in the coming year, has now announced via Twitter that he’s recording drums for a new Transplants album.

Transplants, which also features frightening former roadie Rob Aston, as well as Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, broke up in 2006. However, now it seems that was merely a hiatus. Earlier this year Barker Tweeted that the band was still alive and would be releasing new music in 2010. “Get ready for new TRAN$PLANT$ music #In2010,” he Tweeted.

This obviously leads us to the timely question: Who uses the dollar sign as a letter the best— Ke$ha or Tran$plant$?

The Guitar is usually a musical instrument usually considered for the reason that soul of music. It utilized in virtually all types of genre of music which includes classical, rock, metal, pop, reggae and several far more. The typical guitar has six strings, but now a days they come with four (referred to as the bass guitar), seven, eight string form and far more. Guitars can be classified into: Acoustic, Electrical, Classical, Steel sort and Hollow-body. Apparatus are accessible for both, right-handed and left-handed players.

Kinds of guitar obtainable are Electric, Classical, Hollow- Body and Steel forms.

From the late 1930s, electrical guitars were launched and have been a revolution for actively playing. From the time of its invention, quite a few forms of electrics guitars in a variety of size and shapes are actually offered.
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Music is my close friend because it always accompanies me when I am sad as well as happy. I do not favor certain music because I like every genre I am listening, but of course, I will match the genre with the environment of my heart. I will listen to pop music or slow rock music when I need peace of mind and heart. When I am sad, I will listen to hard rock music to elevate the negative ions from my body and mind, where most people like listening to sad music when they are sad. I am sure Read the rest of this entry »

Lilith Fair is a travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group’s Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and it is entirely dedicated to women because it consists solely of female solo artists and female-led bands that perform for a female audience. The fest took place for only three years, from 1997 to 1999. But in an April 25, 2009 Nettwerk founder Terry McBride has twitted confirming thus that Lilith Fair will be relaunched in 2010. A two-week tour in Britain and Europe has been announced, yet details are still unknown.

Fortunately, the North America tour has been announced. The full list of the 2010 Lilith tour dates has been announced, including all 36 cities that the Live Nation produced festival Read the rest of this entry »

Over the weekend, Slash flew to Las Vegas to take part in PokerStars.net’s North American Poker Tour Celebrity Charity Tournament. On the plane to Sin City though, he ran into Scott Weiland, who was in Velvet Revolver with Slash until acrimoniously leaving the group. The guitarist spoke to us about the reunion.

“After we got off, the plane landed, it was cool. It was nice to see him, we talked for a minute, we walked through the airport together. It was the first time we talked since the last show of the tour.”

Slash went on to say that things were great between him and the Stone Temple Pilots singer.

“It was really cool and STP has a new record about to come out and I was really excited about it. It’s just, I don’t know, now that we’re not sort of at odds with each other in the band I have no issues.”

As for the poker tournament, Slash, who was at a table with Christian Slater, Marlon Wayans, UFC fighter Tito Ortiz and World Series of Poker winner Chris Moneymaker, didn’t win. Check out pictures from the event at NAPT.com.