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Airbourne Announce New Album and Upcoming Tour...

Australian rockers Airbourne are pleased to announce No Guts, No Glory as the title of their second album for Roadrunner Records. The album is set for release on February 23, 2010. No Guts, No Glory was recorded in Chicago with noted producer Johnny K (Disturbed, 3 Doors Down, Staind). The band relocated from their shared home in Warrnambool and moved into K’s spacious studio to record the album.

Frontman Joel O’Keefe says, “Working with Johnny was great, he's one of the boys. We basically just set up all the gear, chucked a few mics around and went for it! Good times!” Brother and drummer Ryan confirms the precarious microphone placement, “With this album, we threw the mics all over the building, left the doors and windows open and pressed record!"

Airbourne, known for their adrenalized, “work hard, play harder” style of rock, will embark on a two-month European tour in early February that will span two months and kick off with several UK dates. The band will commence US touring of major markets beginning in April. They will live on the road through the summer.

No Guts, No Glory follows up the band’s 2008-released debut, Runnin’ Wild, which went on to scan upwards of 250,000 units worldwide and earned the band heaps of critical accolades. Here’s a sampling of what the press had to say about Airbourne:

“Runnin' Wild, Airbourne's debut, is a smorgasboard of sledgehammer riffs, crass sex puns, and boozy sing-alongs.” –Spin

“The latest thunder from Down Under” –Billboard

“This fearsome Aussie foursome ...never stray from their ‘have a good time, all the time’ message.” --Revolver

“Airbourne are completely about having fun, sweating, drinking, and playing their hearts out until you collapse into a heap.” –Hit Parader

“Unabashedly fun and ballsy.” –ARTISTdirect.com

EA Sports Announces Game Soundracks

Our bands are gamers, our fans are gamers, and now our bands have even more music out there in the sports world.

MADDEN NFL 10

Killswitch Engage “Reckoning”

Airbourne “Heads Are Gonna Roll”

Slipknot “Duality”

NHL 10

CKY “Hellions on Parade”

Dragonforce “Heroes of Our Time”

Nickelback “Burn It To The Ground”

Megadeth “Peace Sells” (not a RR title)

Full press release and track listings are here.

NAME THAT BAND

Our buddies at The Gauntlet got together with us to create a name that band contest. It's simple, you listen to a short song snippet, enter your info including your guess as to the band, and you're entered to win a CD from that band if you're right. We will be doing this every week.

Click here to visit the first Name That Band contest. Hint: it's not Juliana Hatfield.

AIRBOURNE IN MADDEN 2010 TRAILER

Let's keep this short and sweet: You like video games. You like Airbourne. EA Sports' upcoming Madden 2010 is gonna kick ass and the new trailer features Airbourne's "Heads Are Gonna Roll." Watch it here.

AIRBOURNE FEATURED IN MADDEN 2010 TRAILER!

Head over to Spike.com to watch the world premier of the debut trailer for Madden 2010 featuring "Heads Are Gonna Roll" from Airbourne! CLICK HERE!

AIRBOURNE FEATURED ON MOVIE TRAILER!

Check out the movie trailer below featuring Airbourne's "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast!"

NEW AIRBOURNE PHOTO GALLERY!

Lillipop.com aggregated two photo galleries from Chicago, IL and Mt View, CA for your viewing pleasure!

You can check them both out HERE!

ROSE TATTOO FRONTMAN ANGRY ANDERSON ON AIRBOURNE!

In an interview with Dirty Rock Magazine, Angry Anderson of the legendary band Rose Tattoo had this to say when asked, "Any bands these days that carry on the Aussie rock traditions?"

"AIRBOURNE. They're carving it up. The last couple of years, after last year we toured most of the year because we were trying to break our latest album and after last year I said I don't want to do it anymore I'll give it away. But we did a summer run with them last year and it was a lot of fun then they went to America and we came home. I said, OK, we'll go back and do the summer run of festivals this year. So we went back and they were back in Europe for the summer run too and they were creamin' it. And they're just going from strength to strength which is really good. It's a good thing that in the last days, I mean, we've done 32 years as a band and you know, you'd like to think you could hand the flag to someone that's worthy of carrying it."

You can read the entire interview at DirtyRockMagazine.com!

WRESTLING, AUSTRALIANS...AWESOME!

MetalInjection.net posted their interview with Airbourne a little while back and forgot to tell us! In this video you'll hear about recording a theme song for the WWE, opening for the Rolling Stones, and, of course, BEER!

NEW SITE CHANGES!

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN MUSIC SPORTS AND GAMING?

AIRBOURNE KICK OFF THE LAUNCH OF MADDEN NFL 09, PERFORMING AT MADDENPALOOZA

Electronic Arts Inc. announces that Madden NFL 09 will celebrate its launch with Maddenpalooza, a music, sports and gaming fan festival hosted at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on August 11. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the award-winning Madden NFL franchise and the release of Madden NFL 09, Maddenpalooza will run from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. the day before the official August 12 launch date. The event will feature live musical performances by bands from past and current Madden NFL soundtracks, including our own AIRBOURNE. In addition to the music performances, Maddenpalooza attendees can enjoy a number of fan-friendly festivities including autograph signing stations with retired NFL legends, interactive NFL activities, 300 Xbox 360® gaming kiosks to play Madden NFL 09, and a Wal-mart pop-up store where customers can be among the first to purchase their copy of Madden NFL 09.

GO HERE for more on Maddenpalooza

STRIPPERS + JAGER = MAYHEM GALORE

Heff, Roadrunner's Stream Team extraordinaire, has been keeping us informed at Mayhem Festival where Slipknot, DragonForce, Machine Head, and Airbourne are performing.

Report # 2:

"For the past week we have been trekking through California and I have never felt more welcomed. Night after night, the crowd has been intense and ready to rock.

Take for example one lucky woman who jumped on stage and started to strip to Airbourne's anthem to women "Girls In Black". "We always encourage women to dance on stage, and feel free to loose their clothes. It's all about women and rock and roll," says Airbourne's guitarist David Roads.

The band was so appreciative they gave her a nice bottle of Jager.

If you don't think that is rock and roll enough take a look at lead singer Joel O'Keeffe who ran out into the crowd while playing his solo for "Cheap Wine".

This is one band you should not miss. How could you? They have everything: Hot women, booze and fucking rock and roll. Check here to see when they are playing in your city.

By the way, like the guitar Joel is using? Sign up for our Annual Assault Digital Sampler (which includes new and unreleased music from Slipknot, Dream Theater, Airbourne, Trivium, DragonForce Killswitch Engage and more) at the Roadrunner Records tent, and have a chance to win a Gibson SG autographed by Airbourne plus other prizes including upgraded PIT tickets for that night's show and a chance to meet DragonForce.

See you this weekend in Phoenix, Albuquerque and Denver!

--Heff--"

SUNDAY ROADRUNNER BLOG ROUNDUP

Corey Bayless over at Citizen Image got deep in the pit at the opening day of the Mayhem festival. Read about Slipknot, Airbourne, and DragonForce. (UPDATE: Seems to have fixed some of his factual errors.)

Speaking of DragonForce, www.thetanooki.com reports on the band opening a set on the festival in California with a certain video game theme song. Find out that DragonForce opener and tell The Tanooki if the band's ever played their own songs on Guitar Hero.

THE HEFF BLOG #1

What is up Mayhem fans?!

My name is Heff and I will be your official Roadrunner Mayhem guide throughout the tour. I come to you from Seattle, WA, where in just 2 days, we will see blistering performances from Machine Head, the drunken debauchery that is Airbourne, insane power riffs from DragonForce and the return of The Nine: Slipknot. Though besides watching these amazing bands play live, Roadrunner Records has a huge surprise for you.

How would you like to watch Slipknot's set from the pit or having a chance to meet the bands? What about hearing new & unreleased music from Slipknot, DragonForce, Killswitch Engage and Dream Theater? Well stop by the Roadrunner Records tent and sign and sign up for our sampler! While you are there, say hello and chill out for awhile.

Be sure to check back for future updates!

See you on the road,

--Heff--

Check out the gallery from Mayhem's first day on the Mayhem page.

DO YOU LIKE XBOX? DO YOU LIKE KICK ASS MUSIC?

EA CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF MADDEN MUSIC WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MADDEN NFL 09 SOUNDTRACK

Electronic Arts unveiled today the music track listing for Madden NFL 09, set to release August 12, 2008. The album will feature 26 songs from a multi-genre roster and is said to be one of the most influential soundtracks in videogame history.

Roadrunner band highlights: Airbourne returns with "Stand Up For Rock ‘N Roll" as well as Trivium with their first time on Madden with "Into The Mouth Of…We March"

Music from the Madden NFL 09 soundtrack will be available for preview soon on EA’s music website here.

WHAT'S NEW WITH CLEAR CHANNEL'S NEW!?

Clear Channel's July round of NEW! is now up and running.

Tons of Roadrunner band highlights:

Firstly...your favorite Australian hard rock band, Airbourne, has been selected as the Featured Artist for this month!

Next up we've got some Black Stone Cherry action on the "Artists To Watch" section at # 1 as well as Theory of a Deadman & The Parlor Mob who've held on to their spots in the feature's lineup as well.

Also, featured in the top 20 playlist are Theory of a Deadman at # 3, Airbourne at # 7 & The Parlor Mob at #9.

Can ya dig it?

EVER WONDER WHAT TOUR LIFE IS LIKE?

Get a behind the scenes look at life on tour with Theory of a Deadman and Airbourne! Cinemax covers both bands in their Tour Stories segment, and the insanity and hilarity are not to be missed. Hear Airbourne's thoughts on southern women and drinking games then Theory of a Deadman's take on Gwar. Check them out here:

Theory of a Deadman Tour Stories

Airbourne Tour Stories

NARDWUAR INTERVIEWS AIRBOURNE!

Celebrity Inteviewer and musician, Narduwar (http://www.narduwar.com) did an interview with Airbourne while they were on tour in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A preview of this interview will air today at 5pm EST on MuchMusic's MuchOnDemand.

AIRBOURNE ON LIVEMETAL.NET

Joel O'keeffe from Airbourne checked in with Live-Metal.net's Greg Maki to discuss his band's sound and influences, the new album, future goals and more. Read it.

Along with this great interview are some killer photos taken at the Recher Theatre in Towson, MD on March 26th. Check 'em out here.

Become a Fan of Airbourne on Facebook!

ROADRUNNER BANDS REVIEWED AT VAMPIREFREAKS

DeathWish at VampireFreaks.com has given us three straight 10 reviews of three killer Roadrunner bands. Check 'em out below.

Cavalera Conspiracy (out 3/25)

Cradle of Filth (OUT NOW)

Airbourne (OUT NOW)