Archive for March, 2009

North West Evening Mail (North-West Evening Mail)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

SHIPYARD workers were evacuated as firefighters battled a fire on Barrow’s second Astute class nuclear submarine last night. BAE began an investigation today into the fire on the £1bn submarine Ambush, which is not yet nuclear powered.

Suits Say Crane Company Was Warned About Fixes (New York Times)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Ten months before a deadly crane collapse on the East Side, a Chinese company doubted its ability to make repairs requested by the crane?s owner.

Final Four fever at Villanova (WPVI-TV Philadelphia)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

“Final Four fever” has overtaken the campus of Villanova University.

Music store survives in a download age (Sarnia Observer)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

TYLER KULA The Observer While declining sales are killing music stores across North America at least one Sarnia independent store is holding its own.[...]

STYX and REO Speedwagon Stars Will Crash Broadway’s ‘Rock of Ages’ (Playbill via Yahoo! News)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Rock stars Tommy Shaw from STYX and Kevin Cronin from REO Speedwagon will make their Broadway debuts April 27 when they perform their new single, “Can’t Stop Rockin’,” immediately following the evening performance of Rock of Ages, the new musical at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Green Day Album To Become Musical (MusicRooms)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ album is set to be turned into a musical. Mainly, I assume, because most things are turned into musicals at some point these days.

Behemoth Taps Colin Richardson For New Album Mix (KNAC.COM)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Behemoth has tapped Colin Richardson (Machine Head, Slipknot, Napalm Death, Carcass) to mix their new, as of yet untitled album due out late summer 2009. The CD is now being recorded in Radio Gdansk in Poland with BEHEMOTH, Daniel Bergstrand and Woytek, and Slawek Wieslawscy as producers.

STYX and REO Speedwagon Stars Will Crash Broadway’s Rock of Ages April 27 (Playbill)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Rock stars Tommy Shaw from STYX and Kevin Cronin from REO Speedwagon will make their Broadway debuts April 27 when they perform their new single, “Can’t Stop Rockin’,” immediately following the evening performance of Rock of Ages, the new musical at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

The Strokes On New Album (MusicRooms)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas has spoken to Rolling Stone about work on the band’s next album.

Panasonic To Demonstrate Next-Generation Cable Technologies With Live tru2way(TM) Cable Feed at 2009 Cable Show (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Top Box and Nation’s Only tru2way Plasma HDTVs Highlight Panasonic’s 2009 NCTA Exhibit