Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley are plotting an arena tour across the U.S. While dates have not been firmed up, the jaunt will take place from January through March. In other Gnarls news, the group is bulking up its St. Elsewhere debut as a CD-plus-DVD double-disc. The deluxe edition will have four videos, live tunes and a chunky 92-page booklet.

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KissOnline.com has announced the new KISS "Album Cover Art Lithograph" series, available exclusively at the band's official web site. Each limited edition lithograph measures 22" x 24" and features an original KISS album cover. The lithographs are hand-numbered and come with a corresponding hand numbered certificate of authenticity. Each release will be limited to 2,500 prints. The first two lithographs to be released are the "Dressed to Kill" and the "Alive!" album covers ( photo ) and are now available in the Kiss Shop . Other lithographs already approved include "Love Gun" , "Rock N Roll Over" and "Creatures of the Night" .

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Vocalist Tony Mills (ex- SHY ) of the Norwegian/British hard rockers, TNT has announced the following messages on the group's new album:

"Pre-production for the new album commences this week in Spain with the band and Norwegian producer H.P. Gundersen . H.P. has engineered and produced a wide catalogue of artists from Norway (and other territories) and is a very capable musician as well. Ronni [ Le Tekro , guitar] has great respect for H.P. and having worked with him previously, felt a natural affinity to continue that relationship into the new TNT project.

"Recording will continue later in the month at home in Oslo and it may be that we shall mix the album in Denmark in the New Year although a final decision on that is yet to be considered. I think it stands a good chance that Tommy Hansen will mix the album; we just aint got that far yet!!! As for direction of the album, I think it would be only fair for [the listeners] to make that decision [themselves] when [they] hear it, as we all have our own impressions of these things and my preconceptions could be very different from [theirs]. I hear a traditional TNT approach with a grandiose attitude about it all and a modern approach to the production. We all have to move with the times and dont forget one person's favourite will often be different from another's."

Mills joined TNT as the replacement for longtime singer Tony Harnell , who left the group in April.

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NocturnalEuphony.com recently conducted an interview with new SIRENIA vocalist Monika Pedersen. Partial interviews are followed:

Q: Tell us how you came to be the new vocalist for Sirenia?

Pedersen: "I was looking for a new band, because much was not happening with my old band, SINPHONIA. I saw on Sirenia's homepage that they were looking for a new singer and wrote Morten immediately with all the information he needed, and we wrote back and forth within a few weeks, and then I went for two auditions. We took pictures, recorded a bit and both Morten, the rest of the band and Nuclear Blast were happy about it, so I quit my job and moved to Norway."

Q: Were you a fan of Sirenia before joining? If so, how will it feel to sing the songs you used to admire?

Pedersen: "Actually not (laughs). I just knew a little about them before and I was working in a record store at that time, so I ordered all the CD's, and I liked them. I like a lot of different music also in that genre. Now I admire the songs, and it's lovely to sing them."

As previously reported Sirenia's new album, Nine Destinies And A Downfall, will be released in early 2007.

To read the entire interview go to this location .