One of the Grateful Dead's legendary New Year's Eve shows in their hometown of San Francisco will be released on CD in January. Live At The Cow Palace, New Year's Eve, 1976 includes their entire 22-song performance spread across three CDs. Among the highlights on the album are cover versions of Chuck Berry's "Promised Land," Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," and the Rascals' smash "Good Lovin'," which was only the third time guitarist Bob Weir had done lead vocals on the song. Live At The Cow Palace comes out January 23rd.

In the spirit of the holiday season, the Dead organization will stream the entire show for free at dead.net on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day (December 31st and January 1st).

The tracklisting for Live At The Cow Palace, New Year's Eve, 1976 includes:

Disc 1

• PROMISED LAND
• BERTHA
• MAMA TRIED
• THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
• LOOKS LIKE RAIN
• DEAL
• PLAYING IN THE BAND

Disc 2

• SUGAR MAGNOLIA
• EYES OF THE WORLD
• WHARF RAT
• GOOD LOVIN'
• SAMSON & DELILAH
• SCARLET BEGONIAS

Disc 3

• AROUND AND AROUND
• HELP ON THE WAY
• SLIPKNOT!
• DRUMS
• NOT FADE AWAY
• MORNING DEW
• ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
• UNCLE JOHN'S BAND
• WE BID YOU GOODNIGHT

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BW&BK reported that French power metallers NIGHTMARE have started pre-production for their sixth studio album.

After three albums produced by Norwegian producer Terje Refsnes, the band have now opted for a new challenge. The recording will start May 7th 2007 at famous Fredman Studio in Sweden and the album will be produced by Fredrik Nordström (DIMMU BORGIR, IN FLAMES, HAMMERFALL, etc.).

Nightmare's follow-up to 2005's The Dominion Gate will be released by Sweden's Regain Records (www.regainrecords.com) in fall, 2007 followed by full European and US tours.

The band has also joined forces with international booking agent MDM Concerts in Germany in cooperation with Blue Steel Agency (www.mdm-konzerte.de).

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Ritchie Blackmore, ex-Deep Purple, and his current band, Blackmore's Night has announced that they they've got a holiday collection out now called Winter Carols. The album features all-new versions of seasonal favorites including "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Good King Wenceslas," and "We Three Kings."

Blackmore stated that the album was in the works for some time, and one of the hold-ups was determining when to actually release it: (Blackmore) "We started this about two years ago, I think, so it's been on the shelf for quite a time. Unfortunately, with these tunes, you can only release them at one particular time of year, so we kind of waited until the right moment. And we were gonna release it in the summer, to see what kind of reaction we would get, but we decided against that, right, Candy?" (Night) "Yeah, I don't think the summer would have worked for this kind of record (laughter)." .)

"Winter Carols" is available November 7 for USA and Canada, November 24 in Germany, November 27 rest of Europe, Japan and Australia.

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