Due to concerns regarding vocalist Ivan Moody’s throat, Five Finger Death Punch has cancelled all live performances through March 7th. Ivan has developed calluses on his vocal chords that, if left untreated, could lead to permanent damage. As a preventative measure, he has been advised by doctors to take 2 months of vocal rest and work on rehabilitating his vocal chords. All are confident that Ivan will make a full recovery and be back in top form in plenty of time for FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH’s slot on the ROCKSTAR MAYHEM tour with SLIPKNOT and DISTURBED this Summer.

The band offers sincere regrets to fans in the markets that they will not be playing, and promise to make all efforts to get to those cities during one of their many upcoming outings. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH will miss their entire planned outing with CHIMAIRA and ALL THAT REMAINS in February and March and their upcoming headline dates in January.

Fans who have already purchased tickets to these FFDP headlining dates can contact their local box office in the next coming weeks about rescheduled dates and/or refunds. The whole band thanks fans for their continued support of their album – THE WAY OF THE FIST (Firm Music) – and their single “The Bleeding.” The single is climbing the Active Rock charts and the album has defied convention with small, if any, drops in weekly sales since the album’s debut.

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Take Action! Volume 7 continues Hopeless/Sub City’s belief in offering fans the best value for the lowest price possible and this year’s release does not disappoint. The annual charity compilation is bigger and better than ever featuring 20 tracks and 20 music videos on DVD. Consisting of the best bands in alternative, punk, indie, hardcore, and metal music, the compilation will sell for a staggeringly low suggested retail price of $6.98.

Artists on this year’s compilation include tour headliners Every Time I Die, as well as Silverstein, Chiodos, From First to Last, Emery, Motion City Soundtrack, All Time Low, Cute Is What We Aim For, Valencia, Meg and Dia, Thrice, The Bled, and many more. Music videos on the DVD include Plain White T’s, All American Rejects, and Hellogoodbye among several others.

Released in conjunction with the start of the 2008 Take Action! Tour Presented by Hot Topic, a yearly jaunt featuring the best new rock artists, this year’s edition features Every Time I Die, From First To Last, The Bled, August Burns Red, and The Human Abstract. The six-week tour launches February 14 inDetroit and wraps up March 23 in New York City. Tickets for the entire tour are on-sale now.

The Take Action! Tour and CD will benefit non-profit organization Do Something, a group that gives young people the opportunity to personally help change the world, by donating 10% of all ticket sales and 5% of the suggested retail price for each Take Action! Volume 7 compilation sold. Putting their money where their mouth is, Do Something distributes weekly $500 grants to young people with an idea about how to make a difference in their community. In 2007 alone, the site issued over $240,000 to young people who are making changes in communities around the globe. Last year Do Something reached over 10 million young people, age 25 and under, and helped them take action themselves.

Hot Topic, the music lifestyle mall retailer (hottopic.com), is once again the title sponsor of the tour. Hot Topic is a natural fit, as they demonstrate a passion for music in everything they do. Since the inception of Take Action! in 1999 Hot Topic has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Take Action! cause, helping to educate millions of people to make a difference. Additional generous sponsors and partners of the 2008 tour are: tour producer Live Nation, MySpace, Purevolume, Alternative Press, Absolutepunk.net, and Fanscape.

• 2/14/08 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall
• 2/15/08 Milwaukee, WI - The Eagles Club (The Rave)
• 2/16/08 St. Paul, MN - Station 4
• 2/17/08 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
• 2/19/08 Kansas City, MO - The Beaumont Club
• 2/20/08 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theater
• 2/21/08 Magna, UT The Great Salt Air
• 2/22/08 Boise, ID The Big Easy Concert House
• 2/23/08 Spokane, WA The Big Easy Concert House
• 2/24/08 Seattle, WA El Corazon
• 2/25/08 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
• 2/27/08 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
• 2/28/08 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
• 2/29/08 San Diego, CA House of Blues
• 3/01/08 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
• 3/02/08 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
• 3/03/08 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
• 3/05/08 Dallas, TX - House of Blues
• 3/06/08 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
• 3/07/08 McAllen, TX Cine El Rey Theatre
• 3/08/08 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit
• 3/11/08 Port St. Lucie, FL - Mojo Room
• 3/12/08 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Landing
• 3/13/08 Atlanta, GA Masquerade * New Date
• 3/14/08 Charlotte, NC Tremont Music Hall
• 3/15/08 Norfolk, VA Norva
• 3/16/08 Baltimore, MD Ram's Head Live!
• 3/19/08 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre
• 3/20/08 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights
• 3/21/08 Worcester, MA - The Palladium
• 3/22/08 Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore at the TLA
• 3/23/08 New York, NY The Fillmore at Irving Plaza

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Breakout alt-rockers Yellowcard will release a digital live album, entitled Live From Las Vegas At the Palms, exclusively though the iTunes Store beginning January 22nd, 2008. Recorded in October at Las Vegas’ renowned Palms Casino Resort’s intimate Pearl Concert Theater, where the farthest seating is just 120 feet from the stage, the album captures the Jacksonville, FL, quartet’s fiery blend of rock, punk, and classical at its most explosive best.

"We were honored to record Live From Las Vegas At the Palms for iTunes and we’re really proud of the record," said frontman Ryan Key.

Live From Las Vegas features five tracks from Yellowcard’s current album Paper Walls (which debuted at Number 13 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, as well as at Number 3 on iTunes’ album chart), including the lead-off single "Light Up the Sky." The live album also features Yellowcard’s previous singles "Way Away," "Ocean Avenue," and "Only One," from the band’s double-platinum 2003 Capitol Records’ debut Ocean Avenue, as well as "Lights and Sounds" and "Rough Landing, Holly," from their 2006 gold album Lights and Sounds.

Yellowcard, which is vocalist/guitarist Ryan Key, violinist/vocalist Sean Mackin, guitarist Ryan Mendez, and drummer Longineu "LP" Parsons III, have been on the road since the July release of Paper Walls, including a summer stint on the 2007 Vans Warped Tour, a winter tour supporting Linkin Park in Japan and recently played for U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf as part of a USO (United Service Organizations) entertainment tour. On March 7th they will launch a headlining tour of the U.S. with support from MxPx, Play Radio Play, and Treaty of Paris. Yellowcard will perform an acoustic set with the other bands performing plugged-in.

Anyone who purchases Live From Las Vegas at the Palms in its first week of release (from January 22nd to January 28th) will also receive a code for Ticketmaster enabling the purchase of up to four tickets for the tour on January 30th before they go on sale to the public on February 2nd.

For more on Yellowcard, please visit their official website: www.yellowcardrock.com or www.myspace.com/yellowcard.

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