The Big Four: Sonisphere Festival – Warsaw, Poland – June 16th, 2010.

For those who rocks knows that there is a bigger news than the iPhone 4; The Big Four of Metal will be together for the first time in history in Warsaw, Poland.

June 16th, 2010 will be a historic day for music. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax are sharing the stage together.

http://pl.sonispherefestivals.com/

Megadeth Setlist:

  • Holy Wars
  • Hangar 18
  • Take No Prisoners
  • Five Magics
  • Poison Was the Cure
  • Lucretia
  • Tornado of Souls
  • Dawn Patrol
  • Rust in Peace… Polaris
  • Head Crusher
  • Sweating Bullets
  • Symphony Of Destruction
  • Peace Sells

On June 22nd, 2010 – The Big Four show will be broadcasted live to select movie theaters.
http://www.thebigfourlive.com/

http://www.thebig4sofia.com/

Iron Maiden: “The Final Frontier” details and free song download.

Monday June 7th, 2010 was full of announcements and mostly from Apple with its iPhone 4. At the same time I remembered that Iron Maiden, the legendary Heavy Metal band also had an announcement.

Iron Maiden 15th studio album “The Final Frontier” is scheduled for release Monday August 16th, 2010.

THE FINAL FRONTIER

  1. Satellite 15….The Final Frontier    8:40
  2. El Dorado      6:49
  3. Mother Of Mercy    5:20
  4. Coming Home    5:52
  5. The Alchemist     4:29
  6. Isle Of Avalon    9:06
  7. Starblind    7:48
  8. The Talisman    9:03
  9. The Man Who Would Be King    8:28
  10. When The Wild Wind Blows     10:59

Iron Maiden have made special arrangements for one new album track ‘EL DORADO’ to be made available Worldwide as a FREE digital download MP3. Click here for the free download, as long as you’re not from The U.S.A. because U.S. fans have their own special link.

Iron Maiden will be kicking off THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR with special hippie guest Dream Theater on June 9th, 2010. Check the tour schedule here.

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http://www.ironmaiden.com/

http://www.dreamtheater.net/

Need to tune your Guitar? Gibson has an App for that.

There are times when I need to de-tune my guitar down to Q and I had no tuner handy. Thanks to Gibson for their iPhone App that includes tuner and metronome.

Partial description:

FEATURES:

  • A professional quality Chromatic Tuner that will allow you to tune any instrument using the iPhone microphone (or iPod Touch with microphone attachment)
  • Alternate Tuning settings so you can quickly and easily tune your guitar to various alternate tunings, including Open G, Low C, Drop D, Eb and others.
  • A Standard Mode Tuner that allows you to tune each string to a sample tone
  • An accurate Metronome with multiple time signatures, visual and audio options, and a set-your-own tempo tap pad
  • A Chord Library with a sample of the essential chords for every player beginner to advanced

Did I forget to mention that it’s free?

Still, there’s no instruction to downtune to Q.