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Channing Tatum is taking “Step Up” on the road.

Tatum’s production company Free Association is launching a new division called Fa Live, which will focus on creating, producing and distributing live entertainment. The first project will be a high-concept dance show inspired by “Step Up,” the hit dance franchise that spawned five feature films and a TV series.

Similar to the interconnected style of movies, reality TV and live entertainment that Tatum and crew built around “Magic Mike,” Fa Live will seek to extend big and small stories and experiences through their in-person events.

Tatum and Reid Carolin, who recently co-directed the surprise box office winner “Dog,” will serve as chief creative officers. Free Association principal Peter Kiernan will lead Fa Live as CEO. Vincent Marini, who is current “Magic Mike Live” worldwide executive producer, has been tapped as COO and president of production. “Magic Mike” franchise choreographers Alison Faulk...

Channing Tatum’s production company Free Association is starting a new division, Fa Live, which will focus exclusively on creating, producing and distributing live entertainment.

Fa Live’s first project will be teaming with Lionsgate on a high concept dance show inspired by the studio’s global dance franchise Step Up, which spanned five movies grossing over $650M WW and a hit streaming series, Step Up: Highwater, now in its third season on Starz.

The announcement comes in the wake of multiple versions of the Magic Mike Live show and Tatum’s sleeper success, Dog, which he stars in and co-directed.

Free Association principal, Peter Kiernan, will lead Fa Live as CEO with Tatum and Reid Carolin serving as Chief Creative Officers. Current Magic Mike Live Worldwide Executive Producer Vincent Marini has been tapped as COO/President of Production. Magic Mike franchise choreographers Alison Faulk and Luke Broadlick will serve...

Channing Tatum is getting back to his dance roots with plans to launch a live stage show inspired by his 2006 dance musical film “Step Up.”

Tatum’s production company Free Association will launch new division Fa Live, which will create, produce and distribute live entertainment. The “Step Up” show, on which Fa Live will partner with Lionsgate, will be the first project for the new branch of the company and is targeting a debut in mid-2023.

The “Step Up” show will also recruit choreographers from the “Magic Mike” franchise Alison Faulk and Luke Broadlick as directors of dance. The new live show will be similar to the “Magic Mike Live” performances and aim to extend the story of the film series, and the show will also be performed in an immersive, custom-built venue.

The live show will also include a new dance academy, which will provide young people of all...

Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum hard rock innovators Korn will unveil their 11th studio album, The Paradigm Shift, in stores and via digital retailers on October 1, 2013 on Prospect Park. The Paradigm Shift marks the emotional return of co-founding guitarist Brian "Head" Welch for his first album with Korn since 2003's Take a Look in the Mirror, and it serves as the follow-up to the band.s 2011 critically acclaimed trend-setting dubstep metal hybrid, The Path of Totality, which debuted Top 10 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and was named Revolver Magazine's "Album of the Year." The Paradigm Shift is also Korn.s first time working with super producer Don Gilmore [Linkin Park.s The Hybrid Theory, etc.] who recorded the album with...

Late last month, we rolled out tons of cool details about the long-awaited sixth studio album Dark Adrenaline from Italy's chartbusting gothic rockers Lacuna Coil. Now the band has made the album's first single "Trip the Darkness" available to hear online. The single also features some wicked cool cover artwork, which you can check out after the jump, along with the song itself. Take a look and a listen... Dark Adrenaline, the follow-up to the band's successful 2009 release Shallow Life, was helmed by famous producer Don Gilmore, whose studio credits include albums by Bullet For My Valentine, Linkin Park and Good Charlotte. The band assures that the new project will deliver a "melodic, sensual, metallic...

World-famous gothic rock unit Lacuna Coil have posted a new statement on their official site, announcing the confirmed North American release date for their hotly anticipated (and slightly postponed) sixth studio album Dark Adrenaline. The update also included a full rundown on the record, including the complete track listing, as well as details about the album's first single "Trip the Darkness," which is scheduled to premiere next month. We've got all that and more below the fold, so read on! Dark Adrenaline, the follow-up to the band's successful 2009 release Shallow Life, was helmed by famous producer Don Gilmore, whose studio credits include albums by Bullet For My Valentine, Linkin Park and Good...

Lacuna Coil has just announced they they’ll be releasing their sixth studio album, ‘Dark Adrenaline,’ on January 24, 2012. The album was produced by Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Bullet for My Valentine) and its first single, ‘Trip the Darkness,’ will impact on Active Rock radio next month. Lacuna Coil will tour North America in support of ‘Dark Adrenaline’ around the album’s release. Co-vocalist Cristina Scabbia comments, “As some of you know, the release for ‘Dark Adrenaline’ was postponed a bit… and this made me even more nervous because I had to wait even more to spit it out! I am so thrilled I can finally say something about this album...

Enter for your chance to win a trip to party with Escape the Fate at the infamous Crazy Girls strip club in Los Angeles on 11/3. One winner will win roundtrip airfare for two to Los Angeles, hotel accomodations and VIP access to Escape The Fate’s album release party at the infamous Crazy Girls strip club. Think you can handle a night of pure debauchery and mayhem? Click Here to enter. Escape the Fate will be releasing their scorching new self-titled album on November 2nd, produced by Don Gilmore (Rob Zombie, Bullet for my Valentine), the album features the single “Issues” and their first release on Dgc/Interscope Records, [...]...

Joel and Benji Madden recorded, scrapped, then re-recorded their heartfelt project.

By James Montgomery, with reporting by Matt Elias

Good Charlotte's Joel and Benji Madden

Photo: MTV News

Good Charlotte have spent the past 18 months prepping Cardiology, their fifth studio album. The band wrote and recorded an entire album's worth of material, then, unhappy with the results, decided to scrap the project entirely and start over again from scratch with a new producer at the helm. Needless to say, it's been a bit of a struggle. The kind of thing that adds years — and, in this case, family members — to people's lives.

"I started this record with one child; now I have two," smiled frontman Joel Madden, who got engaged to longtime girlfriend Nicole Richie in February.. "And now, the record is like my third child."

The process began with producer Howard Benson, famous for his work with acts...

Rockers Good Charlotte have scrapped their new album, and returned to the studio to record it again. Guitarist Benji Madden made the tough decision to wipe the disc after returning from a tour of Australia and listening to the new tracks for the first time - because he was unhappy with the way it sounded.

The band has now traveled to Vancouver, Canada to start recording "Cardiology" again, with producer Don Gilmore. In a message posted on Good Charlotte's website, Madden explains, "When we got back from the last trip to Australia, we had pretty much finished recording the record. I went into the studio to hear some roughs and it just wasn't right."

"I couldn't figure it out. I was so lost. I love the songs, I love the lyrics, so what was the problem. I was just so bewildered. Devastated actually. This had never happened. I felt crazy.

Lacuna Coil are gearing up to release new studio album "Shallow Life" across America on April 21. Prior to the album's release, they have debuted "Spellbound", the first single off the record, during 2009 Australian Soundwave Festival in February. A month later, a music video for the song was premiered.

Commenting on what the new album is all about, vocalist Cristina Scabbia says it "is [about] a natural metamorphosis from within the band." She continues, "We explored different musical territories while maintaining our own style. A mix of old and new, fast and slow and light and dark."

"The album production is incredibly powerful and has a beautiful purity to it. Hopefully listeners will feel the same sort of connection that we have to these songs. 'Shallow Life' has forced us to challenge ourselves. It represents the way we see ourselves in the days we live in through truth, love and lies."

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A music video aimed to promote Lacuna Coil's new single "Spellbound" has been released. Newly premiered on ArtistDirect, the video was directed by Saku and filmed at the Dolce & Gabbana Gold restaurant in Milan, Italy.

The location provides perfect atmosphere to express "Shallow Life" theme they want to bring in the video. Everything is really shiny and "bling bling" while the band perform in the middle of a golden room full of mirrors and giant chandeliers.

"We had a great time shooting the video for 'Spellbound' and it also marks our first time working with acclaimed Italian director Saku in a location that's really peculiar," so vocalist Cristina Scabbia comments on the video. "It was filmed in a very fashionable place: the restaurant 'Gold' located in Milan, Italy, which owned by the fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana, who kindly gave us the permission to film over there!"

"Spellbound" is lifted from...

There's something beautifully haunting in the opening moments of "I Survive", the intro track on Lacuna Coil's latest offering, Shallow Life. With a spooky melody that recalls the theme from Rosemary's Baby, my ears perked up just in time for the double-bass assault and heavy riffage. Sadly, it's almost all downhill from there.

The Italian band's fifth studio album (out April 21st on Century Media Records), picks up where 2006's Karmacode left off, continuing their rapid movement away from Gothic metal and straight toward pop-stardom, all while losing most of the heaviness that the band previously maintained. While much of the 43-minute, 12-track set is unmemorable, the band does deliver with the fourth cut, "I'm Not Afraid", which should've been the album's first single as opposed to "Spellbound."

The dueling vocals of Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro become grating very quickly, making you wish that Scabbia fronted the band by herself.

Hollywood Undead can’t be pigeonholed into one genre, and that’s the last thing they’d want. A group of guys from the streets of Hollywood, California that bring everything to the table i hip-hop, rock and metal -masterfully creating a style and sound that’s uniquely their own. Deuce, Johnny 3 Tears, J-Dog, Charlie Scene, Funny Man and Da Kurlzz are set to drop a musical bomb with their forthcoming debut album on A&M/Octone. The album, with songs produced by Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), Don Gilmore (Linkin Park) and Deuce, includes album opener “Undead,” which sets the tone, firing off a big melody and buoyant beats while track “No. 5″ dissects the frivolities of Hollywood with witty, catchy choruses and “Los Angeles” [...]...