94XPOSED MONDAY JULY 12TH

Dan Murphy – The Soul Asylum guitarist is 48.

SOUL ASYLUM - RUNAWAY TRAIN
PEARL JAM - AMONGST THE WAVES

Rockers Pearl Jam stunned fans at a Portuguese music festival on Sunday by declaring the concert would be their "last in a long time". The Alive hitmakers were performing at the Optimus Alive festival in Lisbon over the weekend when frontman Eddie Vedder left devotees shocked and confused when he announced the band was going on an indefinite hiatus - without giving any further explanation. Reading in Portuguese from a piece of paper, Vedder told the audience, "Thank you for coming to our last show. Not our last ever, but our last in a long time."

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Evans Blue's have announced the release of their new self-titled album on July 27th, 2010. Evans Blue's new album was recorded with producer Trevor Kustiak, who has worked on all of the group's previous records. The album has already generated massive airplay on Sirius XM's OCTANE channel with the track "Sick Of it", which has become one of the most requested tracks on the station and was ranked #2 overall for 2009.

EVANS BLUE - ERASE MY SCARS
PANTERA - COWBOYS FROM HELL

The 20th Anniversary edition of PANTERA's Cowboys From Hell will be in stores September 14th.  Three different versions will be available:
- 2 CD expanded edition,
- 3 CD deluxe edition (includes one unreleased demo track, 'The Will To Survive')
- 3 CD deluxe box set (includes one unreleased demo track, 'The Will To Survive')  More details coming soon...  Originally released on July 24th, 1990 via Atco Records, Cowboys From Hell was produced, engineered and mixed by Terry Date. Just shy of a year after its release on July 16th, 1991, Cowboys From Hell was certified Platinum in The US for sales reaching the 1,000,000 mark. On the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, Cowboys From Hell peaked at #27.

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Jonathan Melvoin
December 6, 1961 – July 12, 1996
Jonathan Melvoin was a keyboard player who worked with such artists as the Dickies, Prince, Wendy & Lisa, and the Smashing Pumpkins. The “Wendy” of Wendy & Lisa was in fact, his sister, Wendy Melvoin. In late 1995, Melvoin joined up with Smashing Pumpkins to lend his talent while on the road to support their brilliant Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album, but previous incidents with heroin cut his tenure short when the band fired him. It was while he was finishing up that leg of the tour that Melvoin overdosed on heroin in his hotel room. It has been reported that then-Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin was in the room with him and tried to revive him after calling 911. His efforts failed and Jonathan Melvoin died on July 12, 1996 at the age of 34. His death reportedly inspired a few songs, including Sarah McLachlan’s hit, “Angel.”

SMASHING PUMPKINS - BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS