Godsmack at Kahlua Boston Music Awards

GODSMACK will be among the bands performing at the 13th Annual Kahlua Boston Music Awards, which will take place at Beantown's Orpheum Theater on April 13. Godsmack is nominated for Act of the Year, Outstanding Rock Band, and Video of the Year for "Keep Away," which also got singer SULLY ERNA a nomination for Outstanding Song/Songwriter. POWERMAN 5000 is also up for Outstanding Rock Band, Rising Star, Video of the Year and Single of the Year (both for "When Worlds Collide"). STAIND is nominated for major label Outstanding Debut Rock Band, Rising Star, Single of the Year ("Mudshovel"), and major label Debut Album of the Year (Dysfunction.) For a complete list of nominees, long on to www.nemoboston.com. ATELLO will be opening for Mike Tramp (former lead singer for WHITE LION) on Saturday, April 29th. They will hit the stage right before Mike, around 11:15 or so. Tickets will be available from all band members for $12...it's $15 at the club. The band is stressing that it's imperative to purchase your tickets from them, and they will go out of their way to get them to you. Also, there is a video clip of Atello performing "Emotional Blackmail" at the following website: http://zebox.com/showcase.html ... The quality BLOWS, but at least you can see Larry without a shirt on... *swoon* MELODICA, a project formed by Gerhard Pichler and has now fallen into place with Ted Poley (former Danger Danger vocalist) joining and the line up. For live shows the line up will expand to include Ted Poley, vocals; Gerhard Pichler, Guitar; Charlie Calv (Shotgun Symphony), keyboards; Joe Slattery (Norway), bass; Marty Brassington (Norway), drums. The guys have signed to Now & Then / Frontiers and a release will be pushed forward to a June release. Ted's acoustic CD will be out after that in the fall. He has also just finished work on 2 tracks with Al Pitrelli and Tommy Farese in the studio for a compilation CD for Japan. He covered TOTO's "Hold the Line" and FREE's "All right Now". Vocalist Paul Shortino (ROUGH CUTT, QUIET RIOT) and guitarist Jimmy Crespo (AEROSMITH, ROD STEWART) have entered MT Studios in North Hollywood to begin work on their new album, Sneak Preview. VH1 is running some of its most popular hard rock and metal-oriented episodes this weekend, starting tonight with the Legends segment on LED ZEPPELIN, narrated by STEVEN TYLER of AEROSMITH at 11:30 PM ET/PT, followed by AC/DC in concert at 12:30 AM ET/PT and the Aerosmith Video Timeline at 1:30 AM ET/PT. On Saturday afternoon, the Where Are They Now? epsisode Bad Boys Part II, including MÖTLEY CRÜE and POISON, airs at 2 PM ET/PT, followed by Behind the Music shows on ALICE COOPER at 3 PM ET/ET and Mötley Crüe at 4 PM ET/PT, KISS The Second Coming at 5 PM ET/PT, and a double shot of METALLICA at 10 PM ET/PT and 11 PM ET/PT with Behind the Music and the S&M concert. At midnight, Hard Rock Live presents BUCKCHERRY (along with BUSH), and on Sunday, there's the original WATN Bad Boys of Rock with DAVID LEE ROTH and BILLY IDOL at 1 PM ET/PT. Behind the Music segments on QUIET RIOT, TED NUGENT, THE BLACK CROWES, OZZY OSBOURNE, DEF LEPPARD, Poison, and Mötley Crüe run consecutively from 2 PM ET/PT through 9 PM ET/PT. Finally, a repeat of WATN Bad Boys Part II airs at 12:30 AM ET/PT. VAUGHN will hit the UK for some shows in April. They'll begin this run of shows with the Z Rock 2000 show in Wigan on April 30, the dates follow on as following: Mon. May 1 - The Cathouse, Glasgow Tues. May 2 - JB's, Dudley Wed. May 3 - The Underworld London Fri. May 5 - Club Rio, Bradford Sat. May 6 - Rock City, Nottingham Sun. May 7 - The Bierkeller, Bristol There have been some changes in the POISON's tour itinerary. Visit www.poisonweb.com for details. Reuters reports that the Spanish city of Madrid has named a street after AC/DC, who recently landed their "Stiff Upper Lip" in the "Billboard" top ten. The group's Malcolm and Angus Young were reported on hand as Madrid Mayor Jose Luis Perez unveiled a new street sign devoted to the band at a ceremony on Wednesday. The street is reportedly in the Legames area of Madrid, a section town well known to rock fans. AC/DC plans to build on its empire with a world tour behind "Stiff Upper Lip," but has yet to line up an itinerary. A spokesperson for the band's record label, Elektra Records, told MTV News that the group is currently working on lining up a tour that would likely see AC/DC hitting the U.S. this summer and that such an outing has yet to be confirmed. Elektra noted that details of an AC/DC tour most likely won't be available until mid-April.