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Issue 81 (The Summer Set Cover) - June 2014

Interviews with The Summer Set, Halestorm, Chevelle, Delain, Lit, Toseland, Reachback, Lacey, Twister, My Favourite Runner Up & Everybody Looks Famous. Reviews of Jon Bon Jovi in Mexico, Richie Sambora, Within Temptation, Slam Dunk Midlands. 'A (Musical) Note From...' - by Mitchel Emms (MisterNothing), album reviews and more.

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Issue 80 (MisterNothing Cover) - Black Velvet's 20 year anniversary issue

Interviews with MisterNothing (featuring Mitchel Emms), Within Temptation (Sharon den Adel), Less Than Jake (Chris Demakes), Taking Back Sunday (Adam Lazzara and John Nolan), Brandon Boyd/Sons Of The Sea, We Are The In Crowd (Jordan Eckes & Mike Ferri), Tom Keifer, Room 94, Decade (Joe Marriner), Rat Attack, Jet Pack, Will Black. Concert reviews of All Time Low, Steel Panther, Taking Back Sunday, Mayday Parade, We Are The In Crowd, Reel Big Fish/Less Than Jake, Octane Ok and Taking Hayley. Our 20 year anniversary look back - read about our highlights and awesome times. 'A (Musical) Note From...' - by Drew Comley (Octane Ok), album reviews and more.

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Issue 79 (Goo Goo Dolls Cover)

Interviews with Goo Goo Dolls, Skillet, Sleeping With Sirens, Tonight Alive, We Are The Ocean, Dregen, Fearless Vampire Killers, Taking Hayley, MisterNothing (featuring Mitchel Emms), Mary Has A Gun, BlueGem, Dance! No Thanks & Cartographer. Bon Jovi in Australia - tour report. Concert reviews including Goo Goo Dolls, Sleeping With Sirens, Steel Panther, Nickelback, Bowling For Soup, Tonight Alive, Madina Lake, Joseph Whelan/MisterNothing.

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Issue 78 (Tonight Alive Cover)

Interviews with Tonight Alive, Alter Bridge, Deaf Havana, John Waite, Conditions, Stars In Stereo, Avion Roe, Mitchel Emms / MisterNothing, Car Party & Rescue Kid (Rescue Kid’s Guide To West Palm Beach). Concert reviews including Bon Jovi, Flyleaf, MisterNothing and Octane Ok, column by Skarlett Riot, Booking agent Drew Masters is featured in BV CV plus album and single reviews and more.

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Issue 77 (The Rocket Summer Cover)

Interviews with Bryce Avary/The Rocket Summer, Erik Chandler (Bowling For Soup), Filter (Jonny Radtke), We Are The In Crowd, Keri Kelli, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus & Tantrum To Blind, Fearless Vampire Killers, Octane Ok, Rescue Kid and Soraia, Redditch's Morton Stanley Festival Band Night Report and Judgestock Saturday Report. Bret Michaels rocks NYC, column by Stewart Mac, Sapphira Chattan of Spirit Models is featured in BV CV plus album and single reviews and more.

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Issue 76 (Anberlin Cover)

Interviews with Anberlin, Goo Goo Dolls, Stone Sour, Flyleaf, Drowning Pool, Don Broco, Wednesday 13, Taking Hayley, Phil X & The Drills, The Dead Famous, Blitz Kids, Badwolf and Crown Jewel Defense, My Chemical Romance 2 page live photo collage, concert reviews of Bon Jovi, All Time Low, We The Kings, column by James Kennedy of Kyshera, Adam of Jumbo Records is featured in BV CV plus album and single reviews and more.

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Issue 75 (Evanescence Cover)

Interviews with Evanescence (Amy Lee), Shinedown, Serj Tankian, Halestorm, Tremonti, Buckcherry, Lower Than Atlantis Patent Pending, The Treatment and Soraia. Concert reviews of Evanescence, Steel Panther, Richie Sambora, Slash, Bowling For Soup, Serj Tankian, Shinedown, Buckcherry, Madina Lake & Octane Ok. Sean Walsh of Struck writes this issue's 'A (Musical) Note From...' column plus album and single reviews and more.

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Issue 74 (Serj Tankian Cover)

Interviews with Serj Tankian, Halestorm, Yellowcard, Motion City Soundtrack, Godsmack, Cavo, Sister Sin, Nations Afire, Room 94, Trucker Diablo, Disclosure & White Clouds & Gunfire. Concert reviews of Jon Bon Jovi, Room 94, Halestorm, Motion City Soundtrack, and Redditch Morton Stanley Festival (Friday night), 2 page Birmingham Zombie Walk spread, column by Calan Nickle of 7 Day Weekend, lots of CD reviews and more.

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Issue 73 (Steel Panther Cover)

Interviews with Steel Panther, Lostprophets (Luke Johnson, Angels & Airwaves (Tom DeLonge), The Used, We The Kings, Forever The Sickest Kids, The Rocket Summer, Twenty Twenty, Deaf Havana, Summerlin, Strangle Kojak & Patent Pending, plus concert reviews of You Me At Six, Bon Jovi @ Bamboozle, Blink-182, Lostprophets, The Used, We The Kings, Steel Panther, Angels & Airwaves, Forever The Sickest Kids & Summerlin, lots of CD reviews.

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Issue 72 (Halestorm Cover)

Interviews with Halestorm, Shinedown, All Time Low, Sixx:A.M., Seether, Boyce Avenue, LostAlone, InMe, Sulpher, Matthew Koma, A Day Overdue plus reviews of Kill Hannah, Steel Panther, Theory Of A Deadman, Octane Ok, Zico Chain, StakeOut, a tour diary by Paul Frost of Zico Chain, heaps of CD reviews and more.

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Issue 71 (Octane Ok Cover)

Interviews with Octane Ok, Nikki Sixx/Motley Crue, Alter Bridge, Kids In Glass Houses, Within Temptation, Madina Lake, Theory Of A Deadman, Switchfoot, The Answer, The Super Happy Fun Club, The Famous Class, Stakeout, reviews of Def Leppard, Alter Bridge, Within Temptation, Madina Lake, Switchfoot, Rise Against, Bowling For Soup, The Answer, Octane Ok, Kerrang! Radio Breakthru Tour and The Return, column by Norman Matthew of Murder FM, Mike Newman (EthicalWares/FourDogsMusic) in 'Me, Me, Me & My Rock CV', heaps of CD reviews and more.

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Issue 70 (Every Avenue Cover)

Interviews with Every Avenue, You Me At Six, Taking Back Sunday, New Found Glory, Vains Of Jenna, Phil X, The New Regime (Ilan Rubin), Attack! Attack!, Cherri Bomb, The Howling, The Return and Murder FM, reviews of Bon Jovi, Slash, New Found Glory, Taking Back Sunday, Vains Of Jenna, Octane Ok @ Artsfest, Young Guns & Redditch Morton Stanley Festival (Saturday Only), column by Justin Percival of Mind Museum, Nikki Lund (White Trash Beautiful) in 'Me, Me, Me & My Rock CV', heaps of CD reviews and more.

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Issue 69 (Mayday Parade Cover)

Interviews with Mayday Parade, Panic! At The Disco, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, We Are The In Crowd, Framing Hanley, Sugarcult, Octane Ok, The Summer Set, Default, Twin Atlantic, The Architects and Oh No Fiasco, plus a 2 page UK Bon Jovi tour report, reviews of Slam Dunk Birmingham, My Chemical Romance, Sugarcult, Orange, Framing Hanley, Mayday Parade, column by Jack Spence of We Are The Ocean, heaps of CD reviews and more.

You can check the issue out at www.blackvelvetmagazine.com/issue69.htm

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Issue 68 (Papa Roach Cover)

Interviews with Papa Roach, Halestorm, Sick Puppies, Angels & Airwaves, Yellowcard, VersaEmerge, Toploader, There For Tomorrow, The Crave, Octane Ok & The Material, reviews of My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte, All Time Low, The Maine, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Octane Ok, 'How To Make It In The Music Biz' article by Joe Dexter of Orange, column by Louise Luminous of Luminous Frenzy, heaps of CD reviews and more.

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Issue 67 (Forever The Sickest Kids Cover)

Interviews with Forever The Sickest Kids, Sum 41, Alter Bridge, Mayday Parade, Anberlin, There For Tomorrow, Twenty Twenty, Bowling For Soup, Piggy D (Rob Zombie band), The Dollyrots, Destine and Templeton Pek, concert reviews of Bon Jovi, Bowling For Soup, Less Than Jake, the Eastpak Antidote Tour, Taste Of Chaos, Manic Street Preachers, Kids In Glass Houses, Jimmy Eat World & Octane OK, band manager Eddie Bull is in the 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' section, and heaps of albums, single and demo reviews and more.

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Issue 66 (Framing Hanley Cover)

Interviews with Framing Hanley, Jimmy Eat World, Madina Lake, The Pretty Reckless, The Maine, Young Guns, The Wonder Years, Just Surrender, Orange, Love Amongst Ruin & Octane Ok, 3 page Warped Tour report, reviews of Smashing Pumpkins, Madina Lake, Kill Hannah, Mayday Parade/The Maine, Framing Hanley, Radio DJ Emma Scott is in the 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' section, and heaps of albums, single and demo reviews and more.

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Issue 65 (AFI Cover)

Interviews with AFI (Davey Havok), Flyleaf, Kill Hannah, The Rocket Summer, Switchfoot, The Friday Night Boys, Anarbor, The Swellers, Taking Dawn, Theory Of A Deadman, Rio, 2 page Bon Jovi O2 report, reviews of Bowling For Soup, There For Tomorrow & more, column by Acey Slade, one-man roadie Rich Price is in the 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' section, and heaps of albums, single and demo reviews and more.

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Issue 64 (You Me At Six Cover)

Interviews with You Me At Six, Lostprophets, Forever The Sickest Kids, Mayday Parade, Halestorm, Twenty Twenty, Boys Like Girls, Airbourne, The Dangerous Summer & Fireworks, reviews of Bon Jovi, Madina Lake, All Time Low, Flyleaf & Hardcore Superstar, Guitar tutor Simrin Phull is in the 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' section, and heaps of albums, single and demo reviews and more.

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Issue 63 (Shinedown Cover)

Interviews with Shinedown, Paramore, Papa Roach, All Time Low, Buckcherry, Black Stone Cherry, Lita Ford, Go:Audio, Lorenza Ponce, Madina Lake, Cobra Starship and Destine, reviews of Shinedown, Alice Cooper/Man Raze, Go:Audio, Paramore, Papa Roach/Madina Lake, All Time Low, Black Stone Cherry, Billy Talent, Bowling For Soup & Elliot Minor, Glenn Milligan of Metalliville is in the 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' section, and heaps of albums, single and demo reviews and more.

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Issue 62 (The Used Cover)

Interviews with The Used, Keri Kelli (Alice Cooper's Band), Phil Collen/Man Raze, Hardcore Superstar, Spinnerette (Brody Dalle), Saving Aimee, Propagandhi, After Midnight Project, V For Volume, reviews of Lostprophets, The Used, Steel Panther, New Found Glory/Kids In Glass Houses/International Superheroes Of Hardcore, Spinnerette, Taking Back Sunday, Buckcherry, Saving Aimee and Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, a column by our Japanese correspondant, Pulin Modi of peta2 is in the 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' section, and heaps of albums, single and demo reviews and more.

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Issue 61 (We The Kings Cover)

Interviews with We The Kings, Duff McKagan's Loaded, Madina Lake, Billy Talent, Black Stone Cherry, VersaEmerge, Damone, Ashbury and The Mission District, Download festival 2009 report, Warped Tour 2009 report, reviews of Go:Audio, Hundred Reasons, Papa Roach, Nickelback/Black Stone Cherry, Madina Lake, The Rasmus/Backyard Babies & Bon Jovi/Soraia @ Summerfest, a new Japanese column, Rob Spacey of Viva Hate is in the 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' section, 90 albums, single and demo reviews and heaps more.

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Issue 60 (Metro Station Cover)

Interviews with Metro Station, Madina Lake, Seether, Papa Roach, Hey Monday, Theory Of A Deadman, My Passion, Lights Resolve and Steadlur, reviews of The All-American Rejects, Shinedown, Fall Out Boy, Boys Like Girls, Jon Bon Jovi, Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, a Q&A with Download promoter Andy Copping, 'Can You Hear Me Now?' column by Marko 72 and 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' features Karen Mitchell of Define The Meaning Zine.

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Issue 59 (Boys Like Girls Cover)

Interviews with Boys Like Girls, Anberlin, Simple Plan, The All-American Rejects, You Me At Six, The Pink Spiders, Stone Gods, My American Heart, Oh No Not Stereo, Sherwood and Underride, concert reviews of Fall Out Boy, Less Than Jake, Kill Hannah, Go:Audio, Elliot Minor, Army Of Freshmen, Hanoi Rocks and Attack! Attack!, 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' features press officer Ian Cheek, heaps of CD reviews and more.

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Issue 58 (Goldfinger Cover)

Interviews with Goldfinger, The Academy Is..., All Time Low, The Maine, Staind, Anti-Flag, Shinedown, Scars On Broadway, Boys Like Girls, Go:Audio & Templeton Pek, a Q&A with Army Of Freshmen, plus concert reviews of Lostprophets, Less Than Jake, Nickelback, Brigade, Goldfinger, The Academy Is..., 'Can You Hear Me Now?' column by Marko 72, 'Me Me Me & My Rock CV' features author/journalist Neil Daniels, heaps of CD reviews and more.

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Issue 57 (City Sleeps Cover)

Interviews with City Sleeps/Ely Dye, Cute Is What We Aim For,Cobra Starship, Kill Hannah, Story Of The Year, The Color Fred, Four Year Strong, Beat Union, Broadway Calls, Wednesday 13, Secret Lives! Of The Freemasons, concert reviews including Simple Plan, Aiden, Finch, Dashboard Confessional, Slaves To Gravity, Mindless Self Indulgence, Kill Hannah, Give It A Name Introduces feat. Mayday Parade, The Color Fred, Meg & Dia & Four Year Strong, Boys Like Girls/Cute Is What We Aim For, a Bon Jovi Lost Highway UK tour round-up, 'Me, Me & My Rock CV' featuring Liam Shepherd of GUILTYxDESIGN Productions, heaps of CD reviews & more.

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Issue 56 (The Audition Cover)

Interviews with The Audition, Flyleaf, Jimmy Eat World, Simple Plan, Goldfinger, Kids In Glass Houses, City Sleeps, The Get Go, Brigade & New Years Day, concert reviews of 30 Seconds To Mars, Paramore, the Kerrang! Relentless Tour featuring Coheed & Cambria/Madina Lake, Fightstar, Circa Survive & the Good To Go Tour featuring MxPx/Punchline/The Get Go, The Audition/You Me At Six/Just Surrender, Sum 41, The Matches, Not Advised & Jimmy Eat World, column by Tommy Gleeson of Slaves To Gravity, 'Me, Me, Me & My Rock CV' featuring Scott Bartlett of Scream Promotions & more.

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Issue 52 (Get Happy Tour Cover feat. Bowling For Soup's Jaret Reddick, Army Of Freshmen's Chris Jay, Son Of Dork's James Bourne and Wheatus' Brendan B. Brown)

Interviews with Jaret Reddick, Chris Jay, James Bourne and Brendan B. Brown, plus Ash, Hellogoodbye, Towers Of London, The Academy Is..., Cute Is What We Aim For, Senses Fail, Miss Conduct, Lynam. Heaps of gig reviews including 30 Seconds To Mars, Army Of Anyone/Neurosonic, Easykill, Bowling For Soup/Son Of Dork/Wheatus/Army Of Freshmen, Senses Fail, Shiny Toy Guns, Towers Of London/Bullet, My Chemical Romance, Columns by Sugarcult's Marko 72, Bandcamp's Sean Gould and Rockin' America. Back Page Babe is Rise Against's Tim McIlrath.

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Issue 51 (Bullets And Octane Cover)

Interviews with Bullets & Octane, AFI, Motion City Soundtrack, Paramore, Kill Hannah, Neurosonic, Bandcamp & Linchpin. Heaps of gig reviews including Bullets And Octane, Seether/Engerina/Art Of Dying, Fightstar/Oceansize/The Receiving End Of Sirens/Templeton Pek, Less Than Jake, My Chemical Romance, Sugarcult, Lostprophets & P!NK, Taste Of Chaos Birmingham UK Report, report on the Backstage With Jon Bon Jovi London FC Event, 'Can You Hear Me Now?' Column by Sugarcult's Marko 72. Back Page Babe is Kyle Lewis (ALLiSTER).

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Issue 50 (Sugarcult Cover)

Interviews with Sugarcult, The All-American Rejects, New Found Glory, Eighteen Visions, Allister, The Matches & Quietdrive, reports of Warped Tour 2006 (Fitchburg, MA) & Bulldog Bash 2006, reviews of Lostprophets, Bon Jovi, Taking Back SUnday, Billy Talent, Motion City Soundtrack, Kill Hannah & Bandcamp. Back Page Babe is Roger Manganelli (Less Than Jake).

First full colour issue.

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Issue 49 (Billy Talent Cover)

Interviews with Billy Talent, Less Than Jake, Story Of The Year, Goldfinger, Fenix Tx, The Crash Moderns & Good To Go Tour's Ed Sellers, 'Can You Hear Me Now?' - column by Sugarcult's Marko 72, 'Rockin' America' - our US column by Suzanne T, column by Bandcamp's Steve Shebby, a 2 page Bon Jovi UK & Ireland 2006 tour report, gig reviews including Story Of The Year/Stretch Arm Strong/Bleed The Dream @ Leeds Met Uni, Goldfinger/Beat Union @ Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall, Robin Black @ Dudley JBs, Taking Back Sunday @ Nottingham Rock City, City & Colour @ Glasgow Barfly, Funeral For A Friend @ Edinburgh Corn Exchange. Back Page Babe is Matt Zane (Society 1).

Black & white printing inside with colour centre pages.

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Issue 48 (Simple Plan Cover)

Interviews with Simple Plan, Alkaline Trio, MxPx, Taking Back Sunday interviewed by Beat Union, I Am The Avalanche, Bullets And Octane & My Ruin, 'Can You Hear Me Now?' - column by Sugarcult's Marko 72, 'Rockin' America' - our US column by Suzanne T, gig reviews including The Starting Line Vs MxPx / The Matches / I Am The Avalanche, Bullet For My Valentine/Hawthorne Heights/Still Remains/Aiden @ B'ham Academy, Coheed & Cambria/Thrice/Circa Survive, Thunder, InMe, The All-American Rejects, Simple Plan, The*Ga*Ga*s/Sweet Seduction, Bon Jovi, Yellowcard, Halifax, Bandcamp, Avenged Sevenfold/Bullets And Octane/The Dear And Departed, Pitchshifter. Back Page Babe is wil Francis (Aiden).

Black & white printing inside with colour centre pages.

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Issue 47 (The Starting Line Cover)

Interviews with The Starting Line, Bowling For Soup, Rise Against, Zebrahead, Aiden, Bleed The Dream, NHOI & Bandcamp, 2 page Taste Of Chaos Birmingham UK Report, 'Can You Hear Me Now?' Column By Sugarcult's Marko 72, Concert reviews of Bowling For Soup, Victory Records tour/Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance, Engerica, Bloodhound Gang, Alkaline Trio, Viking Skull/McQueen, Armor For Sleep, AntiProduct, Bon Jovi & The SmashUp/Bandcamp/A Late Design, 'Rockin' America' column. Back Page Babe is Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance).

Black & white printing inside with colour centre pages.

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