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10.06.2008

NEW SITE CHANGES!

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

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03.13.2008

BEN S. MCMILLAN - MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPH'S

Last Saturday in Seattle, Washington; fans, friends, and loved ones joined together to say goodbye to the legendary Ben McMillan of Gruntruck. Ben fought an 8 year battle with diabetes and passed on this January, 2008.

A memorial/ benefit concert was held in Ben's honor. The survivng members of Gruntruck and other Seattle rock luminaries played an assortment of tributes and memorial projects in his name to say a final farewell and help raise money for the funeral costs. The event was held at King Cobra in Seattle. A gallery of the show was posted, click on the picture below to view it.

Listen to "Tribe" by Gruntruck in remembrance of the talented late vocalist, Ben McMillan here.

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01.29.2008

GRUNTRUCK'S BEN MCMILLAN PASSES ON

As Blabbermouth.net reported yesterday, Benjamin Scott McMillan, legendary vocalist for Gruntruck and Skin Yard, died in his hometown of Seattle, Washington at age 47 after an eight-year battle with diabetes.

Roadrunner Records released two albums from Seattle-based Gruntruck: 1991's Inside Yours and their 1992 follow up Push. The latter was, up to that point, Roadrunner's highest-selling non-metal album due to the track "Crazy Love" being featured on MTV's Beavis & Butthead.

Roadrunner's Monte Conner (A&R) and Kathie Merritt (Sales) had the following to say in response to Ben's passing.

Monte Conner:

All of us here at Roadrunner are very saddened to learn of Ben McMillan's passing. Gruntruck's second album "Push" is still one of my all-time favorite Roadrunner releases, and it still sounds as great today as it did back in 1992. Songs like the swaggerig riff-fest 'Tribe," "Crazy Love" (a Beavis and Butthead mainstay back in 1993) and the epic "Above Me" (which really featured Ben's unique voice) are three of the strongest songs Ben and the band ever wrote. "Push" was quite a trailblazing record for Roadrunner as it was our biggest selling non-metal record to date in 1993. This is not to say that Gruntruck didn't haul a very large amount of ass, but they were one of our first forays into something more mainstream. Let's all crank this ass-kicking MP3 of "Tribe" while we remember Ben McMillan and the great music he made.

Kathie Merritt:

It's sad to hear that Ben McMillan has passed away. During his Gruntruck days at Roadrunner , Ben was a breath of fresh air, a guy who seemed to handle himself well with the industry folks, but never seemed to really enjoy the Industry part of the Music Industry. I recall after a day of running him & Tommy around a music convention in LA what a pleasure it was to work with them, they had both been through the ropes , so they handled the media very well. But both seemed much happier at the end of the day to be hanging in the bar with other band guys, just talking music. During a time when everyone in Seattle was painting themselves "Pearl Jam plaid" and going grunge, Gruntruck bucked the trend and made more punk edged music with a groove. "Beavis and Butthead" brought the band's music to the MTV audience and that opened up the music to radio, they will forever be remembered as part of that marketing phenomenon. But Ben's music with SkinYard and Gruntruck will always have a place in the history of the Seattle music scene, that guy could rock. And "Above Me" was such a cool tune....RIP Ben.

A pair of photos from the convention Kathie mentions are located here.

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1. MAGGIE MCMILLAN SAID...

Hello, all....Ben's Mom here just to say thankyou and to give you a couple of corrections: Ben passed away on 1-25-08 (not the 29th), and also his name is Ben (not Benjamin - he probably would've hyphenated that, knowing him....). We so much appreciate your comments about him, to know him also in your words. It's consoling. Thank you again. - from Maggie.

February 2, 10:39 PM

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2. MATT VAUGHAN SAID...

Kathie and Monte, Matt Vaughan here in Seattle. Very kind words from you two indeed. Ben was a confident and artistic guy, one who adored his family, and was always great with the fans. His influence ran deep in the Seattle music scene. Ben was an artist first. He sold his paintings and painted t-shirts at Pike Place Market during his Skin Yard and early Gruntruck days, if you didn't have a Ben McMillan t-shirt, you hadn't lived in Seattle. Jack Endino and him became friends early on and between the two of them, they influenced a sound that bands would strive for and in many cases, would eventually accomplish, many of course would become very successfull, Soundgarden being the first to come to mind.

Ben was all about bringing people together, he was always wanting to put on a good show and talk to people afterwards. He didn't mind cramped cars, backrooms, and apartments, he felt good and comfortable in those surroundings. The times he did have a tour bus or a big hotel room, you could see the frown come upon his face. It isn't that he didn't think he deserved it, he just felt more claustrophobic in those surroundings, like someone was playing a joke on him. Gruntruck was on the periphery of stardom. I do think there was some bitterness there on why this band and not his, but at the same time, Ben liked being the underdog. Gruntruck weren't like the rest, they commanded respect, but it was also the band that you could have a smart conversation with or talk about monster movies. Ben could be stubborn, not one who budged very easily, but when he was in his element and he knew it was good, you could only shake your head because he was right. During those early 90's, as far as Seattle was concerned, Gruntruck was the truest of em all and Ben made sure of that. I guess that's why Pearl Jam requested Gruntruck to open for them at their first public performance or why Alice In Chains said if Gruntruck isn't on our tour, we don't tour or why the Screaming Trees thought they should be opening for Gruntruck rather than the other way around . Ben was a statesmen and one who personified the Seattle sound, lyrics, and demeanor. There was nothing pretentious about him or any of his comrades in Gruntruck/Skin Yard. If anything, it's why they never reached superstardom and it's also why their fans were so loyal, they wanted Ben and Gruntruck for their own, it was their tribe, their likeness. Ben is above us all, cracking that smile and giving us a wink. A lovely man.

February 8, 3:23 PM

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04.04.2006

YES, WE HAVE A NEW BULLETIN BOARD!

Believe it or not, there were as many people who thought we were April Fooling about the launch of our new Bulletin Board as did the Avril Lavigne gag!

Yeah, yeah, we know a RR BB upgrade was long overdue, but what do y'all take us for? Never mind, don't answer, just get on over there and sign up already, will ya?

You may also have noticed we have an outrageous number of incredible contests (free iPod, free PSP, free V-Cast cellphone, etc.) going on in our Free Shit section, so if you feel lucky (well do ya...punk?) sign up now!

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1. WILLIAM SAID...

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2. TYLER MONSON SAID...

does anyone know the pening song off the dvd? i will be signed by roadrunner one day

April 16, 9:51 PM

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3. KAYNE SAID...

if you though Spineshank was past its peak your a wank. You have massive support just here in Australia. Your the shit world over. Get back together and stop the bitchen. As a band you guys have the talent to be a band like metalica,Kiss,Def leppard,AC/DC to name a few. Give it some thought at least.
Yours trully.
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4. ROADRUNNER FAN FOR EVER SAID...

You guys really need to put together some "Team Roadrunner" and "Roadrunner United" shirts and apparel and such.

June 15, 4:30 PM

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5. DEAN SAID...

wednesday 13 could u at lest bring out ur album jan 24th man cuz i cnt wiat any longer n1 fan (rot 4 me)

November 15, 8:08 AM

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6. JOHNNYHOLLOW SAID...

So.....r u guys done as a band....or is there fonna be another CD anytime soon?

December 22, 8:31 AM

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7. DARTHGERARDIUS SAID...

Ian Thornley does have some new songs on his personal myspace page http://www.myspace.com/thornicus, but Nothing new on the Official Thornley MySpace page.

January 16, 3:12 PM

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01.19.2006

ROADRUNNER ON MYSPACE

We have a new page for you to bookmark alongside our main hub here at RoadRunnerRecords.com...

Our newly revamped and relaunched official home on MySpace - come take a look at www.myspace.com/roadrunnerrecords.

Once there, you can join our network of friends, make new ones to talk music and whatever else you please with, and enjoy everything from pictures, to banners, to videos and jukeboxes, to special promotions and prize giveways for all your favorite Roadrunner artists.

We're looking forward to seeing you there and welcome your feedback to help us make Roadrunner's MySpace page the best that it can be.

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Format: CD
Release Date: 10.06.1992

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Push

Tracks:

1. Tribe [ listen/comment ]
2. Machine Action
3. Racked
4. Crazy Love
5. Above Me
6. Gotta Believe
7. Break
8. Slow Scorch
9. Follow
10. Body Farm
11. Lose
12. Push