From a smelly warehouse to touring the world, The Radio Dept. is making a loud name for themselves.

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We've no clue who this band is or just why they want to flood our inbox with mp3's and concert dates and press releases, but we suspect it has something to do with ROCK. Apparently they were on P.O.D.'s indie label Rescue Records at one point and have put out somewhere between 2 and 15 albums, but we can only find two listed on iTunes, Realize and Sink Your Teeth ep.

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A-Ha have just announced a limited-availability concert added in benefit for Mercy Ships.

The special engagement will feature A-Ha playing the entirety of the Hunting High and Low album at the Oslo Konserthus.

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Jan Omdahl's career-spanning book on A-Ha, The Swing of Things that was originally written in Norwegian and only sold in Norway and offered in English on A-Ha.com for a short time, is at last available again in English and is shipping by the end of the week (Aug. 27, 2010) world-wide. The pre-order is available for $52.50 from A-Ha's merch people and is the only place you can currently get the English version. For those that speak Norwegian, you can get the Norwegian version for about 449 Norwegian Kr. ($72 U.S.) from Haugenbok.no

Jan Omdahl's instant hit was quickly gobbled up by excited fans when originally released back in October of 2004 and included a special CD of rare A-Ha tracks and featured cover art by Mags. That version often goes for a pretty penny on eBay when you can find it. Or you can get this 1st edition, signed, ultra-rare English version here on a private listing. The A-Ha.com English version was called The Swing Of Things: Twenty Years With a-ha and included some minor changes in the wording and some different photos.

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A quarter-century later and A-Ha comes full circle. "Acknowledging the bell [they] can't unring."

With the single appreciating good success across the globe, now the video for "Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)" is released with animation from the ground-breaking second version of "Take On Me." Sketching back from the past with clips from other earlier videos including the sequel to "Take On Me," "The Sun Always Shines on TV" we see Mags, Paul and Morten transforming into the next phase of their lives.

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