QUEENSRŸCHE have issued the following call-to-arms:

"Enter in the bidding to win this chance-of-a-lifetime experience with Queensrÿche at the 2010 Puyallup Fair. Prize package includes: - 2 tickets to the Queensrÿche concert, with special guest TESLA at the Puyallup Fair on Monday, September 20th
- a pre-show meet and greet with Queensryche
- a private wine tasting with Geoff Tate, singer for Queensrÿche.

This is the perfect gift – for yourself or for the rock star in your life. The winner should arrive at 6:30pm on Sept. 20 for their pre-show meet and greet. All materials will be at the will-call window.

Don’t wait! Bidding on this awesome experience closes at about 2 p.m. this Saturday, September 18th.

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The West Sound Wildlife Shelter is the only wild animal hospital located in the western Puget Sound. We cared for more than 770 sick, injured, and orphaned patients in 2009, and already we’ve seen a significant increase in demand for our services in 2010. Last year, we gave educational presentations to more than 5,000 kids and adults. Thank you for caring about wildlife!"

As previously reported, Queensrÿche recently partnered with Capitol/EMI for the expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of the band’s triple platinum-certified breakout album, Empire. The release date has been bumped to November 9th in the US and Canada.

The new two-CD and digital packages both include the remastered album, featuring six hit singles, including the #1 smash 'Silent Lucidity', as well as 13 bonus tracks, among them 10 previously unreleased live performances recorded in 1990 at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. The two-CD package is presented in a lift-top box with five postcards, a fold-out poster and a booklet featuring rare photos from the band’s personal archive.

After building a devoted fan base with album and EP releases throughout the 1980s, including 1988’s critically acclaimed Operation: Mindcrime, Queensrÿche broke into the mainstream across North America and abroad with the 1990 release of Empire. In the U.S., the album peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and its hit ballad 'Silent Lucidity' quickly became a heavy rotation staple at rock radio and on MTV, topping Billboard’s Modern Rock singles chart and earning Queensrÿche the coveted MTV Viewers Choice Award for the song’s music video. Empire also made the U.K.’s Top 10, and the album’s international success led to Queensrÿche’s 18-month headlining Building Empires world tour, the band’s longest trek to date.

Empire also features the Billboard Top 10 Modern Rock hits 'Jet City Woman' and 'Another Rainy Night', the Top 20 single, 'Anybody Listening?', and the Top 30 singles 'Best I Can' and 'Empire'. In addition to the aforementioned live recordings, Empire (20th Anniversary Edition)’s bonus tracks include 'Last Time In Paris' from the Ford Fairlaine soundtrack, 'Dirty Lil’ Secret', and the band’s cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s 'Scarborough Fair'.

Queensrÿche: Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) [2CD, digital] tracklisting:

Disc 1 (Original CD remastered with bonus tracks from 2003 reissue):

'Best I Can'

'The Thin Line'

'Jet City Woman'

'Della Brown'

'Another Rainy Night (Without You)'

'Empire'

'Resistance'

'Silent Lucidity'

'Hand On Heart'

'One And Only'

'Anybody Listening?'

'Last Time In Paris'

'Scarborough Fair'

'Dirty Lil Secret'

Disc 2 (Contains ten unreleased live tracks recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London on November 15th, 1990):

'Resistance'

'Walk In The Shadows'

'Best I Can'

'Empire'

'The Thin Line'

'Jet City Woman'

'Roads To Madness'

'Silent Lucidity'

'Hand On Heart'

'Take Hold Of The Flame'