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MP3.com Dead? 
Tinfoil Music reports: The net nearly lost one of its loudest members yesterday, MP3.com. The multi-million dollar MP3 service was nearly lost because it hadn't renewed its domain, a $35 charge.

Only the quick wit of an MP3.com member, Steve Cox, saved the servous from a potentially deafening silence. 

Cox noticed early yesterday that his page on MP3.com wasn't working. After some investigation he noticed that virtually every page on the site wasn't working, replaced instead with the (evil) Verisign SiteFinder. Cox knew this could mean only one thing, the domain had expired. Cox then purchased the domain within minutes and has saved the service.... for now.

'As I wait I smile, thinking about how the Net's ''Premiere Music Streaming Service'' had to be rescued by.me!'

Domains have a set expiration time. Registrars, the companies that handle registering domain names to customers, will typically send out many reminders to the domain registrant telling them that it is about to expire. One wonders where the reminders went for MP3.com though one should also wonder where the person responsible for this went after his bosses get through with him.

***But that's not the only recent sign of a slow death of MP3.com.  Back on September 10th f***ed Company reported this "Rumor has it Vivendi/Universal laid off the remaining MP3.com employees today. Firesale likely for any remaining assets. Some corporate staff (legal, accounting, etc.) remain."  Ecommerce times further reported a couple days ago that "MP3.com, cut 52 of its 70 employees in early September." 
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A Perfect Excuse
siN's metal news reports: A PERFECT CIRCLE have pulled out of Australia's Big Day Out festival, reasons being "too complex to explain," according to the festival's organizers.

In an official statement, the organizers wrote, "after previously confirming their appearance in writing, the representatives of A PERFECT CIRCLE have now advised us that for reasons too complex for us to explain, the act will not be performing at the 2004 series of Big Day Out festivals. We are still hoping to convince them to stay on the show but we felt it necessary to bring this to the attention of all concerned before tickets go on sale."

The organizers added, "We bring you this news with a mixture of disappointment, confusion and frustration".
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Puddle of Clubs
Digital Noise reports: Puddle Of Mudd have lined up a series of club dates as a warm up for the release of their second album, "Life On Display", which is due for release on November 25th.

The tour kicks off on October 23rd at the House of Blues in Chicago and will make stops in fourteen cities before wrapping up on November 10th in Philadelphia.

Opening up on the tour will be Smile Empty Soul.

Dates are as follows:
10/23 - Chicago, IL 
10/24 - Detroit, MI 
10/25 - Toronto, ON 
10/27 - Boston, MA 
10/29 - Pittsburgh, PA 
10/30 - New York, NY 
11/1 - Baltimore, MD 
11/2 - Cleveland, OH 
11/4 - Atlanta, GA 
11/5 - Tampa, FL 
11/6 - Orlando, FL 
11/8 - Charleston, SC 
11/9 - Norfolk, VA 
11/10 - Philadelphia, PA

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 In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?

Linkin Park Score Triple
Limp Bizkit's popularity may be dying down but it appears Linkin Park still has a hold on their core audience as this report from Digital Noise suggests: Linkin Park's second full-length album, "Meteora", has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association Of America for sales of over three million copies.

The album, which came out in late March, debuted at Number One on the Billboard album chart with sales of over 810,000 copies in its first week of release. Linkin Park's debut, Hybrid Theory, was the best-selling album of 2001, but took 12 weeks to reach Number One. - Click Here for the Full Story

ZZ Top Close the Summit
Billboard Reports: ZZ Top will play the final concert at Houston's Compaq Center, formerly known as the Houston Summit. 

The Nov. 22 show will mark the band's 23rd appearance at the venue, longtime home to the Houston Rockets National Basketball Association franchise. The building will be converted into the Lakewood International Center ministry facility. 

"We've been playing the Summit since jump," ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill said in a statement. "It's been like a second home to us when you consider that, besides the gigs we've done there, all three of us have attended hundreds of games and shows by artists we wanted to see, just like everybody else in Houston." 

ZZ Top has played the arena more than any other musical act, followed by Willie Nelson and Neil Diamond, who have each performed there 17 times. The Nov. 22 show -- tickets for which go on sale Saturday (Oct. 11) -- will also mark the end of the band's current Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers tour. 
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There was nothing I hated more than to see a filthy old drunkie, a-howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as if it were a filthy old orchestra in his stinking  rotten guts. I could never stand to see anyone like that, especially when they were old like this one was.

Dave Matthews Tour Anything But Solo
Reuters reports: Dave Matthews is taking a few friends out on tour this winter, but they aren't his colleagues in Dave Matthews Band. 

Instead, the singer/songwriter will hit the road with longtime sideman Tim Reynolds, Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, Anastasio-affiliated keyboardist Ray Paczkowski, and rhythm section Brady Blade (drums) and Tony Hall (bass), who back Matthews on his new RCA solo debut, "Some Devil." 

The tour begins Dec. 12 in University Park, Pa., and will wrap Jan. 16 in Oakland, Calif. Emmylou Harris  and Spyboy will also be on the bill. Tickets will be available for members of Matthews' Warehouse fan organization beginning Thursday (Oct. 9). 

Here are Dave Matthews & Friends' tour dates: 
Dec. 12: University Park, Pa. (Bryce Jordan Center) 
Dec. 13: Providence, R.I. (Dunkin' Donuts Center) 
Dec. 15: Philadelphia (Wachovia Center) 
Dec. 16: Boston (FleetCenter) 
Dec. 17: New York (Madison Square Garden) 
Dec. 19: Hartford, Conn. (Hartford Civic Center) 
Dec. 20: Rochester, N.Y. (Blue Cross Arena) 
Dec. 22: Rosemont, Ill. (Allstate Arena) 
Jan. 12: Seattle (Key Arena) 
Jan. 14: San Diego (Cox Arena) 
Jan. 15: Los Angeles (Staples Center) 
Jan. 16: Oakland, Calif. (Oakland Arena) 
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What's the difference between Dave Matthews Solo and the Dave Matthews Band? Daves' cut at the end of the night. 

Dylan's The Boss
CNN reports: Bob Dylan was a surprise guest at the last show of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's world tour on Saturday. 

The final of three shows at New York's Shea Stadium saw Dylan perform "Highway  61" backed by the group. The show also welcomed Willie Nile, Gary "U.S." Bonds and Garland Jeffries. .- Click Here for the Full Story . 

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

CD Copy Protection Cracked
Tinfoil music reports: Anthony Hamilton's latest release is probably the first REAL copy-protected CD to be released in the USA. After just 14 days, the copy protection has been broken.

The copy protection format is called MediaMax CD3, released by SunnComm Technologies. SunnComm is competing directly with Macrovision for this new market created by online piracy. It works by making the true audio tracks difficult to read for computer based players while offering lesser quality Windows Media files that are DRM enabled for use on a computer. However, it's laughably easy to bypass.

Previous attempts to limit copying have been made by modifying the contents of the CD itself, making it less compatable with many newer players as well as virtually all computers. They did this by modifying the CDs table of contents file. This latest version does not, however. It depends on the auto-run feature in many newer operating systems. When a CD is inserted, windows and MacOS will automatically run a specific file on the CD. In the case of the MediaMax CD, a file is run that install a device driver onto the machine. This device driver is what drives the copyright protection. Disabling, or even not installing, this driver will allow the user to rip the CD without a problem.

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build it and they will crack it.

Jager Kickoff
siN's metal news: The Jagermeister Music Tour featuring SLAYER, HATEBREED and ARCH ENEMY starts tonight(Wednesday the 8th) in St Paul, MN with HEMLOCK opening. Hopefully we will have a report tomorrow on whether or not the heavily rumored setlist by SLAYER will feature the entire album of "Reign In Blood" as they did in Europe. .- Click Here for the Full Story

Punk Rock Gov
We already know the ultimate outcome of the California recall race. But how did TSOL frontman Jack Grisham do at the polls?  According to the California Sec. of State with 95.4% of precincts reporting Grisham's vote total was at 1,633.  In his home county (Orange County) with 341 of 650 precincts reporting Grisham vote total was at 154. Which isn't too bad considering he was only 13 spots behind Arnold Schwarzenegger, who easily walked away with 63.85% of the vote in what is California's most conservative county (he came in at 47.6% statewide).  But Grisham was beat out by Gary Coleman (12,195 Statewide), Larry Flynt (14,673) and porn star Mary Cook (9,461). Then again, when asked why people should vote for him, Grisham responded, "They shouldn't". His candidacy was more or less a political statement against the recall system. 

One rather curious name among the 150+ list of candidates was Michael Jackson who managed to get 640 votes statewide, perhaps based on his famous name?  

Rumormill: Buckethead Joins Slipknot?
Did Buckethead join Slipknot? Or did Lit screw up? Not news and not even interesting but Lit posted some photos from the last NAMM show in their latest online journal (from back in January� way to keep it up guys) that includes a photo of "some guy from Lit" with Buckethead but the photo caption says "That guy from Slipknot." 

But what about Lit? Rumor has it they have been dropped by RCA following low sales of their last album, but that has not been confirmed. They did play a local Orange County show at the Gypsy Lounge a few months back billed as "SARS".  ..- Click Here for the Full Story . 

Slow news day with the whole California recall.. and no bitching about this mention of the recall, you couldn't possibly see this as a biased comment as it wasn't printed in the L.A. Times!  =) 

Rocktober Song of the Day

**Press Releases**
Snippets from some of the press releases that have come in over the past 24 hours

Rob Rocks Europe
Rob Rock and his band Rage of Creation have confirmed their appearance on the upcoming 2004 Primal Fear "Devil's Ground" European tour as special guests alongside Brainstorm.

Rob Rock will tour in support of his recently released 2nd solo cd "Eyes of Eternity" which was produced by Roy Z, (Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford, Helloween, Tribe of Gypsies).

The following are the confirmed European tour dates:

Primal Fear / Brainstorm / Rob Rock's Rage of Creation

March 3 - Germany (Hamburg) - Markthalle
March 4 - Holland - (Hardenberg) - Podium
March 5 - England - (London) - Scala
March 6 - England (Wolverhampton) - Wulfrun Hall
March 8 - Germany (Bochum) � Zeche
March 9 - France (Paris) - La Locomotive
March 11 - Spain (Madrid) - Aqualung
March 12 - Spain (Murcia) - Gamma
March 13 - Spain (Barcelona) - Razzmatazz II
March 14 - Spain (Bergara) - Sala Jam
March 16 - Switzerland (Pratteln) - Z 7
March 17 - Italy (Milan) - Transilvania
March 19 - Hungary (Budapest) - Petöfi Hall
March 20 - Slovakia (Ljublijana) - Prinskov
March 21 - Germany (Nürnberg) - Hirsch
March 23 - Germany (Frankfurt) - Batschkapp
March 24 - Germany (Stuttgart) - LKA
March 25 - France (Strasborg) - La Laiterie
March 26 - Belgium (Antwerpen) - Hof Ter Lo
March 27 - Germany (Kaufbeuren) - Zeppelinhalle

School of Rock TV
Jack Black had something to celebrate this weekend with the impressive launch of School of Rock which hit number one with $19.6M from 2,614 theaters, according to final studio figures. The Richard Linklater comedy averaged a potent $7,507 per site and even earned glowing reviews from some of the nation's toughest critics.  Definitely take a trip to your local movie theater and get ready to rock!!!

TV Appearances 10/8 & 10/9: Jack Black and School of Rock band will be performing on the Sharon Osbourne Show this Wednesday, October 8th. 

You can also catch them performing on the Ellen Show on Thursday, October 9th.

Surely Mr. Black could get better bookings than these!

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