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Linkin Park Censored
NME reports: LINKIN PARK have[has] been ordered[told] by the MALAYSIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND ARTS that they are not allowed to jump around, scream or wear shorts when they perform in the country next month. [there goes 80% of their show; with the shorts being 75%]

The band are[is] due to play on October 15 in Kuala Lumpur's 50,000-seat Stadium Merdeka, though they have been hit with a list of rules and regulations they must obey.[covered in the preceding paragraph]

Chester and co[.] have been told that they cannot make any provocative gestures or speech[how do you make provocative speech?], as well as wear any clothing or accessories that can be considered "obscene, linked to drugs or related to negative elements". [There goes the rest of their show]

The ministry said: "The government believes the performance will provide an alternative type of entertainment in Malaysia." [As in alternative lifestyle? Is Limp Bizkit touring with them?]

The code of conduct also states "Male artists must cover their bodies from the chest to knee level. The artist must not display rough, raunchy actions that conflict with pure values, such as leaping around, screaming or throwing something from the stage to the audience." [Stay tuned for the headline on October 16th, "Linkin Park arrested in Malaysia For Violating �Pure' Values"]

- Click Here for the Full Story

How Rock n roll is that? You know what Lemmy would tell �em!  [Sorry for all the edits. I wanted to make sure the article had "pure value" and was censored properly to get the band used to the experience. As for the corrections; I know, glasshouses! (Meant for those who subscribe to the email version, which had a few big boo boos over the past week.)] 

Metallica Symphony Part II? 
There is an interesting tid-bit in this report that might interest Metallica fans. 

Hollywood Reporter reports: Composer-arranger Michael Kamen has had a busy few years�No one would think that Kamen has multiple sclerosis.

Diagnosed with the disease six years ago, Kamen has not publicly spoken about his illness until now. He says it was time. He wants people -- those who have MS as well as those who don't -- to see that you can live with the illness and have a successful career.

� Fatigue is not an option for Kamen. He is working on translating two films into stage musicals: "Don Juan DeMarco" (in collaboration with Bryan Adams) and "Mr. Holland's Opus" with producer Marty Richards. He also has plans to reunite with rock band Metallica for more orchestral performances next year. Their 1999 collaboration resulted in the live album "S&M: Metallica With the San Francisco Symphony," which has sold more than 4 million copies.

Kamen -- who has done orchestrations for such rock greats as Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Queen, Alice in Chains and Pink Floyd -- says he can't wait to work with Dylan again. The two first worked together to transform Dylan songs into orchestral pieces for the Great Music Experience at Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan, in 1994.

As one of the few composer-arranger-conductors to fuse classical with rock, Kamen says it was a natural creative evolution for him. He began his musical career as a folk singer in a blues-influenced band and went on to study oboe at the Juilliard School of Music before delving into composition.- Click Here for the Full Story

We wish Mr. Kamen the best in his fight with M.S. and also request that if he does indeed team up with Metallica again, that he ask Lars to leave his pots and pans at home. 

RIAA Sued Wrong Person
The Boston Globe reports: The recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a Newbury woman because it falsely accused her of illegally sharing music -- possibly the first case of mistaken identity in the battle against Internet file-traders.

Privacy advocates said the suit against Sarah Seabury Ward, a sculptor who said she has never downloaded or digitally shared a song, revealed flaws in the Recording Industry Association of America's legal strategy. Ward was caught up in a flood of 261 lawsuits filed two weeks ago that targeted people who, through software programs like Kazaa, make copyrighted songs available for others to download over the Internet.

�The lawsuit claimed that Ward had illegally shared more than 2,000 songs through Kazaa and threatened to hold her liable for up to $150,000 for each song. The plaintiffs were Sony Music, BMG, Virgin, Interscope, Atlantic, Warner Brothers, and Arista.

Among the songs she was accused of sharing: "I'm a Thug," by the rapper Trick Daddy.

But Ward, 66, is a "computer neophyte" who never installed file-sharing software, let alone downloaded hard-core rap about baggy jeans and gold teeth, according to letters sent to the recording industry's agents by her lawyer, Jeffrey Beeler.

Other defendants have blamed their children for using file-sharing software, but Ward has no children living with her, Beeler said.

Moreover, Ward uses a Macintosh computer at home. Kazaa runs only on Windows-based personal computers.

Beeler complained to the RIAA, demanding an apology and "dismissal with prejudice" of the lawsuit, which would prohibit future lawsuits against her. Foley Hoag, the Boston firm representing the record labels, on Friday dropped the case, but without prejudice.

[check out the rest of the article with the link below to find out more about how this error was made and how it may effect this tactic by the RIAA.] 
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Those responsible have been sacked

Courtney "Ono" Love Pushed Back CD release
Good news! The release of Courtney "Ono" Love's new CD has been pushed back. 

Nme reports: The release of COURTNEY LOVE's solo album 'AMERICA'S SWEETHEART' has been delayed until next year.

The record had originally been set for release in October after she signed a new record deal with Virgin earlier this year. However, that will now not take place, according to a spokesperson for the star..- Click Here for the Full Story

You mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries

A Perfect No. 2  
Blabbermouth reports: A PERFECT CIRCLE's sophomore full-length album, "Thirteenth Step", has sold 231,000 copies in its first week of release, landing at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 chart (right behind rapper DMX, whose new Def Jam/IDJ album, "Grand Champ", moved 310,436 units).

"Thirteenth Step" is the follow-up to 2000's "Mer de Noms", which debuted at No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and has sold more than 1.4 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. It spawned the singles "Judith" (No. 4 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks airplay chart, No. 5 Modern Rock Tracks), "3 Libras" (No. 12 Modern/Mainstream Rock Tracks), and "The Hollow" (No. 14 Mainstream Rock, No. 17 Modern Rock). - Click Here for the Full Story

Stones Satanic Hit � Again
Reuters reports: The Rolling Stones cast a satanic glow over the U.S. music industry on Wednesday as a reissue of their 1968 opus "Sympathy for the Devil" opened at No. 1 on the singles sales charts, a spokesman said. 

The six-minute song, in which singer Mick Jagger introduces his Luciferian alter ego as "a man of wealth and taste," was recently dusted off by the group's former record label, ABKCO Records, and remixed by a selection of hot-shot producers. 

"Sympathy" was released in the United States last week as a CD single featuring seven versions of the song -- a pair of remixes each from producer duo the Neptunes, English DJ Fatboy Slim and another duo, Full Phatt, as well as the original recording. A slightly different configuration opened at No. 14 in the United Kingdom earlier this month. 

Written by Jagger, and inspired by Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and the Margarita," "Sympathy for the Devil" was originally featured on the Rolling Stones' 1968 album "Beggars Banquet." It also was the B-side of a reissue of "Honky Tonk Women" in 1976. .- Click Here for the Full Story . 

Remixing classics is never a good idea. Who will be next? Beethoven? He's only a couple years older than Keith Richards. 

Hatebreed's "Brutal" Tracks
siN's metal news reports: The tracklisting has been released for HATEBREED's new album "The Rise Of Brutality" that has a October 28th release date. Here are the tracks:

1. "Tear It Down" 
2. "Straight To Your Face" 
3. "Facing What Consumes You" 
4. "Live For This" 
5. "Doomsayer" 
6. "Another Day, Another Vendetta" 
7. "A Lesson Lived Is A Lesson Learned" 
8. "Beholder Of Justice" 
9. "This Is Now" 
10. "Voice Of Contention" 
11. "Choose Or Be Chosen" 
12. "Confide In No One"  

-Click Here Full Story

Jimmy Eat Darkness
RollingStone reports: Jimmy Eat World are finishing their fourth record in a California studio with longtime producer Mark Trombino. Due out early next year, the album is "a little bit darker" than their 2001 breakthrough Bleed American, frontman Jim Adkins says. "But I'm sure dark for us is nowhere near dark for most." 

The band plans to record sixteen new songs -- more than will make the record. Already five weeks into the sessions, Adkins says there are a couple more to go. "No matter how much time you give yourself, you wish you had more," he says. "But it sounds really good." 

One song he's particularly happy with is "Kill," which never repeats lyrics, even in the chorus. "I always wanted to try that," he says, "but it never really worked out." - Click Here Full Story

Apocalypse Later 
The PRP reports: Slayer's upcoming box set release "Soundtrack To The Apocalypse" has been pushed back to a November 18th release date through American/Island/Def Jam. - Click Here Full Story

Who knew a record company could delay the Apocalypse? 

Warping the Clubs
Punkbands.com reports: The Vans Off the Wall Club Tour is coming your way this fall, hitting 50 North American cities. The tour, sponsored by Vans and Alternative Press magazine features three legs with a rotating cast of bands. The first leg, which starts October 8 at the Glasshouse in Pomona, CA, features New York hardcore legends Sick of it All as the headliner with Boston street punks The Unseen and hardcore's newest rising star, Avenged Sevenfold in the support role. -Full Story, Dates and Lineup 

Second Stage, New Venue for the Dwell in Darkness 
ILooks like the Dwell in Darkness is turning out to be a larger event than originally planned, organizers have now moved the event to a larger venue with a second stage. 

siN's metal news reports: The Dwell in Darkness has secured a brand new venue. Holding a crushing TWO stages, with options for a third, this years Dwell in Darkness has moved to Minder Binders in Tempe, Arizona, just 3/4 miles away from Arizona State University.

Capable of holding a plethora of people, we will be adding more bands to our lineup to accommodate our SECOND STAGE!!. Full lineup, and more info on the venue is available at the following link: .-Full Story and Lineup details  

Roadtrip!!! 

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

Dishwalla Instore 
WHAT: Dishwalla will be signing autographs and performing a special acoustic set at Tower Records on Sunset. The band is promoting the recently released Greetings�From the Flow State, their first live CD which dropped August 12, 2003. 
 
WHERE:  TOWER RECORDS 8801 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles (310) 657-7300
 
WHEN:  FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2003 - Starts at 6:30PM

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