The Day in Rock 8/05: Linkin Park Livid, Ozzfest Loses 2 Bands, Strokes Mellow Out, P.O.D. Complete, More Durst Strangeness, Solo Bush, Latest Rap Gimmick, BRMC Touring Club.

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Linkin Park Livid
Linkin "Gives Us Another Festival To Play At" Park will be headlining the Livid Festival in Australia this Rocktober. 

Launch Reports: The band will be joining the bill that already includes the White Stripes, Jurassic 5, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,  the Roots and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Living End.

The Livid Festival will make three stops--October 11 in Sydney, October 12 in Melbourne and October 18 in Brisbane. 
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Ozzfest Loses 2 Bands.
They are dropping like flies� Ozzfest loses two second stage bands and gains one. 
James Mills from Depswa tells us in the latest antiMUSIC Ozzfest Tour Diary  � "Revolution Smile finished the tour early to go out with A Perfect Circle and Deftones which is great for them.  The departure of Rev. Smile allowing space for our friends from Cleveland, Chimaira the new addition to the second stage. "   

Rev. Smile isn't the only band dropping off the Ozzfest. Seems Atlantic Records is pulling the plug on Grade 8 due to low record sales. This according to SMNews.com 

And of course Marilyn Manson got buffaloed out of performing at the Aug. 11 Buffalo show.  

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Strokes Mellow Out
They're stroking to the beat of a mellower drummer. 

NME.com reports: THE STROKES have revealed details about their eagerly awaited new album - describing it as 'more mellow' but with elements of MICHAEL JACKSON's 'BILLIE JEAN'.

Out of the 11 tracks set to make the final cut, working titles include 'Under Control', 'Nightmare', 'Supernova', 'Raga', 'Ze Newie', and 'Meet Me In The Bathroom'.

Drummer Fabrizio Moretti said: "We spent a lot of time looking for specific sounds."

Speaking about 'Nightmare', guitarist Albert Hammond Jr added: "That's probably one of my favourite drum sounds right there... It's kind of 'Billie Jean'-ish. We spent all this time to make it sound like a drum machine, but Fab still plays it."

The new album is due for release on October 20. - Click Here for more info

P.O.D. Complete
Shoutweb Reports: P.O.D. have completed recording 14 songs for their upcoming new album, Payable On Death, due out on November 4th. The effort was produced by Howard Benson (Cold, Adema). P.O.D. are currently at work mixing the effort. - Click Here for the Full Story

More Durst Strangeness
We couldn't pass this report from VH1.com by.  Now we know where the panty sniffer line came from. 

Who's the object of Fred Durst's obsession in Limp Bizkit's new single? Britney Spears? Angelina Jolie? 

Perhaps only time (or Fred's journal on limpbizkit.com) will tell, but in the meantime, fans can while away the hours analyzing and 

debating over the lyrics of "Eat You Alive," which is already getting spins at radio stations in New York and Los Angeles and goes for official adds next week.

"If I could approach you or even get close to the scent you left behind, I'd be fine," Durst sings over a serrated riff that builds for the first half of the song.

That's the complimentary part. The rest is pretty disturbing. Regardless of who it's aimed at, the sonic love letter is more likely to yield restraining orders than late-night pillow talk. Durst, who's at a loss as to why his little filly won't enter his stable, seems ambivalent about whether to be sad, apologetic or resentful. 

"Hey, you, Ms. Too-Good-To-Look-My-Way/ And that's cool, you want nothing at all to do with me," he sings as the song builds and he gets more irate. "But I want you, ain't nothing wrong with wanting you/ 'Cause I'm a man and I can think what the hell I want, you got that straight!?"

Scary, for sure, but it's the chorus that should give the gal he craves reason to program the speed dialer to 911: "No doubt that I'd love to sniff on them panties/ I'd eat you alive," he roars. -  Click Here for the Full Story

Solo Bush
Blabbermouth reports: BUSH frontman Gavin Rossdale intends to put the band on the sidelines while he concentrates on his new side project.

"I've been writing loads of songs and its very experimental," Rossdale told Kerrang! magazine. "BUSH is just on a hiatus and we'll make a new record in the future, definitely. But as for this project, I'm trying to keep the details under wraps in case it doesn't work out. I'm really excited by it." 

BUSH's last album, "Golden State", sold only 81,000 in sales in the  first two weeks of release in October 2001, less than the first week Posted by the British group's previous album, "The Science of  Things", which sold 106,000 copies upon its release and debuted at No. 11 in October 1999. "The Science of Things" has since gone on to sell over a million copies in the U.S., while BUSH's debut album, 1994's "Sixteen Stone", has moved over six million units to date.
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Latest Rap Gimmick
Eminem may be the cracker rapper but he's getting some female competition, and it don't get no whacker.  Epic Records has come up with just what the record industry needs to get out of its current slump; a while female rapper. 

AP Reports: Eminem has disproved the notion that white boys can't rap. White girls, on the other hand, have had almost zero impact on the genre in its 30-year history. 

Remember Tairrie B? Probably not. Wait, there's ... hmmmm. Actually, the most influential white woman in rap history may be punk princess Deborah Harry, whose rhymes in the 1980 hit "Rapture" helped take rap mainstream. 

But now a new face, Sarai, is raising hopes that there might be someone new � a Feminem � to go where none have gone before. 

"Eminem has definitely opened people's minds, that there could be a white artist actually mastering the skill," says Sarai  (rhymes with "goodbye"), a 20-year-old, blue-eyed blonde from Kingston, N.Y., about two hours north of the city where rap was born. 

Her debut album, "The Original," was released by Epic Records last week.

The first single, the party song "Ladies," has been getting airplay on hip-hop stations and MTV. -  Click Here for the Full Story

BRMC Touring Club
Billboard Reports: Rock trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has set a month-long North American tour in support of its upcoming Virgin album "Take Them On, On Your Own," due Sept. 2 from Virgin. The trek begins Sept. 3 in Sacramento, Calif., and wraps Oct. 6 in Seattle. As previously reported, BRMC will then travel to Australia for the three-date Livid tour.

Beforehand, the group will step in for the White Stripes at the U.K.'s annual Reading/Leeds festival on Aug. 23-24. As previously reported, White Stripes guitarist/vocalist Jack White broke a finger in a recent car accident, forcing the postponement of several live dates. - Click Here for the Full Story plus the Dates 

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