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White Stripes Stooges? 
NME reports: JACK WHITE almost became a temporary member of THE STOOGES.

The White Stripes star was in the frame for a collaboration after the garage legends reformed to play a number of tracks on frontman Iggy Pop's new album, 'Skull Ring'.

Pop was so inspired by the Stripes that he based some songs on the band, and was tempted to draft White in to play bass on the record, according to VH1.
Talking about new track 'Loser', Pop said: "I wrote that after I heard 'White Blood Cells', because I thought, 'My God, they're a little bit Stooges, a little bit Pretenders, I could do that. I decided that if they're gonna rewrite me, I'll rewrite them."

And since late bassist Dave Alexander was not around to join the reunion, Iggy Pop claims there was talk of bringing White in, which would have been ironic since The White Stripes famously have no bass player. "We came very close," said Pop, "but Jack wanted to do an entire Stooges album, and the Stooges weren't ready for that. It was one of those things that got a little off-balanced and went a little too far, too fast, so it didn't happen."

Punkbands.com has a totally different take on this story. Seems the almost may be a might�: Even so, Pop won't rule out the possibility of collaborating with White on a full Stooges studio album that veteran producer Rick Rubin will likely produce. Pop said he decided to work with the Stooges on their first disc since 1973's Raw Power because he was inspired by how productive they were on Skull Ring and how powerful they've sounded on the eight Stooges shows they've played so far. Next year he and Ron Asheton will get together to start writing, and they'll likely enter the studio in time to have the record on the shelves in 2005.
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Newsted Dumps Ozzy
MTV reports: The Osbournes have welcomed a new member into the family. 

No, Jack, Kelly and Aimee don't have a new sibling, but the Ozzman does have a new guy in his closely knit band. Earlier this week, Sharon Osbourne put in the call to Rob "Blasko" Nicholson, best known for his years playing bass for ROB ZOMBIE, to tell him he's landed the gig vacated by former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted.

Newsted, with the band for less than a year, left for undisclosed reasons, and Nicholson couldn't be happier about the opportunity. 

"It's still settling in," Nicholson enthused, talking on his cell phone while driving through Hollywood. "It's something I never would have imagined. After playing with ROB ZOMBIE, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.

"But when this came around, it was very odd," he added. "I was almost like, 'There is no possible way that this could happen.' " 

Newsted, busy writing new material with the cult thrash band VOIVOD, declined to comment. .Click Here for the Full Story

Jason had to leave to health reasons, Kelly, Jack and Sharon were making him sick.

P2P For A Fee
Reuters reports: Internet users who copy music through "peer-to-peer" networks should pay a flat fee to compensate musicians and record labels whose songs they download, a technology trade group proposed on Thursday. 

The proposal by the Distributed Computing Industry Association is intended to nudge the popular peer-to-peer networks toward respectability and forge peace with the record labels that have hounded them and their users in court. 

Under the proposal, peer-to-peer users would pay a flat monthly fee to the networks or to Internet service providers, which would be divided up among the record labels and musicians whose songs were downloaded. 

Music fans could eventually be charged small amounts for downloading individual songs, or pay slightly more for "channels" featuring one style of music. 

DCIA chief executive Marty Lafferty said a $5 fee could generate $200 million per month for the ailing recording industry, which has seen CD sales plunge in the last several years due in part to the popularity of the peer-to-peer services...-Click Here for the Full Story

Did we hear this same idea from the original Napster?

Darkness Singer Arrested
MTV reports: The Darkness singer Justin Hawkins was detained by police for two hours at New York's Kennedy Airport recently because the cops were searching for a wanted criminal who shared his name. The frontman was freed after the band's manager showed police the group's tour schedule, which indicated that Hawkins was performing in England on July 4, the night of the crime. - Click Here for the Full Story 

Dead Grammys
Reuters reports: They may have passed on to that great concert hall in the sky, but artists such as Warren Zevo, George Harrison, Johnny Cash and his wife still managed to pick up multiple Grammy nominations on Thursday. 

Zevon, who died of lung cancer in September, scored four Grammy nominations, including song of the year, while Harrison nabbed three nods -- more than two years after he, too, succumbed to lung cancer. 

Country royalty Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, who died within months of each other earlier this year, landed four between them. 

Other deceased nominees included Rosemary Clooney, Celia Cruz, soul legend Sam Cooke and blues giant Muddy Waters. 

Zevon and Harrison will compete against each other for best male pop vocal performance, with their respective songs "Keep Me In Your Heart" and "Any Road." The Zevon tune is also competing for song of the year. 

His collaboration with Bruce Springsteen on "Disorder in the House" is up for best rock song and best rock vocal performance by a duo or group with vocal. 

Harrison's posthumous album "Brainwashed" will compete for best pop vocal album, and the tune "Marwa Blues" for pop instrumental performance. 

Zevon never received a Grammy during his lifetime, while Harrison won a total of 10. -Click Here for the Full Story

Heroin Diary
BW&BK reports: Nikki Sixx's autobiography, The Heroin Diaries, is now available for pre-order at the S'Crue store. 

The book "starts on Christmas morning 1986 with me sitting in front of a Christmas tree alone, shooting up heroin," Sixx said. "I'm sitting there thinking, 'I've done sold-out stadiums. I'm all over MTV. I'm in one of the hugest new bands there is, and I'm alone on Christmas morning with no decorations and no presents. Just me and my needle.'

"Basically it ends where it began," Sixx added. "It was three days after I'd had a [near-fatal] heroin overdose, and I'm sitting there in front of the Christmas tree again doing the same thing I was doing the year before, and I think I really had a revelation at that moment that I had to stop. It was a real pinnacle moment in my life."

"If you read this book, you will never do drugs," he said. "----ting your pants and throwing up all over yourself, and the detox, and the psychosis, and a lot of the other stuff in this book is just not glamorous." ..Click Here for the Full Story 

Chapter 1) Dude, I did dope dude. Chapter 2) Dude, I did more dope dude! Chapter 9) Dude, I died Dude �  etc.   I other news, MTV reports that Vince is filming a late night TV pilot in LA (see the link in the Darkness story above). 

Fox, Metallica, Hip-hop, New Years
Daily Variety reports: Metallica, Ashanti, Wyclef Jean, Outkast and Keith Urban will perform on Fox's second annual New Year's Eve show staged on the Las Vegas Strip and again hosted by "American Idol's" Ryan Seacrest. - Click Here for the Full Story (subscription)

Lars finally finds a night when you are supposed to bang on pots and pans... Sorry couldn't resist. 

Morrissey Goes Punk
CMJ reports: After Morrissey played a new song in September of 2002 on Craig Kilborn's late night show, little followed. The word on the street is that he's back in the studio recording music for a new album due out around May of next year. He's currently working with Jerry Finn, a man who produces the likes of Green Day, AFI, MxPx, Rancid, and a variety of other punk bands. Finn's other efforts include "A Very Chipmunk Christmas" by Alvin & The Chipmunks, and with a Morrissey collaboration, the result should be very interesting in comparison to the former Smiths- frontman's '97 release, Maladjusted. The new record will be released on Sanctuary Records.. Click Here for the Full Story 

Hepcats Reissued
Aversion reports: Hepcat's debut will soon be in stores once again. 

Hellcat Records will reissue a newly remastered version of Hepcat's Out of Nowhere with expanded artwork and bonus tracks. The album was originally released by Moon Records in 1994 and has been unavailable since the imprint folded last year. -Click Here for the Full Story

Sharon Cheated On Ozzy Pt. 2. 
As predicted, Sharon Osbourne is milking the "I cheated on Ozzy with Randy Rhodes" story for extra publicity. Blabbermouth has the latest: Sharon Osbourne has spoken to TV's "Extra" about the reports that she cheated on her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, with his guitarist during the early '80s, Randy Rhoads. 

On her show talk show, Osbourne said, "So it comes out now, and it is all twisted and people are saying I cheated on my husband." 

"Extra" went straight to Osbourne to let her set the record straight. She says, "Yes, I do want to set it straight. Before my husband and I actually were engaged, before we were married, I had a great friendship, as did my husband, with Randy." However, she says, "I definitely wasn't married to my husband at the time. Randy died before my husband and I were married." 

Osbourne addresses the rumors and shares the whole story on "The Sharon Osbourne Show" Friday (Dec. 5), where she's joined by guests Jessica Alba, Billy Bob Thornton, Jami Gertz, and Donna Summer.- Click Here for the full story

Well Mrs. Osbourne if you didn't want it to come out why did you put it in a book? 

Bigger Day Out
Digital Noise reports: Big Day Out will get a second date in Sydney next year, after organisers made the decision to spread the event over two days to cut down on crowds. 

Sydney fans can now attend the second festival - comprising of the same bill - on January 24th, or the original January 23rd date already announced. It's the first time in the event's 11-year history that demand has led to a second show being announced for any city. 

The 2004 Big Day Out - headlined by Metallica - will feature bands including The Strokes, Muse, The Datsuns, The Darkness, Jet, The Mars Volta, The Flaming Lips and The Dandy Warhols..-Click Here for the Full Story 

Sir Mick Miffs Richards
CNN reports: The legendary Rolling Stones' guitarist has flown into a rock and roll rage against Mick Jagger over the singer's decision to accept a knighthood, the ultimate nod from the British establishment. 

"I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and sporting the old ermine," Richards told British music magazine "Uncut" in an expletive-rich interview. 

"I told Mick it's a paltry honor ... It's not what the Stones is about, is it?" 

The Stones, still rocking after 40 years, made their names with crunching rock classics including "Satisfaction," "Street Fighting Man" and "Brown Sugar." 

A 1967 Stones' album was entitled "Their Satanic Majesties Request." 

Despite his near spotless rebel credentials, Jagger, 60, is scheduled to become "Sir Mick" at a Buckingham Palace ceremony on December 12. 
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More Warped
Shoutweb reports: Several new acts have been added to Warped Tour 2004. The trek will kick off on June 25th in Houston, TX. New confirmed bands include Story Of The Year, Yellowcard, The Bouncing Souls, Bad Religion, Anti-Flag and The Casualties. Previously confirmed acts include Taking Back Sunday, Rise Against, Coheed And Cambria and New Found Glory..-Click Here for the Full Story 

Days of the New Deal
From Daysofthenew.com:  First, we would like to announce Travis has signed with a new manager. 

We would like to welcome Larry Mazer who will lead Travis Meeks/DOTN. Larry brings many years of music experience with him. We are very excited that Larry will be working with us. 

Now that that is done, we are starting to focus on the new CD. Travis has most songs already written. A few of them were performed on his limited acoustic shows. We will be doing some more shows this spring, but will be limited until the CD is complete. Keep coming watching the web site for announcements. 

We hope to finalize the fan club and have sign ups in the next few weeks. Donna, Mike and Gayle should have some information on this very soon. 

Live CDs - we are reviewing the recordings to see if they are high enough quality to distribute. Information on this as it develops. 

More announcements will be made as they happen. -Click Here for the Full Story 

Damage Plan Preview 
Digital noise reports: Damageplan, the new band that features former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul, have posted three song samples from their upcoming album online at www.damageplan.com.

The tracks are taken from the band's upcoming debut album "New Found Power", which is due for a release on February 10th through Elektra Records.. -Click Here for the Full Story 

Osbournes Xmas Special 
Yet another Ozzy related story� Billboard reports: MTV will give viewers a glimpse into the holiday season at the home of Ozzy Osbourne and his family with "The Osbourne Family Christmas Special," airing Dec. 11 on the cable network. Promising to take "holiday specials to a bizarre new level," the program was taped at the family home in Beverly Hills, Calif., the staging ground for MTV's successful reality show, "The Osbournes."

A wide range of celebrity guests joined in on the festivities, including Jessica Simpson, who duets with Ozzy on "Winter Wonderland," and newlyweds Dave Navarro and Carmen Electra, who are shown baking holiday cookies. Former "The Man Show" host Adam Corolla teams with Jack Osbourne to whip up cranberry sauce, while Kelly Osbourne serenades the guests with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.". -Click Here for the Full Story 

Won't be very merry with Kelly singing. 

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