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The Coopers The Next Osbournes?
Rockdirt reports: Stuff magazine spoke with Alice Cooper for a Q&A session and after learning about his relatively normal life married to the same woman for 28 years, asked the veteran rocker if the Coopers could be the next Osbournes. "The Osbournes are the new Beverly Hillbillies. A bunch of people from Birmingham, England - the equivalent of Birmingham, Alabama - moving to a place they don't belong - Beverly Hills. Except that I've known Ozzy for a long time, and I've been through the DTs, the shaking, all of that - and it's not funny. He's going through hell on TV, which is weird. Now, when he leans back in the chair and falls, it's better than Jerry Lewis. I laugh, but it's still sad. The Cooper family is more like the Flanders family. The seemingly nice, all-American neighbors, but there's something creepy about them. Something dark. Something you want to keep away from."- Click Here for the Full Story 

Jack White Booked.
AP reports: White Stripes lead singer Jack White has been booked on a misdemeanor aggravated assault charge from a fight with the lead singer of another band. 
The 28-year-old was fingerprinted and had his mug shot snapped Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press reported. He posted a $100 cash bond and will be arraigned next month. 

Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Marcus Connor said White was cooperative. 

"He was a gentleman throughout the whole process," Connor said. 

White's attorney, Wally Piszczatowski, said the booking was routine. . Click Here for the Full Story 

Adema Minus 1
Blabbermouth reports: ADEMA have parted ways with guitarist Mike Ransom. No reason was given for his departure.

The group, who recently completed a U.S. tour with GODSMACK, have already played five headlining shows as a four-piece and have no plans at this time to seek a replacement second guitarist. .Click Here for the Full Story

No Sir Bowie
AP reports: You can have Sir Mick, and Sir Elton, and Sir Paul, but you'll won't hear Sir David � as in Bowie. The veteran singer was one of the people The Sunday Times revealed as declining honors from the queen. 

Bowie said he'd never accept a knighthood and doesn't even know what it's for. 

Sir Mick Jagger was delighted to become a knight earlier this month. But bandmate Keith Richards called the title a disgrace and paltry honor. 

The Sunday Times this week published a list of 300 people � including Bowie, comedian John Cleese) and actor Kenneth Branagh� who declined honors since 1945. . -Click Here for the Full Story

Oh king, eh, very nice. And how d'you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers! 

Will Shatner Recruits Henry Rollins for CD.
Ananova reports: William Shatner has recorded a new album featuring a guest appearance by US punk legend Henry Rollins.

Shatner, who played Captain James T Kirk in the original TV series of Star Trek, has also enlisted Joe Jackson and US country star Brad Paisley to guest on the album.

The album will be produced by Ben Folds, leader of the Ben Folds Five, reports the New York Post.

Shatner is generally acknowledged as having recorded the worst ever version of a Beatles' song.

He released his spoken word cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds in 1968..-Click Here for the Full Story

Ozzy Improving
Digital Noise reports: Ozzy Osbourne has been moved out of intensive care and into a private clinic to continue with his recovery from his quad bike crash earlier this month. 

The rocker is no longer at Slough's Wexham Park Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery after breaking eight ribs, his collarbone and cracking a vertebra in his neck in the accident at his Buckinghamshire home (December 8th).

A spokeswoman said: "Ozzy is progressing well but it still recuperating from his accident two weeks ago."

Ozzy is expected to take around six months to recover from his injuries, which until a week ago left him unable to breathe without the help of a ventilator..Click Here for the Full Story 

Blur On Mars
Rockdirt reports: The British-built spacecraft Beagle 2 is believed to have touched down on the surface of the planet Mars. Scientists are awaiting confirmation that the craft landed safely after a 400 million kilometer voyage which has taken six months. 'Beagle 2' is the name of the music specially composed by the British rock band Blur for the Beagle 2 landing. Beagle 2 will be the call sign for the lander and will be beamed back from the surface of Mars to announce our safe arrival.. Click Here for the Full Story 

Evanescence Move On
VH1 reports: Two months have passed since Evanescence guitarist and songwriter Ben Moody walked out on the band during a European tour, and he and singer Amy Lee have not spoken since. Despite the setback, the band is still going strong.

On January 8 Evanescence will start a tour of Australia and New Zealand. On January 20 they'll kick off the first of 10 dates in Japan. Then they'll return to North America to make up some previously postponed dates and play some new shows (see "Evanescence Postpone A Dozen Dates Of North American Tour"). But Lee is most looking forward to returning home in March to begin working on the follow-up to the band's multiplatinum smash, Fallen.

"It's impossible to write on tour, and [writing is] the one thing I love more than anything else about my job," she said. "I think everybody's just ready to stop touring and go back to the studio."

It's too early to tell what direction the band's material without Moody might take, but since the album will be a collaborative effort, it will likely be a combination of each of the bandmembers' individual writing styles.

"Everybody's going to go to their house and write material," Lee said. "Then we're going to get together and bring everything to the table and be like, 'OK, let's make something out of this mess.' I'm really looking forward to it." . Click Here for the Full Story 

Springsteen Cleans Up
AP reports: Bruce Springsteen was the boss of the concert business in 2003, raking in $115.9 million to rank second only to the Rolling Stones for the most money ever earned by a concert act in a year. 

Springsteen and his E Street Band earned the money on 47 concerts, concluding their tour with a staggering 13 stadium shows in the New York area, the concert industry trade publication Pollstar reported Tuesday. 

The Stones' $121.2 million earned in 1994 still stands as the record, Pollstar said. The Stones brought in $38.5 million this year, to rank 14th. 

Springsteen's reported earnings don't count the concert dates he played outside of North America, or in 2002, when "The Rising" tour began. 

Pollstar hasn't finished its calculations yet, but Editor Gary Bongiovanni predicted 2003 will be the fourth record-setting year in a row with around $2.4 billion in concert business. .-Click Here for the Full Story

$115 million in one year? No wonder he's the working man hero

Priest In A Box
RIFTrock  reports: Judas Priest will release Metalology on March 9th, a box set of greatest hits with a possible live DVD (the release of a DVD with the box set has not yet been confirmed). The set will be either a 3 disc set or 4 disc set and include tracks spanning the band's entire career. The box set will be released through Sony Music, and the first pressing of Metalology will come with a pleather case and metallic studs.- Click Here for the full story

Hell bent, hell bent for pleather?

Hammer Will Fall in 05
siN's metal news reports: Swedish power metallers HAMMERFALL have posted the following message on their official website:

Injury update: The physical rehabilitation continues. As I have been allowed to work with weights, the process have been speeded up, and I don't really have any problems with day-to-day life anymore. Nevertheless, we are looking at a delay in the song writing process and subsequent album recording and release. Normally, if we were to follow our an-album-every-two-years routine, we would have between three and five songs ready by now. We have none. This will most likely lead to a delay in schedule by about four-to-six months; you should see a new HAMMERFALL studio album in early 2005, by the looks of it. This also gives us time to give the songs the proper attention they need and deserve in order to avoid rushing anything and making sure they are 100% HammerFall worthy when recording them.  -Click Here for the Full Story 

Nugent TV 
Blabbermouth reports: VH1 has ordered a full season of "Surviving Nugent", a reality series that drops contestants into the wild world of rock legend Ted Nugent, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 

Encouraged by strong ratings for a two-hour special featuring Nugent, who also has been featured on other VH1 programs such as "Behind the Music", the cable channel ordered additional episodes to air next year. 

Details on the series are not yet available, but "Surviving Nugent" is expected to be a hybrid of MTV's "The Osbournes", focusing on the unconventional lifestyle of a bad-boy rocker and his equally odd family, and "Survivor", which emphasizes outdoor competitions not for the faint at heart. -Click Here for the Full Story 

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