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Sharon Osbourne Breast Auctions  
The Associated Press reports that Sharon Osbourne is putting a little bit of herself into the fight against breast cancer.

Hand-painted molds of Osbourne's breasts were being auctioned online to benefit the Boarding for Breast Cancer Foundation, or B4BC, a nonprofit group co-founded by professional snowboarder Tina Basich.

The molds were displayed during Tuesday's (October 21) taping of the syndicated talk show "The Sharon Osbourne Show" and caught guest Anthony Anderson's eye.

"I gotta have those at home," said Anderson, star of the WB sitcom "All About the Andersons". "I want to make the first opening bid at $5,000. ... So match that! Somebody match that!"

Osbourne, the wife of former BLACK SABBATH singer Ozzy Osbourne, was treated for colon cancer, which is now in remission. The show with Basich and Anderson airs Thursday (October 23).-- Click Here for the Full Story

There is bad taste and then there is bad taste!  

Twisted Arnold Reprise
Rockdirt reports: In a recent interview with Perfect Pitch Online, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider described the experience of singing the group's classic 'We're Not Gonna Take It' at an Arnold Schwarzenegger rally in Sacramento earlier this month. "[Arnold] was very gracious and cool," Dee said. "Backstage, we talked about some USO stuff - Twisted's been doing USO, and so has he, and he suggested going to the Middle East together and raising the morale of the troops. I said, 'Dude, I'm there.' I'm a true fan, and I tell you, I've liked this guy for a long time, and he's a man who gets things done. In his book, 'Stay Hungry', he says - and I thought he was just being, I don't know, optimistic - 'When I'm done being the biggest bodybuilder in history, I will then go into real estate. I will make millions. Then I'll go into movies and be the biggest movie star in the world, and then I'll go into politics.' This was written in 1979. And as the years have gone by, I've watched him and gone, 'Holy sh**.' He's a real estate tycoon, became the biggest movie star, and then he married a Kennedy! I thought, 'This bastard's gonna do it!' I saw him at Jesse the Body's inauguration - he was getting ready! I promise the state of California that he's going to do what he says he's going to do. He gets things done. If you don't do the job right, we'll find the Perots and the Bloombergs and the Jesse the Bodys and the Arnold Schwarzeneggers and we'll find somebody who can do it right. We'll fu**ing elect Gopher from 'The Love Boat' if you don't do it right."- Click Here for the Full Story

You get the feeling Dee just hates politicians in general?  Dee in 04!

Slipknot CD 03
siN's metal news reports: Here's an update on SLIPKNOT's recording status from Roadrunner:

"it's real. Slipknot is in Cali right now recording a new album. The whole band - all nine members - living together, and recording where they are living. The man himself behind The Production Gospel According To Dave made a trip to the west coast just last week, and could not stop saying enough good things upon his return. The focus. The fire. The band should be cutting guitars this week. Rick Rubin is producing this beast, and recording should be complete before the end of the year.". -Click Here for the Full Story

Daddy, what's a maggot?

Tribute In Chains
Billboard reports: A song Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder wrote about Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley (news) on the day of his death will be released on "Lost Dogs," the group's upcoming double-disc rarities collection. 

The track, dubbed "4/20/02," is not listed on the album but can be found several minutes after "Bee Girl," the last song on the set's second disc. "Lost Dogs" will be released Nov. 11 by Epic, the same day as the concert DVD "Live at the Garden." 

"It was a real personal song wrote the night we all found out died," Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard told Billboard.com last year. "He stayed in there, didn't work on anything else, and worked this song up." Added guitarist Mike McCready, "he wrote it in the ukulele tuning, so it had this weird vibe to it, and it was sad." 

In the song, Vedder lashes out at the singers of unnamed bands copying the style of Staley, who died after battling drug addiction for years. "So sing just like him, f***ers," Vedder sings. "It won't offend him / just me / because he's dead." The cut features only Vedder on vocals and guitar. 

Because of its pointed lyrics and highly personal content, the track was ruled out for potential inclusion on Pearl Jam's 2002 album "Riot Act," according to Gossard. "The record overall has such a universal feel to it, much more so than some of our other records," he said. "Most of the songs are about bigger kinds of things. There was something about that felt like it maybe wasn't right for this particular record." .- Click Here for the Full Story

Many Minutes Silence
The PRP reports: One Minute Silence have decided to go on an indefinite hiatus, a statement was issued on the matter and is as follows:

"Although we are still the best of friends, and cannot rule out the possibility of working together in the future, for now we are dispersing to pursue other projects and interests. We're still in love, we're just not married any more!! There are no musical differences, and no personal conflicts affecting our friendship with each other, just a desire to branch out and explore other areas of life and music.

The band would like to extend their infinite love and respect to those who have championed OMS over the years, whether from within the industry and the media or from without. Your support has been life-giving. An extra-special acknowledgement is due to the people who have come to our shows, and especially to the people in the pit, because without you there would have been no OMS, and without people to listen, music would be meaningless. You rule, we love you, and we miss you already!!

Looking to the future; Yap is going full-throttle into spoken word performances, and he is also working on a number of political and philosophical media projects.

Glen Diani and Massy Fiocco are currently considering and inviting other options.

Eddie Stratton is currently filling in on drums with his friends in New Disease"Click Here for the Full Story

"Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."

Lotsa Ryan Adams
Billboard reports: A veritable avalanche of material from singer/songwriter Ryan Adams is slated for release over the next few months. And, as Adams paints it, it all comes as a result of disagreements he had with his label, Lost Highway. 

On Nov. 4, Lost Highway issues both the acclaimed singer/songwriter's next full-length, "llornkcoR" (rock'n'roll spelled backwards), as well as the EP "Love Is Hell, Part 1." On Dec. 9, the second "Love Is Hell" installment arrives. Both EPs, Adams says, may extend to as many as seven or eight tracks. In addition, Lost Highway is prepping European singles that will feature alternative rock covers and different bonus cuts for the same song. It's unclear at this point whether the singles will be released in North America. 

All this, according to Adams, is a somewhat happy ending to a battle he had with Lost Highway over its rejection of the full-length version of "Love Is Hell," an album he calls "the work of my life." Referencing the likes of the Smiths, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen  and Nick Drake, the album, he says, was dark, doomy and full of what he refers to as "really f***ed up" lyrics. . Click Here for the Full Story

New Ozzy Dates
In the believe it when you see it department, Blabbermouth is listing the following dates as "confirmed" rescheduled, of the rescheduled Ozzy dates. Begin holding your breath right now� 
 

Jan. 15 - Oberhausen, GER @ KöPi-Arena
Jan. 20 - Copenhagen, DEN @ Valbyhallen
Jan. 22 - Gothenburg, SWE @ Scandinavium
Jan. 24 - Oslo, NOR @ Spektrum
Jan. 26 - Stockholm, SWE @ Globen
Jan. 28 - Helsinki, FIN @ Hartwall Areena
Jan. 31 - Leipzig, GER @ Messehalle 7
Feb. 02 - Berlin, GER @ Arena Treptow
Feb. 15 - München, GER @ Olympiahalle
Feb. 17 - Stuttgart, GER @ Schleyerhalle
.- Click Here for the Full Story

The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?

Robert Plant TV
Blabbermouth reports: VH1 Classic will air a one-hour "Robert Plant Special" on November 1 and 4 to coincide with the release of his solo career "best of" double album, "66 to Timbuktu". The show will feature an interview with Robert (during which he talks of his experiences at The Festival in the Desert 2003) and will include footage of Robert recorded at the festival. This footage is also part of a forthcoming "Festival in the Desert" DVD documentary, which is scheduled to be released in the U.S. by World Village in 2004. Plant's live-in-the-Sahara rendition of "Win My Train Fare Back Home (If I Ever Get Lucky)" is featured on the new CD, "Festival in the Desert" (World Village).

"66 to Timbuktu" is due on November 4 through Atlantic Records. The 35-track set includes not only Plant's own solo hits, but also pre-ZEPPELIN solo tracks from 1966-67 along with various collaborations he's done before and after ZEPPELIN.- Click Here for the Full Story

I am a Golden God!

Urge Overkill Reunite
Billboard reports: After a six-year hiatus, Chicago rock outfit Urge Overkill is making steps toward a reunion, Billboard.com has learned. 

Sources say the group -- frontman Nash Kato, bassist Eddie "The King" Roeser and drummer Blackie Onassis -- is eyeing a New Year's Eve show in either Chicago or New York, and may begin work on its first album since 1995's "Exit the Dragon" (DGC). 

It is understood that the group does not have a record deal; Urge Overkill began work on a 1997 album for Epic's 550 imprint but was dropped before it was finished. Kato released a solo album, "Debutante," in the spring of 2000 on the now-defunct Will Records. .-Click Here for the Full Story 

Cash Box
Reuters reports: A sprawling five-disc Johnny Cash box set will arrive Nov. 25 from American Recordings/Lost Highway. Dubbed "Unearthed," the set features 79 songs, 64 of them previously unreleased and produced by Rick Rubin during the late country great's sessions for his four "American Recordings" albums released between 1994 and 2002..- Click Here for the Full Story

I'm sorry but couldn't that have waited at least three months before trying to cash in on his death?

The Posies Reunite for New CD
Aversion reports: The Posies, who regroup about once every other month, will actually bring new material to the table the next time they reform. 

Principles Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow most recently combined their efforts, sort of, for a split EP on the Arena Rock Recording Co. The next time they sit down, it's not for an acoustic tour, a reunion tour or anything else: The duo, with Matt bassist Harris and drummer Darius Minwalla, will record a new album early next year. The as-yet-untitled album doesn't have a label yet, let alone a release date. 
.- Click Here for the Full Story

What's the Vegas spread that they will make it through the entire recording?

Rocktober Song of the Day

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

MetallicUran
On Friday, October 24th, rock veterans Metallica will appear in an up-front and personal interview when Fuse, premieres a special edition of its heavy-metal destination series URANIUM. The entire 30-minute episode of URANIUM is dedicated to the legendary band, Metallica, and includes both a rare sit-down interview with all band members, as well as exclusive performance footage from their sold out August 29th concert at NYC's
Bowery Ballroom.

Fuse's reigning rock mistress Juliya, conducts this special interview with Metallica. Throughout the interview, Metallica discusses why they are in the rock and roll business, (Guitarist, Kirk Hammett admits, "you can get restaurants to give you reservations when you don't normally get them"), reveal their admiration for Tony Hawk, Radiohead, Sum 41 and their ability to avoid suffering from fame after 20 years in the business.    

The premiere episode of the exclusive Metallica interview will air on October 24th at 8pm followed by a 30-minute block of Metallica videos.  The following are the air dates/times for this rare look at Metallica:

Friday, October 24 @ 8pm (premiere)
Saturday, October 25 @ 1am (late-nite Friday)
Saturday, October 25 @ 7pm 
Saturday, October 25 @ 12 midnight (early Sunday)
Sunday, October 26 @ 5pm 
Sunday, October 26 @ 11pm

URANIUM airs Monday through Friday at 8:00pm with encores at 1am, Saturdays @ 7pm & 12 midnight and Sundays @ 5pm and 11pm ET.

Fuse's URANIUM, has already been established as the on-air destination for the ultimate madman of rock. A huge hit with both viewers and advertisers, URANIUM offers fans a glimpse at the heavy metal genre at a level of exposure unseen and unheard of elsewhere on television.  

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