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Report for 12/01/05

Avril Acts?

MTV reports: She's gone from acting like a teen skate punk to a grown-up seductress in her videos, so it makes sense that Avril Lavigne would try her hand at some big-screen emoting. The singer, who recently wrapped a world tour, is taking a break from music for a part in "The Flock," an upcoming Richard Gere/ Claire Danes movie

Lavigne will be in New Mexico this week to film her handful of scenes[OMG Richard Gere is so like punk rawk! see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Sabbath Vs KFC

KNAC reports: What do Geezer Butler, the long-time bassist of heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath, and Bobby Ingram, the frontman of the venerable Southern rock band Molly Hatchet, have in common besides making legendary music? Both rockers have joined PETA's boycott of KFC until the company ends the worst abuses of chickens raised and killed to fill its buckets. Geezer and Bobby have prominently displayed links on their respective Web sites (GeezerButler.com and MollyHatchet.com) to PETA's KentuckyFriedCruelty.com site, where visitors can learn how KFC torments the more than 850 million chickens raised and killed for the company each year.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Silly News: Viagra Ozzy

The Gauntlet reports: Ozzy Osbourne pops Viagra so he can satisfy Sharon every night of the week. The ageing rocker has been complimented by his wife for his sexual appetite - which is helped by the little blue pills - widely used to help men get and maintain an erection [That explains the drinkin' and druggin' all those years. see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Pete's Crack Bust

Contact Music reports: Troubled British rocker PETE DOHERTY has been arrested in London on suspicion of possessing crack cocaine.

The former LIBERTINES singer, 26, and his musician friend PETER WOLF were stopped by police after driving "erratically" through west London in the early hours of yesterday morning (30NOV05), only two days after Doherty returned from Arizona, US, where he had quit a drug rehabilitation clinic. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Vedder Almost Drowned

Contact Music reports: PEARL JAM star EDDIE VEDDER was rescued from a drowning death when Hawaiian fishermen spotted the rocker bobbing about in the waves.

The ALIVE singer was paddling an outrigger canoe between the islands of Oahu and Molokai with local singer/songwriter JACK JOHNSON's dad when the vessel overturned in rough seas, leaving Vedder trying to stay afloat miles away from land.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Spitzer Vs Sony

FMQB reports: In the latest chapter of the ongoing story of Sony BMG's flawed copy-protection software, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is calling for retailers to immediately pull the albums off their shelves. Spitzer also chided stores for not yanking the CDs before the Christmas shopping season began.

According to Business Wire, Spitzer's office sent investigators out to buy the specific CDs in question after Sony BMG's recall had been enacted. The investigators were easily able to purchase the albums at all of the largest music retail stores. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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DMX Sentenced

AP reports: DMX was slapped with a seven-day sentence by a Bronx judge who said the rapper is "a violation waiting to happen." 

DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to driving with a suspended license in the Bronx last April after his sport utility vehicle struck a car that in turn hit a police car. He was also fined $500.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Keys and Bono Duet

AP reports: Alicia Keys and Bono are hoping to save the lives of children through song. The two superstars have collaborated on "Don't Give Up (Africa)," and will donate all proceeds to Keep A Child Alive, which provides medicine to families infected with AIDS and the HIV virus.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Tony Meehan RIP

Gigwise reports: Former Shadows drummer Tony Meehan has died aged 62 after sustaining head injuries from a fall.

Meehan was a founding member of the group and played on hits such as �Apache' between 1958 and 1961.

The Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch told the BBC: "It is so tragic. Tony was a hugely influential drummer and a very clever arranger." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Baby Stripe

Gigwise reports: It has been confirmed that Karen Elson the wife of White Stripes main man Jack White is up the duff!!!

According to Star magazine the baby is expected next spring.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Isle of Placebo

Gigwise reports: Placebo and Goldfrapp are the latest headline acts confirmed for next year's Isle of Wight festival.

Brian Molko and co. will joint headline the opening Friday night with the previously announced The Prodigy. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Jacko Not Daddy?

hecklerspray reports: Michael Jackson's kids aren't his, or so go the recent allegations of his ex-wife and children's mother Debbie Rowe. Oh where to begin...

The headline-prone Michael Jackson's (CDs) ex-wife Debbie Rowe spilled the dirt on the mighty Jackson's so-called posterity: Both children, Prince Michael Jr and Paris are said to be conceived from anonymous sperm obtained at an unnamed sperm bank.

She says: "Michael knows the truth - that he is not the natural father of Prince Michael Jr and Paris. He has to come clean. I have no information whatsoever about the identity of the semen donor for either child as such (semen) was obtained anonymously from a semen bank under an agreement of confidentiality." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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MC5 Win Name Case

Aversion reports: A District Court judge ruled that the surviving members of The MC5 did not violate trademark laws as alleged by the band's singer's widow.

Judge John J. Feikens of the Eastern Michigan court district dismissed a suit against the band filed in the name of its founding singer, Robert Derminer (real name: Rob Tyner). Tyner's widow, Becky Derminer, alleged that the band, which reformed last year after a 33-year breakup, infringed upon copyrights and the MC5 trademark[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Daniel Johnston Hospitalized

Aversion reports: Daniel Johnston has spent the past week in a hospital, suffering from what may be lithium poisiong.

The lo-fi singer/songwriter was taken to a hospital in his hometown of Waller, Texas suffering from an inability to walk or speak coherently. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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A.F.I.'s Big Day In

Aversion reports: A.F.I. won't be making to Australia's biggest music festival as originally planned.

The Goth-punk band flip-flopped its original decision to play The Big Day Out this year, instead choosing to stay home and work on the follow-up to Sing the Sorrow [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Aeromitzvah

Blabbermouth reports: According to The Boston Globe, AEROSMITH singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry made some easy money playing a big-bucks bat mitzvah in New York the other night. The Daily News reports that the dynamic duo were paid $2 million by Long Island defense contractor David H. Brooks to gig at his daughter's after-party Saturday (Nov. 26) at the Rainbow Room. [see full story to see who else joined the party]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Deep Purple DVD Box

Blabbermouth reports: According to Deep-Purple.net, BMG will be releasing two full shows from guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's last tour with DEEP PURPLE � recorded in Stuttgart and Birmingham in October/November 1993 on "The Battle Rages On" trek � as a four-CD box set. Both shows will be completely unedited[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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SOAD No 1

Audio Aggression reports: For the third time in their career, and the second this year, System of a Down's latest album, 'Hypnotize', is at the top of The Billboard Top 200 selling more than 320,000 copies. Former Creed front-man Scott Stapp's solo debut, 'The Great Divide', came in at number 19.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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