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Slapps Stapp |
Day in Rock reports: [The following came from
one of our regular readers] According to SA Martinez of 311. Scott Stapp
was in the same Hotel/Hotel Bar in Baltimore on Thanksgiving night. Apparently
Mr. Stapp showed up to the lounge in the Hotel while the boys from 311
were enjoying the Laker game. [The following comes from 311's website]
"[Stapp] appeared intoxicated. He drank a shot at the bar and then threw
his shot glass, smashing it on the bar. He was acting belligerent and got
into an argument with patrons sitting at the bar. He then sat down next
to SA and his wife. He made a disrespectful and crude remark to SA's wife.
Chad and SA asked him to step away. He then sucker-punched Chad." According
to SA on KROQ yesterday, "I laid Scott Stapp out" and then Chad finished
the job. Hotel Security and Baltimore Police showed up. No arrests were
made and Mr. Stapp was made to check out of the hotel immediately. [There
are various reports on the web about this. The Hotel security hotel director
told AP that he has film of the fight and it appears that 311 attacked
Stapp. Billboard reports that the Baltimore Police have no record of officers
responding to a call to the hotel. We could not find an official comment
from the Stapp camp beyond a "no comment" given to E! You can read 311's
account at the full story link]
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| Poison
for Tots |
BW&BK reports: [Poison guitarist CC ]DeVille
stars in episode of the Nickelodeon series South Of Nowhere. He plays a
Rock Star who goes home to see his daughter after 20 years. The episode
included a song titled 'Hang On' which was written and performed by Deville.[see
full story for more]- Click
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| RIAA
Strike Again |
tinfoil.music reports: Organized Music's RIAA
(Recording Industry Association of America) yesterday issued another 754
subpoenas as part of its sue 'em all marketing drive.
Victims included students at 12 colleges.
This makes what, close to 17,000 Americans who are being hounded by the
OM family, Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) Vivendi Universal (France), EMI (Britain)
and Warner Music (US, but headed by a Canadian)? [maybe the kids downloaded
in order to avoid getting rootkits stealthy installed on this PCs? Now
wouldn't that make for an interesting defense? see full story for more]-
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| Post
Damageplan |
Day in Rock reports: The Mercy Clinic featuring
Pat Lachman (Damageplan, Fight) and Brian Harrah (Professional Murder Music,
Cold) are playing a showcase @ the Viper Room on December 16th. It's an
early show so get there early, Mercy Clinic hits the stage at 7:45. While
no one here at anti has see this new band, we have been told by someone
we trust, "This is an amazing band that I really believe in and you won't
be sorry you came out. I Promise!" Good enough for us. (ok we did check
out the mp3s on there site and they do kick ass) If we hear more we'll
tell you more. Also playing that night antiFEST 02 alums Solarcade and
OC buzz band Bril. Check out the full story to learn more about The Mercy
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| Taste
of Chaos Details |
antiMusic reports: So you want a little Taste
of Chaos? You're in luck, Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman has organized
another run of the Winter festival tour. As reported earlier this week,
they have quite the line up in store for 06 edition of the tour including
Thrice, Deftones, Story of the Year, As I Lay Dying, Atreyu and more (see
full list below). But what you didn't know was where this little bit of
chaos was gonna take place. You're in luck. We happened upon the official
dates and they are posted below.
Some overpriced, under energized energy
drink has singed on as the "title" sponsor of the tour. Oh yeah, they call
it Rock Star Energy Drink and they will supposedly be giving away free
samples at the shows instead of charging the ordinary $1 or $2 bucks an
oz. Hot Topic, Best Buy and more of the usual suspects are also sponsoring
the tour.
US Dates:
February 16 - San Diego, CA - San Diego
Sports Arena
February 17 - Phoenix, AZ - Mesa Amphitheatre
February 18 - El Paso, TX - County Coliseum
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| Darkness
Sacking Explained |
Contact Music reports: THE DARKNESS frontman
JUSTIN HAWKINS kicked bass player FRANKIE POULLAIN out of the band when
he heard about the rocker's scheming plans to turn his brother against
him.
Hawkins reveals he'd already grown tired
of Poullain's efforts to find the group's financial accounting faulty and
when the bassist started suggesting bandmate DAN HAWKINS should be looking
out for himself, the singer decided enough was enough.[see full story for
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| Kitty
Rock |
FMQB reports: After receiving critical acclaim
for 2003's full-length debut, Fever To Tell, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are poised
to drop the follow-up sometime next year. However, the songs' themes may
surprise fans used to Karen O's sexually-charged lyrics. According to producer
Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel aka director Spike Jonze's brother), the
new album is based around the life and times of Karen's pet cat. Seriously.[see
full story for more]- Click
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| Auction
Johnson |
MTV reports: Jack Johnson, along with Matt
Costa and Tom Dumont, who supported Johnson on his 2005 summer trek, have
donated an autographed cherry-red Hamer Echotone guitar to be auctioned
off for charity on eBay. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the MusiCares
Foundation, which assists musicians in times of need.[see full story to
see who else have goodies up for bid]- Click
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| JaY-Z
Nixes Bio |
MTV reports: It turns out Jay-Z isn't going
to share his life story with the world after all. The rapper signed a deal
with MTV Books two years ago to publish his autobiography, to be co-written
with hip-hop journalist Dream Hampton and called "The
Black Book." But once the book was finished,
Jay apparently got cold feet and decided not to put it out[see full story
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| Rush
Rockline |
Blabbermouth reports: Canadian rock legends
RUSH will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show
"Rockline" airing Wednesday, December 14. The live show begins at 8:30
p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET[see full story for more]- Click
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| Club
Fire Update |
Blabbermouth reports: A federal judge has
refused to dismiss a massive negligence case against the town of West Warwick,
which was filed by more than 250 people who were injured or lost family
members in the February 2003 blaze, including the girlfriend of late GREAT
WHITE guitarist Ty Longley.[see full story for more]-
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| Arch
Enemy on Maiden Egging |
Blabbermouth reports: Arch Enemy Mike Amott,
"That's not how you treat a legendary heavy metal band � at least that's
the way I see it. At the same time, it didn't feel like it was my battle.
It was Bruce Dickinson on one side and Sharon Osbourne on the other. Both
are multi-millionaires and maybe have egos to back it up. [The dispute]
had nothing to do with us and was solely between these two camps. It just
seemed ridiculous that something like that was taken to that level. The
problems should have been solved backstage, with them getting into a fight
there or something. It shouldn't have happened on stage, as it affected
the audience who had bought super-expensive tickets just to have their
IRON MAIDEN concert ruined."[see full story for more on this and find out
about their reaction to seeing another man naked on stage at $haronfest]-
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| From
Crown To Stolen Policecar |
Blabbermouth reports: STOLEN POLICECAR, the
new Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN bassist Magnus Olsfelt, are
currently mixing their debut album at Studio MT with producer Marko Tervonen
(ANGEL BLAKE, ex-THE CROWN). The group, who are currently unsigned, will
present the finished album to interested labels.
Commented Tervonen: "From a producer's
point of view, I must say that the album is simply phenomenal. I have always
had a huge respect for Magnus as a songwriter and this time the man is
f***ing peaking. And the whole band is a very strong unit. We recorded
14 songs and the end result is a pretty diverse album with sounds from
punk, rock, metal, Seattle... to... simply timeless rock anthems.[see full
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| EFF
Calls DMCA Reform A Crock |
tinfoil.music reports: Congress has instructed
the U.S. Copyright Office to consider every three years whether we need
temporary exemptions to the DMCA's blanket ban on circumventing "technological
protection measures" (aka DRM) used to lock up copyrighted works.
EFF has participated in each of the two
prior rulemakings (in 2000 and 2003), each time asking the Copyright Office
to create exemptions for perfectly lawful consumer uses for digital media
that are encumbered by DRM restrictions. For example, we asked that DVD
owners be allowed to skip those "unskippable" ads at the beginning of DVDs.
We asked that people who bought copy-protected CDs be allowed to get them
to play on their computer. We asked that consumers be allowed to bypass
region coding to play a DVD purchased in another part of the world. The
Copyright Office rejected all of these proposals. This year, we are not
submitting any proposals.[see full story on why they feel the system is
broken]- Click
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