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Report for 7/21/05

Ozzy Vs Press

Blabbermouth reports: The Boston Globe is reporting that the wife of BLACK SABBATH frontman Ozzy Osbourne has Boston Herald editorial director Ken Chandler in her crosshairs after the newspaper once again ignored her ban on photos of the singer performing at Ozzfest. (Viewers of MTV's "The Osbournes" know Ozzy suffers from debilitating and potentially embarrassing body tremors.) After the Herald published a picture last year, Sharon was furious and called Chandler to complain. (He reportedly hung up on her.) Ozzfest publicist Shazila Mohammed said the Herald wasn't given photo access this year but still sneaked a shot of Ozzy into its Saturday paper. Chandler is on vacation, but managing editor Kevin Convey said yesterday, "No one is going to tell us what pictures we're going to put in the paper."[If it was People magazine it might have been different. see full story for more and see how Clear Channel teamed up with Sharonfest in protest]- Click Here for the Full Story

Gucci Mane Arrest

AP reports: Rapper Gucci Mane has been arrested in Miami on an Atlanta assault warrant, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The aggravated assault warrant stems from an altercation earlier this month involving a promoter and people at Mane's record label, Big Cat Records. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Censorship Coalition

FMQB reports: A new coalition has been formed, dubbed Pause, Parent, Play, designed to educate parents about taking control of what their kids listen to and watch in the world of entertainment. The coalition is backed by Senators Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and encompasses many entertainment companies, including Viacom, the RIAA, Time Warner, NBC Universal, Comcast, Microsoft and the National Cable And Telecommunications Association, among other partners. The campaign aims to "empower parents to choose what their kids watch, hear and play - from TV and movies to video games and music," according to the Web site, pauseparentplay.org. The coalition is encouraging parents to:

PAUSE - take a minute to think about the media that is available and how their kids might react to it.
PARENT - decide what is appropriate for their own kids, talk with them, and use the options at their disposal to help them.
PLAY - enjoy the media with their kids. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Boss DVD

Reuters reports: Bruce Springsteen's recent turn on the VH1 series "Storytellers" will emerge on DVD Sept. 6 via Columbia Music Video.

The footage has been re-edited, expanding the program from the one-hour version that premiered April 23 on the music channel to nearly two hours for the home video release.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Xfm Poll Mused

Gigwise reports: Muse fans have rigged a radio poll searching for the individual members of the �World's Greatest Indie Band'.

Frontman and guitarist Matt Bellamy, bassist Chris Wolstenholme and drummer Dom Howard each came top in their respective category in the survey carried out by xfm. However station official suspected something iffy was going on and knocked the Radiohead clones off the top spot. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Sonic Youth Reissue

Aversion reports: There's going to be a bit more Goo from Sonic Youth shortly.

The band will issue a double-disc version of its monumental 1990 opus. In addition to boasting a ton of extra tracks, the new version also features the original album in a remixed and remastered form. So much for lo-fi. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Godsmack Games

Blabbermouth reports: A brand-new GODSMACK track, entitled "Bring It On", will be featured on the new installment of EA Sports' popular video game series, Madden. Madden 06 comes out August 6. Other bands expected to appear on Madden 06 include AVENGED SEVENFOLD ("Bat Country"), DISTURBED ("Ten Thousand Fists"), FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND ("Streetcar") and FOO FIGHTERS ("No Way Back"). [see full story for more including preorder link]- Click Here for the Full Story

Gigaproblems

Blabbermouth reports: Progressive metallers SYMPHONY X have issued the following Gigantour update via their official web site:

"We apologize deeply for any inconvenience this may cause, but we were just informed today by MEGADETH's agency of these changes. There will be no second stage at either the San Antonio show, or the newly announced Cincinnati show. So that makes four venues � San Diego, San Antonio, Cincinnati, and Boston � where there will be no second stage, and as such, SYMPHONY X won't be appearing at those shows."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Korn Vs Head

Blabbermouth reports: KORN frontman Jonathan Davis has slammed ex-KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch over Welch's assertion that his former bandmates have used outside songwriters to compose material "just to have a phat house and a bunch of cars."

Writing to his ButtSexCrips.com web site, KORN singer Jonathan Davis addressed Head's remarks by stating, "I have no idea what Head is talking about. We have ALWAYS wrote [sic] our own music I think it's pretty funny KORN has done nothing but wish Head the best with his 'new life' but in turn, all he does is stir up all this drama. KORN has moved on and I think it's time for Brian to do the same." [see full story for Head's comments]- Click Here for the Full Story

Cars Tribute

BW&BK reports: Guitarist JOHNNY MONOACO of ENUFF Z'NUFF is one of the featured artists on a new CD called Substitution Mass Confusion - A Tribute To THE CARS.

Monaco covers �Dangerous Type' from The Cars' Candy-O album. The compilation also includes artists such as Jon Auer of THE POSIES, BUTCH WALKER, THE BRAVERY, JASON FAULKNER and GIGOLO AUNTS. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Soulfly of Death

BW&BK reports: SOULFLY fan site Soulfly Web (www.soulflyweb.com) has been updated with the following news regarding the band's Dark Ages album, out through Roadrunner on October 4th:

Billy Milano of STORMTROOPERS OF DEATH, who appears on �Molotov', originally had a conflicting schedule with Soulfly, and because the band could not wait for him, Max called Billy and his piece was recorded via cellular phone. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Tenacious Tease

Audio Aggression reports: The official teaser site for Tenacious D's upcoming film "The Pick of Destiny" is online at www.tenaciousdmovie.com. On the site, you can watch a clip of the "Hell O' Clock News" on channel 666 where the D is interviewed about the upcoming film.- Click Here for the Full Story

B.I.G. Movie

andPOP reports: Variety reports that Fox Searchlight Pictures is in talks with Antoine Fuqua to direct a biopic of late rapper Notorious B.I.G..

Born Christopher Wallace, the rapper went from a drug dealer to a hip-hop sensation, helping establish Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy music label. B.I.G. was 24 when he was murdered, gunned down at a Vibe magazine after-party in March 1997. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Evergreen Terrace Dates

IAYM reports: Evergreen Terrace will soon be hitting the road with Silverstein, I Am The Avalanche and Scary Kids Scaring Kids, dates are as follows

August 15th Buffalo, New York Icon
August 16th Farmingdale, New York Downtown
August 17th Boston, Massachusetts Middle East
[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rev Smile Hiring

IAYM reports: Michael Ryan has signed on to fill the long vacant second guitarist spot in The Revolution Smile and will be making his live debut during the group's August 19th performance at the Underground in Roseville, California. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Kaiser Chiefs Riot Tour

NME reports: They started 2005 opening the NME AWARDS TOUR, then stole GLASTONBURY and bagged a MERCURY PRIZE nomination along the way, so how do the KAISER CHIEFS top that?

By teaming-up with NME for the 02 Rock N Roll Riot Tour.

With The Cribs and Maximo Park also hitching along for the ride, this tour promises to be the hottest ticket come the autumn. [see full story for more including dates and ticket info]- Click Here for the Full Story

Sgt Pepper Record

NME reports: SIR PAUL McCARTNEY and U2's version of 'SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND' which opened LIVE 8 Has become the fastest-selling download of all time .

The artists took to the stage for the historic event in front of 200,000 people in London's Hyde Park on July 2. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Ministry Tour

The PRP reports: Ministry, Revolting Cocks and Spyder Baby will be hitting the road together as part of the "MasterBaTour 2006", which is set to kick off in May 2006. - Click Here for the Full Story

Cruiserweight Parody Journey

punkbands reports: New Cruiserweight video for "Permanent Things" is a parody of Journey's video for "Separate Ways" (circa 1982) and features an appearance by Letters To Cleo frontwoman, Kay Hanley in a minuscule skirt and really high heels. Enjoy, fanboys.[see full story for a link to the video]- Click Here for the Full Story

...Lamest Songs Special

We're taking a break over the next couple weeks from our Artist Top Five lists to bring you the 101 Lamest Songs of All Time. Our writers and readers were asked to nominate the songs for this special and we've compiled the nominations into our definitive 101 Lamest Songs of All Time list.

Over the next two weeks we'll be rolling out the list each week day. We're starting backwards with final 10 and will be working our way back. Also to do something a little different we'll also be revealing one song from the Top 10 each week day in the Day in Rock report with comments on why each song was selected and came out at the top of the lame list.

4) Sk8tr Boi - Avril Lavigne
This song is just flat out lame; can we make it any more obvious?

Click Here to find out which songs landed in the 61-70 slots and to post your comments and submit artists for the next Lame list.

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