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Report for 7/28/05

Corgan Vs Fans

NME reports: BILLY CORGAN stormed offstage during a gig last night in MELBOURNE (July 26).

The ex-Smashing Pumpkins singer was performing at the city's Palais Theatre when fans began shouting for songs by his former band.

According to Undercover.com one audience member yelled "Play some Pumpkins" before Corgan retorted "Can I live my life for today?"

Nearing the close of the gig, another request for Smashing Pumpkins songs led Corgan to say "f*** this", and put his microphone down before walking offstage. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Ozzy Ill

siN's metal news reports: This is coming straight from the grounds at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ courtesy of former SMNnews.com reporter Mike Deacon. BLACK SABBATH will NOT perform tonight due to frontman Ozzy Osbourne becoming sick. Ozzfest MC / BLACK LABEL SOCIETY road crew member "Big Dave" announced this prior to A DOZEN FURIES' set today. All fans who leave before ROB ZOMBIE's set will get a full refund. However, the show will continue anyway, as IRON MAIDEN will have headlining duties. It was not announced if the band would be playing an extended set.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Coheed & dredg

The PRP reports: dredg have announced that they will be hitting the road alongside Coheed And Cambria this fall, dates and venues have yet to be announced. In other news, the group have booked a number of acoustic in-store performances, here's the schedule:
July 27th Denver, CO - Independent Records
August 2nd Memphis, TN - Cat's
August 3rd Nashville, TN - Grimey's
August 16th W. Babylon, NY - Looney Tunes
[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

P2P Good For Sales

BBC reports: People who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads, research suggests.

Digital music research firm The Leading Question found that they spent four and a half times more on paid-for music downloads than average fans.

Rather than taking legal action against downloaders, the music industry needs to entice them to use legal alternatives, the report said. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Now Tops Charts

Reuters reports: The 19th "NOW That's What I Call Music!" installment -- boasting popular cuts by Gwen Stefani, Coldplay, the Killers and Gorillaz -- ended R. Kelly's two-week reign on the U.S. pop album charts Wednesday, while Carly Simon enjoyed her highest-charting release in more than 30 years.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Franz Beatless

Gigwise reports: Franz Ferdinand star Paul Thomson has ditched playing the drums in favour of becoming the band's third guitarist.

Apparently Thomson never wanted to play drums for the much-lauded four piece and is now relishing the chance to play his favourite instrument.

An industry �source' said: "There are no hard feelings and the band haven't fallen out.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Motley Stones

Blabbermouth reports: MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee revealed during an appearance on the "Rockline" syndicated radio show earlier this week that the CRÜE will support THE ROLLING STONES at four shows late summer/early fall.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Lemmy Honored

Blabbermouth reports: Lemmy Kilmister, the notorious bass player and vocalist of Grammy-winning U.K. rock 'n' roll titans MOTÖRHEAD, will be honored with the very first "Living Legend" award at this year's inaugural Classic Rock Roll of Honor, organized by Classic Rock magazine. Taking place on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at London's Café De Paris, the Classic Rock Roll of Honor will celebrate the big names as well as the unsung heroes from the diverse world of rock 'n' roll and promises to take a fresh approach to the tired award ceremony format.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

SOiL Vs Drowning Pool

Blabbermouth reports: SOIL bassist Tim King has explained his decision to publicly slam the group's former singer, Ryan McCombs, for joining DROWNING POOL after McCombs allegedly deemed the songs on the first DROWNING POOL album "average."

"The reason for my [previous] post was because I couldn't hold it in any longer. I have been for years and was willing to never say a word. But [Ryan] joining the band and with the events and real truth of what happened, I couldn't stand by and let the charade go on any further. I loved [late DROWNING POOL frontman] Dave [Williams] as a metal brother and a musician and we got pretty close over the year I knew him. The 'Sinner' record is still one of my favorites to this day as well as the new album ['Desensitized']. I think Jason Gong has an amazing voice as well. But when I hear a certain ex-singer of ours saying how close he was to Dave when he never even knew him properly or liked his album and THEN join that band when he said those shoes were too big to fill and never would do that is just plain wrong, in my opinion. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Def Delay

Blabbermouth reports: According to a posting on DEF LEPPARD's official web site, the release date of DEF LEPPARD's all-covers set, entitled "Yeah!" has been pushed back to late 2005/early 2006 from the previously announced September 20. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Thunderpussy Reissue

BW&BK reports: ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY originally released their River City Revival album in 1999 on Man's Ruin Records. On August 30th, Relapse Records will reissue the disc with new artwork and three bonus tracks.

ATP guitarist Erik Larson details the bonus material. "The first two (songs), 'Heavyweight' and 'Rabdos The Strangler' were originally released as a split EP with HALFWAY TO GONE on Game Two/Underdogma Records. The third is a CAPTAIN BEYOND cover we did for a limited split 7" with ORANGE GOBLIN on Eccentric Man Records. As with the other re-issues, there are Ken Hensley style liner notes written by yours truly." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Metal Santana

BW&BK reports: Billboard.com (www.billboard.com) report that the release date for SANTANA's new album, All That I Am, is on the move again. Having already been bumped from June 21st to September 6th, the Arista set is now pegged for a November 1st release.

The album features a guest appearance from METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett, who plays on the track �Trinity'.
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Siouxsie Reissues

NME reports: SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES's entire album back catalogue has been digitally re-mastered and will be reissued over the next year.

The series will kick off with the re-release of debut 'The Scream' on October 3.

The album will also come backed with a second CD of period rarities.

Originally released in November 1978, 'The Scream' featured the tracks 'Switch', 'Jigsaw Feeling' and a cover of The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter'.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Cave In Shuffle

The PRP reports: Cave In have officially parted ways with their drummer JR Connors and have now recruited Ben Koller of Converge on a full-time basis for the time being. The group are working towards an October/November tour in support of their upcoming new album "Perfect Pitch Black", which will see a September 13th release through Hydra Head.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Finch Headless

The PRP reports: Due to band frontman Daryl Palumbo's recurring problems with Crohn's Disease, Head Automatica have now officially canceled all of their previously booked performances with Finch and RX Bandits.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Ray Honored

MTV reports: Ray Charles will soon have a Los Angeles post office named in his honor, according to a bill President Bush signed into law earlier this month. An official naming ceremony at the building located at 4960 W. Washington Boulevard, near the site of Charles' original studio, will take place on August 24[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

New Supergroup

punkbands reports: Former members of F-Minus, Engine Down, & Rise Against have formed Thieves Like Us. The band includes Erica Daking and Joe Steinbrick of F-Minus, Cornbread Compton (Engine Down) and Todd Mohney who left Rise Against last year.

The Los Angeles based band recently recorded some demos at Atlas Studios in Chicago before departing for their tour with Alkaline Trio[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

John Tamas RIP

punkbands reports: John Tamas, guitarist of Connecticut-based Palehorse has passed away. His label, Martyr issued the following statement from his bandmates: As most of you may know by now, a close personal friend, brother, and band mate passed away [Monday]. There are no words to express the shock and despair we are all feeling right now. [see full story for more]- 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 past two weeks weve rolling out the list each week day. We starting backwards with final 10 and will be worked 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.

9) Butterfly � Crazy Town
Meet the song that helped bring down rap-rock.

Click Here to find out which songs landed in the 16-20 slots and to post your comments and submit artists for the next Lame list.

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