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Report for 04/20/06

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GNR Scam

BW&BK reports: On Friday afternoon, 307 Downtown had GUNS N' ROSES' 'Welcome To The Jungle' cranked on the stereo and at least one employee was doing frontman Axl Rose's signature snake dance. That day, venue managers sent in a deposit for a solo Rose gig on May 26th and felt certain they had booked the biggest show ever at the club.

By Saturday afternoon, the song and dance came to a halt: Following a front-page story in Saturday's edition of The Daily Advertiser, Rose's booking and management company e-mailed the club's management, asking why they were disseminating false information.

"We both came to the conclusion that it (the booking) was fraudulent," said Chad Fouquier, 307's entertainment coordinator.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Roth Replaced?

Blabbermouth reports: According to Hits Daily Double, CBS Radio's Joel Hollander has made a deal with XM Radio to replace David Lee Roth with Opie and Anthony. Look for the High Voltage duo to return to the terrestrial airwaves on CBS' N.Y., Philly and Dallas' Free-FMs as well as WBCN Boston, WNCX Cleveland, Pittsburgh's K-Rock and West Palm Beach's The Buzz. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Madonna Crucified

Ananova reports: Madonna will start shows on her new tour by descending from the ceiling on a giant cross.

The crucifix will be made of diamonds and Swarovski crystals and has reportedly cost £5.7million, reports The Sun.

Despite having become a devotee of the Jewish-based Kabbalah sect, Madonna is still happy to use Catholic imagery to shock.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Mamma Mia! No!

antiMusic reports: Hollywood seems to be so creatively bankrupt at the moment that they are forced to keep returning to one of the darkest periods of popular entertainment-the 70s. It seems that every terrible television show of the era has been made into a feature length movie within the past few years but for the most part they have shied away from resurrecting 70s pop music. That was until now. The suits at the film studios are so afraid on new ideas that they are willing to bring back Abba in all its gory [not a typo] for the mass consumer market and boomerbots to rush in their SUVs to the nearest multiplex and lay down $10 bucks to look back at the me decade through the rose colored glasses of nostalgia. 

Who best to lead this assault upon good taste but one of Hollywood's most overrated actors-Tom Hanks. Hanks production company Playtone has signed a deal with the producers of "Mamma Mia!" to bring the musical based on Abba's hits to the big screen. Don't underestimate the nostalgia power of the boomerbots, the stage musical has brought in a whopping $1.6 billion worldwide since it first assaulted Londoners in 1999. Expect this screen epic sometime in 2007 and perhaps a big screen version of "Bosom Buddies" won't be far behind.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Proof Farewell

BBC reports: US rapper Eminem has paid tribute to his close friend and fellow rapper Proof, who was laid to rest on Wednesday. 

A member of Eminem's rap collective D12, Proof was killed last week at a nightclub shooting in Detroit. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Flatt Chart

Contact Music reports: Country music rules the US album charts as trio RASCAL FLATTS continue to dominate at the top and TOBY KEITH crashes in at number two. Rascall Flatts sold another 345,000 copies of their latest album, ME + MY GANG, to take their two-week tally to an incredible 1.5 million, while Keith's WHITE TRASH WITH MONEY debuts at number two with 330,000 CDs sold.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Mariah Shills Sugar Water

E! reports: Mariah Carey may be taking her role as pop idol a bit too literally. 

The multiplatinum-selling singer has teamed up with Pepsi to write and produce 20 original voice and music ringtones for release this summer. Carey will also star in a national commercial promoting the Pepsi Cool Tones & Motorola Phones partnership as part of her endorsement deal.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Summerfest Jam

Reuters reports: Pearl Jam and Tom Petty have extended their run of co-headlining shows with a June 29-30 stand in Milwaukee at Summerfest, an annual 11-day event also featuring such acts as Nine Inch Nails and Mary J. Blige.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Rufio Return

Absolute Punk reports: Rufio has re-formed with a new lineup: Scott Sellers (guitar/vocal), Clark Domae (guitar), Nathan Warker (drums) and Alex Lewis (bass / ex-Yellowcard). The band will be playing the following dates in South America:

30/04 - Teatro Caupolican - Santiago/Chile
04/05 - Via Funchal - Sao Paulo/Brazil
05/05 - Claro Hall - Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
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Unsexiest

Blabbermouth reports: GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose, MOTÖRHEAD mainman Lemmy Kilmister and NICKELBACK singer Chad Kroeger are among the 100 Unsexiest Men in the World, according to ThePhoenix.com. After pouring through thousands of photographs, millions of frames of movies and TV shows, the staff at ThePhoenix.com has compiled a list of the least sexy males on the planet.

Kroeger, who makes the list at No. 6, is included in the Top 100 not just because of "the massive head, weird face, and bad hair," but "also the fact that he's in NICKELBACK, the worst band since the dawn of music"[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Poison Film

Blabbermouth reports: Syndicated newspaper columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith are reporting that POISON lead singer Bret Michaels � who's gearing up to head out on the group's "20 Years of Rock Tour" next month � will go before the cameras by year's end in a film based on his own life if all goes as planned.

"I've been working on this for two years. It's a true dramedy, and we're going to start shooting after I finish the 20th anniversary of POISON tour," said Michaels, who overcame juvenile diabetes to become a world-famous rocker. But, he said, "I'm not going to play the star. I'm going to play the personal assistant who watches this guy's life. When people see what I wrote they'll see it's like nothing else out there. It's a combination of funny and real and sad and hilarious."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Euro Cult

Blabbermouth reports: Several new THE CULT European tour dates have been leaked so far. They are as follows:

Jun. 03 - Benidorm (Alicante), SPA @ Benidorm Music Meeting
Jun. 04 - Madrid, SPA @ La Riviera
Jun. 05 - Barcelona, SPA @ Razzmatazz
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Anthrax Powerless

Blabbermouth reports: ANTHRAX's concert in Gothenburg, Sweden Wednesday night (April 19) lasted only a few minutes, according to a BLABBERMOUTH.NET source that was present at the gig. Halfway through the opening song, "Among the Living", the band's amplifiers, vocalist Joey Belladonna's microphone and the monitors all went dead and the band was forced to leave the stage. The crowd was told that there was a power problem, but was asked to stay put while it was being fixed. The house PA and speakers worked as per usual, seeing as music was played while an attempt was made to fix what appeared to be "a poweramp to the backline or something like that," according to another attendee.

More than an hour later, an announcement was made that the show had to be cancelled due to "severe electrical problems." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Caliban Tour

BW&BK reports: CALIBAN will be headlining the first ever Abacus Recordings Tour, which also features SWORN ENEMY, ION DISSONANCE and EMBRACE THE END. 

The tour will have Caliban playing high profile festivals along the way such as the New England Metal And Hardcore Festival, The Maryland Metal and Hardcore Festival and the first annual California Metalfest.[see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Family Values 06

TuneLab reports: Korn, Stone Sour, Deftones, and Flyleaf are among the bands that have been confirmed so far for this year's "Family Values Tour". A second stage is expected to be announced shortly with the inclusion of some hip-hop acts. 

The thirty date tour will kick off on July 27th[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Emo Goes '90s

punkbands reports: Fearless Records have posted a new set of song samples from the upcoming Punk Goes �90s release on the official Punk Goes �90s Myspace and Punk Goes '90s Purevolume pages. Punk Goes �90s features hits of the '90s covered by a bunch of emo bands including Mae, Plain White T's, Copeland, and Bleeding Through. Some of the bands covered are The Chili Peppers, Oasis, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, etc. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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