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| Zeppelin
Reunion |
BW&BK reports: According to Led-Zeppelin.com,
JIMMY PAGE and ROBERT PLANT are scheduled to perform together at the upcoming
Montreux Jazz Festival for a tribute to Atlantic Record's founder Ahmet
Ertegun on June 30th. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Metallica
in Chains |
FMQB reports: [bit of a follow up... look
who joined the fun!]Metallica singer James Hetfield and bassist Robert
Trujillo will perform with Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell and
drummer Sean Kinney at a benefit show in Los Angeles on May 12. The concert/dinner
is a fundraiser for the MusiCares MAP Fund[see full story for more]-
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| MTV's
Pope Bashing Litigated |
Contact Music reports: International music
television network MTV is the target of a new lawsuit filed by a Christian
Social Union party official in Berlin, Germany. The broadcaster is accused
of disparaging Christianity with POPETOWN, it's series of Vatican-themed
cartoons - one of which sees the Pope depicted as a pogo-stick riding brat.[see
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| Queen
of Crock |
MTV reports: She asked the world "What's going
on?," made Christina Aguilera feel beautiful, got the party started with
Pink and discovered James Blunt, who made us feel beautiful. Now Linda
Perry has a new mission.
"My dedication right now is to bring back
the queen of rock and roll, and that's Courtney Love," Perry said at Thursday's
"I Create Music" Expo for songwriters, put on by the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers. "That woman is brilliant, and I can't
allow myself as a music lover and someone who really respects that artist
to go down with America's Sweetheart. That record sucked.[at least Linda
got that last part right. Love brilliant? Maybe she meant 'has a voice
like a brillopad?' see full story for more]- Click
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| Jet
Lag |
Gigwise reports: Now for the news the whole
world has been waiting for; Jet are close to finishing their second album.
Posting on their official website they
revealed: "We've tracked 20 cracking songs. Weare now happy to tell you
that that not only do we have drums and bass finished but that we are well
into guitar overdubs. That means we are inundated with a cache of beautiful
vintage guitars and amps."[see full story for more]- Click
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| Nothing
is Sacred |
CMJ reports: The beloved cult novel/film High
Fidelity is set to hit the stage as a Broadway musical, a move that could
see Rob belting out his Top Five Least Favorite Showtunes or Dick and Barry
arguing the merits of Can in-key. Slated for a December release, the musical
will be brought to you by the producers behind Avenue Q and songwriters
Tom Kitt and Amanda Green who wrote the play Rabbit Hole. [see full story
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| Heavy
Download |
Blabbermouth reports: IN FLAMES, SICK OF IT
ALL, ATREYU, JOHNNY TRUANT, DEVILDRIVER and MENDEED are among the latest
acts confirmed for Download festival, set to take place at Castle Donington,
Leicestershire, over the weekend of June 9-11 June.[see full story for
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| Godsmack
No 1 |
Blabbermouth reports: According to Hits Daily
Double, GODSMACK's latest CD, "IV", is on track to sell more than 200,000
copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No.
1 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. The official sales figures and
chart positions will be released a week from today (May 3).[see full story
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| Ozzy
Can't Hack Dylan |
Blabbermouth reports: According to Ozzyhead.com,
a representative for Ozzy Osbourne has refuted published reports that Ozzy
will record guest vocals for an upcoming BOB DYLAN tribute album. The original
article, which was published by the Lansing State Journal, suggested that
Ozzy would be appearing on the disc alongside MOUNTAIN guitarist Leslie
West.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Sirius
Meets Rebel |
Blabbermouth reports: Legendary drummer Vinnie
Paul Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN) will be playing all of the tracks from
REBEL MEETS REBEL, the long awaited collaboration between Vinnie, his late
brother "Dimebag" Darrell, and outlaw country icon David Allan Coe, on
Sirius Satellite Radio's "Hard Attack" on Friday, April 28 beginning at
9:00 p.m. "Vinnie's gonna tell us the deal behind every f-ing song� but
he'll also talk about his brother, his music, his women and what it really
means to meet a true rock and roll rebel," reads a Sirius press release.
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| Blind
Orchestra |
BW&BK reports: German power metallers
BLIND GUARDIAN's Andre Olbrich (guitars) revealed in an interview with
Metal Temple magazine that the band has been working on a strictly orchestral
album, due for release in 2008. Here's an excerpt from the interview:
Metal Temple: Virgin never really took
care of releasing your albums with bonus material and cool editions. Will
this ever change?
Andre: "Yes! There will be a limited edition
pack with one bonus track from our upcoming orchestral album. I don't know
what else Nuclear Blast Records is planning but they are more active than
Virgin..."
Metal Temple: Orchestral album?
Andre: "Yes, this is material we are writing
the last eight years and we have never found the time to release the album.
But now we have almost finished the songwriting and we've started the production
with our producer Charlie Bauerfeind and Viktor Smolski [Rage] who is involved
in the orchestral recordings. The album will be released in 2008." [see
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| Bigger
Tools |
TuneLab reports: A message from vocalist Maynard
James Keenan on Tool's homepage tells those who didn't get tickets to this
sold-out warm-up tour not to worry, a larger, full-scale tour for the end
of summer is in the works. [see full story for more]-
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| Euro
Jesu |
The PRP reports: Jesu will be touring Europe
and the UK next month with Final, here's the dates:
May 10th Bristol, UK - The Cooler
May 12th Gent, BEL - Charlatan
May 13th Dordrecht, NET - Urban Explorers
Festival
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| Vagrant
Lemonheads |
punkbands reports: Vagrant has signed Lemonheads.
The band reformed last summer and began work on their eighth studio album
and first in almost a decade with producer Bill Stevenson (Black Flag,
Descendents, ALL) who, along with Karl Alvarez (Descendents, ALL) is moonlighting
in the band. The new album is due out this fall. [see full story for more]-
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| AFI
Escape Plan |
punkbands reports: Dillinger Escape Plan have
posted an update on some of their plans for the next few months.
The AFI/DEP tour will be major North American
cities. We will be playing headlining shows on the offdates of that tour
in places like Bumblef***, Nebraska, and we also have two festival headlining
appearances right before the AFI tour. Every date will be announced soon,
we're just getting s*** finalized. This is gonna be fun.We have been friends
with the AFI guys for a while and haven't played with them since Krazyfest
2002 when they played right after us in front of the Ohio river. Anyone
remember that s***? Crazy times. [see full story for more DEP happenings]-
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| Natl
Slayer Day |
SMN reports: Are you interested in staging
a "slay-out" and making a complete fool of yourself in public? Then join
the ranks of the growing army behind NATIONAL DAY OF SLAYER. Scheduled
for June 6, 2006 the purpose of the day, according to the organization's
official website is, "for everyone within earshot to understand that it
is the National Day of Slayer. National holidays in America aren't just
about celebrating; they're about forcing it upon non-participants."[see
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| Initial
Strhess |
SMN reports: The first dates have been released
for the upcoming Strhess Tour featuring SHADOWS FALL, POISON THE WELL,
and STILL REMAINS:
with Darkest Hour, Bury Your Dead:
July 12 - Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
July 15 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
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