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Report for 02/16/06
GNR Leak
antiMusic reports: A new Guns N' Roses track has made its way onto the Internet. The track appears to be a near studio quality demo of the song "I.R.S.", the same song that was played on Eddie Trunk's radio show by New York Mets' Mike Piazza in August of 2003. Several poor quality clips leaked onto the net last April. 

We also have reports that another new song titled "Better" has been partially leaked. A 1 minute 2o second clip of the song is reportedly making the rounds on the Internet as well. 

It is not known if the final versions of "I.R.S." and "Better" will make it onto the long delayed Chinese Democracy, but the leak of "I.R.S." may settle some fears of the GNR faithful that the new album would be a huge departure from the classic GNR sound. It still sounds like GNR, just further down the road from Use Your Illusion. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Pedophile Rap
Gigwise reports: US rapper Cam'ron has revealed that he to start his own crusade to rid the world of all forms of paedophilia and paedophiles.

Apparently the American MC was inspired recently by a news segment on US channel MSNBC on adults using the internet to obtain illegal porn and coerce children into meeting them.

He now plans to start patrolling the internet where he hopes to deceive the prospective paedophiles into meeting him upon which he hopes to film them for an upcoming DVD he wants to release.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Roth Wants Reunion
Rockdirt reports: David Lee Roth, Van Halen's original frontman, said on Tuesday's "Roth Radio" that he has a better idea than the band's plan to seek a new lead singer through CBS-TV's 'Rock Star' reality show. "People want the reunion," said Roth. "No one will pay respect to what any of us do [musically] until we get the reunion out of the way. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Garth Vs Elvis
Contact Music reports: Retired country superstar GARTH BROOKS is just 500,000 album sales away from toppling ELVIS PRESLEY as the best-selling solo artist in American music history.

Thanks to his smash-hit 2005 compilation box set THE LIMITED SERIES, Brooks' latest sales figures have surpassed the 116 million mark - just 500,000 behind Presley.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Brit Winners
CMJ reports: Coldplay grabbed best British album and single, while Green Day took best international album at the Brit Awards, which took place in London February 15. The Arcade Fire lost in all three categories where they received nominations: best international album, group, and breakout act. Kaiser Chiefs took home three of the Brit-specific awards (the Brits have separate catagories to take care of their own). The group won best group act, live act, and rock act. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Curious Hit
MTV reports: While "Curious George" failed to drum up enough ticket sales over the weekend for a first-place finish at the box office, the film's soundtrack, Sing-a-Longs and Lullabies for the Film "Curious George," made a big impression at the nation's record stores � scoring mellow surfer-turned-singer Jack Johnson his first-ever Billboard-topping debut.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Bon Scott Honor
Reuters reports: In an unusual ruling, the grave site of AC/DC singer Bon Scott in Fremantle Cemetery in Western Australia was classified with a heritage listing Wednesday (February 15).[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Why Music Sales Are Down
Reuters reports: Actress Scarlett Johansson, "Moulin Rouge" star Ewan McGregor and "Desperate Housewives" principal Teri Hatcher are among the actors who will put their own spin on famous tunes on "Unexpected Dreams: Songs from the Stars." Due April 11 via Rhino[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Nickleback Tops Eh
AP reports: Nickelback, the first Canadian band to debut No. 1 on the Billboard chart in over 30 years, received a leading six nominations Wednesday for Canada's annual top music award. 

The Alberta rockers' Juno nominations include album of the year for "All the Right Reasons" and single of the year for "Photograph."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Silly News: Paris as Mother Teresa
hecklerspray reports: T Rajeevnath, an award winning Indian film maker, is set to make a biopic of the life of Mother Teresa. Obviously, casting for this role is quite difficult. Mostly because finding someone to play the part of a saintly god pest in Hollywood is, quite frankly, impossible. Hollywood celebs are polar opposites to the do-good japes of the famous nun, and their antics are more akin to self promotion and shameless attention seeking.

Naturally, T Rajeevnath has put the feelers out for Paris Hilton for the role. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Twisted Throat Surgery
Blabbermouth reports: TWISTED SISTER have been forced to cancel their appearance at this year's edition of the Atarfe Vega Rock festival, set to take place March 10-11 at Nave Medina Elvira in Atarfe, Granada, Spain. According to a band statement, "Dee Snider [TWISTED SISTER frontman] will go 'under the blade' and have throat surgery on March 1st 2006.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Bush Sodomy
Blabbermouth reports: MINISTRY's upcoming album, "Rio Grande Blood", is dedicated to George W. Bush.

"MINISTRY is harder and faster than ever because of him. But I guarantee you that he will be out of the White House before the end of the year.

Close-Up: If you sodomize him, yes.

"That would be rough sex," chuckles Jourgensen. "But it will take a 12-pack of beer and four bottles of wine for me to be able to f*** him. What a great idea! We cause a big scandal, so that he's forced to resign. I'll see what I can do about it." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Tool Guestless
Blabbermouth reports: According to a posting on Toolband.com, TOOL's first CD since 2001's "Lateralus", which is tentatively scheduled for release in late April or early May, will not feature any guest musicians, despite widespread rumors to the contrary. "Although I suggested to the band members that it might be interesting to attempt to get someone from the other side (i.e. someone deceased) to play on the CD, this didn't happen (that we're aware of, at least) due, for the most part, to contractual disputes (mainly on their end, it's sad to say)," reads the message on the site. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Cult Bass
Blabbermouth reports: Chris Wyse, who performed on THE CULT's 2001 disc, "Beyond Good and Evil", and has worked with Ozzy Osbourne and Jerry Cantrell since, will now be THE CULT's touring bassist, according to MTV.com.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Euro Tour Plans Disturbed
Blabbermouth reports: DISTURBED have postponed their previously announced spring 2006 European headlining tour, according to various online ticketing agencies and press reports. The trek, which was scheduled to kick off in early March (with NEVERMORE in the support slot), was reportedly called off in order to allow singer David Draiman to rest his voice[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Offspring Recording
TuneLab reports: The Offspring have started working on the follow-up to 2003's 'Splinter'. In a journal entry on the bands website front-man Dexter Holland said, "We went back in the demo studio last weekend, just Noodles and I, doing some guitar tracks. It was a blast.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Shinedown Temp
TuneLab reports: Shinedown have added Zach Myers as a touring guitarist and background vocalist on their current tour. Myers originally filled in on bass when Brad Stewart took a break while his wife gave birth to their son.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Pistol Defends Green Day
punkbands reports: Following this story we ran about Johnny (Rotten) Lydon trashing Green Day, another Sex Pistol has stepped up to defend the band. Glen Matlock tells contactmusic.com as long as the group is entertaining, they're fine by him.

"I think they are just doing what bands do. When Green Day first came out," he tells the website, "I thought it was kind of funny that there was this Californian band doing this very English sound. But I went to see Green Day with my son, who's a fan, and it was very impressive."
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Coheed Support
punkbands reports: Support acts have been announced for Avenged Sevenfold's upcoming co-headlining tour with Coheed And Cambria. Head Automatica will open the bill from April 07th through to April 27th, where Eighteen Visions will then replace them on the bill[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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