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Enforsaken Split

SMN reports: Illinois based melodic death metallers ENFORSAKEN have posted the following statement regarding their decision to disband:

"It's official. After 8 years of existence, we have decided to lay ENFORSAKEN to rest. We will play our final show Saturday, August 19th in Chicago @ The Metro. This wasn't the easiest decision to make, but in the end, we agree that ENFORSAKEN has now run it's course. We've accomplished everything that we set out to do, and now it's time to move on. We're all very proud of our last album, Sinner's Intuition, and feel that now is a good time to end the band.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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MC Hasselhoff

Wenn reports: Rapper ICE-T is set to produce DAVID HASSELHOFF's first hip-hop album.
The pair are neighbours in Los Angeles and are said to have struck up a close friendship. Hasselhoff has released seven albums and is hugely popular in Germany. Ice-T says, "The man is a legend. And we are going to show a whole new side of him." Ice-T, real name TRACY MORROW, is convinced the 51-year-old former BAYWATCH star can take on the biggest names in rap.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Morrison's Final Journal

Wenn reports: THE DOORS frontman JIM MORRISON's last handwritten journal will be sold at auction at the end of the month (JUL06). 

Morrison, who died in 1971 from a suspected heart attack in Paris, France, left a book with his final thoughts, songs and poems. It is being auctioned at Cooper Owen's Music Legends sale at Abbey Road Studios in London on 28 July. Estimated to be worth between £80,000 ($148,000) and £100,000 (£180,000), the journal contains 20 pages of previously unseen poems and random Morrison thoughts.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Pete Yorn Instores

PR reports: In response to venues selling out for his very first acoustic tour, Columbia Records artist Pete Yorn is scheduling special free afternoon mini-concerts day-of-show at local independent record stores at every city along his tour route (see full itinerary following).

The set lists for each of Pete's in-store performances will uniquely vary from location to location. Each of Pete's in-store performances will be recorded for a limited edition souvenir CD series, "Live From...," to be sold exclusively at the local independent record store originally hosting the mini-concert. Pete's upcoming acoustic tour will provide fans with an exclusive preview of songs from his upcoming, third, full-length studio album, Nightcrawler, now slated for release on Red Ink/Columbia on August 29.[see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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J.Lo Tell-All Halted

TMZ reports: Ex-husband of Latin superstar Jennifer Lopez, Ojani Noa has agreed to a preliminary injunction to stop him from publishing (what Lopez describes as) a "negative, denigrating and disparaging" tell-all book about the multi-talented actress until the matter goes to court. 

Ojani's announcement prompted the cancellation of the of Friday's scheduled court hearing about the matter. Lopez had filed a suit against Ojani in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming among other things, Noa demanded $5 million from Lopez to keep him from selling the tell-all book. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Marcus Leaves Drist

PR reports: Bay area guitarist Marcus Henderson has left the band Drist due to responsibilties with the upcoming sequel to the best-selling video game Guitar Hero, and reportedly has been offered a spot with a MAJOR metal act. Henderson recorded the majority of the guitar heard in the wildly popular video game series, Guitar Hero, and had this to say about his recent departure... 

"Dearest fans of Drist, All good things must come to an end, and it's been fun as hell, but the ride has ended for me here at Drist-world. I am leaving the band to concentrate on increased responsibilties professionally and personally, and i truly wish the guys the best of luck in whatever they choose to do. Let me say that it has been an HONOR to rock your ears and hearts, and i personally thank everyone that bought our music and supported the band because of the success of Guitar Hero. You may not hear this anywhere else, but i truly appreciate every fan and truly hope you guys will join me on my further adventures in the sonic battle against mediocre music. What's coming up will BLOW YOUR MIND!!!!" [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Silly News: Exodus Vs Emo

Blabbermouth reports: Ellen Gager of Midwest Excess recently conducted an interview with EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Midwest Excess: �..how do you feel about today's current music scene?

Gary: "I think it's really good. I mean, it's better in the United States than it used to be, but it still struggles, you know? Europe and Japan and other points around the globe still remain our bread and butter. It's getting better. The whole nu-metal thing died and I was so glad about that, but now we have all these emo kids who weigh like 105 pounds and wear girls' pants that won't even stay on there, 'cuz they have no ass to hold their pants up, they left their ass in the other pants. And they got their hair covering half their face, and the crooked hat, and I'm starting to miss nu-metal, to tell ya the truth. I mean, they have taken all the testosterone out of heavy metal, these guys. Stop whining and crying... Emo. The only emotion that's supposed to be in this music is anger and rage, not sissy complaints. I just don't get it. I look at those kinds and I'm like, 'Lift some weights, eat a hamburger, go do something.'"[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Gnarls Barkley Expand Tour

PR reports: Gnarls Barkley continues to storm around the world. Check out these new tour dates! For band that wasn't sure if they would ever really play live they certainly have become a full on touring juggernaut.

Tue-Jul-18-06 San Francisco, CA Fillmore 
Wed-Jul-19-06 San Francisco, CA Fillmore 
Thu-Jul-20-06 Costa Mesa, CA Pacific Amphitheater [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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F**k Jamie Kennedy

PR reports: As fans of his MTV reality show already know, Jamie Kennedy is trying to 'blow up' and make it big in the rap world. Now the Philly-bred actor-comedian has signed an exclusive deal to bring JKss Records - the label he formed with best friend Stu Stone - to Reprise Records, which will release Kennedy and Stone's debut album, Blowin' Up, on July 11th. 

Indeed Kennedy, who is best known for his hit prank show on the WB The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, has already blown up in the online community. He is the Number One artist on My Space, the hugely popular social networking site, where previously posted tracks, including "Circle Circle Dot Dot" and "Rollin W Saget" received more than 2 million plays. In addition, the new video for "Rollin W Saget" - featuring former Full House dad Bob - hit the Top Ten on YouTube the day of its release and is now nearing half a million views.[see full story for an MP3 of "F**k Jamie Kennedy"]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Rise Against Preview

Day in Rock reports: Rise Against have posted a full album stream for 'The Sufferer & the Witness'. The album hit stores July 4 on Geffen Records. Click the full story link to listen!- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Don Caballero 2nd Leg

PR reports: DON CABALLERO is currently on tour in North America in support of World Class Listening Problem and has announced a second leg that will include label-mates ZOMBI. This extended run begins on August 10th and will be sponsored by Decibel Magazine and Jakprints.

Damon Che, founder and drummer for seminal instrumental band DON CABALLERO, is featured in the August �06 issue of Modern Drummer magazine. The feature marks Che's first appearance in Modern Drummer and the issue (w/ the legendary Stewart Copeland on the cover) is available now on news-stands nationwide. 

August 10 Newport, KY Southgate House 
August 11 Columbus, OH High Five 
August 12 St. Louis, MO Creepy Crawl 
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Cactus V

PR reports: Escapi Music, home to Dirty Rig, Dissection, Dragonlord, Speed Hate Kill, Body Count, Tokyo Dragons, The Dictators, Warrior Soul and Trouble, announces the July 18th release of V by classic electric blues-rockers Cactus. 

Original members Carmine Appice (drums), Jim McCarty (guitar) and Tim Bogert (bass) are now fronted by former Savoy Brown singer Jimmy Kunes (Rusty Day died in 1982). The music of Cactus on V is rife with blues riffs, soulful melodic invention, kick-ass ax soloing and the kind of rhythm section interplay only bass/drum tandems that have decades-long mental telepathy can ever hope to achieve. Appice and Bogert have recorded and performed together in Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Beck/Bogert/Appice and numerous other high-profile projects.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Lonn's Tale

PR reports: A Backstage Journey Through Rock's Most Debauched Decade. Part oral history, part candid and humorous memoir, Life on Planet Rock is an intimate, bittersweet look into the backstage world of the music scene during one of its most prolific, profligate, and prosperous times through the eyes of music journalist and former RIP Magazine editor Lonn Friend. Morgan Road Books will release this book on July 11, 2006. Below is part of the reason it caught our attention here at the antiMusic. 

In 1994, Friend was wooed by music industry titan Clive Davis to join Arista as an A&R executive with a mandate to develop the label's roster of rock acts. He soon discovered, however, that his idealistic outlook on music flew in the face of how things got done on the inside, and, after three spirit-sapping years during which virtually every band he pitched-including Limp Bizkit and Eels-was rejected, his association with Arista came to a merciful end. "Clive's inflated sense of entitlement was representative of everything I'd come to despise about the record business," he writes. "Ego, power, greed-Babylon's holy trinity. Thanks, but no thanks. . . . Ultimately, I was not a record-company creature. I was a journalist, a music fan, who paid little mind to the industry's protocol or politics. I understood artists from an authentic place. I knew how to talk to them, on their level, without the invisible wall defined by the institution and suit. Hell, I didn't even own a suit." [Amen Lonn! Limp Bizkit is understandable but the Eels? You would think Durst had enough schmaltz for Clive. Ok, enough of our comments-- click the full story to learn a lot more about this book!] 
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Post Hotwire

Submitted News reports: Skyscraper Frontier which features ex-singer of Hotwire/Eyelid is releasing a new EP July 4th on Coming Home Records (cominghomerecords.com) and it will show a whole new style of music then he has done in the past. You can sample the music at the full story link. 

Three years ago gave launch to the birth of inspiration for the current soothe-rock ensemble. Soaking in that certain bucket was the sponge that squeezed in October of 2004, spawning over twenty song ideas. For the next five months fourteen songs were finalized and the other six still in skeletal form. Therefore giving the composer's a chance to pick out the best of seven songs, re-record them, than release an EP on independent label Coming Home Records, rightfully titled Moonlit Behavior. Focusing on making every song unique means everything and always will, no song will ever go halfway through the writing process. 
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Homage for Satan

PR reports: Satan's favorite quartet, DEICIDE, have released an advance snippet of "Homage for Satan" from their forthcoming August 22nd release, "The Stench of Redemption."

DEICIDE will be filming the video for "Homage for Satan" over the weekend and the video promises to be a bleeding burst of DEICIDE's finely tuned sense of darkness! "Homage for Satan" (666 Mix) and "Crucified for the Innocence" (666 Mix) are currently available in their entirety for download at the iTunes music store for only $1.99! Prepare your ears for blistering death metal at its' apex and mark your calendars for "The Stench of Redemption"!

Check out the clip at the full story link.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Metal Comedy

PR reports: Comedian/Actor Brian Posehn recently completed work on his first music video. The video, for POSEHN (Brian's metal band) track "Metal By Numbers" taken from Brian's upcoming CD �Live In: Nerd Rage', was shot on location in Los Angeles, CA with the team of director Darren Doane (DEFTONES, AFI), producer Jeremy Jackson and editor Dan Dobi. The video illustrates Brian's view on today's metal scene and features appearances from POSEHN members Scott Ian (ANTHRAX / DAMNOCRACY) and Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT/FATES WARNING).

The video can be viewed exclusively at Brian's MySpace page: [see full story link] as part of Brian's stint as the featured comedian this week (7/3 � 7/9/06) on MySpace Comedy.

'Live In: Nerd Rage' reveals the hilarious observations of a self-professed nerd and life-long fan of heavy metal. Recorded as part of Brian's appearances on the Comedians of Comedy tour, and including a sketch with Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show), 'Live In: Nerd Rage' is Brian at his funniest. 'Live In: Nerd Rage' will be released on July 11th in North America, with an international release to follow in August.
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