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| Brokeback
Eminem |
antiMusic reports: Hollywood has remake fever
(or a lack of imagination and originality) and after the critical success
of "Brokeback Mountain" they are looking at old Westerns to give the remake
treatment to. So Paramount Pictures execs have decided to dust off the
old 50s era TV Western "Have Gun will Travel" and somewhere in the process
they lost the western part by updating it to modern times.
Now the most important part when making
a remake is casting. For this the execs said forget Pitt, who wants Cruise,
Russell doesn't bring 'em in like he used to. Wait a minute�. 'Em? That's
it! Let's get Eminem! The rapper is set to gunfighter for hire Paladin
transformed into a bounty hunter, according to reports. [see full story
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| DMX
Car Crash |
Gigwise reports: DMX must be the worst driver
in the world, this time he's crashed his car during a traffic jam in America.
Barely a week after he was arrested for
driving at high speeds and making dangerous lane changes in upstate New
York he's at it again.
According to Allhiphop.com the rapper was
hit from behind as he tried to avoid the traffic jam on the Hutchinson
River Highway by driving up the hard shoulder on Sunday (June 11).[see
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| AFI
Rules MySpace and Beyond |
antiMusic reports: AFI live up to their acronym
as they have ignited a fire inside of their fans and scored a No. 1 debut
on the Billboard Album charts for their latest 'decemberunderground' as
well as made Myspace history by being the first band to reach 500,000 single-day
plays on their MySpace page. As a result, the MySpace powers that be have
given the band the very first MySpace Music Award.
"This is the first time a band has had
over a half-million song plays on MySpace in a single day so we wanted
to recognize this unbelievable accomplishment with something new," said
Tom Anderson, president of MySpace. "In recognition of this milestone we're
announcing AFI as the first recipient of the 'MySpace Music Award.'" [see
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| Beach
Boys Reunion |
AP reports: The surviving founders of the
Beach Boys � Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine � made their first
public appearance together in 10 years Tuesday, standing atop the historic
Capitol Records building in Hollywood.
The trio gathered to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of the landmark "Pet Sounds" album and the recent double-platinum
certification of 2003's "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys."
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| Germs
to Remember |
CMJ reports: Legendary L.A. punk band the
Germs have announced a tour featuring most of the band's original members
and actor Shane West. Germs members Pat Smear, Lorna Doom and Don Bolles
have signed on and, since a movie currently in production (What We Do Is
Secret) stars West as Darby Crash, the actor will join them, handling frontman
duties. West is best known for his recurring role on ER and his starring
role in the teenage sobfest A Walk To Remember. Crash committed suicide
in December 1980, just a day before John Lennon was murdered.
The band has a series of West Coast Warped
Tour dates planned along with various club dates in the US and Canada.
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| Many
Paths To Heaven: 101 Stairway Covers |
antiMusic reports: Just what is the most covered
song in history? That's open to debate but as the famous music store scene
in "Wayne's World" illustrates there is no shortage of covers of the Led
Zeppelin classic "Stairway to Heaven". In fact, freeform radio station
WFMU have posted 101 covers of the song on their blog. Yes, you heard it
right and as they say it's 101 versions of the song that doesn't remain
the same! Some highlights include Gilligan's Island version, Dutch artist
Jeroen Offerman's backwards version (he actually learned how to sing it
backwards), an instrumental version from the criminally underrated band
Redd Kross, The London Symphony Orchestra, an accordion version and much
more.
Be sure to check out the Gregorian Masters
of Chant version as well as Zakk Wylde's take on the classic. And why not
combine two classics? As Dash Rip Rock offer up Stairway to Freebird. [see
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| Masters
of Death |
Blabbermouth reports: GRAVE, DISMEMBER, ENTOMBED
and UNLEASHED will be teaming up for the Masters of Death European tour
in November. According to a posting on GRAVE's web site, the four-band
combination represents "the most brutal bill that has ever shared the same
stage. The package is an idea that all four bands has planned and prepared
in the pastmonths and finally we are doing it. Dates and more info will
be announced shortly. Prepare for a night to remember..."[see full story
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| Overkill
07? |
antiMusic reports: Overkill are set to thrash
the U.S. in early 2007. The band latest effort was 2005's "ReliXIV". It's
more than likely this tour is support of that release but who knows maybe
they'll have another release between now and when the tour kicks off in
January.
Also the band is scheduled to play many
of the same venues in September and October according to Pollstar. So these
new dates may just be rescheduling. Their official site is hopelessly out
of date but we'll do our best to get to the bottom of this and get you
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| Opeth
Intl |
antiMusic reports: Opeth are still touring
strong behind last year's 'Ghost Reveries'. The band just announced their
very first appearance in Japan. That will take place on October 14th in
Tokyo when the band will rock the Loud Park Festival. The band announced
earlier this month that they will be hitting venues in the UK in November.
(They are spending the Summer touring Europe including several festivals).
Roadrunner so believes in 'Ghost Reveries'
that they plan to release a special edition of the disc on July 25th. According
to the band's official website the new version will be loaded with bonus
material. [see full story for details and those new UK dates]-
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| Metal
Hammer Golden Gods Awards |
antiMusic reports: Metal Hammer magazine held
their Golden Gods Awards on Monday night in Camden. Avenged Sevenfold and
Trivium appear to be this year's "It" bands at malls across the pond as
they both snagged several awards.
Coheed And Cambria took Album Of The Year
honors and Slayer's masterpiece 'Reign In Blood' grabbed the Best Album
Of The Last 20 Years award. [see full story for full results]-
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| Tate's
Got a Fake Gun |
antiMusic reports: Queensryche announced Sunday
in a rather cryptic message on their official website that the band had
been arrested at the Amsterdam airport for smuggling illegal firearms.
They promised more details to come but nothing has been added to the official
site. However KNAC reports that Geoff Tate's wife Susan issued a short
explanation which still leaves us scratching our heads about what really
happened, however we do know that it appears to be much ado about a fake
gun. Susan says, "Geoff uses a fake gun as a prop in part of the Mindcrime
set and it was in his bag going through the airport. This got someone arrested...
I am still unclear on all the details."[see full story for more]-
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| Izzy
In? Yes He Is |
antiMusic reports: Former Guns N' Roses guitarist
Izzy Stradlin surprised fans when he joined his former bandmate Axl Rose
for the group's Download performance on Sunday night. Now Izzy has given
fans all over Europe more good news as he plans to appear with Axl and
Company at a string of upcoming dates.
He announced on his official website: 'Izzy
here... I'm in London. I'm planning to join Guns 11th - 21st (June). Cheers,
Izzy.'[see full story for dates]- Click
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| One
Less Drummer |
TuneLab reports: One have announced the departure
of their drummer "Fish". The band recently returned to the studio along
with Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose and guitarist John Connolly, who have
been producing the band, to record three new tracks for a future release.[see
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| Slayer
Desecration |
KNAC reports: A website that glorifies the
band Slayer is taking credit for inspiring unknown vandals to spray paint
pentagrams and upside-down crosses at the entrance to St. Joseph's Seminary
in Yonkers, New York last week.
The site was set up last month to promote
a National Day Of Slayer on June 6th. To participate, according to the
site, one had only to play Slayer "at full blast." But the site also included
several ways to "take participation to a problematic level," including:
"Spray paint Slayer logos on churches, synagogues, or cemeteries."[see
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| Panic
over Split |
punkbands reports: The split between Panic!
at the Disco and former bassist Brent Wilson just got a whole lot nastier,
with both sides hurling unpleasant accusations at each other. On Monday
MTV spoke to Wilson at his home in Las Vegas, and it quickly became clear
that he was in no mood to make nice with his former bandmates.
"I was kicked out of the band," he said.
""It was 100 percent a surprise to me. We were about to leave for a show
in California, and they called me the night before and told me I was out
of the band. The only reason they gave was that it was for 'musical purposes.'[see
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| Solo
Thrice |
punkbands reports: Thrice frontman Dustin
Kensrue has fleshed out his solo touring schedule this summer. The 10-day
tour will have Kensrue hitting the East Coast with Ben Nichols of Lucero,
and the West Coast with Chuck Ragan, formerly of Hot Water Music and Yellow
Red Sparks.
Kensrue has taken a brief respite from
writing with Thrice for their soon-to-be-announced project to finish a
solo album which has been quietly in the works for two years. [see full
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