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| Gay
Aiken Fire Sale? |
Faded Youth Blog reports: Although the public
face is business as usual and the continued statement being "no comment",
the gay sex scandal surrounding the crooner has seriously rocked Team Clay.
US magazine quoted an unamed pal of Aiken's, "Everyone is worried. Nobody
wants to see Clay go down." Just days after Clay's alleged internet hookup,
John Paulus, shared details of their tryst with the nationwide audience
of Howard Stern, the official Clay Aiken website placed all Aiken merchandise
on fire sale [see full story for more including a bit about a gay club
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| Lollapalooza
06 |
antiMusic reports: Lollapalooza 06 has been
announced for August 4th through 6th at Grant Park in Chicago. Perry and
co are pulling out all the stops this year with 130 bands on 8 stages.
This year's eclectic bunch includes the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West,
Queens of the Stone Age, Wilco, Sonic Youth, Blues Traveler, The New Pornographers,
Eels, The Shins, Ryan Adams, The Flaming Lips, Sparta, Andrew Bird, and
hundred plus more.
If the music wasn't enuff, Perry is bringing
back Mindfield where the entire festival grounds will become the game board
for the text messaging "prankster and scavenger hunt" game. [see full story
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| Rock
Star 2 To Feature Jason Newsted, Tommy Lee and Gilby Clarke |
CBS reports: CBS and Mark Burnett Productions
announced today that legendary musicians from some of the biggest American
rock bands have joined forces to form a new band, Supernova, and will use
CBS's ROCK STAR (working title) as the competition to determine the new
lead singer.
Supernova will feature drummer Tommy Lee
(Motley Crüe), Jason Newsted (Metallica) and Gilby Clarke (Guns N'
Roses). The second edition of CBS's ROCK STAR will premiere on the Network
this summer.
After the winning singer is selected on
CBS's ROCK STAR, Supernova will record an original album, to be co-written
and produced by Butch Walker (hit songwriter/producer for Avril Lavigne,
Pink) that will be released in the fall before the band embarks on a world
tour starting in early 2007.[see full story for more]-
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| K
Fed Strip Threat |
hecklerspray reports: Kevin Federline, whose
PopoZao single is terrorising innocent music fans all over the Internet,
has come up with a clever plan to make the good people of the world buy
his forthcoming album - Kevin is threatening to whip his genitalia out
and wave it in a grotesque and sickening manner in the faces of gullible
paying customers at a strip club near you.
[Mr Spears] is keen to launch a music career
- but he's no fool, he's fully expecting a giant failure. Female First
quoted Kevin yakking about his horrific back-up plan should his rap career
go awry: "I'll be at your local strip club, but I'll be the one dancing."
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| Download
in Chains |
soundgenerator reports: Alice In Chains are
to play this year's Download festival, it has been revealed.
The seminal grunge act join Funeral For
A Friend as the latest acts to join the hard rock three day event, which
is headlined this year by Tool, Metallica and Guns N' Roses.[see full story
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| Smiths
Reunion Not For Sale |
Reuters reports: Pioneering U.K. modern rock
band the Smiths turned down a $5 million offer to reunite at the upcoming
Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival in southern California, former
frontman Morrissey said Thursday.[see full story for more]-
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| Surreal
Preview |
Blabbermouth reports: The entire first episode
of the sixth season of VH1's popular series "The Surreal Life" � featuring
POISON guitarist C.C. Deville and WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale's
ex-wife, Tawny Kitaen � has been made available for viewing online at VH1.com.
Joining C.C. and Kitaen on the show are Steve Harwell of SMASHMOUTH; actor
Sherman Hemsley, Playboy TV's covergirl, Andrea Lowell, and Alexis Arquette.
Special guest star Florence Henderson also makes an appearance on the show
as the cast's full-time and on-call therapist/advisor. [see full story
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| Hanoi
Earache |
Blabbermouth reports: HANOI ROCKS' scheduled
concerts in Italy on March 24-25 and in Vienna, Austria on March 26 have
been cancelled/postponed, according to a posting on the band's web site.
Singer Michael Monroe "has had a severe middle-ear infection for three
weeks now and it still hasn't gotten better," the posting adds.[see full
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| Sevenfold
Mystery |
Blabbermouth reports: Launch Radio Networks
reports: Although it's widely believed that AVENGED SEVENFOLD is the yet-to-be-named
"mystery" band on Ozzfest this summer, the band is keeping mum about its
involvement for now. But guitarist Zacky Vengeance told Launch that the
group is excited about what it's got in store for June, after finishing
a U.S. run with COHEED AND CAMBRIA. "After we get back from COHEED, we're
thinking that we need to go back to Europe because we want to be a band
that takes over the world and doesn't leave any uncharted territory," he
said. "So we actually got offered to tour with just about our favorite
band in the history of the world in Europe for the month of June. I think
we're gonna be going out with METALLICA as their main support."[see full
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| Naked
Crash |
Blabbermouth reports: At about 1:00 a.m. CST
on Thursday (March 16), NAKED BEGGARS � the band featuring Eric Brittingham
and Jeff LaBar of CINDERELLA � were enroute to Hudson, WI for an upcoming
show when the vehicle they were traveling in lost control on what is suspect
to have been a patch of black ice and ran off the road. No one was hurt
in the mishap, just understandably shaken, and vehicular damage appears
to be light. [gotta watch out for dangers on that gypsy road. see full
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| GNR
Sellout |
Blabbermouth reports: After selling out the
Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland in about eight minutes, GUNS N' ROSES
have added another show at the same venue the following day (July 6). Tickets
for the second show will go on sale on Friday, March 17 at 9:00 a.m. The
opening act for the Helsinki shows will be BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. GUNS
N' ROSES will also be playing at the Spektrum in Oslo, Norway on June 28.
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| Fiddy
Reprieve |
FMQB reports: 50 Cent has an album's worth
of new material recorded, but he won't release it this summer as he had
originally planned. "Em didn't agree with me," 50 told MTV.com of his Shady
Records boss. "My motivation wasn't really right. I get a little frustrated
from time to time and I got so much material that I make that isn't being
heard that I was like, 'Yo, I just wanna release an album again.' And he
was like, 'Nah, you gotta wait.' [Thanks Em! see full story for more]-
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| Cliveaid |
Blabbermouth reports: The organizers of Cliveaid,
which was set up in 2004 as a fund-raising event for original IRON MAIDEN
drummer Clive Burr (who suffers from multiple sclerosis), have issued the
following update on this year's event:
"It is with great pleasure that we can
announce this year's 'Cliveaid' show. As you may or may not know, 'Cliveaid'
was initially set up to raise funds for Clive Burr, he of IRON MAIDEN fame...
Cliveaid 2006 will take place on May 26th at The Parklands Club in Doncaster,
Tickets will be £10.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Spreading
the Disease |
BW&BK reports: ANTHRAX guitarist Scott
Ian and drummer Charlie Benante will be chatting live with fan club members
in the Anthrax CDC (Centers For Disease Control) Worldwide chat room on
Monday, March 21st at 6 PM EST/3 PM PST.[see full story for the link hookup]-
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| Shinedown
Trapt |
TuneLab reports: Shinedown will hit the road
with Trapt and Equinox on April 22nd. The tour is expected to run though
the summer and hit county fair's and festivals. Current confirmed dates
are as follows:
March 18th in Miami, FL @ Bicentennial
Park (Global Gathering)
March 30th in Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
April 6th in Monroe, LA @ Fant-Ewing Coliseum[see
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