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| Grand
Theft Kanye? |
TMZ reports: Rapper Kanye West has been sued
over a Mercedes that is allegedly being held hostage.
In Sept. 2002, West's company, Konman Entertainment,
Inc., leased a Mercedes G500 for $1,295.00 a month. West personally guaranteed
that the lease would be paid.
The lease expired in Jan. 2006. But according
to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the car was not returned
and the defendants stopped paying. [see full story for more]-
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| Keef's
Head Fixed |
Contact Music reports: LATEST: THE ROLLING
STONES guitarist KEITH RICHARDS has undergone brain surgery to relieve
a build-up of pressure following his fall in Fiji last month (27APR06).
The 62-year-old rocker had the operation at The Ascot Hospital in Auckland,
New Zealand, this morning (08MAY06), but the band reveal he is already
making a promising recovery.[see full story for more]-
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| Master
P Vs Sony |
Contact Music reports: Hip-hop veteran PERCY
'MASTER P' MILLER is suing Sony Music for $500 million (GBP278 million)
after the industry giant allegedly refused to play his son LIL' ROMEO's
new tune on the radio. U CAN'T SHINE LIKE ME is thought to be a response
to a track, FRESH AZIMIZ, by Romeo's much publicised rival BOW WOW, in
which the aspiring rapper used a stream of vitriolic lyrics to poke fun
at his competition. But despite enjoying huge internet success, Romeo's
answer is only being aired on rotation on three US radio stations. [see
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| iTunes
Beat Beatles |
Gigwise reports: The Beatles have lost their
court battle against computer giant Apple over the companies download arm
iTunes.
The court case had been brought by Ringo
Starr, Sir Paul McCartney and the families of George Harrison and John
Lennon alleging that Apple had gone back on a previous agreement with the
bands label Apple Corps never to go into the music industry.
However, Justice Edward Mann this morning
ruled that the company had not breach the agreement saying that they used
the Apple logo in association with the store and not the music.[see full
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| Greatest
Metal Songs of All Time Day VI |
antiMusic reports: Last week Vh1 aired their
'40 Greatest Metal Songs of All Time' to kick off their Metal Month special,
so we decided to host our own special at our sister site Thrashpit.com.
We've been bringing you lists of the top 3 metal songs of all time according
to our crew- with their full top 12 (or more) lists posting over at Thrashpit
with their explanations. Today we conclude with lists from ProgPrince a
special guest list from Mark Strigl of the Talking Metal podcast.
ProgPrince
1. Iron Maiden - Aces High
2. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
3. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Mark Strigl
1. Metallica - Fade To Black
2. Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
3. Judas Priest - Green Manalishi (With
The Two Prong Crown)
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| Loser
Dears |
CMJ reports: The Dears are set to unleash
the follow-up to their breakthrough 2004 release No Cities Left. Despite
titling their new one Gang Of Losers, the band is being less than self-depricating
when it comes to chatting about the record. Frontman Murray Lightburn says
on the band's MySpace page, "We are really proud and are very much looking
forward to everyone playing the crap out of it. As clichéd as this
may sound, it's by far the 'best work we've ever done.'" He also goes on
to mention the presence of horns and mellotrons, but that the record will
be more of a "stripped down, raw affair." While a single is due this June,
the record will not be hitting shops until August[see full story for more]-
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| Grant
McLennan RIP |
Trip Wire reports: Australia's The Go-Betweens
seemed to be back on a rise after their reformation in 2000, and with their
2005 album, Oceans Apart, that won an ARIA Award. Unfortunately all that
changed yesterday with the sad news about Grant McLennan's death. On May
6, Grant McLennan passed away in his sleep at his home in Brisbane. His
mother, sister, brother, girlfriend Emma, band mates Adele Pickvance, Glenn
Thompson and lifetime musical Go-Betweens co-founder/friend Robert Forster
survive him. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Damned
+ Pistol = Zooparty |
Blabbermouth reports: Brian James (ex-THE
DAMNED, LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH) and Glen Matlock (THE SEX PISTOLS) have
contributed to the upcoming album from the Swedish band ZOOPARTY.[see full
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| Leatherwolf
Reunion |
Blabbermouth reports: California metallers
LEATHERWOLF have announced that former longtime bassist Paul Carman will
rejoin the fold for the band's appearance at the Bang Your Head!!! Festival
in Germany on June 23. Pat Guyton (ex-HAIL MARY, SHOTGUN MESSIAH) will
handle bass duties at both L.A. area warm-up shows. [see full story for
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| Trendy
Trent |
Day in Rock reports: Metal Sludge has a gift
for unearthing photos of famous rockers that the rockers in question probably
wish never saw the light of day. The latest victim is Nine Inch Nails mastermind
Trent Reznor. The photos show Trent in a couple of his former bands from
the 80s decked out in Duran Duran style. The first photo comes from 1984
and the band The Urge in the form of a flyer that proclaims that they are
"Already The Area's Number One Dance Band" . Sludge shows another photo
from 1988 that they say reminds them of "N'SYNC meets the cast of The Goonies."
Trent moved on the bigger and better things after that when he joined The
Exotic Birds. Sludge has the photo proof and quips "Head like a Hole? We
think not! More like: 'Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand!'" .
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| Talkin
Damnocracy |
Day in Rock reports: TalkingMetal.com has
posted episode 61 of their "Talking Metal" podcast. The episode features
a 25-minute interview hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy conducted with
legendary rocker, sportsman, conservationist, activist, TV star, and author,
Ted Nugent. Interview topics include VH1 "Supergroup," Damnocracy, the
next Ted Nugent album, Barry Sparks, Mick Brown, Derek St. Holmes, the
great Fred Bear, the "Spirit of the Wild" TV show, venison, hunting in
Ostronomy's home state of Pennsylvania, the Ted Nugent Camp for Kids, and
the Freedom's Angels charities. Additional podcast topics covered with
special guest Em Cody of New York rock act, The Mynks, include the movies
"Metal: A Headbangers Journey" and "New York Doll," Sammy Hagar, HSAS,
Sevendust, Richie Sambora, Nikki Sixx, Slash, Guns N' Roses, and the New
York City bar American Trash. The 50-minute podcast can be downloaded at
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| Bon
Nickelback |
TuneLab reports: Nickelback, who ranked 3rd
behind only U2 and Bon Jovi in worldwide ticket sales for the first quarter
of 2006, will be touring Europe with Bon Jovi from May 15 through June
11th before returning to North America in July and playing select dates
as Special Guests on Bon Jovi's North American stadium tour. [No the tour
is not being called the "Cheese Fest"... see full story for more]-
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| Road
Venom |
KNAC reports: Black metal mainstays Venom
have posted the following up dateon their official website
"Venom have started negotiations for some
shows in both America and Japan later this year, around August and September.
The dates are currently being sorted out
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| Brazil
Immortal |
The PRP reports: Brazil have signed a deal
with Immortal Records and will enter the studio this week to begin recording
their new album with Dave Fridmann (Mogwai, Thursday). A fall release date
is expected.
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| Fear
Before The March Of Flames DVD |
punkbands reports: Fear Before The March Of
Flames are making a DVD: The DVD will mostly consist of us making an album
and exactly how much of us we have put into it,but we also plan on including
old footage that shows just who we were when we started doing this band
thing.Billy has asked that anyone with any kind of footage of us and/or
pictures could email him and hell give you an adress that you can send
the tapes to.[see full story for contact info]- Click
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