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| Pink
Floyd Founder Dies |
DiR reports: [Very sad news as another legend
has passed. Here is part of IGN's report] Legendary founding member of
Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, died Friday at the age of 60 due to complications
from diabetes according to reports from the British media.
Barrett, who had spent the past 30 years
of so living in seclusion, was the lyrical and musical mastermind behind
the earliest incarnation of the seminal British psychedelic outfit which
also included Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Rick Wright, and David Gilmour
who joined the band in 1968.[see full story for more]-
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| Idol
Child Porn Bust |
antiMusic reports: A former American Idol
contestant has been indicted on child pornography charges in Utah. He reportedly
videotaped two teenage girls engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" according
to the Salt Lake Tribune.
Daniel James "DJ" Boyd, 27, who was a semi-finalist
during the hit television show's 5th season, was arrested last month in
West Valley City after a 14-year-old girl contacted police. He entered
a plea of not guilty Tuesday to federal charges of production of child
pornography and possession of child pornography.
He also faces state charges....[see full
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| Weezer
RIP |
antiMusic reports: Sad news for Weezer fans,
it looks like the band is finished. At least for now. Rivers Cuomo told
MTV that the band is on indefinite hiatus. "For the moment we are done,"
he said. "And I'm not certain we'll ever make a record again, unless it
becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one."
So has the recent Ivy League grad given
up music? "All this year, I've been feeling pretty creative and excited,
so I've been writing a lot. I don't know what'll happen with these songs
- if anything - I just sort of write them and I can't stop. I certainly
don't see them becoming Weezer songs, and I don't really see the point
of a solo career. So we'll just have to wait and see."-
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| Monday |
| Bankrupt
Row |
AP reports: A federal judge on Friday ordered
a bankruptcy trustee takeover of Marion "Suge" Knight's Death Row Records,
saying the record label has undergone gross mismanagement.[see full story
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| Penny
Lane Saved |
AP reports: Penny Lane will keep its name.
Liverpool officials said Saturday they would modify a proposal to rename
streets linked to the slave trade when they realized the road made famous
by the 1967 Beatles song was one of them.[see full story for more]-
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| Sabrine
Duenser RIP |
SMN reports: Sabrine Duenser, vocalist for
the female-fronted goth metal band ELIS, died yesterday after suffering
from a cerebral haemorrhage Friday during the band's practice. Duenser
was born June 27, 1977 and joined the Liechtenstein-based band, then known
as ERBEN DER SCHOFUNG, in 2001. [see full story for more]-
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| Sufjan
Touring |
thetripwire reports: Indie rock hottie Sufjan
Stevens has just announced a string of tour dates in September and October.
Sufjan is bringing with him a string ensemble and a brass section for this
trek in an effort to present familiar songs from Seven Swans, Michigan
and Illinois in a new, symphonic context (that what it says in the press
release at least). He'll also be performing five or six new songs along
the way.
Providing support for the entire tour will
be My Brightest Diamond (a.k.a. singer/songwriter Shara Worden). MBD's
debut album, Bring Me The Workhourse, will be released on August 22 via
Asthmatic Kitty. [see full story for dates]- Click
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| Tuesday |
| AC/DC
Grave Theft |
KNAC reports: Thieves have stolen a plaque
from AC/DC frontman Bon Scott's heritage-listed Fremantle gravesite, on
what would have been the rocker's 60th birthday.
From Theage.com.au: The National Trust
of Australia brass plaque, which proclaimed the heritage listing, is believed
to have been stolen from the gravesite at Fremantle Cemetery sometime between
Saturday afternoon and yesterday afternoon. Yesterday would have been Scott's
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| Jacko's
Boy Fetcher? |
MTV reports: F. Marc Schaffel testified in
his civil trial against Michael Jackson Friday and claimed that the singer
had dispatched him to adopt boys in Brazil, AP reports. Jackson's attorney
denounced Schaffel's testimony as an attempt to smear the singer. Even
Schaffel's attorney Howard King said he wasn't expecting his client to
make the claim. "It's not really relevant to this case," King said. [see
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| Milan
Williams RIP |
Reuters reports: Milan Williams, a founding
member of the Commodores, died Sunday (July 9) at MD Anderson Hospital
in Houston after a bout with cancer. He was 58.[see full story for more]-
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| John
Coletta RIP |
BW&BK reports: John Coletta, former manager
of DEEP PURPLE and WHITESNAKE, died on July 9th 2006. Tony Edwards approached
35 year-old John, managing director of an advertising agency (in an office
above his own), to help him launch Deep Purple in late 1967. Coletta remained
an integral part of the management of the band through the years 1968 to
1976, often touring with them. After the group split, the two managers
set up their own operations but retained their interest in the band's back-catalogue.
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| Wednesday |
| Supersuit:
Rock Stars Sued |
Blabbermouth reports: Chris Harris of MTV.com
is reporting that nine days before the July 5 broadcast premiere of Mark
Burnett's "Rock Star: Supernova" on CBS, the three members of Orange County,
California, punk trio SUPERNOVA � who formed back in 1989 and released
four albums, including 2000's "Pop as a Weapon" � filed a lawsuit against
the show's producers, charging trademark infringement.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in
San Diego, names Mark Burnett Productions, Rockstar Entertainment Inc.
and CBS Broadcasting as defendants, along with Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted
and Gilby Clarke � the three future members of the group this season's
"Rock Star" is supposed to spawn and endow with a lead singer. [see full
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| OutKast
Tour Sans Andre |
Contact Music reports: OUTKAST have confirmed
they will go ahead with a tour, despite ANDRE 3000's absence reducing the
shows to one man. Andre 3000, real name ANDRE BENJAMIN, placed the gigs
in jeopardy after revealing he has ditched touring to concentrate on his
burgeoning acting career. But BIG BOI, the other half of the HEY YA! duo,
confirms he will take the group's hits on the road on his own.[see full
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| Solo
Thrice |
SMN reports: Thrice has began writing a follow
up to Vheissu.Here is the latest message from the band: Sorry the updates
have been few and far between. We've all been hunkered down writing. We've
been working on our next release which is a project we're all really excited
about and will be announcing very soon. It's definitely the most ambitious
thing we've undertaken artistically and we are really excited about it.
So, stay tuned for the details....
The reason we're writing right now is because
Dustin is doing a bunch of solo shows in a couple weeks that we wanted
to make sure you were aware of. He'll be playing solo acoustically doing
a mix of original songs, cover songs, and Thrice songs. [see full story
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| Thursday |
| Beatles
Heist |
Gigwise reports: A man who handled stolen
tapes of The Beatles final recording sessions tried to sell them for £250,000
a court in London has heard.
Nigel Oliver of Slough is charged of with
handling stolen goods and trying to sell the tapes on behalf of two unknown
men.
The 504 tapes containing 80 hours worth
of material recorded during the sessions for 'Let It Be' in 1969 were recovered
in 2003 during an undercover police operation.[see full story for more]-
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| NIN
Sued |
TMZ reports: Nine Inch Nails has been sued
for allegedly injuring a man "intentionally, violently and without just
cause."
In a lawsuit obtained by TMZ, Mark LaVoie
claims he was working security at a Nine Inch Nails concert last October
at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin, when he "was struck
in the head by a cast iron microphone stand which had been intentionally
thrown into the audience by the lead guitarist of Nine Inch Nails, Aaron
North."
LaVoie claims he was "knocked unconscious,
fell to the floor, and was bleeding from a large laceration on the top
of his head." Lavoie, who is also suing Aaron North, claims he suffered
"serious pain and permanent injury."[see full story for more]-
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| Cash
Tops Charts |
PR reports: Johnny Cash's "American V: A Hundred
Highways" (American Recordings/Lost Highway) debuts at Number One on both
the Billboard Top 200 Albums and Top Country Albums charts. The album,
which was released on the Fourth of July, takes the top spot with sales
in excess of 88,000 copies, according to Neilsen/Soundscan.
Since 1958, while seven of Cash's albums
have reached Number One on Billboard's Country Album charts, only one other
album of his has reached the Number One position on Billboard's Top Albums
charts - 1969's "Johnny Cash at San Quentin." "American V" is Cash's first-ever
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| Friday |
| Who's
On Tour |
antiMusic reports: The initials dates for
The Who's North American tour have come to light. The band is playing across
the world so don't feel left out if you aren't included here as Pollstar
reports that they plan to tour South America, Japan, Australia and Europe
in 2007. More North American dates are expected soon.
09/12 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
09/13 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach
Theatre
09/15 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
@ Fleet Center
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| Cornell
Solo |
TuneLab reports: Audioslave's new album, 'Revelations',
is still more than two months away from being released, but front-man Chris
Cornell recently told AOL Music that he has already begun working on his
second solo album. Cornell hopes to have it finished and recorded by the
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| Projects
of a Down |
Blabbermouth reports: SYSTEM OF A DOWN will
be going on an indefinite hiatus following their appearance at this summer's
Ozzfest. For guitarist Daron Malakian and bassist Shavo Odadjian, it's
SCARS ON BROADWAY, a fresh collective that's still very much in progress
but should start working on material this fall.
"It's going to be another band that both
me and Shavo are in, and we're going to try and go places we haven't with
SYSTEM," Malakian explained to MTV.com. "Each [SYSTEM] bandmember has his
own thing he wants to do. Shavo has films he plans on working on too. So
we all have artistic itches we want to get through, and I think these are
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