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 Static-X
week: Behind Cannibal |
Day in Rock reports: To continue our special
Static-X week, we asked Wayne to tell us a little about his favorite five
tracks from the new CD. He starts off today with "CANNIBAL". Here is Wayne:
"This was the first song I wrote for the new album. I knew from the moment
I finished the demo it would be the first song on the cd, and it really
gave me a clear idea of what direction I wanted to explore for the rest
of the songs. For Cannibal, I challenged myself to write an entire song
with one guitar riff. This is how I often wrote songs for our first album.
The guitar riff becomes hypnotic after a while and starts to blend seamlessly
with all the electronic sounds. I had been talking to John 5 for some time
about making some music together, so I invited him to play a solo on the
song, and it's one of the craziest solos I've ever heard. If I had to pick
one song that represents the band the best at this point in time it would
be Cannibal." Listen to the song at the full story link and go pick up
the brand new CD, which hit stores this week! Check back tomorrow for another
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| Blind
Faith Reunion? |
Earvolution reports: Claiming that he invited
Steve Winwood to play at his second Crossroads Festival in Illinois because
he has "unfinished business" with his one time band mate, Eric Clapton
has stoked the rumor mill with hopes of a Blind Faith reunion. A true reformation
will be impossible as bassist Ric Grech died in 1990, but should Ginger
Baker appear, Clapton will have been instrumental in reforming yet another
supergroup from the Sixties with Cream having played a series of shows
in the fall of 2005.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Nickelback
Vs Cops |
Jam! reports: The lead singer of Nickelback
reportedly has had another run-in with the law.
Global TV is reporting Chad Kroeger and
a friend were at a strip club where police were doing routine inspections
Saturday.
Words were exchanged when Kroeger was allegedly
blocking cops.
He and his friend were handcuffed for a
time.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Shaver
Wanted Following Shoot Out |
AP reports: Police have issued arrest warrants
for country singer Billy Joe Shaver after he shot and wounded a man outside
a Texas bar, the entertainer's attorney said.
After Shaver left a bar in Lorena on Saturday
night, a drunk, aggressive stranger with a knife followed him into the
parking lot, said attorney Joseph A. Turner of Austin. Shaver shot him
in self-defense, he said.
Police in Lorena � about 80 miles north
of Austin � issued arrest warrants late Monday on charges of aggravated
assault and possessing a firearm in a prohibited place, Turner said.[see
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| Mice
and Men? Modest Mouse Tap Unsigned Band for Tour |
CMJ reports: The saying goes, "A guy goes
nuts if he ain't got nobody." With Modest Mouse and Man Man livin' offa
the fatt'a the land on tour together, these guys may still go nuts, but
together they're guaranteed to put on one hell of a show in the process.
And with Modest Mouse currently possessing the No. 1 album in the country,
you'd think Man Man would have jumped at the chance. But we found out it
was a little bit more organic that that.
The gnarliest men this side of Captain
Beefheart plan to pepper their off-the-hook, Lord of the Flies-inspired
live shows with a few songs off of their newest record, which is still
at this point label-less.
"Isn't it crazy that an unsigned band is
touring with Modest Mouse?" asks Man Man singer and piano player Ryan Kattner.
"We think so, and it's awesome!"[see full story for more]-
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| Keith
Richards Snorted Father |
TMZ reports: There's very little in the physical
world that Keith Richards hasn't, by his own admission, ingested either
by mouth or by nose -- including, it seems, his father's ashes.
The Rolling Stones axeman revealed to NME,
the British music magazine, that he once snorted the remains of his own
dad, Bert, leavened with a bit of cocaine to make it go down easier. "He
was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of
blow. My dad wouldn't have cared ... It went down pretty well, and I'm
still alive," says Keith.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Stapp
Settles Sex Tape Suit |
E! reports: The legal wrangling over Scott
Stapp and Kid Rock's on-camera sexual escapade aboard a tour bus in 1999
is finally running out of gas.
On Friday the former Creed frontman settled
his invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against adult film company World Wide Red
Light District, which he had accused of unlawfully selling downloads of
a videotaped romp involving Stapp, Kid Rock and four groupies. While Stapp's
attorney, William Sayegh, refused to disclose just how much money his client
will receive, only saying that the litigation was resolved "in Scott Stapp's
favor." [see full story for more]- Click
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| Jovi
Leppard Rodeo |
AP reports: It will be country with a little
bit of rock 'n' roll when Bon Jovi and Def Leppard perform at this summer's
Cheyenne Frontier Days.
Bon Jovi will perform July 20, the first
night act of the 10-day Western celebration and rodeo, also known as the
Daddy of 'em All.
Def Leppard will perform July 28.[see full
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| Lachey
Dunked With Lawsuit |
TMZ reports: A host of celebrities, including
Nick Lachey, A. J. Discala and MLB star Brady Anderson, are being sued
by a woman claiming she was stiffed out of a lucrative basketball franchise.
Laura Brau claims last summer she entered
into a contract with a company controlled by A. J. Discala, estranged husband
of Jaime-Lynn Sigler. Under the deal, Brau would become acting president
of "Hollywood Fame," a newly formed American Basketball Association team
and, among other things, receive 10% of the stock in the franchise.
In court documents obtained by TMZ, Brau
claims Discala squeezed her out by giving 100% of the stock to other people,
including Lachey.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Double
Mindcrime |
KNAC reports: Queensrÿche brought the
group's acclaimed Operation: Mindcrime albums to the stage last year performing
the original and its 2006 sequel in their entirety during the group's successful
North American tour. The marathon shows included a full theatrical production
complete with surround sound, video imagery and actors portraying the concept
albums' characters onstage with the band. Rhino captures Queensrÿche's
epic performance in front of the quintet's hometown crowd at the Moore
Theater in Seattle with Mindcrime At The Moore. The double CD ($24.98)
and double DVD ($29.99) versions will both be available June 26 [see full
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| Eyehategod
Also Hate Reissues |
Lambgoat reports: Canada's Moshpit Tragedy
Records has scrapped the planned reissue of Eyehategod's "99 Miles of Bad
Road" CD at the band's request.
In a recent email to Moshpit Tragedy, Eyehategod
bassist Gary Mader wrote: "We have been debating on whether or not to do
this re-release for several reasons. First and most important, we feel
that Emetic Records has been better to us than any label we have dealt
with, and for that we feel that we owe some loyalty to them when it comes
to any release. Finding an honest label is a rarity these days, and since
we've got one, we'd rather not ruin that relationship. Aside from that,
we are just less than enthusiastic about releasing yet another retrospective
project. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Thursday
Cancel Tours |
punkbands reports: Coming not long after the
band announced the split from their record label, the band have now canceled
all planned shows for the year. The band had this to say: " Friends. Due
to circumstances beyond our control, we will be canceling all of the current
tour plans for 2007. This includes Give It a Name in Europe, our slot on
the My Chemical Romance tour in Canada and our shows in Mexico. We sincerely
regret any inconvenience this may cause and we're disappointed that we
won't be seeing the people and places that we were looking forward to.
We will be playing one of the shows we had planned, May 7 in California,
PA.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Fall
Out Chimps For Cash |
punkbands reports: Besides the millions of
people who still actually buy compact discs, the record industry continutes
to bitch and moan about how they've fallen from their mighty perch. So
what do you do if you're in a band and can't convince your record label
to foot hundreds of thousands of dollars to get cimpanzees and exposions
in your music videos? Two words... product placement. The phenomenon hasn't
gone unnoticed at the New York Times where they've written an article about
Fall Out Boy and poor man's cologne, otherwise known as Tag body spray..
So yes, either chimps aren't free or FOB
could use the extra money they haven't already pocketed from Wal Mart,
Verizon, Honda, or whatever other big business company they've whored themselves
out to. This is just the tip of the iceberg.[see full story for more- the
evolution of Boy Bands continue]- Click
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| Kill
Your Idols Box |
punkbands reports: Get Outta Town Records
will be putting out a boxed set collection of 7 inches from Kill Your Idols.
Here's what the label said about the release: All of the music in this
collection has been remastered and is the best these recordings have sounded.
Anything rare, unreleased, or difficult to get your hands on from this
band is available here. This is a band that will be missed and has for
years been a staple within the hardcore community. If at all possible,
come out to their last few shows and give them a proper send off. [see
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| The
Number Twelve Looks Like You Sets Release |
SMN reports: Forward-thinking, progressive
metal sextet THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU has completed work on its
highly anticipated new album, entitled Mongrel. Mongrel is set to drop
on June 19, 2007 via New Jersey's Eyeball Records.
THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU, whose
name is taken from a particularly dark, dystopian 1964 episode of the television
series The Twilight Zone, recorded and mixed Mongrel in Seattle, WA with
producer Casey Bates (Heavy Heavy Low Low, Gatsby's American Dream). [see
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| Adema
On Third Label and Third Singer |
SMN reports: Following their departure from
Earche Records, rockers ADEMA have announced their signing to Immortal
Records for the release of their 4th album, and the first with new vocalist
Bobby Reeves, formerly of LA based LEVEL. Bassist Dave DeRoo issues the
following update:
"Adema is officially a part of the Immortal
Records family! I wanna give a shout out to Happy Walters, Jamie Talbot,
and everyone at Immortal. We look forward to working with you guys, and
being with a label that �gets it.'"[see full story for more]-
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| As
I Lay Warped |
SMN reports: Straight off the stage of BAMBOOZLE
2007 (Sunday, May 6), AS I LAY DYING will prepare themselves to get back
on the road, for THE VANS WARPED TOUR.
The first stop for the band, on this quintessential
Summer Festival, is the New York, NY show (Nassau Coliseum) before making
their way, across the country, to Los Angeles, CA.[see full story for more]-
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