Day In Rock 08/17: Lost Jackson 5 Songs- Van Halen Tickets Not Cheap- Springsteen-40 Covers For 40 Years- Korn Fall Tour- more

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Five Times August Week: First Time For Everything

antiMusic reports: This week we celebrate the DIY spirit of Brad Skistimas, better known as Five Times August, who not only turned down major label deals to stay indie but does everything on his own resulting in over 100,000 in sales at online digital stores like iTunes, placed nine songs from his album on television shows like MTV's "Laguna Beach," the CW's "One Tree Hill," etc. And he has become the very first unsigned artist to have a CD carried by retail giant Wal-Mart. This week we asked Brad to pick five of favorite songs from the "Independent" album and tell us a little bit about them.

Here is Brad to tell us about "First Time For Everything": I met a girl in Austin and we had one of the best first dates I'll ever have in my life (that, I am sure of). The relationship didn't last forever, but of course the memories always will. I went back to Austin a few weeks after we broke up and found myself in the places we began. I wrote this song as soon as I got back home from the trip. For anybody interested in seeing a
historical mark in musical history... the "place we met" is actually the Taco Bell on Guadalupe St. by the UT campus. Romantic indeed.

Have a listen for yourself and if you like what you hear, support true Indie music by picking up the Five Times August CD or buying the download!
- check it out here

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Lost Jackson 5 Songs Found

antiMusic reports: Talk about finding a hidden treasure. A New Jersey man unwittingly purchased a cache of unreleased Jackson 5 recordings that he now hopes to release to the public. Unlike other "lost song" findings, this one appears to be a mother load with almost 60 tracks discovered.

Richard Altomare, the boss of luggage movement company Universal Express, bought a collection of unclaimed personal belongings from the warehouse, according to Contact Music. When he was going through the belongings he discovered tapes reported to contain almost 60 unreleased songs by The Jackson 5.

Contact Music reports that Altomare says he is negotiating with Sony as well as Michael Jackson and his sister Janet in hopes of releasing the material.- more on this story

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Van Halen Tickets Not Cheap

antiMusic reports: Van Halen are back and their tickets are definitely going at 2007 prices not 1984s. The biggest reunion of the year should make a bundle for the band but non-VIP ticket prices are actually a value when compared to other artists that don't have the excuse of a "reunion" tour to overcharge fans.

The first batch of tickets go on sale Saturday morning at 10 AM and it looks like if you want to witness David Lee Roth "Jump" back on stage with Eddie and Alex Van Halen it is going to set you back at least $60 (not counting the Ticketmaster monopoly charges). The nosebleed seats are going for $59.50, while the mid range tickets are $79.50 and the most expensive non VIP tickets will set you back $149.50 each. The top tickets are still half of what Bon Jovi are bilking fans for the best tickets to their arena run in New Jersey and $75 less than the top Police reunion ticket prices. Wait just a minute. the story changes when you consider that for this tour VIP seats require VIP prices.

If you want premium tickets to the Van Halen reunion then you better get ready to breakout the platinum card as they will run between $300 and $695.- more on this story

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Boss Goes Back To E Street For New CD

antiMusic reports: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will rock again this Roctober when they release a "Magic" new album on October 2nd via Columbia Records. This is the first new album of material with Bruce and his legendary backing band since 2002's "The Rising."

Fans of the rock'n Bruce can rejoice because after his recent excursions into the blues and folk, this album is being billed as a return to from for Springsteen and guitarists Steve Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren, bassist Garry Tallent, drummer Weinberg, keyboardists Federici and Roy Bittan, sax man Clemons, violinist Soozie Tyrell and vocalist Patti Scialfa. Sprinsteen manager Jon Landau dubbed the album "high-energy rock" and "immensely entertaining."

The band spent two months recording "Magic" with Brendan O'Brien producing the 11-track album- more including tracklisting

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Are Your Feet Cold? Eagles Return Is Official

antiMusic reports: The Eagles released their first single "How Long" from the upcoming Eagles album Long Road Out Of Eden to radio today, August 16, at noon EDT. "How Long" and pre release orders for Long Road Out Of Eden will be available starting Monday, August 20th, exclusively via walmart.com, samsclub.com, and eaglesband.com.

The album, scheduled for an October 2007 release, will be available exclusively from Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, walmart.com, samsclub.com, and eaglesband.com. Long Road Out Of Eden represents the first Eagles album of all new tracks in more than 28 years.

The video for "How Long," recently filmed in Los Angeles, premieres worldwide at midnight EDT on August 20th on Yahoo.com and is scheduled for its broadcast debut next week on Country Music Television- more on this story

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Fall Out Boy Fall Tour

antiMusic reports: Today, Fall Out Boy announced 'The Young Wild Things Tour' their Fall arena tour, with supporting acts Gym Class Heroes, Plain White Ts and Cute Is What We Aim For. The tour begins October 18th in Columbus Ohio at Schottenstein. Dates will run through December 2nd. Dates to be announced shortly

Fall Out Boy fans will have access to tickets before they are available to the general public [who aren't Fall Out Boy fans? why would they buy tickets then? Did Pete write this press release?]. The Overcast Kids (Fall Out Boy's official fan club, have first crack at the pre-sale. Starting today, fans can go to www.falloutboyrock.com for a chance to unlock the tour date in their city and win tickets to the show. They can also participate in a t-shirt design contest for a cash prize. - more on this story

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40 Covers For 40 Years of BBC Radio 1

antiMusic reports: BBC Radio 1 is celebrating their 40th birthday in an unusual way by asking some of today's stars to cover the songs of yesteryear. Each of the 40 years of Radio 1 will be represented by a cover tune and there are some unusual match-ups like rapper The Streets covering Elton John's "Your Song" and The Kooks take on the Ace of Base hit "All That She Wants".

The Kaiser Chiefs will kick off the release with their version of The Move's "Flowers in the Rain," the very first song played on Radio 1. The album, titled Radio 1. Established 1967, will be released on Roctober 1st says the BBC.

The tracklisting has been let out of the bag but the BBC cautions that the recordings have not been completed so things might change by the time the project is completed, according to Filter.- see the tracklist

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Korn Fall Tour

antiMusic reports: Rumors were swirling across cyberspace Thursday that Korn is planning a fall follow-up to this summer's Family Values tour to hit secondary markets they missed during the summer run.

Korn is said to be headlining the outing which is also rumored to feature Hellyeah, Five Finger Death Punch and Droid with the tour kicking off in early October.

A few leaked dates have also made their way online but again, this is all rumor at this point with no official word as yet.- rumored dates

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Ryan Adams Give Up Coke and Heroin

antiMusic reports: Ryan Adams tells Rolling Stone that he's staying clean from cocaine, heroin and alcohol after using the lethal combination to keep going while recording.

"I'd wake up, work, go for a drink or two and be exhausted," Adams told Rolling Stone. "I would have drugs to keep my physical being going in order to never have to stop working in the night."

Adams also had a bit more effective warning about staying away from drugs than the old' "Just Say No" line. "Think about falling off a bicycle and smashing your nuts on that bar, or the most horrible sports accident you can think of," Adams said. "That doesn't cover what it would be like for me to imagine drinking or doing drugs again."- comments?

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Violent Femmes Lawsuit

antiMusic reports: The last stop on the Violent Femmes tour is the court house. Bassist Brian Ritchie is suing his bandmate Gordon Gano for misappropriation of assets, improper accounting and nonpayment of royalties. He also accuses Gano of selling out the band's reputation by licensing a song for a fast food commercial.

Ritchie filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday. According to Contact Music, Ritchie is seeking to be "recognized as half owner of the eighties band's songs and wants an account of past and future royalties as well as unspecified damages." - more on this story

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Dream Theater Charity Auction

PR reports: Progressive metal trailblazers Dream Theater have launched a charity auction series in conjunction with Camp Good Days and Special Times. Camp Good Days and Special Times is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults and families whose lives have been touched by cancer and other life threatening challenges.

Camp Good Days facilitates residential camping experiences at their recreational facility in Branchport, New York and year-round support activities. All proceeds collected from these auctions will be donated to the charity and will be used to support the many programs and services offered. The band will continually donate a variety of memorabilia to the charity until June 2008 and the items will be available for auction via eBay.

The first item currently up for bid is a 30 GB white iPod autographed by the entire band and loaded with the complete Dream Theater catalog, as well as music from band members' multiple side projects. Dubbed the "Dream Pod" by world-renowned drummer Mike Portnoy, this iPod is autographed in silver and contains 950 Dream Theater and band related songs pre-loaded into the iPod by Portnoy himself. This one of a kind item will be up for auction until August 18th and 100% of proceeds collected from it will be donated to Camp Good Days. More items are scheduled to enter the auction block within the next months. All items can be accessed via the Dream Theater Charity Auction site page and the iPod is currently up for auction- here

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Scars of a Down

PR reports: System of a Down's Daron Malakian (guitars, vocals, songwriter) and John Dolmayan (drums) have joined forces to form a new band, SCARS ON BROADWAY.

Malakian co-produced (with Rick Rubin) System of a Down's multi-platinum albums "Toxicity" (2001) and the dual-disc "Mezmerize/Hypnotize" (2005), all three of which hit the Number One spot on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.

Malakian will be updating fans on the progress of Scars, and the first update, just-posted, can be found on the band's - MySpace page

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Tommy Lee Motley Thru With Rock?

PR reports: Dance music is the latest bandwagon Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee has jumped on and now the trend chaser says that he is "over" rock and admits that the Motley sound is "cheesy".

When Club Planet asked Lee about his favorite DJs he gave his list but ended with an admission that rock music doesn't rock him anymore. "I like Benny Benassi, Adam Freeland, Erick Morillo�Erick and I've done a couple of things together. I can't believe it's such a shock that I like dance music, because any time I've done anything with drums, I've always incorporated electro s***, always, always, always! When I'm at home, dance music is all I listen to! I'm actually kinda over rock music," Lee said.

Club Planet then asked him to repeat that bold statement and he responded, "I really am! If I sit-down to write a song, it's definitely gonna have beats�but, just the old drum sound or cheesy rock guitars�I'm just like, ugh! I'm just tired of the same-ole."

He called it cheesy we didn't, so no hate mail from 40 year spandex clad groupies please.- You can read the full interview here

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Mills Attacker Sentenced

BBC reports: A photographer who was found guilty of assaulting Heather Mills-McCartney as he tried to take her picture has been given a 140-hour community order.

Jay Kaycappa, 32, of Fareham, Hampshire, was sentenced by Brighton magistrates after being convicted at a previous hearing.

The attack took place in a subway in the city on 5 July 2006. He was also convicted of assaulting Ms Mills-McCartney's friend Mark Payne the next evening.- more on this story

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