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 Geldof
Runs Over Biker |
The Live 8 founder told the Sun newspaper he was "very shaken", although no one in Sir Bob's car was injured.
The biker suffered bruises after the minor collision and Sir Bob reportedly rushed to help the man following the knock.
Sir Bob was pulling out a parking space
when it happened with his daughters Pixie and Tiger Lily Hutchence.
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| Punk
Legend Brutally Attacked |
To help deal with the mounting medical
bills and lost wages, friends of Stabb have pulled together a benefit effort.
A benefit concert and auction are planned, with details to be announced
soon
- You
can find more info on the cause here
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| Monday |
| New
Order To Continue Sans Hook |
Sumner and Morris were a bit surprised to learn via the interview that the band had split. According to the BBC, they issued a statement about Peter Hook's Xfm radio announcement. "We would have hoped he could have approached us personally first," they said.
"Whatever happens musically or otherwise,
New Order have not split up, they continue to exist," they assured fans
- Need
to know more, here is the BBC report.
| Sgt
Pepper Gets Cheap Tribute |
The event is set to take place at the Hollywood Bowl on August 10th and 11th to mark the 40th anniversary of the landmark album. Cheap Trick will be making a "special appearance" at the venue and will joined by Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Aimee Mann, Joan Osborne and other unannounced special guests. Will Beatle Paul show up?
Cheap Trick will also reportedly go beyond
Pepper and include some additional covers of their favorite Beatles songs
like "Magical Mystery Tour," "Norwegian Wood" and "Eleanor Rigby." While
we're talking about honors it might be well to mention that the Illinois
legislature is considering naming April 1st Cheap Trick day. That is not
an April Fools joke. And it won't be a one off event, the bill calls for
April 1st to forever be Cheap Trick day. The bill was referred to committee
back in June so we'll see if they get off their legislative asses in time
for next year.
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the bill
| Only
Fiddy Can Profit from Being Shot |
In court papers filed in New York, the star claims viewers are encouraged to target him, with a successful shot resulting in a cloud of red.
His lawyer Peter Raymond said the advert does not use 50 Cent's name, but "the character is intended to be him". - more on this story
| Tuesday |
| Hopesfall
Singer Sacks Entire Band |
It appears that the only remaining member is singer Jay Forrest, which means that the following have departed: Joshua Brigham (guitar), Dustin Nadler (guitar), Jason Trabue (drums), and Mike Tyson (bass).
According to the group's Myspace, the current
line-up now consists of Forrest in addition to Cory (guitar), Paul (guitar),
Joe (drums), and Rob (bass).-
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| Slash
Returns Stolen Guitar |
The ex-Guns N' Roses rocker's career was celebrated at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on July 14, and Slash surprised officials by handing back a long-lost instrument he took without asking years before.
He says, "The guitar has the best story.
I stole that from the Hard Rock in Orlando (in Florida). It was in the
dressing room. I didn't know what it was doing there, so I took it.-
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| Tori
Amos Sets US Tour |
Amos will also be announcing a series of official live bootlegs recorded during her Fall Tour. This is a follow up with a twist to her successful series of six live double-CD bootlegs released in 2005 featuring concerts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Denver, London and Manchester.
10/9 Albany, NY Palace Theatre
10/11 New York, NY Theatre at Madison
Square Garden
10/12 New York, NY Theatre at Madison
Square Garden
10/13 Syracuse, NY Landmark Theatre
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| Ja
Rule Busted |
Rule, whose real name is Jeff Atkins, was stopped for speeding when a weapon was discovered in his car, police said.
Officers also found a pistol when detaining
Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, for smoking marijuana.-
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| Wednesday |
| Original
Sabbath Manager Don Arden Dies |
Arden died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He is survived by his daughter, Sharon, and son, David. His wife, Hope, died in 1998.
Dubbed the Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising
business practices, he steered acts like ELO, The Small Faces and Black
Sabbath to stardom. Osbourne became estranged from her father after fighting
him for control of husband Ozzy Osbourne's career.
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| Inane
Lyrics Land Sum 41 in Trouble |
And one writer went to extreme lengths to have the band removed from the country over the controversial words - by calling on politicians to exercise their power against Sum 41.
Whibley explains, "He (the reporter) went
to the House minority leader in the States (a Republican), who tried to
have me deported, trying to say I'm threatening the president." [what no
name for this reporter?]
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| Tupac
Vs Death Row |
The injunction sought to restrain the sale of certain assets belonging to the Tupac Estate which are being touted as part of the Death Row Records bankruptcy assets. With closed bidding ending today, lawyers for the Tupac Estate sought full disclosure by the Bankruptcy Trustee's counsel that the unreleased master recordings in question were not part of the sale. In actuality, the recordings should have been turned over to the Tupac Shakur Estate in 1997, pursuant to a settlement agreement reached with Death Row Records.- more on this story
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| Beer
Saves Band |
Long story short, we were driving from an amazing show in Regina to Calgary . We started to smell brakes burning and assumed it was the semi truck in front of us. As we were coming down the hill going about 70+ mph our driver mentioned that he felt we were losing power and not more than 30 seconds after that our van slammed to the pavement and we started to fish-tale with a full trailer. Everybody was scared to death just from the slamming down. We thought our tire blew. That's when we looked out the window, still skidding 150 yards towards a revine/stream and light pole, and we saw OUR tire on FIRE rolling past us. We finally came to a stop and our breakwell completely burst into flames and the majority of the dudes took off. Our tour manager and I grabbed the cooler which contained melted ice, 5 Pabst Blue Ribbons and a bottle of water.- more on this story
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| Thursday |
| Rapper
Leaves Metal Tour |
"I decided to leave the tour collectively with my manager and booking agent (both tour organizers) because we felt the tour's demographic was not receiving hip hop well. I was facing hostile, disrespectful crowds and was returning the same energy back ten-fold by being more aggressive than them. It was making a lot of people in the tour crew nervous and there was concern someone might get hurt (NOT ME). It was also being suggested that maybe I tone down my live show and not antagonize the already antagonistic crowd. I couldn't roll with that as it's not my style. I was holding back enough as it is but there is a line. All the bands on the tour loved us and everyone behind the scenes knew we displayed major heart and never once got phased by the hostility. We finished every show with middle fingers up and a big �f*** You' to the crowd.
I will make one thing clear for the haters:
we NEVER got booed OFF the stage. Not once. Yes a ton of emo kids booed
us at every show, but we had a twenty-five minute set every night and we
stayed on stage for every minute of it, and we represented.
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| Now
Tops The Charts |
Now 25 sold 223,000 copies in its opening week to displace rapper T.I's T.I. VS T.I.P, which spent two weeks at number one and now falls to three.
Miley Cyrus' Disney double-disc set Hannah
Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus climbs up a spot from three to
two.-
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| Cobain
Movie This Fall |
AJ Schnack's documentary film Kurt Cobain: About A Son is set to come to cinemas in New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle in early October.
The film sets impressionistic images of
Washington state cities Seattle, Aberdeen, and Olympia to audiotape interviews
of Cobain conducted by journalist Michael Azerrad for his book Come As
You Are: The Story Of Nirvana., An original score for the film has been
composed by Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard.
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| John
Mayer Vs Drunk Kids |
In a message on his official blog, Mayer had a typically irreverent message for those arrested. "First, to the 46 people accused of underage drinking; what were you thinking? You have your whole life to engage in underage drinking. What's the hurry? I didn't start underage drinking until I was 26. Underage drinking is not an function of age, but of style. And you kids are way too young to truly appreciate the nuances of true underage drinking.
"Though the names of the arrested were
not released to the public, I was able to obtain them by way of my well-placed
source in the Hershey police department. Upon first glance, I find it interesting
that of the 63 arrested, 55 were named Kyle.
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out his teabagging solution
| Friday |
| Mondo
Generator Drops Off Ozzfest |
"It's very disappointing but Mondo Generator has been forced to cancel the remaining dates we have booked with Ozzfest and Circus Diablo. We tried everything in our power to make things work so that we could remain on tour, but unfortunately due to matters out of my control, it is impossible for us to continue touring at this time," says Oliveri."We're very sorry to all the fans that will not be able to see us on these remaining dates and promise that we will be back soon. We would like to thank Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, as well as the entire Ozzfest crew for giving us the chance to play Ozzfest 2007 .We'd also like to thank the fans that came out to show their support at the shows."- more on this story
| Warped
Founder Vs Ozzfest |
"It allowed Ozzy Osbourne to get one more paycheck out of (Ozzfest), to be 100 percent honest," said Kevin Lyman, organizer of the Warped tour. "Sharon's a smart person, but basically that's what it is. It's a ploy, straight up.
"Ozzy's getting paid to do that show. She was struggling to put (together a bill) because she keeps charging more and more and selling less and less tickets. The attendance of that tour has been dropping for many years, and she keeps having to spend more on the talent to get people to the shows."- They continue with the Ozzy side of the argument, read that here.
| Beyonce
Faceplant |
Here is part of the Hecklerspray starting with the witness statement: "We saw that she was pumping her hair around and really into (it) with her trench coat and high heels and as she proceeded to come down the stairs, she tripped on her coat and it seems like she fell on her collarbone and face, sliding down about 12 stairs."
There are conflicting reports as to whether the singer was hurt or not - one claim is that blood was seen. Other claims have it Beyonce was completely protected in the fall by her robot-like outer shell which she replaced her skin with at the age of six. Yet other reports depict Knowles saving herself by wrapping her 15' lizard tongue around a light-rig real quick. Personally we believe the latter.
Whatever happened, we may never know for
sure. Unless you watch it. Better click play - looks like Sony's smiting
the footage from off the web.
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| Happenin'
B Day Bash |
As if that wasn't enough, Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco will be making a rare solo performance. He always brings the house down! Enuff Z'nuff's Donnie Vie is also schedule to perform and bookies have odds at 3 to 1 that he may show up this time. Then again he may come down with the plague or another mystery illness 30 minutes before he's set to go on. But plenty of star power will be on hand to step in if he drops the ball. - Grab all the show info and see who else will be popping by!
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