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My Chemical Ripoff

DJ Rossstar reports: Marilyn Manson is claiming that My Chemical Romance are ripping him off (Didn't he rip off Alice Cooper?)

Manson, in perhaps a stunt to promote his new album, has revealed that a song on his new album entitled Mutilation Is The Most Sincere For Of Flattery is about his dislike for My Chemical Romance.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Akon Attacks Fan

Gigwise reports: Just weeks after he was filmed on stage performing an inappropriate act with an underage girl, Akon has landed himself in trouble once again. 

The American rapper has been caught on camera throwing a fan into the crowd at the K Fest after the fan had allegedly thrown an object at him. 

In the video, after the throwing incident, Akon orders the event's security to fetch the fan out of the audience and bring him to the stage. The rapper then manhandles the fan before throwing him into the audience.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Idol Gets Hacked

Contact Music reports: Country singer CARRIE UNDERWOOD's page on online networking website MySpace.com has been hacked by a mobile phone ringtone promotion. 

Over the last 24 hours, fans of the American star have been receiving emails claiming to be from Underwood herself, urging them to check out "these amazing free ringtones", reports website TMZ.com. 

The spam emails read: "Hey, this is Carrie Underwood. OK here's the deal, I need every single MySpace friend to stop what he/she's doing and go here right now and put your cell # in. You'll receive every ringtone from every myspace artist (including my favourites)..." [wow when did she start using British spelling? Think the fans could figure out it was bogus from that alone � see full story for more] - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Court Says FU to FCC

Contact Music reports: A federal appeals court on Monday overturned the FCC's revised standards for determining indecency, when it ruled in favor of News Corp's Fox television network, which had been chastised by the commission for airing four-letter vulgarities during telecasts of the 2002 and 2003 Billboard Music Awards. 

Besides the incidents on Fox, the court also suggested that an expletive uttered by Bono during the NBC telecast of the 2002 Golden Globe Awards did not warrant FCC censure. 

The decision was immediately denounced by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin [see the full story for what that windbag had to say. Hint: he'd have to fine himself if he said it on TV] [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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It's Official: Jacko Owns Eminem

CMJ reports: Storied music publisher Famous Music LLC has been acquired by Sony/ATV Music Publishing from Viacom. Sony/ATV, which is co-owned by Michael Jackson, will take control of Famous' more than 125,000 songs and sound cues, a catalog that includes standards "Moon River," "Silver Bells" and "That's Amore," as well as the themes from The Godfather and Mission: Impossible. 

It also includes hits by recent artists such as Eminem, Shakira and Bjork. In a statement, the King Of Pop himself remarked that ["I've already licensed 'The Real Slim shady' to Slim-Fast," ok Greenmuse made that up. To see what Jacko had to say see the full story link]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Sgt Pepper Beating McCartney

BBC reports: Hundreds of copies Sir Paul McCartney's latest album will not be eligible for the UK charts, the BBC has learned. The music legend has just released his 21st solo album, Memory Almost Full, on a label run by coffee chain Starbucks. 

But Starbucks' 533 UK stores are not registered with the Official Chart Company - which means CDs bought there will not count towards the top 40. 

...Memory Almost Full is still likely to make the Top 40 this weekend, however, as it is also being sold through traditional high-street retailers and download services like iTunes. ... It is currently number seven in Amazon's top-sellers list - but it is being outsold by The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Lemmy Sick But the Show Will Go On

Blabbermouth reports: Contrary to unsubstantiated reports that MOTÖRHEAD has cancelled the remainder of its European tour, the band will perform at this weekend's Sweden Rock Festival as scheduled, drummer Mikkey Dee has confirmed to the Sweden Rock organizers. 

MOTÖRHEAD was forced to call off its June 3, 2007 concert Rockhal in Luxembourg after frontman Lemmy Kilmister reportedly fell ill shortly after soundcheck and had to be taken to a local hospital for evaluation. It was subsequently determined that Lemmy was suffering from an upper respiratory infection and two additional shows in France (June 5 in Limoges and June 6 in Caen) were also cancelled in order to allow Lemmy enough time to rest. However, according to Dee, Lemmy WILL be well enough to perform at Sweden Rock[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Gene Simmons Family Jewels Renewed

Blabbermouth reports: The Washington Times reports that A&E has said yes to a third season of "Gene Simmons Family Jewels", upping its order to 24 half-hour episodes from last season's 20 installments. 

According to Variety, the decision was an easy one: "Jewels" is A&E's second-highest-rated series ever in the 18-to-49 and 25-to-54 adult demographics, behind only "Dog the Bounty Hunter". "Jewels" did even better in its second season than in its first, leaping by 15 percent in total viewers to a 1.5 million average and climbing by 11 percent in adults 18 to 49 and by 8 percent in adults 25 to 54. [the scriptwriters of the show must be overjoyed! see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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When the Lawyers Cry

Blabbermouth reports: In response to the recent rumors surrounding WHITE LION and the POISON/RATT summer tour, WHITE LION frontman Mike Tramp has issued the following statement:

"On behalf of myself and WHITE LION, I would like to clear up the many misperceptions and rumors that have been created by Live Nation's decision to withdraw WHITE LION as the opening act of the summer 2007 POISON tour. While we are limited in what we can say about the issue because of pending litigation, we can inform everyone that Live Nation's decision was not based on any controversy over whether Mike Tramp has the legal right to perform as WHITE LION. Our information is that Live Nation's decision was based upon a threatened lawsuit by former WHITE LION guitarist Vito Bratta. Even though Live Nation believed Vito's lawsuit to be frivolous and had confirmed that Mike Tramp has the legal right to perform as WHITE LION, they did not want to spend 'one dollar' on litigation. Faced with the cancellation of a tour that was to begin within weeks, our attorneys went the extra mile to work out a deal with Vito Bratta to drop his threatened lawsuit but even with the threat of litigation eliminated, Live Nation continued on their ill-informed course of dropping WHITE LION from the POISON tour.[see full story for more. He could have avoided this by doing what he has done in the past and tour as Mike Tramp's White Lion. Esp since most of his set was filled with his monotonous solo material.]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Ozzy Using Cheap "Green" Packaging

Blabbermouth reports: OZZY OSBOURNE's latest album, "Black Rain", is actually green. The album, which came out on May 22, was released in "eco-friendly" packaging, with the CD sleeve made out of recycled paper. In addition, the record came out without a booklet to further save paper, with the lyrics, credits and other inside material available to buyers of the CD at SonyMusic.com. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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McPhee Goes Hollywood

Contact Music reports: AMERICAN IDOL star KATHARINE MCPHEE is heading to Hollywood after signing up to make her movie debut in romantic comedy THE LAST CALLER. MCPhee, who was runner-up in the U.S. talent show in 2006, will star as a self-obsessed woman searching for love and meaning to her life in the indie film, which she promises is a dark role. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Wilco Ok with Selling Out

Gigwise reports: Wilco have defended their decision to allow car makers Volkswagen to use their music in commercials. 

The band have come under fire from some fans saying the alt-rock legends have sold out by donating their music to the car giant. But the band have reacted saying it helps their music reach a wider audience. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Courtney Love Full of it Again as Green Day is Not Working with Perry

punkbands reports: There's an article floating around saying that Green Day is switching producers (from Rob Cavallo to Linda Perry). Green Day's management has let GreenDayAuthority.com know that it's not true.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Chris Cornell US Tour

Tunelab reports: In between European dates, Chris Cornell has the following North American dates dates booked:

July 10th in San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre
July 11th in Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern LG
July 13th in Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
July 14th in Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
July 16th in Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theatre
July 17th in Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
July 18th in Chicago, IL @ Congress Theatre
July 20th in Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
July 21stin Weedsport, NY @ Cayuga County Fairgrounds
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