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Full Report for 06/28/06

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Circus Diablo Week: Shine

DiR reports: Circus Diablo, the band fronted by The Cult's Billy Morrison and also features Billy Duffy (The Cult), Ricky Warwick (Almighty), and Brett Scallions (Fuel) are releasing their self-titled debut album next week. The album features a guest appearance by Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses, The Cult, Velvet Revolver) who played the drums on all of the tracks. Slut's Charles Ruggiero will be drumming on the upcoming tour with Mondo Generator and on Ozzfest. 

To celebrate the release, we asked frontman Billy Morrison to give us the lowdown on his top five favorite tracks from the CD. Here's Billy will today's song. SHINE. The first song I have ever written about a specific woman. Normally the girl in my head that I write about is a combination of people in my life, past present or future. But this song is about my wife, and how I feel about her. I have always been somewhat of...what's the nice way of putting it?...a whore!! But meeting my wife and getting married has been the single best experience of my life. To find a soulmate in this life is a rare event, and she changed my world in every way possible. She truly SHINES for me. Sickly sweet, but very true. [grab a listen at the full story link and pick up the CD next Tuesday! Also note the tour correction in the intro. Sorry, they are not touring with QOTSA as we mentioned yesterday]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Surgery DeWarps The Used

PR reports: Bert McCracken has just been advised to undergo surgery due to the fact that he has developed a node on one of his vocal chords. Consequently, the band has been forced to cancel their shows on all upcoming dates during June and July, including the Van's Warped Tour. Doctors have recommended treatment as well as rest without singing and are expecting a full recovery. He will be able to sing again in about five weeks. 

The band is incredibly disappointed but promised to return to touring in the USA in early September with headlining dates. "Kevin Lyman and the Van's Warped tour have been amazing supporters of our band and we are truly saddened that we won't be able to perform on this year's tour," states Quinn Allman, The Used's guitarist. We hope to have new tour details ready for release shortly. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Axl Vs Fan

Earvolution reports: Guns N' Roses concert goers should come to expect late starts. But, it didn't stop one fan from expressing a little anger over waiting for Axl in Australia. WENN reports that a fan tossed a drink at Rose when the band got off to a late start for a Brisbane gig.

Apparently the band didn't start until nearly midnight and some fans who paid well over $100 dollars a ticket weren't happy. The report says that not long into their classic "Welcome To The Jungle" someone hurled a can at Axl. In response, Rose reportedly challenged the audience, "Is that what you want? You want a battle. If you're going to act like that, then you know I don't have to be here." Despite some reported long disappearances during songs, Rose did finish the show.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Weezer Returns

DiR reports: Rivers Cuomo has announced via the official Weezer site that the band are back at it. Here is his message: "Hey Party-People,

Weezer is just polishing up a batch of songs for a recording session that is going to start at the beginning of July. This will be the final recording session for our 6th album which we aim to put out in the first half of 2008. We hope you are all having good times.

Love,

R-dawg"- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Country Jovi a Hit

PR reports: Going from hair rock to country worked for Bon Jovi. The band's new album "Lost Highway" debuted a top the Billboard album charts this week with sales of 292,000. The first No 1 for the band since the "hair metal" heyday of 1988. 

The made of MTV band beat out The White Stripes for the top spot with 50,000 more units sold. Jack Whites latest "Icky Thump" moved 223,000 units for the No 2 spot. Country fans seemed to have turned to Jovi spandex as last week's chart topper Toby Keith's "Big Dog Daddy" suffered a 64% sales decline to land at No. 4 with 73,000. 

Former chart toppers Linkin Park and Maroon 5 are hanging in there, remaining in the Top 10 another week.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Foo and Cambria

punkbands reports: Coheed and Cambria has recruited Taylor Hawkins of The Foo Fighters to play drums on their new album; former drummer Josh Eppard parted ways with the band late last year. The band is currently recording No World For Tomorrow with producer Nick Raskulinecz.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Morrissey Halts Show

Launch reports: Morrissey ended his show after 30 minutes at the Bank Of America Pavillion in Boston last night, having played just seven songs. 

The ex-Smiths man was suffering a throat infection and despite making it through seven songs--including "The Queen Is Dead" and "The Last Of The Famous International Playboys"--he couldn't complete his planned set.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Gore To Bore NJ Live Earth Show

AP reports: Al Gore will rock out at the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium on July 7, one of eight worldwide shows designed to draw attention to global warming. 

"Mr. Gore will be in New Jersey. He'll be off and on (the stage), very involved," said Live Earth Founder and Executive Producer Kevin Wall.[see full story for more - no word if Tipper will be involved in censoring artists at the concerts]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Boyband Con Man Indicted

AP reports: The creator of the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges he defrauded a bank out of $20 million. 

Lou Pearlman, 53, was indicted on three counts of bank fraud, and single counts of mail and wire fraud for business with Evansville, Ind.-based Integra Bank N.A., according to court documents.

Pearlman is most famous for forming boy bands in the '90s, but was also involved in airplane charter, real estate, model scouting and restaurant ventures.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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PETA Thinks Meatless Idol is Sexy

Hecklerspray reports: Now, far be it for us to suggest that all vegetarians are gaunt, lifeless, protein-deprived morons who don't realise that chewing on bleeding lumps of dead animal is both cool and sexy, but there's a definitely a lack of sexy vegetarians around.

Why do we say that? Because animal rights group PETA has named its annual 'World's Sexiest Vegetarians' list - a little like trying to find the world's tubbiest anorexic or the world's most interesting envelope - and the results are so depressing that we're planning to visit the winners' houses and frisbee lamb chops into their mouths just to get them disqualified. Why? Because PETA has decided that this year's World's Sexiest Vegetarians are Carrie Underwood from American Idol - who was also the World's Sexiest Vegetarian two years ago - and a bloke so startlingly anonymous that we're not even sure his mother knows who he is.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Fiddy in Pacino, de Niro Film?

Gigwise reports: 50 Cent is in the final stages talks to star in a thriller alongside the legendary Robert de Niro and Al Pacino. 

The crime thriller �Righteous Kill' is set to go into production this autumn and Fiddy is being eyed up for a role of a drug dealer who helps cops De Niro and Pacino hunt for a killer. 

The movie will be directed by Jon Avnet and has a budget of $60 million, most of which you'd suspect is going to the high profile actors.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Spice Girls Reunion

BBC reports: The Spice Girls are widely expected to announce they are reforming at a press conference in London on Thursday.

It will be the first official public appearance by all five members since Geri Halliwell quit in May 1998. 

Earlier this month Mel C, better known as Sporty Spice, told the BBC that any reunion would be for "a very short space of time... a final goodbye". [just what the world needs... see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Net Radio Benefit

CMJ reports: A number of Internet radio stations will be joining together on July 1 in San Francisco venue Bottom Of The Hill for a benefit to raise money for SaveNetRadio's final two-week campaign against the upcoming July 15 ruling to increase royalties on all webcasters. Organizers Corey Denis (who knows first hand how important Internet radio is as VP of Integrated Marketing at San Francisco indie label Reapandsow) and Internet stations Soma FM, Pandora, BAGel Radio, among others, will also help increase awareness of the harsh realities should the ruling go into effect, with information tables on hand to answer questions and promotional material. A number of bands and DJs, as well as chili from indie label Jackpine Social Club, alcohol from MyOpenBar.com, and a bake sale will be included in the Sunday night event. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Death Angel Singer Almost Loses An Eye

Blabbermouth reports: ALL TIME HIGHS, the new San Francisco Bay Area-based band featuring DEATH ANGEL frontman Mark Osegueda alongside members of LICA-STO, TRES PISTOLAS, THE SICK and OOZIES, has issued the following update:

"During a recording session [Sunday] afternoon [June 24] at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley CA, Mark Osegueda was rushed to the emergency room after passing out in a vocal booth. While screaming Mark fell forward into a microphone stand that had neither a mic or mic clip on it. The pole went into his eye. He was rushed to the hospital shortly after. The doctors did tests and the beautiful eye is going to make it. No serious injuries occured.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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