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Full Report for 06/29/06

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Circus Diablo Week: Rollercoaster and Hello Goodbye

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. We conclude today with Billy telling us about two more songs: "Rollercoaster" and "Hello Goodbye!" ROLLERCOASTER. Pretty much the one about my Heroin addiction. It lasted 14 years and took me to places I never dreamt I would go - homeless, begging for change, and alone on the streets. To have the chance to write this song felt really good. The ride, the journey that I was on was so crazy - and I wanted to drag people along with me. And now when I tell the stories, people can't associate the person that I am now with the guy that I was back then. I wanted to commit the feelings to music. Turn this one up LOUD and repeatedly bang your head against a wall � that's kind of how I felt when I wrote it. ** HELLO GOODBYE. A complete stream of consciousness. Literally got up in the middle of the night, wrote down some very cool, but pretty random lyrics in about 20 minutes, and then went back to sleep. The next day, I read them back, sat down, and wrote the chords to the main riffs. It means different things to different people and although I relate to a bunch of the lyrics, I encourage people to make their own minds up about this track. [grab a listen at the full story link and pick up the CD next Tuesday!]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Someone Forgot to Tell Led Zeppelin About Reunion

TuneLab reports: Robert Plant has shot down rumors of a re-united Led Zeppelin performing a memorial concert for the late Atlantic Records founder. Plant stated that he hadn't heard anything about the reunion and added "If there was one, then there wouldn't be enough doctors to support it" [so much for the "source" that leaked the rumor - see full story for more rock news]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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50 Cent Lip Sync

Contact Music reports: 50 CENT was left red-faced at the B.E.T. Awards on Tuesday night (27Jun07) after fans spotted him lip-syncing his new single onstage. Sources tell MediaTakeOut.com the rapper was caught out when he mimed the lyrics to Amusement Park over an instrumental version of the track mistakenly played by his DJ Whoo Kidd. One eagle-eyed audience member who spotted the split-second gaffe, says, "The whole thing was so embarrassing. To get caught like that in front of millions of people is almost unimaginable." [see full story for more while you ponder why in the hell anyone would need to lip sync a rap song?] - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Little Man Tate Benefit

Gigwise reports: Little Man Tate are to play a concert for the victims of flooding in Sheffield after the weekend's torrential downpours. 

The Steel City quartet will play the special gig at the Plug on August 4 with tickets costing £10 and all proceeds going to the 'South Yorkshire Flood Victim Support Appeal'. 

The band is also giving a local act the chance to support them at the gig via an online auction[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Iain Smith RIP

Gigwise reports: Thomas Iain Smith, front man of up and coming band Chow Chow has died. 

Smith passed away on Sunday (June 24) following a party, no cause of death has yet been established. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Guitar Center Sale

CMJ reports: Guitar Center, Inc.�the largest retailer of musical instruments in the United States�has signed an agreement to be bought out by private investment firm Bain capital for a sum of $2.1 billion. The agreement stipulates that investors will be paid $63 cash for each share they own in the music retail chain, a 26 percent mark-up from its June 26 closing value.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Testament Land a New Deal

BW&BK reports: TESTAMENT have signed a worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The band expect to issue their label debut in the first quarter of 2008. Recordings are expected to commence later this year. More details as they surface. 

Testament currently have the following live dates scheduled: 

July 
6 - Festa in Tenda - Mortegliano (Udine), Italy 
7 - Waldrock Festival - Leeuwarden, Netherlands 
13 - The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY 
14 - Sounds Of The Underground - Sayreville, NJ 
[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Madden'ing Songs

DJ Rossstar reports: The Madden NFL video game series are known for having great soundtracks and Madden NFL 08 will continue this trend.

Out on August 14th, 2007, Madden NFL 08 will be available for all video game systems and will once again introduce gamers to some great talent that they may not have heard otherwise...and will give hardcore music fans and gamers alike some awesome music to play football too.

Airbourne - Runnin' Wild"
Atreyu - "Becoming the Bull"
The Bravery - "Believe"
From Autumn to Ashes - "Daylight Slaving"
Hellyeah - "You Wouldn't Know"
The Hives - "Tick Tick Boom"
Operator - "Soulcrusher"
Ozzy Osbourne - "I Don't Wanna Stop"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "3's & 7's"
Shadows Fall - "Redemption"
Sum 41 - "Underclass Hero"
The Used - "The Ripper"
Yellowcard - "Fighting"
[but will the game include insipid comments from Madden? see full story for more tracks that will be included]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Dark Payola

Idolator.com reports: The hearing on Internet radio royalties is still going on, and while we haven't heard many updates on it (testimony from WOXY's Bryan Jay Miller is already up on YouTube), we did come across a piece in the SF Weekly that talks about another potentially homogenizing twist within the Copyright Royalty Board's new rate structure:

If Net radio stations don't win their fight, playing whatever they want will become prohibitively expensive. Playing crap, however, won't be. Under the new rules it would be economically logical for cash-strapped Webcasters to take discounted rates to play music the labels want them to play. Instead of the labels paying the Webcasters, the Webcasters pay the labels less. Dark payola.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Le Live Earth For Montreal

Jam! reports: Montreal will host a concert to mark the series of Live Earth shows planned for July 7 in cities around the world, organizers announced on Thursday. 

Dubbed "Friends of Live Earth," the Montreal concert will have the same aim as the Live Earth shows - to raise money to fight climate change. French-language artists Zachary Richard, Garou and Eric Lapointe have agreed to take part in the event[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Old Spice Tour

Jam! reports: The Spice Girls wannabe stars again. Following a calculated publicity buildup, the original Girl Power group of the 1990s announced Thursday they had agreed to get together for 11 concerts around the world in December and January. 

The group said the shows would be in Los Angeles on Dec. 7; Las Vegas on Dec. 8; New York on Dec. 11; London on Dec. 15; Cologne, Germany, on Dec. 20; Madrid, Spain, on Dec. 23; Beijing on Jan. 10; Hong Kong on Jan. 12[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Bane, Have Heart, Ceremony tour

Lambgoat reports: Bane, Have Heart, and Ceremony will tour Europe together in August and September. Here are the dates:

08/24 Leipzig, Germany @ Conne Island
08/25 Munster, Germany @ Skaters Palace
08/26 Ieper, Belgium @ Ieper Fest
08/27 London, UK @ Underworld
08/28 Bristol, UK @ The Croft
08/29 Manchester, UK @ Music Box
08/30 Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts
[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Decaydence Fest

punkbands reports: Some bright spark somewhere thought London deserved to host the Decaydence Fest, which will feature a veritable who's who of the ever popular fairy-core scene. Headliners Fall Out Boy will be joined by Panic! At The Disco, Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is...and Cobra Starship. This kinky kiddy fiddlers wet dream takes place at the Hammersmith Apollo on August 22nd. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Egypt Central Joins Ozzfest

TuneLab reports: Egypt Central will perform on the second stage of this year's Ozzfest on the following dates:

August 2nd in Dallas, TX @ Smirnoff Music Center
August 4th in Selma, TX @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
August 6th in St. Louis, MO @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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