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Britney Goes Punk

Waste of Education Dollars reports: [This BS story was too funny to pass up. Yes Virginia, you will find the hotbed of punk thought on college campuses. Or is it poser punk? This guy is convinced that Britney is now punk rock. He obviously has too much time on his hands between groupthink indoctrination sessions� Oops, make that classes. Here is a little highlight to give you a good laugh for Thursday.] Britney is now a punk rocker. In 1960s Paris, artists invented a cultural theory known as the Situationist International, which claims the ideas of anti-materialism, that the possessions and wealth people accumulated are not their to control, but that such things control them. It also decries every person as essentially not special, standing in sharp contrast to America's consumer culture. This theory served as the catalyst for the punk rock movement and inspired Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols to create a new genre of music, deriding the value of boring television, boring riches and a boring life of pretending one is special.

Born on Dec. 2, 1981 in Mississippi, Spears was, from the beginning, raised to be a star. By 8 years old she was auditioning for the Disney Channel's "The New Mickey Mouse Club," and at age 16, Spears dropped out of high school to pursue a solo singing career. [ok, maybe it's satire but beware if this yahoo is actually serious! You can read the entire absurd article at the full of sh*t link] - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Ozzfest to Feature Lordi, Lamb of God, Hatebreed and more

PR reports: Finland's monster rock n' roll band LORDI have been selected as one of the mainstage acts for OZZFEST 2007, alongside mainstage headliners Ozzy Osbourne and Lamb of God. The band - who released a special 2CD/DVD version of The Arockalypse (with bonus tracks/videos) this week via THE END RECORDS � are excited to be on this much-anticipated annual tour across North America, referred to this year as �FreeFest' because all tickets to the event are free.

"It is a great honour for us to be on OZZFEST and obviously it is gonna be a great opportunity for us to show the people in the U.S. what we can do�or what they think we can do. [laughs]," comments Mr. Lordi about the opening slot on the mainstage that starts July 12th, 2007 in Seattle, WA. "My best friend is a huge Ozzy fan he's really jealous of the whole thing. I'm gonna try and remember to pick him up an OZZFEST t-shirt when we return to Finland. For us the idea of playing OZZFEST is still hard to believe. I'll believe it when we're there."

Confirmed bands performing on the second stage includes Hatebreed (second stage headliner), Mondo Generator, Ankla, Circus Diablo and Nile. [see full story for the dates in our spiffy new concert guide section!]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Musiq Tops Chart

Reuters reports: R&B singer Musiq Soulchild topped the U.S. pop album charts Wednesday despite sharply lower sales, while Neil Young scored his second-highest opening position with an old live recording, Billboard reported. 

Soulchild, whose real name is Taalib Johnson, sold 149,000 copies of his Atlantic debut, "Luvanmusiq," in the week ended March 18, according to Nielsen SoundScan. 
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Sgt Pepper Latte

Reuters reports: Starbucks Corp. said on Wednesday former Beatle Paul McCartney would be the first musician to release an album on the coffee shop chain's new Hear Music record label. 

The announcement was made by Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz at the company's annual meeting in Seattle. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Saves The Day Tour

CMJ reports: New Jersey emo-hybrid outfit Saves The Day has announced a set of spring dates with Say Anything, marking their first road trip since last summer's Warped Tour appearances. The five-week jaunt will preface STD's (tee-hee) forthcoming LP, Under The Boards, which is due sometime this fall via Vagrant.

04/10 - San Diego, CA - SOMA 
04/11 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
04/12 - Los Angeles, CA - House Of Blues 
04/13 - Los Angeles, CA - House Of Blues
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Lost Tracks of Danzig

Blabbermouth reports: The long-awaited "Lost Tracks of Danzig" collection, a two-CD set of previously unreleased DANZIG tracks spaning the band's entire career � from the 1988 self-titled debut to the present � will be released on May 29. It will be packaged in a book-like format and will include a 12-page booklet of photos and a short anecdote about each song as remembered by Glenn Danzig.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Timberlake Dishonored

AP reports: Justin Timberlake won't be bringing sexy back to the Tennessee Legislature. State Sen. Ophelia Ford had introduced the resolution to honor Timberlake, a Tennessee native, "for his highly successful music career and for his meritorious service to the State of Tennessee." 

But Sen. Raymond Finney, R-Maryville, removed it from a list of resolutions that is expected to get unanimous support in the Senate.[Good to know state governments waste as much time of stupid crap as the feds. see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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West Wingnut To Launch Flaming Lips Musical

Gigwise reports: The Flaming Lips are to take their seminal album �Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots' to Broadway in the form of a new musical. 

The band have teamed up wit West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and Tony award winning director Des McAnuff for the project. 

Talking about the endeavour Wayne Coyne told ew.com: When Des heard the record, he heard a lot about death and loss and the triumph of your own optimism... he had an emotional attachment to it. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Glitch Leaves Thousands of Fans Without Tickets

Gigwise reports: Over three thousand people who believed they had bought tickets for the Leeds and Reading Festivals have had them cancelled. 

The news comes after the event sold out within hours of tickets going on sale on Monday evening. 

Organisers say that the purchases were dealt with so quickly that the problems with some credit crads did not come to light until after confirmations had been emailed out to fans. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Lacuna Uncoiled

TuneLab reports: Lacuna Coil will be performing several unplugged dates at various music stores around the US, dates are:

March 24th in Kenosha, WI @ Music Center of Kenosha
April 3rd in Enfield, CT @ Falcetti's Music
April 7th in Trenton, NJ @ Russo Music
April 10th in Olney, MD @ Rocketeria
April 12th in Mesa, AZ @ Milano Music
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Jurassic 5 Goes Extinct

SMN reports: JURASSIC 5 have called it a day and hung up their mics. MC Soup of the group, which will surely yield some solo projects, revealed:

"Some people may say it's a creative thing, but I'm not buying it. Some might say business, some might say merchandising, whatever, there's some really stupid s***, some really childish things, happening. When it comes down to it, some people here want their own shine, their own thing. If that's what you want, I say more power to you. I hope it works out for you - just don't come up with lame excuses." [see full story for more breaking music news]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Monsters Of Mayhem 2 Tour

Lambgoat reports: The Monsters Of Mayhem 2 Tour, featuring Hatebreed with God Forbid, Evergreen Terrace, Terror, The Acacia Strain, and After The Burial will take place in late-May. Here are the dates:

5/18 Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
5/19 Hartford, CT @ Webster Theater
5/20 Sayerville NJ @ Starland Ballroom 
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Revised Whitey

PR reports: A quick update from the story about the Whitey tour posted yesterday. We have been notified about some slightly Revised dates: April 6th & 7th have changed. 

Here are the revised dates. See the full story for the rest of the dates: 
April 6 - San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine *
April 7 - Sacramento, CA - Blue Lamp *
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Indie Success Borne Online

PR reports: On the morning of the 13th of February 2007 the Band "Borne" had no idea what was about to take place. The boys were excited about their album "Loss of Signal" being made available all over the world and thought a large audience might be exposed to their music. But everyone was overwhelmed by the amazing worldwide response. The guys have always valued the online community and appreciated the level playing field provided by the MySpace and YouTube revolution.

On the 23rd of Febuary Loss of Signal was sitting in the top 20 on the Amercian Billboard Digital charts www.billboard.com as well as being catapulted into the TOP 50 in Japan and New Zealand, the TOP 20 in the UK and Canada, and the TOP 10 in the USA, Australia and France on iTunes. With the single getting airplay on stations in the USA like Indy 103.1 and securing deals with advertisers and films in the USA, the word on Borne is certainly starting to circulate with powerful decision makers.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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