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Go Hip Hop? |
FMQB reports: Are Coldplay going Hip-Hop?
Uber-producer Timbaland tells GQ he will visit the band in the U.K. in
April and discuss ideas for their fourth album. However, a spokesperson
for the band told the NME that Coldplay is not scheduled to actually work
with Timba on their next record, which they have already announced will
be produced by Brian Eno.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Elton
Bigot Rant |
hecklerspray.com reports: Elton John is a
man who knows all about persecution; not only is Elton John gay but he's
a middle-aged tubby bald gay with gap teeth, bad eyesight, a ginger wig,
a voice like a dying walrus and the world's oddest sense of style - so
Elton John knows.
But for now let's just concentrate on the
gay thing. Elton John turns 60 this weekend and, instead of marking the
occasion by dressing up as a big duck and going to a poncey rah-rah party
with a bunch of sycophantic tossers, he's decided to do something useful
and speak out against all the anti-gay bigots in the world in an article
for the New Statesman. By penning such an important and potentially inflammatory
article that'll be felt around the world, Elton John will be drawing attention
to a cause that many millions of people feel strongly about. And also drawing
attention to the fact that Elton John's back catalogue will be available
to download from iTunes for the first time on Monday a bit too. But that's
probably just a coincidence.[see full story for more]-
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| Foxy
Warrant |
TMZ reports: TMZ has learned there's a warrant
out for the arrest of Foxy Brown.
Brown failed to appear in Broward County
court today on battery charges -- the result of a big hoo-hah at a Florida
beauty supply shop. Brown was applying beauty products in the store's bathroom
when the owner tried to close up shop. Brown allegedly threw a tantrum
and threw hair glue at the owner, then allegedly spat on him.
After it became apparent that Brown was
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| Kid
Rock Sues Accuser |
TMZ reports: Kid Rock has struck back against
a woman who claimed he threw her into a snowbank -- with a lawsuit.
TMZ obtained the lawsuit filed by Rock's
attorneys against Kelly Ann Kozlowski, the woman who last week accused
Kid of assaulting her. The musician is seeking undisclosed monetary damages
for invasion of privacy, defamation, and for trespassing the Rock residence.
In a police report, Kozlowski had claimed
that Kid (whose real name is Robert Ritchie) grabbed her by the neck and
threw her into a snowbank, charges that Rock denied -- and that were ultimately
unsubstantiated. According to the Rock lawsuit, after meeting the rap-rocker
at a local bar, Kozlowski and her boyfriend tagged along to listen to some
tracks Rock had recently recorded, but "began placing drinks on [Rock's]
recording equipment and was otherwise acting improperly." [see full story
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| Publishers
Sue XM |
Reuters reports: The National Music Publishers'
Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against XM Satellite Radio Holdings
Inc on Thursday for providing radios that allegedly let users reproduce
and distribute copyrighted music without paying appropriate royalties.
The publishers said the suit alleges that
XM engages in massive copyright infringement with devices that provide
its service known as "XM + MP3," which lets listeners store songs they
hear on XM's service and arrange them into playlists. [see full story for
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| Linkin
Shoes |
FMQB reports: etnies sneakers and Linkin Park
singer Chester Bennington are launching the Club Tattoo collaboration shoes
for fall 2007. All of the shoes will feature traditional tattoo artwork
and are available in two vulcanized styles, the etnies Bernie and Fakie,
for both men and women. The shoes will be available in stores this June
and can be viewed at etnies.com.[see full story for more]-
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| Radio
Exec Indicted |
FMQB reports: A federal grand jury in Phoenix
has returned a 33-count indictment against CBS Radio Executive Brian Ongaro
and eight other men for mail fraud, conspiracy and money laundering for
allegedly misrepresenting their company, CORF Licensing Services (CLS),
which issued licensees to establish outpatient facilities. The indictment
states that from May 2001 through June 2003, four of the men involved in
the scheme - David Goldfarb, Richard Ross, Paul Woodcock and Milton Guenther
- contracted with over 300 licensees to establish facilities providing
pulmonary respiratory therapy and physical therapy services. [see full
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| Fishbone
Return |
CMJ reports: Long-running L.A.-based ska-punk
outfit Fishbone have announced a string of April/May dates that will coincide
with the April 24 release of their new LP, Stuck In Your Throat (Sound
In Color), their first album of new material in six plus years and ninth
overall. More dates are coming in addition to the confirmed ones listed
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| Great
White Hope |
Blabbermouth reports: Jessica Selby of the
Kent County Daily Times reports that philanthropist Alan Shawn Feinstein
is coming to the aid of the Station Fire Fund.
Feinstein said he was so moved by an article
that appeared in the Providence Journal on the anniversary of the Station
Fire [which started at a GREAT WHITE concert] that he was inspired to create
a "$100,000 Challenge" matching grant.
The article in the Journal outlined the
declining support for the Station Fire Fund and its forced change in focus
as a result of that decline. Ed Walton, assistant director for the Alan
Shawn Feinstein Foundation, said Feinstein was so taken aback by the waning
support for a group with "such a wonderful cause" he felt compelled to
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| Shinedown
Lose Member |
TuneLab reports: Shinedown and bassist Brad
Stewart have reportedly parted ways. An official statement from the band
regarding the departure has yet to be released.[see full story for more
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| Maiden
Speed Ban |
KNAC reports: Iron Maiden drummer Michael
"Nicko" McBrain has been banned from driving in the UK after being caught
speeding on the M74 motorway near Lockerbie, Scotland.
Authorities say McBrain was clocked doing
116 mph.
The 54-year-old from London pleaded guilty
to the offence by letter. He was banned from the roads for six months and
fined £500.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Shadows
Fall In Stores |
SMN reports: Shadows Fall will be making the
following in-store appearances in celebration of the release of "Threads
of Life":
April 3 - Hartford, CT: HOT TOPIC - 4PM
April 4 - Boston, MA: Best Buy - 4PM
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| Europe
Gets Stoned |
Jam! reports: The Rolling Stones will headline
Britain's Isle of Wight Festival as part of their 27-date European tour
this summer.
The tour will begin June 5 in Werchter,
Belgium. It will end Aug. 21 with a show at London's Millennium Dome, re-branded
the O2 Arena, it was announced Thursday. [see full story for more]-
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| More
Ozzfest Bands |
Blabbermouth reports: 3 INCHES OF BLOOD and
DAATH have been confirmed for the second stage at this year's Ozzfest.
The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:
Main Stage:
OZZY OSBOURNE
LAMB OF GOD
[to be announced]
LORDI
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| Arch
Enemy Reunited |
Lambgoat reports: Arch Enemy are pleased to
be able to announce the return of original guitarist Christopher Amott.
The band, having finished an intense 18-month touring cycle all over the
world promoting the Doomsday Machine album and Live Apocalypse DVD, are
currently busy working on songs for their new studio album.
Christopher surprised many by departing
Arch Enemy at the end of the Doomsday Machine recording sessions in 2005,
having been in the band for 10 years (starting with Arch Enemy at age 18).
Christopher followed his urges to see the world and find what else is out
there apart from music. Having done that, the time is now right for him
to return to the fold with a newly injected desire and focus and to resume
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| 2&2:
Grace Slick |
PR reports: Morley spoke with rock legend
Grace Slick this week about a variety of topics including her art exhibits
this weekend in Southern California. Here is just a sample of this intriguing
interview: antiMUSIC: When you hear that some people are painting who
have been in music or other fields, you just kinda go, yeah right. I mean,
there's some people out there that when I see their paintings I just wonder
what they're thinking showing them to people. ** Grace: A whole bunch
of musicians and actors and so forth do that. Like Jane Seymour, Jonathan
Winters, Anthony Quinn, Tony Bennett, Marty Balin, let's see, the guy who
shows in the same galleries as me, is one of the Rolling Stones [Ronnie
Wood] Joni Mitchell, and you know�and Myles Davis and some of these people
are really good. Jerry Garcia was good. He drew and unlike me, he's a multi-tasker.
I'm not. So he used to take his paints and stuff on the road. But I've
seen some of his stuff and some of it's good. But I think it's kinda normal
because it's all the same part of the brain. The arts. But you don't want
any of us doing your accounting or fixing your television set, right? Because
we uh suck in those areas. (laughs) Pretty much. Some don't. Gene Simmons
is a musician but he doesn't do any drugs. His addiction is sex. I don't
what he's doing any more, but I know my ex-husband was the lighting director
for KISS for a while and we went over to talk to Gene about something or
other. Money or, you know, the tour or something and he asked, "Do you
want to see my Polaroids?" And he shows Polaroids of every woman he's ever
screwed. ** antiMUSIC: Yeah right, the famous scrapbook. ** Grace: And
I'm just going, 'Ah, Jesus do I have to look at this?' I so don't care,
you know. My ex husband pretty much cared because he was kind of a sex
addict or you know whatever they call they call that kinda stuff. But you
know, a woman (pfff) I could care less. But Gene's very good at business.
Frank Zappa was pretty good at business. And Frank Zappa didn't do drugs
either. Drugs really get in the way of paying attention to what your accountant's
saying because it's so boring. Jefferson Airplane, when we first started
making, you know, big money, we brought in a financial advisor who advised
that we buy train, cargo cars for trains in the south somewhere, and we
looked at him, like, 'Are you f***ing serious? Do we give a flying�?' You
know, so we didn't do that and consequently, you know Paul Kantner is having
trouble. He has to go around the country pretending he's Jefferson Starship
and so does Mickey Thomas�and basically I own the name along with our manager.
And so it's illegal for them to be doing it but I don't care. They have
to make money. As long as they don't do product. Once they do product,
then I'll step in and say, 'Okay we get a percent. You know, you can't
do that'. So you know it's a little gnarly, but I don't care if they use
the name. I didn't care for Starship anyway. Like the '80s version of Starship
was just all�songs were written by other people and ah, God, it was just
dumb. [You have to check out the rest of the interview, it's worth the
click over, plus get the details on the art exhibits and check out some
photos of her amazing artwork! It all can be had at the full story link]
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