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UK Deny Snoop
Gigwise reports: Snoop Dogg is considering going straight to the Prime Minister Tony Blair over the decision to deny him a British visa. 

The rapper has been blocked entry to continue his current tour with P Diddy following his part in a brawl at London's Heathrow Airport last year, but is attempting to overturn the decision. 

His spokesperson says in a statement, "Snoop still sincerely hopes that the British Government will reconsider their decision and UK shows will be allowed to go on as planned. [What the fizzle were they thinking? See full story for more] - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Incubus Injury Nixes Tour
FMQB reports: Incubus has been forced to postpone the rest of their European tour, as well as their upcoming South American trek, due to an injury to guitarist Mike Einziger's hand. His doctors have suggested surgery, which will require 8-12 weeks of recovery.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Weiland Fight Leads To Charges
TMZ reports: Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland and his wife trashed a Burbank hotel room during a rockstar-caliber rampage last weekend, and now the hotel is pressing charges against the Weilands for the damage they caused.

Sources tell TMZ that Weiland and his wife Mary ripped alarm clocks and phones from their sockets and threw them, made "dents and gauges" in the walls, and that there was even blood found on some of the linens afterward. (A picture taken at the scene shows a note attached to a trash bag that says, in Spanish, "with blood.") 

The trouble started when Mary arrived at the hotel Saturday, whereupon the couple got into "a huge argument" witnessed by their two young children, who had to be taken away by Weiland's assistant. Weiland himself then left, leaving behind Mary, who could be heard throwing things in the room. The police were called, and the hotel is pressing charges for the damage caused. There's no word whether either Weiland or his wife were injured in the spat.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Paul Simon Vs Oasis
PR reports: AjantaMusic founder and leader Paul Simon, not the Garfunkel one, today announced that he will never attend another BRITS presentation ceremony, not that he has ever been invited to one in the past. "My brother Robin, the other member of AjantaMusic, used to play with Ultravox and Magazine, and I was in a band with Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols. And they give the Outstanding Contribution to Music award to bloody Oasis? Hello?" 

The 5-foot 6 chillout giant, whose duo is gigantically popular in the Balearics, and also among listeners to the influential National Public Radio programme, Echoes, in America, is similarly disgruntled with the Oscars. "I can understand their giving it to Melissa Etheridge," he grumbles, "in view of no one actually having used one of the tracks from our 2006 debut album And Now We Dream in a film. But somebody bloody should have, innit?" [see full story for more - this press release brought to you by the "we need some publicity initiative"]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Judas Priest Legend Calls RIAA Silly
Blabbermouth reports: "The Classic Metal Show" recently interviewed legendary JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing about a number of topics, one which was the proposed raise of royalty rates by the RIAA that would, in essence, put Internet radio out of business. Downing stated that he found the proposed royalty rates to be "just ridiculous," and admitted that he's never received a check from the RIAA for royalties allegedly collected in his name by the organization. An excerpt from the conversation follows:

The Classic Metal Show: The Record Industry Association of America. They're going after Internet radio stations to pay a very high royalty rate in order to broadcast copyrighted music. Basically, just to give you the gist of it, in a year's time at the royalty rate they are asking, an Internet radio station that, say, serves 1,000 listeners 365 days a year, the royalty rate that they would have to pay in order to stay in business would equate to about $200,000 a year. 

K.K. Downing: Well, that's just ridiculous. That just doesn't stack up, as you say. That just doesn't equate. What's the equation? Who put that together? That's obviously silly. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Police Smashing Virgin Boys
BBC reports: The Police are to headline the second Virgin music festival in the US. The Beastie Boys and Smashing Pumpkins will also headline the festival on 4 and 5 August in Baltimore, Maryland. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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QOTSA 437th Bassist
Blabbermouth reports: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE have reportedly hired Michael Shuman as the band's new bassist. Various online sources have reported that Shuman, formerly of Los Angeles act WIRES ON FIRE, had accepted an offer to join the QUEENS, although there's been no official confirmation.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Everclear Tour
TuneLab reports: Everclear have announced dates for a Canadian tour which will kick off on April 29th. Dates are as follows:

April 29th in Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace
April 30th in Kingston, ON @ Ale House
May 2nd in Winnipeg, MB @ Cowboy's
May 3rd in Saskatoon, SK @ Roxy on Broadway
May 4th in Regina, SK @ The Drink
[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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It Dies Today Adds Dates
TuneLab reports: It Dies Today have announced the following tour dates in addition to their current tour:

April 18th in Spokane, WA @ The Boulevard
April 19th in Boise, ID @ The Venue
April 20th in Salt Lake City, UT @ Country Club
April 21st in Denver, CO @ Marquis
April 22nd in Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
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Skinlab Plot Aggressive Tour
TuneLab reports: Skinlab have announce details for their "Face of Aggression Tour" which will kick off in May. Will Haven, Ankla and Hostility will provide support on the entire tour with Apiary and Pain Principle opening on select dates. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Smart Kids Prefer Hard Rock
KNAC reports: Researchers say they've found a clear link between hard rock music and intelligence. The claim came after a study of the musical tastes of 1000 brainy youngsters found they preferred the likes of Ozzy Osbourne to Mozart.

The survey was carried out by a team at the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth at Warwick University in the UK, And they've even come up with an explanation. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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The Adolescents Return
punkbands reports: The Adolescents, a band made up by early members of Social Distortion and Agent Orange, are currently writing material for a new album, expected to be out later this year or next year.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Saosin Tour Plans
punkbands reports: Saosin have announced their touring plans through June. After the band wrap up their stint on this year's Taste Of Chaos tour in Canada , they will return to the U.S. for a brief series of shows before once again heading overseas for a comprehensive international tour of Europe, Australia and Japan.

Confirmed dates are as follows:

U.S.
Apr 13 2007 5:00P Cox Business Center - KHBZ Buzzfest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Apr 14 2007 5:00P Baton Rouge River Center - KNXX X-Fest Baton Rouge, Louisiana[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Meshuggah Eye Sept Release
SMN reports: Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH have posted the following message on their official web site:

"Yup, it's us again already!! (Oh, that soon!? - you think) We know you guys think we update this site way too often and that our continuos 'super-flux' of information is a bit too much for all y'all to handle!! Well, here's yet another little tidbit for your over-full mouths and minds to nibble on: As you've already read and/or heard from other places than the source from where, in a perfect world, you should have heard it (i.e. this site) that we're writing for coming album and we're just about to start recording! This album will rock your flee-ridden socks off! (that is - if you let it) We're aiming at a fall release, hopefully September! [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Despised Icon Find Guitarist
SMN reports: DESPISED ICON have posted the following update: "After going though tons of audition videos, we'd like to introduce our new guitarist; from Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Al Glassman (Goratory, ex-Burn In Silence). Al learned and played the songs perfectly but most of all, he's an awesome dude and we're glad to have him as a guitarist and as a friend. He joined us on our latest Canadian tour and proved to us and to the rest of the crowd that he's the perfect guy for the band. Thumbs up![see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Rock The Bells Fest
SMN reports: The complete lineup has been announced for this year's Rock The Bells festival which will take place on July 28th in New York City (Randall's Island), August 11th in San Bernardino, CA (NOS Events Center), and August 18th in San Francisco, CA (McCovey Cove Parking Lot). Performing will be:

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
WU-TANG CLAN
CYPRESS HILL
THE ROOTS
NAS (in select cities)
MOS DEF
EPMD
PHAROAHE MONCH
MF DOOM (in select cities)
IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE
SAGE FRANCIS
THE COUP (in select cities)
JEDI MIND TRICKS
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