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A recap of the this week's Day in Rock stories
Monday |
Cold Reunion |
Cold frontman Scooter Ward has announced that the band will once again reunite and are planning to record a brand new studio album which expected to be released in the Fall of next year.
The band originally broke up in February of 2006 but reunited two months later only to disband in November of the same year.
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Would Johnny Depp Make A Good Tommy Lee? |
He said: "Johnny Depp would be my choice to play me. He's the best ever." Tommy also revealed he is currently in talks with movie producers to start shooting the film, which will be based on the story of Motley Crue.
He added: "We're working on it. Trying to find the right producers and director and all that sort of stuff!" [Our vote goes for Ashton Kutcher. Is there really any difference between Tommy and Kelso?. If he's too big for the role, maybe Dustin Diamond would be into it? Pauly Shore isn't doing anything right now either]
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Universal Gets Stoned |
The agreement gives the Polydor imprint any new records from the band, along with full digital and physical rights to releases. The deal also puts the distribution rights for the entire Stones catalog in one place for the first time.
UMG already had distribution rights to the band's early catalog, up to 1970. The new agreement now includes everything from 1971's Sticky Fingers onward.
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Bon Jovi Scores In Another Arena |
TMZ has the scoop: Jon Bon Jovi may have seen a million faces and rocked them all, but, until now, he couldn't claim the most pointless title in footballdom: The Arena Football League Championship.
Bon Jovi is the proud co-owner of the Philadelphia Soul, who won the title game today by scoring more points than the other team.
- If sarcasm flies right over your head, you can join the chorus of jeers for that last line and see a
Screeched By the Tell All |
But don't feel sorry for Dustin Diamond because he's doomed to spend the rest of his life stereotyped into a perpetual inescapable vacuum where he'll only be known as Screech from Saved By The Bell to everyone he ever meets all the time forever until he dies, because some good has come out of it.
Dustin Diamond, you see, has decided to use his notoriety to pen a no-holds-barred Saved By The Bell tell-all book that'll chronicle the cast's naughty shenanigans in a frank and shocking manner. Honestly? We're underwhelmed. Now, if there was a Hangin' With Mr Cooper tell-all book coming out
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Shocker: Loverboy Plan A Concert and No One Buys Tickets |
The band was scheduled to play Credit Union Place, which holds 5,000, on Aug. 6. The cancellation means the city loses the deposit the city paid to the band. Bill Schurman, director of community services for Summerside, refused to disclose how much the deposit was.
"We don't disclose what we pay our bands. That's something that's quite confidential," Schurman told CBC News Friday. The decision to cancel the concert was mutual, said Schurman.
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Roundup: Chiodos Suicide Attempt, 25 Years of Metallica, Miley Cyrus, AC/DC, Les Claypool, TI, Heaven & Hell, Sat Radio Monopoly OK'd and more |
Over at Billboard: Miley Cyrus' "Breakout" (Hollywood) and Sugarland's "Love on the Inside" (Mercury Nashville) continue their charge towards the No. 1 slot on next week's Billboard 200 tally. more
Primus principal Les Claypool has written the original theme track and four other themes for the Nintendo Wii "Mushroom Men" video games, due this fall. more
Heaven & Hell -- aka Black Sabbath Mk. 2, with Ronnie James Dio out front -- has started work on a new album. "We've got about six or seven new songs," Iommi reports. more
T.I.'s upcoming album, "Paper Trail," has changed release dates yet again. The Grand Hustle/Atlantic album will now arrive Sept. 30. more
Over at Blabbermouth: Chiodos frontman Craig Owens discusses his recent suicide attempt. more
Friday (July 25) marked the 25th anniversary of the release of METALLICA's debut album, "Kill 'Em All". more
AC/DC will travel to London, England in early August to shoot a video for the first single off their new album, "Black Ice". more
JON OLIVA'S PAIN, CIRCLE II CIRCLE and MANTICORA are finalizing details for the first leg of their upcoming U.S. tour. more
WALLS OF JERICHO's entire new album, "The American Dream", is currently available for streaming online. more
After DOKKEN's July 23 concert at Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida, the group's frontman Don Dokken decided to change drummers mid-tour. more
RUSH filmed its July 22, 2008 concert at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Alpharetta, Georgia for inclusion of several tracks as bonus material on the band's upcoming companion DVD to the "Snakes & Arrows Live" two-CD set. more
Over at NME: Prosecutors in the Phil Spector murder retrial have filed a motion arguing that jurors should be able to hear testimony on blood evidence and the autopsy of the actress he is accused of killing. more
France's first lady Carla Bruni has knocked Coldplay off the top of the French pop charts, it was announced today (July 25) more
The Subways have announced a US release date for their forthcoming sophomore album. more
Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs has denied rumours that he is engaged to marry his girlfriend. more
Over at Punknews.org: Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness recently spoke with Synthesis.net about the band's future recording plans, a new solo album and a possible documentary on Social D. more
No Trigger frontman Tom Rheault dropped us a line denying recent break-up rumors, and to provide some updates on the band's recent happenings. more
Hopeless has announced the launch of a new imprint. Named P is for Panda, the label is the project of Chad Pearson who founded and ran The Militia Group for 12 years. more
Over at Yahoo Music: Federal regulators formally approved the merger of the nation's only two satellite radio operators Friday, ending a 16-month-long drama closely watched by Washington and Wall Street. more
After devoting himself to gospel on his recent recordings, Randy Travis is back with his first country album in eight years. more
That's it for this edition, for the very latest headlines from these sites and more
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Sober Realty Show Leads to GNR Drug Bust |
Sources close to the production say after a "confrontation" in the house, a member of the "Sober" staff called the cops, who came and popped Adler on an outstanding warrant.
His own peeps tell us the staff called the fuz because Adler was allegedly doing drugs in the house.
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Arsis Find Another Beater |
"Our new drummer is Shawn Priest from Idaho. All the best drummers are coming outta nowhere from the Midwest! We screened him through his video on YouTube, and when we hooked up, he learned 'We Are The Nightmare' in a day and a half.
"We're really excited about this. We're gonna have new drum parts in our songs off the new album. It's gonna be way thrashier, more in-your-face. 'Servants To The Night' has been added to the set list because of Shawn. We'd like to keep him on as full-time, so we'll see how he does on this tour.
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For Those That Care About BS: K-Fed and Britney Settle |
As for child support, K-Fed has scored. As we first reported, he's getting 5k a month more -- it's gone from $15,000 to $20,000 a month.
The agreement does not mention visitation, but we know Brit has three days and one night a week with the kiddies and that will increase as time goes on. We're told by Fall, she'll have a second overnight a week.
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Mellencamp Gets Sirius For New Album |
The Spectrum of John Mellencamp will feature four decades of Mellencamp's music, including rare performances hand-picked from his personal archives and some of the artists who have influenced his career.
The veteran musician will share stories and personal insights about the many classic songs that have defined his 30-year career in music, as well as give a personal introduction to select tracks off his latest album, Life, Death, Love and Freedom, which debuted this week in the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
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Inside Track Week: Keaton Simons |
1. WITHOUT YOUR SKIN - I'm fascinated with dichotomy. One of my favorites is the global and possibly even universal connection between all things and the complete individuality and autonomy of all things. That's the grand answer. The more down to earth one is the connection between two people who are so close that one may actually feel "naked" without the other.
2. NOBODY KNOWS - I wrote this song with The Matrix (an amazingly talented and successful writing and production team). The song is basically about an affair I had many years ago. It sheds light on some of the less popular perspectives about infidelity. It also shows the tendency for people to think they know what's "really going on" in a situation that they may actually know very little about. This song doesn't condone cheating. It just realizes the entire reality of it.
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MegaTalking Ellefson |
Topics include F5's forthcoming album, "The Reckoning," Jimmy DeGrasso, Montrose, The Alien Blakk, and Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp.
Additional podcast topics covered by Ostronomy and Mark Strigl include Hammerfall and Jersey City, NJ. Photos as well as the podcast can be downloaded at this
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Bigelf Set the Date For Their New Album |
Cheat the Gallows was recorded at Kung Fu Gardens studios in North Hollywood and produced by Bigelf frontman Damon Fox. The album features 10 diverse tracks of hallucinatory hard rock, showcasing the band's multi-layered arrangements, rich, sophisticated vocal harmonies and Fox's spectacular dual-Mellotron / Hammond organ / Moog synthesizer saturations.
On Cheat the Gallows, Bigelf's "new classic" sound blends strong post-Hendrix ferocity with a potent post-Beatles tunefulness, resulting in diabolically-heavy pop rife with epic guitars, infectious hooks and unforgettably refined melody patterns that will undoubtedly find appeal with classic hard rock fans, vintage prog-heads and heavy metal enthusiasts alike.
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Snooty Martha's Vineyard People Need A Festival Too! |
The legendary seven-time GRAMMY� winning vocalist Gladys Knight is set to headline this year's festival with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart.
The island's must-see event also features performances by The Neville Brothers, Steel Pulse, Willy Mason, Kate Taylor, Entrain with Phil DaRosa plus piano sensation Minami Morita with her quartet.
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The Boy Will Drown of an Earache |
THE BOY WILL DROWN are a four-piece band based in Norwich/Colchester in the UK who formed in late 2006. Currently regarded as one of the most flamboyant and intense bands in the UK, they play a vicious blend of technical and experimental music based around grindcore and death metal.
Refusing to play "sugar-coated" metal like so many other bands, THE BOY WILL DROWN do everything in their power to mesmerise and pulverise the listener, whilst simultaneously injecting an element of humour, fun and youth into the otherwise serious face of the extreme metal genre. Drawing influence from such bands as DECAPITATED, NECROPHAGIST and PSYOPUS, THE BOY WILL DROWN create music that's technically breathtaking, with punishing metal riffage, yet still retains that "groove" factor.
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Level-C Hints That All Female Metal Bands Before Them Weren't Real |
A hard-hitting slab of music with a modern edge, Level-C's self-titled release is journey into the minds of this long-standing, hard-working Cleveland-based band.
"Level-C is real," said vocalist Christine Maynard. "The lyrics were written about real experiences. The music was constructed with real emotion. When I listen to the songs, it's like opening a diary of my life."
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Women Make A Deal |
The band will tour the U.S., Canada and Europe in support of the album throughout 2008, and tour dates will be announced soon.
The band's debut was recorded by Sub Pop and Flemish Eye artist Chad VanGaalen over 4 months on ghettoblasters and old tape machines in his basement, an outdoor culvert and a crawlspace. Sometimes light and spacious, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight, Women hint at the Velvet Underground, Swell Maps or This Heat; a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.
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Paul van Dyk After Party |
Satan's Favorite DVD? |
Based on Scandinavian Viking lore, Black Metal borrows from ancient Viking melodies, lyrics and mythology dating back to the 11th century.
The new wave of Black Metal heroes give their take on the current state of the genre as well as on the founding fathers of Black Metal like Mayhem, Bathory and Immortal and the extreme, almost inhuman acts that surround this controversial subculture.
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Temujin Delay Tour To Record New Songs |
Marrow Sets Depressing Release |
The launch of 'Quiet Desperation' will be backed by an aggressive viral video internet campaign touting Marrow's endorsement from a fictitious, and ludicrous, 'foundation for unhappiness enhancement,' "The Society for the Advancement of Despair," (SAD), whose tagline is 'Bliss is Ignorance.'
In an endeavor to skewer the notion that all people must adopt and maintain a constant state of forced happiness and serenity to lead fulfilling lives, 'The Society for the Advancement of Despair' wants you to be left alone to wallow in your sadness in order to explore the depths of your discontentment, because it feels good to feel bad. Marrow's 'Quiet Desperation,' already the self-proclaimed 'feel bad album of the year,' is "the prescription for your pain", that will help the listener embrace their well-earned sadness.
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Jim Boggia's Misadventures In Stereo |
His confessional, deeply personal lyrics tap into the deepest and most universal of human emotions. Born blind in one eye and with limited vision in the other, Boggia grew up an only child with an acutely developed ear for music.
His early fascination for such iconoclastic pop classics as the Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society, Nilsson Sings Newman and Stevie Wonder's Innervisons helped to inform an aesthetic sensibility that would push him to create album-length listening "experiences" on his own releases.
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AntiTainment Celebutard Watch: Lohan Ran Over By A Bike |
We're told her driver took her to Beth Israel Hospital in Midtown Manhattan and she checked herself out at 4:00 AM.
Didn't your momma tell you to look both ways before crossing the street!
AntiTainment Celebutard Watch: Shia LaDrunk Smashup |
LaBeouf was placed under arrest on suspicion of DUI after we're told he exhibited "outward signs" of intoxication at the scene.
Law enforcement tell TMZ, Shia LaBeouf will not be booked on felony DUI charges -- but he's not out of the woods. We're told Shia is in surgery right now to fix his messed up left hand that was injured after he rolled his car at 3 AM today. Law enforcement says he'll be cited and released on suspicion of DUI misdemeanor.
- TMZ posted a blow by blow account of LaBeouf LaDrunken Smach Up
Ernie Halter Week: Day 1 |
"Count the days": I wrote this song quickly in L.A. This song was about finding love again. There is a part in this song that is actually an inside joke with my girlfriend. The part "I miss you like children miss summer" was part of a little testing game that we would do while I was out on the road.
We would text each other little "I miss you texts like.....". A good example is "I miss you like Jenna Jameson misses her virginity" or something funny like that.
Hearing is believing, so go grab a listen and learn more about Ernie and his new album right
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