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Recap of top stories for the month of August

For this long weekend we thought we'd do something a little different. Instead of recapping the top stories from this past week we're going to revisit the most read stories from the past month. 

Two stories emerged as the biggest ones of the month of August. Beyonce Nude Mishap narrowly beat out Van Halen Angers Fans With Anthony Snubs, but over all the combined stories about Van Halen's reunion were the biggest ones of the month showing that fans are truly excited about the veteran rockers getting back together with David Lee Roth. 

But both stories came in behind the Lesbian Britney story as the most read article of August and we also have some surprising other top stories this month which will revisit today. Hope you enjoy this recap and if all goes well we'll do it again next month! Here goes the Top Day in Rock Stories for August 2007!
 

Top 3 stories for this month

Lesbian Britney

antiMusic reports: Has K-Fed turned Britney Spears off to men all together? Perhaps if photos of the pop star topless in a swimming pool kissing another woman indicate a new sexual preference. This is the second time that Spears has reportedly been seen in recently weeks getting intimate with another woman.

The new photos in The Sun and OK! Magazine show Britney and her former assistant in what the Sun describes in a "red hot girl on girl session". The assisant, Shannon Funk, reported got friendly with Spears in a L.A. hotel pool and the action was captured by photographers.

The new pictures surface as Federline has initiated new court proceedings against Spears in hopes of gaining princible custody of their two children.- more on this story

Beyonce Nude Mishap

It's being billed as an accident, (or is it a wardrobe malfunction?) but it could also be called an ironic way to promote a clothing line by accidentally removing said clothing. It all happened when Beyonce took to the stage at a launch party for her clothing line at the Dereon in Toronto, Canada, according to Contact Music.

Hundreds of fans were on hand to witness Beyonce perform and during an a dance routine her blouse reportedly lifted up and exposed her bare breasts to the audience. Video of the mishaps is now making the rounds on the web. We won't link you directly to a site showing it but if you are industrious you can find one if you can sort through the insane amounth of spam site - listings

Van Halen Angers Fans With Anthony Snubs

A fan wrote us with the following: "On every single Van Halen song (with exception to the three new songs on the Best of Both Worlds compilation, ) credits have always gone to Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and the lead singer who is featured on the song (Roth/Hagar/Cherone). However, during the credits of the film 'Superbad', which features the song 'Panama', the song is only credited to the two Van Halens and Roth! Anthony continues to get snubbed by his former band as they attempt to erase him from the history of the band."

We looked a little further into this and discovered that Anthony has been removed from the credits for all of the songs from the band's Diamond Award winning album 1984 in the ASCAP database.- more on this story

Other Top Stories from this past month

Faith Hill Vs Ball Grabbing Fan

When a ballsy female concertgoer reached out and grabbed Tim McGraw's nether regions Saturday at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana, his missus [Faith Hill] told the errant fan in no uncertain terms that that sort of behavior is frowned upon in them there parts… 

"Somebody needs to teach you some class, my friend," a finger-wagging Hill told the woman. "You don't go grabbin' somebody else's, somebody's husband's balls, you understand me? That's very disrespectful!"

- more on this story

AC/DC Go Digital

There are a couple of catches. First you will only find digital AC/DC through Verizon VCast Music service for PCs. And you can't pick and choose which songs you want, you have to buy the full albums at about $12 each according to Billboard. The one exception being "You Shook Me All Night Long" which you can download to your cell phone. - more on this story

Ozzy Emergency Surgery

Ozzy had experience leg pain all day leading up to his headline performance during "FreeFest," and following the show was taken to the local hospital where a blood clot was discovered in his leg. - more on this story

KISS Star Hospitalized with Heart Trouble

"My heart spontaneously jumped to 190 plus beats per minute, where it stayed for over an hour necessitating paramedics to start an IV and give me a shot to momentarily stop my heart and get it into a normal pattern," Stanley wrote on his site. The American Heart Assoc lists a normal "at rest" heart beat as between 60 and 80 beats per minute.

The full band was scheduled to perform at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, Ca but during rehearsals Stanley suffered the heart trouble causing the band to perform without him, as doctors advised Paul that going on the show would be dangerous. - more on this story

GNR Members Reunite At Anniversary Show

Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan joined Steven Adler's band (Adler's Appetite) during their set to perform "Mr. Brownstone" and "Paradise City". There are some reports that Slash attended the event but did not join the band on stage. We were supposed to attend the event but due to unforeseen circumstance we were unable to so we can not give you a first hand report of the reunion. We were informed by Chip Z'nuff, a member of Adler's band that Slash was indeed at the event but did not perform.- more on this story

Keef Admits Snorting Dad's Ashes

"What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of... y'know, he went down a treat," Richard reportedly says in a new magazine interview according to UK music site Gigwise. The story caused controversy when it first broke with Richards issuing a denial but he has now changed his tune and offered up a correction to the widely reported claims that he mixed his fathers remains with cocaine before having a toot. 

"The cocaine bit was rubbish. I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with. I'd opened his box up and said, 'Jesus, I've got to do something with dad, y'know, plant the oak tree.' I pulled the lid off and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table. I'm going, 'I can't use the brush and dustpan for this'. So you just gotta like, put it together."- read teh Gigwise report

Pearl Jam Vs AT&T

AT&T claim it was a mistake, CMJ contacted them for comment and were told that a webcast editor mistakenly took the portions out due to their policy of censoring excessive language due to their all-ages audience. 

"This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media," Pearl Jam wrote in a statement on their website. Then again they shouldn't be surprised by the corporate action since they were performing at a festival that has become more and more corporate as the years go by. - Read more about the band's anger and AT&Ts response at CMJ 

50 Cent Promises To Retire

Both rappers will commemorate the brutal terrorist attacks on the US this September 11th by dropping their new albums on the public. In the past, Fiddy has logged more sales than Kanye, who was once pictured as Jesus on the cover of Rolling Stone, but some are predicting that the new CD "Graduation" from the biggest ego in popular music (a.k.a. Kanye) may just outsell pocket change's CD "Curtis". So Fiddy laid it all on the line and promises to quit his solo career if Kanye's "Graduation" sends him back to the 1st grade. - more on this story

Coldplay Smackdown

The smackdown occurred at the Changes Karaoke bar in Seattle when a man took the stage and started to sing Coldplay's hit song "Yellow" angering a woman in the audience who shouted "Oh no, not that song. I can't stand that song!" 

She then jumped up on stage and punched the man in the face in an attempt to stop him from singing the song, said the police report according to Gigwise. The 21-year-old woman was then dragged outside and went crazy punching a bar employee in the face twice.- more on this story

Against Me Cafe Brawl

Tom Gabel had just ordered his tea and walked into the rest room when all hell broke loose according to tallahassee.com. Seems Gabel found an article about his band pinned to the wall. Instead of saying for a good time call, someone had defaced the article with obscenities, which angered him greatly. So he tore down the article and tossed it into the emo basket (trashcan). Another patron asked Gabel why he had torn down the fine altered article and according to the victim's friend a shouting match ensued between the singer and the victim before escalating into violence. 

Gabel reportedly then knocked the cup out of the hand of his questioner, Jared Smith. Smith told the police that Gabel proceeded to grab him by the neck and forced his head into the wooden counter before a man entered the cafe, headbutted Gabel and put him into a headlock. The mysterious crime fighter exited before the police showed up.
- more on this story

All Star Tribute To Dylan

Sonic Youth, Sufjan Stevens, Eddie Vedder, Jeff Tweedy and John Doe are just some of the notables that have contributed tracks to the 30-track album which is set to hit stores on October 30th from Columbia Records. The film will hit theatres almost a month later on November 21st.

What about the man himself? Yes, a rare from Dylan recording from The Basement Tapes era, is also set to appear.- more on this story

Ticketmaster Drops Live Nation?

According to the New York Times, Ticketmaster chairman Terry Barnes and CEO Sean Moriarty sent a memo to employees announcing, "Live Nation has been a valued client for a very long time and we believe we've taken every reasonable step possible to facilitate a renewal, but they seem intent on a direction for their business that leaves us no viable way to work together."

The two parties have been negotiating a renewal of their agreement that expires at the end of next year. A sticking point was reportedly how the two sides would split the excessive monopoly customer rape charges a.k.a. service and convenience charges. - more on this story

Warped Riot

Grant County deputies responded to an injury call at a campground near the Warped event site and when they arrived they encountered several fights as well as burning portable toilets then things turned ugly as some campers pelted deputies with beer bottles, cans and rocks, and the windshield of a fire truck was shattered by debris, according to AP. - more on this story

Uncle Kracker Sex Crime

The alleged victim, a 26-year-old woman approached an off-duty police officer at the Ess Lounge nightclub (where Kracker had performed), and told the officer that Kracker, real name Matthew Shafer, had forced himself on her sexually. 

Police found Kracker at a nearby Embassy Suites Hotel and arrested him. He was booked on a charge of second-degree forcible sexual offense at the Wake County Jail.- more on this story

Savage Garden Racism Arrest

According to Gigwise, "Hayes was taken in for questioning by Police on Friday night for racially abusing staff at the Busaba Eathai on Wardour Street on July 22 " 

"We can confirm that a 35-year-old man was arrested by Westminster police on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff," a Scotland Yard spokesman said.- more on this story

CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal Dies

Kristal, 75, founded the legendary rock club CBGB and ran the club for 33 years. A singer and songwriter himself, Kristal opened the club to showcase "Country Bluegrass and Blues"; instead the club became a breeding ground for Punk rock. Among the many acts that called CBGB home were Blondie, the Talking Heads, Television, Living Color, Patti Smith and the Ramones. The club closed in October 2006, but CBGB continues, with a retail store in New York City and worldwide merchandise sales; in addition, there currently are plans to open new CBGB clubs in several locations.- more on this story

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