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Chemical Illness |
TuneLab reports: My Chemical Romance's Japanese
tour has suffered a serious setback after illness has forced guitarist
Frank Iero to fly home to the US.
The band was in Tokyo on the eve of a four-gig
tour when the star broke the news. They are also due to perform in New
Zealand and Australia. Iero will be temporarily replaced by Drive By's
Todd Price, according to MTV.[see full story for more]-
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| Screech
Sex Tape Sellout |
TMZ reports: The release of the Screech sex
tape was no accident.
Dustin Diamond previously shot down TMZ's
report that he was involved in the release of his infamous sex tape, but
now admits to Details magazine that he was in on it from it the start.
He explains in the interview that someone
was threatening to let the tape loose, so he called up Red Light District
and struck up a deal with them to beat the "sleaze guy" to the punch and
make some money. "We backdoored them," he says ... bringing back all those
icky "Dirty Sanchez" memories. Thanks a lot. [see full story for more]-
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| Sony
Racism? |
CMJ reports: Former BMG marketing rep Tamieka
Blair is expected to file a racial discrimination lawsuit against Sony
BMG Music, alleging her wrongful termination upon the merging of Sony and
BMG in 2004, according to Billboard.
The suit follows on the heels of the US
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) finding that Blair was
"a victim of race discrimination" last fall when an investigation by the
EEOC revealed that 42 percent of African American employees of the sales
enterprise unit were involuntarily terminated after the merger.[see full
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| Chris
Aylmer RIP |
blabbermouth.net reports: Former SAMSON bassist
and founder member Chris Aylmer passed away last week after a long illness.
Chris founded the band with Paul Samson, and not only suggested the band
name, but was also responsible for young drummer Clive Burr completing
the trio. Chris was in SAMSON from 1977 until 1984, and also played on
the 1993 album and tour, and the 1999/2000 shows.[see full story for more]-
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| Opeth
Vs Fans |
blabbermouth.net reports: OPETH frontman Mikael
Åkerfeldt has slammed the "new breed of idiot OPETH 'fans'" for questioning
the abilities of the group's current drummer, Martin Axenrot (BLOODBATH,
WITCHERY, NIFELHEIM), when compared to that of Axenrot's predecessor, Martin
Lopez.
Lopez officially left OPETH in May 2006
after being plagued by illness and anxiety attacks, which forced him to
miss several of the band's tours. Åkerfeldt stated at the time, "However
sad I and the rest of the band feel in light of Lopez's departure, I want
to thank him for his incredible work with OPETH and immense dedication
to the band. We recorded some classic stuff together and he obviously had
an enormous impact on our sound. I now feel very excited to hear the material
of his own band. In the meantime, OPETH fans can rest assured that we'll
continue jamming it out with Axe and we all have high expectations about
our coming musical ventures."[see full story for more]-
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| Ozzy
Plans Raw CD, Slammed Metallica |
blabbermouth.net reports: Unlike 2001's slickly
produced "Down to Earth", the last album of original Ozzy material, the
new disc promises to be a rawer and heavier affair. Recorded with the same
band that backed Osbourne on his scattered 2006 Ozzfest dates - Zakk Wylde
on guitar, Mike Bordin on drums, and former ROB ZOMBIE bassist Rob "Blasko"
Nicholson - the album has no official producer, although longtime Mutt
Lange protégé Kevin Churko is serving as the engineer. "Kevin's
working the machines and helping me with the songwriting," said Osbourne.
"He really knows what he's doing with the ProTools, which is good because
I can't work the f***ing thing. I can barely work a light switch!"
"We just went in and jammed out the riffs,
just like how they made 'Back in Black' and all the SABBATH record," said
Wylde. "I don't need Bob Rock there to tell me what to do, like that 'Vagina
Monologues' band METALLICA. When you know where you're going, you don't
need to ask for f***ing directions! It sounds like classic Ozzy - there's
piano ballads, there's an acoustic thing, and then there's the heavy s***.
From the beginning, Oz kept saying to me, 'Zakk, we need another 'No More
Tears' - we've gotta piss all over that f***in' record. This thing's gotta
be able to hang with 'Diary of a Madman'!'"[he's not done, see full story
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| Murder
One Split |
blabbermouth.net reports: MURDER ONE, the
British band featuring vocalists Paul Catten (ex-MEDULLA NOCTE) and John
Loughlin (RAGING SPEEDHORN), bassist Jules McBride (ex-PULKAS), guitarists
Mark Seddon (ex-MEDULLA NOCTE) and Dan Marshall, and drummer Jamie Airns,
has issued the following update:
"Today and for the long, forseeable future,
MURDER ONE have called it a day. No argument, no bulls*** 'musical differences'....we
just cannot continue. We're bold enough to say... 'No-one gives a f***
about the band any more!'... and we can deal with that.[see full story
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| DimeVision
Vol II |
blabbermouth.net reports: According to Revolver
magazine late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott's longtime
partner, Rita Haney, and videographer Bobby Tongs have started to sift
through footage for the follow-up to the DVD "DimeVision - Vol 1: That's
The Fun I Have". The disc should be ready for release in the summer. "I
can't wait to see it," Dimebag's brother and former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN
bandmate Vinnie Paul Abbott says. "I'm sure it'll include stuff that I
didn't even know about. Like, I knew Dime did a lot of crazy, f***ed-up
s***, but I didn't know about the fireworks he lit in the house until I
saw the first videos. I don't know how he didn't burn his house down."[see
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| Jacko
100K Drug Suit |
TMZ reports: TMZ has learned that a Beverly
Hills pharmacy claims Michael Jackson ran up a $100,000 tab for prescription
meds, but never paid.
TMZ has obtained the lawsuit, filed Wednesday
in Los Angeles County Superior Court, by drugstore to the stars Mickey
Fine Pharmacy. The store, which often delivers its wares via motorcycle,
alleges they had an oral agreement with Jackson to pay for any prescriptions
they filled. The pharmacy claims Jackson made his last payment to them
in mid-2005. According to the documents, the pharmacy made "repeated requests
for payment." Perhaps Jacko thought that "oral agreement" was related to
how to take the pills.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Abdul:
Straight Up or Drunk? |
TMZ reports: Paula Abdul's press tour to promote
the new season of "American Idol" spun out of control today when she landed
in the Pacific Northwest.
Paula's curious "appearance" on Seattle's
Q13 FOX Morning News took a fast nose dive as the pint-sized Idol judge
slurred and giggled her way through the interview. Anchors Lily Jang and
Carmen Ainsworth kept it together as Abdul bobbed and weaved for the camera.
For what it's worth, Paula's rep tells
TMZ that it is "much ado about nothing." He says the station had "technical
problems with the satellite and her sound was dropped not once but twice.
Paula was in a small room by herself with only a cameraman. Paula was distracted
and confused by the station dropping the sound. She did not know what was
going on." [yup satellites and dropped sound can now make you appear wasted!
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| Honeydrippers
CD Nixed |
pr-inside reports: Rocker ROBERT PLANT has
ditched plans to record a new 2007 album with his standard covers band
the HONEYDRIPPERS following the death of Atlantic Records co-founder AHMET
ERTEGUN.
Ertegun, who died last month (DEC06), was
the catalyst for the project, and planned to help Plant put the album together.
It would have been the first Honeydrippers release for more than 12 years.
But Plant now says he doesn't have the
motivation to continue with his recording plans, following the death of
his friend.[see full story for what he plans to do instead]-
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| V2
Now V0 |
Reuters reports: Indie record label V2 North
America, home to such acts as the White Stripes, Moby and the Raconteurs,
laid off its staff Friday and will primarily become a catalog label.
The label's parent company, Sheridan Square,
also plans to focus on digital distribution. About 35 people, including
president Andy Gershon, are believed to have lost their jobs as part of
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| Heads
Roll At EMI |
AP reports: Music company EMI Group PLC announced
the departure of two top executives Friday and said it expects revenues
to fall at its music division after disappointing Christmas sales. Its
shares dropped more than 7 percent.
EMI Music Chief Executive Alain Levy and
Vice-Chairman David Munns will leave the world's third-largest music company
with immediate effect, EMI said.
Bridgewell Securities said the latest
report confirmed fears that EMI relied too heavily on "blockbuster" album
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| Can't
Beat Em, Sue Their Kids |
AP reports: Less than a month after the recording
industry dropped a music piracy case against its best-known opponent, it
has won a default judgment against her 20-year-old daughter.
Federal Judge Stephen Robinson ordered
Michelle Santangelo to pay $750 for each of the 41 songs she is accused
of downloading illegally - a total of $30,750 - because she failed to respond
to the record companies' claims.[see full story for more]-
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| Pirate
Bay Island? |
TuneLab reports: Swedish file-sharing website
thepiratebay.org is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent
international copyright laws. The group has set up a campaign to raise
money to buy Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea
that has been designated a 'micronation', and claims to be outside the
jurisdiction of the UK or any other country.... According to a website
set up to secure the purchase of Sealand, The Pirate Bay plans to give
citizenship of the micronation to anyone willing to put money towards the
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