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TMZ reports: Music producer Timbaland was
busted by German cops on Sunday who said he and members of his posse sent
a bar patron to the hospital.
TMZ obtained photos taken in Colonge, Germany,
where Timbaland and his friends allegedly attacked a man outside Hotel
Intercontinental late Sunday night after a Justin Timberlake concert. The
argument allegedly started when a man named Robert F became visibly upset
over his girlfriend talking to Timbaland. According to German reports,
Timbaland then attacked the patron, "Robert F," after Robert called him
the N word. The fight then moved moved from the lobby bar to the street
in front of the hotel.
Timbaland and two others allegedly beat
up Robert, which sent him to the hospital by ambulance, and sent Timba
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Idolator.com reports: Long known for shutting
out those who disagree with them, Clay Aiken's fans, no doubt because of
their insularity, have now turned on each other:
[NY Post reports] Clay Aiken's rabid fans
- who call themselves "Claymates" and say they live in "Claynation" - are
at odds with each other over their former Idol. An insider said, "The war
is between the batty members that are still clinging to their heterosexual
fantasies of him and others that don't harbor such illusions." Aiken's
sexuality has been a subject of speculation ever since several men came
out publicly and said they'd met him in gay chat rooms and had relations
with him.
The [Clayonline] board was shut down on
Thursday and it's remaining closed "until further notice.[see full story
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Gigwise reports: A ballet based on the music
of Radiohead is set to premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival
this August.
The piece is titled ‘Ride The Beast’ and
has been forged out of choreographer Stephen Petronio’s love of Oxford’s
finest.
It will open with the unlikely choice of
OK Computer’s ‘Fitter Happier’ and will feature a further four Radiohead
tracks from their lengthy career.
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AP reports: The Farm Aid benefit concert is
planting itself in New York City later this year, organizers said Monday.
The show will be held at Randalls Island
on September 9.
Farm Aid co-founders Willie Nelson and
John Mellencamp made the announcement with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Union
Square... The lineup will include Nelson, Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave
Matthews.[see full story for more]- Click
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Contact Music reports: Music mogul SIMON COWELL
and ageing rocker SIR MICK JAGGER have topped a poll of men British women
secretly fancy. According to the poll, by U.K. magazine Glamour, women
like Cowell's "man-boobs, flat top hair and Cuban heels".
The poll, which lists the unlikely male
celebrities woman are ashamed to admit they like, also features former
U.S. President Bill Clinton[see full story for more]-
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Contact Music reports: Rapper STACK BUNDLES
has been murdered outside his New York home after he was shot by unknown
assailants early this morning (11Jun07). Details surrounding Bundles' death
are currently unclear, although the rapper was last seen alive at Stereo
nightclub in New York last night (10Jun07), where he enjoyed an incident-free
evening, reports AllHipHop.com. [see full story for more]-
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Contact Music reports: The HAPPY MONDAYS have
been forced to cancel their upcoming show as part of New York's In The
City festival due to visa issues. The reformed British group was forced
to perform at April's (07) Coachella Festival in California without dancer
Bez, who was caught up in visa issues - and now their latest U.S. show
has been scrapped. The concert was set to be the Happy Mondays' first New
York City show in more than 10 years. [see full story for more]-
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Contact Music reports: Funk icon BOOTSY COLLINS
has formed a new group, SCIENCE FICTION, with former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist
Buckethead and the rock group's drummer Brain. Both rockers previously
played with Bootsy in Praxis.
The new group will be fronted by producer/guitarist
Greg Hampton. Collins tells Billboard.com his new act is like, "Planet
of the Apes."[see full story for more]- Click
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Lambgoat reports: SPV Records, one of Europe's
leading music companies, has announced today the signing of an exclusive
joint venture label/distribution agreement with New Jersey-based Trustkill
Records. It was announced today by Jay Lansford, A&R of SPV, Ulrike
Rudolph, General Manager of SPV, Josh Grabelle, founder of Trustkill, and
Robert Dippold General Manager of Trustkill.
Under this new agreement, SPV will manufacture/distribute
as well as market/promote Trustkill product in Europe, while working closely
with Trustkill on further expanding the label's reach in the marketplace,
building and extending its brand and helping the company to capitalize
on the many new and emerging opportunities across a variety of retail and
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punkbands reports: Ready to spend some cash
on great albums this week? There are A LOT of releases comming out this
week - the release schedule for this week is as follows:
Strung Out - Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Paramore - Riot!
Frank Black - 93-03
Danzig - Lost Tracks Of Danzig
Damnation A.D. - In This Life Or The Next
A Perfect Murder - War Of Agression
A Band Of Bees - Octopus
An Angle - The Truth Is That You Are Alive
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Rockdirt reports: Rock acts on television
this week include Fiction Plane, who perform on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' on
Tuesday; KISS star Gene Simmons, who visits 'The Tyra Banks Show' with
his family on Tuesday; Ian Hunter, who performs on 'The Late Late Show
with Craig Ferguson' on Tuesday; Satellite Party, who perform on 'Last
Call with Carson Daly' from Tuesday thru Friday[see full story for more]-
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TuneLab reports: One of the countdown timers
at ratm82407.com has ended and has revealed that Rage Against the Machine
will perform at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI on August 24th.
Tickets go on sale June 16th at livenation.com.
A second timer on the site continues to count down the days until the concert.[see
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SMN reports: Crash Music announced today that
they have signed a deal with SOiL to re-issue their 1999 release Throttle
Junkies. The new version will be in digipack format and contain three bonus
tracks, including the bands version of of RAM JAM’s classic hit “Black
Betty.”
Throttle Junkies will be in stores on August
14th, 2007.
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SMN reports: Swedish progressive death metallers
SKYFIRE have parted ways with vocalist Henrik after 3 albums to start his
own project FAVILLA. The band, however, has been quick to announce his
replacement Joakim Karlsson:
“We are very excited to hear his voice
in Skyfire on both future recordings and on all the old classics which
we are itching to play live. We’re also excited to announce that Andromeda’s
Johan Reinholdz is officially a member of Skyfire now. [see full story
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