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DiR reports: Circus Diablo, the band fronted
by The Cult's Billy Morrison and also features Billy Duffy (The Cult),
Ricky Warwick (Almighty), and Brett Scallions (Fuel) are releasing their
self-titled debut album next week. The album features a guest appearance
by Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses, The Cult, Velvet Revolver) who played the
drums on all of the tracks. Slut's Charles Ruggiero will be drumming on
the upcoming tour with Mondo Generator and on Ozzfest.
To celebrate the release, we asked frontman
Billy Morrison to give us the lowdown on his top five favorite tracks from
the CD. We conclude today with Billy telling us about two more songs: "Rollercoaster"
and "Hello Goodbye!" ROLLERCOASTER. Pretty much the one about my Heroin
addiction. It lasted 14 years and took me to places I never dreamt I would
go - homeless, begging for change, and alone on the streets. To have the
chance to write this song felt really good. The ride, the journey that
I was on was so crazy - and I wanted to drag people along with me. And
now when I tell the stories, people cant associate the person that I am
now with the guy that I was back then. I wanted to commit the feelings
to music. Turn this one up LOUD and repeatedly bang your head against a
wall thats kind of how I felt when I wrote it. ** HELLO GOODBYE. A complete
stream of consciousness. Literally got up in the middle of the night, wrote
down some very cool, but pretty random lyrics in about 20 minutes, and
then went back to sleep. The next day, I read them back, sat down, and
wrote the chords to the main riffs. It means different things to different
people and although I relate to a bunch of the lyrics, I encourage people
to make their own minds up about this track. [grab a listen at the full
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TuneLab reports: Robert Plant has shot down
rumors of a re-united Led Zeppelin performing a memorial concert for the
late Atlantic Records founder. Plant stated that he hadn't heard anything
about the reunion and added "If there was one, then there wouldn't be enough
doctors to support it" [so much for the "source" that leaked the rumor
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Contact Music reports: 50 CENT was left red-faced
at the B.E.T. Awards on Tuesday night (27Jun07) after fans spotted him
lip-syncing his new single onstage. Sources tell MediaTakeOut.com the rapper
was caught out when he mimed the lyrics to Amusement Park over an instrumental
version of the track mistakenly played by his DJ Whoo Kidd. One eagle-eyed
audience member who spotted the split-second gaffe, says, "The whole thing
was so embarrassing. To get caught like that in front of millions of people
is almost unimaginable." [see full story for more while you ponder why
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Gigwise reports: Little Man Tate are to play
a concert for the victims of flooding in Sheffield after the weekends
torrential downpours.
The Steel City quartet will play the special
gig at the Plug on August 4 with tickets costing £10 and all proceeds
going to the 'South Yorkshire Flood Victim Support Appeal'.
The band is also giving a local act the
chance to support them at the gig via an online auction[see full story
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Gigwise reports: Thomas Iain Smith, front
man of up and coming band Chow Chow has died.
Smith passed away on Sunday (June 24) following
a party, no cause of death has yet been established. [see full story for
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CMJ reports: Guitar Center, Inc.the largest
retailer of musical instruments in the United Stateshas signed an agreement
to be bought out by private investment firm Bain capital for a sum of $2.1
billion. The agreement stipulates that investors will be paid $63 cash
for each share they own in the music retail chain, a 26 percent mark-up
from its June 26 closing value.[see full story for more]-
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BW&BK reports: TESTAMENT have signed a
worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The band expect to issue their
label debut in the first quarter of 2008. Recordings are expected to commence
later this year. More details as they surface.
Testament currently have the following
live dates scheduled:
July
6 - Festa in Tenda - Mortegliano (Udine),
Italy
7 - Waldrock Festival - Leeuwarden, Netherlands
13 - The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY
14 - Sounds Of The Underground - Sayreville,
NJ
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DJ Rossstar reports: The Madden NFL video
game series are known for having great soundtracks and Madden NFL 08 will
continue this trend.
Out on August 14th, 2007, Madden NFL 08
will be available for all video game systems and will once again introduce
gamers to some great talent that they may not have heard otherwise...and
will give hardcore music fans and gamers alike some awesome music to play
football too.
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild"
Atreyu - "Becoming the Bull"
The Bravery - "Believe"
From Autumn to Ashes - "Daylight Slaving"
Hellyeah - "You Wouldn't Know"
The Hives - "Tick Tick Boom"
Operator - "Soulcrusher"
Ozzy Osbourne - "I Don't Wanna Stop"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "3's & 7's"
Shadows Fall - "Redemption"
Sum 41 - "Underclass Hero"
The Used - "The Ripper"
Yellowcard - "Fighting"
[but will the game include insipid comments
from Madden? see full story for more tracks that will be included]-
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Idolator.com reports: The hearing on Internet
radio royalties is still going on, and while we haven't heard many updates
on it (testimony from WOXY's Bryan Jay Miller is already up on YouTube),
we did come across a piece in the SF Weekly that talks about another potentially
homogenizing twist within the Copyright Royalty Board's new rate structure:
If Net radio stations don't win their fight,
playing whatever they want will become prohibitively expensive. Playing
crap, however, won't be. Under the new rules it would be economically logical
for cash-strapped Webcasters to take discounted rates to play music the
labels want them to play. Instead of the labels paying the Webcasters,
the Webcasters pay the labels less. Dark payola.[see full story for more]-
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Jam! reports: Montreal will host a concert
to mark the series of Live Earth shows planned for July 7 in cities around
the world, organizers announced on Thursday.
Dubbed "Friends of Live Earth," the Montreal
concert will have the same aim as the Live Earth shows - to raise money
to fight climate change. French-language artists Zachary Richard, Garou
and Eric Lapointe have agreed to take part in the event[see full story
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Jam! reports: The Spice Girls wannabe stars
again. Following a calculated publicity buildup, the original Girl Power
group of the 1990s announced Thursday they had agreed to get together for
11 concerts around the world in December and January.
The group said the shows would be in Los
Angeles on Dec. 7; Las Vegas on Dec. 8; New York on Dec. 11; London on
Dec. 15; Cologne, Germany, on Dec. 20; Madrid, Spain, on Dec. 23; Beijing
on Jan. 10; Hong Kong on Jan. 12[see full story for more]-
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Lambgoat reports: Bane, Have Heart, and Ceremony
will tour Europe together in August and September. Here are the dates:
08/24 Leipzig, Germany @ Conne Island
08/25 Munster, Germany @ Skaters Palace
08/26 Ieper, Belgium @ Ieper Fest
08/27 London, UK @ Underworld
08/28 Bristol, UK @ The Croft
08/29 Manchester, UK @ Music Box
08/30 Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts
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punkbands reports: Some bright spark somewhere
thought London deserved to host the Decaydence Fest, which will feature
a veritable who's who of the ever popular fairy-core scene. Headliners
Fall Out Boy will be joined by Panic! At The Disco, Gym Class Heroes, The
Academy Is...and Cobra Starship. This kinky kiddy fiddlers wet dream takes
place at the Hammersmith Apollo on August 22nd. - Click
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TuneLab reports: Egypt Central will perform
on the second stage of this year's Ozzfest on the following dates:
August 2nd in Dallas, TX @ Smirnoff Music
Center
August 4th in Selma, TX @ Verizon Wireless
Amphitheatre
August 6th in St. Louis, MO @ Verizon
Wireless Amphitheatre[see full story for more]- Click
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