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 Pumpkins
Have Fans Arrested |
Idolator.com reports: Smashing Pumpkins die-hards
are in a tizzy--and some may even be in legal hot water--after allegedly
stolen artwork from the band's forthcoming album, Zeitgeist, made its way
to the Internet (UPDATE: the band has released a statement, which can be
found at the full story link). According to a Pumpkins chronicler at rateyourmusic.com,
this is how it went down:
Two fans snuck into the SP rehearsal space
and took copies of some promotional photos that haven't been released.
They posted one on this forum, and someone got into their photobucket,
and viola, they were leaking all over the net. '
Now, the person who unwillingly leaked
the photos is being held in the 18th precinct in Chicago. The Pumpkins/Their
Management/The Record Company, someone, is pressing FELONY charges on them.
For petty theft of a few pictures.
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| George
Michael Guilty |
hecklerspray.com reports: George Michael knows
more about hard work more than anyone else who has ever lived, so it's
only to be expected that occasionally his work-frazzled brain will shut
down completely, leaving him slumped over the wheel of his car at midnight.
That's more or less what George Michael
admitted earlier today in court as he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving
while unfit through drugs. Somehow, however, George Michael managed to
make it sound like he passed out at the wheel of a car at a junction in
Cricklewood because he works too bloody hard all the time and not because
he'd been busy throwing prescription drugs down his gobhole like Pac-Man
at an all-night rave. And quite right too - putting out a string of underperforming
singles for a decade can really take it out of a man, you know[see full
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| GNR
Live Earth? |
Blabbermouth reports: According to GnrDaily.com,
GUNS N' ROSES are among the rumored artists that will perform at the Live
Earth series of concerts which will be staged at various locations around
the world on July 7. The event will be hosted by Al Gore. Hamburg Magazin
and Radio Hamburg are reporting that GUNS N' ROSES will play at the German
location of Live Earth, which will take place at the AOL Arena in Hamburg.
Other artists that are scheduled to perform in Hamburg include SHAKIRA
and PINK.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Verizon
Hangs Up on Gwen |
BBC reports: The main sponsor of the North
American leg of singer Gwen Stefani's world tour has withdrawn in a dispute
over the support act. Verizon pulled out after footage of rap artist Akon
dancing provocatively on stage with a girl - reportedly in her teens -
was posted on the internet.
The incident did not take place during
one of Stefani's concerts.
Billboard magazine quoted Stefani's management
as saying they were "surprised and shocked" by the move. [see full story
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looks like Gwen will have to sell more hag bags to keep her bling
lifestyle on the road
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| 50
Years of Bad Taste to be Immortalized in LA |
AP reports: The Grammy, coming up on its 50th
birthday, is finally getting a home of its own.
A Grammy museum, now under construction
[in Los Angeles], is scheduled to open in September 2008, across the street
from the Staples Center, where next year's 50th annual Grammy Awards will
be staged. [see full story for more. We're most looking forward to the
Milli Vanilli Vocal Training Will Win You a Grammy Expo and the exhibit
that celebrates Jethro Tull's "metal" years] - Click
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| Dog
Bite Blues for Country Star |
AP reports: A manicurist who claims she was
attacked by country singer Tanya Tucker's dog is suing the singer for $300,000.
Danielle D. Hobbs alleges in a lawsuit
filed last week that the dog ran from a bedroom at Tucker's home and began
biting her without any warning.
Hobbs said she was attacked May 2, 2006,
by a dog named Bella while she was at Tucker's home near Nashville to give
her a manicure.[see full story for more]- Click
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| WMG
Adopt Digital Focus |
FMQB reports: Warner Music Group (WMG) announced
its second quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, and
like most record companies, WMG is seeing a decline in CD sales while digital
music revenue is increasing. The company posted total revenue of $784 million
for the second quarter of fiscal 2007, which is down 2 percent from the
prior-year quarter. Digital revenue increased to $111 million, accounting
for 14 percent of total revenue in the quarter. That number is up 23 percent
from $90 million in the prior-year quarter and up 11 percent sequentially
from the first quarter of fiscal 2007.
WMG also said that it will continue restructuring,
cutting about 400 jobs and focusing more on its digital distribution system,
according to Reuters.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Prince
Plans 21 Date Stand in London |
BBC reports: US performer Prince is to play
21 concerts in London this summer, his only European dates of the year.
He is to spend a week at the O2 arena
- formerly the Millennium Dome - with tickets priced at £31.21, a
reference to his album 3121.
He will also play at a number of far smaller
venues to make seeing him "affordable for everybody".
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| Susperia
Drop Off Edguy Tour |
Blabbermouth reports: Due to logistical problems,
Norway's SUSPERIA will no longer be part of the EDGUY North American tour,
which will launch on Tuesday, September 11 in Hartford, Connecticut. Replacing
SUSPERIA on the bill will be Bay Area thrashers LIGHT THIS CITY. The trek
will also include Canada's INTO ETERNITY.
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| Kyuss
Won't Reunite |
Blabbermouth reports: Writer Joel McIver recently
interviewed QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE/EAGLES OF DEATH METAL's Josh Homme
for Music Mart magazine's June issue. Excerpts from the chat follow:
On the frequent offers from concert promoters
to reform his previous band, KYUSS: "The offers come in all the time. They're
getting more and more expensive, and more and more elaborate. The money
is crazy, but I've never been tempted I don't really care about the money,
I never have. That's not what KYUSS was about, so to punctuate the end
of our sentence with that would be blasphemy. KYUSS fans are so f***in'
rad, they're f***in' badass but to me, reunions are just not necessary.
It's not what it was, it's what it is, and KYUSS was a really magical thing
and if you weren't there, well, you weren't. That's just the luck of
the draw. I don't feel the urge to do it for somebody who didn't have the
opportunity to see us, or just didn't take the opportunity to see us. I'll
let other bands alter their great legacies. KYUSS has such a great history
that it would be a total error. I like that nobody saw KYUSS, and that
it was largely misunderstood. That sounds like a legend forming to me.
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| Maiden
Summer Tour |
BW&BK reports: In acknowledgement of the
25th anniversary of the release of their seminal album, The Number Of The
Beast, and the tremendous international success of their recent album,
A Matter Of Life And Death, IRON MAIDEN's forthcoming June dates in Europe
will go under the banner of, A Matter Of The Beast Summer Tour '07. The
band will be playing five songs from each of these albums plus other fan
favourites and will be taking out a full-on stage production which will
include the final appearances of Eddie's notorious tank. [see full story
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| Falling
Labels |
Idolator.com reports: Yesterday, news that
Warner Music Group would be making substantial staff cuts spread around
the music world; today, Jossip is claiming that Def Jam is getting in on
the personnel-shedding act as well:
Is Def Jam floundering? That's what one
tipster claims, bringing (unverified) word that some 40 people were laid
off today at the record label - home to Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Fabolous, Bobby
Valentino, and Young Jeezy - with a number of executives fleeing last week.
"Jay-Z, L.A. Reid and Jermaine Dupri are still getting paid millions ...
and running the company into the ground," says a source.[see full story
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| Sworn
Enemy Get Maniacal for new CD |
Lambgoat reports: Taking their sound to raised
levels of brutality, Sworn Enemy are currently recording their new album
that will be released this fall through Abacus Recordings. Sworn Enemy's
unabashed talent and heavy-hitting rhythms have caught the attention of
both Tim Lambesis (As I Lay Dying) and Joey Z. (Life Of Agony) who are
co-producing the band's new album that is going to be entitled "Maniacal"
and slated for a release date this fall. Tim Lambesis and Joey Z are both
taking a very hands-on approach to this album, producing what is sure to
be Sworn Enemy's finest work to date.[see full story for more]-
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| BleedingTiger
Army |
punkbands reports: Bleeding Through's Brandan
Schieppati and Ryan Wombacher will both be making guest vocal appearances
on Tiger Army's new album "Music From Regions Beyond", which will see a
June 05th release date. - Click
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| No
Avail for Tim Barry on the road |
punkbands reports: Punk/country troubadour
Tim Barry of Avail is hitting the road again for another round of dates,
this time with Suburban Home labelmate Josh Small and Roanoke VA's The
Wading Girl. The shows will be preceeded by a one-off gig opening a farewell
show for Boy Sets Fire. Dates, as always, are below. Barry is also promising
a full U.S. tour in September.
In the meantime, Punkbands.com recently
recieved final approval for a live track to be exclusively heard on the
Punkbands.com Volume 2 Mixtape, "Truth Doesn't Make A Noise." Look for
that right here on May 11th.
6.09.07 Philadelphia, Pa @ Trocadero /
Boy Sets Fire, Tim Barry
6.10.07 Trenton, NJ @ Championship Bar
and Grill / Tim Barry and many more[see full story for more]-
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