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 Ozzy
Vs Simon Cowell |
Blabbermouth reports: 24dash.com reports that
Ozzy Osbourne has challenged sneering judge Simon Cowell of U.K. talent
show "X-Factor": "You get up and perform."
Osbourne is furious that Cowell continually
slags off kids who take part in the TV show auditions in search of a showbiz
break.
Ozzy believes the show "damns" people just
for trying their best. "Tell you what, Simon: get up there and show us
how it's meant to be done," he stormed in Heat magazine.[see full story
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| Nin
Label Fan Rip Off |
Blabbermouth reports: Australia's Herald Sun
recently conducted an interview with NINE INCH NAILS mainman Trent Reznor.
A few excerpts from the chat follow: Trent:
I steal music too, I'm not
gonna say I don't. But it's tough not to resent people for doing it when
you're the guy making the music that would like to reap a benefit from
that. On the other hand, you got record labels that are doing everything
they can to piss people off and rip them off. I created a little issue
down here because the first thing I did when I got to Sydney is I walk
into HMV, the week the record's out, and I see it on the rack with a bunch
of other releases. And every release I see: $21.99, $22.99, $24.99. And
ours doesn't have a sticker on it. I look close and "Oh, it's $34.99."
So I walk over to see our live DVD "Beside You in Time", and I see that
it's also priced six, seven, eight dollars more than every other disc on
there. And I can't figure out why that would be.
Herald Sun: Did you have a word to anyone?
Trent: Well, in Brisbane I end up meeting
and greeting some record label people, who are pleasant enough, and one
of them is a sales guy, so I say "Why is this the case?" He goes "Because
your packaging is a lot more expensive". I know how much the packaging
costs it costs me, not them, it costs me 83 cents more to have a CD with
the colour-changing ink on it. I'm taking the hit on that, not them. So
I said "Well, it doesn't cost $10 more." "Ah, well, you're right, it doesn't.
Basically it's because we know you've got a core audience that's gonna
buy whatever we put out, so we can charge more for that. It's the pop stuff
we have to discount to get people to buy it. True fans will pay whatever."
And I just said "That's the most insulting thing I've heard. I've garnered
a core audience that you feel it's OK to rip off? F--- you."[see full story
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| Velvet
Revolver Alice in Chains Tour |
Blabbermouth reports: VELVET REVOLVER members
Slash and Scott Weiland have confirmed to MTV.com that they and the remaining
members of ALICE IN CHAINS will be joining forces late this summer for
a run of U.S. and Canadian gigs that will stretch well into the fall.
"We'll be closing out the shows, as far
as we know," Slash said. Texan rockers SPARTA have been tapped as the opening
act for the tour's second leg, and VELVET REVOLVER are still mulling a
number of potential openers for the trek's first half.[see full story for
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| Elton
Nixes Red Piano Tour |
BBC reports: Sir Elton John's entire European
Red Piano tour has been cancelled.
The six dates in five European cities were
shelved after the tour promoter said it "could not guarantee to put the
shows on".
The Red Piano shows, developed in Las Vegas,
are separate to other Elton John concerts, which are unaffected.[see full
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| Babs
Still Screwing Fans |
AP reports: Italian consumer groups want authorities
to cancel Barbra Streisand's concert in Rome next month because of excessive
ticket prices.
The Adusbef and Codacons groups urged the
city of Rome and the Italian Olympic Committee to deny permission for Streisand
to perform at the Stadio Flaminio on June 15. It is the 65-year-old singer's
first-ever concert in Italy and the start of her European tour.
The ticket prices, which range from just
under $200 to more than $1,200, are "absurd and shameful," the groups said
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| Smashing
Ticket Servers |
Blabbermouth reports: When tickets for the
SMASHING PUMPKINS' nine-night residency at Asheville, North Carolina's
Orange Peel went on sale Sunday, TicketWeb servers weren't able to handle
the load, and the demand for tickets crashed the site, bringing sales to
a halt. Tickets will now be sold via Ticketmaster instead, but Orange Peel
spokeswoman Liz Whalen told Asheville's Citizen-Times on Monday morning
(May 21) that the venue wasn't sure whether tickets would be available
Monday or Tuesday tickets were unavailable via Ticketmaster at press
time. [see full story for more. At press time our ticket link below had
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| Foo
Fighers To Rehash Later |
TuneLab reports: The Foo Fighters have delayed
the re-release of their sophomore album 'The Colour and the Shape'. The
re-release, which includes covers of Killing Joke's "Requiem", Gary Numan's
"Done in the Park" and Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" in addition to the
b-sides "Drive Me Wild", "Dear Lover" and "The Colour and the Shape", is
now set for a July 10th release.[see full story for more music news]-
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| The
Black Crowes Tour |
TuneLab reports: The Black Crowes have scheduled
the following summer tour dates:
June 15th in Jackson, MS @ Jubilee Jam
June 16th in Los Angeles, CA @ Music Box
@ Fonda
June 24th in Aspen, CO @ Jazz Aspen Snowmass
July 3rd in Interlochen, MI @ Kresge Auditorium
July 4th in Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest
July 6th in Chicago, IL @ Taste of Chicago
July 7th in Richmond, VA @ Innsbrook Pavilion[see
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| Radio
RIp |
Idolator.com reports: Yesterday, the LA Times
ran an article on the RIAA's efforts to collect royalties from broadcast
radio stations, who have, since radio's inception, not paid artists and
labels after playing their songs. The argument for letting radio off the
hook for these royalties revolved around the idea of radio stations offering
free promotion for singles and albums, thus spurring sales and getting
money into artists' pockets. Now, though, with sales in the tank, the RIAA
is looking to establish a royalty structure for over-the-air broadcasters,
and legislators like California representative Howard L. Berman are on
the organization's side.
The weird thing about all this? It was
probably unintentional, but the Times piece curiously echoed a 2002 piece
from the satirical newspaper The Onion titled "RIAA Sues Radio Stations
For Giving Away Free Music." After the jump, we pair three sets of quotes
from each article, and invite you to sniff out which quote is from yesterday's
story, and which was culled from the prescient parody. It's actually a
little harder than you might think! [see full story for more]-
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| Stapp
Drugged Out in Attack |
Jam! reports: The wife of former Creed frontman
Scott Stapp pleaded for authorities to come to the couple's home over the
weekend as she told a dispatcher her husband was "on drugs and pot" and
had just thrown a bottle at her, according to an emergency dispatcher's
tape released Tuesday.
"He just threw a glass bottle at me," Jaclyn
Nesheiwat said in a hysterical call Sunday. "He just came home, he's wasted
. . . he's been out partying all night." [see full story for more]-
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| Pennie's
Escape Plan to Coheed and Cambria |
punkbands reports: Rumors persist that drummer
Chris Pennie has left Dillinger Escape Plan to permanently join Coheed
and Cambria, with whom he's been working in the studio. We can neither
confirm nor deny. Coheed & Cambria are currently in a Los Angeles studio
working on their fourth studio album[see full story for more]-
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| Strung
Out On the Road |
punkbands reports: Strung Out has announced
some of their plans in support of their new album. The band writes: In
our tour dates section, we've posted just about all of our tour dates for
our upcoming European tour (a few more TBA) and we are looking forward
to playing. We have not toured Europe for a little while so it will be
great to be back.
We know were not getting everywhere but
were doing what time permits for now. We will do another European run in
the near future. US touring will begin in August with a West coast run
to include the western side of Canada. An east coast leg will follow in
September (yes with eastern Canadian dates of course). Dates to be posted
once confirmed. [see full story for more]- Click
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| P.O.D.
Get Suicidal with Mike Muir |
SMN reports: San Diego based Christian rockers
P.O.D. will welcome SUICIDAL TENDANCIES frontman Mike Muir into the studio
to guest on a track for their next album. Said P.O.D. lead singer Sonny
Sandoval, It is an honor for us to have someone like Mike on this new
album. P.O.D.s next effort is out sometime this Fall through Colombia
Records, complete with their original lineup. [see full story for more
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| Mondo
Generator Go Suburban |
PR reports: Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator
have signed with Suburban Noize Records for the release of the forthcoming
new album, Dead Planet: SONICSLOWMOTIONTRAILS.
"I'm really excited about signing with
Suburban Noize. They have a cool street credibility and they are the real
deal, says Oliveri. Everyone I've talked to at Sub Noize is on top of
what they're trying to do. Mondo Generator couldnt ask for a better home.
Mondo Generators new album will land in
stores on July 17, 2007, just days after Oliveri and the band kick off
their summer long stint on Ozzfest 2007 tour.[see full story for more]-
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