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 Maroon
5 Beat Linkin Park |
TuneLab reports: Maroon 5 are at the top of
this weeks Billboard Top 200 Chart with their new album 'It Won't Be Soon
Before Long' which sold 429,000 copies, 102,000 of those coming from iTunes
breaking the record set last week by Linkin Park which moved 84,000 copies
on iTunes. Ozzy Osbourne's 'Black Rain' sold 152,000 copies giving the
album the No. 3 slot. The Used moved 92,000 copies of their latest 'Lies
for the Liars' coming in at No. 5.
Linkin Park's 'Minutes to Midnight' drops
to No. 2 with 198,000 copies sold, a 70% drop in sales. [see full story
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| Manson
Rejects Eminem Duet |
Contact Music reports: Shock rocker MARILYN
MANSON turned down the chance to duet with EMINEM on one of the rapper's
first hits - because he felt the song was too misogynistic. Rock Is Dead
singer Manson reveals Eminem approached him with a view to collaborating
on a tune, in which he boasts about killing his girlfriend.
Manson tells Spin magazine, "He asked me
to sing on his first record, and I would have, except that the song he
asked me to sing was... too misogynistic.
"It was the one about killing his girlfriend
and putting her in a trunk. It was on a record I could listen to, but it
was too over-the-top for me to associate with. [just think about that last
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| White
Surprise Gig |
Gigwise reports: Jack White played an impromptu
gig at an intimate London venue on May 27th.
In a three song set, The White Stripes
front man previewed the track, ‘Effect And Cause,’ off the bands new album
‘Icky Thump,’ which is released on June 18th.
Playing at the Sonic Cathedral night at
The Social in London's West end, the singer also played the band’s classic,
‘Sugar Never Tasted So Good,’ as well as a cover of The Animals’, ‘The
House Of The Rising Sun.’ [see full story for more]- Click
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| DRM
Free iTunes Debut |
AP reports: Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store started
selling thousands of songs without copy protection Wednesday, marking the
trendsetting company's latest coup and a model for what analysts say will
likely become a pattern for online music sales.
The unrestricted content means some songs
purchased from iTunes will work for the first time directly on portable
players other than Apple's iPod, including Microsoft Corp.'s Zune.[see
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| Extreme
Journey |
Blabbermouth reports: Former EXTREME and current
SATELLITE PARTY guitarist Nuno Bettencourt has told The Boston Herald that
he is writing material with legendary JOURNEY frontman Steve Perry. No
further information is currently available.
In other news, the original lineup of EXTREME
— Gary Cherone (vocals, ex-VAN HALEN), Nuno Bettencourt (guitar), Paul
Geary (drums), and Pat Badger (bass) — reunited for a benefit concert and
auction in New York City in honor of music manager Steven Hoffman. Hoffman,
who worked with RUSH, VAN HALEN and EXTREME, died of lung cancer in 2003.[see
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| Porn
Star Supernova |
Blabbermouth reports: Canada.com reports that
Lukas Rossi, lead singer of ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA, tied the knot with former
porn star Kendra Jade.
The 30-year-old rocker married Jade, also
30, at a Las Vegas chapel on May 14. Both the bride and groom wore black.
"It was beautiful and no, Elvis didn't
marry us," Rossi told ET Canada. "It was just me and her. I wanted it to
be just intimate, you know."[see full story for more]-
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| Macca
Shopping Network |
Contact Music reports: SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY
is taking to America's Home Shopping Network (HSN) to help sell copies
of his new album. The former Beatle will appear as part of a 30-minute
special, which will air on TV tonight (30May07) and tomorrow (31May07)
to promote Memory Almost Full, which is released next week (05Jun07). [see
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| Snipes
Feels Good |
Contact Music reports: WESLEY SNIPES has been
cast to play JAMES BROWN in director SPIKE LEE's new biopic about the late
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| Candiria
Singer Needs You |
Lambgoat reports: Candiria frontman Carley
Coma is currently seeking musicians to audition for a new rock/metal project.
Here's an official statement:
"I'm looking for guitarists and bass players
in the tri-state area to join my new musical project. Must be able to play
rock/metal. [see full story for more info]- Click
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| Set
Your Goals Smooth Arrest |
punkbands reports: Set Your Goals were arrested
for "disturbing the public" at a mall in Augusta, GA. After spending over
$2,000 on bail the band has been released. Matty Wilson writes:
"So today myself and some of my band went
to the mall with the Fireworks dudes and some kids at the "razzberry cool"
smoothie shop recognized us and hooked us up so we talked to them for a
minute and started chanting "razzberry cool!" in celebration of our new
friends hooking us up with free smoothies.
Little did we know we'd barely get to enjoy
them. As soon as we thanked them and started walking away, 2 sheriffs walked
over and started pushing Fireworks' merch guy Tony and threatening to arrest
him. They tell us to leave so we turn around and start walking away and
after no more than 2 steps they grab Jordan and start cuffing him. We all
turn around and ask what they're doing and they start cuffing all of us
and accusing us of "disorderly conduct" while pushing us down a back hallway.[see
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| Last.fm
Sells Out |
punkbands reports: The quickly growing music
social network Last.fm has been acquired by CBS for $280 million in an
all-cash deal. UK based Last.fm launched five years ago and has become
a social networking favorite with 15 million active users. It has become
a massive repository for music information (artist and song wikis, listening
data from users, etc.).[see full story for more]- Click
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| Silverchair
Ink with WMG |
PR reports: Multi-platinum selling Australian
trio Silverchair - Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter Daniel Johns, drummer Ben
Gillies and bass player Chris Joannou - have signed on with Warner Music
Group's Independent Label Group to release their fifth studio album, Young
Modern, in North America on July 24th 2007. The album will come out on
Eleven: a music company, in association with Warner Music Group.
The band is already confirmed for a mainstage
appearance on Lollapalooza, Saturday August 3rd in Chicago and they have
plans for a full North American tour this July and August. Dates will be
announced shortly. While they played a handful of acclaimed, sold out shows
in New York, LA and Toronto earlier this year, the forthcoming dates will
be their first full tour of the U.S. and Canada since 1999.[see full story
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| Diary
of an Ozzman |
PR reports: The JUNE/JULY issue of DETAILS
features a GREAT Q&A w/ Ozzy Osbourne about his drug use, having his
life on camera 24/7 and his wild career. Here are a few choice quotes from
the interview:
On how he was depicted on the show: "My
son said to me one day, 'Dad let me ask you a question. Do you like people
laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'You know what Jack? As long
as they're laughing, I don't give a f**k.' I didn't really understand what
he was saying then, but in hindsight he was sort of saying, in a nicer
way, that everybody thinks you're a f**king joke."
On Snorting the line of ants: "Yeah the
line of ants. I have no recollection of that – it may have been in Florida.
The Motley Crue tour, it was f**king nuts. It was absolutely out of control.
But I couldn't have kept on living that lifestyle, because I didn't want
to die. You have to get pissed off at yourself before you put your hand
up for help."
On recently releasing his ninth solo album,
BLACK RAIN, and living this long… "I've been terribly lucky. When I had
my ATV accident, I was going not more than three or fours miles an hour,
and I ended up in a coma for eight days. My heart stopped twice. I don't
remember any of it. I went back to the hospital after the accident and
the doctors were telling me 'your left lung was completely full of blood.
You broke your rib, your collarbone, your neck – you're lucky to be alive.'
If I had been going 120 miles and hour it would have been a cool way to
go – but four miles an hour? Ozzy Osbourne?!'"
On stands nationwide JUNE 5 or www.details.com.
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| Taking
Back Sunday Get a Boost |
PR reports: Taking Back Sunday announced today
that the band will perform a string of headlining dates for Boost Mobile
RockCorps (BMRC), a national youth volunteerism movement that harnesses
the power of music to motivate young people to get involved in their communities.
The upcoming concerts, which are free to anyone volunteering four hours
of community service to BMRC projects, expands on a partnership between
the band and BMRC that began when the New York-based quintet performed
to 5,000 enthusiastic volunteers at last year’s BMRC season wrap concert
at Radio City Music Hall.
"Communities are like gardens,” notes lead
singer Adam Lazzara when asked why they chose to get involved with BMRC.
“Without upkeep and care, without maintenance, it is impossible for them
to grow, to produce anything of value. By offering an incentive, Boost
Mobile RockCorps is teaching this valuable lesson to our nation's youth
– in whose able hands our community’s futures lie. We are honored to have
the opportunity to take part -- BMRC rules."[see full story for dates]-
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