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Recap of top stories for the week of 01/01/07

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Metallica Murder

blabbermouth.net reports: Stefan Conley died after he got into a heated discussion with four teenagers on an Edmonton city transit bus about the rock band METALLICA, telling them they had no taste in heavy metal music, court was told today.

A witness testified the 35-year-old man got angry when one of the youths he ridiculed undid his belt an top button in a silent invitation to perform a sex act on him. Conley, who stood five-feet eleven-inches tall and weighed 198 pounds, got up and grabbed the youth, said the witness, who was also a passenger on the bus. The teen yelled at the older man, telling him to get away from him. Three other teens jumped up and began punching Conley and yelled: "Leave him (their friend) alone," the witness said.

Conley died after the scuffle, which occurred on a near South Edmonton Common about 9 p.m. March 2. The four teens, each charged with manslaughter, are in youth court for a preliminary hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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New Beatles Song

earvolution.com reports: The Beatles have been moving a lot of product with the release of Love just before the holiday season. If the alternative versions of old songs did so well, there's bound to be some significant hype for a brand new song from the fab four. Ok, not entirely brand new, but new nonetheless.

Paul McCartney reportedly is thinking with the idea of going back in the studio to add some harmonies to a John Lennon lead vocal track of a song they wrote "all those years ago" (sorry, couldn't help it). The tune "Now and Then" was apparently considered for release in the 1990s, but George Harrison apparently wasn't happy with the song.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Police Reunion

punkbands reports: Though no official word from the band has come, a recent story from The Mirror is reporting that the Police may reunite this year for a tour to mark their 30th Anniversary. This would be the first Police tour since the band broke up in Melbourne, Australia in 1984. The band consists of pop-sensation Sting on bass and vocals, Andy Summers on guitar and Stewart Copeland on drums.

The article goes on to state that "an official announcement is expected later this month after UK dates are locked in, possibly for May and June."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Tuesday

Beatle Stalker Murder-Suicide

AP reports: A woman who pleaded no contest to trespassing at the Hawaii home of George Harrison was found dead in a blood-splattered sport utility vehicle, apparently the victim of a murder-suicide, police said.

Cristin Keleher, 34, served four months in jail after her arrest for entering Harrison's house in Maui in December 1999. Prosecutors accused her of stalking the former Beatle. After entering the home through an open sliding glass door, she cooked a frozen pizza, did her laundry and phoned her mother in New Jersey.

On Dec. 19, a hiker found the bodies of Keleher and Stanley Merchant, 48, near a highway north of Truckee.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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RIP SOAD?

TuneLab reports: System of a Down's current "hiatus" could possibly turn into a permanent split according to front-man Serj Tankian. In an interview with Kerrang! magazine Tankian said:

"I honestly don't know if System of a Down are over or not. Maybe in a few years we'll want to make another album, or maybe we'll want to tour... It's impossible to tell right now."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Butch Walker's New Band

DiR reports: Butch Walker has joined a new band that have dubbed themselves 1969. Below is a little blurb they posted on their MySpace page. [hit the full story to hear some songs]

we met at a party at corey haim's house in the hills. people kept asking us if we were in a band together, because apparently that's what it looked like. we started rehearsing the next day on Peter Bogdonovich's studio/boat in Laguna beach. we wrote and recorded the songs for our upcoming album "Maya" in 3 days. we still sorta don't know each other that well. why 1969? it's our myspace password.- Click Here for the Full Story

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Jacko Tributes James Brown

MTV reports: It was only fitting that James Brown's funeral turned into a concert Saturday afternoon (December 30) as he was laid to rest in his hometown of Augusta, Georgia.

More than 8,000 people — Brown's family, friends and fans — watched from the floor of James Brown Arena as the singer's celebrity friends including Michael Jackson, MC Hammer and Bootsy Collins gave tribute onstage at the public "homegoing" service for the singer, who died of congestive heart failure early [Christmas morning -see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Kylesa Injury

Lambgoat reports: Kylesa bassist/vocalist Corey Barhorst was injured in a bike accident [Thursday], forcing the band to cancel their appearance [last] weekend's This Is For You Fest in Daytona, FL. The group has issued the following statement:

"Corey got into a bad bike wreck this evening on the way to practice and hurt himself badly. He flipped on his bike and landed face first onto the concrete, knocking out his front teeth. His hands and face are badly bruised, cut and swollen and he has to have emergency dental surgery tomorrow because his nerves were exposed in the fall. this is obviously really s***ty and we hope that he gets better soon.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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more stories including: Beatle Stalker Murder/Suicide- RIP SOAD?- D**k in a Box Protest- Blur Reunion- George Michael- Riot- Paul Stanley- Iced Earth- Stoner Wrestling- Butch Walker- Another Payola Payup- Jacko Tributes James Brown- Wu-Tang Clan- Morrissey - Kylesa Injury- Rod- Three Days Grace- P.O.D.- Shinedown- Mnemic- Lou Rawls Suing Marvin Gaye- more

Wednesday

Kid Rock Vs Tommy Lee… Almost

celebrityweek.com reports: With both Pam Anderson and Kid Rock in Las Vegas to ring in '07 at competing New Years Eve parties, you knew more than just fireworks would be exploding on the strip. But no one figured Kid would fly into a "jealous rage" and start banging on Tommy Lee's door at the Hard Rock Hotel at 6 am on New Year's Eve - only to discover it wasn't Lee's door after all! Hotel rep Spencer Villasenor tells one Sin City newspaper the white trash rocker (Kid, not Lee) showed up "looking to settle a dispute over ex-wife Pamela Anderson."… [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Del Reeves RIP

pr-inside reports: Country music icon DEL REEVES died on New Year's Day (01JAN07) at his home in Tennessee. He was 73.

The Grand Ole Opry star, famous for his impressions of his country music peers, was a hit on the US country charts throughout the 1960s and 1970s, when he enjoyed hits like GIRL ON THE BILLBOARD, BE GLAD and WOMEN DO FUNNY THINGS TO ME.

Reeves, real name FRANKLIN DELANO REEVES, was born in North Carolina in July 1933. He was a child guitar prodigy who had his own local radio show by the time he was 12.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Bury Your Dead Lose Singer

Lambgoat reports: Bury Your Dead singer Mat Bruso has reportedly left the band. Consequently, the group has apparently dropped off their January UK dates with Killswitch Engage and The Haunted. Bury Your Dead has confirmed the departure of Bruso, releasing the following statement:

"We are sorry to say that Mat Bruso will not be singing for Bury Your Dead anymore. He has decided that he has come to a point in his life where he must focus on more important things like going back to school to become a teacher and his upcoming marriage.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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more stories including: Black Eyed Jacko- TV On The Radio- Busta Rhymes- Pearl Jam- Uriah Heep- Darkest Hour- Tom Petty - Del Reeves RIP- Collective Soul- Opeth- Corporate Idol- Good Charlotte Set- Maiden Hit- Ratt- Atreyu- Bury Your Dead- Prince- Killers- Queen- Breaking Benjamin- Hinder- more

Thursday

The OC Cancelled

TMZ reports: After killing off their most famous character, turning Summer into a hippie, and forcing Ryan to fight just about everybody who looked at him the wrong way, the folks behind "The OC" have finally thrown in the beach towel.

"This feels like the best time to bring the show to its close," said Josh Schwartz, the show's creator and executive producer. According to FOX, on February 22 the struggling series will ride off into the California sunset one last time. [now emo nerds have something else to cry about… see full story for more] - Click Here for the Full Story

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Omarion Tops Chart

E! Online reports: Turning 21 might give him more chances to be naughty, but Omarion still finished the year on Santa's nice list.

In what was an otherwise slow week in the post-Yule music world, Omarion scored his second straight chart-topping bow as a solo artist. For the week ended New Year's Eve, the soulful singer made it to number one with 21 selling 119,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures Wednesday. It was the week's only new album to make the Top 10.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Smashing 07 Planned

DiR reports: Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan took to the band's MySpace page to update fans on what Smashing happenings are planned for 2007. We'll let Billy fill you in, here is his post:

Happy New Year to you! May 2007 prove to be a blessed year in every respect and every way...I send you every ounce of love I have in my heart...May the grace of Mother be with you...This year for us will see a new album of songs and a world tour of tears, and we truly look forward to playing again for fans young, old, and missed...So yes, tunes are being dusted off, while others are being asked to kindly submit to an upstart millennia and all it's asking...In our daily prayers, we send out the signal that all who should hear us come forward and be seen, and by extension, heard...when we opened the lid on this music box, we were pleasantly suprised at the music that played: familiar yet unknown, welcoming but not sentimental...and that is all we can ask...God has absolutely blessed us in every respect...for many years there were private laments about opportunities missed and hearts so broken, but no more...we have turned the page and moved on, from places and faces, names and games...this age calls for resolve and certitude, and the fire within to burn ever bright...if that fire should be connected to absolutely deafening guitars, thundering drums, and the melodies of snakes, then so be it! We love you! If you are meant to be with us, find us!! We have need, and our arms are ever-open...although I can say definitively we don't need jugglers...but we do need ???? (what?) what do we need!- Click Here for the Full Story

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more stories including: Ambassador Wyclef- Murder One 'Near-Death' Drama - Clutch- Nocturne- RIP DRM?- Warped Gets Cute- NOFX- Mike Myers- U2- Peter Bjorn And John- George Michael- Switchfoot- Modest Mouse- Heaven & Earth- Pantheon- k-os- 30 Seconds to Mars- Wednesday 13- more

Friday

Pregnant Girlfriend Assault?

TMZ reports: TMZ has learned that police are conducting a criminal investigation into allegations that R & B singer Tyrese punched his pregnant girlfriend in the arm and thigh early this morning.

Police sources tell us that Tyrese's live-in girlfriend claimed that the two got into a heated argument around 5:30 AM at their Los Angeles home. According to our sources, paramedics responded after Tyrese allegedly struck the woman, who is five months pregnant, twice and then drove away from the scene.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Judus Priest Eye Mid Year Release

blabbermouth.net reports: Launch Radio Networks reports: Things are going well with the recording of the new JUDAS PRIEST album. It's a concept album about the 16th Century French prophet Nostradamus, and the band has started thinking about release dates. Frontman Rob Halford told Launch that everyone's excited about the project. "The writing sessions were fantastic — some of the best writing that (guitarists) Glenn (Tipton) and K.K. (Downing) and myself have ever created, and we're in good shape, we're recording. And finger's crossed, and with the belief that it's ready when it's ready, we should be out by the middle of 2007 with 'Nostradamus'."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Phishy Plea

pr-inside reports: Former PHISH star TREY ANASTASIO has pleaded not guilty to a drug possession charge in a Whitehall, New York court.

The rocker was arraigned on misdemeanour charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs yesterday (04JAN07), following his arrest last month (15DEC06).

Police spotted Anastasio's vehicle weaving across a rural road and pulled him over. During a quick search of his car, they found quantities of prescription painkillers and an anti-anxiety drug that had not been prescribed for Anastasio.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Apple Sued Over DRM

tinfoilmusic.net reports: Apple is the target in a new lawsuit claiming that the company's iTunes, and iPod, are crippled by the company. Specifically pointed out in the lawsuit is the ability of the hardware within the iPod to play certain filetypes that have been disabled by Apple and Apple's refusal to license their AAC digital rights management schemes to other companies, allowing competing products to connect and use the iTunes Music Store.

The judge in the case seems to think that the case has merit and has quashed Apple's motion to dismiss. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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