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TuneLab reports: A new, free and legal, file
sharing service will be launching in October. Qtrax, an online record label
and file sharing service, will offer between 20 million and 30 million
copyrighted songs. The service has the backing of all four major labels,
EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, and will generate
revenue via advertising.[see full story for more]- Click
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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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DiR reports: Rivers Cuomo has announced via
the official Weezer site that the band are back at it. Here is his message:
"Hey Party-People,
Weezer is just polishing up a batch of
songs for a recording session that is going to start at the beginning of
July. This will be the final recording session for our 6th album which
we aim to put out in the first half of 2008. We hope you are all having
good times.
Love,
R-dawg"- Click
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| Monday |
Reuters reports: The Istanbul edition of the
July 7 global Live Earth concerts has been cancelled. Organizers are now
seeking a site to erect giant screens in the Turkish city to take TV feeds
from the remaining eight shows around the world.
Reports in the Turkish press pointed to
the non-appearance of promised government support and a failure to attract
sponsorship from big business as the reasons for the concert being nixed.
No tickets went on sale, so the public
will not be out of pocket.[see full story for more]- Click
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Lambgoat reports: California metal band Name
was involved in a serious van accident this weekend. Here's an account
of incident from the band:
"We were heading out on tour and our back
left tire blew out and sent us rolling our van and all our equipment 7
times from the freeway down the hill. We lost our van and a lot of merch
and equipment and were all hospitalized. We still look to tour and make
some major announcements regarding members and tour plans in the band.
But about the crash, we are left with nothing and we need to buy new equipment,
a new van, and medical bills.[see full story for more]-
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Blabbermouth reports: The publicity firm representing
the family of the late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott
has issued the following statement:
"The family of the late Dimebag Darrell
Abbott has not authorized nor co-operated with Zac Crain on his upcoming
book on Dimebag, scheduled for release on Perseus Books in November of
2007. In addition, Mr. Crain did not know Dimebag personally.
"Mr. Crain's request to the family was
denied. Among other reasons, during his tenure as music editor of the Dallas
Observer, Mr. Crain wrote nothing but negative reviews about PANTERA's
music."[see full story for some of the insulting crap that he wrote about
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AP reports: Rapper Foxy Brown who's on probation
for assault and facing a battery charge in a separate case had another
brush with violence over the weekend. But this time, she was the victim,
police said.
Four people teamed up to rob the racy rapper
of a Louis Vuitton bag, $500 in cash and credit cards around 5:30 a.m.
Saturday in the East New York section of Brooklyn, police said.
Roshawn Anthony, 23, was arraigned Sunday
on charges of robbery, assault and grand larceny [see full story for more]-
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TuneLab reports: Rage Against the Machine
and The Smashing Pumpkins are among the acts confirmed for the 2007 Voodoo
Music Experience. The event will take place from October 26th through the
28th at City Park in New Orleans.[see full story for more]-
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more stories including: Live
Earth Show Canceled- Serious Crash Sidelines Band- Foxy Brown Robbed- Rage
Against Voodoo Pumpkins- The Cure- George Harrison- Dimebag Family Vs Bio
Author- Korn- Glastonbury Death- Sammy Hagar- Green Day- Taking Back Live
Earth- Staind- Third Eye Blind- Primer 55- Al Green- Ill Bill- Snow Patrol-
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| Tuesday |
On Tuesday we took part
in the Day of Silence. Here is some information on that
PR reports: Tomorrow, June 26, thousands of
webcasters / Internet radio stations will be observing a day of silence
in protest of the Copyright Royalty Board's outrageous royalty rate hike.
While we do not webcast and the royalty hike does not hit us directly we
are joining the webcasters in this protest, many of which will have to
shutdown if the rates take effect because the rates will exceed 100% of
their profit. To add insult to injury, these rates will be retroactive
and only hurt online radio as over-the-air radio does not have to pay these
specific royalties. So tomorrow the Day in Rock will not be published but
will return on Wednesday.
You can help stop this from happening by
contacting your members of Congress and asking them to support the The
Internet Radio Equality Act, which will stop this unfair tax on Internet
radio while insuring the stations pay their FAIR share of royalties (the
same as Satellite radio). See the full story link for more information
and to find the contact info for your members of Congress. -
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| Wednesday |
punkbands reports: The BBC has been forced
to apologize after Iggy Pop used a racist term live on air. During the
broadcaster's coverage of the Glastonbury festival (June 23), Pop made
a comment about visiting shops in north London. In an interview after his
performance, Pop launched into a long anecdote about going to Camden and
visiting: "Paki shops."
Hosts Jo Whiley and Mark Radcliffe made
no on-air apology on Saturday night (June 23) prompting three viewer complaints.[see
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Contact Music reports: The Verve are set to
reform for a series of winter shows after recording together in a London
studio last week.
Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Jones
and Pete Salisbury will return to the studio after a summer break to complete
their next album.
They will then embark on an arena tour
with a total of six UK shows in early November beginning with two dates
at Glasgow Academy in November 2nd and 3rd.[see full story for more]-
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Blabbermouth reports: VELVET REVOLVER's entire
new album, "Libertad", is available for streaming on the ClearChannelMusic.com
web site.
"Libertad", will be released on July 3.
VELVET REVOLVER and ALICE IN CHAINS will
team up for a North American tour beginning early August.[see full story
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PR reports: Ryan Adams' highly-anticipated
ninth studio album, Easy Tiger, hits stores this week. See him on the road
at the following dates:
June
28 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore
29 - Boston, MA - Somerville Theater
July
10 - Charlottesville, VA - Paramount Theatre
11 - Louisville, KY - Brown Theatre
12 - Germantown, TN - Germantown Performing
Arts Center
14 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theatre
19 - Los Angeles, CA - Wilshire Ebell
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Idolator.com reports: The music business'
latest attempt to create new revenue streams comes from a division of Universal
Music Group, which, in an attempt to ape Sammy Hagar's tequila success,
has enlisted a beverage company to market drinks emblazoned with the likenesses
of its artists:
Drinks Americas Holdings Ltd., the company
behind a Donald Trump vodka, Willie Nelson's "Old Whiskey River" bourbon
and a line of Paul Newman-branded juice drinks, is set to announce today
an agreement with Universal Music Group's Interscope Geffen A&M label
group. Universal Music Group is owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi
SA.
The idea of the deal, executives of both
companies said, is to come up with brands of drinks -- both alcoholic and
nonalcoholic -- that bear the imprimatur of artists on Interscope's roster,
which includes Eminem, producer Dr. Dre and Sting. [say what you want about
David Geffen but he got rich the old fashioned way... by putting out music
that people wanted but no other label had the balls to release. Read more
about this lunacy at the full story link.] - Click
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more stories including: Led
Zeppelin Reunion- Legal Free Download Service?- Eminem Beer- Iggy Pop's
Paki Uproar- Crowded House- The Verve Reform- Velvet Revolver- Hostility-
Aerosmith- Shadows Fall- Hippy Orchestra- Thrice- Mars Volta- Cold Bizkit-
Fair To Midland- Hacienda Brothers- K-Os- Trey Anastasio- Free Glastonbury-
Maroon 5- more
| Thursday |
PR reports: Bert McCracken has just been advised
to undergo surgery due to the fact that he has developed a node on one
of his vocal chords. Consequently, the band has been forced to cancel their
shows on all upcoming dates during June and July, including the Van's Warped
Tour. Doctors have recommended treatment as well as rest without singing
and are expecting a full recovery. He will be able to sing again in about
five weeks.
The band is incredibly disappointed but
promised to return to touring in the USA in early September with headlining
dates. "Kevin Lyman and the Van's Warped tour have been amazing supporters
of our band and we are truly saddened that we won't be able to perform
on this year's tour," states Quinn Allman, The Useds guitarist. We hope
to have new tour details ready for release shortly. -
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PR reports: Going from hair rock to country
worked for Bon Jovi. The band's new album "Lost Highway" debuted a top
the Billboard album charts this week with sales of 292,000. The first No
1 for the band since the "hair metal" heyday of 1988.
The made of MTV band beat out The White
Stripes for the top spot with 50,000 more units sold. Jack Whites latest
"Icky Thump" moved 223,000 units for the No 2 spot. Country fans seemed
to have turned to Jovi spandex as last week's chart topper Toby Keith's
"Big Dog Daddy" suffered a 64% sales decline to land at No. 4 with 73,000.
Former chart toppers Linkin Park and Maroon
5 are hanging in there, remaining in the Top 10 another week.[see full
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punkbands reports: Coheed and Cambria has
recruited Taylor Hawkins of The Foo Fighters to play drums on their new
album; former drummer Josh Eppard parted ways with the band late last year.
The band is currently recording No World For Tomorrow with producer Nick
Raskulinecz.- Click
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AP reports: The creator of the Backstreet
Boys and 'N Sync was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges
he defrauded a bank out of $20 million.
Lou Pearlman, 53, was indicted on three
counts of bank fraud, and single counts of mail and wire fraud for business
with Evansville, Ind.-based Integra Bank N.A., according to court documents.
Pearlman is most famous for forming boy
bands in the '90s, but was also involved in airplane charter, real estate,
model scouting and restaurant ventures.[see full story for more]-
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Idolator.com reports: A disabled single mother
from Beaverton has filed a federal lawsuit against the Recording Industry
Association of America, claiming that she is the victim of abusive legal
tactics, threats and illegal spying as part of an overzealous campaign
to crack down on music pirating.
The recording industry sued Tanya J. Andersen,
44, in 2005, accusing her of violating copyright laws by illegally downloading
music onto her computer. Andersen claims in a suit she filed last week
in U.S. District Court in Oregon that the recording industry refused to
drop its case after its own expert supported her claims of innocence.
Instead, industry officials threatened
to interrogate Andersen's 10-year-old daughter, Kylee, if she didn't pay
thousands of dollars. The intimidation included attempts to contact Kylee
directly. A woman claiming to be Kylee's grandmother called the girl's
former elementary school inquiring about her attendance, according to Andersen's
suit. [see full story for more]- Click
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more stories including: Axl
Vs Fan- Country Jovi a Hit- Foo and Cambria- Used Surgery- Weezer Returns-
Morrissey Halts Show- Boyband Con Man Indicted- Meatless Idol is Sexy-
Fiddy in Pacino, de Niro Film- Spice Girls- Death Angel Singer Almost Loses
An Eye- Invitro- Mom sues RIAA- Rage Against Vegoose- Chieftains- Ben Jelen-
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| Friday |
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
in the hell anyone would need to lip sync a rap song?] -
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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: 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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TuneLab reports: Tantric members Matt Taul
(drums) and Bruce LaFrance (bass) have announced their departure from the
band and will now focus on the band Nova Red. Former Fuel drummer Kevin
Miller will step in behind the drum kit and Eric Leonheart has been added
as their new bassist. The band has also named their new guitarist, Joe
Pessia[see full story for more]- Click
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PR reports: KITTIE regrets to announce that
bassist, Trish Doan, will not be performing on their upcoming SWEET REVENGE
tour. Standing in for her on the tour will be Jeff Phillips from THINE
EYES BLEED. Doan has written a note to fans explaining the hiatus... Dear
Kittie Fans,
Due to pressing personal health matters,
I must sadly inform you that I will be taking a hiatus from touring with
Kittie commencing immediately. With the complete and ongoing support from
the band and management it is clear, as unfortunate it is, that these matters
be addressed promptly. I want to thank everyone for the tremendous support
over these past two years. It has been nothing but an amazing experience
so far and this decision has been made to do what is best for everyone.
Sincerely
Trish Doan- Click
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