ASHES dIVIDE Week: Day 4 "Denial Waits"

Learn more about the album and the band, preview some of the songs, and grab tour dates (they're on Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour) - right here!

Fall Out Wedding: Wentz To Wed Ashlee

antiMusic reports: Are you ready for a colossal announcement? By far the biggest music announcement of the year? We're not talking about Mostly Thru's Suckfest, you'll have to wait til next week to hear about that one from the band (or Viagra who are rumored to be sponsoring the outing.) This is far bigger news about current stars that still sell CDs. Ready? Ashlee Simpson and Fall Out Boy's spokesmodel Pete Wentz are engaged. We told you it was big news!

Ashlee took to social networking site FriendsorEnemies.com on Wednesday to shout the news from the cyber rooftop. "We know there has been a lot of speculation recently about Pete and I and we wanted our fans to be the first to know, because you guys are the best. Yes, we are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged," Simpson wrote.

"Thank you for all of your support and well wishes—it means the world to us. We consider this to be a very private matter, and we wanted to be the first to tell you and to hear it straight from us."

Will this marriage made in pop heaven last? Or will there be a big tabloid friendly split in the future and they'll have to go to court to decide who gets to keep the eyeliner. At least they can have a lip-syncing contest at the reception. - Post your thoughts on the matter here.

Rappers Sued For Being Too Gangsta

antiMusic reports: It's now time to play the hip-hopcrisy game! Get this, 50 Cent and Yayo are being sued for promoting the "gangsta lifestyle". Wait, this gets better! Guess who is suing him? The son of The Game's manager, Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond.

Before we continue, you must keep in mind that The Game was the same rapper who bestowed these pearls of "anti" gansta wisdom upon us, "Real gangstaz stand up, hold they d*ck / Bitch niggaz sit down to piss, what type of nigga is you? / I'm the type to pack a gat or few / Pull out and pop, simply cause I'm mad at you... The kid roll with a greasy nine, come through and blast / I return shots like Arthur Ashe / You do the math, ten shots, ten dead bodies / F**k bein sorry, it ain't nuttin but a gangsta party." Hip-hopcrisy at it's finest.

Seems that 14-year-old "Henchman" Jr. blames Fiddy for a beatdown he suffered. E reports, "Per court documents filed Wednesday, James Rosemond claims he was jumped by G-unit rapper Yayo and three other men in March 2007 because he was wearing a Czar Entertainment T-shirt—Czar being the management company that represents The Game, one of 50 Cent's sworn nemeses. And although Fiddy, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, wasn't at the scene, Rosemond and mother Cynthia Reed contend that the 'gangsta lifestyle' he promotes through his music and public image led to the assault....The attack on the younger Rosemond was intended to 'promote and maintain Yayo and 50 Cent's "gangsta' image,"' which has been 'promoted, marketed and advertised' by their record labels, the complaint states." - Before you run off and call your congressional representative and demand tort reform, read E!'s full report for more ammo.

Weiland Says Velvet Revolver Disintegrated Really Badly

antiMusic reports: Associated Press sat down with members of the reunited Stone Temple Pilots earlier this week to talk about a host of issues. During the interview Scott Weiland addressed his departure from Velvet Revolver where he said things "disintegrated really badly".

Here is what he had to say, "This happened very organically. It wasn't people trying to angle and beg. It just happened the way it sort of happened. I got a call from Dean. I was on tour. He said, 'Man, are you sitting down?' I said 'Yeah.' He said, 'I was talking with our agent, and some offers came through.' We'd all been starting to talk more often. I had talked to Slash, mentioned it to him, and things were cool for a while.

"And this last tour, things just disintegrated really badly. I just came to the point where I decided that ... if I'm going to commit the next 10 years of my life to touring ... then I want to do it with people I want to make music with. People who I get inspired by making music with. ...I have to start weeding out stuff. It's kind of like going through your closet going, 'Eh, I don't need this anymore. It takes up too much space.' Certain things don't feel good, although it may put money in your bank account, but it doesn't feel good at the end of the day. It became one of those situations. This feels good, it feels right. It's always inspiring. It's always that high." - read the full interview at the Chicago Sun Times

Royal Coachella Headliner as Prince Joins The Festivities

PR reports: Prince has joined this year's line-up for the ninth Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA (Friday, April 25, Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27) as the headliner for the second night of the critically acclaimed festival.

The updated Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival line-up (as of 3/11) is: Roger Waters • Jack Johnson • Portishead • Kraftwerk • the Verve ● the Raconteurs • Death Cab for Cutie ● Love and Rockets ● My Morning Jacket • Aphex Twin • the Breeders • Justice • Café Tacvba • Fatboy Slim • Spiritualized • Tegan and Sara • Goldfrapp • Serj Tankian ●the Swell Season ● Sasha & John Digweed • Gogol Bordello • Rilo Kiley ● Chromeo • Dwight Yoakam ● M.I.A - more of the lineup

Strait To The Top

PR reports: George Strait, The "King of Country Music's" 37th album, Troubadour, debuted at #1 today on the Billboard 200 and the Top Country Albums chart.

This is the third time in Strait's career that a new album has debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and the 11th time debuting at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart.

Currently, George Strait has 32 platinum albums (13 of which are multi-platinum). The only recording artists with more RIAA certified platinum albums are The Beatles with 39 and Elvis Presley with 45. - Here is George with strait sheet on the title track.

Disturbed Limited Edition At Disturbing Price

Total Assault reports: Disturbed will release their new album, Indestructible on June 3rd, but fans can pre-order the album today to get their hands on a limited edition package with tons of bonus content.

$34.98 fans will get the full album plus an exclusive b-side of "Run", DVD of the making of 'Indestructible,' VIP 'Rock Star Lounge' laminate for the 2008 Mayhem Tour, access to an upcoming exclusive website full of rare content and much more!

Pre-order your copy here today before supplies run out. This is your chance to get a very limited edition package of Disturbed's highly anticipated new album Indestructible! The offer is only available at - http://www.disturbed1.com/preorder.html.

Silly Haircut Tour! 80s Bands Team This Summer

antiMusic reports: Ready to party like it's 1982? Some of the biggest names and silliest haircuts in 80s pop are teaming up for the Regeneration Tour!

The outing will feature such early MTV favs as The Human League, Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Dead Or Alive, A Flock of Seagulls and Naked Eyes. You know back when MTV showed music videos?

The fun-filled, sythizirer fued fiesta kicks off on August 1st in Phoenix and will go out with a leg-warming bang on Aug. 29 at the Chastain Park Amphitheater in Atlanta according to Billboard.

Grab your fluorescent green shirt and skinny tie and head - here for more rad details!

Fall Out Boy Not Cool Enough For The Roots

antiMusic reports: Seems emoriffic MTV darlings Fall Out Boy just didn't make the cut when The Roots finalized their new album. Gigwise has the story: The Roots have dropped the song 'Birthday Girl', which features Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump, from their new album 'Rising Down'.

Speaking to Billboard, drummer Ahmir Questlove said that the song was "sticking out like a sore thumb" on the album tracklisting.

The song had been due to open the new album, which the drummer described as their most political record to date. "Then we were going to have a 'halftime' thing where it was gonna come in the middle of the record as a break from the political thing, but that didn't work, either," Questlove continued. "Then we tried to make it the last song on the record, and that wasn't working. " - more on this story

Billy Morrison's Stimulator Released At Last

antiMusic reports: Big news for Billy Morrison fans. The long lost Stimulator album is finally available! We'll be checking in with Billy in a couple weeks when he picks his favorite tracks from the album and gives us the inside story on them. But for now here it the story of Stimulator and info on how to get it:

Back in 1998, Billy Morrison (The Cult, Circus Diablo, Camp Freddy), fronted U.K. rock band Stimulator with guitarist Terry Warville and drummer Jason Bowld (Pitchshifter). The band signed a large deal with Geffen Records in the U.S. and recorded their debut album in Los Angeles. Riding high on a wave of great press and even greater expectation, they could not have imagined that Geffen Records would be part of the first big music business merger (with Seagrams), and that their record would never be released.

10 years later, Billy now lives in Los Angeles, has played bass in THE CULT, formed CAMP FREDDY (with Dave Navarro, Donovan Leitch, Chris Chaney and Matt Sorum), CIRCUS DIABLO (with Billy Duffy, Ricky Warwick and Brett Scallions) acts, writes, hosts a radio show…and has finally decided to release those masters as a Billy Morrison solo album. - more on this story

Quicks: U2 Recording, R.E.M. Set Straight, Plies Sued

antiMusic reports: A few quickies from the fine folks over at Billboard. First a U2 update: Bono, The Edge and those other guys have returned to the studio to work on their new studio album, which they hope to have out by the end of the year. Billboard says the band plans to hit the road next year to support the effort.

We have another story today about George Strait topping the charts, but what else happened in CD sales last week? "R.E.M. scores its highest sales and charting week in nearly 12 years with the Warner Bros. set "Accelerate," which debuts at No. 2 with 115,000.... Last week's chart-topper, Day26's self-titled Bad Boy effort, falls a whopping 73%."

In today's rap legal brief, Rapper Plies has been named in a lawsuit alleging negligence on his part, stemming from a 2006 shooting at a Gainesville, Fla., nightclub." - Get all the details here.

Spy on Underoath Recording

PR reports: Stickam.com, the first and largest Web site dedicated to live interactive video streaming, today announced Grammy-nominated metalcore band Underoath will live stream directly from the studio on Stickam.com as it records its next album, slated to release on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 on Tooth & Nail Records / Solid State Records

Through Underoath's use of Stickam.com, the band is able to provide fans with unique insight into the recording process. The site also serves as an online community, enabling Underoath to interact with viewers in addition to performing impromptu, personalized sets. Stickam.com's online delivery of the next album's production enables the band members to increase bonds with fans, communicating with them directly regardless of location, and also enhances awareness of the upcoming record. - more on this story

Gavin Rossdale WANDERBush Date Set

PR reports: Interscope Records is proud to announce the release of Gavin Rossdale's first solo album, WANDERlust, in stores June 3rd! The first single, "Love Remains the Same," is already available digitally as of April 1st. WANDERlust is the provocative title for the intriguing first solo album by Gavin Rossdale – an inspired song cycle by the former leader of Bush that turns out to be a trip in its own right.

"The wanderlust I'm talking about isn't that desire to travel and see the world, Rossdale explains with a grin. "It's my overwhelming desire to get out and play music for people. I feel like a racehorse that's been stuck in the stables a bit too long. The doors are locked and no one can find the key -- worse I'm not sure who's looking for it." With WANDERlust, the doors - and the floodgates - seem wide open and the result is the most mature, sensual, honest and compelling work of Rossdale's life in music.

After years spent at the top of rock's grungy heap -- and then a couple more in a peculiar sort of high-profile musical wilderness -- Rossdale has brought it all back home on a vivid, widescreen rock album that found him working closely with famed producer Bob Rock. Now that WANDERlust is finally completed, Rossdale can hardly wait to get back on the road. "This album is my way of saying `Let me out,'" Rossdale says. "I'd love to take my family with me, but I do have a burning desire to go out and play for people again. I've felt too corralled for too long so this deep sort of wanderlust has set in." - video preview for the CD

Hatebreed Ditch Mallcore Records for Koch

PR reports: KOCH Records has entered into a new multi-tiered, worldwide deal with Hatebreed. As part of the new deal, KOCH Records will release a series of highly-anticipated future projects from the kings of hardcore metal, Connecticut's very own, Hatebreed.

The first project under the new deal will be Hatebreed's first-ever live DVD. The main DVD concert shoot took place at Harpo's in Detroit on Saturday, March 29th, 2008 in front of a packed SOLD OUT crowd. Directed by Kevin Custer, the yet-to-be titled DVD will also feature a collection of recent live shows from various tour stops in Germany, Philadelphia, New York City and New Haven, CT.The new DVD will see its release in late summer/early fall.

Frontman Jamey Jasta had this say about the new deal, "The band and I had set out to find an aggressive forward thinking marketing and creative team to release the first-ever Hatebreed live DVD experience, a live album, and a cool unique covers record project and teaming up with KOCH Records is a perfect fit." Jasta explains "There are other important projects that we are planning to partner with KOCH Records to release. They are a smart company with a dedicated staff and I speak for the whole band when I say that KOCH just gets it and aren't afraid to take risks and work their asses off. We are excited to start working together"

In other Hatebreed news, Jägermeister Music and Hatebreed have partnered up for the next installment of the Jägermeister Music Tour and will hit the road with good friends, Type O Negative for a co-headline bill with special guests, 3 Inches of Blood. - Tour dates and a DVD preview

Korny Live DVD

PR reports: Eagle Rock Entertainment is proud to announce the release of Korn Live At Montreux on DVD May 13. This spectacular 13-song, 75-minute high-energy Montreux debut from 2004 features the original Korn lineup—guitarist Brian "Head" Welch, drummer David Silveria, singer Jonathan Davis, guitarist James "Munky" Shafer and bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu—amazingly turning the famous Stravinski Auditorium into a moshpit for the first and only time.

Between the onstage mayhem resulting in a wild melee of organized chaos and the demonstrative, vociferous crowd going certifiably nuts for Korn's performance, a rare metal transcendence emerged, almost surrealistic in scope. This is a performance for the ages, one which includes surprising and effective covers of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" and Metallica's "One."

This innovative California band was solvent for its first 12 years and six albums before guitarist Welch disavowed the band, the scene and even the music when he shockingly left to devote himself to Christianity only months after this concert was filmed. When drummer Silveria followed shortly thereafter on a "temporary hiatus" to devote himself to his family and his burgeoning restaurant business, the three remaining original members—singer Davis, guitarist Shaffer and bassist Arvizu—vowed never to permanently replace them. They have remained true to their word ever since, carrying on with a revolving cast of touring and studio musicians. - more on this story

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