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Amplify Week: Day 2 "House"

antiMusic reports: Continuing our policy of showcasing up and coming artists we proud to turn the focus this week on Brooklyn rockers Amplify. These indie rocker deliver some explosive music that encompasses a lot of different influences which makes them a really compelling list. this week they'll tell us about five of their favorite tracks from their recent release 'Beneath the Beauty Lies...Heaven to Burn'

Here they are with today's song: House- This song's lyrical content basically tells the story of a young girl in a small town who follows her dreams of moving to the big city in hopes of running away from a mundane existence. However, as she navigates and charms her way through the shallow, sycophantic big-city nightlife, she is confronted with all the things she dreamt of having and realizes it has a price.

We wanted the dynamic changes in the song to convey to the listener a sense of a story unfolding. The opening main, heavy riff was constructed with a rhythmic swing beat to give a general mood of nightlife sex, sleaze and hedonistic escapism….the ethereal passages were given a more dreamlike quality to feel like you were in the protagonist's head experiencing her unfolding, conflicted emotions. In the outro you hear the lyrics, "….in your house made of clay, with your walls crumbling in…in your house made of flame, do you ever burn for Love?" This passage then builds leads into the massive, heavy conclusion…. this was meant to give the listener an indication of the protagonist's inevitable mental and emotional breakdown. - Check out some of the songs from the CD, learn more about the band and once they've won you over you can buy the CD here as well.

Weiland Going To Jail

antiMusic reports: The Stone Temple Pilots reunion tour may have just hit a snag as frontman Scott Weiland has been sentenced to jail time. While he's only been sentence to what works out to be 8 days, the STP tour starts on May 17th and his deadline to serve is May 28th. So he'll have to find some time during the next three weeks to serve his sentence.

TMZ has more on the sentencing: Rockstar Scott Weiland has just been sentenced to 192 hours in county jail for his November DUI arrest. This is Weiland's second DUI offense. Scott, who was not present in court today, entered a no contest plea through his attorney, Anthony Brooklier. The former Velvet Revolver singer was also ordered to complete an 18-month alcohol program and pay almost $2,000 in fine. He will be put on a four-year summary probation.

Weiland was charged with one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of alcohol with a prior conviction, and with an allegation that he refused a chemical test as required by law. We are told he was over the legal limit of .08%, but not by much. - more on this story

Metallica Headlining Ozzfest

Blabbermouth reports: As BLABBERMOUTH.NET exclusively reported on April 11, this summer's Ozzfest will consist of two separate two-day (Saturday/Sunday) events — one of which will be held in Dallas — in late July/early August, with OZZY OSBOURNE headlining one day and METALLICA the other.

Reactivated Texas thrash/speed metallers RIGOR MORTIS have now announced via their MySpace page that they are confirmed for Ozzfest 2008 in Dallas on Saturday, August 9. METALLICA will apparently close out the show this night.

RIGOR MORTIS will perform with its original lineup consisting of Bruce Corbitt (TEXAS METAL ALLIANCE), Mike Scaccia (MINISTRY, REVOLTING COCKS, BLOHOLE), Casey Orr (GWAR, MITRA, X-COPS, THE HELLIONS, BLOHOLE), and Harden Harrison (MITRA, PERVIS, SPEEDEALER). - more on this story

Miley Cyrus Goes Topless For Vanity Fair

antiMusic reports: If the leaked photos of Miley Cyrus didn't erase the squeaky clean Hannah Montana image, then the photo spread by Annie Leibovitz in Vanity Fair just might. You see ol' Hannah was asked to take off her top for the shoot and complied. Her minders at Disney are apparently not pleased at all.

This sparked quite a controversy. On one hand some might say that it was Miley growing up and following the predictable poptart path where the teen princess goes from clean Disney star to provocative sexpot (kind of disturbing since she's just 15). Others, including Miley and Disney, are claiming she was somehow manipulated into doing the shoot which she says she told was going to be "artistic." Perhaps Miley (or her parents and managers) never heard of the David Hamilton's version of "art" before when she agreed to do a "artistic" photo shoot for a magazine known for racy photos of celebs. "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed," she said in a statement. "I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about."

Vanity Fair have a different memory of what happened, "Miley's parents and/or minders were on the set all day," the magazine told Entertainment Tonight. "Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley." - more on this story

NIN Bypass Scalpers Reserve Best Tix For Fans

NLM reports: Nine Inch Nails has secured extremely limited allotments of the guaranteed best possible seats to every headlining show on the band's upcoming tour and reserved them for pre-sale via NIN.com. Beginning roughly 72 hours prior to each general on-sale, Nine Inch Nails fans registering under their legal names at NIN.com will be offered exclusive advance access to these prime tickets.

Additionally, in an initiative to protect NIN fans from scalpers and ticket brokers, every pre-sale ticket will be personalized with the purchaser's legal name printed on the ticket. Tickets will not be available until night of show, at which point they will be waiting for the purchaser and his/her party at designated will calls at separate entrances to be used exclusively by NIN.com pre-sale ticket holders. Government-issued ID matching the name printed on the ticket will be required for venue entry night of show. NO tickets will be mailed in advance.

Ticket quantities are extremely limited and available on a first come first served basis. For further information regarding tour dates, pre-sales, on-sales and other major developments, keep checking back at
- NIN.com

Quicks: Reo Greenwagon- Grande Ole Earle- Ting Ting Apple- Billy Joel- Aiken For Mother's Day

antiMusic reports: Last week we told you about Billy Joel's album The Stranger being re-released on July 8th in two special editions - a two disc Legacy Edition and a Deluxe Limited Edition with a bonus live DVD. A teaser trailer for the album just went up online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n5WtqwnQP4

Legendary rockers REO Speedwagon are traveling to Greensburg, Kan., to perform a live concert on THE EARLY SHOW on Friday, May 2 (7:00–9:00 AM/ET) on the CBS Television Network. The concert concludes "Tragedy to Triumph: Greensburg Rising," a special week-long series highlighting a community that banned together to build an ecologically and economically sustainable town after being annihilated by a tornado last year.

Spring has been a whirlwind for Justin Townes Earle, from multiple, well received performances at SXSW to his coast-spanning tour to performances on NPR's Morning Edition, World Café and Mountain Stage. All were milestones for a young artist on his debut album; on the heels of those performances comes a invitation to perform on the legendary Grand Ole Opry. He'll perform Friday, May 2nd on the 8pm show, on a bill that includes Brad Paisley, Mark Wills and Mountain Heart.

Columbia Records is very proud to announce that The Ting Tings' "Shut Up and Let me Go" is featured in the latest iPod + iTunes TV ad, which premiered last night during Desperate Housewives and Family Guy. The Tings' Album We Started Nothing is scheduled for digital release May 20th The band will be back in the US in Mid-June. The single is available Now at iTunes.

Celebrate Mothers Day this year by sending your Mom a hello from Clay Aiken. That's available - here

Etheridge Says Come To My Concerts

PR reports: Melissa Etheridge makes a timely summer return to the road for The Revival Tour 2008, her first major headlining North American tour in two years, opening June 15th at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida.

The 48-city schedule, with several multiple night engagements along the way, works its way across the U.S. and Canada for 12 weeks, wrapping up September 9th at Midland Theatre in Kansas City.

"I love to perform live, and I am on a new journey in my life," Melissa says. "Put those two things together, and you have my Revival Tour. I'll be playing the favorites along with album cuts and songs from The Awakening to tell my story. I hope you enjoy it." - more on this story

More Stone Temple Tribute Details

PR reports: STP Tribute LP To Feature Members of Concrete Blonde, Badlands, Megadeth, Fuel, others. Since announcing the early 09 release of 'Wicked Garden: A Millennium Tribute to Stone Temple Pilots', Versailles Records is excited to report that the album's artist roster now includes a who's who of rock n' roll.

The disc will feature contributes from current/former members of Concrete Blonde, Black Sabbath, Racer X, Megadeth, Badlands, Alice Cooper Band, Fuel, Surgical Steel, Circle Jerks, Slash's Snakepit, Warrant, Steelheart, Michael Shanker Group, Dokken, L.A. Guns, Machine Head, Ratt, WASP, Quiet Riot, and others to be announced.

The roster also includes a host of millennium rock bands, in many cases paired with the aforementioned name rockers, including such artists as Rev. Jones & friends, Katet, The Rosemary Ftring. Keri Kelli, Dirty Vendetta Ftring. Chris Poland, Binary Code, Richard Kendrick, Motor Devil, Brian Colburn & D.C. Slater, Jeff Martin & James Mankey (lead guitarist of Concrete Blonde), Spiral Arms, Rose Reiter, Martian Honey, Blackk Jack, One Bad Son, Nigel Cuff, Lee Thompson, and others to be announced covering STP's greatest hits! The CD will also include a bonus CD Sampler featuring original bands/songs influenced/inspired by STP. Inquiries re the latter bonus sampler may be directed to - www.myspace.com/versaillesrecords

Hot Water Music, Avail and Lucero Members Team for The Revival Tour

punknews.org reports: Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music, Tim Barry of Avail and Ben Nicols of Lucero have announced plans to tour together this fall.

The bill, dubbed The Revival Tour is a series of shows that will see all three artists playing solo sets as well as performing on each other's material. Ragan explains:

All the tours that I've done since I've been doing this solo stuff have in some way or the other ended up with a bunch of friends onstage by the end of the night, I've always loved seeing that and now I'm absolutely loving creating something like that with good friends who think and believe along the same lines. - more on this story

Goss Delays Masters of Reality Album and Tour

Sleazeroxx reports: Chris Goss has announced the postponement of the new Masters of Reality release as well as the summer tour, due to the fact that he is still in the studio recording what he considers the best Masters of Reality record ever.

As Chris Goss quotes: "I sincerely regret if the tour's delay is causing any inconvenience and disappointment. I can only say that I have not stopped and cannot stop writing new music for the album.

"I believe it is our best work to date. We will bring this on large and correctly; both in album form and in the live arena. The summer will bring the album. The autumn will bring a Masters of Reality tour of a quality I've waited my whole life to present to you." - View the video for the Masters Of Reality song Domino here

Neil Diamond Taking Over Idol

PR reports: Neil Diamond will be appearing on American Idol and Jimmy Kimmel Live this week in support of his new album, Home Before Dark. Home Before Dark, produced by Rick Rubin, will be released on Columbia Records on May 6.

Neil Diamond will appear as a mentor to the remaining five contestants on American Idol on Tuesday April 29 and Wednesday, April 30. The idols will be singing Neil Diamond's songs on April 29, where Diamond will also appear in pre-recorded segments giving the contestants guidance and advice on their song choices and interpretations.

On the April 30 elimination show, Neil Diamond will perform live on the American Idol stage. The Fox network's American Idol is presently the #1 rated show on television; Tuesday night's program begins at 8pm and Wednesday night's show begins at 9pm. - now about that other show

Bon Jovi Escort Scandal

antiMusic reports: Has Bon Jovi given an Aussie cop a bad name? Seems there is a scandal brewing Down Under with cop acting as unauthorized escorts to popstars and Bon Jovi is reportedly in the middle of it. Sleazeroxx has the details: It looks like Melbourne has a groupie police officer. Following the k.d. lang unauthorized police escort scandal in Melbourne, Australia earlier this week, police are now investigating a similar incident involving Bon Jovi.

An anonymous caller into radio station 3AW's Rumour File segment on the breakfast show has unveiled that, like k.d. lang, Bon Jovi also received a police escort without approval from the department.

Bon Jovi toured Australia in May for Paul Dainty. Dainty is also touring k.d. lang. The Victoria police department has not confirmed if one "groupie" police officer was involved with Bon Jovi and k.d. lang or if the department has a pop star fixation epidemic. - more on this story

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