Dino Cazares Fires Singer

"In part, the other members of Divine Heresy decided to finish the gig because they didn't think Cummings was being honest about why he wanted to cut the set short. 'We felt that he wanted to end the show early to go hang out at the New England Metal Fest, which we were supposed to be performing at the next day,' Cazares said. - more on this story

NME Hacked?- Winehouse To Leave Island?- Wolves In The Throne Room Ditch Tour- Rare Scorpions Demos Surface

antiMusic reports: Amy Winehouse is apparently thinking of leaving Island Records is tabloid reports are to be believed. One of those handy dandy unnamed sources claims that the troubled singer wants to take control of her finances which supposedly includes starting her own label. "It's never been a huge deal in the past, but she is beginning to realise everyone else is making all the money out of her success," the source told the Sun. On the other hand, a short time back there were some rumblings that her label threatened to drop her if she didn't her act together.

According to Blabbermouth: "Due to personal reasons," Wolves In The Throne Room have pulled out of their previously announced North American tour with Boris and Torche. The trek will still go ahead without Wolves In The Throne Room.

Was NME.com hacked? At 6:00 AM PST all the content on the site was missing, you just get a blank page with some pop-ups and it also tried to run some code.

Blabbermouth reports: Two rare 1983 SCORPIONS rehearsal/demo recordings for the "Love at First Sting" album have surfaced and can be found on YouTube. * "Heartbreaker" was the original title of the song "Bad Boys Running Wild" and the demo version of "Big City Nights" features a guitar solo by Matthias Jabs while the final album version contains a solo by Rudolf Schenker. - Check out the videos

Motley CD Delayed?

antiMusic reports: Has the biggest release of the millennium been bumped back a week? Looks like Crue heads might have to wait a week to get their audio dirt. That's if you can go by Amazon.com release date postings.

BW&BK reported on Wednesday, "According to Amazon.com, Motley Crue's new studio album, Saints Of Los Angeles, will now be released in North America on June 24th via RED."

During the band's much hyped news conference to announce their summer tour they said that the album was to hit stores on June 17th. - more on this story

Taproot Set Release

Blabbermouth reports: Ann Arbor, Michigan hard rock band Taproot has set an August 5 release date through Velvet Hammer Music for the group's new album, entitled "Our Long Road Home".

TAPROOT recently posted a new song, entitled "You're Not Home Tonight", on the group's official blog.

The band's follow-up to 2005's "Blue-Sky Research" was reportedly produced by Tim Patalan and is the group's first album since parting with Atlantic Records in June 2006. - more on this story

Lip-syncing Leppard?

antiMusic reports: There is a bit of a controversy brewing over at Blabbermouth. The site posted a news story about two Def Leppard TV appearances, along with video clips, that caused some people to question whether the band was playing to a CD recording on one show and then performed so badly on the other program that maybe they should have lip-synced.

The article started innocently enough, "Def Leppard kicked off the release of its new album, 'Songs From The Sparkle Lounge', yesterday (Tuesday, April 29) with a couple of high-profile television appearances on ABC's 'Dancing With The Stars' and 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'." The site included YouTube videos of the performances. That's when the trouble started. The readers didn't ask why Def Leppard would play 20-year-old songs to showcase a new album, instead they voiced their suspicion that the band had "performed" to a CD track on "Dancing with the Stars." But it was the real live performance on Ellen that elicited the strongest responses.

Pukeman44 wrote, "My mom put on Dancing With The Stars when Def Leppard performed, and there was no doubt in my mind that was the CD version of Pour Some Sugar On Me being played, and not the band playing it live. LOSERS!" Then bagofsoup said, "Hard to decide which is more pathetic: Miming to a 20-year old recording with the solid gold dancers parading about, or that god-awful live performance of Hysteria." zeets succinctly added, "I'd say at this point ellen has more balls than def leppard". - ouch. but can this be excused?

Free Radiohead No More

antiMusic reports: Last year Radiohead made music history when they broke all of the rules and offered a download of their album under a "pay what you want" model. The free downloads didn't seem to hurt the band's sales because when the album hit stores, it went straight to No. 1 in the US and UK. But now the band's frontman says that fans shouldn't expect them to do it again.

Flashback to last October. Radiohead had just finished their album "In Rainbows" and having fulfilled their commitment to EMI, they didn't have a label to put the album out. So they decided to break the rules and offer the album to fans at whatever price the fans wanted to pay. Frontman Thom Yorke now tells the Hollywood Reporter of that decision, "I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation".

"Yes. It was a one-off in terms of a story. It was one of those things where we were in the position of everyone asking us what we were going to do. I don't think it would have the same significance now anyway, if we chose to give something away again. It was a moment in time," Yorke said. Fortunately the band is in a position where they can break every rule in the music playbook... and win. So it will interesting what they come up with next. - Read the Hollywood Reporter story

. McDowell Mountain Music Festival

This year was the fifth outing for the McDowell Mountain Music Festival, Arizona's premiere jam band event. About 10,000 people attended the two-day party, grooving to over a dozen bands including headliners Gov't Mule and the John Butler Trio. - Read the full McDowell Mountain Music Festival review

. 10 Years of antiMusic: Pearl Jam Live

We're looking back at 10 years of antiMusic. This week we're looking back at some highlights of our live coverage through the years. Today Tony looks back on one of the most unforgettable shows he has ever witnessed-- courtesy of Pearl Jam. - Read the full Pearl Jam Live review

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