Mike Mangione Week: Day 3

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Weezer To Do America

Big Hassle reports: Weezer announced today a North American tour in support of their top ten album Weezer (referred to as the Red Album). Starting September 23 at the Tsongas Center in Boston, the band will embark on a five week tour including dates in New York City at Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles' Great Western Forum. This is the band's first tour in three years. Drummer Pat Wilson announced, "if you want to rock, you know where to find us!"

Weezer (Red Album) is the band's boldest album, sonically and lyrically, fearlessly reaching places never before heard in popular music. The Red Album's first single "Pork and Beans" just spent 11 weeks at #1 at Modern Rock radio (the longest streak for a song in 2008) and it's accompanying video has been viewed on Youtube over ten million times. The song is about self-empowerment, where people are urged to follow their instincts as exemplified by the lyrics "I'm a do the things that I want to do/I ain't got a thing to prove to you."

Recently Weezer, with the help of local radio stations, has been reaching out to musicians to create "Hootenannys" across the country. An idea hatched by lead singer Rivers Cuomo (after his mom explained how music was often spread in the good ole days) fans were hand-picked and told to bring their instruments to an unusual location where audience and band become one and jam on Weezer classics and cover songs. - more on this story

Hoax Alert: AC/DC To Delay New Album and Tour

antiMusic reports: We received another AC/DC "announcement" from someone claiming to be "sonymusic customer service management" but is using a Yahoo email account. Our contact at Sony never heard of this person and suggested they may be an intern but if that's the case it's a very informed intern and a quick search of Google finds that this person has been sending these "announcements" out for over a year.

We've passed on a few of this person's updates in the past as they seemed plausible and our contact at Sony didn't deny them. However, regular readers will remember that we also warned that the information came from a suspicious source (contrary to what a blogger claims, we never posted it a "official" news and always included the warning about its source). Now this person is spreading "news" that really stretches credibility, especially in light of the official announcement about the upcoming tour, so we thought we should warn you in case you read it as "real" news somewhere else. Here is what was sent to us today:

Due to the band's desire to start their new world tour not in 2009 but in 2010, on the 30th anniversary of "Back In Black" album, the new AC/DC album tentatively titled "Dirty Rhythm" will not be released until the end of the next year.Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd are extremely sorry for those disappointing news, but that was the decision they had to make. Be sure to check out acdc.com in a few days for more information regarding AC/DC's new album and world tour.

Why someone would feel the need to spread such rumors is anyone's guess but there you have it. We'll keep posted on real AC/DC developments as we know a lot of you are excited about the new album and tour! - In the meantime, Blabbermouth has posted what are suggested to be clips from the new album. Check em out.

Be Your Own Pet Split, Queens of the Nine Inch Tool, Morrissey Years of Delay, Wolfmother RIP?, Blow Me Up Scotty, Joss Stone and more

antiMusic reports: Indie-punk foursome Be Your Own Pet have reluctantly announced a parting of ways. Reasons for the split are unknown. more

Today's "Duh!" moment comes to us from an Angry Ape report: Sharon Osbourne has slammed socialite turned singer Paris Hilton, saying that the heiress is talentless. "She has no talent! I'm sure Paris would tell you that herself." more. On the other hand, Sharon should think of glasshouses when making such statements as her daughter Kelly isn't exactly a chip off the ol' Ozzy block in the talent department.

Originally due in September, Morrissey's next album, "Years of Refusal," has been postponed until early 2009 more

A newly discovered tape of the Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000. more

Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, has won an auction to publish the autobiography of rock legend Steven Tyler, according to publishing sources. more

Singer Joss Stone is to play Anne of Cleves in the third season of The Tudors, the BBC has confirmed. It will be the first TV acting role for the 22-year-old

"Blow Me Up Scotty?" Some of the ashes of actor James Doohan, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in Star Trek have gone missing. The remains were being sent into orbit by a company that offers a space burial service when the rocket carrying them malfunctioned minutes after take-off. more

Iron Maiden's official website has been updated with the following: "(Guitarist) Adrian Smith's new Jackson guitar was stolen after the show in Athens (Greece) on Saturday night (August 2nd)." more

Walt Disney Records will release "Nightmare Revisited," a collection of covers and new recordings inspired by the 1993 film "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas," on Sept. 30. Danny Elfman re-recorded "Opening" and "Closing" from the film's score, and Korn, Amy Lee, Plain White T's, Rise Against, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Flyleaf contribute their versions of songs from the soundtrack. more

Hatebreed will release their all-covers album entitled "For the Lions" on October 28 via Koch. The CD is expected to include Hatebreed's renditions of songs by Misfits, Metallica, Judge, Cro-Mags, D.R.I., Negative Approach, Agnostic Front, Madball, Sheer Terror and Obituary, among others. more

Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has recorded the vocals for the song "I Don't Have an Excuse, I Just Need a Little Help" from the new band JUBILEE, featuring Aaron North of Nine Inch Nails/The Icarus Line fame and Michael Shuman of Queens Of The Stone Age. Footage of the recording sessions can be viewed here

Suicidal Tendencies has been confirmed for the We The People festival, set to take place September 27 at the Los Angeles State Historic Park. Find out who else is set to play the fest here

A split has occurred between Wolfmother singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale and the other two founding members of the Australian hard rock band, Chris Ross and Myles Heskett. more

At All Cost has posted a lengthy description of their recent hardships, including being dropped by Century Media Records this past spring. Long story short: they are on hiatus. Read the full statement here

Heavy Heavy Low Low has announced the amicable departure of guitarist Ryan "Chip" Madden. - more

Metallica Announce Album Details

PR reports: Metallica have announced their tenth studio album, Death Magnetic, will be released globally on Friday, September 12th.

News about Death Magnetic has been flowing out of Metallica's camp via the band's official website (www.metallica.com) and a brand-new site, missionmetallica.com, which offers users a unique, ground-breaking look-in on the making of the album, with producer Rick Rubin. Fans who can't wait for the September 12th release date will be able to purchase a digital-edition version of the album, to be delivered at midnight on release day, by joining the free site, which launched on May 29th. Missionmetallica.com features a treasure trove of exclusive content, including the low-down from the band members themselves about their progress in the studio via fly-on-the-wall video footage, live concerts downloads, exclusive new and never-before-seen archival photos from the studio, contests to fly to foreign lands to see the band perform and much much more.

Metallica are currently finishing up the mixing and mastering of Death Magnetic. The cover art and full-track-listing (below) have been posted at missionmetallica.com, where fans can purchase the album plus web content in various configurations. Users should continue to check the site for the chance to win tickets and meet-and-greet passes to Metallica's live concert events this summer. Upcoming dates include headlining slots at Ozzfest on August 8th in Dallas, TX and at England's Leeds and Reading festivals later this month. - more on this story

Iggy Pop Robbed

Jam! reports: A rental truck containing Iggy Pop and the Stooges' equipment has been stolen after a concert in Montreal.

Stooges road manager Eric Fischer says the 4.5-metre truck stolen Monday contained all the group's instruments and stage gear.

He tells the Detroit Free Press the lost items are worth tens of thousands of dollars. - more on this story

Ozzfest Rapist Sentenced

Blabbermouth reports: Illinois' The Herald News reports that a 33-year-old Crest Hill man has been sentenced to six years behind bars for sexually assaulting a woman at Tinley Park's First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre during Ozzfest 2006.

Patrick Miller pleaded guilty Monday (August 4) to one count of criminal sexual assault in a Bridgeview courtroom, according to Cook County state's attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton. Circuit Judge Colleen McSweeney-Moore set Miller's sentence.

Immediately after the July 16, 2006, concert attack, which occurred in a secluded, grassy area west of the amphitheater Tinley Park police were able to recover evidence from the victim and the crime scene. However, it took nearly a year for a state-run crime lab to process evidence and match up a suspect. - more on this story

Idol Winner David Cook Teams Up with Green Day Producer for Debut CD

RCA reports: American Idol winner David Cook has teamed up with Grammy winning producer Rob Cavallo on his debut album for 19 Recordings/RCA Records, due out this fall.

Cavallo, best known for his work with the legendary pop-punk band Green Day, has also produced records for superstar artists such as Kid Rock, Eric Clapton, My Chemical Romance, Goo Goo Dolls, and is working with the Dave Matthews Band on an upcoming release.

Cook has been busy in the studio when not on the road with the American Idols Live tour, co-writing many of the upcoming album tracks alongside some of music's hottest rock songwriters. - more on this story

Misheard Lyrics of the Day: Nirvana

antiMusic reports: Who hasn't misheard a song lyrics. We thought it might be fun to feature some favorites here for you to enjoy.

Here's today's from Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box" lyric "I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black" has been misheard as "I wish I could eat your hamster when you turn your back"

Check out more funny misheard song lyrics like this one - here

My Ruin Throat Full Of Heart is coming!

antiMusic reports: "With every new record, [My Ruin] becomes like a prize fighter locked in a gym pumping weights all day. Muscle builds on muscle until the fighting machine is an unstoppable force. My Ruin's new CD Throat Full of Heart is a nuclear right hook that combines the culmination of years of experience along with their unquenchable thirst for release through the power of metal. It's tough to imagine My Ruin sounding any better than this," that's what our very own Morley Seaver had to say about this album. You'll be able to decide for yourself in a couple weeks when it hits stores. Here is the announcement:

Los Angeles-based hard rock band My Ruin has set an August 19, 2008 US release date for its new album, Throat Full Of Heart, on the group's own imprint Rovena Recordings in association with Redeye USA/Cargo Records UK. Throat Full of Heart was released earlier this year in the UK and Europe and was co-produced by My Ruin guitarist Mick Murphy along with producer/engineer Duane Burda. The album was recorded at The Hobby Shop in Highland Park, CA, which was built by and is owned by producers Mudrock and Scott Gilman.

Throat Full Of Heart, to be released in digipak, includes My Ruin's first official DVD as well as two music videos for the tracks "Religiosity," created by Nasty & Sinister, and "Ready for Blood" which was directed by Ben LeVine who previously directed My Ruin's 2003 video for "Make To Measure" from the release The Horror Of Beauty while the band was on Century Media. The 2 ½ hour DVD features bonus footage and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the song "Ready for Blood." The disc will also include a mini-movie of the band with never-before-seen footage from the studio as well as a mini movie created by vocalist Tairrie B which documents her horrific car accident which took place on September 29, 2006 - from the injury to her recovery this past year. - more on this story

John Mayer Blu-Ray Offer

Columbia Records reports: Blu-ray disc of Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles is currently part of a bundle promotion with the new Sony Blu-ray S350 player beginning on Sunday, August 3rd.

From now until Saturday, August 30th, consumers may purchase the Sony Blu-ray S350 player and receive a complimentary copy of the top-selling and critically-acclaimed John Mayer Blu-ray disc at participating retailers including Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon.com and Target, as well as the Sony Style store.

Released on July 1st, Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles was filmed last December at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles and directed by Danny Clinch. The special Columbia Records release includes three distinct sets: an acoustic performance, a rare set with John Mayer Trio (John Mayer, Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino), as well as a Continuum set featuring Mayer's full-band. - more on this story

Digital Seether

Wind-up Records reports: Seether have recorded an iTunes Originals program exclusively for the digital music retailer. The quartet entered Groovemaster Studios in Chicago on May 19, 2008 to perform new arrangements of select repertoire, and conduct an extensive interview for inclusion in the release.

The half-dozen tunes chosen span the length of Seether's career from their beginnings in South Africa, through their current release FINDING BEAUTY IN NEGATIVE SPACES. Additionally, a cover selected by the quartet, alongside six previously released studio album cuts rounds out the complete track listing (below). This release is available exclusively on iTunes BEGINNING TODAY August 5, 2008.

Alongside the musical performances, the program features an extensive interview with band members Shaun Morgan (Vocals / Guitar), Dale Stewart (Bass), John Humphrey (Drums) and Troy McLawhorn (Guitar). The interview covers expansive territory, taking fans from the origins of the band in May 1999 through the process of writing and recording, and a deep exploration into the band's repertoire and personal obstacles they have individually and collectively overcome. - more on this story

RIP for Sony BMG

Reuters reports: Sony Corp agreed to buy Bertelsmann's 50 percent stake in their Sony BMG music joint venture for around $900 million, ending a four-year venture that never managed to beat the music industry's woes.

Sony said in a statement on Tuesday Bertelsmann will also get $300 million of the cash on Sony BMG's balance sheet, valuing the deal at around $1.2 billion, though the value to Bertelsmann, including tax breaks, is higher.

The music company -- the world's second-largest after Vivendi unit Universal -- will now be called Sony Music Entertainment Inc - more on this story

The Toadies Return

PR reports: The Toadies are back with a new album called "No Deliverance"! Their new album hits stores on August 19th, and they're touring extensively in support of the record.

They've been on a hiatus for quite a long time but appear to be back in full swing. They just played to a huge crowd at Lollapalooza last Saturday on the MySpace stage.

Here are their upcoming tour dates:

08/21 - Tyler, TX - Click's
08/22 - Dallas, TX - Palladium
08/23 - College Station, TX - Northgate Music Fest
08/26 - Shreveport, LA - The Warehouse - more on this story

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