TMZ reports: TMZ has learned LeRoi Moore, the sax player in the Dave Matthews Band, has died. He was 46.
Moore was seriously injured in an ATV accident June 30 outside Charlottesville. He had a punctured lung and broken ribs. Moore went back into the hospital last month due to complications.
Moore died in Los Angeles this afternoon, after taking a turn for the worse. We're also told the band will performed Tues night as scheduled at the Staples Center in L.A.
antiMusic reports: Telling fans you can't always take yourselves so seriously, the members of Linkin Park put on blond wigs and performed the opening verse of the Guns N' Roses hit "Sweet Child O' Mine" at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin on Saturday (August 16) during their Projekt Revolution tour. Watch fan-filmed video footage of the brief performance here
Metallica return on September 12th to Berlin for the official record release party of their new album Death Magnetic. They celebrate as first band ever in the brand new O2 World Berlin more
Coldplay are giving away free music on their website. Death Will Never Conquer is available to download from their official site according to Kerrang!
Set Your Goals is no longer on the Eulogy Recordings roster following a buyout of their recording contract. Interestingly, the buyout (rumored to be over $100,000) didn't come from another label, but rather the group's manager. more
Some folks believe that intimacy is best when it's spontaneous and guess what? Bloc Party totally agrees. The band will digitally release their third disc, Intimacy, this Thursday, August 21st. A nice surprise, given that the CD's physical release will not be available till October 28th via Atlantic. more
Author Mick Wall's When Giants Walked The Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin is a new hardcover book by Orion that features 400 pages and will hit stores in the UK on October 16th. A description is here
British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, has been denied entry in Thailand after failing to board a flight in Bangkok to London, immigration officials said Wednesday. more
According to The Boston Globe, legendary rockers Aerosmith are heading back to the studio in October and will hit the road next spring. more
Fishbone frontman Angelo Moore will be making a rare solo appearance tonight (Wed) at the Joint in Los Angeles during the antiMusic sponsored Happenin' Harry's Hellhole! Nehemiah of The Real World will also perform and the night will be capped off by an all-star jam by Happenin' Harry and the Haptones. Grab the details and post funny message to Harry here
The Verve are now streaming their new long-awaited album Forth on their Myspace page
Winds Of Plague has parted ways with drummer Jeff Tenny more
TO/DIE/FOR has cancelled its previously announced appearance at the Big Bang Festival in Lebanon. According to the group, "[the festival organizers] changed the dates and we are not available on those days." more
Dr Who actor John Barrowman is releasing an album called 'Music Music Music'. The record is released on November 24 and features songwriting contributions from Take That's Gary Barlow, including first single 'What About Us', out November 17. more
Popular "mixtape" sharing site, Muxtape, has been temporarily shut down due to some conflict with music industry trade organization, the RIAA. The website now displays this message: Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA. more
Sanctity, who recently parted ways with Jared MacEachern (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Derek Anderson (bass) "for personal reasons", have issued the following update: "We will hopefully be announcing our new singer soon. I cant give you a name or hints yet, but we have not been [so] happy in a long time. He is a sick-ass singer as well as a person."
Billboard reports: U.K. pop star Lily Allen has expressed confusion over the [delayed] release of her sophomore album amid the current changes at EMI.
The follow-up to her 2006 album "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone) is due at some point in the fourth quarter or early next year. The as-yet-untitled record will be issued on Capitol in the U.S.
"It has been finished for a while now, I don't really know what's going on with it," said Allen in a posting on MySpace. "The record industry is a very political place at the moment and I am on EMI Records. Lots of people have been fired or have taken redundancy recently as the company was taken over by a private equity firm called Terra Firma."
Jam! reports: Pervis Jackson, the man behind the deep, rolling bass voice in a string of 1970s R&B hits by The Spinners, has died after being diagnosed with brain and liver cancer. He was 70.
Jackson died about 2 a.m. Monday at Detroit Sinai-Grace Hospital, said his wife Claudreen.
Doctors found tumours late last month but had been awaiting tests to determine if they were malignant. He was diagnosed with cancer two days ago, she said.
Blabbermouth reports: According to News.com.au, die-hard AC/DC fans have sunk to a hilarious new low in rock and roll fandom.
Fans who attended a film clip shoot in London last week were among the first in the world to hear AC/DC's new single "Rock 'N Roll Train", and, instead of leaking an unauthorized recording, have set about recreating it themselves on YouTube.
One video shows a fan dressed as Brian Johnson singing "Rock N Roll Train" in his bedroom. Another clip features a fan "singing" the song's main guitar riff in a series of "nah, nah, nah" noises.
Hecklerspray reports: The Rolling Stones have been hailed unlikely life-savers after waking a British fan from a coma. Sam Carter lost consciousness after contracting severe anaemia but came to when his favourite Stones track, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction was blasted into his ears.
Ironically, the single was the first the retired baker bought when he was a teenager in 1965. Carter, from Stoke, England, was given just a 30 per cent survival rate by doctors, who advised his wife Eva to play his favourite track through headphones strapped to her husband's head.
Carter says, "I suddenly had a burst of energy and knew I had a lot more life left in me and that's...
Abbeyrd Beatles Page reports: Chips Chipperfield, who produced the Beatles Anthology has died after a heart attack suffered Tuesday in Ireland, reports musicweek.com. He was 65.
Chips won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for the Anthology project, and also produced documentaries on Paul McCartney ("Liverpool Oratorio" from PBS' "Great Performances", "Put It There"), Jimi Hendrix ("Hendrix: Band of Gypsies"), the Pet Shop Boys, Elizabeth Taylor and The Who.
The Beatles issued the following statement on their website: Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Chips Chipperfield, who has sadly passed away. Chips was the Grammy award winning producer of the Beatles Anthology, and a long serving member of the Apple Corps family. Warm, wise and kind, he was loved and respected by all those who worked with him. His youthful spirit and enthusiasm for life will continue to be an inspiration to all those who knew him. He will be dearly missed by all of us.
Bob Smeaton, who was co-director of the Beatles Anthology sent Abbeyrd Beatles Page an exclusive statement,
PR reports: Beginning NOW (through 8/25/08), HATEBREED will be doing something they've never done before. For the next 7 days, the band will be giving away 4 FREE Mp3's taken from their forthcoming DVD release, Live Dominance (in-stores Tuesday, September 2nd). Each live track is straight off the DVD and was recorded/produced and mixed by Grammy Award winner, Josh Wilbur.
The tracks are as follows: "This Is Now" "Destroy Everything" "I Will Be Heard" "Live For This" All 4 tracks are now posted on the band's official MySpace page and also on their official website (www.hatebreed.com).
The tracks will be available until 8/25/08, after which the EP will be made available on iTunes for purchase. Enjoy and remember to play them loud!
antiMusic reports: Who hasn't misheard a song lyrics. We thought it might be fun to feature some favorites here for you to enjoy.
Today's misheard lyric is to Metallica's "(Welcome Home) Sanitarium" and the line "Welcome to where time stands still." That lyric has been misheard as "Welcome to where mimes are killed."
Bonus lyric: Metallica's "Creeping Death" and the line "So let it be written, So let it be done." That lyric has been misheard as "So let the retards, Get in your car."
If you have a misheard lyric we'd love to hear from you. See the contact link at the bottom of the page for how to get a hold of us to tell us about your favorites. If you want to check out more misheard Metallica song lyrics like this one you can go
PR reports: Senses Fail posted their new single, "Family Tradition," on MySpace today. The track is from the New Jersey-based quintet's forthcoming full-length, Life Is Not A Waiting Room (10/7, Vagrant).
"Family Tradition" will be available at all digital retailers on August 26. ITunes will be offering an exclusive bundle featuring "Family Tradition," "Wolves At The Door" (which is currently featured on the best-selling Madden NFL '09 game soundtrack), "Life Is Not A Waiting Room" (a brand new b-side), plus a fourth track that features snippets of all the songs on the new album.
"Family Tradition" is named after a Hank Williams, Jr., song," said singer James "Buddy" Nielsen. "I find myself at times doing things to live up to other peoples expectations or cutting myself down because I assume that will make me look more humble to the world, so this song is one part a reaction to that and also about following the footsteps of a family member you don't really know but who has had a huge influence on you."
- Go forth and listen
antiMusic reports: Ludo will be checking in with us all summer as they rock the Warped tour in support of their Island Def Jam CD "You're Awful, I Love You". Here is the band with today's entry:
After crossing the border, spending a day in Helena, Montana, sleeping to Idaho, counting in the shipment of merch, setting up the tent, loading gear off the truck, and wiping the remaining Calgarian dust from everything we owned, we hung out at the Idaho Warped Tour for a spell. It was hot. Hot as hell. I think it got up to 105 degrees.
We had lunch, did some interviews at 2:00, then hung out for awhile before our show. Loaded in, greeted Oreskaband at the stage, loaded on, and then battled through a painfully, horrendously hot set. The horn players for Epic were, well, epic though, and the set went over like gangbusters. It was too hot though. So we all sang Jingle Bells to cool off. It didn't work, but it sounded nice. Ran to merch, did a signing, grabbed showers, talked about fall touring, and then slept our way over into Washington state. Good show, Boise!!!
Find out where you can see them, preview tracks from their new CD and learn more about Ludo here.
