KISS Star Goes Vegas?

BW*BK reports: Is PAUL STANLEY, the vocalist for KISS, about to become The Phantom of Las Vegas?

That's the rumor. Stanley, who twice starred as The Phantom in the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera in 1999, is in talks with Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular, sources say.

Stanley, 56, is having a penthouse suite built atop Palms Place near suites owned by pop singer Jessica Simpson and pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan. - more on this story

Three Days Grace Eye Live DVD

FMQB reports: Rockers Three Days Grace are planning to film their live show before wrapping up touring in support of 2006's One-X.

A full film crew will come out on the road some time in March to capture footage of the quartet while they're on tour with Breaking Benjamin and Seether, and the footage will most likely end up on a live DVD.

Guitarist Barry Stock tells Billboard.com that for the taping, "We may do some acoustic stuff as well. People ask us all the time about doing acoustic stuff. They love when we go into radio stations and break it down." - But what about that new studio album? Find out here

Panic at the Disco the Emo Beatles?

Xfm reports: Panic at the Disco (minus the !) release their second album next month and they've been telling Xfm its sound is being compared to The Beatles.

During their massive tour of Europe, the UK and America Panic At The Disco vocalist Brendon Urie took time out to speak to Xfm telling us:

"You don't know if they're comparing you in a good way to The Beatles, or if they are trying to accuse you of ripping off something." [The Monkees maybe, but not the Beatles] - more on this story

Nevermore Solo CD Gets US Release

Apesh*t reports: After much anticipation, the stunning, inaugural solo effort from NEVERMORE vocalist Warrel Dane will finally see a North American release on May 13th. With this effort one of metal's most defining and revolutionary vocalists further hones his craft to perfection.

Before beginning this new venture Dane went out and surrounded himself with some of the best musicians that he could find. This search ultimately resulted in landing the renowned Peter Wichers (ex-SOILWORK) on guitars and bass, Dirk Verbeuren (SOILWORK) on drums and Matt Wicklund (ex-HIMSA) on guitars. The effort was also recorded and mixed by Wichers (co-producer SOILWORK).

Dane further comments as to how this solo effort came about: "Right around the time NEVERMORE was recording This Godless Endeavour I started talking to Peter Wichers about maybe doing something together. I think we both wanted to do something different and that's ultimately what got the ball rolling. - more on this story

Silly News: Idol Poser Exposed

TMZ reports: After once being linked to Britney Spears, "American Idol" contestant Robbie Carrico picked up one of the popwreck's habits -- a love for wigs!

TMZ has learned the 26-year-old long-haired wannabe's mane is actually a wig and it's got "Idol" staffers flipping out.

Sources tell us Robbie never talks about his matted down piece and that makes production members feel like it's the blonde elephant in the room. It seems Simon was right last night -- Robbie is a fake! - more on this story

The Clash: Live Revolution Rock Teaser

PR reports: THE CLASH LIVE: REVOLUTION ROCK is an exciting new documentary film directed by long-time Clash collaborator and Grammy-winning producer Don Letts (Westway To The World) that chronicles the electric live performances of one of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK.

The film follows the live transformation of the band, incorporating footage from all phases of the Clash's meteoric career, beginning with live-in-the-studio clips and climaxing with a blow-out performance at New York's Shea Stadium in 1982. With rare and previously unreleased footage from all over the world, this film documents the history of the band by showcasing their incredible live performances, and will be a draw for both the new fan and their established passionate followers.

PBS will be airing an edited version of the DVD as a Pledge Drive Program in March, with the DVD hitting stores on April 15. Be sure to check www.theclashonline.com for PBS air times in your market. - check out The Clash: Live Revolution Rock Teaser

Gloria Gaynor Has Survived 30 Years

PR reports: After 30 years of its release, Gloria Gaynor continues to ride the success of "I Will Survive," touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows. A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Diana Ross, Chantay Savage, rock group Cake and others as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all Soft AC and Rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream.

Now in 2008, Gloria celebrates the 30th Anniversary of her Grammy Award winning song. The lyrics of this song are written from the point of view of a woman, recently dumped, telling her former lover that she can cope without him and does not want anything more to do with him. The song has become something of an anthem of female emancipation, and is still a staple of office parties and karaoke nights.

This past weekend you may have seen Gloria Gaynor appear on The Food Network as part of Paula's Party where she and Paula Deen cooked up some Chicken ala Gaynor!! Tomorrow, February 27th Gloria will appear on the nationally syndicated talk show Better TV and in the coming weeks she will make an appearance on Fox's highly-rated Don't Forget The Lyrics with host Wayne Brady as well as Showtime at the Apollo. -

Blind Melon Preview

antiMusic reports: Blind Melon have released a new online preview from their forthcoming album. Before we get to the link here is some info on the return on the band, their new CD and tour: In recent years, the tale of Blind Melon has taken a dramatic turn – from an abrupt and tragic end, to a rebirth and reconnection with their legion of fans. No matter how you slice it, the group was responsible for some of the most memorable and pure-sounding rock music of the '90s.

And with their reformation in 2007 with singer Travis Warren, Blind Melon are poised to pick up exactly where they left off a decade earlier – as evidenced by their forthcoming CD entitled For My Friends set for release on April 22, 2008.

On February 28th Blind Melon are set to embark on a five month U.S. tour, a continuation of what they built in the 90's and the beginning of what they are building for the future. "We couldn't have planned this and we certainly couldn't have forced this. It was meant to be and it was meant to be now," commented bassist Brad Smith. Guitarist Christopher Thorn adds, "We weren't waiting around for Travis to show up in our lives. But when we met Travis, we just knew Blind Melon had to reform and be a band again. We feel so lucky to have this second chance, this new beginning." - Check out the song "Wishing Well"

Little Steven Loves Garage Women

PR reports: Run for your lives! It's Volume 5 of 'Little Steven's Underground Garage Presents The Coolest Songs In The World!' (Wicked Cool, May 27th) as Little Steven spotlights the women of Garage Rock (The Dollyrots, The Pipettes, The Launderettes, and Hell on Heels).

Also included are gems from Cheap Trick, The Raconteurs, and Sweden's Hellacopters.

Little Steven says, "The difference between Contemporary Garage Rock and Rock in the past is, once upon a time, girl Rock musicians were either freaks to be tolerated or looked at as gimmicks. Garage rockers today expect to see female musicians and accept and embrace Girl Groups as equals." - tracklisting

Limp DVD

antiMusic reports: For the few remaining Limp Bizkit diehards, MVD will be releasing a new live DVD on May 13th. Here is what they have to say about this earth shattering release: This DVD captures - in two versions, Original and Remix - Limp Bizkit's performance at Germany's biggest and most prestigious rock event, held annually in Nuremberg, the famous Rock In The Park Festival in June of 2001, when they were pretty much at the height of their popularity.

In this blinding set the band performed all their classic numbers and featured four of their Top Twenty hit singles, including Take A Look Around, the theme song to the blockbuster movie Mission Impossible 2, My Way and the chart-topping Rollin'.

Since introducing their ground-breaking Nu Metal sound to the burgeoning rap-metal scene in the late Nineties, Limp Bizkit have sold over 33 million albums around the world. This intense footage shows them at the absolute top of their game. Bonus Materials: Interview with D.J. Lethal of Limp Bizkit Concert Remix Version - more on this story

Dictators Scott Kempner Solo CD Coming

PR reports: Scott Kempner (Ex-Dictators, Del-Lords) finishes first solo album in 16 years. The album called 'Saving Grace,' due June 10 on 00:02:59 Records, features Dion, Frank Funaro (Del-Lords), Mike Mesaros (Smithereens), Ed Greene and Bob Babbitt (Motown) and Ed Pettersen

"This is a rock 'n 'roll album . . . if that means anything to anyone anymore," says Scott Kempner of his forthcoming album Saving Grace (00:02:59 Records, street date June 10, 2008). "It sure as hell means something to me!" Kempner's rock 'n' roll career dates back 30 years to his stint as co-founder of The Dictators (when he was known as "Top 10") and later the Del-Lords, who in turn inspired the comeback of Dion, with whom Kempner recorded as the Little Kings. That's a lot to look back on — and Kempner can reminisce with the best of 'em — but he is squarely focused on the present and the future. - more on this story

Black Francis Mini Album Coming

HER reports: Directly from Black Francis himself: Cooking Vinyl has agreed to release my latest session (thank you CV!), which I have called SVN FNGRS, on March 4, 2008 [in the U.S.]. It was written, recorded and mixed in six days, and on the seventh day, Mark Lemhouse did artwork. T

he band for the session was myself, of course, on guitar, vocals and harmonica, Jason Carter on drums, and Violet Clark on bass. The session was produced by Jason Carter. There are seven (7) songs clocking in at 20 minutes and so I suppose it qualifies as a mini-LP under the old formats. No one seems to know or care what the current format models are (a very weakened LP on compact disc continues to rule the roost by default), which is WONDERFUL; so let's just call it music and pay whatever price your Google research turns up. If you want it for free, you can usually find some tracks for free download on my Myspace page or on my own blackfrancis.net.

The production is sparse in terms of the band, which, by the way, seems to be a kind of 'Black Francis' thing that has been developing ever since I went back to the old stage name, but is much more produced in terms of the vocal layering of my own voice, perhaps along the lines of TEENAGER OF THE YEAR. I won't bother you here with what the damn concept is, but let's just say the theme revolves around a lot of NASTY sex, NASTIER death, and beautifully strange birth. - more on this story

Win An Emo Eco Car

PR reports: The Honda Civic Tour is giving music lovers a shot at the ride of their lives by offering them a chance to win a Honda Civic Hybrid designed and autographed by the members of Honda Civic Tour '08 headlining act Panic At The Disco. Beginning Feb. 28 fans can enter to win this one-of-a-kind green machine by logging on to www.hondacivictour.com. Concertgoers will be able to see the car for themselves, and register to win it via an electronic kiosk at each stop of the nationwide tour, which kicks off April 10 in San Francisco.

"Not every band gets the opportunity to customize their own car," notes PATD guitarist Ryan Ross, "which is just one of the reasons the Honda Civic Tour is so cool. We spent a lot of time on the design to make sure it was something our fans would be truly excited about. And this particular car is a hybrid, so you really can't go wrong there."

Panic At The Disco will offer a preview of Honda Civic Tour ?08 when they perform on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" March 25 to coincide with the release that day of their new album, Pretty. Odd. The tour has racked up sold-out shows in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Orlando, with second dates added in those cities. In addition to these locales, PATD and Honda Civic Tour mates Motion City Soundtrack, The Hush Sound and Phantom Planet can be seen in East Rutherford, N.J., on May 4 as part of the Bamboozle music festival. Also appearing at Bamboozle: that highly coveted PATD-designed Civic Hybrid. - more on this story

Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy!

PR reports: Misheard musical lyrics are a near universal experience in pop culture, as everyone has at least one, if not many, hilarious misheard lyric stories. Radio station personalities have joked about them for years, cell phone commercials have parodied them and there are TV shows dedicated to the phenomenon. And now, there is even a social web destination as KissThisGuy.com, the world's largest interactive database of misheard lyrics with more than 100,000 submissions, goes version 2.0.

What Digg and Reddit do for news, Flickr does for pictures and Facebook and MySpace do for networking, KissThisGuy.com will do for misheard lyrics and music parody. An already popular web 1.0 destination and the top spot in Google for the phrase "misheard lyrics," KissThisGuy.com is getting a facelift to attract new misheard lyric and music aficionados and create a tighter-knit community around the comedy and uplifting experience of misheard lyrics and music parody. It is becoming the site to go to for a side-splitting laugh and soon will be the place for so much more.

The new version of the site features a personal profile for submitters of misheard lyrics, intuitive lyric sorting options, popularity listings of misheard lyrics in many categories such as; this week's most popular, most popular of the year; by country and many others, great new rating features and other options users have requested. Users will soon be able to showcase their personal or favorite submissions on their social network pages or blog. And this is just the beginning. Exciting new features will be rolled-out in several phases during 2008 as the company begins to expand its reach and gain the interest of millions of new visitors and members. - go sing along here

You Can't Always Get What You Want But You Can Get The Soulwax Remix

PR reports: ABKCO Records' release of the Rolling Stones' classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix)," as featured in Columbia Pictures' 21, launched last week at iTunes. While the track continues to be available from iTunes, it is now being offered by Amazon, Napster, Snocap, Rhapsody, etc.

"You Can't Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix)," is also available as a downloadable mastertone and video ringer -- using footage from the film – through all mobile providers. The single has already begun to make inroads across a number of radio formats including Modern Rock, Rock, Classic Rock, College, Dance/Electronica and on non-commercial specialty programs.

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" was remixed by Soulwax, brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, under ABKCO's guidance at their studio in Ghent, Belgium. Recently they achieved notable success with their remix of David Bowie's classic "Rebel, Rebel." They blazed a trail in the dance/electronica and pop fields with their work with such artists as LCD Soundsystem, Robbie Williams, Gorillaz, Daft Punk, and Einstürzende Neubauten. Soulwax are best known for their influential contributions to the pop genre under the names Flying Dewaele Brothers and 2 Many DJ's, as well as their landmark record As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt 2. The brothers have also released several major albums under the Soulwax name; their 2004 album Any Minute Now yielded three hit singles. - more on this story

.... The BoDeans - Still

Overall, this album, produced by T-Bone Burnett is just a clinic in good songwriting. The lyrics and the music are all incredibly well done. If you enjoy well-crafted, complex, and catchy Americana music, you should dig this one. (4.5 stars) - Read the full The BoDeans - Still review

.... Hearse - In These Veins

Hearse's In These Veins thankfully depends on a healthy brew of powerful savagery, hooking licks, and prismatic singularity for a fun record filled with nifty rock-laden death metal played at enjoyable limits. - Read the full Hearse - In These Veins review

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