Earshot Week: Day 2

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Each Dead Fan Worth 10K To Great White

antiMusic reports: Great White is trying to settle the lawsuits they face over the deadly Station Nightclub fire and in the process have put a price on the lives of the fans that died in the blaze: $10,000.

E! has more details: The "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"-dispensing '80s hard-rock band will pay $1 million to settle lawsuits resulting from the deadly 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that took the lives of 100 people, including the group's own guitarist, Ty Longley.

Federal court documents released Tuesday revealed Great White made the offer to survivors and family members of victims to settle its role in the inferno at the Station. The blaze was touched off when stage pyrotechnics ignited flammable soundproofing foam. - more on this story

Metallica CD Leaks As They Premiere New Video

Blabbermouth reports: Metallica have just premiered the video for their single "The Day That Never Comes" on their MySpace page. The epic clip was directed by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg and filmed this past July in southern California.

On working with the acclaimed filmmaker, Hetfield explained to MTV.com, "That's the beauty, I think, of writing vague but powerful lyrics — that someone like a movie director can interpret it in his own way and obviously, someone creative is able to take the metaphors and apply them to whatever he needs in his own life." Go Watch The Video

The band have also just unveiled another song from their upcoming album Death Magnetic. The hard-charging track, "Cyanide" is now available for sale on iTunes.

The leak: Seems some diehard fans got their hands on the album early and it's all good with Lars. Blabbermouth has a little on that: Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has commented on the premature release of the band's new album, "Death Magnetic", via a French record store. A shop in Paris reportedly sold a number of copies of the CD this morning well ahead of its official September 12 worldwide release date with illegal "Death Magnetic" MP3 files making their way online by this afternoon.

During a guest appearance earlier today on "The Woody Show" on the San Francisco, California radio station Live 105 (KITS 105.3 FM), Ulrich stated about the French leak, "Listen, we're ten days from release. I mean, from here, we're golden. If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. Happy days. Trust me. Ten days out and it hasn't quote-unquote fallen off the truck yet? Everybody's happy. It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days, so it's fine. We're happy." - Watch video of that chat at Blabbermouth

Solo Temple Pilot, Ne-Yo 700K Richer For Upstaging R.Kelly, Coldplay Up For Meaningless Awards, Smashing Game, Sex Pistols DVD and more

antiMusic reports: Scott Weiland's second solo album, "Happy," will arrive Nov. 18 via his own Softdrive label. The set was co-produced by Weiland and Doug Grean, with Steve Albini also engineering a handful of songs. more

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a concert promoter to pay R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo $700,000 stemming from A lawsuit filed earlier this year. Ne-Yo was dropped from R. Kelly's tour last year after two shows. He claimed he was dropped because he had upstaged Kelly. more

Coldplay lead the nominations for this year's Q magazine awards with four nods, it has been announced. The band are up for awards including best album and best act in the world today. Who picks these things?more

The Smashing Pumpkins will release their new single, "G.L.O.W.," via the upcoming "Guitar Hero: World Tour" videogame. The song will be part of a downloadable song pack.

The 2008 Hero Awards, which honors ordinary people who do extraordinary things, will be hosted by Dean Cain and air on My Network TV at 8 PM on September 11th. The Hero Awards banquet and event benefit Feed The Children. The event will feature appearances by close to 100 film and television stars as well as several musical performances. American Idol runner up Bo Bice will perform an acoustic version of "I'm Gone," from his latest album See the Light. www.heroawards.org

In the "you can't handle that on strong acid" department, Porcupine Tree's "Gavin Harrison will be performing a 50 minute solo set at the prestigious Modern Drummer Festival more

Metallica will play an intimate show exclusively for BBC Radio 1 on Sunday, September 14. The show, which will be held at the BBC Radio Theatre, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 1 the following day more

Rhino has secured U.S. rights to the Sex Pistols live DVD "There'll Always Be An England" and will release it Oct. 14, Billboard has learned. "England" features the pioneering punk outfit's original lineup of Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock performing at November 2007 reunion shows more

Morrissey has split with artist management firm ie: music after just three months. An ie: music spokesman confirmed that it had parted company with the ex-Smiths frontman, but declined to give any details. more

Wikipedia is an undeniably helpful resource for researching bands, with data that tends to be updated in near real time. Amazon hopes the same sort of thing will happen on its new SoundUnwound site, which borrows a page from Wikipedia's playbook by allowing users to edit information about any band, label, album or song. more

Black Label Society will soon be heading across the sea for a European tour. More shows are expected to be announced shortly but the initial dates are listed here

Orange Goblin are very proud to announce a new era for the band with the signing to world renowned metal label, Candlelight Records. The band has already started writing new material for a release in 2009. more

A spokesperson for Rush has contacted ClassicRock.com to deny web reports that the band are quitting Atlantic Records for the independent Canadian company Rounder. In fact, "Rush are still contracted to Atlantic for one more album. more

According to Black-sabbath.com, the four Dio-era Black Sabbath albums that constituted the Rules Of Hell box set (released on July 22) are being re-released individually. more

Black Light Burns mainman/ex-Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland has issued the following update: "The new record is about 90% finished. Nick [Annis, BLB guitarist] and I are doing some final guitar tracks tomorrow and then we'll polish the mixes. more

German thrash legends Kreator will release a new studio album, likely to be titled "Hordes Of Chaos", via SPV Records in January - more

Motorhead and The Misfits Team For Fall Tour

PR reports: Once again the living dead shall rise...the Misfits are on tour! On the heels of a highly anticipated Latin American run, the legendary punk band will join Motorhead for the "Volcom 2008" all ages tour which also features Airbourne, Valient Thorr, and Year Long Disaster.

This is the first time that the Misfits and Motorhead will perform together in the United States. "We are excited to be hitting the road with Motorhead and cracking skulls together! American audiences have never witnessed destruction on this magnitude," says Misfits founder and frontman, Jerry Only. - more on this story

Jerry Reed RIP

AP reports: Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71.

His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed, no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday. "He's one of the greatest entertainers in the world. That's the way I feel about him," Moore-Reed said.

As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, Reed had a string of hits that included "Amos Moses," "When You're Hot, You're Hot," "East Bound and Down," "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)" and "The Bird." - more on this story

Rare Early Bowie Recording Up For Auction

NME reports: A rare David Bowie recording went up for auction on Tuesday and is available to hear online.

The track, called 'Mocking Bird', is a rare recording of Bowie's first band The Konrads, and is available to listen to online now at Last.fm.

The audio clip is part of a collection of over 5,000 Joe Meek recordings which are expected to go for about £300,000 - more on this story

It's Going To Be A Stereophonics Fall

PR reports: This fall, the Stereophonics will return in a huge way to make their mark on U.S. audiences. The band's first ever Greatest Hits album titled: Decade In The Sun: The Best Of Stereophonics will be released on November 18th and will contain twenty of the band's biggest hits.

Prior to the arrival of Decade In The Sun, Stereophonics will release their latest album, Pull The Pin, here in the U.S on September 9th while launching their first U.S. tour in three years four days earlier on September 5th in Boston.

Pull The Pin, their first new release in America since 2005, is the band's sixth studio album. Written by Kelly Jones and featuring the impressive lead single "It Means Nothing" the album combines the band's rockiest and most melodic aspects in one blazing LP that comes out fighting on all fronts. A 12-track tour de force, it has already been called one of the definitive albums of their incredible decade plus career.

With the collapse of their US record company V2 America in 2006, Stereophonics and Universal Music Group are re-releasing their entire studio back catalogue on the band's imprint Vox Populi via Fontana/Universal this fall. - more on this story

Rodrigo y Gabriela Live In Your Living Room

PR reports: Acoustic rock duo Rodrigo y Gabriela will release a new live album 'Live In Japan' with a bonus live DVD on October 28, 2008.

The album captures Rod & Gab making their live Japanese debut, at Tokyo's Duo club on March 30th this year. The show had been sold out for weeks; such was the level of anticipation from their Far East fanbase. 'Live In Japan' mixes tracks from Rodrigo y Gabriela's acclaimed, self-titled debut album with older live favorites, and also includes a new track - 'OK Tokyo' as well as Rod & Gab's legendary solo jams recorded for the first time. The album is being released as limited edition by ATO Records.

The album package also includes a five track bonus DVD of highlights from the concert, mixed in 5:1 surround sound; which is sure to be in demand with Rodrigo y Gabriela's fret-fanatic following. - more on this story

See The Decemberists This November

PR reports: The Decemberists will embark on the "Bridesmaid Revisited - Tour 2008" shortly after an election eve performance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

General ticket on-sales begin on Saturday, September 6th, for East Coast dates and on Saturday, September 13th, for West Coast dates. Portland-based band Loch Lomond will open on the tour.

Always compelling live, this time round the band's shows will include material from its upcoming Always The Bridesmaid: A Singles Series, which will be released this fall. Volume I, comprised of "Valerie Plame" and "O New England," is due out October 14th; Volumes II and III will follow on November 4th and December 2nd respectively. The series will be available digitally at DSPs, released by Capitol Records, and on 12" vinyl via The Decemberists' own label, Y.A.B.B. Records/Jealous Butcher Records. - more on this story

Les Paul To Receive Crock Hall Honor

NME reports: Les Paul is set to be honoured by the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame at the 13th Annual American Music Masters series in Cleveland, OH this November.

An event entitled 'Rock and Roll Retrospective: the Les Paul Phenomenon' will be held at Case Western Reserve University during the week-long event, with a tribute concert taking place on November 15.

Les Paul is famous for his inventions and musicianship, having performed alongside Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Mick Jagger and Tony Bennett. - more on this story

Head Beach Boy Benefits Surfrider Foundation

PR reports: The Surfrider Foundation has been named as the beneficiary for the Brian Wilson and eBay Giving Works charitable auction, which will begin on Tuesday, September 2 at 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST and end on Friday, September 12 at 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST.

The Brian Wilson and eBay Giving Works auction will feature spectacular and unique items that tie in with Wilson's new album, That Lucky Old Sun, released today by Capitol/EMI. Bidders go to will have a chance to win a custom That Luck Old Sun surfboard, designed under Wilson's creative direction and shaped by legendary surfboard shaper Robert August, and Wilson's handwritten lyrics to "Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl," from That Lucky Old Sun. All items for auction can be found at www.ebay.com/brianwilson.

"We are honored that Brian Wilson chose the Surfrider Foundation to benefit from the auction," says Matt McClain, Surfrider Foundation's Director of Marketing. "Wilson is a legendary musician whose songs reflect our passion for the ocean and stoke of our mission." - more on this story

Bad Brains Go to Washington

antiMusic reports: Do we need to spell out that D.C. is filled to the brim with bad brains? Now the punk band of the same name are returning to their hometown to perform for the first time in 20 years since they was banned there.

Here is the official PR announcement: Bad Brains' history with hometown Washington D.C. has been well documented. In 2008, the band returns to their hometown after many years away from Washington D.C. for a historic Election Night show at the 9:30 Club.

The first proper Bad Brains studio album in over a decade, Build A Nation, was released to critical acclaim on Megaforce/Oscilloscope Records. The album features all the original members of the group: HR, Darryl Jenifer, Dr. Know and Earl Hudson. - dates

Triple Threat Against Cancer

PR reports: With the "Triple Threat Tour" still going strong, the members of Little Texas and Restless Heart are joining Henry Paul and Blackhawk in raising funds to benefit the Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research Fund (the V.S.M.C.R.F.) with a "Triple Threat Dinner & Auction" in Spokane, Washington, September 21, 2008.

The charity was formed to honor the last wishes of founding BLACKHAWK member Van Stephenson after he lost his battle with Melanoma Cancer in 2001. For the last few years, BlackHawk has raised money in various ways, including several Vsmcrf Dinner & Auctions, where the fans are invited to have dinner with the band members before a concert and bid on special band auction items. Members of all three bands will be attending the dinner in Spokane and are donating band memorabilia for the auction.

According to Henry Paul, "This year, Van's charity was dealt a small setback. With Dave Robbins departure from the band, a significant effort was put into reforming the group so that Blackhawk could go forward. This pushed our charity effort back a spot, but with the group back in full swing an ALL OUT effort is being waged this fall to reach our annual goal. - more on this story

Misheard Lyrics of the Day: Bon Jovi

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 Bon Jovi's "Living On A Prayer" chorus. That lyric has been misheard as "Oh.. We're Half Way There.. Oh..oh.. Living Off My Hair."

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 song lyrics like this one you can go - here

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