Brian Head Welch (ex-Korn) Week: Final Day

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Kanye Arrest Video

antiMusic reports: TMZ sent over this story of the Kanye West arrest over his run-in with Stalkerazzis: Erik, our cameraman, is on his way back to our offices now, after being interviewed by LAX Police. Here's what happened that led to Kanye West's vandalism arrest at LAX. Erik says he was at Terminal 4 (American Airlines) when he noticed a still photog taking several pictures of Kanye West. Erik says West rushed the photog and grabbed his camera. A struggle ensued and the still guy was screaming, "Police, help!" Erik says Kanye then took the still camera and threw it on the ground, breaking it into pieces.

Erik then went over to Kanye, his camera rolling, when Kanye's body guard walked up to him, realized Erik was taping, and said, "Give me the camera, give me the camera." Erik responded that he had a press pass and had a right to shoot. The assistant then grabbed the camera, ripped off the mic and viewfinder and smashed it to the ground.

Erik says Kanye then tried to leave to board his plane, but cops stopped him before he got to security. The cops then interviewed Erik, the still photog, Kanye and his assistant.. This is where it gets crazy. The cops asked Erik if he videotaped the incident and Erik said he had. That's when Kanye lunged toward him and said, "Give me the fu***ng videotape." Cops had to restrain Kanye as he tried coming at Erik. - Wanna see the video?

Slipknot Bashes Labels, Current Music Scene

antiMusic reports: Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor ripped into record labels and places the blame squarely on the suits, not the fans, for the downfall of the music biz.

"Why would you blame (people who download music)? Half the f**king albums that are out there are sh*t," Taylor told Kerrang!". I don't download, but at the same time, I don't buy new music 'cause it all sucks. Okay, there's a handful of bands that I buy, but other than that, I just buy old sh*t because old sh*t is good.

"People wanna blame the decline of album sales on downloading, I think it's actually the record companies' fault," he added. "I think it's the quality of the product. If record companies would stop giving any f**king mook on the street with a fringe a record deal or their own record label, maybe you would sell more f**king albums, dipsh*ts." Tell us how you really feel! Maybe he was looking at the Roadrunner roster? - Kerrang! article.

AC/DC Announces Black Ice World Tour

PR reports: AC/DC's widely-anticipated Black Ice World Tour will open on October 28th at the Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The show kicks off a series of US arena shows, to be followed by a round of stadium dates next summer.

Tickets for upcoming US dates will go on sale the weekend of September 20th at Ticketmaster and the band's website, www.acdc.com. Additional appearances throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, will be announced shortly. - dates

Linkin Park Singer Goes Solo, Oasis Terminal Show Plans, Radiohead Ballet, Rush Hashanah, Solo Garbage, DMX Extradited and more

antiMusic reports: Since 2005, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington has been amassing a group of songs that he knew didn't fit for his main band, but could make a great side project. Finally, with Linkin Park having some time off, Bennington is finishing up that collection and he will release it in 2009 before a new LP album comes out. more

As a result of the incident on Oasis' Canadian tour, when Noel was attacked by a stage invader Oasis, are now being forced to announce that Friday night's show at Terminal 5, New York cannot go ahead as planned. Noel fell heavily on to his monitor speakers when he was pushed suddenly from behind by his attacker and suffered bruising to his ribs and hip. Unfortunately, he still has not recovered from his injuries and so he will not be able to perform

'Ride The Beast', the ballet choreographed to the music of Radiohead, is set to make its London debut later this year. The show, put on by the Scottish Ballet , uses a number of the band's songs, drawn mainly from their experimental album 'Kid A'. more

From sunset to sunrise on Monday, September 29 rock band Rush will celebrate the Jewish New Year, during Rush Hashanah on VH1 Classic. The 24-hour tribute to Rush will include two of the band's concerts including Rush In Rio and R30 as well as past and present videos from band.

Prince's 2007 run of 21 shows at London's 02 Arena is chronicled in the appropriately named coffee table photo book "21 Nights," due Sept. 30 via Atria Books. Ah but a CD is on the offering here as well. more

Rapper DMX is now in custody in a Phoenix jail on theft charges, Maricopa County Sheriff's officials said Thursday. more

Visceral Bleeding have issued the following update: "Due to Martin "Germ" Bermheden's busy schedule with THE Berzerker, we've decided to part ways. more

Live Nation has cut a deal with Philadelphia-based facility operator SMG for venues across North America that will provide a big boost to the launch of its ticketing service at third-party venues. So you may soon have the honor of being over charged excessive add-on fees by Live Nation instead of Ticketmaster. Happy, happy, joy, joy!more on the deal.

The opening of a museum dedicated to Swedish pop group ABBA has been delayed. The initial target for the opening was June 2009, but project co-founder Ulf Westman said Thursday the renovation of the building will take longer than expected more

Scar Symmetry (Nuclear Blast Records) has announced the departure of singer, Christian Alvestam. The group has issued the following: "A few months ago we decided to part ways with Christian. The reasons are mainly the clichéd 'business and creative differences' and lack of interpersonal chemistry." more

Liskfest, scheduled to take place on October 11th in Irvine, California, has been cancelled due to lack of interest. more

Brian Wilson will be honored by the Los Angeles City Council at a City Hall ceremony today. The former Beach Boy is being recognized for his musical contributions to the city he calls home more

The Urgency are heading out on the road this fall with Innerpartysystem and A Cursive Memory and right now they are offering up a free ringtone to fans. All you gotta do is text "theurgency" to 66937 for a free ringtone of their track "Fingertips".

Yahoo Inc plans to open its online music site to feature information about songs and artists from outside services such as Apple Inc iTunes or Amazon.com, an executive said on Thursday. more

Garbage's Shirley Manson will return to the recording studio next month to lay down solo material she's been working on for the past several months. Manson is now part of the cast of Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," but doesn't anticipate the role getting in the way of her music career. more

Today is the day that all the Metallica fans have been waiting for! Death Magnetic hits stores. And as promised we have the second part of our two part-part Tag Team review. Today Tony K tells us why he feels the band has been reinvigorated and made their best album in years! - Read it here

I Hate New Music

antiMusic reports: "I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto" is the new book by Dave Thompson. His PR sent over some info on it (it's set to hit stores sometime in November). Here is the 411 on why you should be on the look out: If the title alone doesn't polarize a roomful of music critics than nothing will. Celebrate a time when Foreigner, Frampton, and Foghat fought for total chart dominance. When Iggy Pop's ode to smack wasn't being used to peddle cruise ship vacations. When the James Gang and Humble Pie ruled the FM airwaves, and Asia was still just a place where Led Zeppelin bootlegs of dubious quality and legality originated.

Whichever side of the rock divide you fall on—if you favor Motörhead or Radiöhead—Thompson's highly-opinionated yet tongue-firmly-in-cheek manifesto is an essential read that will have you questioning why Thin Lizzy, Steve Miller, and Iron Maiden's Eddie have been grossly ignored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame election board while R.E.M. gets a free pass. [that's easy: it's because Yawn is a Weiner]

After authoring over 100 books on music, film and pop culture as well as countless articles critiquing bands both old and new, author Dave Thompson finally takes the gloves off and speaks out against the evils of post-70s rock. Over the course of 250 pages Thompson rails against the very forces that are killing rock'n'roll from the inside out—from the Mars Volta's pseudo-prog excess to Kelly Clarkson's shrill wail—and neither underground cult heroes nor top-tier sacred cows are spared. - more on this story

Oasis Taking Over NYC

PR reports: NYC & Company, New York City's marketing, tourism and partnership organization today announced a partnership with Warner Bros. Records for the launch of the new album "Dig Out Your Soul" by British band Oasis, in stores October 7, 2008.

The launch will see Oasis use the streets of New York City as the stage to premier their new music. Entitled "Dig Out Your Soul in the Streets," the launch which will be captured in a documentary created by NYC & Company's creative agency of record, Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) New York, will take place on Friday, September 12, 2008 beginning at 10am with an intimate rehearsal session where their new songs "The Turning," "Bag it Up" and "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady," along with new single "The Shock of the Lightning" will be taught to an eclectic group of more than 30 New York City street musicians from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Music Under New York Program. That same afternoon, the street musicians will take to the City streets to perform three unreleased Oasis songs publicly for the first time.

"We are excited that Oasis has chosen to not only launch their album in New York City, but also to enlist the help of our talented and diverse street musicians," said George Fertitta, CEO, NYC & Company. "Considering the fact that some of the most internationally-celebrated musical performers of this Century have had their start right here on our streets, there could not be a more fitting place for this to happen than New York City, and we encourage New Yorkers and visitors alike to take the opportunity to see these unreleased songs performed for the fist time on our City streets." - more on this story

Relient K Fall Tour and Christmas Songs

PR reports: Relient K announces the 25-date "Uncle Fest Tour," which will launch October 2nd in Madison, WI and conclude November 2nd in Chicago, IL. Relient K will headline with Ludo, This Providence and House of Heroes opening.

In between tours, the band is recording three new tracks - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Silver Bells" and "Oh Holy Night" - for the October 7th reissue of its 2007 Christmas collection, Let It Snow Baby...Let It Reindeer. (CDs will come with a card enabling fans to download the additional songs for free.)

"We took a quick breather after Warped Tour, and now we're headed back to Nashville to track a couple of Christmas songs and rehearse for the upcoming Uncle Fest Tour," says Matt Thiessen, Relient K's lead singer-guitarist-pianist, who was featured on the cover of Alternative Press' August issue. "We're excited to hit the road and get back to some of our favorite clubs and theaters." - more on this story

Slightly Stoopid North America

HER reports: Four-dollar-a-gallon gas prices have been keeping concert-goers at home this summer; nonetheless, the ultimate live party band, Slighty Stoopid, was one of the few artists who played to SRO crowds, selling more than 95% of the tour's available tickets, and they plan to achieve similar success with their North American Fall tour that kicks off October 8.

The seven-week trek will feature a number of highlights, including a slot on the Austin City Limits Music Festival, playing Canadian dates for the first time in awhile, and headlining the December 6 finale in the concert series celebrating the reopening of the renovated Hollywood Palladium, the iconic club that first bowed in 1940. Hardly stoopid, indeed.

For these dates, Slightly Stoopd will supported by Lafayette, LA's Outlaw Nation whose new album is set for a 2009 release on Stoopid Records. Opening the show will be Stoopid's very own in-house DJ, DJ Unite. - more on this story

Can You Out Shred Ted Nugent?

Sleazeroxx reports: Ted Nugent lent his voice and likeness to Guitar Hero World Tour, joining the all-star cast of rock legends featured in the game including Jimi Hendrix, Ozzy Osbourne and Sting.

Aspiring axe shredders are able to challenge The Nuge in an epic guitar duel, tear up the six string as the music icon's in-game character or jam alongside the Motor City Madman as he rocks his 1975 smash hit "Stranglehold." The game is set to be released October 26, 2008.

When the house lights go down this fall, a new generation of guitarists, drummers and fearless frontmen will come together and rock with Guitar Hero World Tour. The latest installment in the #1 best-selling video game franchise of 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero's signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless controllers with new revolutionary online* and offline gameplay modes including Band Career and 8-player "Battle of the Bands," which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online for the first time ever. - more on this story

Todd Rundgren Tour

PR reports: Todd Rundgren is hitting the road this fall in support of his first full-length record of original studio material in 4 years, entitled Arena. The album is out on September 30th via newly launched music venture Hi Fi Recordings.

Arena, recorded in Todd's current home state of Hawaii, is yet another notable addition to Rundgren's remarkable career as a performer, songwriter, and producer. The album showcases his unique songwriting style and sonically captures the essence and energy of "arena" rock with bombastic, guitar-driven tunes like "Mountaintop," "Strike" and "Mad," while the anthemic song "Mercenary," transports you to a stadium with its epic chorus, "How Do You Like Me Now?," resounding to every seat in the house.

"I found myself just going out and doing this sort of guerilla guitar quartet thing around the country and around Canada," said Rundgren, "So when it came time to make a record, I thought maybe I'll just continue in that vein and write something that is appropriate to the guitar, since the fans seem to be enjoying it so much. - more on this story

The (International) Noise Conspiracy Set Release

PR reports: The (International) Noise Conspiracy today announces their latest disc, Cross Of My Calling, will be released on November 25, 2008 on Vagrant/American Recordings in the U.S. The quartet recorded the fourteen-track set at Sunset Sound in Hollywood with legendary producer Rick Rubin at the helm.

"We've worked hard for a long time, but it's a tough world to get by in. Anything that doesn't fit the mold scares the music industry," says lyricist and singer Dennis Lyxzén. "We know how this world works; that's just the way it is, But we also recognize the industry is on shaky ground because of that, which is why it's so cool to have someone like Rick believe in you."

Guest appearances on the album include Karl Jacobsson- organ, Lenny Castro – percussion, Sam Velde and Lisa Kekaula (The Bellrays) – backing vocals. - more on this story

Misheard Lyrics of the Day: 1999

antiMusic reports: Who hasn't misheard a song lyrics. We thought it might be fun to feature some favorites here for you to enjoy. For the rest of this week we will be looking at the misheard lyrics of the Purple One®.

Today's misheard lyric is to Prince's "1999" and the line "Two thousand-zero-zero party's over, oops out of time." That lyric has been misheard as "Two thousand zero zero, my deodorant's out of time."

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 Prince song lyrics like this one check out - Am I Right.com!

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