Sublime Reunion?

Last year, a slide show on The Bamboozle's official website also hinted at a reunion. Although Sublime effectively dissolved after the death of vocalist Bradley Nowell in May of 1996, sources have reported that the surviving members of the band have been working with a new vocalist. - More Punk News

Band Sues President

Yahoo Music reports: MGMT are suing French President Nicolas Sarkozy--accusing him of using their hit "Kids" in online videos without permission.

Sarkozy has admitted using the song at the UMP party's national congress, but claims the lack of permission was a mistake and offered the band one euro as a gesture, reports BBC News.

The duo rejected the offer and are now seeking compensation. Their lawyer, Isabelle Wekstein, said a fee of 53 Euros ($90) had initially been paid to gain use of the song was not enough.
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Jane's Addiction Boxset

Rhino reports: Jane's Addiction aggressively melded avant-garde, funk, metal, and punk sounds with raw sexual energy and became an incomparable force. On April 21, Rhino celebrates the legacy of Jane's Addiction and unearths A Cabinet Of Curiosities, a 3-CD/1-DVD Jane's Addiction boxed set of demos, live performances and rarities that includes 30 unreleased tracks.

The set will be available from Rhino in stores and at www.rhino.comin a striking, limited-edition wooden cabinet for a suggested price of $74.98. A digital version will also be available at all digital retail outlets. Audiophiles and vinyl geeks take note that on April 18, to celebrate this year's Record Store Day, Rhino will release 180-gram vinyl versions of the seminal Jane's albums Nothing's Shocking and Ritual De Lo Habitual for a suggested price of $17.98 and $24.98 respectively.

The CABINET collection focuses solely on the band's original incarnation of vocalist Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins. - more on this story

Nine Inch Nails Shut Down Down Under- Moz No Match For The Boss- GNR Confirm Festival Gig- 2 Virgins Short- Broken Jewel- Suicide Mest Gang and more

antiMusic reports: Power at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia went out midway through Nine Inch Nails' set on Tuesday night (February 24), forcing the show to be stopped for 40 minutes and nearly causing it to be canceled. Trent Reznor and crew were videotaped backstage discussing their escape plan were things to have gotten out of hand, but that wasn't necessarymore

Billboard's European Top 100 Albums chart gives Bruce Springsteen a fourth week at No. 1 with "Working On A Dream" (Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment), while Morrissey's "Years of Refusal" (Decca/Universal) makes a pan-European No. 2 debut. more

Guns N Roses have officially been confirmed for this years edition of Spain's Kobetasonik Festival which takes place in the city of Bilbao between June 19th and 20th. Also on the bill will be Motley Crue, Anthrax, Marilyn Manson, Trivium, Dragonforce, Hatebreed, Cradle Of Filth, Papa Roach, Devildriver, Gojira, God Forbid and more more

Pop singer Jewel says she injured her knees while rehearsing for "Dancing With the Stars" but plans to return to the dance floor as soon as she heals.more

Twista has brought his Get Money Gang Entertainment label to EMI Global Music Services. The first project under the new partnership is the rapper's sixth studio album, "Category F5." Preceding the album's June 16, 2009 release is the buzz track "Wetter," available for digital download on Feb. 24.

Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff said his company received a warning from AEG Live, the owner of 130 venues including the Staples Center in Los Angeles, that it may cancel its contract with Ticketmaster if it merges with Live Nation Entertainment Inc.more

Bill Wyman, the former arts editor of NPR and Salon.com, has blasted a Rolling Stone writer for basically rewriting a Chicago Sun Times article. more

The six-unit Virgin Megastore chain will close two more stores, the Union Square location in New York City at the end of May and the Market St. store in San Francisco at the end of April, sources say. more

Rich Tschirhart (The Suicide Machines, Hifi Handgrenades) and Nick Gigler (Mest, The Get Go) have united along with pals Chuck Vroom, Steve Kenzo, and Ben Wixson (Frank White) to form The A-Gangmore

Dragonforce will be back on US shores this spring to support last year's Ultra Beatdown. The band will embark on a month-long, headlining tour more

Christian rockers Stryper have confirmed a late July release date via Big 3 Records for their new album, Murder By Pride. more

The North Carolina Symphony has released its first commercial recording, but it's a jazz saxophonist, three-time Grammy winner Branford Marsalis, who gets top billing on the classical release.more

KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley was a guest on the "Happy Hour" show on Thursday (February 26) on the Fox Business network. During the segment Stanley confirmed to that he, Gene Simmons and the rest of KISS will enter the studio next week to grind out a new record for release this fall. watch the video

According to Stltoday.com, Sammy Hagar (ex-Van Halen) will be in the house at his Sammy's Beach Bar & Grill restaurant at Harrah's St. Louis on Friday, February 27th. He will address his fans, pour drinks, and hold a press conference beginning at noon Friday. more

Five more bands have been added to this year's edition of the Download Festival in Britain. Progressive metal act Dream Theater will be on the bill as will Canadian rockers Anvil and Buckcherry, Billy Talent and The Blackout. more

Altitude TV has posted video footage of Mark Slaughter, frontman of veteran rockers Slaughter, struggling to hit the high notes during a solo performance of the band's 1990 hit "Fly To The Angels" at the Gift of Music concert in Nashville on February 2. Watch it more and check out the original video for comparison.

Abigail Williams will apparently no longer be a part of Napalm Death's big tour of North America. Replacing them on the bill will be Coliseum. more

Cradle Of Filth, Moonspell and Turisas will team up for the Filthfest Tour 2009 in April/May.dates
Blur fans can expect to see the band play at this summer's Glastonbury Festival, Michael Eavis has said. "You can look forward to that yeah, but it's not officially announced yet," he said when asked if Blur were lined-up. more

Sweden's West Coast Riot has announced the lineup for this year. The long-running event will feature a number of favorites including Social Distortion, Alkaline Trio, Bouncing Souls, The Living End, Parkway Drive, Sick Of It All. - more

(Hed)pe Robbed

PR reports: Despite recently having their van and gear trailer stolen in Burbank, CA (Hed)pe is out to prove they cannot be silenced. The thieves made off with thousands of dollars of gear, merchandise and the group's tour van.

The group is forging on and have announced the second leg of their 'New World Orphans' Tour alongside Mower, Dirtball and DGAF will begin March 6th in Petaluma, CA.

With the release of their new album "New World Orphans" (Hed)pe sent the youth of America a call to arms and the respond was heard throughout the music industry. - more on this story

Black Metalers Arrested For Torching 16th Century Chapel

Metal Underground reports: A court in Brittany heard yesterday how four members of a fanatical black metal anti-Christian sect went on alcohol fuelled rampages smashing ancient granite crosses in cemeteries and torching a 16th century chapel classified as an ancient monument.

With a satanic bible in the boot of their car and using a tourist guide to pilgrimage sites they selected holy places of worship where they claimed Catholic saints had raised ancient Celtic pagan monuments replacing them with Christian churches and chapels.

They scrawled satanic symbols and inverted crosses on premises they defiled - all in the name of their sect, True Armorik Black Metal. The Court heard how two of the group all aged in their twenties were members of a black metal music group, the words in their songs glorified Hitler as the new anti-Christ and invoked scenes from The Silence Of The Lambs. - more on this story

Vh1 Censor Kanye's Radiohead Tirade

Reuters reports: Hip-hop star Kanye West trashed Radiohead and said the public should give Chris Brown "a break," during a recent taping of VH1's "Storytellers."

But the comments will not make it to air when the episode premieres on the lifestyle cable network on Saturday.

The taping, which took place on February 13 at Sony Studios in Los Angeles, lasted three hours. The show's producers cut it to 90 minutes, after getting network approval to expand the episode from its usual one hour. - more on this story

Def Leppard, Cheap Trick and Poison Team Up

Reuters reports: British rock band Def Leppard will launch a 40-date North American tour in Camden, N.J., on June 23, bringing along Poison and Cheap Trick on the trek.

This isn't the first time that Def Leppard has teamed with established acts. In 2005, the band toured with Bryan Adams, and last year had Styx and REO Speedwagon join them. Singer Joe Elliott seems to thrive on packing a wallop in a shortened amount of time.

"We're going out with three bands, which limits the amount of time we can play to about 90 minutes," he told Billboard.com. "When you do your greatest hits and some new material or extra stuff you might throw in, you have got to push and shove and clamp down. No big long speeches from moi. You have to do the AC/DC thing and just bang through everything." - more on this story

Face Off With Metallica, Pantera, Alice in Chains and Anthrax Members and Slash

PR reports: He may play guitar for the multi-Platinum, Grammy-nominated, legendary rock band Anthrax, but Scott Ian is also a poker pro and a member of the UltimateBet online team. And, in that capacity, Ian will host "Scott Ian's Home Game," an exclusive online poker tournament where you can check, raise and bluff rock stars and poker pros, and be eligible for a $10,000 prize pool, if you're one of 20 lucky players to secure a spot. Leading online poker site UltimateBet has just launched online poker qualifiers for this once-in-a-lifetime Texas Hold'em tournament

Slated to play in "Scott Ian's Home Game" online poker tournament are Ian, Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, Vinnie Paul of Pantera, Metallica's Kirk Hammett and rock legend Slash. Also playing will be 11-time World Series of Poker winner Phil Hellmuth, and World Poker Champion Annie Duke. Online poker players will be able to chat with the rock stars and poker legends through the UltimateBet software's chat feature.

"I am really excited about my Home Game on UB," said Scott Ian, currently in the studio mixing the new Anthrax album "Worship Music," due out this summer. "With all of our crazy schedules, we're never in the same city so it's not often that I get to play Hold'em with all my friends. UltimateBet has provided the venue for us to play together and I can't wait to welcome some UB players to the table and get to know them a little more personally." - more on this story

Distillers Frontwoman Brody Dalle Returns

PR reports: Brody Dalle (of Distillers fame), has a new band called Spinnerette. They've recorded a 4 song EP called "Ghetto Love" that's available now on Itunes, Spinnerettemusic.com, and Shockhound, and they've collaborated with well-known director Liam Lynch to made a video for the title track.

Recorded at PinkDuck and 11AD studios in Los Angeles, the EP features a slough of guest musicians including Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age), Tony Bevilacqua (The Distillers), and Jack Irons (Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers).

One of the tracks on the EP, "Sex Bomb", was remixed by Adam Freeland, which you may have heard earlier this winter. - "Ghetto Love" video

Paul Potts Sets Release

Sony reports: Columbia Records will release Paul Potts' sophomore album, Passione, on April 21. Paul's debut album, One Chance, stormed to the top of the charts in 13 countries and notched up an astounding 27 platinum and four gold awards.

Hot on the heels of that triumph and with his undeniable talent, unmistakable voice and zeal for music comes Passione. Overflowing with his passionate, inimitable style combined with impeccable technique; Paul is set to touch more hearts with his enchanting, classical voice. The stunning new album has been almost a year in the making with Paul working with an array of world class producers, composers and European Orchestras; Paul returns with a new found confidence and vigor that leaves no doubt as to his incredible talent.

Passione includes a mixture of original recordings along with show stoppers including the haunting "La Prima Volta (The First Time I Saw Your Face)" and "Memory," the ageless classic written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. - more on this story

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