The Day in Rock 8/20: Phish Bassist Caught With 9-Year-Old Girl, Bare Britney, Staind Sevendust, Linkin Park UK, Andrew W.K.’s Party Phone, Orgy Rages On, Arabic Idol, Ozzy AWOL Again, The Gilmore Crue, Nirvana Coverboy, Partial Helmet, Sabbath, Zeppelin At The Top. 

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Phish Bassist Caught With 9-Year-Old Girl 
Rolling Stone Reports: Phish bassist Mike Gordon, 38, was arrested Monday, August 11th, on charges of child endangerment after he was found with a nine-year-old girl in a secluded boathouse during a show by the Dead in Jones Beach, New York. 

According to a statement released by Major Richard O'Donnell of the New York State Park Police, Gordon was charged with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment and trespassing. "The arrest was the result of a complaint by the mother of a nine-year-old girl," reads the statement. "The mother became concerned when she could not locate her daughter in the backstage area." 

The uninjured child was reunited with her family shortly after Gordon's arrest. 

According to New York's WNBC television, Gordon told police that he was taking "art photos" of the girl.

Why didn’t Townshend think of that excuse? Art photos? Sounds Phishy… (I couldn’t resist). 

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Bare Britney 
It’s hump day, so we thought we’d start out the day in rock with some trash to get us in the mood. (plus it was a slow news day). 

AccessHollywood reports: Breathtaking Britney Spears just about bares it all for the September issue of British Elle, wearing nothing but the shortest shorts imaginable, unless you also count the jewels in her pierced belly button.

Inside the pages, Britney's backside is revealed by photographer Mark Abrahams. Spears sports a little angel tattoo on her lower back and as beautiful as Britney looks in the spread, Elle admitted the photos were retouched.
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Staind Sevendust
Launch Reports: Sevendust is currently on a headlining tour where they're debuting new songs from their upcoming album, Seasons, which will be released on October 7. Singer Lajon Witherspoon and company will follow the current tour with the "One Night Stand" concert series starting September 15 in Cincinnati. Sevendust then has been invited to open for Staind starting September 27, although an official tour itinerary hasn't been revealed yet.

Sounds like fun. Sevendust can get the crowd pumped and then Staind can put them to sleep. 
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Linkin Park UK 
Metal Underground reports: In less than two days, Linkin Park will begin touring in Europe, playing festival and headlining shows. After Europe, Australia and Asia follow closely behind. 

Here are the upcoming tour dates and the newly announced UK dates:

EUROPE 
Aug 20 - Dublin, IE - RDS Arena
Aug 22 - Reading, GB - Reading Festival
Aug 23- Leeds, GB - Leeds Festival
Aug 31 - Weeze, DE - Terremoto Festival
Sept 2 - Berlin, DE - Arena 
Sept 3 - Prague, CZ - T Mobile Arena
Sept 6 - Paris, FR - Bercy
Sept 8 - Madrid, ES - Palacio Vistalegre
Sept 9 - Lisbon, PT - Atlantico Pavilhao
Once November hits, they will be back in the UK once again for a series of shows:

Nov 20 - Glasgow - SECC
Nov 21 - Manchester - M.E.N. Arena
Nov 22 - London - Wembley Arena 
Nov 24 - Birmingham - NIA
Nov 25 - Cardiff - Arena

Tickets for these shows go on sale to the public Tuesday, August 26th.

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Andrew W.K.’s Party Phone 
Island Records reports: Andrew W.K. just might call you! Beginning August 25th and continuing through September 8th, fans can log on to www.awkworld.com or www.Amazon.com to pre-order Andrew W.K.'s upcoming release "The Wolf". Everyone who pre-orders "The Wolf" will receive an autographed CD booklet, but the first 250 to pre-order will get a personal phone call from Andrew W.K himself! 

Wanting to thank his rabid fan base, Andrew W.K. is not stopping there! After the release of "The Wolf" on September 9th, Andrew will be calling 1,000 fans personally who bought his new album.

What do you wanna bet that he calls these folks up and says something like “let’s party!” 
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Orgy Rages On
So is it Orgy or is it solo? 

siN’s Metal News reports: ORGY, contrary to previous reports, have not broken up, and will be releasing their 3rd album through Jay Gordon's D1 MUSIC label. The album is called "Punk Static Paranoia" and will see a release sometime in January 2004..Click Here for Full Story

Wait… Blabbermouth reports: ORGY frontman Jay Gordon will release a collection of demos originally written and recorded for inclusion on the band's never-released third LP, tentatively titled "Punk Static Paranoia", through his own D1 Music label in January 2004.Click Here for Full Story

See we are fair and balanced and give both sides of the story! (No lawsuits from Fox please for using that tag line)

Arabic Idol
This story was a bit too crazy to pass up. Wait for the show finale that may feature a suicide bombing? In this crazy world anything is possible. 

Much Music reports: It's not Pop Idol, American Idol or Canadian Idol, it's "Superstar" the franchise's Arabic counterpart, featuring wannabe pop stars from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. But one thing that makes this show vastly different from the Western versions is the fans. Last week, when the Lebanese frontrunner was eliminated from the competition, live audience members pelted each other with chairs while the two remaining contestants fainted. Monday night when a Jordanian won the competition thousands of supporters took to the streets cheering, honking horns and even shooting guns in the air. - Click Here Full Story

Ozzy AWOL Again
What do you call Ozzfest without Ozzy?  Tattoo The Earth? This year it’s KornFest or you always have the fallback real name, SharonFest. The Ozzone has cancelled another appearance on the tour.  Maybe he heard Kelly’s new CD and it made him sick? 

siN’s Metal New Reports:  It's happened again! We've just received word that OZZY OSBOURNE has cancelled yet another headlining performance at this years OZZFEST 2003 in New York at the PNC Bank Arts Center.

Rumor has it, pneumonia is ailing the Prince of Darkness, but KoRn has taken over the headlining spot. - Click Here for Full Story

The Gilmore Crue 
Another fun one for you. Looks like Vince Neil is keeping busy while he isn’t yelling at the two dozen fans that show up to his solo shows. 

KNAC.com reports: (Vince) Neil is planning a Motley Crue reunion tour for next summer. Included on Neil's calendar, according to the Sun: a guest appearance on the series The Gilmore Girls this fall, and an appearance on a pilot episode ofRobin Leach's upcoming syndicated late-night show, Penthouse Vegas, where Neil and Charo will teach each other their unique styles of playing guitar.

When told about Vince’s plans, Nikki responded, “Dude, I died, Dude”. 
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Nirvana Coverboy 
Rolling Stone reports: Twelve years ago, Spencer Elden, then four months old, graced the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind. The image became a generational landmark -- Elden even reprised the shot in a 2001 Rolling Stone tenth-anniversary tribute to Nevermind. Now, the California sixth-grader is appearing on his second album cover -- The Dragon Experience, the third solo CD by industrial group Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key.  - Click Here for Full Story

Partial Helmet
See is you can keep the family tree in this one straight. 

The Pimp Rock Palace reports: It appears as though Page Hamilton will be re-uniting Helmet and putting out a new album from the group through Interscope in the near future. The bands line-up will be drastically changed however as drummer John Tempesta (White Zombie), bassist Blasko (Rob Zombie) and guitarist Chris Traynor (Helmet, Orange 9mm) are rumored to be backing up Hamilton on the effort, rather than the bands original line-up. The sessions for the album are expected to be helmed by producer Charlie Clouser of nine inch nails fame. At present a best of outing from the band is said to be in the works and is eyeing a tentative September 23rd release date. - Click Here for Full Story

Sabbath, Zeppelin At The Top
Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin top the list of the best hard rock artist of all time. Our sister site Rocknworld.com conducted a fan poll for four and half months asking hard rockers to select their favorites and Sabbath landed the gold with Led Zeppelin coming in at a close second. 

Here is how the Top 15 came out:

01) Black Sabbath 
02) Led Zeppelin 
03) Nirvana 
04) Metallica 
05) AC/DC 
06) Guns ' n' Roses 
07) Pearl Jam 
08) Sex Pistols 
09) Ozzy Osbourne 
10) Iron Maiden 
11) Judas Priest 
12) The Clash 
13) Jimi Hendrix 
14) KISS 
15) Tool

*please no hate mail if your favorite didn't make the list or go as high as you expected. This fan was comprised of the readers votes. Isn't democracy great? And no we don't allow recalls. 

** All of the votes for Michael Jackson and N Sync were not counted. Sorry but they don't qualify as hard rock, even using the Avril is Punk standard.

See the full Top 100 Hard Rock Artists of All time 

Song of the Day.
Today’s song comes from the band that staged that Metallica hoax a few weeks back. We here at antiMUSIC were fans of Unfaith long before the notorious “Metallica Sues Band over Guitar Chords” article hoax. So we thought now that the dust has settled a little it might be good to give them some positive exposure. 

This is a cool rockin’ cover of the New Order classic "True Faith" - MP3

the band's website
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