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Creed Dismissed
Launch reports: A Chicago judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the band Creed, filed by four fans who attended the Orlando-based band's concert in Chicago on December 29, 2002, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

The suit, filed April 20 in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, claimed that lead singer Scott Stapp "was so intoxicated and/or medicated that he was unable to sing the lyrics of a single Creed song." The four plaintiffs were seeking a refund of their $55.50 ticket price and their parking fees. In addition they were hoping that the suit would allow for the more than 15,000 fans in attendance to be added to the plaintiff list.

Circuit Court Judge Peter Flynn dismissed the suit "with prejudice," which essentially paves the way for the plaintiffs to file a new complaint if they should choose to do so.- Click Here for the Full Story

A drunken rock star? People will sue over anything these days. 

Auctioning Lars 
Hey here is yet another Metallica story! 

Blabbermouth reports:  METALLICA frontman James Hetfield will be auctioning off the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro that was used in the video for "I Disappear" via eBay starting Monday, September 22. Hetfield drove the car (photo) during the filming and was given the car as a gift upon completion of the video shoot. James has owned and driven the car for the last three years. Proceeds from the sale of the car will be donated to music programs in schools. - Click Here for the Full Story

Rumor has it they thought about auctioning off Lars’ pots and pans but he needs them for drums on the upcoming tour.  (Yes, this dead horse will be beaten into the ground and then some.) 

Pink’s “Rancid” New “Punk” CD
VH1 reports: Surprise — it's a rock record! Pink started getting in touch with her inner rock chick on Missundaztood, thanks to songwriting partner Linda Perry, but for her latest effort, Pink's got a punker aboard, and it shows.
 
frontman Tim Armstrong is all over Pink's upcoming third release, Try This, and the bulk of the album bears his mark.

Nine out of 13 songs are roughed-up rockers, about going out ("Tonight's the Night"), getting in trouble ("Trouble"), getting stood up ("The Last to Know"), getting burnt out from partying too hard (the Janis Joplin ode "Unwind"), and getting out of town ("Humble Neighborhood") — nothing as revealing or personal as the material on Missundaztood, but no less satisfying (see "Pink Won't Be 'Yapping About Her Problems' On New LP, Linda Perry Says").

Not all songs on Try This are purely rock, though. Pink continues to genre-hop on a torchy '70s-like ballad ("Catch Me While I'm Sleeping"), a dancefloor burner with a live feel to it ("God Is a DJ"), and a raunchy meeting of the minds with X-rated beatmaster Peaches ("Oh My God").- Click Here for the Full Story

Pink gone punk? Hearing is believing. Remember some people consider Avril like totally punk rawk, ya know? 

Concert Suicide 
And for an encore tonight, we have a live suicide!

Metal Underground reports: Industrial rock band Hell On Earth will feature a "live suicide" at their State Theatre performance in St. Petersburg, FL on Saturday, October 4th. A Euthanasia Society member will carry out the suicide to raise awareness for dying with dignity. The Euthanasia member, who suffers from a terminal illness, is using the event as a platform to help make back-street suicides a thing of the past. 

Though his identity is being withheld until the day of the event, he did have this to say, "I thank the lord that Hell On Earth is giving me this opportunity to end my suffering. I just want to say as my last will and testament that this is my god given choice to end my life. I'd prefer to have a physician-assisted suicide but until the laws are changed, those who are in pain like me will either have to continue to suffer or do it themselves."

The event, The Hell On Earth Haunted Tour, is part of a national tour the band is on to support their new album, 'All Things Disturbingly Sassy.'
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Humm, I smell something, what was that?  Oh yeah, it’s bul*****

Motley Icons 
Blabbermouth reports: MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has told the German edition of Metal Hammer that talks are underway between the group's management and MTV about a possible "mtvICON" event to help raise the profile of the band in the months leading up to the release of the movie version of CRÜE's best-selling band autobiography, "The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band", and subsequent farewell tour.

MÖTLEY CRÜE signed a deal with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films in late 2002 to make a movie version of "The Dirt…". Filming of the CRÜE story — which includes drugs, death, near death, and girls, girls, girls — will begin later this year for a 2004 theatrical release.
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Nikki added, “When the MTV dudes told me they were gonna make me an icon, I died Dude!” 

Hoobaseeya
The PRP reports: Hoobastank have dropped off of the upcoming Deftones North American headlining tour and will be replaced by Denali, a band who were personally selected for the tour by Deftones frontman Chino Moreno..- Click Here for the Full Story . 

We're the Deftones afraid of all the moshing Hoobastank fans?

QOTSA: Rock Hall “No-Brainer”
Black Sabbath is once again among the acts eligible for induction this year in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Other harder-edged nominees on the ballot, which went out to voters last week, include Iggy And The Stooges and the Sex Pistols. Queens OfThe Stone Age singer/guitarist Josh Homme, in New York this week  while opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, told LAUNCH that if it was  up to him, all three would be inducted with no questions asked.

"The Stooges are the greatest rock and roll band of all time," Homme  said. "And Black Sabbath, you don't even need to say anything. It's like, 'Should they be in there?' Yeah, I think so. Sex Pistols too, man. It's a no-brainer. Doesn't it seem like a no-brainer? I think on the ballot for whatever it would be, it should just say, 'Duh.'"Click Here Full Story

It’s a no-brainer to rock fans, but do actual rock fans vote for this? People at Rolling Stone don’t count; they still think Quicksilver Messenger Service outlived the “Summer of Love”. 

Bon Jovi Takes Left Turn
Chart Attack reports: Fans will get to relive all the phases of Bon Jovi soon, as the band are set to release a greatest hits album called This Left Feels Right on November 3. 

The new disc is billed as a greatest hits collection, with a twist. 

The band went into the studio with Pat Leonard (Madonna, Rod Stewart, Elton John) who co-produced the album, acoustic arrangements of old tunes like "Keep The Faith," "It’s My Life" and "Wanted Dead Or Alive." To go along with these reconstructed BJ staples are two brand new songs on the album, "Last Man Standing" and "Thief Of Hearts." 

The band’s original plans were to go into the studio and record a new acoustic album full of newly written songs, but after experimenting with their back catalogue of songs they ended up crafting new phrasings, tempos and instrumentation and took (as Bon Jovi calls it,) "a complete left turn." - Click Here Full Story

A complete left turn? Um John, an unplugged album isn’t exactly an original idea and you never really rocked that hard, so come on with the histrionics. How different can “Wanted Dead or Alive” sound unplugged from the original? 

U2 DVD’d
U2 will jump on the live DVD concert bandwagon. 

After a homecoming concert at Ireland’s Slane Castle in 2001, the band liked their performance so much that they’re releasing the concert to the masses on November 18. The DVD, U2 Go Home, captures the band performing 19 songs to over 160,000 people, which closed their All That You Can’t Leave Behind tour on September 1, 2001. 

The show at Slane Castle saw the band tear through a bunch of their hits like "New Year’s Day," "With Or Without You" and soon-to-be classics like "Elevation" and "Walk On." 

Some of the added features that go along with the U2 Go Home DVD include a documentary on the making of their 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire, (also recorded at Slane Castle), and a DVD ROM that has countless U2 treats like a calendar, screensavers and  Web links. The coolest thing of all is a doo-hickey called the "Spincam" that lets you view three songs from the concert in a 360-degree view. - Click Here Full Story and track listing

Lennon’s Career Suicide
siN’s metal news: LENNON is putting the finishing touches on "Career Suicide," a compilation of 10 piano vocal tracks which will be sold exclusively through the band's website. Web orders will start to take place in about two weeks, records should ship before October 10th. Head over to Lennonmurphy.com for more info.  Click Here Full Story

Real Sued Shady
MuchMusic reports: Harlene Stein, a 70-year-old California woman, has sued Eminem and Dr. Dre for allegedly illegally sampling her late husband's music. The grandmother of five claims that her husband's composition - a 24-second instrumental film soundtrack interlude entitled "Pigs Go Home"- was used in Dre and Eminem's 1999 hit "Guilty Conscience" without permission or any payment. She seeks unspecified damages pending a full accounting of sales..  Click Here Full Story

If there are any lawyers reading this, I came up with the yo-yo-yo-yo’s and uh-huh’s that Missy Elliot stole for her songs. Can we sue?  Actually, if there are lawyers reading this; that was a bad joke, no need to sue me over it.  

 Zevon, Cash Sales Soar
AP reports: The last albums by late musicians Warren Zevon and Johnny Cash soared up the U.S. pop charts following the artists' recent deaths, according to sales data issued on Wednesday. 

Zevon's "The Wind" rose 28 places to No. 12, while Cash's Grammy-winning "American IV: The Man Comes Around" jumped 72 places to No. 22 for the week ended Sept. 14. The retail sales data were issued by Nielsen SoundScan. 

Zevon, famed for his twisted humor, died of a rare form of lung cancer on Sept. 7, aged 56, while country icon Cash succumbed to complications from diabetes on Friday, aged 71. - Click Here Full Story

Maiden Top 20
Blabbermouth reports: IRON MAIDEN's "Dance Of Death" has sold 40,308 copies during its first week of release to debut at No. 18 on The Billboard 200 chart. This number is in line with the first-week tally of the group's last album, "Brave New World", which moved 37,618 copies in June 2000 to land at No. 39 on The Billboard 200 chart. 

The following are the first-week chart positions for "Dance Of Death" in various countries around the world:

Argentina: #3
Australia: #12
Brazil: #12
Canada: #5
Finland: #1
France: #3
Greece: #1
Iceland: #1
Ireland: #6
Italy: #1
Netherlands: #11
Norway: #3
Portugal: #4
Spain: #2
Sweden: #1
U.K.: #2
USA: #18
.  Click Here Full Story

**Press Releases**
Snippets from some of the press releases that have come in over the past 24 hours

Party Monster!
Actress and indie recording artist, Cynthia "c." Basinet joins artists Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Manson among others in the eclectic soundtrack for the much anticipated docudrama, “Party Monster”, which stars Seth Green, (giving a superb performance as James St. James, the writer of the book, “Disco Bloodbath” on which both “Party Monster”films were based) and Macaulay Culkin.

About Cynthia "c." Basinet

Based in Los Angeles, California, the actress and recording artist used the Internet to launch her recording career and subsequent world-wide popularity, leading to a trip to raise awareness for refugees in the W.Sahara.

ARTISTdirect.com called her "... one of the most sultry, seductive voices around." Already receiving radio play, Basinet expects to put out her first full-length album in late 2004. For more information, visit online, www.cynthiabasinet.com. 

"Santa Baby" can be found on the limited release CD, "For you with love" thru www.cdbaby.com and Amoeba Music.

Coming soon to Apple ITunes and longtime supporter listen.com's Rhapsody.

S.T.U.N. To Tour With Marilyn Manson, Chevelle
From the band’s publicist: Armed with a burgeoning buzz and kudos for their political and social outspokenness, Geffen Records' white-hot punk band S.T.U.N. will join forces with Marilyn Manson beginning October 10 for 13 dates, and then spend the first half of November inciting the crowd for Chevelle. The tour dates are in support of S.T.U.N.'s debut album Evolution of Energy, which was released June 24, and has received rave reviews from publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press, and the Los Angeles Times. Coinciding with these tours, the CD's first single, "Annihilation of the Generations," will be released to radio in the fall. Prior to the Manson and Chevelle dates, S.T.U.N. will kick off a series of dates with The Used beginning September 19 (see below for complete itinerary).

S.T.U.N.'s "piss and vinegar punk" can be experienced as follows: 

With The Used: 

09/19/03 Las Vegas, NV The Joint 
09/22/03 San Diego, CA Cox Arena 
09/23/03 Los Angeles, CA The Palladium
09/24/03 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
09/26/03 Denver, CO The Fillmore

With Marilyn Manson 

10/10/03 Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre 
10/12/03 TSan Francisco, CA he Warfield
10/14/03 Denver, CO The Fillmore
10/16/03 St. Paul, MN Roy Wilkins Auditorium
10/17/03 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
10/18/03 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
10/20/03 Hamilton, ON CANADA Copps Coliseum
10/22/03 New York, NY Roseland Ballroom
10/23/03 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
10/25/03 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club
10/26/03 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
10/28/03 Sauget, IL Pop's
10/30/03 Kansas City, MO KC Int'l Raceway

With Chevelle 

11/01/03 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre 
11/02/03 TBA
11/03/03 Pittsburgh, PA Larga
11/05/03 Detroit, MI Clutch Cargo
11/06/03 Grand Rapids, MI Orbit
11/07/03 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's
11/08/03 Crawfordsville, OH Wabash College
11/10/03 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
11/11/03 Louisville, KY Jillian's
11/13/03 Madison, WI Barrymore
11/14/03 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
11/15/03 Minneapolis, MN The Quest
 

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