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Avril The DVD
Soon you will be able to watch the epic saga of the Sk8er Boi 24-7 from the comfort of your home. 

Billboard reports: Arista Records and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have joined forces to release music DVDs, beginning with the Nov. 4 launch of Avril Lavigne's "My World," and followed by the previously announced Dec. 9 movie debut of the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams, "Dude, We're Going to Rio."

"My World" will feature a concert, a behind-the-scenes featurette, five music videos and a six-song bonus audio CD that includes four unreleased tracks. The performance was filmed May 18 in Buffalo, N.Y., on the final date of Lavigne's five-week headlining North American tour. Video clips for "Complicated," "Sk8er Boi," "I'm With You," "Losing Grip" and "Knocking on Heaven's Door" are also included in the DVD package.- Click Here for the Full Story

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Iron Maiden Reviews Bizkit 
Ratethemusic.com reports that IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson has offered some advice to LIMP BIZKIT's Fred Durst. 

"LIMP BIZKIT are as dead as a doornail now," Dickinson said. "[Fred] couldn't write his way out of a paper bag. That new [LIMP BIZKIT] single ['Eat You Alive'] is just awful. He needs to listen to people telling him he's rubbish." - Click Here for the Full Story

Deftones MP3’s Nixed
MTV.com reports: There are plenty of options for fans to legitimately buy music online these days, but record labels are still not hip to artists just giving it away. The Deftones learned that lesson the hard way recently when their label, Maverick Records, took down more than 40 live bootlegs the band had posted on its Web site in July.

"I think Maverick got mad because they own all that music," said singer Chino Moreno. "It was our idea to put it up there, but I think we were maybe supposed to ask permission of something."

The 49 bootlegs of shows in 2000, 1995 and 1992 were available for free download on the band's site for several weeks but were removed approximately three weeks ago and replaced with a note reading: "Taken down for now ... sorry." Maverick did not authorize the posting of the songs, according to a label spokesperson..- Click Here for the Full Story

It was all that Hoobastank moshing that brought this on. 

Prince Retiring? 
Undercover reports: Prince is to tour Australia for the second time ever next month and long time fans better take the opportunity to see him because it could be the last time they hear the hits.

The show being promoted as "Prince performing his hits live for the last time' makes us all wonder what is next for his Purpleness. Is he announcing that he his retiring or just his songs?

You don't have much notice to save the biccies either. Prince will perform the first show of the Australian tour at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne on October 21 followed by Sydney Entertainment Centre October 24 and Brisbane Entertainment Centre on October 27.- Click Here for the Full Story

So he’ll only be performing songs from his past few albums live now? Well, he said he wasn’t gonna play the hits anymore…  Ok, sorry I couldn’t resist. 

Beatles Won’t Let It Be
AP reports: A new version of The Beatles' album "Let It Be" will be released in November, the group's company Apple Corps announced Thursday. 

"Let It Be...Naked" strips the 1969 album of Phil Spector's lavish production effects, returning to Sir Paul McCartney's original idea for the recording. "This is the noise we made in the studio," McCartney said of the new version. "It's exactly as it was in the room. You're right there now." 

"Let It Be...Naked" mostly keeps the same track listing as the original album, which featured songs Let It Be, The Long and Winding Road, Get Back and Across the Universe. 

Background dialogue, Dig It and Maggie Mae have been taken off the album, and Don't Let Me Down has been added, Apple Corps said. 

Most of "Let It Be" was recorded in 1969 for an album which was to have been called "Get Back," showing The Beatles returning to their roots as a four-piece rock-and-roll band. But the group was splitting up and the album was abandoned. 

Spector was later brought in to convert hundreds of hours of tape into an album, renamed "Let It Be." 

Ringo Starr told Rolling Stone magazine earlier this year: "Paul was always totally opposed to Phil. I told him on the phone (recently), `You're bloody right again. It sounds great without Phil.' Which it does." 

"Let It Be...Naked" is to be released by EMI Records on November 17. - Click Here for the Full Story

“Oh Dirty Maggie May, Sir Paul is taking you away …” 

Spector Case Goes To The DA
AP reports: Sheriff's detectives investigating the murder case involving legendary record producer Phil Spector say they have submitted their findings to prosecutors. 

Detectives completed their preliminary investigation and submitted their findings Thursday to the district attorney "for their consideration of a criminal filing," sheriff's Deputy Scott Butler said. He said the department would not discuss the investigation further. 

Spector, whose "wall of sound" recording technique transformed 1960s pop music, was arrested Feb. 3 for investigation of murder after the body of 40-year-old Lana Clarkson (news) was found in the foyer of his hilltop Alhambra mansion. He was released after posting $1 million bail, which has been extended in past months while an investigation has been pending. 

Spector suggested in a July Esquire magazine interview that Clarkson, an actress and hostess at the House of Blues, may have shot herself, but sheriff's investigators said in March that they discounted suicide as a possible cause of death. .- Click Here for the Full Story . 

Headbanger’s Mini-Balls
"Headbanger's Ball", the resurrected metal program that had an eight-year run between 1987 and 1995, has been expanded to include half-hour, unhosted blocks of videos each weekday (Monday–Friday) between 8:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. EST on MTV2. Saturday night's two-hour show, hosted by HATEBREED singer Jamey Jasta, remains in place at 10:00 p.m. EST."Click Here Full Story

The Darkness Hits US Shores
Billboard reports: U.K. import the Darkness [played] arguably the most important show of its career [last night] before a sold-out audience at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. Having polarized audiences across Europe with its update on '80s hair metal and arena rock, the English quartet is enjoying its third week atop the U.K. albums chart with its debut, "Permission To Land." The set was issued Tuesday in North America via Atlantic.

Acrobatic frontman Justin Hawkins sports animal-print spandex body suits while belting out such songs as "Get Your Hands off My Woman" and "Love on the Rocks With No Ice" in a soaring falsetto that elicits both smiles and winces. Hawkins says he doesn't mind if that reaction is the same in the States.

"We've always been a band that's divided people, really," he tells Billboard.com. "The people that loved us absolutely loved us, and the people that hated us f***in' hated us. It was always a good indication that we weren't going to be a coffee table band. But we are going to be a band that has a really strong, devout following."

…The band is ready to put in the extra miles and hours touring and promoting themselves in America. Its members are quite proud of the fact that after years of being dissed in the tastemaking British music magazines -- the NME reported that Hawkins should be hung -- they've finally conquered the country. Now they have their sights set on the States. After tonight's show, the Darkness will play Toronto and Los Angeles before returning to Europe. The band will begin a larger North American tour in November.

"This is what we've worked towards," Hawkins says. "And now we're here -- it's a window of opportunity. And we're not in the habit of making the sort of mistakes that would lead to that window being slammed shut, never to be opened again. We feel ready, so it's just a matter of plugging in and going for it now."
- Click Here Full Story

Sting of Ticketmaster Auctions 
siN’s metal news reports: The first ever Ticketmaster Auction for a show is taking place. You can bid to see STING live in concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on October 4th. For one week, you'll have a chance to bid on a limited number of General Admission floor seats. 

It seems the only positive thing out of this is that 100% of STING's net profits will be donated to charity.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/sting - for more info - Click Here Full Story and track listing

Wonder if they will auction Pearl Jam tickets?

No Charges In Great White Memorial Theft
AP reports: Police will not bring charges against a woman who removed two crosses dedicated to Great White guitarist Ty Longley from the site of The Station fire, police said Wednesday. 

Police Chief Peter Brousseau told The Associated Press that authorities determined criminal charges are not warranted because items placed at the site are considered abandoned property. 

The attorney general's office also reviewed the case, Brousseau said. 

Diane Mattera, of Warwick, said she took Longley's crosses down because his band set off the pyrotechnics that sparked the Feb. 20 blaze, which killed 100 people including Longley and Mattera's daughter, 29-year-old Tammy Mattera-Housa. 

A replacement memorial for Longley — a steel cross in the shape of a guitar — has been mounted in cement at the site. Click Here Full Story

Blackest of the Black Fades to Black
siN’s metal news reports: This years Blackest of the Black 2003 tour which was set to feature:

DANZIG
SUPERJOINT RITUAL
MORBID ANGEL
DEVILDRIVER

..has been DELAYED! according to the official website (www.blackestoftheblack.com). Due to the departure of booking agent Jamie Adler from the Agency Group, the tour ended up in shambles, and could not be put back together in time. It will be rescheduled though! When though? Thats TBA.. Click Here Full Story

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

Fuse Drives Thru
Drive-Thru Is All Over Fuse!

This Sunday 9/21: 
"FuseFest : Drive Thru Invasion Tour" - 1 hour special on the Drive-Thru
Invasion Tour - featuring special guest performers Finch.

Premiere : 9/21 @ 7P & Midnight
Repeats : 9/23 @ 9P & 2A; 9/27 @ 5P

In addition: 
Fuse "IMX" Drive-Thru Invasion Tour Feature -
Two band members from each band on The Drive-Thru Invasion Tour will appear
on Fuse's IMX on Monday, Sept.29th @  6P & 11P (may repeat on the following Saturday). There will also be a acoustic performance of "The Best Of Me" by
The Starting Line!

Interviews with:
The Early November: Ace & Joe
Home Grown: Adam & John
Allister: Scotty & Kyle
Senses Fail: Buddy & Dave

All times are EDT. 
Airtimes are three hours earlier on west coast.  (They added this just in case you weren't smart enough to figure that out on your own)

Metal Blade MP3’s
NEW MP3's CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON metalblade.com
As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse - Forever 
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed- Funeral Thirst 
Brainstorm - Soul Temptation - Doorway to Survive
Six Feet Under - Bringer of Blood - Amerika The Brutal

A label giving MP3's away? Someone better alert Maverick. 

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