antiMUSIC's Day In Rock 8/03: Broken Idol- Eminem Dropped- Black Dahlia Arrest- Bloc Brawl- Atreyu- Al Aronowitz RIP- Ministry- more

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Report for 8/03/05

Broken Idol

AP reports: For Bo Bice, it's the shoes. The "American Idol" finalist broke his foot Sunday night performing in Manchester, N.H. — and says his misfortune is due to a change in footwear.

"There's a part where I go running across the stage and do these jump-ups and flip around in circles and normally I wear cowboy boots, but about three or four shows ago, they started sliding on me," Bice told MTV News [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Eminem Dropped By Ford

contact music reports: EMINEM's newly-formed business relationship with car manufacturing giant Ford has reportedly been severed over his new song ASS LIKE THAT.

The Detroit News reports that after happily allowing the Grammy-winning rapper to showcase the new Ford Fusion midsize sedan in the song's music video, Ford executives became concerned over the track's suggestive title and lyrics.

While bosses of the company had initially hoped to win over younger hip-hop fans with the Eminem connection, officials decided to sever ties with the star because of the song's vulgarity.

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Black Dahlia Arrest

Metal Blade reports: On July 23rd at Ozzfest in Pittsburgh, PA, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER guitarist Brian Eschbach was arrested for indecent exposure while filming footage for FUSE TV’s Uranium.

Brian was given Uranium host Juliya’s camcorder and was walking around the second stage area interviewing random bands and fans when someone pulled his towel off, which happened to be the only thing he was wearing. The police immediately seized Brian and escorted him away to a holding cell on site where he was detained for about 30 minutes before being let go with a citation. Luckily FUSE’s Uranium was on site and caught everything on camera which will be aired not only on Uranium and Metal Asylum but also on a FUSE special on Ozzfest. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Bloc Brawl

Gigwise reports: The growing feud between Kele Okereke of Bloc Party and Eddie Argos of Art Brut turned into all out violence on Saturday night according to reports.

The pair were seen arguing at the Catch nightclub in Shoreditch, London before Okereke attempted to kick Argos in the head.

A witness to the fight told Playlouder: "Some cross words were exchanged and Eddie was telling Kele his band were shit. Suddenly Kele tried to kick him in the head. He was held back by three people."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Atreyu Recording

Gigwise reports: Atreyu have revealed they are set to enter the studio to record a new album which will be released next Spring.

Speaking on the bands official website bassist Marc Mcknight spoke about the bands plans in the coming months, he said: “New album, spring. Yes, we're taking around 6 months off after Warped Tour and writing/recording a new album.”[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Al Aronowitz RIP

DiS reports: Highly respected writer Al Aronowitz, responsible for inspiring Hunter S Thompson and a friend of Jack Kerouac, has died aged 77.

Aronowitz died of cancer yesterday morning. His 12-part series on 'beat' culture, written in 1959 for The New York Post, enabled him to befriend poet Allen Ginsberg and novelist Kerouac, but it was his relationship with Bob Dylan and The Beatles, however brief, that made his name. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Ozzfest Rockline

Blabbermouth reports: MASTODON, A DOZEN FURIES and IT DIES TODAY will be the featured guests on the special "Ozzfest Second Stage" edition of the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" airing Monday, August 8. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Ministry Release Date

Blabbermouth reports: Sanctuary Records has set a September 27 release date for MINISTRY's 25th anniversary collection, entitled "RaNtologY". The 15-track release features "redux, remixes and alt mixes" by MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen and the previously unreleased "The Great Satan", heralding the forthcoming 2006 MINISTRY release, "Rio Grande Blood", according to a posting on the group's web site. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Deicide Seoul

Blabbermouth reports: Long-running Floridian death metallers DEICIDE will be performing a "surprise" club show at the Rolling Hall in Seoul, Korea on August 8. This will be DEICIDE's first-ever appearance in Seoul. Support at the gig will come from local acts SAHON and DOXOLOGY.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Holy Terror in a Box

Blabbermouth reports: Newly reformed Los Angeles thrashers HOLY TERROR have set "Stillborn" as the title of their upcoming CD box set, tentatively due in early 2006 on Candlelight Records. The set will feature never-before-heard remixes, outtakes, live stuff and video footage. "It clocks in at over three hours so be prepared," guitarist Kurt Colfelt (a.k.a. Kurt Kilfelt; ex-AGENT STEEL) tells BLABBERMOUTH.NET.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

New Doors?

BW&BK reports: [selections from Martin Popoff feature interview with Ray Manzarek]Legendary DOORS keyboardist Ray Manzarek gave BW&BK the following comment on the required legal change of the band name DOORS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, the moniker for the act Manzarek runs with Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and THE CULT singer Ian Astbury.

So you have to change the name of the band right now The Doors Of The 21st Century?

“Right, well, we’re D21C, eh, eh?! (laughs). Like it says on Ty’s drums (ed. Ty Dennis). D21C. So that’s who we are now.”

Are you guys going to be working on new music?

“Yeah, maybe. Yeah, we might. We’ve got some things; we’re talking about it. We’re in composition.” [see the full story for all of it!]- Click Here for the Full Story

Acoustic Outcasts

BW&BK reports: In a recent “Acoustic Outcasts Tour Diary” entry at Hardrock Haven (www.hardrockhaven.net) Ron Keel (KEEL, IRONHORSE) revealed that DOKKEN’s Don Dokken will be a headliner on dates of the Acoustic Outcasts tour in September.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Live 8 Profits

Contact Music reports: Campaigning rocker SIR BOB GELDOF's public-speaking fees have rocketed from $54,000 (GBP30,000) to $90,000 (GBP50,000) per talk - following his worldwide exposure at last month's (JUL05) star-studded Live 8 concert.

The Kruger Crowe agency reassessed Geldof's fees after the historic gig, which the former BOOMTOWN RAT organised to persuade G8 leaders to cancel debt in the developing world, double the aid budget and rewrite global trade laws. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Bangladesh DVD

Reuters reports: George Harrison's 1971 charity shindig "The Concert for Bangladesh," a rock extravaganza that paved the way for all-star benefits and set a new low for fiscal mismanagement, is coming to DVD for the first time on Oct. 25. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Sabbath Skip OH Too

BW&BK reports: Joe Siegler’s BLACK SABBATH site (www.black-sabbath.com) has been updated with the following message:

“Oz's sickness continues to derail Black Sabbath. I was just made aware that Black Sabbath will not be playing the Columbus, OH Ozzfest gig. That makes three in a row now, so one has to think, is this the last cancelled gig? I don't have any information about that, but my gut feeling says there will be more. Check with your local venue for further information.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rolling Metallica

BW&BK reports: METALLICA has posted the following update on their official website:

After taking three weeks off (!?) we thought it might be fun to play a few small intimate gigs (Kimo's, anyone??) so we called up our close personal friends, THE ROLLING STONES, to see what they were up to . . . turns out that they are doing a stadium tour of North America!

Nah - seriously . . . last week we were honored to receive an invitation from the Stones to share the stage with them in our home town. After having the thrill of playing with some of our personal heroes such as AC/DC, DEEP PURPLE, IRON MAIDEN and OZZY, how could we say no to the quintessential rock band, who are in some way responsible for all of this? [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Sepultura Recording

The PRP reports: Sepultura look to have now reconvened in the studio to begin recording their new album "Dante 05". The group have been working on the effort with producer Andre Moraes and are expecting a release early next year through SPV. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

HIM /Finch Dates

The PRP reports: Tentative dates have been unveiled for H.I.M.'s fall tour with Finch and Skindred, here's the schedule:
October 04th Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
October 05th San Diego - SOMA
October 06th San Diego - SOMA
October 07th Irvine, CA - Bren Events Center at UC Irvine
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