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Report for 12/02/05
311 Slapps Stapp
Day in Rock reports: [The following came from one of our regular readers] According to SA Martinez of 311. Scott Stapp was in the same Hotel/Hotel Bar in Baltimore on Thanksgiving night. Apparently Mr. Stapp showed up to the lounge in the Hotel while the boys from 311 were enjoying the Laker game. [The following comes from 311's website] "[Stapp] appeared intoxicated. He drank a shot at the bar and then threw his shot glass, smashing it on the bar. He was acting belligerent and got into an argument with patrons sitting at the bar. He then sat down next to SA and his wife. He made a disrespectful and crude remark to SA's wife. Chad and SA asked him to step away. He then sucker-punched Chad." According to SA on KROQ yesterday, "I laid Scott Stapp out" and then Chad finished the job. Hotel Security and Baltimore Police showed up. No arrests were made and Mr. Stapp was made to check out of the hotel immediately. [There are various reports on the web about this. The Hotel security hotel director told AP that he has film of the fight and it appears that 311 attacked Stapp. Billboard reports that the Baltimore Police have no record of officers responding to a call to the hotel. We could not find an official comment from the Stapp camp beyond a "no comment" given to E! You can read 311's account at the full story link] 
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Poison for Tots
BW&BK reports: [Poison guitarist CC ]DeVille stars in episode of the Nickelodeon series South Of Nowhere. He plays a Rock Star who goes home to see his daughter after 20 years. The episode included a song titled 'Hang On' which was written and performed by Deville.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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RIAA Strike Again
tinfoil.music reports: Organized Music's RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) yesterday issued another 754 subpoenas as part of its sue 'em all marketing drive.

Victims included students at 12 colleges. This makes what, close to 17,000 Americans who are being hounded by the OM family, Sony BMG (Japan, Germany) Vivendi Universal (France), EMI (Britain) and Warner Music (US, but headed by a Canadian)? [maybe the kids downloaded in order to avoid getting rootkits stealthy installed on this PCs? Now wouldn't that make for an interesting defense? see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Post Damageplan
Day in Rock reports: The Mercy Clinic featuring Pat Lachman (Damageplan, Fight) and Brian Harrah (Professional Murder Music, Cold) are playing a showcase @ the Viper Room on December 16th. It's an early show so get there early, Mercy Clinic hits the stage at 7:45. While no one here at anti has see this new band, we have been told by someone we trust, "This is an amazing band that I really believe in and you won't be sorry you came out. I Promise!" Good enough for us. (ok we did check out the mp3s on there site and they do kick ass) If we hear more we'll tell you more. Also playing that night antiFEST 02 alums Solarcade and OC buzz band Bril. Check out the full story to learn more about The Mercy Clinic. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Taste of Chaos Details
antiMusic reports: So you want a little Taste of Chaos? You're in luck, Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman has organized another run of the Winter festival tour. As reported earlier this week, they have quite the line up in store for 06 edition of the tour including Thrice, Deftones, Story of the Year, As I Lay Dying, Atreyu and more (see full list below). But what you didn't know was where this little bit of chaos was gonna take place. You're in luck. We happened upon the official dates and they are posted below. 

Some overpriced, under energized energy drink has singed on as the "title" sponsor of the tour. Oh yeah, they call it Rock Star Energy Drink and they will supposedly be giving away free samples at the shows instead of charging the ordinary $1 or $2 bucks an oz. Hot Topic, Best Buy and more of the usual suspects are also sponsoring the tour. 

US Dates:
February 16 - San Diego, CA - San Diego Sports Arena
February 17 - Phoenix, AZ - Mesa Amphitheatre
February 18 - El Paso, TX - County Coliseum 
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Darkness Sacking Explained
Contact Music reports: THE DARKNESS frontman JUSTIN HAWKINS kicked bass player FRANKIE POULLAIN out of the band when he heard about the rocker's scheming plans to turn his brother against him.

Hawkins reveals he'd already grown tired of Poullain's efforts to find the group's financial accounting faulty and when the bassist started suggesting bandmate DAN HAWKINS should be looking out for himself, the singer decided enough was enough.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Kitty Rock
FMQB reports: After receiving critical acclaim for 2003's full-length debut, Fever To Tell, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are poised to drop the follow-up sometime next year. However, the songs' themes may surprise fans used to Karen O's sexually-charged lyrics. According to producer Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel aka director Spike Jonze's brother), the new album is based around the life and times of Karen's pet cat. Seriously.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Auction Johnson
MTV reports: Jack Johnson, along with Matt Costa and Tom Dumont, who supported Johnson on his 2005 summer trek, have donated an autographed cherry-red Hamer Echotone guitar to be auctioned off for charity on eBay. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the MusiCares Foundation, which assists musicians in times of need.[see full story to see who else have goodies up for bid]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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JaY-Z Nixes Bio
MTV reports: It turns out Jay-Z isn't going to share his life story with the world after all. The rapper signed a deal with MTV Books two years ago to publish his autobiography, to be co-written with hip-hop journalist Dream Hampton and called "The 

Black Book." But once the book was finished, Jay apparently got cold feet and decided not to put it out[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Rush Rockline
Blabbermouth reports: Canadian rock legends RUSH will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" airing Wednesday, December 14. The live show begins at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Club Fire Update
Blabbermouth reports: A federal judge has refused to dismiss a massive negligence case against the town of West Warwick, which was filed by more than 250 people who were injured or lost family members in the February 2003 blaze, including the girlfriend of late GREAT WHITE guitarist Ty Longley.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Arch Enemy on Maiden Egging
Blabbermouth reports: Arch Enemy Mike Amott, "That's not how you treat a legendary heavy metal band � at least that's the way I see it. At the same time, it didn't feel like it was my battle. It was Bruce Dickinson on one side and Sharon Osbourne on the other. Both are multi-millionaires and maybe have egos to back it up. [The dispute] had nothing to do with us and was solely between these two camps. It just seemed ridiculous that something like that was taken to that level. The problems should have been solved backstage, with them getting into a fight there or something. It shouldn't have happened on stage, as it affected the audience who had bought super-expensive tickets just to have their IRON MAIDEN concert ruined."[see full story for more on this and find out about their reaction to seeing another man naked on stage at $haronfest]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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From Crown To Stolen Policecar
Blabbermouth reports: STOLEN POLICECAR, the new Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN bassist Magnus Olsfelt, are currently mixing their debut album at Studio MT with producer Marko Tervonen (ANGEL BLAKE, ex-THE CROWN). The group, who are currently unsigned, will present the finished album to interested labels.

Commented Tervonen: "From a producer's point of view, I must say that the album is simply phenomenal. I have always had a huge respect for Magnus as a songwriter and this time the man is f***ing peaking. And the whole band is a very strong unit. We recorded 14 songs and the end result is a pretty diverse album with sounds from punk, rock, metal, Seattle... to... simply timeless rock anthems.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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EFF Calls DMCA Reform A Crock
tinfoil.music reports: Congress has instructed the U.S. Copyright Office to consider every three years whether we need temporary exemptions to the DMCA's blanket ban on circumventing "technological protection measures" (aka DRM) used to lock up copyrighted works.

EFF has participated in each of the two prior rulemakings (in 2000 and 2003), each time asking the Copyright Office to create exemptions for perfectly lawful consumer uses for digital media that are encumbered by DRM restrictions. For example, we asked that DVD owners be allowed to skip those "unskippable" ads at the beginning of DVDs. We asked that people who bought copy-protected CDs be allowed to get them to play on their computer. We asked that consumers be allowed to bypass region coding to play a DVD purchased in another part of the world. The Copyright Office rejected all of these proposals. This year, we are not submitting any proposals.[see full story on why they feel the system is broken]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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