antiMUSIC's Day In Rock 7/18: Britney Metal- Ozzy Vs Maiden?- Slash Sued- Eminem Retirement?- Village People Drug Bust- Manson- Concert Arrests- more

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Report for 7/18/05

2 Years in Rock

Today marks the second anniversary of the Day in Rock. It has changed quite a bit from the beginnings two years ago which featured a handful of stories every few days to the Day In Rock report you are now reading which features on average 30 stories each week day.

A big thanks to our regular readers for making the Day in Rock a success and a HUGE thanks to all of the sources used to compile the report. Without them we wouldn't have stories to highlight and remember we only hand pick a few stories from our sources so always be sure to click the full story links to read all of the stories that are happening on any given day in rock.

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Britney Metal

KNAC reports: According to a Children of Bodom fan site, the surprise track on the forthcoming COB album Are You Dead Yet?, will be a cover of the Britney Spears hit "Oops, I Did It Again".

A source at the website has revealed that keyboardist Janne Warman happens to be a Britney fan.
[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Ozzy Vs Maiden?

Blabbermouth reports: An IRON MAIDEN fan with the screen name "Kaz96133" has posted the following message on the official MAIDEN message board [NOTE: Thread has since been deleted from MAIDEN's message board]:

"Went to Ozzfest in Mansfield yesterday and noticed something on the back of the official [Ozzfest] T-shirt. At the bottom of tour dates, the words 'Iron Maiden' were written in Japanese and were crossed out with red circle and a slash. Check out the photo I took here [NOTE: Thread has since been deleted from MAIDEN's message board]. This is clearly an anti-MAIDEN message, and this is an OFFICIAL T-shirt![see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Slash Sued

Blabbermouth reports: According to Celebrity Justice, Slash's former publicist, Arlett Vereecke, has filed a lawsuit against the former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist claiming that Slash stiffed her out of tens of thousands of dollars.

Vereecke told "Celebrity Justice" by phone that Slash got lots of jobs while she worked with him. He co-hosted the "Jimmy Kimmel" show for a week and had a part in the cartoon "Kid Notorious".

So what went wrong? Vereecke said that Slash's wife, Perla Hudson, came between them, saying, "She's on a power trip. It's all about her. She doesn't want Slash to be involved with anyone but her." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Eminem Retirement?

NME reports: Eminem is to sensationally bring the curtain down on live performing after his current tour, it has been suggested.

The star’s D12 bandmate Proof said Eminem wanted to concentrate on production from now on. He told the Detroit Free Press that Eminem’s show at Slane Castle, Ireland on September 17 would be his last.

"Em has definitely got to the level where he feels like he's accomplished everything he can accomplish in rap," said Proof. "He wants to kick back and get into the producing thing. Why not bow out while you're on top?"[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Village People Drug Bust

Gigwise reports: Victor Edward Willis – the Village People’s original cop outfitted singer – has been arrested by real life police, who found a gun and rock cocaine in his Chevrolet Corvette last week.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Manson Movies

Blabbermouth reports: MARILYN MANSON recently told RollingStone.com that he will be releasing a set of four short films, entitled "Fantasma Gloria", through his web site. "It's the visions of Lewis Caroll — in fact I'm playing Carroll," he said. In Installment One, Manson explores the origin of "Alice in Wonderland"'s Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. "I might add that the girls playing Tweedle Dee and Dum are twins who get to have real, genuine sex with each other. I like to make dreams come true."
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Concert Arrests

Blabbermouth reports: According to El Sol de Mexico, police in Santiago, Chile arrested 15 people who tried to enter by force the venue where American death metal band DEICIDE were performing their first-ever concert in the country.

The arrests were reportedly made on Friday (July 15) after the organizers of the event closed the doors of the packed Gymnasium Nataniel, causing nearly two hundred fans to be turned away when they tried to enter the concert.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Who F Bomb ABC

BW&BK reports: Those rowdy rock stars have been at it again. A TV watchdog group filed a complaint against ABC on Thursday because THE WHO sang the real lyrics to ‘Who Are You’ during the Live 8 concert.

In its complaint, the Parents Television Council said the band's performance July 2 included the "Who the fuck are you" line.

"The program was aired on a tape delay, which should have given ABC ample time to edit all obscenities from the concert prior to broadcast," said Tim Winter, executive director of the PTC. "ABC took steps to edit other profanity from the broadcast. But given the time of day that this program aired, the broad family appeal of the Live 8 event, as well as the program's PG rating, ABC should have been more diligent." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Silly News: Dio Diaper

BW&BK reports: Metal Babies have introduced a new DIO item, the Un-Holy Diaper.

Metal Babies state, “Also, we've been in talks with some very cool rockers, and there are even more new goods coming very shortly. Metal Babies WILL be featured at this year's Ozzfest, so come check us out, we'll be featured at Crazy Jane's booth, just ask for Crazy Jane's when you enter the festival.[sounds like something Gene Simmons would do. see full story for more including a link to an image of the Un-holy diaper]- Click Here for the Full Story

Foo Weezer

andPOP reports: After much speculation, it has been confirmed that Weezer and the Foo Fighters will co-headline in an arena tour this September.

On Friday, it was announced which cities the tour would be hitting, but other important details, such as dates, venues and ticket prices, were left unmentioned. [see full story for cities and support info]- Click Here for the Full Story

COC UK

The PRP reports: Corrosion Of Conformity will be touring the UK this fall, dates include:
September 25th Stoke, UK - Sugarmill
September 26th Oxford, UK - Zodiac
September 28th Portsmouth, UK - Wedgwood Rooms
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Grohl on Cobain

antiMusic - Trent McMartin Special Report reports: Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl spoke candidly recently to Austin Scaggs of Rolling Stone about his relationship with the late Kurt Cobain. When asked why Cobain or Nirvana made him feel so insecure, Grohl replied, “When I joined Nirvana I was the fifth or sixth drummer -- I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.”

The usually private Grohl has never really publicly discussed Cobain at such great length as he does in this interview touching upon various topics as Cobain’s sometime dissatisfaction with Grohl’s drumming, the pressure of being in Nirvana, the MTV Unplugged performance and the time leading up to Cobain’s death. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Stratovarius 11th Album

Chipster reports: Stratovarius, the Finnish masters of symphonic metal, are prepared to unleash their eponymous 11th album, on September 13th, 2005. The respected lineup of vocalist Timo Kotipelto, guitarist Timo Tolkki, drummer Jorg Michael and keyboardist Jens Johansson has carried on the Stratovarius legacy, along with new bassist Lauri Porra. A full-scale world tour will accompany the album’s release.[see full story for dates and tracks]- Click Here for the Full Story

Pixie Scores Weeds

Press Release reports: In addition to being the guitarist for one of the most influential and beloved bands of all-time, PIXIES' guitarist Joey Santiago is forging a career in television. Over the past few months in-between Pixies' reunion dates, Santiago has been holed up in the studio scoring the original music for "Weeds," the new Showtime original comedy series that debuts August 10. "Weeds" stars Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Nealon, and looks at "typical" family life in the suburban neighborhood of Agrestic, CA where recently-widowed Nancy Botwin (Parker) makes ends meet by becoming the neighborhood pot dealer.

"This is a lot of fun and something I can continue to do when I'll embarrass my kids by being on stage," joked Santiago. "Scoring a TV series is a lot different than playing in a band, the pace and deadlines are completely different, but once you get into the groove, it's really great."

Hailed as "the most talked-about comedy in ages" by Newsweek, "Weeds" will air on Showtime Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10:00PM. [see full story for more including a Frank Black update and Pixies tour dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

...Lamest Songs Special

We're taking a break over the next couple weeks from our Artist Top Five lists to bring you the 101 Lamest Songs of All Time. Our writers and readers were asked to nominate the songs for this special and we've compiled the nominations into our definitive 101 Lamest Songs of All Time list.

Over the next two weeks we'll be rolling out the list each week day. We're starting backwards with final 10 and will be working our way back. Also to do something a little different we'll also be revealing one song from the Top 10 each week day in the Day in Rock report with comments on why each song was selected and came out at the top of the lame list.

1) Nookie - Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is the poster child for all that is wrong with popular music. Ever since they first infected popular culture with their jock rock sounds, they have been responsible for some of lamest music ever produced. "Nookie" takes the prize not only for the lamest Limp Bizkit song but the lamest song period with lyrics that could have easily been written by a 1st grader. In short, "Nookie" is the musical equivalent to a fart joke. The only problem for Fred Durst & Co is that the joke is on them!

Click Here to find out which songs landed in the 91-101 slots and to post your comments and submit artists for the next Lame list.

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