antiMUSIC's Day In Rock 6/10: A7X Vs Atreyu- Jacko Hospitalized- Live 8 Failure- Lollapafarrell- Jack White's Side Gig- Ra- Butch Walker Does Avril- more

Day In Rock 6/10: A7X Vs Atreyu- Jacko Hospitalized- Live 8 Failure- Lollapafarrell- Jack White's Side Gig- Ra- Butch Walker Does Avril- Skynyrd Illness- Darkness Orchestra- Rock School Expelled- Machine Head- Twisted Method Split- Newsted's New Gig- Hatebreed- Hoobastank- 311- Failure- dredg- 3 Inches of Blood- Earth, Wind & Fire- Goo Goo Dolls- "Si" Waronker RIP- Free Boyband- more

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A7X Vs Atreyu

Victory reports: Feuds aren't just for rappers and former ska band members anymore. Orange County's Avenged Sevenfold called out neighbors Atreyu publicly in U.K.'s rock weekly, Kerrang, with M. Shadows claiming "Atreyu are leading the scene that we want to get out of. They're part of it and we're not. I wouldn't say we are fucking friends." He goes on to accuse Atreyu of ripping off a song intro while band mate The Reverend maintains that there is no rivalry to speak of! The fair, balanced journalists at Kerrang! gave Atreyu a chance to respond in this week's issue. Vocalist Alex Varkatzas was dismissive, saying, "As far as we knew we were on good terms with the guys, having toured with them briefly in the past. We were looking forward to seeing them again on the Warped Tour so we're slightly taken aback by all of this. I guess if you're not down with Atreyu, you can go fuck yourself." Kerrang! took the last word, saying, "We hear ya, buddy." With both bands spending the long hot summer on tour together, anything could happen - this bad blood could dwarf the likes of The Killers vs. The Bravery, 50 Cent vs. The Game, Kelly Osbourne vs. Christina Aquilera and even the classic beef between David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar over fronting Van Halen. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Jacko Hospitalized Again

andPOP reports: The fifth day of jury deliberation in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial is complete, and still no verdict.

Meanwhile, Jackson was in the Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Wednesday night, the third time this week. He had a scheduled treatment for his back spasms. He had to visit the hospital two other times during the trial. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Live 8 Failure

Contact Music reports: SIR BOB GELDOF predicts his LIVE 8 concerts and protest marches will fail to force the hands of international leaders - but he will be safe in the knowledge he did everything within his power to relieve poverty in Africa.

The BAND AID icon hates the work involved with organising such huge scale events, but he would have struggled to live with himself if he hadn't taken action, just as he did with 1985's legendary BAND AID concerts. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Lollapafarrell

MTV reports: Perry Farrell's newest band, the Satellite Party — which includes former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt and world-music percussionist Gabriele Corcos — will be performing at this summer's two-day Lollapalooza (July 23-24) in Chicago.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Jack White's Side Gig

Aversion reports: Jack White of the White Stripes will be recording an album with a brand-new outfit.

Joining singer/guitarist Brendan Benson, White’s next record will be from Raconteurs, a band that ditches the Stripes’ guitar-and-drum minimalism for a more traditional twin-guitar attack. They pair will be backed up by bass and guitar. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Ra's Duality Explained

Day in Rock reports: In anticipation of the release of Ra's sophomore album, we were given some tidbits about the release and why it's named Duality. - Ra recorded, produced and mixed 70% of Duality in Sahaj's parents' Upstate NY home and his own Sun God Rock studios in East Rutherford NJ, four songs of which were collaborations with producer Bob Marlette (Black Sabbath, Seether, Shinedown, Saliva).

Divided into two parts, the first labeled "Fear," the second "Love," Duality's dialectic covers a wide range of emotions in its journey from despair to hope. The intensity of "Take Me Away," interspersing howling guitars, tribal rhythms and Sting-like vocals, is juxtaposed with the reggae beat of "I Lost Everything." The Middle Eastern flavor and U2 feel of "The Only One" segues into the harmonic arena-rock of "Say You Will," while the wrenching distortion of "Taken" forms a counterpoint to the lush landscape of "Swimming Upstream," which unflinchingly views an unrequited love with measured regret. - Check out the full story link to hear the first single "Fallen Angels". - Click Here for the Full Story

Butch Walker Does Avril

Epileptic Records reports: Epic recording artist Butch Walker is returning to the road with Avril Lavigne and Gavin DeGraw for a tour that begins July 17th at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Detroit.

Walker is touring in support of acclaimed Epic debut LETTERS. Walker, who produced and co-wrote Avril Lavigne's No. 1 hit single "My Happy Ending," recently re-entered the studio with her to record a cover of "Imagine" for Amnesty International's Songs of John Lennon. He's also writing with Pink and will produce her upcoming album. In addition, Walker co-wrote-and contributed guest vocals to-"Good Times," the theme to Tommy Lee's new NBC reality show, "Tommy Lee Goes To College." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Skynyrd Illness

liveDaily reports: Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd have mapped out a lengthy summer tour itinerary, but an illness has temporarily waylaid the group's roadtrip.

The band has postponed planned stops in New Jersey and New Hampshire on June 14 and 15, respectively, while singer Johnny Van Zant recovers from "a severe case of strep throat" that he "has been battling for the past month," according to a press release. The illness also forced the band to scrap its scheduled appearance at this week's CMA Music Festival in Nashville. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Darkness Orchestra

Blabbermouth reports: THE DARKNESS have now left the Welsh studio they were based in for the past few months recording their new album and have moved to a London studio to complete guitarist Dan Hawkins' guitar parts and singer Justin Hawkins' vocals.

As for indications of what the follow-up to "Permission to Land" sounds like, a report on the band's web site claims that the record will contain major orchestrations in the form of string arrangement by Paul Buckmaster, famous for his work with MILES DAVIS, THE ROLLING STONES and ELTON JOHN. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rock School Expelled

Blabbermouth reports: "Rock School", the documentary about the real-life "School of Rock", has closed after just one weekend on a handful of screens. Sources told Launch that after a very light box office, Newmarket Films opted to cancel the remaining nationwide openings with no word about whether they'll be rescheduled. "Rock School" is about the Paul Green School of Rock in Philadelphia, where students high school-aged and younger learn to play rock music in a structured setting. Alice Cooper makes a cameo appearance, performing his hit "School's Out" with some of the students as the end credits roll.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Machine Head DVD

Blabbermouth reports: Roadrunner Records has set an August 16 release date (one day earlier internationally) for the new MACHINE HEAD DVD, entitled "Elegies".

The disc will consist of a concert recorded at Brixton Academy in December of 2004. The live footage will be broken up every two or three songs with interstitial segments featuring the following themes:

1. The making of the "Through the Ashes of Empires" album
2. The making of both videos shot during the "Through the Ashes..." album cycle ("Imperium" and "Days Turn Blue to Gray")
3. Behind-the-scenes tour footage.
[see full story for more including full tracklist]- Click Here for the Full Story

Twisted Method Split

Blabbermouth reports: After just one CD, "Escape from Cape Coma", metal band TWISTED METHOD is no more.

Last week, Derrick "Tripp" Tribbett, the lead vocalist for the Cape Coral-based band that formed after members at Mariner High School, announced on its Web site that two members were leaving for other pursuits.

On Thursday (June 9), the band's manager Charlie Pennachio, confirmed that drummer Ben Goins and guitarist Andy Howard left the band.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Newsted's New Gig

BW&BK reports: The Chophouse Records website (www.chophouserecords.com) reports that bassist Jason Newsted (aka Jasonic - VOIVOD, ex-METALLICA) recently teamed up with slide/blues guitar master Roy Rogers and Carl Coletti (formerly with OTTMAR LIEBERT) to create a new project called HEARD OF ELEMENTS (written HEARd of eleMEents). The trio wrote and recorded four new songs [see full story for a link to the songs]- Click Here for the Full Story

Euro Hatebreed

BW&BK reports: HATEBREED’s website (www.hatebreed.com) has been updated with four exclusive European tour dates, which are as follows:

June
23 at SO36 in Berlin, Germany (with MERAUDER)
24 at Pressure Festival in Herne, Germany
25 at Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium
26 at Rohre in Stuttgart, Germany

[see full story for some sideproject news]- Click Here for the Full Story

Shortino Returns

BW&BK reports: MelodicRock.com report that former ROUGH CUTT/QUIET RIOT Paul Shortino has a new project on the way, featuring Paul on vocals, Ira Black on guitars (VICIOUS RUMORS), Matt Thorn on bass (Rough Cutt, JAILHOUSE) and Patrick Johansson on drums (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN). [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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