antiMUSIC's Day In Rock 5/19: Ozzy Vs Midget- Britney Flop- Jacko Strikes Back- Oasis Snubs Queen- Coldplay Vs EMI- more

Day In Rock 5/19: Ozzy Vs Midget- Britney Flop- Jacko Strikes Back- Oasis Snubs Queen- Coldplay Vs EMI- Ween- Top Artists Of All Time- DMB Beat Weezer- Elvis Ramone- Chino Beats Geezer- Meshuggah- Nightmare- antiMyspace- Rush- Hate Eternal - Madball- Bodyjar - Hot Rod Circuit Lose Member- New Order- Chevelle- Adema- Chuck Tribute- Smashing Bands- Incubus- Maul Stanley- more

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Ozzy Vs Midget

rockdirt reports: Guitar World magazine asked several rockers "What's your most 'Spinal Tap' moment?" Ozzy Osbourne remembered when he lost his patience with the midget Black Sabbath hired for a tour. "He showed up late, he drank....It got to me after awhile," Osbourne explained. "So, one night, when he wanted to get on the tour bus, I threw him in the luggage compartment. Somebody grabbed me and said: 'What you're doing is not only illegal but it's inhumane.' I lost it. I yelled: 'He's my [bleeping] midget and I'll [bleeping] do what I want with him.' [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Britney Flop

antiMusic reports: The ratings are in and did people flock to UPN to see Britney's reality TV debut? Some did (3.5 million) but the show was dead last in the ratings for that time slot among the networks. Fox's "House" won the slot, CBS went country for second, a "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" repeat was third. ABC's sh*tcoms "George Lopez" and "According to Jim" were fourth and WB's "One Tree Hill" placed fifth, leaving Britney in the dust at sixth place. Then again 3.5 million would be a hit on MTV and Britney did almost double UPN's viewership in that timeslot. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Jacko Strikes Back

AP reports: A 12-year-old cousin of Michael Jackson testified Wednesday that he saw the pop star's young accuser steal wine and money and secretly watch pornography on television while masturbating.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Oasis Snubs Queen

Contact Music reports: OASIS star NOEL GALLAGHER has revealed he turned down the chance to visit British monarch QUEEN ELIZABETH II at Buckingham Palace last year (04), because he has no respect for the royal family.

The rocker admits he was surprised by the odd invite to the Queen's London residence, but had no intention of honouring it. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Coldplay Vs EMI

BBC reports: Coldplay's Chris Martin has dismissed pressure to boost his record company's profits, saying: "Shareholders are the great evil of this modern world."

EMI issued a profit warning in February partly because the release of the UK band's latest album X&Y was delayed.

But Coldplay frontman Martin said: "I don't really care about EMI. I'm not really concerned about that."

He spoke about the "the slavery that we are all under to shareholders" ahead of the album's release in early June. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rare Ween

Aversion reports: Ween will release a collection of its rarities and other studio riffraff later this summer. The act announced it will plunder its garbage to give fans a shot at rarities that never made it onto an album. The collection, Shinola, will hit stores from the band’s own Chocodog label. No release date has been fixed for the set. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Top Artists Of All Time

DiS reports: DiS’ favourite bedtime read, The Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, published by the boffins at Guinness World Records, today release their annual list of the Top 100 Most Successful Acts of all Time today. The list is organised by a combined total of weeks on the UK singles and albums charts, and we have The King insurmountable at the top, while gnarly old Cliff has edged away from the The Beatles. Tragedy!

Here’s run down of the top 25 for you with other ‘notables’ highlighted…

1. ELVIS PRESLEY 2,463
2. CLIFF RICHARD 1,972
3. THE BEATLES 1,749
4. QUEEN 1,725
5. MADONNA 1,653
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DMB Beat Weezer

liveDaily reports: Moving nearly 465,000 copies during its first week in stores, the Dave Matthews Band's "Stand Up" debuts atop the U.S. album charts, marking the group's fourth consecutive No. 1 album.

Weezer's "Make Believe enters The Billboard 200 album chart at No. 2[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Elvis Ramone

Blabbermouth reports: Former RAMONES drummer Marky Ramone will be performing with Lisa Marie Presley in the park at the City Hall in New York City on Thursday (May 19) at 5 p.m. They will be playing the RAMONES song "Here Today Gone Tommorrow". [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Chino Beats Geezer

Blabbermouth reports: TEAM SLEEP's self-titled debut has sold 18,159 copies in the United States during its first week of release to land at position No. 52 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. The group, which features DEFTONES frontman Chino Moreno, along with Moreno's childhood friend Todd Wilkenson on guitar, DJ Crook, bassist Rick Verrett and drummer Zach Hill, has been working on the material since 2001.

Meanwhile, BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler's latest solo album, "Ohmwork", registered a first-week tally of 895 — a disappointing number considering Butler's status as one of heavy metal's founding fathers.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Meshuggah Preview

Blabbermouth reports: Tune in to Hard Attack, Channel 27 on Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. EST on Sirius Satellite Radio, as they nationally debut MESHUGGAH's highly anticipated new mindmelt, "Catch Thirty-Three" from Nuclear Blast Records, even before it hits U.S. stores beginning May 31. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Nightmare Guests

BW&BK reports: According to an update from French metallers NIGHTMARE, singer Floor Jansen and vocalist/guitarist Sanders Gommans (both AFTER FOREVER) as well as guitarist Ricky Marx (ex-PRETTY MAIDS) will appear on their new album as special guests. The band is currently still at Sound Suite Studio in south of France with Norwegian producer, Terje Refsnes on the helm, recording their fifth studio album[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

antiMyspace

antiMusic reports: antiMusic has a page up at myspace (myspace.com/antimusic) we don't much (anything) up there yet but we'll start adding stuff soon. Now for the high school line, If you want to our friend, click the full story link and do the deal. - Click Here for the Full Story

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Rush Delay

BW&BK reports: RUSH fan site Power Windows (www.2112.net) has been updated with the following:

“Vapor Trails Remaster, what's the deal?: Apparently Atlantic Records has once again delayed the release of the Vapor Trails Remaster. Although Atlantic's Rush page still offers it for sale, those that preordered the item from Atlantic's site received the below email just yesterday:

‘Thank you for ordering from Atlantic Records Online store. Unfortunately, Vapor Trails-Remastered, is no longer available for sale and has been canceled from your order.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Hate Eternal + 1

BW&BK reports: According to a posting at Earache's website, HATE ETERNAL has welcomed Eric Hersemann as their second guitarist. According to the site "Hersemann's induction into the band sees the former power-trio upgrading to quartet. This addition to the current line-up (frontman Erik Rutan, bassist Randy Piro, drummer Derek Roddy) will undoubtedly propel the already savage Hate Eternal live performance to new heights and will enable the band to fully represent the intensity of their new album, I, Monarch, in the live setting. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Madball Bonus

IAYM reports: Madball are planning to package a limited edition bonus DVD with their upcoming new album "Legacy" when it arrives in stores through Ferret on August 09th. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Bodyjar Go Indie

punkbands.com reports: Bodyjar has left EMI and signed to Australia-based indie Shock Records. The band posted this on their website: The first single from the new self titled LP will be released in July with the LP to follow around September.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Hot Rod Circuit Lose Member

Punkbands.com reports: Hot Rod Circuit have cancelled all their dates with The Get Up Kids. As posted on their website: "Hello again, there is a lot to report in the world of Hot Rod Circuit. First off, we are very sad to report that Jay Russell is no longer with the band. We support him in all ways (always) and wish him the best. He is focusing on his band, Diamond Jay and The Rough, please support him as we do. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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