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Report for 9/2/05

Singer Attacked

Gigwise reports: Simply Red front man Mick Hucknall was forced to defend himself earlier this week when a crazed fan jumped on stage and attacked him.

Hucknall was performing in Cuba when a man ran on to the stage and tried to punch him, he fought back and ended up pushing the attacker into the orchestra pit. The show was then ended and police arrested the man. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Love Homeless?

Rockdirt reports: The New York Daily News reports Mercury Capital Corp. wants to foreclose on Courtney Love's 4,200-square-foot loft after the former Hole singer missed two $30,000 mortgage payments for July and August.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Cheap Fiddy

Contact Music reports: 50 CENT has changed all of the names in his new biography FROM PIECES TO WEIGHT: ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOUTHSIDE QUEENS - because he wants to avoid paying out royalties to pals.

And while 50 Cent was willing to share the harsh realities of his life with fans, he refused to share names.

He says, "(I changed the names) in case somebody wants some of the money I make off it; if they wanna come back and sue me for my life."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Kate Bush Returns

BBC reports: Singer Kate Bush will release her first album in 12 years in November - a double album entitled Aerial.

It will follow a single, King of the Mountain, released on 24 October, with both the single and album produced by Bush herself. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

CBGB Fights On

AP reports: CBGB's owner Hilly Kristal, sitting at his usual perch Thursday inside the Bowery's renowned nightclub, offered twin observations: He's got no lease, and no intention of quietly surrendering his club.

"It's a fight, a hard fight, and we're going to keep fighting," said the bearded 72-year-old patriarch of the club where the Ramones and Talking Heads found a home. "We think we have a chance of coming out on top." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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R.L. Burnside RIP

AP reports: R.L. Burnside, one of the last, great Mississippi bluesmen, whose raw, country blues was discovered late in his life, has died. He was 78.

Burnside died Thursday morning at the St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. His health had been declining for some time, said Matthew Johnson, owner of Burnside's record label, Fat Possum.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

QOTSA Bed Rest

Blabbermouth reports: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE frontman Josh Homme was diagnosed with exhaustion and ordered by a doctor to rest in bed, according to the band's official web site. The group was forced to cancel its Tuesday night (August 30) show in Stuggart, Germany as a result. Homme has been on tour in Europe despite recovering from a knee operation that he had a week before the tour began. The web site says he is "resting now and in stable condition."
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ADF on Sharon Vs Ozzy

antiMusic reports: This week's MorleyView features Battle for Ozzfest winners A Dozen Furies. During the interview Morley asked frontman Bucky Garrett about the recent events between Sharon and Iron Maiden. An excerpt is below:

antiMusic: What can you tell us about the Sharon Vs Dickinson thing? Did you see Maiden's last show and the events that transpired? Had Bruce really been bagging on Ozzy for the entire time?

Garrett: Yeah, from what I heard. And then the whole thing happened in San Bernardino which was just outrageous. I don't know how much he deserved but they were shutting the power off on him and stuff like that. I don't know. Anybody who has the balls to talk mess about Sharon or Ozzy who has had their own festival which is named after Ozzy for 10 years. And it's been one of the most successful tours ever….is just real ballsy. And in my opinion it's a bad move. But I'm not Iron Maiden so it's not my decision.

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More Boss

Reuters reports: A 17-date run of fall solo shows is on tap for Bruce Springsteen, continuing his roadwork in support of his latest album, the spare and pensive "Devils & Dust." The new leg will kick off as October 6 in Rochester, N.Y.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Outkast Cartoon

Gigwise reports: Cartoon Network have revealed that work has finally begun on Outkast star Andre 3000’s animation series.

The show follows the lives of a group of young musicians, and as mtv reports "an unlikely visitor that will bring sunshine to their lives."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Bloc Party Illness

Gigwise reports: Bloc Party have been forced to cancel some live dates after front man Kele Okereke was advised to rest his voice for a week.

Okereke had been suffering a sore throat at the Carling Weekend: Leeds and Reading and saw a specialist when he returned. As a result they’ll no longer be performing at the I-Days Festival in Italy and in London tomorrow night at the Virgin Digital launch. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Nirvana Exhibition

Gigwise reports: A new Nirvana show, entitled ‘Nirvana – With The Lights Out,’ showcasing over 60 photos of the band’s tumultuous career, is opening in London next month.

The exhibition opens on October 27 at London’s Sony Ericsson Proud Central Gallery and runs until November 20. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Silly News: Ugly Gwen

DiS reports: Gwen Stefani, whose latest single 'Cool' was released on Monday, has told a womens' weekly that she considers herself to be fat and ugly.

"I think of myself as a fat little dorky kid," the tall and slim singer told glossy mag Grazia. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Motley Flop?

Blabbermouth reports: Jeff Korbelik of the Lincoln Journal Star is reporting that Tommy Lee's appeal is waning — at least with the rest of the country. The MÖTLEY CRÜE rocker’s reality show, "Tommy Lee Goes to College", drew its smallest audience Tuesday night since debuting Aug. 16.

The fourth episode, which featured Lee's fraternity antics on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, drew 4.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

In comparison, the premiere logged 5.2 million, episode two had 6.1 million and last week's show attracted 5.5 million.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Punk Yoga

Punk Music reports: I recently came across this intersting article about this guy named Noah Levine who has started a revolution of sorts with a 'yoga' prgram entitled "Dharma Punx".

A little excerpt from Levine: "the connection between punk culture and Buddhist teachings in his book, Dharma Punx: "Buddhism teaches present-time awareness. It's not about living for some future date. It's about moment-to-moment awareness in this present time. That's punk. The Buddha said his path leads against the stream. That's punk."
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On Second Thought

Blabbermouth reports: One day after announcing his departure from OBITUARY, guitarist Allen West has rejoined the group and is on his way to the first show of the band's U.S. tour with NAPALM DEATH, which is scheduled to kick off Thursday (September 1) in Springfield, Virginia. OBITUARY bassist Frank Watkins contacted BLABBERMOUTH.NET on Wednesday (Aug. 31) to set the record straight regarding West's status in the group. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Disturbed Proposal

Blabbermouth reports: DISTURBED show in Milwaukee WI, drummer Mike Wengren proposed to his girlfriend onstage. Before the set closer, "Stupify", DISTURBED frontman David Draiman handed the mic over to Mike, who explained how he's spent a lot of time in Milwaukee recently and how he met his girlfriend here. He then invited her onstage and proposed to her (and, of course, she said yes). The band congratulated him, had some shots, and then proceeded to finish the show.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Voivod Carry On

Blabbermouth reports: VOIVOD singer Denis "Snake" Belanger has told the Quebec newspaper Le Soleil that the band will return to the recording studio in late September to resume work on their 14th album, tentatively due in early 2006 via The End Records.

Only hours before he slipped into a coma last week due to complications from colon cancer, VOIVOD guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour gave the group's drummer, Michel "Away" Langevin, instructions to go to the guitarist's personal computer and lift the final guitar tracks Piggy had been working on for the upcoming CD.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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