antiMUSIC's Day In Rock 9/07: Backstreet Korn- Linkin Crue- R. Kelly is Ridiculous- Idol Film- Coldplay- Bored Sabbath- AC/DC- Club Death Suit- more

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Report for 9/12/05

Backstreet Korn

Rockdirt reports: RollingStone.com caught up with Brian 'Head' Welch and asked the former Korn guitarist why he left the band last year. "When we first started, Korn had power over all of our music and what we said -- the songs are pretty outspoken," Welch said. "Then with the last record, it seemed like everybody shifted from being down with the fans to wanting to make money, and our managers started getting really involved. They were telling us what songs to play -- and, I mean, they manage the Backstreet Boys! They started talking about hiring writers for the new record. I don't know if they did. And I was going, 'Dude, this is stupid.'[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Linkin Crue

KNAC reports: Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx reveals in his online diary that you can expect a new version of the band's classic song, "Home Sweet Home."

Here's his post: Tomorrow (Saturday, September 10th) will be a long day, but a good day. We need to be at CMT studios in Nashville to cut 'Home Sweet Home' live with Chester from LINKIN PARK at 9 am. We're gonna have other players as well, piano, a second guitar, strings, choir etc. We're doing this for the hurricane relief fund. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

R. Kelly is Ridiculous

punkbands reports: Here is the latest from Saves The Day in the studio: OK, sorry to do this here, but i can't take it. R. kelly is ridiculous. As a matter of fact, he's so out of his mind that we've created a new word for him- RIDICULATY!!!!! that's right, saves the day is starting a feud with r. kelly. We can't take it anymore. "trapped in the closet" is the most insane piece of crap i've ever seen. i can't be the only one who's flabbergasted at how bad this "song" is. unbelievable. almost as bad as my spelling. his acting performance of it on the vma's was painful to watch. he is out of his mind. and if you haven't heard his new "song" called "sex in the kitchen", you don't know what you're missing. that is, if you consider not hearing a song about "cutting up tomatoes, fruits and vegetables and potatoes" as missing out. he can't be serious. he must be stopped. who will join us in this fight? tell a friend. pete[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Idol Film

Contact Music reports: SIMON COWELL is making a movie based on his hit talent shows, AMERICAN IDOL, POP IDOL and X FACTOR.

The film will follow talented youngsters during their quest for fame.

The record executive-turned-talent show judge reveals, "I'm going to produce a film next year, not a million miles away from Pop Idol or X Factor. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Coldplay War Child

Ananova reports: Babayshambles and Coldplay have added their support to the new War Child album.

A host of bands have been in the studio over the last 24 hours laying down new material for the album released today.

Coldplay are donating the song How You See The World to the album.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Warped Benefit Off

Punk Music reports: Organizers of UNITE THE UNITED - A Concert To Raise Money For the Victims Of An American Tragedy announced that they're cancelling the show due to scheduling problems. The show was set to take place October 8 at Verizon Wireless Ampitheater in Irving, California. Instead, the producers of Vans Warped Tour and Rockstar Taste of Chaos Tour will donate 50 cents from every ticket sold at next year's tours to Hurricane Katrina Charities.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Bored Sabbath

OzzyHead.com reports: ...if you had asked Iommi two years ago what he hoped to be doing in 2005, he'd have said he wanted to be promoting a new Black Sabbath album, not a new Iommi disc. At the time, Sabbath were in the studio in Wales working on new material. But progress was slow, and by the time the bandmembers went their separate ways, they had ideas for about only six songs — ideas that have been gathering dust since then. At present, Black Sabbath have no plans to return to the studio to record those or any other songs.

"I've waited around a long time to do a Sabbath album, and it's getting frustrating," Iommi said. "I'm getting bored with the idea of waiting around any longer and I've got a lot of music to put out and I just want to do it. I wanted to go and really work on being in a band. So basically, that motivated me into making an album with Glenn and Kenny. It's a great band and a great outlet."
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Trendrunner Records

BW&BK reports: Transform Online has issued a new interview with OBITUARY bassist Frank Watkins.

The following is an excerpt from the interview: Q: why did you guys decide to stay with Roadrunner? This is your last record for them, right? Fans’ opinions of them are pretty split, between the death metal fallout of the mid-‘90s and the NICKLEBACK thing…

A: “Yeah, well, Roadrunner have always kinda been a “flavor of the month” label. When they signed us, death metal was huge. When NIRVANA hit it big, they signed bands like GRUNTRUCK. But you know, I’ve never had serious problems with them... although I do feel that they could’ve done more for us when we needed it. It seemed like whenever we were reaching a critical point, they’d sign another band and we’d fall by the wayside.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

AC/DC 2CD Set?

BW&BK reports: Brian Johnson joined VELVET REVOLVER onstage during their appearance at Hard Rock Live in Orlando, Florida this past Tuesday for a rendition of LED ZEPPELIN's ‘Rock And Roll’.

Angus Young told the Hit Parader magazine that AC/DC has written and recorded so much material over the last year that they might seriously consider making their next album release a double disc.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Club Death Suit

BW&BK reports: Nothing went right that night. There was the smash-up in the mosh pit, then the bar-side brawl. Before it was all over, Wendy Laskas' husband, Thomas, lay bleeding to death in a hallway at Ybor City's Masquerade nightclub while the band played on.

Three months after her husband was fatally stabbed, Wendy Laskas claims the nightclub's owners are to blame for his death. On Thursday, Laskas' attorney filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of her husband's estate in Hillsborough Circuit Court against Masquerade. The lawsuit alleges the club's owners were "negligent" when they allowed Michael Pyne, the man charged with murdering Thomas Laskas, into the club with a knife.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Rare Blackmore

BW&BK reports: According to Deep-purple.net the RITCHIE BLACKMORE '60s Sessions 2CD set is now likely to appear in November. The tracks were recorded between 1963 and 1970 when Blackmore worked as a session player, with a few sessions done after he joined DEEP PURPLE.[see full story for tracks and order info]- Click Here for the Full Story

Zombie Reissue

Audio Aggression reports: Rob Zombie will release a new version of the 1998 album 'Hellbilly Deluxe'. The new 'Hellbilly Super Deluxe' will feature the original album plus a DVD containing videos for every song on the album plus eight never before seen videos including "Meet The Creeper", "Channel X", "How To Make A Monster" and more. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Mastodon UK

NME reports: MASTADON have announced details of a UK tour for December.

The metallers will hit these shores ahead of the release of their as-yet-untitled third album which is due in early 2006.

In addition to the dates, the group will perform at All Tomorrow’s Parties’ The Nightmare Before Christmas on December 3 as part of The Mars Volta’s curated bill.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Audioslave Cuba CD/DVD

The PRP reports: Audioslave are plotting an October 11th release date through Epic for their upcoming live DVD effort, "Live In Cuba", which captures the bands Cuban concert which took place earlier this year. The outing will be released as both a plain DVD and a Special Edition DVD set[see full story for tracklisting]- Click Here for the Full Story

Jay-Z Pulls a Diddy

DiS reports: Jay-Z, um, isn't Jay-Z anymore. The rapper told reporters at Tuesday night's GQ Awards, albeit through someone else, that he would not take kindly to them referring to him as Jay-Z. Instead, he insisted that he should now be called Shawn Carter.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Platinum Rock

FMQB reports: August served as a resurgence of Rock as Green Day, My Chemical Romance, System Of A Down and Crossfade topped the RIAA plaques handed out.

Green Day's American Idiot was certified quadruple Platinum making it the second best-selling record in their history. System Of A Down earned its fourth consecutive Platinum album with Mezmerize. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Sick Idol

AP reports: Bronchitis has forced Kelly Clarkson to cancel three more concerts in Nevada and Washington.

The "Breakaway" singer called off two performances in California last week. Clarkson had hoped to be well enough to perform, but was still feeling ill at a sound check Friday, according to a statement from RCA Music Group [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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