antiMUSIC's Day In Rock 4/27: Zeppelin Reunion- Metallica in Chains- MTV's Pope Bashing- Queen of Crock- Jet- Download- Godsmack- Ozzy- Sirius Meets Rebel-

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Zeppelin Reunion

BW&BK reports: According to Led-Zeppelin.com, JIMMY PAGE and ROBERT PLANT are scheduled to perform together at the upcoming Montreux Jazz Festival for a tribute to Atlantic Record's founder Ahmet Ertegun on June 30th. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Metallica in Chains

FMQB reports: [bit of a follow up... look who joined the fun!]Metallica singer James Hetfield and bassist Robert Trujillo will perform with Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney at a benefit show in Los Angeles on May 12. The concert/dinner is a fundraiser for the MusiCares MAP Fund[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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MTV's Pope Bashing Litigated

Contact Music reports: International music television network MTV is the target of a new lawsuit filed by a Christian Social Union party official in Berlin, Germany. The broadcaster is accused of disparaging Christianity with POPETOWN, it's series of Vatican-themed cartoons - one of which sees the Pope depicted as a pogo-stick riding brat.[see
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Queen of Crock

MTV reports: She asked the world "What's going on?," made Christina Aguilera feel beautiful, got the party started with Pink and discovered James Blunt, who made us feel beautiful. Now Linda Perry has a new mission.

"My dedication right now is to bring back the queen of rock and roll, and that's Courtney Love," Perry said at Thursday's "I Create Music" Expo for songwriters, put on by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. "That woman is brilliant, and I can't allow myself as a music lover and someone who really respects that artist to go down with America's Sweetheart. That record sucked.[at least Linda got that last part right. Love brilliant? Maybe she meant 'has a voice like a brillopad?' see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Jet Lag

Gigwise reports: Now for the news the whole world has been waiting for; Jet are close to finishing their second album.

Posting on their official website they revealed: “We've tracked 20 cracking songs. Weare now happy to tell you that that not only do we have drums and bass finished but that we are well into guitar overdubs. That means we are inundated with a cache of beautiful vintage guitars and amps.”[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Nothing is Sacred

CMJ reports: The beloved cult novel/film High Fidelity is set to hit the stage as a Broadway musical, a move that could see Rob belting out his Top Five Least Favorite Showtunes or Dick and Barry arguing the merits of Can in-key. Slated for a December release, the musical will be brought to you by the producers behind Avenue Q and songwriters Tom Kitt and Amanda Green who wrote the play Rabbit Hole. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Heavy Download

Blabbermouth reports: IN FLAMES, SICK OF IT ALL, ATREYU, JOHNNY TRUANT, DEVILDRIVER and MENDEED are among the latest acts confirmed for Download festival, set to take place at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, over the weekend of June 9-11 June.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Godsmack No 1

Blabbermouth reports: According to Hits Daily Double, GODSMACK's latest CD, "IV", is on track to sell more than 200,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 1 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. The official sales figures and chart positions will be released a week from today (May 3).[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Ozzy Can't Hack Dylan

Blabbermouth reports: According to Ozzyhead.com, a representative for Ozzy Osbourne has refuted published reports that Ozzy will record guest vocals for an upcoming BOB DYLAN tribute album. The original article, which was published by the Lansing State Journal, suggested that Ozzy would be appearing on the disc alongside MOUNTAIN guitarist Leslie West.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Sirius Meets Rebel

Blabbermouth reports: Legendary drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN) will be playing all of the tracks from REBEL MEETS REBEL, the long awaited collaboration between Vinnie, his late brother "Dimebag" Darrell, and outlaw country icon David Allan Coe, on Sirius Satellite Radio's "Hard Attack" on Friday, April 28 beginning at 9:00 p.m. "Vinnie's gonna tell us the deal behind every f-ing song… but he'll also talk about his brother, his music, his women and what it really means to meet a true rock and roll rebel," reads a Sirius press release. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Blind Orchestra

BW&BK reports: German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN’s Andre Olbrich (guitars) revealed in an interview with Metal Temple magazine that the band has been working on a strictly orchestral album, due for release in 2008. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

Metal Temple: Virgin never really took care of releasing your albums with bonus material and cool editions. Will this ever change?

Andre: "Yes! There will be a limited edition pack with one bonus track from our upcoming orchestral album. I don’t know what else Nuclear Blast Records is planning but they are more active than Virgin..."

Metal Temple: Orchestral album?

Andre: "Yes, this is material we are writing the last eight years and we have never found the time to release the album. But now we have almost finished the songwriting and we’ve started the production with our producer Charlie Bauerfeind and Viktor Smolski [Rage] who is involved in the orchestral recordings. The album will be released in 2008." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Bigger Tools

TuneLab reports: A message from vocalist Maynard James Keenan on Tool's homepage tells those who didn't get tickets to this sold-out warm-up tour not to worry, a larger, full-scale tour for the end of summer is in the works. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Euro Jesu

The PRP reports: Jesu will be touring Europe and the UK next month with Final, here's the dates:
May 10th Bristol, UK - The Cooler
May 12th Gent, BEL - Charlatan
May 13th Dordrecht, NET - Urban Explorers Festival
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Vagrant Lemonheads

punkbands reports: Vagrant has signed Lemonheads. The band reformed last summer and began work on their eighth studio album and first in almost a decade with producer Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, Descendents, ALL) who, along with Karl Alvarez (Descendents, ALL) is moonlighting in the band. The new album is due out this fall. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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AFI Escape Plan

punkbands reports: Dillinger Escape Plan have posted an update on some of their plans for the next few months.

The AFI/DEP tour will be major North American cities. We will be playing headlining shows on the offdates of that tour in places like Bumblefuck, Nebraska, and we also have two festival headlining appearances right before the AFI tour. Every date will be announced soon, we're just getting shit finalized. This is gonna be fun.We have been friends with the AFI guys for a while and haven't played with them since Krazyfest 2002 when they played right after us in front of the Ohio river. Anyone remember that shit? Crazy times. [see full story for more DEP happenings]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Natl Slayer Day

SMN reports: Are you interested in staging a "slay-out" and making a complete fool of yourself in public? Then join the ranks of the growing army behind NATIONAL DAY OF SLAYER. Scheduled for June 6, 2006 the purpose of the day, according to the organization's official website is, "for everyone within earshot to understand that it is the National Day of Slayer. National holidays in America aren't just about celebrating; they're about forcing it upon non-participants."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Initial Strhess

SMN reports: The first dates have been released for the upcoming Strhess Tour featuring SHADOWS FALL, POISON THE WELL, and STILL REMAINS:

with Darkest Hour, Bury Your Dead:
July 12 - Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
July 15 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
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