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| Fatal
Concert |
soundgenerator.com reports: Ten people, all
thought to be teenagers, died yesterday when a concert on the Indonesian
island of Java by local stars Ungu ended in disaster.
Police say that all ten deaths were caused
by the victims suffocating or being trampled to death when fans attempted
to stampede the exit after the venue became dangerously overcrowded. Reports
suggest up to an additional 2,000 people has managed to gain access to
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| DJ
Murdered |
MTV reports: Carl Blaze, a DJ for New York
hip-hop station Power 105, died Saturday of gunshot wounds sustained earlier
this month, The New York Times reports. He was 30. The DJ, born Carlos
Rivera, was shot 13 times outside an apartment building in Upper Manhattan
on December 7[see full story for more]- Click
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| Paul
Westerberg Injured |
Reuters reports: Paul Westerberg severely
injured his left hand and could be sidelined for a year, according to a
blog posting from Jim Walsh, a Minneapolis writer and friend of the former
Replacements lead singer.
"A week or so again he put a screwdriver
through his left hand trying to get some wax out of a candle and cut some
nerves and ripped some cartilage and hurt himself pretty bad," Walsh reported.
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| James
Brown RIP |
SMN reports: CNN reports: James Brown, the
dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary
rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Monday,
his agent said. He was 73.
Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at
Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died around 1:45 a.m. Monday,
said his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music. Longtime friend Charles
Bobbit was by his side, he said.[see full story for more]-
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| Stars
Remember James Brown |
DiR reports: Nas, Snoop and Ice Cube have
all issued statements about the passing James Brown
"I had the opportunity to meet him and
present an award to him this year with Al Shaprton , Jesse Jackson and
others. I spoke in front of hundreds in his honor. I looked directly at
him. He smiled while I told him how I used his music with mine and how
much he's done for us and how I love him. I'm lucky to have had that moment,
shook his hand. He was pure greatness." - Nas
"James Brown was the first solo singer
that I loved as a kid. He was not only the Godfather of Soul, but the Godfather
of Funk and Rap. Music will never be the same..." - Ice Cube
"I am hurt. That's my Godfather, my soul
inspiration, the hardest working man in showbizness of all time. He'll
be missed, but his music and his legacy will live on through me, in everyway
you can imagine. Soul brother #1...we miss you James Brown." - Snoop Dogg
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| Johnny
Depp a Queen? |
Cat8Dog reports: Hollywood plans to make yet
another movie about a dead rock star. Johnny Depp is supposedly in the
running to play Freddie Mercury in a film about the late Queen singer.
The Independent reports that "Robert de Niro's company, Tribeca Productions,
is said to be behind the project" and that Queen's guitarist Brian May
confirmed via his website that the film was in the early stages of development.
May said of Depp as Mercury, "He would
be a worthy counterpart for Freddie on screen. I don't think I can say
any more right now."[see full story for more]- Click
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| Sir
Bono? |
Cat8Dog reports: U2 can be royalty. Wait a
second, not really. Irish crusader and sometimes singer Bono is set to
become a knight of the British Empire but the kicker is he won't really
be a knight and you won't have to call him "Sir".
Bono will be given an honorary knighthood
early in 2007 at the hands of the British ambassador to Ireland, David
Reddaway. The ceremony will occur in Dublin, not England. But maybe it
will be televised and we can watch via pay-per-view?[see full story for
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| Diddy
Dog Fur Coats |
Cat8Dog reports: Bad news for the suckers
that purchased one of Sean "Diddy" Comb's shiddy "faux" fur coats, you
are wearing Fido. That's right, Diddy can't even get faux fur right. But
he has finally found a good use for dogs.
The Humane Society of the United States
reportedly performed mass spectrometry testing on the Sean John coats and
found that the "raccoon fur" was actually from the East Asian raccoon dog,
which like Diddy looks like the real deal but isn't. The raccoon dog is
actually a member of the canidae species, which includes dogs, wolves and
foxes. So maybe it was supposed to be fox fur? Hip-hoppers are not always
known for their spelling skillz. [see full story for more]-
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| Disturbed
Injuries |
blabbermouth.net reports: The Green Bay Press-Gazette
reports that as many as 30 people were treated for various injuries at
Tuesday night's (Dec. 19) Music as a Weapon Tour concert - featuring DISTURBED,
STONE SOUR, FLYLEAF and NONPOINT - at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon,
Wisconsin, according to the Ashwaubenon Public Safety Department. Between
25 to 30 people suffered from either cuts, bruises, and overheating after
participating in a mosh pit, officials said. Two people were transported
to the hospital with minor injuries. Officers said one passed out.
[from another report about a show a couple
nights later] At least 13 people were injured during a "Music as a Weapon"
concert Thursday night (Dec. 21), according to officials at two Cedar Rapids
hospitals. The concert drew a crowd of 7,186 people, almost maxing out
the U.S. Cellular Center, which can fit up to 7,500 people. Of the 10 people
who were treated at St. Luke's Hospital for injuries suffered at the concert,
one was taken into surgery, said Laura Rainey, director of marketing communications
at St. Luke's. That patient was among two people who were admitted to the
hospital. The others were treated and released. Rainey said it's "fairly
rare" that the hospital gets patients injured at a concert but that "at
times it does happen."[see full story for more]- Click
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| Axl
Gets Bach record deal? |
antiMusic reports: Did Axl get Sebastian Bach
a record deal for Christmas? At the final stop on the Guns N' Roses tour
in Universal City, Ca. Bach joined Axl and the band on stage to duet the
GNR classic "My Michelle", while he giving his intro thanks to the crowd,
Bach announced that he thinks he got a new "record deal tonight!"
Bach, the former Skid Row frontman, opened
the entire tour with his solo band. Axl gave his adopted hometown a great
final show of the tour that included a guest appearance from Izzy Stradlin
as well as some special Christmas songs during a couple of the solos including
Bumblefoot's "Grinch" sing-along. [see full story for more]-
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| Grammy
Honors |
Reuters reports: Influential rock bands The
Doors and the Grateful Dead will receive lifetime achievement Grammy Awards
next year, along with jazz saxophone player Ornette Coleman and the late
opera singer Maria Callas, organizers said last Tuesday.[see full story
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| Break
out the Advil, Avril Releasing CD |
Reuters reports: Canadian pop singer Avril
Lavigne's third studio album has been christened "The Best Dam Thing,"
and will be released in April via RCA.
The first single, "Girlfriend," will hit
U.S. radio outlets in February. "I promise you guys will LOVE this record
-- it is my favorite one," she said on her MySpace.com site (http://www.myspace.com/avrillavigne).
"And I can't wait! It is really fast, fun, young, bratty, aggressive, confident
(and) cocky in a playful way ... all the good stuff."[see full story for
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| A
Whiter Shade of Victory |
AP reports: A judge awarded a 40 percent share
in the copyright of "A Whiter Shade of Pale," one of the most famous pop
songs of all time, to a former organist for Procol Harum.
Lead singer Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith
Reid always claimed credit for the hit, which became part of the soundtrack
for the hippy "summer of love" of 1967.
But in his ruling, the judge decided that
organist Matthew Fisher was entitled to both credit and royalties.[see
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| Lennon
FBI Files Released |
AP reports: The FBI has released its final
surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has
waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files.
The 10 pages contain new details about
Lennon's ties to leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s,
but nothing indicating government officials considered the former Beatle
a serious threat, historian Jon Wiener told the Los Angeles Times in Wednesday's
editions.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Madonna
Directing Boxing Film? |
Launch reports: Madonna will make her movie
directing debut in 2007, according to reports.
The pop superstar is understood to be getting
behind the camera for a movie entitled Blade To The Heat.
Apparently the movie is a "boxing story
loosely based on the 1959 bout between Emile Griffith and Benny 'Kid' Paret."[see
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| Rapper
Beats Idol |
E! reports: At age 29, Taylor Hicks was the
oldest contestant to win American Idol. Unfortunately, he released his
debut disc in a week that favored the Young.
Peach State rapper Young Jeezy single-handedly
spanked Hicks-and a slew of other Idols-landing The Inspiration: Thug Motivation
102 atop the Billboard 200 album charts for the week ended Sunday. Jeezy's
disc sold 352,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Meanwhile, the silver-domed Hicks, on the
heels of a whirlwind schedule of TV appearances, crooned his way to number
two, selling 298,000 copies of his self-titled debut.[see full story for
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