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| Deadbeat
Rapper |
Contact Music reports: US rapper MC BREED
will spend a year behind bars after failing to pay hundreds of thousands
of dollars in child support, a court has ruled. The Michigan star - real
name ERIC T BREED - was sentenced on Thursday (11MAY06) for the $200,000
(GBP111,111) violation, despite pleading lack of funds.[see full story
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| Union
Vs Madonna |
TMZ reports: Fans attending Madonna's concert
in Los Angeles this weekend will have more than traffic jams and ticket
scalpers to worry about -- they'll also have to contend with hundreds of
union picketers.
Organizers of the stage employees union
have been stirring up interest in a Madonna picket since the star had a
dress rehearsal at the Forum on Monday. The International Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees has been locked out of the Forum since April 11 following
a salary dispute with the stadium's owners.[see full story for more]-
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| Ja
Rule Don't Slap Hoes |
Contact Music reports: Rapper JA RULE has
hit back at claims a member of his entourage slapped a woman in the face
at a New York City nightclub last week (11MAY06). The rapper, real name
JEFFERY ATKINS, and his group were reportedly thrown out of Plumm nightclub
after the altercation. A spokeswoman for Ja Rule slams the allegations,
claiming her client wasn't even at the club when the incident occurred
but in a studio recording his next album.[see full story for more]-
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| Labels
Sue XM |
Reuters reports: The recording industry on
Tuesday sued XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., alleging its Inno device
that can store music infringes on copyrights and transforms a passive radio
experience into the equivalent of a digital download service like iTunes.[see
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| Snoop
Banned |
Gigwise reports: Snoop Dogg is reportedly
banned from the UK for life following the Heathrow Airport Fracas.
It’s claimed that Snoop’s previous convictions
which include drugs and gun offences will mean the star can’t visit British
shores. [Snoop says it's a bunch of bullshizzle ... see full story for
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| Daft
Punk Film |
Gigwise reports: Daft Punk’s first foray into
the world of feature films ‘Daft Punk Electroma’ will get its first airing
in the coming days.
The film, directed by Thomas Bangalter
and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, will be shown at the Directors’ Fortnight
which is an unofficial sideshow at the Cannes Film Festival which begins
this week (May 18).
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| Family
Values 06 |
Machine Shop reports: Family Values is back
this summer! Bands team up to put the Value back in "Family Values" with
free concerts and $9.99 lawn seats. Tickets go on sale for the first 10
shows this weekend, Saturday, May 20th. "Ten great bands for $9.99 plus
reasonable pavilion seats, that's the kind of thing we were shooting for
when we did our new deals," said Korn's Jonathan Davis. "We are very excited
that we are able to pull this off. And believe me, the fans are not going
to want to miss the events happening this week!"
To preview what is to come this summer,
Korn will make a special appearance in Chicago this Thursday, May 18th,
as will Deftones in their hometown of Sacramento, Stone Sour in Kansas
City and Flyleaf in Spokane, Washington, all this Thursday 18- all FREE!!!
Keep up with www.familyvalueslive.com for venue listings. [see full story
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| diddy
Settles |
TMZ reports: Sean "Diddy" Combs has reached
a settlement with a North Carolina man who said the bodyguards hired by
the rap mogul beat him after a concert in 1995.
Details of the confidential settlement
reached Monday were not released.[see full story for more]-
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| A
Perfect Breakup |
Rockdirt reports: After Maynard James Keenan
said that A Perfect Circle had been "pushed as far as it could go," MTV
News spoke with guitarist Billy Howerdel about the band's status. "We don't
know what's happening," said Howerdel, one of Keenan's best friends. "[Maynard
and I have] talked about it lightly. A few months ago, it was like, 'If
we did A Perfect Circle again, I'd want to do this or that.' It was a benign
conversation. I think we both entertain the fact that it could happen again,
but for right now we don't have any plans to do it again.[see full story
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| Celtic
Summer Frost |
The Gauntlet reports: Legendary Swiss metal
band CELTIC FROST have announced two months of North American tour dates
supporting their forthcoming May 30th release, Monotheist. Commencing Sept.
11th and running through November 11th, the extensive tour will reintroduce
the bands mesmerizing live performance to their ravenous fanbase. Also
scheduled are European festival performances throughout the summer.[see
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| GNR
UK Warm up |
The Gauntlet reports: GUNS N' ROSES have announced
a very special one-off date in the UK as a warm up for their appearance
at this year's Download Festival. The band will return to London Hammersmith
Apollo on June 7 for their first show at the venue in almost 20 years.[see
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| Obituary
Fire |
Blabbermouth reports: Vocalist John Tardy
of the legendary death metallers OBITUARY has posted the following message
on their official web site:
"We just finished several days of practice
and got our new setlist done for our upcoming West Coast dates. It was
a good to have all of us together and a few friends over for some cool
ones. I have been going crazy trying to get everything together before
we go. We are also all thankful that Allen [West, guitar] is OK. He recently
bought a new mobile home and only after a few days the thing caught fire
while he was in it. He woke up to find himself in a flame-filled, smoke-filled
room and almost did not make it out. Luckily he made it out and other than
losing most of his stuff he is OK! Quite scary!!! [see full story for more]-
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| Farrell's
Party |
Blabbermouth reports: Ex-JANE'S ADDICTION
frontman Perry Farrell is hoping to release the debut album from his new
band, SATELLITE PARTY, this summer, according to Billboard.com. The self-titled
disc will feature guest appearances from RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS bassist
Flea and guitarist John Frusciante, as well as BLACK EYED PEAS vocalist
Fergie, NEW ORDER bassist Peter Hook and Farrell's wife, Etty. The group
also features former EXTREME guitarist Nuno Bettencourt.[see full story
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| Aerosmith
Get Lillywhite |
BW&BK reports: The Boston Globe (www.boston.com)
has issued the following brief report from Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan:
AEROSMITH publicist Mitch Schneider e-mailed us yesterday to announce that
the Boston rockers are getting back to work on a new album, and they've
chosen Armed Forces Day - May 20th - to get back to work.
"We're going in with guns ablazing!" says
Steven Tyler in the statement. (The singer's been recovering from throat
surgery.) What Schneider didn't say is that the CD's being produced by
Steve Lillywhite, who's worked with U2 and MORRISSEY.[see full story for
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| antiGUY
Exposed |
Day in Rock reports: Tinfoil.music thinks
they have uncovered the true identity of our beloved former news editor,
antiGUY. aG spoke with the site's name sake recently about all things anti,
changes in the industry since antiMusic was launched and a lot more. Here
is part of that interview: ? In the years you've been with antiMusic you
have seen a lot of things come and go. What are some of the highlights
and lowlights you've seen?
aG: That's a loaded question. Not many
highlights unfortunately. I've seen the industry accelerate their self
imposed downward spiral over the past decade. When you allow bean-counters
to dictate the direction of art, you will always end up with the lowest
common denominator. Just look at TV and what I call shitcoms. The music
industry has become so much of a follow the leader and repackager that
there are no leaders left and any band that could come along and shake
things up like Guns N Roses and Nirvana did would never have a prayer of
doing so under today's music industry business model of "sign, release
and drop". It's really sad. The big irony is that we are now in an age
where far more is possible. Bands can (and a few are) using new technology
to reach fans directly. Podcasts, the internet etc. But every step of the
way the big labels have tried to stop progress that in the end would benefit
them. In the States, they are now trying to talk some Senators into passing
a new copyright act that would basically outlaw podcasts (if I read the
information correctly.) That's just insane. [he was getting warmed up on
this rant.. click the full story link for the full interview and discover
who tinfoil thinks antiGUY really is.. it's a shocker!]
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| Raconteurs
Tour |
Press Release reports: That's right, The Raconteurs
have announced a Summer tour. Their album, Broken Boy Soldiers, is out
today, May 16th. Make sure you go pick it up!!
07.16.06 - Denver, CO (Fillmore Auditorium
on sale 5/20)
07.18.06 - Tempe, AZ (Marquee Theatre
on sale 5/20)
07.19.06 - San Diego, CA (Soma on sale
5/20)
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