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| Screech
Sex Tape |
TMZ reports: [since he has attempted a music
career as well, we're featuring this. That and it's just too funny] TMZ
has obtained portions of the latest celebrity sex tape, featuring former
"Saved by the Bell" star Dustin Diamond, who played Screech. To say the
least, the video is unique and, dare we say, entertaining.
David Hans Schmidt, who has become famous
in the sex tape industry by peddling videos featuring Paris Hilton, Colin
Farrell and others, claims ownership to the Screech tape. It was shot in
a hotel. Diamond is holding the camera and narrating, as he engages two
women in various combinations and positions.
The tape begins with Diamond in a bathtub,
narrating what's to come. It ends with Diamond introducing one of the women
to a "Dirty Sanchez." Suffice it say, it is unbelievably graphic. [see
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| Bad
Bitch Avril |
TMZ reports: [We have enough real news today
to keep you happy but we couldn't resist this one] Cameramen beware, Avril
Lavigne's a spitter! The "Complicated" singer, never known for her kindness
to the paparazzi, hocked a loogie at TMZ's photographer last night in front
of Hyde nightclub.
Here's how it all went down: Avril was
spotted getting into an SUV with husband Deryck Whibley, and the newlyweds
got hot and heavy in the back seat. After getting interrupted by a couple
of friends, the photogs went wild trying to get a shot of them. Lavigne
then stuck her head out of the side window, and yelled "Hey f***head, come
here" to our cameraman. His gift for responding to her pet name -- her
saliva in his camera lens. The group then broke into laughter, with someone
in the SUV calling Avril a "bad bitch" before driving off.[see full story
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| SoundScam? |
Megaforce reports: Mushroomhead's "Savior
Sorrow" sells 26,084 and entering the Billboard Chart at # 30 in its first
week sales, according to influential music trade Hits Daily Double and
record company estimates. But the controversy over sales numbers this week
is the talk of the music industry with many questions and doubts being
raised about the accuracy of sales computing methods, most notably Billboard's
Soundscan. On September 26, SoundScan alerted all paid subscribers via
email that the numbers for the week may be inaccurate and that they will
"extrapolate" for the missing sales data and to be "please advised that
there may be anomalies in the data for the week ending 9/24/06." SoundScan
did not indicate who did not report this week, so everyone's is in the
dark. Data seems to indicate SoundScan did not accept Best Buy's sales
data, but SoundScan would not give out this information.
Could have Elton John's "The Captain &
The Kid" sell 47,493, according to Hits, then SoundScan reports sales of
36,630? According to Megaforce sales data, Mushroomhead seems to have sold
closer to the Hits Daily Double number of 26,000 units than SoundScan's
reporting of 12,183. How could there be such a shortfall in reporting?
On a side note, Megaforce pays over $26,000 a year to receive sales numbers
from Soundscan. Shouldn't it be Soundscan's job to report the actual sales
numbers, not a guessing game. This industry, according to SoundScan, has
been down in recent years, but who can you believe anymore?-
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| Underoath
Injury |
MTV reports: Underoath keyboardist Chris Dudley
fractured his hand on Sunday while playing football with his bandmates.
Dudley was admitted to the hospital and doctors advised him to take off
the remainder of the band's current Canadian tour to ensure he makes a
full recovery. The tour will go on[see full story for more]-
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| Justin
Beats Aiken |
Yahoo reports: Clay Aiken just got another
dose of the runner-up blues. In a week that saw five albums top 100,000
in sales and five debut in the Top 10, the American Idol also-ran failed
to rally enough members of the Clay Nation to dethrone Justin Timberlake.
The ex-'N Syncer sold 217,000 copies of FutureSex/LoveSounds for the week
ended Sunday
Aiken trailed by 12,000 copies as A Thousand Different Ways
finished with 205,000--about a third as many copies of his 2003 post-Idol
debut, Measure of a Man.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Itsy
Bitsy Hoax |
AP reports: The man who co-wrote the song
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" had the unsettling experience
this week of reading his own obituary - the result of an impostor who went
through life claiming to be the author of the 1960s smash hit.
On Tuesday, The Associated Press reported
on the death of a 68-year-old man named Paul Van Valkenburgh of Ormond
Beach, Fla., who claimed to have written the song under the name Paul Vance.
The story cited the man's wife as the source for that claim. But the music
industry's real Paul Vance, a 76-year-old man from Coral Springs, Fla.,
is alive and well, and says the other Paul Vance appears to have made the
whole thing up.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Wolf
Cub Kills Shows |
Gigwise reports: Wolfmother have been forced
to cancel their current US dates after Bassist Chris Ross partner gave
birth to a son in Sydney.
The band played the inaugural V Festival
in Baltimore on Saturday before Ross flew home on a gruelling 23 hour flight.
The band have been forced to pull out of
this weekends Download Festival in San Francisco and and their shows in
Hollywood on Thursday and San Diego on Friday.[see full story for more]-
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| What
Good Are Guns Without Bullets? |
blabbermouth.net reports: The L.A. GUNS version
featuring guitarist Tracii Guns alongside fellow original members Paul
Black and Nickey Alexander will team up with BULLETBOYS for a U.S. tour
beginning late October. Confirmed dates so far are as follows:
Oct. 27 - Farmington, NM @ Big City Nite
Club
Oct. 28 - Aurora, CO @ Hubba's
Oct. 30 - Lees Summit, MO @ Alley Catz
Oct. 31 - Middleton, WI @ Warehouse Stage
[see full story for more dates]-
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| Axl
Roach |
blabbermouth.net reports: According to the
web site of the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tennesse, PAPA
ROACH will be the opening act for GUNS N' ROSES when Axl Rose and Co. perform
at the arena on October 22. It is not presently clear if PAPA ROACH will
provide support at any of the other dates on GUNS N' ROSES' North American
tour.[see full story for more]- Click
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| Lost
Helmet |
blabbermouth.net reports: HELMET guitarist
Chris Traynor has announced that he has left the band after nearly a decade
of working with Hamilton. A few days later, drummer Mike Jost also exited
the group in order to attend to his duties as a new father. It is not presently
clear if bassist Jeremy Chatelain will continue playing with HELMET. Hamilton
is reportedly already auditioning new members[see full story for more]-
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| Mastodon
Tool |
TuneLab reports: Mastodon will support Tool
on the following UK dates:
November 24th in Manchester, UK @ MEN Arena
November 25th in Glasgow, UK @ SECC Arena
November 27th in London, UK @ Wembley
Arena
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| Courtney
Film? |
TuneLab reports: Courtney Love's drug recovery
and musical comeback are set to be featured in a telling new documentary
about the rocker. The former Hole singer has decided to chronicle her battle
with drug abuse following a lengthy stint in rehab and wants to show fans
she's on the road to recovery.
The untitled project, filmed for Britain's
Channel 4, will follow Love as she records a new album, returns to acting
and rebuilds relationships.[see full story for more]-
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| Video
Games Too Violent for Slayer |
pr-inside reports: SLAYER frontman TOM ARAYA
has hit out at violent video games, and fears they will turn today's children
in to dangerous criminals.
The 45-year-old thrash rocker, whose band's
song lyrics include "die by my hand in pools of blood", refuses to discuss
how violence in music affects children - but highlights computer games
as a genuine danger to kids. He says, "Kids have become so desensitised
to violence, you know? I saw this video game recently where the point was
to sell drugs and kill as many people as possible.
"You've got to wonder what a child who
plays that is going to be like in 20 years' time."
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| Apple
Owns Podcasts? |
music.tinfoil reports: Apple has done some
pretty boneheaded things in the past. From shutting down third-party Macs,
to the Newton and Pippen game console, they have had more than their share
of mistakes. In short, when they screw up, they really screw up. But, when
they hit onto something good, it's HUGE. The iMac, iPod, heck even the
Mac Classic.
With this in mind, Apple is now starting
to flex its legal muscles with respect to their "iPod" trademark.
Apple recently sent a Cease & Desist
order to a new company called Podcast Ready, claiming they are infringing
on Apple's trademarks with the terms "Podcast Ready" and "myPodder" even
though neither term contains the word iPod. [see full story for more]-
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| Brazil
Therapy |
punkbands reports: Immortal Records reports
that Brazil`s keyboardist Nic Newby has been forced to leave the band's
ongoing Californian tour and report in for six weeks of court-ordered therapy
in Indiana. The sentence is due to an unspecified "brief run-in with the
law" last year in the band's hometown of Munice, IN. He will return to
the band in time for their October tour with Say Anything. -
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| Him
Cancel Tour |
SMN reports: Finnish rock outfit HIM has cancelled
a two-week North American tour and will instead hit the studio to record
a new album, with an eye on a 2007 release via Sire. The trek was to begin
Oct. 18 in Lowell, Mass., and wrap Oct. 31 in Universal City, Calif.
In a statement, the band said its nonstop
touring schedule in support of 2005's "Dark Light" had not afforded it
enough time to develop new material. [see full story for more]-
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