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Blabbermouth reports: Whatever happened to
the naked baby floating in a pool looking at a dollar bill in the famous
cover photo from NIRVANA's classic "Nevermind" album? That's the question
MTV.com answered this week when it tracked down the tot, named Spencer
Elden and now a 17-year-old high school student in Eagle Rock, California.
Elden's parents were paid $200 to allow
their friend, photographer Kirk Weddle, to shoot a roll of pictures of
the infant Elden swimming for the cover of the iconic 1991 disc.
Now the teen admits that it's a little
strange to think that more than nine million people own a nude picture
of him. He said, "Yeah, it's kind of creepy that that many people have
seen me naked. I feel like I'm the world's biggest porn star."-
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PR reports: Four-time Grammy winner, Lyle
Lovett will release his thirteenth album, It's Not Big It's Large (Lost
Highway) on August 28th. The album, recorded over the last nine months
at Conway Recording Studios and Studio Without Walls in Los Angeles, features
Lovett's versatile Large Band on twelve new tracks which cover a broad
musical spectrum--from country to blues, to folk, to jazz, to gospel.
Produced by longtime collaborator Billy
Williams and Lovett, It's Not Big It's Large combines Lovett's distinctive
vocal style with his critically acclaimed, insightful and introspective
songwriting skill.
A deluxe version of the CD, which will
be released simultaneously, includes a DVD with footage taken in the studio
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PR reports: Bam Margera and the rest of the
VIVA crew are proud to announce the addition of the mighty GWAR to the
Viva La Bands 2007 Tour "This tour is now a full blown rock show since
we confirmed GWAR," said Bam Margera.
"GWAR assures the tour of even more madness
and mayhem." GWAR singer Oderus Urungus added, "I guess Bam didn't get
enough of us when we were on "Viva La Bam". We're excited to torture him
some more on this tour."
The Viva La Bands Tour hits 30 cities in
the US and Canada September 24th through November 3rd 2007.-
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PR reports: D.O.A. - 1978-1985: Smash The
State DVD will hit stores on 9/18/07. This DVD from Canada's legendary
punk pioneers features exciting full live tracks from the band's formative
years: 1978 - 83. It includes all the raw emotion, activism, humor and
deadly renditions of all their greatest songs from the classic line up
of Joe Sh*thead, Chuck Biscuits, Randy Rampage and Dave Gregg.
The always-influential D.O.A. was to many
people, their very 1st exposure to the blistering social phenomena of punk
rock. This DVD documents why D.O.A. influenced artists such as Green Day,
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Henry Rollins, Rancid, David Grohl, NOFX, Bad Religion,
and many more.
Joe Sh*thead Keithley's comments on the
DVD: "I really wanted people to see the original version of D.O.A. performing.
You know, the completely raw band that went out and made a mark in this
world. So I gathered together some of the best footage I could find and
came up with Smash The State. Most of the footage is taken from shows in
San Francisco and the East Bay. This makes a lot of sense, as San Francisco
became D.O.A.'s home away from in the late seventies and in the eighties.
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CMJ reports: Max Roach, one of the most prominent
jazz percussionists of the past half-century, passed away last night in
his sleep at his home in New York City. He was 83.
A progenitor of the bebop movement, in
his six-plus decade career Roach worked with the likes of Miles Davis,
Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus, the latter of whom
he founded the now defunct Debut Records with in 1952.
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PR reports: Melee have been spending a lot
of time in their tour bus as of late. The Orange County, California band
is in the middle of a tour with Bowling For Soup and Quietdrive that finds
the road warriors tearing it up until the end of August.
After a short break, they'll go out on
a headlining U.S. tour with support from Matt Nathanson and Ingrid Michaelson.
Also check out guitarist Ricky Sans' diary
where he blogs about all the touring and even includes YouTube links to
some of the road hijinks! Ricky Sans' tour diary with video: http://rickysans.blogspot.com/-
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PR reports: Scum Of The Earth, featuring former
long-time Rob Zombie guitarist Riggs just recently finished mixing their
new album entitled Sleaze Freak (Eclipse Records), the band's first studio
album of all-new material since the critically-acclaimed debut Blah
Blah
Blah
Love
Songs For The New Millennium released in 2004.
Sleaze Freak is scheduled to be released
nation-wide at retail stores throughout the US on October 9th 2007. The
explicit (PA) version of the album will be available at most retailers
containing an added DVD video. The DVD will consist of footage filmed while
recording and mixing the album documenting the recording and mixing process
and many hijinks of the band around town, in the studio, and on the road.
There will also be a clean version for those accounts who are afraid of
scary comic-monsters, offensive language, etc
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PR reports: Amoeba Records will release a
major addition to Gram Parsons' discography with 'Gram Parsons Archives
Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers "Live" at the Avalon 1969', due October
30th from the newly formed label. The two CD, 27-track set includes a number
of never-before-heard. though long rumored, rarities.
Gram Parsons, leading the Flying Burrito
Brothers, opened for the Grateful Dead April 4, 5 and 6, 1969 at the Avalon
Ballroom in San Francisco. The April 4th show has never been heard in any
form. The bonus disc is the April 6th show. For years these tapes were
rumored to exist and were finally unearthed in the Grateful Dead vault.
The shows were recorded by the legendary sound engineer Bear (Owsley Stanley),
and are the highest quality Gram Parsons live material available.-
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PR reports: Stax Recordsand Reelin' In The
Years Productions are proud to announce the October 2, 2007 release of
The Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway 1967 on DVD. Featured for the first
time on this 75-minute concert DVD are 18 classic full-length performances
by some of the greatest soul artists of all time. Highlights include an
amazing five-song set by the great Otis Redding and a blistering four songs
by Sam & Dave.
Also featured are performances by the legendary
Booker T & the MGs, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd, and the Mar-Keys. Issued
with the full cooperation of the artists or their estates, this DVD captures
the Stax/Volt Revue on an amazing night during one of most legendary and
important concert tours of the last five decades.
The Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway 1967
includes a wealth of staggering performances from start to finish. Otis
Redding delivers jaw-dropping versions of "Shake," "Satisfaction," the
only known filmed concert performance of "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)" and
a six-minute version of "Try A Little Tenderness" in which he comes back
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PR reports: Mower has announced the dates
for their upcoming tour with Twiztid. The tour will kick off September
25th in Cleveland, OH and will end November 12th in Detroit, MI at St.
Andrews Hall.
"We're pumped to be on a Psychopathic tour.
We've done shows with Twiztid and Blaze and ever since the word got out
we were on this tour, the Juggalos started contacting us online to say
what's up," says Mower frontman Brian Sheerin. "They're all ready for the
tour to start. Juggalos don't f**k around, it's summer and people are set
to go off, and so are we."- more
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PR reports: Amoeba Music is launching its
label Amoeba Records today with free downloads from its first two releases.
The songs are Brandi Shearer's "Lullabies," from her album 'Close to Dark',
to be released by Amoeba on August 28th, and the legendary Gram Parsons'
never-before-heard "Long Black Limousine," from 'Gram Parsons Archives
Vol. 1: The Flying Burrito Brothers "Live" at the Avalon 1969', coming
October 30th.
"These are two of our favorite singers
ever," Amoeba co-founder Dave Prinz says. "One's brand new, and one you've
never heard like this before. "
The MP3s are available now through August
23rd at - http://www.amoeba.com.
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PR reports: On September 18, acclaimed Japanese
producer/turntablist DJ Krush will offer up his first ever DVD entitled
History Of DJ Krush. The collection encompasses a whopping 3 DVD's and
features every DJ Krush music video to date along with two documentaries.
Those who are familiar with DJ Krush's
past work know that each release is created with a sense of high artistic
value. Beyond the three discs in History Of DJ Krush you will find a package
complete with gold foiled packaging and beautiful photographs that document
this legendary artist's career. It's really a site to behold.
History Of DJ Krush traces DJ Krush's path
from the recording of his 1995 album MEISO through to his 2006 world tour.
Throughout the DVDs, you'll see never-before-scene footage of DJ Krush
in many different situations that helped to define his career.-
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