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Today's Full Report and Breaking Stories for 03/11/2008
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Ill Nino Week: Day 2
antiMusic reports: Ill Nino are back with a new album on a new record label. The band are really fired up for this next chapter in their story and with their new album, 'Enigma,' hitting stores this week we asked frontman Cristian Machado to pick his five favorite tracks from the CD and tell us about each one. Here is Cristian with today's song "Pieces of The Sun":

Sometimes I wish I could take back so many things that I've done - just rewind time and do it all over again. But there is no way of taking back anything. All that I can do is pick up the pieces and try to put together a new puzzle - live with the consequence. Though I have no concerns for the past, I am concerned about how the past will affect my future. When I was younger I never even bothered to think about the past. Now that I am older, I find myself looking back more and more. Re-stitching strands of time - finally trying to heal the hole in my head

You can hear some tracks from the 'Enigma' CD, grab tour dates and more - more on this story

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Van Halen On Hold
Metal Underground reports: After postponing a handful of dates last week in order for guitarist Eddie Van Halen to undergo tests for an unspecified medical condition, Van Halen is postponing all tour activity until April 19.

Seventeen shows are affected, beginning tomorrow night (March 11) in Charlottesville, Va., and running through April 15 in Baltimore.

According to organizers, Van Halen, who has battled cancer and substance abuse, "is currently under doctors' care" and will "continue medical tests to define a course of treatment." No further details were made available. - more on this story

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Britney's Dildo Stalker
Hecklerspray reports: [This one was too funny to skip over] Britney Spears has all the luck. Not only is she rich and in possession of all her marbles, but now a stranger keeps sending her parcels full of dildos too, the lucky cow.

It's been reported that Britney Spears has somehow managed to pick herself up a stalker. Not just any stalker either, but one who keeps sending her packages of sex toys, threatening porno letters and mutilated pictures of himself squirting an unidentified yellow liquid into his mouth.

The details of Britney Spears' alleged stalker have now been passed on to the FBI, which seems like an odd thing to do. After all, he sounds like a better catch than Kevin Federline. - more on this story

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Love's Identity Theft Imagined?
TMZ reports: Reports surfaced over the weekend that Courtney Love went to the LAPD to report she's the victim of a massive identity theft. But sources tell TMZ Courtney is simply (and possibly medically) delusional.

According to The Sun, Courtney claimed the identity thieves got 188 credit cards in her name, stole checks and bought cars. We've confirmed Love did make the trek to the Van Nuys division of the LAPD to make a report last week, but sources tell us they are not taking it seriously, one source adding, "it never happened."

We're told mentally, Courtney has been on the rocks. We found out she's been diagnosed with bipolar disorder -- this could explain Courtney's latest blogs which are impossible to decipher. Bottom line -- we're told law enforcement thinks the identity fraud is in Courtney's mind. - more on this story

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Metallica Eye Sept Release
FMQB reports: As fans around the world await a follow up to 2003's St. Anger, Metallica is eyeing September as the release date for their new opus.

The band has been working with producer Rick Rubin, and in various interviews, they have dropped hints that the new material harkens back to their thrashier sound from the '80s.

Speaking to BBC 6 Music recently, drummer Lars Ulrich said, "We're just finishing up a record, we've got six weeks left and it should be out in September. That's the idea right now."

Meanwhile, the band is re-releasing their first two album on vinyl - Info on those can be found here

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Radiohead Book Free Gig
BBC reports: Radiohead have signed up to play a free concert for BBC Radio 2 and will also record a series of interviews ahead of their UK tour.

Fans can apply for tickets over the phone but other BBC radio networks will also be giving them away on air. Recipients will be chosen randomly.

Radio 2 head of music Jeff Smith said: "You'd be a fool to miss the concert", which is taking place on 1 April. The BBC said the show will "ensure a wealth of exclusive content" for fans. - more on this story

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The Game Released Early
TMZ reports: The Game is out of jail after serving just eight days out of a possible 60, TMZ has just learned.

The rapper -- real name Jayceon Taylor -- walked out of Twin Towers Correctional Facility, according to his lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley, after serving less than a fifth of his sentence for pleading no contest to a felony charge of possession of a firearm in a school zone.

Steve Whitmore, L.A. County Sheriff's Department spokesperson, tells us The Game was released early due to overcrowding. - more on this story

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Joe Jackson's Rains Again
PR reports: Joe Jackson Releases "Rain", Album Made With Three Of The Four Original Joe Jackson Band Members. New-wave rocker, score composer and notorious smokers' rights activist Joe Jackson returns with his first record in five years.

Entitled, "Rain," it's the first Jackson record since the brilliant and critically acclaimed "Volume 4" was released in 2003. While "Volume 4" and the seven-month tour that followed featured the reunion of the original, iconic Joe Jackson Band, "Rain," was made with three of those four members: Jackson (vocals and keyboards), Graham Maby (bass/vocals) and Dave Houghton (drums/vocals). The record was made in Jackson's newly-adopted city of Berlin in a studio called Planet Roc.

Very much in keeping with the eclecticism of Jackson's wonderful three-decade spanning career, "Rain" continues to extend the boundaries of his craft. Reflecting the title, the record is melancholic in places, but also boasts plenty of humor, swing, sophistication, and barbed social commentary as well as some out and out rockers. The common thread running through the record is its simplicity; where Jackson's distinctive piano and voice, Maby's intricate and melodic bass, and Houghton's tough and tender drums are all you hear. - more on the tour plans

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iTunes Deny Beatles Deal
Gigwise reports: Apple Inc. have dismissed claims that The Beatles entire back-catalogue will be made available on its iTunes music store "within months".

An unnamed 'source', thought to be close to Sir Paul McCartney, claimed last Friday (March 7th) that permission had been granted for the songs to be released as legal downloads for the first time.

However, in a statement issued to Billboard, a spokesperson for Apple declined to comment, saying: "This is not news nor is it a scoop." - more on this story

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Art Brut Break Up with EMI
Gigwise reports: The mighty Art Brut have announced their amicable split from EMI Records.

A message has been left on their official website explaining the decision, saying that the "spark wasn't there any more."

Under a picture of what looks like the Titanic, the post reads: "Dearest Internet, it looks like our much loved adventurers just couldn't work it out with EMI after all. That's right, after staying up well into the night talking it over, they have both decided it best if they see other people. The spark just wasn't there anymore.
- more on this story

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UFO Temp
BW*BK reports: UFO announced recently that the US Embassy in London had turned down bassist Pete Way's application for a working visa - even though the respective authorities in the US homeland had already approved it.

At that time the band started to make arrangements for a bass player to stand in for Pete on their USA tour dates. They have since posted the following update:

"With Pete having been denied a working visa to the USA the bass player who will be standing in for Pete on the April/May tourdates will be ROB De LUCA. More details to follow soon." - dates

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Satriani Books Guitar Center Sessions
Metal Underground reports: Joe Satriani has achieved legendary status as the premier electric guitarist with 13 solo albums, three platinum DVDs, and the mega-successful G3 tours. On April 1, 2008, Satriani kicks off the release of his 13th solo album, entitled "Professor Satchafunkilus And The Musterion Of Rock" (Sony/BMG), with the first of 11 nationwide "GC Sessions" at the Guitar Center in Boston, Mass.

The much-anticipated "GC Sessions" will feature question-and-answer segments, autograph signings, and best of all, live performances by Joe Satriani.

Following the album's release, Satriani will embark on a worldwide tour, kicking off April 30 in Lisbon, Portugal before hitting the continental European market, Australia, South America, and finally returning to the U.S. in the fall of 2008. - more on this story

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Hitchcock and Partridge
NME reports: Post-punk cult legends Robyn Hitchcock and Andy Partridge are working on a collaborative album together.

The duo are currently recording songs together in Partridge's shed in Swindon, reports Billboard.

Hitchcock explained the reasons behind their collaboration, saying: "I think it's good for me to be brought up against somebody else, another songwriter. I really think about how everything fits together. - more on this story

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Abba Settlement
NME reports: Abba stars Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have settle a dispute over who gets writing credit for one of their musicals.

After several months of legal wrangling, the two men and writer Carl-Johan Seth, issued a statement today (March 10) saying they had reached an agreement.

"We are glad that we have agreed and that we can continue to be friends," they said in the statement. - more on this story

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