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Man Beaten Over Karaoke

Sleazeroxx reports: Meet Kyle Drinkwine. The Wisconsin man, 24, allegedly became so incensed by a lackluster karaoke performance of a heavy metal song that he assaulted the singer and a second man, police charge.

According to a River Falls Police Department report, Drinkwine throttled singer James Mischler, 28, and his friend Cyrus Kozub, 29, "over one's ability to sing karaoke."

Though cops did not specify which song set Drinkwine off last week, Kozub told TSG that Mischler was performing "Holy Diver," the title cut on Dio's 1983 debut album (the band is fronted by Ronnie James Dio of Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell/Rainbow fame). - more on this story

Guns N' Roses Leaker To Walk?

Wired reports: The lawyer for Kevin Cogill, the Los Angeles man charged with uploading nine unreleased Guns N' Roses tracks from the upcoming Chinese Democracy album, said Thursday his client's plea deal with prosecutors does not require any prison time.

"We're looking at straight probation as a result of taking this deal," attorney David Kaloyanides said in a telephone interview. Probation, which includes minimal restrictions, is usually a year, he said.

Cogill is accused of uploading the songs to his music site, antiquiet. Kaloyanides would not say whether, under the deal, Cogill would divulge where he got the tracks. - more on this story

New Led Zeppelin Band Won't Be Called Led Zeppelin

Metal Underground reports: A band featuring Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham would not go by the name of Led Zeppelin, a spokesperson for Page has said.

Jones revealed last month that the former Led Zeppelin stars planned to tour minus their frontman after Robert Plant ruled himself out of any further performances.

When asked about the collaboration, an unnamed spokesperson for Page's management company, Qprime, told Rolling Stone: "Whatever this is, it is not Led Zeppelin. Not without the involvement of Robert Plant." - more on this story

Billy Corgan Has It Out With Fan On Stage

Music Radar reports: Let's just say that the first few dates of The Smashing Pumpkins' 20th anniversary tour aren't off to a rousing start.

Sick of the catcalls he was receiving and from watching audience members leave in droves, Billy Corgan eventually invited a particularly vocal heckler onstage to have it out with him.

"Last night's show fucking sucked, man!" the young man yelled into Corgan's microphone to an abundance of cheers. Corgan appeared to stay calm and asked the fan if he wanted his money back, but then told him to leave. And while the man walked off the stage, Corgan let loose with this gem: "By the way, I liked that song you wrote. I heard it was Number 1. Wasn't it Number 1 in Europe? It's called Take Your Dick Out Of My Ass And Stick It In My Mouth."
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Mini Ozzy Sought- Why Metallica Needs Your Cash- Kanye's Ego Strikes Again- Paramore Have A Woodie- IGN Snub Strummer- Outkast 09? and more

antiMusic reports: Happy Friday! We have lots of music news stories for you today! Ozzy Osbourne is looking for foul-mouthed seven-year old to play him in a TV show, sccording to Anorak.co.uk. Says a source at The Osbournes: Loud And Dangerous: "Our mini Ozzy will need a Brummie accent and dark hair. The script contains strong adult language that must be performed in a believable and compelling way." more

Lars doesn't like people stealing his music, he needs the cash for really important things! The drummer for the heavy-metal band Metallica has won a 1982 painting by artist Jean Michel-Basquiat by bidding $14 million at an auction in New York City. more. He's come a long way from living off baloney sandwiches!

Do gamers, or rather corporate gamer sites, know anything about punk? How about putting together a list of the top punk vocalists and leaving out legendary Clash frontman Joe Strummer? That's what IGN have done. At least they included David Vanian from The Damned. Read the pointless list here

The 35th Annual People's Choice Award nominees have been announced, with Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Chris Brown and Coldplay receiving multiple nods.more

What a sad statement about this generation: Kanye West is to music what Michael Jordan was to basketball — at least that's what West thinks, in his humble estimation. "I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice," he said in an interview on Wednesday. more

While Big Boi's solo record, Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son Of Chico Dusty, has been delayed into 2009, that could mean a plethora of Outkast material next year. more

Rihanna has canceled a concert scheduled for Friday in Indonesia over security concerns after the weekend executions of three Islamic militants convicted in the 2002 Bali bombings. more

Michael Jackson has given up title to his Neverland ranch in California, transferring the deed to a company he partly controls.more

According to guitarist Brian May's website Queen + Paul Rodgers today confirmed that they have added a further concert to their schedule of dates in Latin America. The band will now also play in Rio De Janeiro, the setting for Queen's historic Rock in Rio concerts in January 1985. more

Get Up Kids have announced plans to play a surprise reunion show this Sunday in their hometown of Kansas City. The show represents the influential band's first performance since the band's final tour in 2005.more

Abbeyrd's Beatles Page posted exclusive comments from Annie Mawson of Sunbeams Music Trust with her reaction to Paul McCartney's disputing the contention that the ledger to be auctioned proves Eleanor Rigby was a real person and if there was anything else she could say about the document or how she got it that supports her belief it came from him. read the report

Billboard's new pan-European charts reveal a third week at the Top 100 Albums summit for AC/DC's Black Ice (Columbia/Sony BMG).more

Sworn Enemy has cancelled their Canadian tour dates with For Today and others. The trek has been slated to begin next Thursday.more

The Arsis revolving door of drummers keeps turning as Borknagar drummer David Kinkade has now joined the group. Meanwhile, bassist Nick Cordle has also joined the group, replacing recently departed Noah Martin. more

Thy Will Be Done is currently home in Providence, RI writing and rehearsing material a new album. The as-yet-untitled effort will likely surface in early-2009 via Stillborn Records. more

Another Black Day has announced that due to reasons beyond their control, they will no longer be continuing on their current tour with Five Finger Death Punch.more
Armored Saint will be playing a headline show at the Key Club in Hollywood, CA on Friday, March 6th, 2009 as a warm up show for their Australian tour with Death Angel.more

Kanye West has claimed that the MTV Europe Music Awards, which took place in Liverpool on November 6, were fixed. The rapper claimed that he only won the Ultimate Urban award over Lil' Wayne because he was present at the bash – and suggested that he was undeserving of the prize. He's not done!

The 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards were handed out Wednesday night in New York, with Paramore coming out on top with the evening's biggest prize, Woodie Of The Year more

Anthony Green has posted two previously unreleased tracks to raise money for his cousin Jackie Haenn who was involved in a car accident on November 1st. Jackie is currently in critical condition and her family is trying to put together money to send her to a hospital in Philadelphia where she will need at least a year to recover more

Bassist Floyd London has left the reactivated Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.-based band The Almighty. He said in a statement, "I am desperately sorry to have to tell you all that I have left the band. This follows a week of sleepless nights and I do not take this decision lightly. more

Annuals, have revealed a short US jaunt in the New Year. The orchestral sextet will be touring in support of their latest album, Such Fun, out now on Canvasback Music. more

The ever-changing line-up for Brit songbirds, The Pipettes, just took another twist and turn. Anna McDonald has announced her departure after only six short monthsmore

Sixx:A.M. is about to release a deluxe version of their album, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack on November 25, available exclusively at Best Buy. The deluxe edition includes a never-before released live EP, Live Is Beautiful which will also be released separately for those who have already purchased The Heroin Diaries

Lou Reed, The Police and Jenny Lewis are among the guests who have been lined up to appear on a new talk show hosted by Elvis Costello. The show, entitled 'Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...' , will air on the Sundance channelmore

Former members of Ditchwater return in the new band...Ashes From Within. A new song titled "Broken" has just been released and is available as a FREE download - here.

Monkey Reunites Blur Members

BBC reports: Former Blur members Graham Coxon and Alex James both turned up for the first night of Damon Albarn's opera Monkey: Journey To The West on Wednesday night.

"I loved it, loved it," said Coxon. "I was riveted, lovely music, how the set looked and the dancing of course. He's very clever, I was always rather in awe of Damon's talents from a young age, really it's his staunchness about music and his energy."

Albarn admitted to Newsbeat last week that he had patched relations up with Coxon, who left the band in 2002, and had even been "hanging out" with him. - more including a video of the monkey business

Strait and Paisley Dominate CMAs

Billboard reports: Despite standout performances by the Eagles and Kid Rock (with Lil Wayne in tow), the 42nd annual Country Music Association Awards belonged to traditionalists, with George Strait and Brad Paisley coming away the big winners Wednesday night (Nov. 12) at the Sommet Center in Nashville.

Strait picked up his 20th, 21st and 22nd CMA awards. Co-produced by Strait and Tony Brown, "Troubadour," was named album of the year and "I Saw God Today" was named single of the year.

Paisley, who co-hosted the show with Carrie Underwood, picked up his second straight win for male vocalist. He also took home the music video award for "Waitin' on a Woman" which featured Andy Griffith and was directed by Jim Shea and Peter Tilden. - more on this story

Nightwish Vocalist Leaves Stage in Tears

Metal Underground reports: Nightwish vocalist Anette Olzon left the stage crying on Monday, November 10, while performing "The Poet and the Pendulum" in Belo Horizone, Brazil.

Marko handled the rest of the song and made a short speech saying something like "Anette is going through a hard time in life right now."

This happened about six songs into the set and cut short the bands performance. Videos showing what happened are already posted to Youtube and can be seen - here

John Frusciante and Friends

Music Radar reports: Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante has some famous friends on his upcoming album, The Empyrean. Flea and Johnny Marr are just some of them.

Also guesting on the record, due 20 January on Frusciante's own Record Collection imprint, are drummer Josh Freese, The Sonus Quartet and The New Dimension singers.

Since rejoining the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998, Frusciante has released seven solo albums. The band is currently on a hiatus - more on this story

Former Maiden Vocalist Paul Di'Anno Comments on Postponed U.S. Tour

Blabbermouth reports: Former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di'Anno has released the following statement regarding the postponement of his previously announced U.S. tour:

"Unfortunately, and due to reasons totally beyond my control, it now seems that the entire USA tour is gonna have to be rescheduled until another period during 2009.

"I am really really sorry to the many people who have already purchased tickets and made arrangements to get to the tour and I am well and truly pissed off that this has happened, but please bear with me until the whole thing gets resolved and I'll be seeing you there in the USA soonest. - more on this story

John Mayer Variety Show Coming To CBS

TMZ reports: OK, it's true he had a big career before "hosting" TMZ, but it's no coincidence that months after John Mayer hijacked TMZ TV, he landed a network TV series.

We've learned Mayer will host a weekly variety show for CBS. And here's the deal. We know CBS would like to run the show as soon as possible -- the goal is the first quarter of 2009.

It will be a music, variety and sketch show in the '60s mold. Ken Ehrlich (who produces the Emmys and Grammys) will produce the show with Mayer. - more on this story

Alice Cooper Christmas Variety Show

Sleazeroxx reports: Alice Cooper and 93.3 KDKB present the 8th annual Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding, a Christmas-themed variety show, famous for being an entertaining blend of comedy, music, dance and surprise performances at the Dodge Theatre on Saturday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m.

The annual Christmas Pudding, is a chance for music and entertainment fans of all kinds, to celebrate the holiday season with Alice Cooper, family and friends as Alice Cooper, along with his touring band, performs the entire smash album, "Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits."

This year's acts also include Bob Welch of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, F5, Runaway Phoenix, Les Stroud and Whisky Falls.

"Although I have played more than 70 shows this year, Pudding is the one I look forward to most," said Alice. "We love bringing people together for Christmas, for the sake of music and the mission of Solid Rock." - more on this story

Singled Out: Twisterbait's Popstars (antiMusic's new unofficial theme song!)

antiMusic reports: Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Twisterbait's "Popstars" is a song (and video) after our own hearts. So much so, we have adopted it as our unofficial theme song! We're pleased today to let Twisterbait tell you the tale behind track and hook you up with the hilarious video! Here you go:

'Popstars' mocks the attention-starved, insecurity-ridden world of manufactured pop culture. It started life as a jerky chord progression on a nylon string acoustic with a ridiculous chorus line that made my friend's kids jump around laughing. It grew verses to repel celebrity-dominated news, dumbed-down advertising, soap operas, 'reality' TV, popstar-wannabe talent contests and other such insults to evolution. I remember laughing out loud to myself in a supermarket aisle as one line sprang up, with a random shopper looking at me like I needed sectioning.

The lyrics got fine-tuned in spare moments on buses etc and when I was happy with the full arrangement I brought it to the band. Within one rehearsal we had a celebrity-punching rock song with kicking drums and abusive bass. It went down a storm at gigs and soon we had a development advance from an investor who was at one of them. By the time we played the Bull and Gate in Islington we had Popstars nailed. It was the best gig we'd done and producer / Death In Vegas drummer Simon Hanson was in the crowd. Before we knew it we were recording the 'I Spy' EP in his studio with a production deal.

I got threatened with a staple gun and attacked with a broom whilst trying to record a lead break to Popstars. I think Simon Hanson had experienced some kind of guitar solo overkill trauma during the eighties. I sometimes came in and found him alone in the studio shouting to himself with his headphones on and figured it might be best to just go with it, so my guitar tracks got bent out of shape and all sorts of other electronic therapy took hold. It came out sounding mad. Reviewers and radio stations loved it. Xacca Sounds signed Twisterbait and we carried on recording at Hansonic. I guess Popstars resonates with people whose mental spam filters are overworked by constant barrages of mindless crap from every angle of the media. If that sounds like you, behold Electrovee's 'Popstars' video on Youtube and you'll see you're not alone.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the EP and our new heroes in Twisterbait - right here!

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