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Bret Michaels and Donald Trump Reality TV Show- Jane's Addiction Album Pushed Back- Metallica Singer Reacts To West Memphis 3 Release- Music Cloud Victory- more
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(Antiquiet) A Federal judge decided the case largely in favor of MP3Tunes, reinforcing the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as well as the legal precedent set by the Cablevision ruling of 2008. Amazon and Google can finally exhale, and users of their new services have a lot less to worry about when it comes to the question of whether or not the record labels will be able to f**k them up like they have everything else more
(BW&BK) Originally slated for release September 27th - The Great Escape Artist, the new album from Jane's Addiction - will now hit store shelves October 4th via Capitol/EMI. more
(BMN) Metallica frontman James Hetfield showed his support for the West Memphis Three, calling their release an "amazing" outcome. "The way you dress, the things you listen to..." he said. "I can basically speak for myself, growing up, that that was just a sign of wanting to be creative and different." more
(FMQB) The death toll of the storm incident at Belgian pop festival Pukkelpop has been lowered from five to four. Eight festivalgoers were also seriously injured as the storm that interrupted the event took down screens and tents more
(LG) Tesseract has acknowledged the addition of Elliot Coleman (Sky Eats Airplane) to their line-up on vocals. Coleman replaces Daniel Tompkins who has quit the band for undisclosed reasons (according to BloodDisgusting.com, Tompkins "has been offered a chance to be part of a pop project, which is apparently where his heart lies."). more
(FMQB)Queens Of The Stone Age main man Josh Homme and his wife, Spinnerette's Brody Dalle, have announced the "We got us a very handsome Red headed Baby Boy - Orrin Ryder Homme born on Friday the 12th of August. more
(BW&BK) Black Sabbath News reports that a special edition of Black Sabbath's Born Again album will be released shortly on double vinyl LP. The release will be cut on 180g special vinyl more
(LG) Alesana will headline the "2011 Rock Yourself To Sleep" tour this fall. The trek will also feature A Skylit Drive, Sleeping With Sirens, Atilla, Memphis May Fire, and Serianna. more
(SRX) On September 13th Sister Sin will release a special version of the classic Motorhead track "Rock n Roll" featuring a guest appearance from Doro Pesch more
(BW&BK) Organizers have just announced that German hard rock legends the Scorpions will be playing their last German open-air show at the Wacken Open Air 2012, set to take place August 2nd - 4th in Wacken, Germany. more
(NME) Carl Barat: reports of Libertines reunion are a 'complete fabrication' Both Carl Barat and management dismiss reunion rumors out of hand more
(LG) The Body and Braveyoung will kick off a U.S. tour early next month in North Carolina more
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Riot Fears For Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax Big 4 Show
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James Hetfield and co will close the show after performances by Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax on September 14. And Cary Goodman, head of the 161st Street Business Improvement District of the Bronx, says he's been spurred into action after locked-out fans at sold-out shows in Colombia and Chile ran amok because they couldn't see their heroes.
"When I read about the disturbances and riots I thought, 'Why don't we think proactively and put up a big screen in Macombs Dam Park?'," he said. "Everybody's going to want to dance. I reached out to Metallica's management last month � but I haven't heard back."
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Mystery Note Found at Jani Lane Death Scene
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Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Jani had no official ID on him when his body was discovered at a Los Angeles motel on August 11 --and we're told he hadn't been in possession of an ID for a while.
We're told the note contained a phone number for a person close to Jani -- and police contacted that person after Jani's body was discovered. Law enforcement sources tell us ... investigators have confirmed the note was written by one of Jani's friends -- and that person had placed a similar note on Jani in the past. Cops have been in contact with that person.
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Dimebag's Girlfriend Calls for Pantera Members To Reconcile
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Drummer Vinnie Paul, Dimebag's brother, and frontman Phil Anselmo have not spoken since Pantera split acrimoniously in 2003. The axeman was shot dead the following year on stage with new band Damageplan.
Paul's bad feeling for Anselmo was fuelled by the singer's negative statements about Dimebag published the week he died, although he'd said them some weeks previously.
Now Dime's partner Rita Haney wants the pair to bury the hatchet. See what she had to say
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Red Hot Chili Peppers' New Album Streaming Online
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The band's forthcoming album began streaming for free today and will continue to stream until the album is released on August 29 (August 30 in the U.S.). To hear the entire album go here.
In addition, the Chili Peppers have launched a global listening party, taking place today in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. Each event, being broadcast live on RedHotChiliPeppers.com, is taking place at a place of significance for the band. For instance, Lee's Palace in Toronto is the first place the Chili Peppers ever played in the Canadian city and the Venice Boardwalk in Los Angeles is where the band shot the video for their new single, "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie," according to a press release.
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Help Blink-182 Star Save Boobies
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And he's making use of his alter ego Boomer to promote the Keep A Breast programme and its "I Heart Boobies" bracelets.
DeLonge's Boomer Hearts Boobies scheme offers the chance to buy limited-edition meet-and-greets with Blink, merchandise, original artwork and AAA packages during the band's current tour. There's a grand prize including a two-night VIP experience for the street team member who brings in the biggest amount of cash for the campaign.
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Pearl Jam Set For Two Night Late Night TV Jams
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"Pearl Jam Twenty" director Cameron Crowe will also be the guest on September 8th to discuss the new documentary, which will debut at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 10.
All of this action takes place just days after the "Pearl Jam Twenty" festival on September 3 and 4 in Wisconsin, where they will be joined by The Strokes, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mudhoney and almost 10 other acts.
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Staind's Turmoil Captured For DVD
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The self-titled album is due out September 13 but Lewis is amazed that it ever got finished. Speaking to Billboard he said: "It was full-on falling apart at the seams. Everything just went completely sideways, for so many different reasons. It got so bad that we stopped working (together) and we just went to doing it on our own in separate locations, with minimal contact with each other.
"It was definitely the most difficult and trying and tumultuous record that we have made yet."
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Rock Band Sues New Jersey Devils For $10 Million
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BWR guitarist and front man Rob Traynor released the following statement on the matter: Around September 2010 I received a text message from a friend of mine who was at a New Jersey Devils game informing me that the team was using our song "Rise" as their entrance/introduction music. I immediately assumed that this was a random play probably spun by the stadium DJ and really thought nothing of it. I gave my friend a return call and he explained the context in which it was used so I decided to do some investigating.
First, I posted the news on Facebook and got a bunch of responses from Jersey fans that informed me they too witnessed the same at a Devils game. It seemed that "Rise" was being used as their 2010, 2011 intro music for their "Devil's Army Rise Up!" campaign to rally the fans and team. The band and I were excited to say the least, but we were also a little shocked because no one ever reached out to the band to inform us that they were interested in using the song.
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Kyuss Lives! Add New Dates
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Kyuss Lives! will unleash their desert rock fury on North America for the first time in over 15 years this fall when the band launches a North American headlining tour on September 16 in Toronto, ON.
Due to overwhelming demand, Kyuss Lives! has announced additional North American tour dates, including shows in San Diego (November 17), San Francisco (November 19), Vancouver (November 23), Chicago (December 2) and more.
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Megadeth's New Album To Have Elements of All Eras of the Band
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Broderick told Away-Team that the album contains material that recalls Peace Sells �But Who's Buying, Countdown to Extinction and Endgame. "You kind of hear aspects of the whole timeline and that's why I like it so much," Broderick said.
As for the album's sonics, Broderick says the mix and mastering component absolutely sounds "huge and raw" because it was put together so quickly. "This CD came together completely differently than Endgame did. It came together really fast. It's the fastest CD I've ever been a part of to tell you the truth. From concept to finished product it was really just a lot of riffs that were written in the last two years and stuff like that brought together."
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Hound Dog, Stand By Me Songwriter Jerry Leiber Dead At 78
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Leiber and his partner Mike Stoller have their fingerprints on some of the most famous songs in pop and rock and roll history. Among the hits they penned: "Hound Dog," "Stand By Me," "Jailhouse Rock," "Yakety-Yak," "On Broadway," "Searchin'," "Love Potion No. 9" and "Kansas City."
The two songwriters met in 1950, when they were seniors in high school. They bonded over a shared love of pop, R&B and the blues. Leiber and Stoller began writing together, with Jerry handling the lyrics and Mike working on the melodies. By 1953, the duo were among the most in-demand songwriters, having crafted hits for R&B acts such as The Drifters and The Coasters.
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Dream Theater Blu-Ray Coming
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"Live At Budokan" presents DT's entire three-hour performance at Tokyo's famed Budokan arena on April 26, 2004, along with a bonus disc rich in supplementary material.
Disc 1 finds the quintet plowing through its catalog of epics and instrumentals, including five of the seven songs from 2003's "Train of Thought."
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Richie Sambora Ex Speaks Out on Prostitute and Drug Story
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Model and actress Yasmin Mitri, who once dated the musician, tells Sleaze Roxx: "The article was a huge trap made by the News of the World after Richie left rehab. It came from an ex friend of mine who introduced me to Richie. She sold the story to a reporter, alleging I was a hooker."
"His article alleges I offered sex, including a threesome with another girl, in exchange for money. At no point did I bring up the subject of sex. Neither did I discuss any fees for sexual services."
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Rolling Stones Inspired New Alice Cooper Song
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"This is my tip-of-the-hat to early Rolling StonesNME. "This song was begging to be in the live show. We've done it in four different continents now and no one had ever heard it. By the second chorus, the whole audience is singing 'I'll Bite Your Face Off.' It's the perfect little three-minute hit single.". Like in 1964/65 when their songs were very Chuck Berry-orientated. They just feel so good, in the pocket," he told
Cooper went on to say that he didn't have a problem discussing the inspiration for his music. "I don't mind showing people where I get my songs from," he said. "I can guarantee there were times when major acts took an Alice Cooper song and said, 'We want it to sound like that.' Because I've heard it and recognized it. I see it as a compliment."
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Dave Matthews Band Caravan Continues This Weekend
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A total of 18 acts will perform over the course of three days, with headliners Dave Matthews Band playing a full set each night. See the full lineup below:
Friday, August 26 - Dave Matthews Band (8:05 pm, Hudson Stage), O.A.R. (6:45pm, Highlander Stage), Citizen Cope (5:30 pm, Hudson Stage), Soulive (4:30 pm, Highlander Stage), Vieux Farka Tour� (3:30 pm, Hudson Stage) and Wood Brothers (2:30 pm, Highlander Stage)
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The Decemberists Explain Calamity Song and Video
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Schur is the co-creator of the sitcom, Parks and Recreation, and has also been a writer for Saturday Night Live and a producer of The Office. The video�which premiered today on the NPR Music website�was inspired by David Foster Wallace's gargantuan, mind-altering novel Infinite Jest.
It was filmed on location in Grant Park in Portland, Oregon on the rainiest July 17 in the city's history. Colin Meloy and both discuss the song and video
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Madina Lake's Leone On The Long Road To Recovery Following Near Fatal Beating
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He was severely beaten and left for dead in June last year after he went to the aid of a woman who was being attacked by her husband. He spent the following months in hospital and required the temporary removal of part of his skull during a series of emergency operations.
After months more rehabilitation Leone has put much of the ordeal behind him � but knows he'll carry mental and emotional scars for ever.
He tells Noisecreep: "One of the worst things is living with vertigo. It's a bizarre condition and it really kicked my butt at first. When I lay down in bed it felt like I just kept going further and further down, like some kind of nightmare.
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Gary Moore's Final Montreux Performance Being Released
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Last year, Gary made a conscious return to rock music after a long period of time exploring the blues. In fact, Moore was in the stages of writing and working on a new rock album at the time of his death on February 6, 2011.
Moore's performance at Montreux in July 2010 was his last performance to be filmed. The setlist draws heavily on his rock albums of the eighties, adds a couple of his classic blues tracks and includes three brand new songs that would have featured on the album left uncompleted on his death.
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Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven's 7th Annual Campout Music Festival
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The locale of this fest ties in perfectly with Cracker's own history as their signature album Kerosene Hat was recorded here back in 1993 in the now-closed movie soundstage next to the Palace.
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Psychostick and Mushroomhead Fall Tour
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Says Psychostick singer Rob Kersey about the tour: "We're absolutely honored and excited to tour with the mighty Mushroomhead. I mean, how many big bands out there can look at us and say, 'Yeah, we should take out those idiots in Psychostick!' They're the first, and we're glad to be part of it."
Psychostick will be touring in support of their latest release, Space Vampires Vs. Zombie Dinosaurs In 3D, which hit stores on August 16, 2011.
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Government Kills Sunset Junction Fair
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According to the LA Times, the board voted 3-1 to deny the permits because of nearly $400,000 in unpaid fees ($256,484.14 from last year's fair) owned for policing, street closures and diverse services.
Sunset Junction fair founder, Michael McKinley has questioned these fees, saying that much smaller fees had been applied for other street festivals in Los Angeles.
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Police Find Portugal. The Man's Stolen Van
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Frontman John Gourley posted an update a few days ago on the band website, writing 'I received a phone call from our tour manager 'The Chicago PD found our gear! Its not all there but it sounds like most of it is!'
According to AlaskaDispatch, 'detectives got a tip leading them to the stolen gear from someone who saw a lot of equipment being off-loaded from a rental truck. The resident of the apartment police found the band's lost gear in said he bought the items at a South Side flea market for $1,000. He's being charged with felony theft.'
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Billy Connolly Knew Former Bandmate Gerry Rafferty Had A Drinking Problem
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Rafferty is remembered for creating a number of pop-rock compositions including 1972′s Stuck in the Middle With You with Stealers Wheel and 1978 solo album City to City. He died at the age of 63 in January after a battle with alcoholism which began in his early years. He lost control of the condition in the 1980s and appeared in the press a number of times after trashing hotel rooms, ending up in hospital and even disappearing for a time in 2008.
Now Connolly, who's believed to have funded an unsuccessful stay in rehab for his bandmate, reveals a discussion they had about Rafferty's drinking a decade ago.
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Australia's You Am I Plan American Invasion
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The cross country tour will kick off at The Echo in Los Angeles over labor day weekend, Friday, September 2. They will then work their way up the West Coast with stops in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle where they will perform at Bumbershoot on Monday, September 5.
The Aussies will then cross over to the East Coast and join up with Canadian power poppers Sloan for a co-headlining double bill that will take them to New York City, Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Boston and finally the famed Maxwells in Hoboken, N.J
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Otis Taylor Launching The Trance Jam Blues Festival
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The event will feature a weekend of public workshops and jams for musicians and fans of all levels and ages who wish to join world-renowned guitarist Bob "Steady Rollin'" Margolin, Tony Trischka (International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year), multi-instrumentalist Don Vappie, bassist George Porter, Jr. (Meters), guitarist/vocalist Standing Bear, Cassie Taylor and renaissance bluesman Otis Taylor.
The event begins with a pre-Trance Jam hosted by Taylor, Margolin and Vappie at the Boulder Outlook Hotel on Friday at 8 p.m.
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Shadowside Post New Song Online
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"Waste of Life" is the second song to be revealed from the band's third full-length record, Inner Monster Out, which is slated for a digital release on August 30th through SHP Records. Check out the new song here
Inner Monster Out was produced, mixed, and mastered at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden by Fredrik Nordstr�m (Arch Enemy, At The Gates, Bring Me The Horizon, In Flames), and features guest vocals from the likes of Bj�rn "Speed" Strid (Soilwork), Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquility), and Niklas Isfeldt (Dream Evil).
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I Am the Avalanche Return With New Album
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"This band has a nervous energy, an urgency that each of us feel every second of our lives, and this album captures that," says vocalist Vinnie Caruana. "We're brothers, we're family. The music we make together binds us together and gets us through all the hard times, together. I feel like all five of us will be able walk with less weight on our shoulders now that we've finished this album after years of writing and recording. And now it's time to perform these songs everywhere, alongside some of my best friends."
The album was produced by the band, and executive produced and engineered by their drummer Brett "The Ratt" Romnes and mixed by Machine (Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die, Four Year Strong).
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Krum Bums Streaming New Album Online
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The band is in the midst of a North American tour with Holy Grail and Toxic Holocaust in support of the new record.
"Cut the Noose" was produced by Jason Buntz (Iron Age, Lower Class Brats, World Burns to Death). Check out the full stream
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