(antiMusic) Page Six is helpfully passing along the rumor that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will headline the Super Bowl halftime show next February, a story that was supposedly confirmed by an all-tables reservation E Streeter Steven Van Zandt made at a Tampa-area Hard Rock Cafe. moreSpeaking of musical football, Billboard had this today: Usher and Keith Urban will help ring in the 2008 NFL season with a free Sept. 4 concert at New York's Columbus Circle. Highlights will be sprinkled across the NFL Network, NFL.com and Sprint's NFL Mobile Live. more
Members of the Allman Brothers Band sued UMG Recordings for more than $10 million on Monday over royalties from compact discs sales and digital downloads services such as Apple's iTunes. more
The latest episode of "Talking Metal" features an interview features an interview hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy conducted with StoneRider guitarist and vocalist Matt Tanner. Topics include StoneRider's "Juice Man" video, the Atlanta music scene, and Raging Slab. Additional podcast topics include Grand Magus and Jersey City, New Jersey's Sand Bar. The 25-minute podcast can be downloaded at http://www.talkingmetal.com
George "CorpseGrinder" Fisher, frontman of legendary Death Metal band Cannibal Corpse, has interviewed for Jasmin St. Claire's forthcoming autobiography, 'What the Hell Was I Thinking?!! Confessions of the World's Most Controversial Sex Symbol', which also includes interviews from Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, porn legend Ron Jeremy, and a host of others. Check out more at www.myspace.com/metalsdarkside
Rolling Stone magazine unveiled plans on Monday for a major design overhaul, scaling down its signature large-format pages to a standard magazine size in a bid to bolster advertising and sagging newsstand sales. Bolster advertising? Isn't 70% of the mag already advertisements? Read more here
Eyehategod will play a show to celebrate their 20th anniversary in New Orleans on August 29. details
Sounds like Oasis are about to announce a tour any day now - they're telling fans to keep checking for updates. more
With record producer Phil Spector's murder retrial approaching, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to reconsider rulings from the first trial that excluded evidence of six times Spector allegedly threatened people with handguns - more
