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Day In Rock 10/06: Korny News- Mars Volta UK- Chevelle DVD- Ozzfest Droppings- Bang Thy Head- Bon Jovi Directionless- Arnold �Wanna Rock'- Solo Plant Rarities
by Keavin Wiggins
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The Day in Rock Monday- antiMUSIC.com's look at Top Rock News Stories From the past Weekend.

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Korny News
siN's metal news reports: KORN's upcoming new album 'Take A Look In The Mirror' has now had an official stamping of "Bump Back" by their label to a November 25th release date through Immortal/Epic. 

 Here's the latest according to the bands official website:

  "After Ozzfest Korn returned directly to the studio to finish off the three remaining songs from the up coming album "Take a Look in the Mirror". The release will contain between 10 to 13 tracks, which still has not been decided.

The band is working in the studio everyday to make the holiday release date of November 25.

Drums and Bass tracks have both been laid and finished. The Guitar tracks were being finished on the night of September 25.

 Jonathan is currently writing lyrics as you read this, and has been working from 8pm every night till early into the next morning."-- Click Here for the Full Story

Stay tuned in early December when Jonathon Davis will be complaining that Kaaza killed his record sales. 

Mars Volta UK
Big news for our British friends�  NME reports: THE MARS VOLTA have announced details of a UK tour.

The group, who were last in the country this summer for various selected festivals, will play their biggest shows yet at: 
Glasgow QMU (November 19) 
Manchester University (20) 
Nottingham Rock City (22) 
London Astoria (23)
- Click Here for the Full Story

Seriously, if you go see one show this year and if it isn't the Darkness, go see The Mars Volta.. They'll rock your pants off. 

Chevelle DVD
Big news on Ralph Nader's favorite group.. The PRP reports: The track listing has been revealed for Chevelle's upcoming "Live From The Norva" DVD, it is as follows:
01 - "Family System"
02 - "Forfeit"
03 - "Send The Pain Below"
04 - "Till You're Reformed"
05 - "SMA"
06 - "MIA"
07 - "Point #1"
08 - "Closure"
09 - "Grab Thy Hand"
10 - "An Evening With El Diablo"
11 - "Comfortable Liar"
12 - "Don't Fake This"
13 - "The Red"
14 - "Wonder What's Next"
The effort was captured at a live performance which took place at The Norva in Norfolk, VA on May 23rd, 2003 and will see a release on October 14th.
.- Click Here for the Full Story

Ozzfest Droppings
siN's metal news: Just when we thought nu metal was dying think again. Even after their tour support was pulled, both DEPSWA and GRADE 8 are still on their labels. 

Meanwhile GRADE 8 is working on a new album already due in Spring of next year.

In related news DEPSWA guitarist James Mills is rumored to have left the band for an unknown  reason at this time.

- Click Here for the Full Story

Actually Depswa does not appear on the artists listings on the Geffen homepage, but are still listed on the Umusic.com website. So who knows? 

Bang Thy Head
Digital noise reports: All 40 tracks of the upcoming "MTV2 Headbangers Ball" album have been posted online over at MTV. Click here to preview. 

"MTV2 Headbangers Ball" is due for a release on October 7th through Roadrunner Records.- Click Here for the Full Story 

Bon Jovi Directionless 
Launch reports: Bon Jovi will release their greatest hits album on November 4, titled This Left Feels Right, which will feature 12 versions of their biggest hits redone in new and original stylings, as well as two new studio tracks, "Last Man Standing" and "Thief of Hearts."

Singer Jon Bon Jovi is a part owner of the Arena Football League's newest team the Philadelphia Soul, along with his band-mate Richie Sambora, among others.

If you think you have what it takes to play on Bon Jovi's team, an open tryout for prospective players will take place on Sunday (October 5) at the Pennington Field in Bedford, Texas. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. at a cost of $50, cash only, and is open to all positions. A Philadelphia tryout date is currently in the works as well.

The track listing for This Left Feels Right is as follows:
"Wanted Dead or Alive"
"Livin' On A Prayer"
"Bad Medicine"
"It's My Life"
"Lay Your Hands On Me"
"Last Man Standing"
"You Give Love a Bad Name"
"Bed of Roses"
"Everyday"
"Born To Be My Baby"
"Keep The Faith"
"I'll Be There For You"
"Thief Of Hearts"
"Always"

.- Click Here for the Full Story

Damn New Jersey Cowboys can't tell left from right. . 

Arnold 'Wanna Rock' 
Blabbermouth reports: San Francisco Bay Area metallers SYSTEMATIC have parted ways with drummer Paul Bostaph (ex-SLAYER) and have replaced him with Bostaph's predecessor, Shaun Bannon.

Says vocalist/guitarist Tim Narducci, "First, as far as all of the rumors go, yes Paul did have knee surgery. We wanted to wait and see how things would go for Paul and his recovery before we could move forward and comment on the situation. 

"Unfortunately, things have been slower than anticipated and collectively we all decided (including Paul) it would be best for us to find a replacement to go forward with business for SYSTEMATIC. 

"For every door that closes, another opens. We have been jamming with Mr. Shaun Bannon... Holy s***! Talk about not missing a step! It has been an amazing couple of weeks and we are very proud to have Shaun back in the drummer's seat again. He was well missed! 

"Other news.... we'll we got a call to be Dee Snider's backing band at the Arnold Schwarzenneger rally this Sunday, Oct. 5th at the State Capitol the California [to perform the gubernatorial candidate's official campaign anthem, TWISTED SISTER's 'We're Not Gonna Take It']. We said f*** yeah! I've listened to TWISTED SISTER since I was in 7th grade. I just wish we were doing 'You Can't Stop Rock and Roll'. Should be fun as hell! 
.- Click Here for the Full Story

Arnie did not grope Dee after the show despite reports from the Davis Camp (a.k.a. LA Times). Although we did learn that Ariana Huffington wanted to use another 80's hit in her fairwell speech, "Don't you forget about me", from Simple Mind. Somehow the  band name seems more appropriate than the song.

Solo Plant Rarities
Billboard reports: Hoping to capitalize further on the summer success of Led Zeppelin's "How the West Was Won" CD and the accompanying DVD "Led Zeppelin," Atlantic Records is releasing "Sixty Six to Timbuktu," a two-CD solo collection from Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. 

Due Nov. 4, the 35-track set traces Plant's career, starting with his first solo single in 1966 through a live performance this year in Timbuktu. 

The first disc features material from his solo albums, but it's the second disc that will grab fans' attention: It is full of rarities, bonus tracks, his work with pre-Zeppelin groups Listen and the Band of Joy and side projects like "Philadelphia Baby," recorded under the Crawling Kingsnakes moniker, a one-off that  included Dave Edmunds and Phil Collins. 

The idea for the compilation was born as Plant was sorting through tapes for the Zeppelin set, he told Billboard in an exclusive interview.- Click Here for the Full Story 

**Mail Bag**
Letters to the editor.  The letters are piling up. So instead of our weekly "letter of the week" we'll publish letters as they come in. 

From Ross
Keavin,
Please don't take this the wrong way I do like your unorthodox reporting but I'm curious. What happened to Antiguy?  I've been coming to this site for a few years and I was used to seeing his name in the byline but a few weeks ago I noticed he wasn't doing it any more. 

Response:  What happened to antiGUY? Short answer: antiGIRL.  The real answer: After being our faithful scribe for 5 years, antiGUY decided to take a little sabbatical to work on a book. He is still contributing to antiMUSIC but is not currently reporting the news. His day gig also keeps him pretty busy and he decided he needed to take a breather from day to day reporting. So that coupled with being lobotomized by love are the reasons why you are not seeing his byline on our news articles right now. However, I did just give him the new Limp Bizkit CD to review, so that should be fun when that is published! 

From Aaron
Enough with this suicide publicity stunt already! 

Response:  While many believe that this is just a publicity stunt, a lot of people are still interested in it. Maybe it's morbid curiosity? Who knows?  And as a developing story we are obligated to post follow ups since we reported on the story previously. It's not cool to leave people hangin'.  But it does appear that the story is winding down. That doesn't mean it's over yet. So if you don't care to stay up to date on this story, just skip over it. There are plenty of other happenings in rock that are covered here.  But just in case, we have the latest in this saga that was just posted to antiMUSIC. Seems a shock jock claims to have a video of the suicide�  probably b.s. but it seems a lot of people are interested in this story. 

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