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Courtney Murdered Kurt?
MTV reports: ...A book titled "Love and
Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain" is resurrecting the theory that the Nirvana
frontman did not kill himself. At a press conference at New York's Hilton
Times Square on Monday, authors Max Wallace and Ian Halperin appeared alongside
Love's former private investigator, Tom Grant, to play audio tapes from
Love's conversations with Grant, whom she hired when her husband went missing.
The authors attempt to prove in their book, out this week, that mysterious circumstances surround Cobain's death, pointing to Love's behavior and statements as being suspicious. Contributing to their theory is that on these tapes, Love talked about a second suicide note that wasn't put into evidence, that Love said Cobain was leaving her, and that Love told Grant she had no idea where her husband was, even though she had actually received a message from him and he had been sighted at their Seattle home.
In their book, Halperin and Wallace attempt to connect those tapes to the forensic evidence and argue that a murder was staged to look like a suicide. They argue that Cobain would not have been able to pull the trigger due to the high amount of heroin in his system, and they question why no legible fingerprints were found on the shotgun. They also question the validity of the suicide note. [see full story for lots more] .- Click Here for the Full Story
Lostprophets Headline
RIFTrock reports: The Lostprophets are
currently organizing their first U.S. headlining tour. The tour will be
taking place in May and include openers Head Automatica, Kill Radio, and
Instruction. Dates will be announced shortly. - Click
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In Stores
RIFTrock reports: The following new releases
will be hitting stores on Tuesday, April 6th, 2004:
In Flames, "Soundtrack to Your Escape"
The Beautiful Mistake, "This Is Who You
Are"
Nocturnal Rites, "New World Messiah"
Dead Poetic, "New Medicines"
Audio Learning Center, "Cope Park"
Orphaned Land, "Mabool"
Folly, "Insanity Later"
Anthrax, "Music of Mass Destruction" DVD
Propane "Fistful of Hate"
Your Enemies Friends, "You Are Being Videotaped"
Pulley, "Matters"
Devilinside, "Prelude" EP
Local H, "Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?"
Fear Before The March of Flames, "Odd
How People Shake" re-release
Between the Buried and Me, "Between the
Buried and Me" re-release
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Canada To Change Laws
Tin Foil Music reports: In an attempt
to reverse a stunning move by the Canadian courts ruling that the CRIA
had not proved file-sharing was illegal, Heritage Minister Helene Scherrer
has vowed to change the laws.
Federal Heritage Minister Helene Scherrer yesterday promised to plug the hole in Canadian law allowing people to legally download songs off the Internet without paying. Scherrer's announcement won loud applause from an audience of Canadian music industry types at yesterday's Juno Awards opening ceremony at City Hall, which also featured a staged 'surprise' appearance from Prime Minister Paul Martin.
'As minister of Canadian Heritage, I will, as quickly as possible, make changes to our copyright law,' said Scherrer yesterday.
The minister offered no details, but she was responding to the challenge posed by a recent federal court ruling that suggested uploading music files into shared folders on peer-to-peer Net networks is quite legal. - Click Here for the Full Story
Wilco Delay
Aversion reports: Wilco's A Ghost Is Born
is going to have a later birthday than anticipated.
The band announced that the release date for its latest album was pushed back to June 22 from June 8 by its label, Nonsuch. No reasons were given for the hold up. - Click Here for the Full Story
Vader US
siN's metal news reports: According to
a post on the band's official website, Polish death metallers VADER will
"start another trip through US" after their Polish "Blitzkrieg 2" tour
which runs through to October 18th. After this, the band will be participating
in the European X-mas festivals. Stay tuned for more details.-
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Sugar Ray Reality Show
AP reports: Sugar Ray is taking their
act to the airwaves.
The rock band will participate in "On the Road," a reality show for Spike TV, singer Mark McGrath (news) told The Associated Press Monday.
"We thought what the world needs now is another reality show," McGrath joked. The show, set to air this summer, follows eight contestants who go on tour with Sugar Ray. They compete for a job with a music label and a new Kia car.
"I describe it as `The Apprentice' meets `The Real World,'" McGrath said.
He said contestants learn the ropes of the music industry, from tuning guitars to promoting Sugar Ray's concerts. At the end of each episode, the band fires one person. - Click Here for the Full Story
A Kia? Sign me up.
Dylan Bras?
AP reports: New, from Victoria's Secret:
the MiracleBob? Bob Dylan appears in a new series of commercials for Victoria's
Secret, his grizzled face intercut with shots of model Adriana Lima cavorting
though Venice in a bra, panties and spike heels.- Click
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Janis Film Fever
Rolling Stone reports: PINK and RENE ZELLWEGER
have signed on to play the lead role in two separate biopics about JANIS
JOPLIN - Click
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Paul Atkinson RIP
Rolling Stone reports: Former ZOMBIES
guitarist PAUL ATKINSON, who became a successful label exec by signing
ABBA, JUDAS PRIEST and others, died on April 1st in Los Angeles; he was
fifty-eight .- Click
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Joe Strummer Movie
Rolling Stone reports: Joe Strummer and
his friend actor/filmmaker Dick Rude had initially planned to make a film
about the former as a means of promoting his 2001 release, Global a Go-Go.
Rude and his camera followed Strummer through some of the promotion for
the record, culminating with a fall 2002 tour of Japan. Rude's work-in-progress
would become a sort of visual epitaph that December, when Strummer died
of a heart attack.
But the energetic live performance footage and vibrant conversations that Rude captured on film will soon be viewable in Let's Rock Again!, which will make its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City next month. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story
Punk'd Lives On
E! reports: Howard Stern punk'd you. Ashton
Kutcher swears he's not.
As Stern pretended to be bounced from the air Thursday--make that, April Fool's Thursday--prankster Kutcher announced his return to MTV's air.
First, the real news: Punk'd is back.
Nearly four months after the celeb-baiting show was ostensibly retired, the Kutcher-fronted Punk'd will live on for a third season, bowing April 25, MTV said with a straight face Thursday. - Click Here for the Full Story
The Alarm Return
Billboard reports: Thirteen years after
the band's last studio album, Welsh rock act the Alarm will issue "In the
Poppyfields" later this month. The set is due April 19 in the United Kingdom
via Snapper Music and a day later in the United States (distributed by
Navarre). - Click
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New Beastie Boys
I Ate Your Microphone reports: The Beastie
Boys' as-yet-untitled new album is scheduled to see a release on June 15th
through Capitol Records. A single preceding the effort is expected sometime
in May.- Click
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Cold Lose Another
I Ate Your Microphone reports: Cold have
now officially parted ways with guitarist Kelly Hayes. This follows the
recent departure of their other axeman Terry Balsalmo, who was replaced
by Eddie "The Kydd" Rendini of Darwin's Waiting Room fame. -
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Darkness Vs. The Press
Net Music Countdown reports: A recent
interview with Justin Hawkins of the Darkness was an illuminating one.
When asked what he makes of music writers' constant comparisons to either
Led Zepplin or, alternatively, Spinal Tap, Justin minced no words.
"The only understanding that they have of rock is �Spinal Tap' and �Wayne's World' and films like that. I'm talking about retarded, inadequate journalists, who really shouldn't be writing about rock, because they have no understanding of its history. The people who consider us an important are the likes of Brain May from Queen, the guys out of Aerosmith, the guys out of Def Leppard, the guys out of Thin Lizzy�people who know about rock and know what it is. I think that people who only have �Spinal Tap' and �Wayne's World' as their points of reference shouldn't be writing about it."- Click Here for the Full Story
Source: Net Music Countdown also has news on Outkast, Nickelback, Jay-z and more click here to check it out
Van Hagar Expanded
liveDaily reports: Ticket-demand for Van
Halen's first tour in almost a decade with singer Sammy Hagar has led to
additional nights in several markets.
Shortly after tickets hit the box office on Saturday (4/3), the group posted sellouts in Worcester, MA; East Rutherford, NJ; St. Louis; and Las Vegas. Tickets are on sale now for second performances in each of the aforementioned cities.
Tickets for the first date at Las Vegas's Mandalay Bay Events Center sold out in less than 30 minutes, making it the fastest sellout in the venue's five-year history, according to a press release. - Click Here for the Full Story
Source: liveDaily also has news on Willie Nelson, K.D. Lang, and Clay Aiken click here to check it out
Mad World The Video
Day in Rock reports: At long last the
video for the hit song "Mad World" by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews has
been released. The song was recorded for the cult classic film Donnie Darko
and late last year become a smash hit in Europe, topping the charts over
Christmas. Jules Universal Records debut was released last month and he
is also the featured artist of the month at antiMUSIC (review and interview).
You can check out the "Mad World" video by clicking on the full story link
below. - Click
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Queensryche DVD
press release reports: The extraordinary
live show of the progressive metal band Queensryche is captured on the
new DVD 'The Art of Live' scheduled for release by Sanctuary Records on
April 20, 2004.
'The Art of Live' was filmed in summer and fall 2003 on Queensryche's tour promoting the Sanctuary studio album 'Tribe.' The summer tour was a co-headlining run with Dream Theater.
Vocalist Geoff Tate, guitarist Michael Wilton, guitarist Mike Stone, bass guitarist Eddie Jackson and drummer Scott Rockenfield perform Queensryche classics, the finest 'Tribe' songs and a cover encore of The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" featuring Dream Theater.
The songs on 'The Art of Live' include: "Tribe," "Sign of the Times," "Open," "Losing Myself," "Desert Dance," "Great Divide," "Rhythm of Hope," "My Global Mind," "Roads to Madness," "Della Brown," "Breaking the Silence," "The Needle Lies," "Best I Can" and "Won't Get Fooled Again."- Click Here for the Full Story
Chris Stamey Returns
Press Release reports: Chris Stamey, a
pivotal figure in the history of American alternative rock, will soon unveil
his first new album since 1991's Fireworks -- a long-in-the-works album
titled Travels In The South. The musically adventurous, emotionally complex
album will hit the streets on Yep Roc Records on June 15.
Known for his stints in the Sneakers and dB's as well as his solo albums and duet album with former dB Peter Holsapple, Stamey has also played with Alex Chilton, Bob Mould and the Golden Palominos, and has produced and/or engineered Whiskeytown, Alejandro Escovedo, Ben Folds, Caitlin Cary, Yo La Tengo, Tift Merritt and Squirrel Nut Zippers.
The new album is something of a homecoming for North Carolina-based Stamey with guest appearances from friends like Ryan Adams, Tift Merritt, Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell, as well as past collaborators like Peter Holsapple and Don Dixon. Even the list of sidemen reads like a who's who including Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, ex-Jayhawks keyboardist Jen Gunderman and Greg Readling of Tift Merritt's band The Carbines � a group loosely dubbed "the Mod Squad" in honor of Stamey's Chapel Hill-based studio, Modern Recording, where Travels In The South was recorded.- Click Here for the Full Story
Ween DVD'd
press release reports: The first official
visual release from WEEN has finally arrived! Filmed over two nights at
The Vic Theater in Chicago in November 2003, this is what Ween fans have
been waiting for - 2 hours of all their favorite Ween classics and a killer
cover of "All Of My Love". 2003 was a great year for the band as they toured
the US and Europe, had a #1 CMJ record for the month of September with
QUEBEC, and was loved all over the press from Rolling Stone to The Onion.
Available in Amray and CD packaging, the CD contains over 75 minutes of
music, and the DVD includes 120 minutes of live concert footage. -
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Rising
Stars - Abloom
Rising Stars is a new feature to Day in
Rock that will alternate with Tuesday's Source.
Today we have the quick buzz on Abloom. I just got back from watching them rock a full house at the Knitting Factory and what can I say? They impressed even this jaded critic. The have a perfect balance of power, intensity and melody�very similar to Universal recording artist Ra. It's not hard rock / nu metal by the numbers but something along the lines of the next logical evolution. They rock hard enough for purist but are melodic enough to have mass appeal. It's a tough balancing act but they seem to have perfected it.
It's a new group but the members have already proven themselves. The band features Jasan and Levon from Onesidezero, Mikey from Soulfly/ Snot and Marcello and Roy from Soulfly.
Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down discovered them a few months ago and took them under his wing. According to the band's publicist Shavo is "acting as part manager/ part producer for the group". They're currently recording and shopping for a deal. So expect to hear from them soon but for now you can check out more on the group at their website - http://www.abloommusic.com/
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