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Full Report for 08/16/06

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Five Times August Week: Perfectly
antiMusic reports: This week we celebrate the DIY spirit of Brad Skistimas, better known as Five Times August, who not only turned down major label deals to stay indie but does everything on his own resulting in over 100,000 in sales at online digital stores like iTunes, placed nine songs from his album on television shows like MTV's "Laguna Beach," the CW's "One Tree Hill," etc. And he has become the very first unsigned artist to have a CD carried by retail giant Wal-Mart. This week we asked Brad to pick five of favorite songs from the "Independent" album and tell us a little bit about them.

Here is Brad to tell us about "Perfectly": The girl I wrote this for has helped me write some of my favorite songs, this being one of them. The reason it's one of my favorites is because it's one of the very few songs that took little effort lyrically for me to write.
Not that I didn't try hard, but that they came to me easily because it was exactly what I wanted to say. I've done that with few songs. It's weird to read over lyrics like these and know that I am sharing such a personal moment in my life with other people. Reading over the verse "How you leaned on me and how you'd sing to me..." was such a cloud nine moment, I'll never forget it. Sentimental, I know, but it really happened.

Have a listen for yourself and if you like what you hear, support true Indie music by picking up the Five Times August CD or buying the download! - check it out here

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Lesbian Britney
antiMusic reports: Has K-Fed turned Britney Spears off to men all together? Perhaps if photos of the pop star topless in a swimming pool kissing another woman indicate a new sexual preference. This is the second time that Spears has reportedly been seen in recently weeks getting intimate with another woman.

The new photos in The Sun and OK! Magazine show Britney and her former assistant in what the Sun describes in a "red hot girl on girl session". The assisant, Shannon Funk, reported got friendly with Spears in a L.A. hotel pool and the action was captured by photographers.

The new pictures surface as Federline has initiated new court proceedings against Spears in hopes of gaining princible custody of their two children. - more on this story

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Metallica Suing Everyone! Oh, it's just a hoax
antiMusic reports: The web was on fire this week with news that Metallica was suing game makers for copyright infringement. Dailygaming posted what is now claimed by many to have been meant as a satirical article about Metallica suing Harmonix and Activision over placement of their song "One" in "Guitar Hero 3" and "Rock Band". 

The Metallica camp quickly denied the claims. It is unclear whether the original article was originally posted on the sites message board and then picked up as a news item. Attempts to pull it up now result in a system error message. However, the article quickly spread across the web and the text is as follows: Attorneys for the Grammy award winning heavy metal band Metallica filed a lawsuit yesterday against Harmonix and Activision (who recently acquired Red Octane) for copyright infringement. The suit accuses the three gaming companies of illegally distributing copies of Metallica songs in the upcoming and highly anticipated games Guitar Hero III and Rock Band, both due out in late 2007. 

The suit alleges that both companies planned to package and distribute Metallica music through their video games in what lawyers characterized as a "licensed music to player" system, or LM2P network. Metallica is fearful that album sales could decline if their fans were able to simply walk into any Gamestop or Best Buy and purchase an $80 video game that contained one of their songs. - more on this story

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Foxy BlackBerry Assault
antiMusic reports: Foxy Brown is in legal trouble again for assault. This time the rapper reached out an touched her neighbor with a BlackBerry, landing the woman in the hospital and Brown behind bars facing a felony assault conviction. 

The assault took place two weeks ago (July 30th). Brown reportedly got into an argument with her 25-year-old next door neighbor and ended with Brown smashing the woman's face with her BlackBerry phone. The woman was treated at nearby hospital for a swollen lip, loose teeth, and a bruised right eye. - more on this story

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Rap Rules the Charts
antiMusic reports: Rap may have had declining sales over the past few years but the music form is still popular enough to place two release at the top of the Billboard charts. Houston rap duo UGK made a triumphant return after a five year absence when their new album "Underground Kingz" moved 160,000 copies last week, landing them at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Their highest debut ever. 

Plies made an even more impressive chart debut when you consider that "Real Testament" is a debut album. The fact that the single "Shawty (Feat. T-Pain)" is now ranking at No. 1 with-a-bullet at Urban radio outlets nationwide, exceeding 10,000 spins, helped earn Plies a No. 2 debut on the charts with sales of 96,000 units. 

Korn didn't do so well in their second week on the charts. They debuted at No. 2 last week but their new "untitled" effort took a 64% nose dive to No. 10 with sales of 39,000, according to Billboard. Other reports place them at No. 11 Korn with 41,000 in sales. - more on this story

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Van Halen Plan New CD
antiMusic reports: As if news of David Lee Roth joining his former Van Halen bandmates Eddie and Alex for a reunion tour wasn't enough, the band says that a new album may be on the way soon as well. 

But first don't call it a reunion tour. David Lee Roth considers this incarnation of Van Halen, sans original bassist Michael Anthony, a brand new band. "This is not a reunion. This is a new band," Roth said during Monday's press conference. "Usually when a band comes back like us it's rockers with walkers, and this is everything but. Meet us in the future, not the past."

Looking to the future Roth said that they are "plotting and planning" a new album. "Saving the world is (U2 singer) Bono's job. We just want to save a hundred cities," Roth said. "Then we want to save Europe, then we want to save Japan, Australia and ... Hong Kong. Then we make an album. Lots of big dreams here, lots of ambition." - more on this story including an update on yesterday's Michael Anthony snub story

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All Star Tribute To Dylan
antiMusic reports: If you are going to put together a soundtrack made up of cover tunes for a Bob Dylan inspired film, you better be inspired with who you put on the album. It looks like the producers of the "I'm Not There" may have pulled off the impossible with assembling an impressive line-up of credible artists to tribute the legendary Dylan on the two-disc album. 

Sonic Youth, Sufjan Stevens, Eddie Vedder, Jeff Tweedy and John Doe are just some of the notables that have contributed tracks to the 30-track album which is set to hit stores on October 30th from Columbia Records. The film will hit theatres almost a month later on November 21st. 

What about the man himself? Yes, a rare from Dylan recording from The Basement Tapes era, is also set to appear. In fact, this rarity acts as the title track to the film.- more on this story

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Winehouse a Speedballer?
antiMusic reports: Would you sell your child out to a tabloid? Georgette Civil apparently did. The mother-in-law-dearest to Amy Winehouse has told a tabloid that her son and daughter-in-law are heroin and cocaine addicts. 

Winehouse has made headlines lately after a series of concert cancellations and a trip to the hospital, which fueled speculation that she has a serious drug problem and that the hospital trip wasn't for exhaustion but for an overdose. Now her mother-in-law tells a tabloid that Winehouse admitted a few weeks ago that she's using heavy narcotics. 

Georgette Civil told the Daily Mirror that she had a heart to heart a few weeks ago with Winehouse, who is married to her son Blake Fielder-Civil. "It's the hardest thing in the world for me to say in public that my son and his wife have a drug problem," she told the British magazine. "I know my son had a drug problem ever since he was 20 and moved to London. I needed to know about Amy's problems and we had a chat � just the two of us. She told me she was addicted to heroin and cocaine."
- more on this story

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Katrina Inspired Down
PR reports: DOWN, consisting of Philip Anselmo, Rex Brown, Pepper Keenan, Kirk Windstein and Jimmy Bower are set to release DOWN III-OVER THE UNDER on Sept. 25th through ILG/Warner Music Group. After releasing two records mainly as a side project, the band got together in the months before Hurricane Katrina to start working on new material. 

After the tragedy of the Hurricane in which the members were displaced and separated for many months, the band reconvened. It was obvious at the onset that this was no longer a side project. With everyone having honored their previous commitments with other bands, the New Orleans natives were focused on DOWN and DOWN alone, having found new life and a new bond through the common tragedies they all endured separately and collectively culminating in their most definitive record of their career.

To chronicle the past five years leading up to the release of DOWN III-OVER THE UNDER, Philip Anselmo will be placing periodic installments to be released over the course of the next month on the band's websites leading up to the release of the record. This is Philip's personal communication to the band's loyal fan base and gives a 1st hand account the tragedy, isolation, rebirth and ultimate triumph of one of the most important band's of our time. The 1st installment appears on August 17th on www.down-nola.com and - www.myspace.com/downnola

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Seether Cancel Dates After Family Death
antiMusic reports: Sad news in the Seether camp. Frontman Shaun Morgan's brother Eugene passed away and as a result the band has cancelled two upcoming concerts in Idaho Springs and Southaven, MS.

The band broke the tragic news on their Myspace page. Here is what they had to say: I'm sure many of you have been hearing some rumors about Eugene. Unfortunately these rumors are true. Eugene passed away early Monday morning the 13th of August. As you might have seen we have cancelled a few shows to allow Shaun and the rest of us to come to terms with this tragic loss. Genie was an awesome human being, the type of person you want to be around. He never failed to put a smile on the face of all who he met and left a lasting impression on all who's lives he touched. I know I speak for everyone who knew Eugene when I say that he will be sorely missed. We all love you bro. Rest in peace Dale" - more on this story

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Is Classic Rock Radio Killing Classic Rock?
antiMusic reports: Are the narrow play-lists on classic rock radio stations hurting classic rock bands? Deep Purple's Ian Gillan seems to think so. In a new interview with Michael Senft of The Arizona Republic, Gillan says that fans aren't offered the chance to hear classic rocker's new material because radio stations focus on one or two past hits. 

"You have this thing called classic rock radio over here," Ian Gillan told Senft. "It's been a death sentence for all sorts of older bands. They don't play anything of ours other than Smoke on the Water and Highway Star." 

This frustration even inspired the song "MTV" on their latest album, "Rapture of the Deep". "I heard (Purple bassist) Roger Glover doing a radio interview, trying desperately to talk about a record we did in 2003 called Bananas," Gillan said. "I was listening to it and my jaw just dropped, as this deejay ranted on about 1973. She wasn't the slightest bit interested in what he had to say, or anything that had happened in the last 30 years." - Read the interview/article here

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+44 Comment on Tour Cancellation
PR reports: +44 disappointed fans last week when they pulled the plans for their European tour in favor of hitting the studio to record their sophomore album. The disappoint went further when they added that they had no plans to reschedule the cancelled dates. 

"We want to start writing new songs and we are really excited about the direction we have planned," the band said in a statement at the time. "So we're going into the studio instead of playing these few dates. We hope that our fans will forgive us for the cancellation; in the end, this will make for an even better live show when we come back."
Now the band has gone further to explain the sudden cancellation: "Canceling the tour was not an easy decision, not something we wanted to do, and not something that we take lightly," the band said according to Punkbands.- more 

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Band of Horses To Support Dinosaur Jr
Filter reports: Despite already securing themselves an opening gig with Modest Mouse this month, Band of Horses has lined up yet another job. For 4 dates in the beginning of September, Band of Horses will open for veterans, Dinosaur Jr. 

All shows will be in support of the band's upcoming release, Cease To Begin, which hits store shelves on October 9 via Sub Pop.

And while you're at the show, keep your eyes peeled for the newest horse on bass, Bill Reynolds. 
- Grab the dates here

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