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Beyonce Nude Mishap

antiMusic reports: The good news for Beyonce Knowles is that sex sells. The bad news is that her breasts are now available for viewing on the internet. Beyonce was simply trying to promote her new clothing line but she inadvertently gave the audience an eye full. This according to a Contact Music report.

It's being billed as an accident, (or is it a wardrobe malfunction?) but it could also be called an ironic way to promote a clothing line by accidentally removing said clothing. It all happened when Beyonce took to the stage at a launch party for her clothing line at the Dereon in Toronto, Canada, according to Contact Music.

Hundreds of fans were on hand to witness Beyonce perform and during an a dance routine her blouse reportedly lifted up and exposed her bare breasts to the audience. Video of the mishaps is now making the rounds on the web. We won't link you directly to a site showing it but if you are industrious you can find one if you can sort through the insane amounth of spam site - listings

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Van Halen Angers Fans With Anthony Snubs

antiMusic reports: Van Halen fans were ecstatic when the band announced that they will be returning to the stage this fall with their original frontman David Lee Roth. Some fans were disappointed that original bassist Michael Anthony will not be a part of the reunion with Eddie Van Halen's son Wolfgang taking his place. That disappointment turned into anger when Anthony's image was replaced with Wolfgang on album artwork posted on the band's website. Although, the original images were quickly reinstated, now fans are angry that Anthony is being written out of the band's songwriting history.

A fan wrote us with the following: "On every single Van Halen song (with exception to the three new songs on the Best of Both Worlds compilation, ) credits have always gone to Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, and the lead singer who is featured on the song (Roth/Hagar/Cherone). However, during the credits of the film 'Superbad', which features the song 'Panama', the song is only credited to the two Van Halens and Roth! Anthony continues to get snubbed by his former band as they attempt to erase him from the history of the band."

We looked a little further into this and discovered that Anthony has been removed from the credits for all of the songs from the band's Diamond Award winning album 1984 in the ASCAP database.- more on this story

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Faith Hill Vs Ball Grabbing Fan

Hecklerspray reports: When you're famous, people think that they own you - or, more specifically, they think they own your husband's balls, as Faith Hill realised when a female concert-goer got all grabby on her husband Tim McGraw's nicknacks. 

When a ballsy female concertgoer reached out and grabbed Tim McGraw's nether regions Saturday at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana, his missus [Faith Hill] told the errant fan in no uncertain terms that that sort of behavior is frowned upon in them there parts� 

"Somebody needs to teach you some class, my friend," a finger-wagging Hill told the woman. "You don't go grabbin' somebody else's, somebody's husband's balls, you understand me? That's very disrespectful!"

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AC/DC Go Digital

antiMusic reports: Up until now if you wanted to download "Highway to Hell" or "Let Me Put My Love Into You," you've been forced to do it illegally. That is no longer the case as AC/DC has inked an exclusive deal with Verizon Wireless to sell their catalog online. 

There are a couple of catches. First you will only find digital AC/DC through Verizon VCast Music service for PCs. And you can't pick and choose which songs you want, you have to buy the full albums at about $12 each according to Billboard. The one exception being "You Shook Me All Night Long" which you can download to your cell phone. - more on this story

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Ozzy Emergency Surgery

antiMusic reports: Ozzy Osbourne underwent unexpected surgery for a blood clot as the Ozzfest rolled through Denver. Osbourne went under the knife at the Rose Medical Center according to Denver's 9NEWS. 

Ozzy had experience leg pain all day leading up to his headline performance during "FreeFest," and following the show was taken to the local hospital where a blood clot was discovered in his leg. - more on this story

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KISS Star Hospitalized with Heart Trouble

antiMusic reports: "Better Hide Your Heart... Cuz there's trouble tonight". KISS had to play as a trio last month after Paul Stanley had heart trouble. The masked rocker suffered what is known as tachycardia where the heart beats at an unusually high rate. In Stanley's case it was beating twice as fast as normal. 

"My heart spontaneously jumped to 190 plus beats per minute, where it stayed for over an hour necessitating paramedics to start an IV and give me a shot to momentarily stop my heart and get it into a normal pattern," Stanley wrote on his site. The American Heart Assoc lists a normal "at rest" heart beat as between 60 and 80 beats per minute.

The full band was scheduled to perform at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, Ca but during rehearsals Stanley suffered the heart trouble causing the band to perform without him, as doctors advised Paul that going on the show would be dangerous. - more on this story

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GNR Members Reunite At Anniversary Show

antiMusic reports: Axl wasn't on hand but the other members of the classic Guns N' Roses lineup did attend the 20th anniversary party for their landmark debut "Appetite for Destruction," which took place at the Key Club in Hollywood on Saturday night.

Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan joined Steven Adler's band (Adler's Appetite) during their set to perform "Mr. Brownstone" and "Paradise City". There are some reports that Slash attended the event but did not join the band on stage. We were supposed to attend the event but due to unforeseen circumstance we were unable to so we can not give you a first hand report of the reunion. We were informed by Chip Z'nuff, a member of Adler's band that Slash was indeed at the event but did not perform.- more on this story

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Keef Admits Snorting Dad's Ashes

antiMusic reports: Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has admitted that he did in fact snort his father's ashes, thus doing an about face from his previous denial of the deed. However, he states that he didn't mix his fathers remains with cocaine.

"What I found out is that ingesting your ancestors is a very respectable way of... y'know, he went down a treat," Richard reportedly says in a new magazine interview according to UK music site Gigwise. The story caused controversy when it first broke with Richards issuing a denial but he has now changed his tune and offered up a correction to the widely reported claims that he mixed his fathers remains with cocaine before having a toot. 

"The cocaine bit was rubbish. I said I chopped him up like cocaine, not with. I'd opened his box up and said, 'Jesus, I've got to do something with dad, y'know, plant the oak tree.' I pulled the lid off and out comes a bit of dad on the dining room table. I'm going, 'I can't use the brush and dustpan for this'. So you just gotta like, put it together."- read teh Gigwise report

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Pearl Jam Vs AT&T

antiMusic reports: Pearl Jam are a bit miffed at AT&T Blue Room for censoring part of the live webcast of their performance at Lollapalooza. Curiously absent from the webcast were portions of the performance of the band's anti Bush rant "Daughter".

AT&T claim it was a mistake, CMJ contacted them for comment and were told that a webcast editor mistakenly took the portions out due to their policy of censoring excessive language due to their all-ages audience. 

"This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media," Pearl Jam wrote in a statement on their website. Then again they shouldn't be surprised by the corporate action since they were performing at a festival that has become more and more corporate as the years go by. - Read more about the band's anger and AT&Ts response at CMJ 

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50 Cent Promises To Retire

antiMusic reports: 50 Cent has made the world a deal we simply can't refuse! Half a buck says that if Kanye West's new CD sells more than his then he will take his ball and go home. So we finally have a legitimate reason to buy a Kanye album.

Both rappers will commemorate the brutal terrorist attacks on the US this September 11th by dropping their new albums on the public. In the past, Fiddy has logged more sales than Kanye, who was once pictured as Jesus on the cover of Rolling Stone, but some are predicting that the new CD "Graduation" from the biggest ego in popular music (a.k.a. Kanye) may just outsell pocket change's CD "Curtis". So Fiddy laid it all on the line and promises to quit his solo career if Kanye's "Graduation" sends him back to the 1st grade. - more on this story

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Coldplay Smackdown

antiMusic reports: One woman took her hatred of Coldplay to an extreme last week and ended up in jail after beating a man for singing their most famous song. 

The smackdown occurred at the Changes Karaoke bar in Seattle when a man took the stage and started to sing Coldplay's hit song "Yellow" angering a woman in the audience who shouted "Oh no, not that song. I can't stand that song!" 

She then jumped up on stage and punched the man in the face in an attempt to stop him from singing the song, said the police report according to Gigwise. The 21-year-old woman was then dragged outside and went crazy punching a bar employee in the face twice.- more on this story

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Against Me Cafe Brawl

antiMusic reports: It started out as such a nice a gentle punk rock evening. The lead singer of Against Me! and his girlfriend had stopped at a cafe for a spot of tea and ended with the singer smashing another patron's head against a counter. And it was all over a little extra commentary applied to an article about his band. 

Tom Gabel had just ordered his tea and walked into the rest room when all hell broke loose according to tallahassee.com. Seems Gabel found an article about his band pinned to the wall. Instead of saying for a good time call, someone had defaced the article with obscenities, which angered him greatly. So he tore down the article and tossed it into the emo basket (trashcan). Another patron asked Gabel why he had torn down the fine altered article and according to the victim's friend a shouting match ensued between the singer and the victim before escalating into violence. 

Gabel reportedly then knocked the cup out of the hand of his questioner, Jared Smith. Smith told the police that Gabel proceeded to grab him by the neck and forced his head into the wooden counter before a man entered the cafe, headbutted Gabel and put him into a headlock. The mysterious crime fighter exited before the police showed up.
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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.- more on this story

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Ticketmaster Drops Live Nation?

antiMusic reports: Calling Pearl Jam. Ticketmaster will not renew its contract with the largest US venue operation, Live Nation, according to an internal memo. 

According to the New York Times, Ticketmaster chairman Terry Barnes and CEO Sean Moriarty sent a memo to employees announcing, "Live Nation has been a valued client for a very long time and we believe we've taken every reasonable step possible to facilitate a renewal, but they seem intent on a direction for their business that leaves us no viable way to work together."

The two parties have been negotiating a renewal of their agreement that expires at the end of next year. A sticking point was reportedly how the two sides would split the excessive monopoly customer rape charges a.k.a. service and convenience charges. - more on this story

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Warped Riot

antiMusic reports: All hell broke loose following a Warped Tour show at the Gorge Amphitheater when the after party at a neighboring campground turned into a riot with burning toilets, fights and five arrests.

Grant County deputies responded to an injury call at a campground near the Warped event site and when they arrived they encountered several fights as well as burning portable toilets then things turned ugly as some campers pelted deputies with beer bottles, cans and rocks, and the windshield of a fire truck was shattered by debris, according to AP. - more on this story

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Uncle Kracker Sex Crime

antiMusic reports: Uncle Kracker was arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina for sexually forcing himself on a woman in a night club. The former Kid Rock deejay was released on $75,000 bond. 

The alleged victim, a 26-year-old woman approached an off-duty police officer at the Ess Lounge nightclub (where Kracker had performed), and told the officer that Kracker, real name Matthew Shafer, had forced himself on her sexually. 

Police found Kracker at a nearby Embassy Suites Hotel and arrested him. He was booked on a charge of second-degree forcible sexual offense at the Wake County Jail.- more on this story

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Savage Garden Racism Arrest

antiMusic reports: Former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes was arrested last month for reportedly racially abusing a waiter at a Thai restaurant. He turned himself in voluntarily to police and is currently out on bail.

According to Gigwise, "Hayes was taken in for questioning by Police on Friday night for racially abusing staff at the Busaba Eathai on Wardour Street on July 22 " 

"We can confirm that a 35-year-old man was arrested by Westminster police on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff," a Scotland Yard spokesman said.- more on this story

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CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal Dies

antiMusic reports: The world has lost another music icon. Hilly Kristal the founder of CBGB has passed. Here is the official press statement that was sent out. It is with deep sadness and regret that we inform you of the death of Hilly Kristal, who died on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 from complications from Lung Cancer. 

Kristal, 75, founded the legendary rock club CBGB and ran the club for 33 years. A singer and songwriter himself, Kristal opened the club to showcase "Country Bluegrass and Blues"; instead the club became a breeding ground for Punk rock. Among the many acts that called CBGB home were Blondie, the Talking Heads, Television, Living Color, Patti Smith and the Ramones. The club closed in October 2006, but CBGB continues, with a retail store in New York City and worldwide merchandise sales; in addition, there currently are plans to open new CBGB clubs in several locations.- more on this story

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