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Full Report for 07/08/2008
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Opiate For the Masses Week: Day 2 "Black Book"
antiMusic reports: This week industrial metal heavyweights Opiate for the Masses' new album 'Manifesto' hits stores at long last via Century Media records. To celebrate the release we asked frontman Ron Underwood to pick his favorite tracks from the effort and tell us a little bit about each one. Here is Ron with today's song:

Black Book- This song was written while I was on tour with Opiate and my little brother was on tour in Iraq. The intention was to speak for him and his isolation and what he was going through over there just by telling my own story of isolation and struggles over here.

Being on the road has had the highest highs and the lowest lows I've ever seen, where it's easy to become disassociated from reality when you're really in the thick of it. I realized in hindsight that the vocal melody is subliminally reminiscent of "Suicide Is Painless", better known as the M.A.S.H. theme song. Go figure. - more of this song story

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Ozzy Osbourne TV Variety Show Coming
Sleazeroxx reports: British rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his raucous family, former stars of MTV, are headed back to U.S. television as hosts of a prime-time variety hour in the works for the Fox network.

No precise air date has been set. But a spokesman for the News Corp-owned broadcaster said on Monday the show, featuring musical performances and comedy sketches, is planned for sometime in the upcoming 2008-2009 season.

Fox alternative programming president, Mike Darnell, told Daily Variety he hopes to launch the series with a Christmas special. Envisioned as a throwback to variety classics hosted in the 1970s by Sonny and Cher and by Donny and Marie Osmond, the show will reunite Ozzy Osbourne and his wife, Sharon, with daughter Kelly, 23, and son Jack, 22, last seen together on the MTV reality show "The Osbournes." - more on this story

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Madonna Using Divorce Rumors To Sell Tickets?
TMZ reports: Never forget -- Madonna is the master at using the media to her advantage, and the current are-they-or-aren't-they divorcing drams is no different. Now we're hearing Guy and Madge's peeps have been planning this for months, hoping the hubbub will sell more tickets to her upcoming tour.

Well-placed sources tell us the Ritchies plan to officially split in November or December -- after the Mrs.' upcoming "Sticky and Sweet" world tour. Why? Big bucks. The concerts are expected to earn close to $300 mil worldwide, and they've decided to ear mark that to provide for their three children's future.

And it gets better ... There is a whole PR strategy that has been in place for some time. We're told the Material Girl will be "very visible" in the months leading up to the tour to "generate a lot of publicity." That's when "news" of the marriage's demise would slowly leak out, causing tongues to wag -- and Madonna to be on the cover of papers and mags around the world. - more on this story

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Vh1 to Exploit GNR Addict For Reality Show
antiMusic reports: Today's Running Out of Patience Meter� reading: it has been 5,341 days since the last new Guns N' Roses album was released. now here is the story from Blabbermouth:

According to the New York Post, former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler and Crazy Town singer Seth "Shifty" Binzer are among the "celebrities" who have been approached to participate in the proposed VH1 "Celebrity Rehab" spinoff called "Sober Living".

The show, which would be a cross between "Surreal Life" and "The Real World", would put a number of "Celebrity Rehab" alumni together in a luxurious Beverly Hills mansion for 30 days while they try to rebuild their careers without drugs and alcohol.

Like "Celebrity Rehab", the new show would prominently feature Dr. Drew Pinsky ("Loveline"), who oversees the celebs during their stints in televised rehab.
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Lost Hendrix Album
Blabbermouth reports: A lost album Jimi Hendrix recorded with rocker Stephen Stills has been discovered more than 30 years after it was recorded.

Stills recently found the recording among a stack of material he taped during the 1970s, and his Crosby, Stills And Nash bandmate Graham Nash is helping him prepare it for release.

Nash tells the Las Vegas Sun, "He has an enormous history of recording. In the '70s, he was a recording fool. He just found a bloody album he made with (Jimi) Hendrix. - more on this story

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Phish Jam, Linkin Park Play Ball, Jacko's Wacko Surgeon, Melvins Instore, Stupid Celeb Baby Name Tradition Continues, Aerosmith George Martin Honor and more
antiMusic reports: Phish fans got their wish, or at least a portion of it, Sunday (July 6) at the Rothbury Festival in Michigan, as three members of the band performed live together in two separate incarnations. First, bassist Mike Gordon joined guitarist Trey Anastasio during the latter's solo acoustic set, which had already enthralled a substantial crowded gathered in front of the festival's main stage, the Odeum. more

Through an ongoing partnership with Major League Baseball Properties, some concertgoers attending the 2008 Projekt Revolution tour could walk away with access to exclusive, unreleased by tracks by Linkin Park and other acts on the 24-date summer trek. more

Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon has checked himself into a California psychiatric ward after discovering two former business partners are suing him for $100 million. more

Catch a Buzz at Amoeba! Melvins' Nude With Boots arrives in-stores today, July 8, from Ipecac Recordings. They've also set a July 15 in-store at Amoeba Records Hollywood (6 pm). No further info on that was provided by their publicist.

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman keep up the tradition of celebs giving their children stupid names. "Earlier this morning Nic gave birth to our beautiful baby girl, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban," read the message posted on Urban's Web site. "We want to thank everybody that has kept us in their thoughts and prayers. We feel very blessed and grateful that we can share this joy with all of you today." At least it's better than Cucumber Rose. more

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is among the musicians that will perform at the the Grammy Foundation's annual signature gala Starry Night � presented by Gibson Foundation � which will honor legendary producer, arranger, composer and author Sir George Martin. Set to take place Saturday, July 12 at University of Southern California's McCarthy Quad, this intimate dinner and concert will benefit the Grammy Foundation - more

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Springsteen and Friends Charity EP
punknews.org reports: Bruce Springsteen has announced a new live digital EP that will see proceeds go to Danny Federici Melanoma Fund.

The fund is named for the late organ, glockenspiel, and accordion player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.

The disc includes Bruce collaborating with a number of notable musicians, including Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine who together performed "The Ghost of Tom Joad." - more on this story

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The Most Depressing Album Ever
conqueroo reports: Jake La Botz has fared well professionally this year, with a significant acting role as a "singing redneck mercenary" in Sylvester Stallone's recent blockbuster Rambo film. But some personal struggles led him to record what he deems "the most depressing album ever," titled Sing This to Yourself and Other Suggestions for a Personal Apocalypse. The album, which he describes as "11 sordid tales of human misery and redemption," is due out on Charnel Ground Records on August 2, 2008.

August 2 doubles as the date La Botz will go on the road for this third annual five-week "Tattoo Across America Tour" of tattoo parlors, which will hit big cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Phoenix and San Diego, as well as smaller burgs like Longview, Texas, where Jake has established a fan base from his annual appearances. (In fact, it was in Longview that he received a tattoo of a raven at a cemetery across the street from the Garage Art Studio parlor.)

"It's so much more interesting this way," he says. "Playing tattoo parlors, you can be who you really are and relate directly with your fans. There are no dressing rooms, no backstage, nowhere to hide. In a way, this is an evolution of my roots � playing the streets and subways of my native Chicago. It keeps it real."
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Music Fest Crowds Like Apes That Haven't Eaten A Banana In A Week
Sleazeroxx reports: Rock legend Meat Loaf has vowed never to play at another "stupid" English music festival, because the crowds are too rowdy.

The Bat Out of Hell hit-maker once took to the stage of one U.K. festival with fellow American rockers Jefferson Starship, but he was left so unimpressed by the audience's behavior, he has refused to return ever since. And he insists performing at more historic venues - like the 17th century Castle Howard in York, north east England - is much more pleasurable.

He says, "We played with Jefferson (Starship) at one of those stupid English festivals, and I do call them stupid because people behave like apes who haven't eaten a banana in a week. - more on this story

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Staind Headlining Tour
Blabbermouth reports: Staind has added a stretch of headlining dates to its summer schedule in between legs of its tour with 3 Doors Down.

The new shows begin on August 5 in Casper, Wyoming and finish up on August 17 in Nashville. Staind plays in Bonner Springs, Kansas on Tuesday (July 8) before starting its first batch of gigs with 3 Doors Down on Wednesday (July 9) in Maryland Heights, Missouri.

The group is promoting the arrival of its sixth studio album, "The Illusion of Progress", which is due out on August 19. - more on this story

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John Mellencamp Album, TV and Tour
PR reports: John Mellencamp starts a tour this week in support of the release, by Hear Music, of Life, Death, Love and Freedom. The album, the 22nd of his career and the first to have been produced by T Bone Burnett, is out July 15.

The tour starts Tuesday, July 8 at Philadelphia's Mann Music Center. His concert performances will highlight music from the new album as well as well known material reflective of the breadth of the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's creative output.

Mellencamp will be performing music from the album on Late Night with David Letterman on Thursday, July 17th and on the CBS Early Show in a special remote concert broadcast from Chicago on Monday, July 21st. - more on this story

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Hard Rock Vets Eye World Record With 5 Hour Concert
Sleazeroxx reports: The concert of the legendary kings of metal, Manowar, on the opening night of Kaliakra Rock Festival 2008 in the Bulgarian "rock capital" of Kavarna on July 5 lasted for five hours and one minute. The performance was the metal band's attempt to break the world record for the longest heavy metal concert, which they themselves set in 2007 at last year's edition of the festival.

Joey DeMaio, Eric Adams, Karl Logan and Scott Columbus pleased a crowd of 20 000 people with a playlist of more than 40 songs, a selection reflecting the band's history and all its studio albums.

?his year, the self-anointed "kings of metal" had promised Bulgarian fans to beat last year's performance of three hours on stage, and had specially invited representatives of Guinness book of records to witness the unprecedented event. - more on this story

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More Than Tours: Extreme Road Plans
PR reports: Extreme will hit the road next week to kick off their "Take Us Alive" Summer tour - their first tour in over a decade.

The tour is in support of the band's new album studio album, Saudades de Rock which is in stores on August 12th.

Saudades de Rock TRACK LISTING: 1. Star 2. Comfortably Dumb 3. Learn To Love 4. Take Us Alive 5. Run 6. Last Hour 7. Flower Man 8. King Of The Ladies 9. Ghost 10. Slide 11. Interface 12. Sunrise 13. Peace (Saudade)

Extreme Take Us Alive Summer Tour Dates
Jul 11 2008 - Rocklahoma Pryor, OK
Jul 29 2008 - The Chance Poughkeepsie, NY
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