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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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Zeppelin Refuse To Play Games
antiMusic reports: The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about the rise of music video games. While the article centers around the new Aerosmith "Guitar Hero," it also hints at a Van Halen game and dashes hopes of a Led Zeppelin game. Here is that part of the article:

But some bands have resisted the call of the new medium. Led Zeppelin's thundering riffs are among the most sought after by music game makers, but the group's guitarist, Jimmy Page, and his bandmates have repeatedly turned down offers from both Activision and MTV, says Peter Mensch, a partner at Q Prime Management, which manages Mr. Page, along with Metallica and other acts.

The sticking point: The band isn't comfortable with the prospect of granting outsiders access to its master tapes, a necessary step in creating the games. "It ain't about the money," Mr. Mensch says. - more on this story

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Buckcherry Leak Their Own Song?
Blabbermouth reports: Last week someone emailed us a torrent link to a new Buckcherry song, but we never post such links (or even legal links because of the asshats at ASCAP). Soon after, the band issued a statement hyping the "leak" and provided a link to it. Was it an intended leak? A publicity stunt? Take your guess. Here is their statement: We're out on the road again, and just played a killer first show on Cr�e Fest 2008 in West Palm Beach, Florida!

It's come to our attention that one of the tracks off our new album has leaked out on the net. Honestly, we hate it when this ---- happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first.

Here is the link to officially find the song 'Too Drunk...'. We're gonna go try and find time over the next few days to make a down and dirty video for it. Enjoy the new song and we're looking forward to putting out the new album in a couple of months! - Grab the link here and more

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Eminem Accused Of Strip Club Assault
Jam! reports: A man has sued Eminem, claiming the rapper punched him two years ago while they were in the bathroom of a Detroit strip club.

The Detroit News reports Miad Jarbou of Royal Oak filed the lawsuit Thursday in Oakland County Circuit Court seeking more than $25,000 in damages.

The suit claims Eminem punched him July 13, 2006, at Cheetah's On the Strip Gentlemen's Club. - more on this story

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Pete Wentz Had A Gay Old Time
Hecklerspray reports: If you've ever been to a wedding, or seen one on the TV, or in a film, or read about them, or just, well, know anything about them at all, you'll know that before the happy couple can be officially married the priest will say: "If anyone knows reasons why these two can't be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace."

Whenever that's said, you know if would be amusing for someone to stand up and say something - be it someone screaming: "I'm pregnant with his child!" or: "he's a wife beater!" or even the ever-popular: "he gave me some kind of incurable VD on his stag night, and he's quite possibly a vampire!"

Top pop mimer Ashlee Simpson must have been wondering where those people were at her recent wedding, though she probably didn't expect the holding-of-the-peace to be broken by her new husband. Hubby Pete Wentz has only gone and said that he used to indulge in a bit of man love, or holding-of-the-piece, as it were. - more on this story

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Label Boss To Bands, Don't Sign A Record Deal
punknews.org reports: Alan McGee, the man responsible for signing two of England's most popular bands, Oasis and The Libertines, has come out strongly against record labels.

McGee, who was also the boss of Creation and Poptones Records spoke to XFM saying: "I'd recommend a band not to go to any record label, I think they're all f**king rubbish.

"You're better off doing it yourself. They're living in the past, it's like owning a tram company or something." - more on this story

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Drunked Warrant
Sleazeroxx reports: In a recent email to Sleaze Roxx, longtime Warrant fan Brad Kereszturi reports that Jani Lane showed up drunk for the band's live show at the Sunset Station Hotel & Casino in Henderson, Nevada on July 5.

Warrant had recently reunited with a sober Lane and had scheduled a string of live dates.

Brad states that, "not only did Jani Lane fall off the wagon, he smashed the damn thing into a brick ----ing wall and summed up his career in a shaken, drunken, word forgetting debacle that was just embarrassing.".

Amateur footage of the band struggling through the song "Big Talk" can be viewed - here

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Highway To Hell Popular At Funerals
Telegraph reports: A song by the heavy metal band AC/DC is becoming one of the most requested funeral tunes in their home country of Australia.

Highway to Hell, with lyrics including "Going down, party time", is among a number rock classics, including Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, that are replacing traditional hymns in Adelaide.

Funeral managers at Centennial Park, the largest cemetery and crematorium in the city, said only two hymns still rank among its top 10 most popular funeral songs: Amazing Grace and Abide With Me. - more on this story

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Radiohead's Thom Yorke Goes Classical
Filter reports: Thom Yorke is exercising his creativity in more ways than one by dabbling in Classical music.

He recently remixed an original John Matthias score for Cortical Songs, a Classical album that also features contributions from Simon Tong (The Verve, Blur, Gorillaz) and John Maclean (Beta Band). Classical kin Gabriel Prokofiev calls Yorke's track "adventurous and avant garde."

Cortical Songs is being released this month to international markets via Nonclassical. No word yet on a US release. - more Filter Mag

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Digital Serj, Morrissey Debuts New Songs, Elvis Costello The New Ed Sullivan, Ho Ho Ho Sheryl Crow, Abba is Dead, The Damned Recording, CD Sales Down and more
antiMusic reports: Today's Running Out of Patience Meter� reading: it has been 5,340 days since the last new Guns N' Roses album was released. Now on to today's Quicks: A new five track EP titled "Lie Lie Live" from Serj Tankian is now available for purchase on Rhapsody. track listing includes: 1. Lie Lie Lie (Live From MySpace's The List) 2. The Unthinking Majority (Live From MySpace's The List) more

Morrissey performed a number of new songs alongside classic Smiths tracks at the second night of London's O2 Wireless Festival Friday night (July 4). The singer played a handful of songs from his forthcoming album 'Years Of Refusal', including the well-received 'Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed', at the event in Hyde Park.more

Elton John, Tony Bennett, Lou Reed and former U.S. President Bill Clinton will be among the heavy hitters appearing on Elvis Costello's new variety show. The show, called "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...," has taped four one-hour episodes of a planned 13-program run. The series is being co-produced by CTV in Canada and Channel 4 in the U.K., as well as the Sundance Channel in the U.S. more

Christmas came early in Sheryl Crow's world this year because of an as-yet-untitled holiday album she's recorded with producer Bill Bottrell for Hallmark's annual series, following releases by James Taylor, Barry Manilow and George Strait. It'll drop into Hallmark Gold Crown stores in September, and Crow gave Billboard an exclusive sneak peek before stashing it away until then that is here

Christmas also came early to the world as Swedish supergroup Abba will "never" perform on stage again, two of the band's members have said. Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson told The Sunday Telegraph there was "simply no motivation to regroup".

Longstanding English punk act The Damned are in the studio recording a new full length. The group, as of 2007, featured a line-up of that included Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible backed by keyboardist Monty Oxy Moron, drummer Pinch, and bassist Stu West.

MasterCard this week launched a campaign with an extensive music component. As part of a new campaign dubbed "Roots of Rock" from New York ad agency McCann-Erickson the credit card maker is offering MasterCard holders free downloads from the entire Universal Music Group catalog from priceless.com. more

Texas rock trio ZZ Top has signed to producer Rick Rubin's American Recordings imprint, hoping for a commercial and critical revitalization along the lines of prior Rubin clients Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond. more

At the mid-point of 2008, U.S. album sales stand at an 11% decline when compared to the same period a year ago. Though not as precipitous a drop as the one recorded in the first half of 2007 (15.1%), this year's first half tally is 204.6 million units, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's compared to 229.8 million units scanned in the first six months of 2007. Before you click over to read more, ask yourself "were there more CDs you were interested in this year than last year?" The answer from many may be sobering for the suits at the labels.more

Concert promoter Live Nation has added another artist to their Artist Nation division roster today. International Pop star Shakira has signed a 10 year deal with Live Nation that will encompass tours, recordings, merchandise and sponsorship. more

Long Island, New York, hardcore legends Vision Of Disorder are reportedly planning to reunite for several shows this summer - more

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New Masters of Reality CD Coming
Sleazeroxx reports: Although Chris Goss is probably best known for his production/engineering talents (having worked with UNKLE, Stone Temple Pilots and, most extensively, Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age), since the late '80s, he has been issuing albums as the leader of Masters Of Reality.

On the group's sixth studio release, "Pine/Cross Dover," Goss wanted to approach his songwriting from a different angle. The set is tentatively due Aug. 28 via Brownhouse/Mascot Records.

"It's really rhythmic-oriented. I called [drummer] John Leamy, and said, 'Get ready to play, because the drums are going to lead the way on this one'," Goss tells Billboard.com. "And they did. It's almost a jazzier, funkier Masters Of Reality. There's no acoustic guitars, there's not much 'Beatles' on this one. Which I'm proud of -- because I'm kinda tired of it!"

Instead, the group nods toward 'Presence'-era Led Zeppelin on "Rosie's Presence" and the Mahavishnu Orchestra on the improvised album-closing instrumental "Alfalfa."
- more on this story

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Drunked Intruders Arrested After Breaking Into Jimi Hendrix Home
Daily Mail reports: Two intruders broke into Jimi Hendrix' former London home and got drunk on bottles of wine. The men smashed into the top floor of the four-storey apartment in Brook Street, Mayfair, before scaling the roof as police arrived, shortly before 11pm on Saturday night.

But if they thought they were going to relive a piece 1970s music history - they were in for a surprise.

Because the rooms where the rock legend lived for nine months in 1968 have since become the kitchen and toilet area for volunteers at the Handel House Museum, situated next door. - more on this story

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Venom Go To Hell
Blabbermouth reports: Universal Music Enterprises has set an August 12 North American release date for "Hell", the new album from British black metal pioneers Venom.

Venom made "Hell" available in a digipack edition via Nuclear Blast's mailorder featuring two bonus tracks � "In League With Satan" and "Burn In Hell" � and an inverted cross. Limited to 333 copies.

A complete track from "Hell" has been made available for streaming on the band's official web site. - all the links and more are here

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KISS Cover Themselves For Yet Another Best Of CD
Blabbermouth reports: "Kiss Best - Kissology" is scheduled for a release in Japan on August 27, 2008 via DefSTAR Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music Japan.

The limited-edition version of the CD will feature the re-recorded versions of the band's classics completed with the group's current lineup (including guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer)

It will also contain a bonus DVD featuring footage of KISS' April 2, 1977 concert at Budokan (taken from "Kissology Vol. 1") plus a bonus sticker. The DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles. - more including the tracklisting

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Everlast Crackle
PR reports: "Folsom Prison Blues," the video of the new single from multi-platinum Grammy winner Everlast's upcoming album, Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford, will be the first major artist clip to premiere on Crackle, Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment's multi-platform video entertainment network, available on the Internet, in the living room and on devices.

The video of the Johnny Cash song will begin airing July 7 through 14. Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford is scheduled for release on Sept. 23 on Everlast's own Martyr Inc. label and TRP Records, in a partnership with Hickory Records, an imprint of Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

"We're thrilled to launch Everlast's highly anticipated new music video on Crackle," said Crackle GM Jonathan Shambroom. "This launch marks the site's first major artist music video debut on the site, and we're excited to bring yet another new form of entertainment to our viewers. Our audience expects the newest, hottest high-quality content, and we're confident Everlast's video will live up to their expectations." - http://www.crackle.com

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Old Crow Medicine Show's Don Was Produced CD Set For Release
PR reports: With combined sales totaling over 280,000 albums, an appearance on Austin City Limits, two performances on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and multiple appearances on A Prairie Home Companion, various NPR programs and the Grand Ole Opry, Old Crow Medicine Show prepares for the September 23rd release of Tennessee Pusher, their third album for Nettwerk Music Group and their most personal album to date.

Tennessee Pusher, produced by Don Was (Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt), features 13 infectious tracks that offer a virtual American road trip, populated with characters that seem to span a century of the South. Down and outers, hustlers, freighthoppers - these are just a few of the archetypes we meet along the way. OCMS continues to create their special blend of American roots, rock, blues and country, but on Tennessee Pusher, the band has truly found their own voice. With the exception of "Always Lift Him Up" by Blind Alfred Reed, all of the tracks on the album are OCMS originals. Also noteworthy are two distinguished session musicians that joined the band in the studio: Jim Keltner (John Lennon, Neil Young, Brian Wilson) on drums and Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) on Hammond C-3 organ. - more on this story

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Oceano Now Have An Earache
Earache reports: Earache is proud to announce the signing of Chicago death metal titans Oceano to a multi-album, worldwide recording deal.

Conceived in 2006, this talented young band comprises of former members of several Chicago metal outfits, and together are rapidly becoming one of the standouts of the Chicago extreme metal scene.

Describing themselves as one of the angriest bands on Earth, Oceano channel this through their music, creating in the process some of the heaviest, most guttural and all-out brutal music to be found anywhere. - more on this story

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What Laura Says In August
PR reports: After several talked about performances at SXSW this year, including a tribute with and for Lou Reed, What Laura Says prepares for the release of Thinks and Feels on August 19th and will be touring throughout the summer and beyond.

Hailing from the Phoenix area, the originally acoustic duo of Danny Godbold (keys, guitar, vocals) and James Mulhern (guitar, percussion, vocals), aka What Laura Says, began documenting their stories through musical form, recording track after track of sweet melodies and multi-part vocal harmonies, resulting in a raw and honest sound.

In 2006 drummer Greg Muller, bassist Mitch Freedom and percussionist Jacob Woolsey joined the mix. And the band's first full-length was recorded and released in 2007 -- with many local musicians and fans hailing the collection as the album of the year. - more on this story

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Gutter Twins Cancel Dates, Ed Harcourt Revamps Road Plans
PR reports: Due to some scheduling conflicts, The Gutter Twins will be postponing and/or canceling some of their upcoming U.S. dates in July.

The seven shows from July 24th (Baltimore) to August 1 (Detroit) will not be taking place at this time.

Unfortunately, this also means that Ed Harcourt will not be playing any of those previously mentioned dates on the tour EXCEPT for the July 10th show at The Roxy in Los Angeles. - his new dates

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Synastry Tour Leg Kicks Off This Week
Earache reports: Montreal based death metal quartet Synastry have announced their upcoming cross Canada summer tour. The tour kicks off in Thunder Bay, Ontario and heads through Western Canada where the band will play Vancouver's Evil Fest 2008. The tour will be capped off with a performance at the Quebec Metalfest.

"Synastry is ready to tear across our beautiful nation of Canada in our inaguaral national tour," says frontman Jimmy Anastasopoulos. "We've had such a great reaction from the record so far that we can't wait to get out there and share it with the folks in Sioux Lookout to Vancouver and everywhere in between. Even though this is our first national tour, this will be the first of many as we plan to stay on the road as much as possible."

Synastry is touring in support of their Year of the Sun debut, "Blind Eyes Bleed", which was produced by Kevin Jardine (ex-Slaves on Dope). The album's unique mixture of classic death metal and pulsing industrial has earned them the #1 ranked unsigned band in MySpace's Death Metal category prior to signing with Year of the Sun. - more on this story

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Order Of Ennead Track By Track
PR reports: Order Of Ennead, the recently-formed Floridian extreme metal band featuring Deicide drummer Steve Asheim along with Scott Patrick (bass), Kevin Quirion (vocals, guitar) and John Li (guitar), have revealed song titles from their upcoming debut album. Vocalist and guitarist Kevin Quirion describes the meanings behind the songs:

"Seeking The Prophets" There are no prophets, just men who claim to be. In this song, we are searching for "prophets" to have a discussion with and to poke holes in their claims of guidance from deities. Also mentioned is the suggestion that we should not wait for something horrific to happen to someone close to appreciate them.

"Reflection, An Endless Endeavor" With this piece we are exploring faith and how willing we are to accept it for the sake of acceptance. Religion is man made and so is the concept of good and evil. The hypocrisy of religious wars and betrayal is also touched upon. - more stories

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