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Full Report for 05/12/2009


Jane's Addiction Frontman Hospitalized After On Stage Injury
antiMusic reports: The show must go on. That's Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell's battle cry after suffering an on stage injury that required a visit to the hospital.

Farrell tore his calf muscle during the first song of the band's set at the Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta but he soldiered on to complete the set and is going against medical advise by continuing with scheduled tour dates, according to an Associated Press report.

Farrell was taken by ambulance to Atlanta Medical Center after Sunday's show and was ordered by doctors to stay off his leg for several days but he reportedly still plans to perform Tuesday night when the tour is schedule to hit Austin, Texas. - Read the AP report

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Chris Brown Denies Leaking Nude Rihanna Photos
antiMusic reports: When alleged nude photos of Rihanna surfaced online, some of the tabloid media zombies speculated that Chris Brown must have been behind the leak.

One infamous tabloid "blogger" flat out accused Brown of leaking the photos which promoted Brown's spokespeople to jump into action to dispute the accusation.

In a statement to Essence, Brown's spokesperson said: "This is both a false and defamatory statement. Chris has not released or 'leaked' any photos of Rihanna (or anyone else for that matter)."
- Read the NME report

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The Who Get Unplugged For Benefit
The Rock Radio reports: Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey will perform a rare acoustic gig on May 21st in London at the Legends & Youth Ball at Emirates Stadium in support of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Daltrey has been a longtime patron of the trust, and next week's show will coincide with the wrap of co-sponsor, the Arsenal Football Club's season.

The surviving Who members last performed acoustically on April 15th, 2008 at the TCT benefit at London's Royal Albert Hall where they were joined by touring Who touring guitarist -- and Townshend's younger brother -- Simon Townshend for a six-song set - more on this story

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Shinedown's Gold Madness
Atlantic Records reports: The Sound Of Madness, the acclaimed third album from Atlantic recording group Shinedown has been certified Gold by the RIAA, marking sales exceeding 500,000 units.

The news comes as the band's single "Second Chance," has just exploded into the top 10 at CHR/Top 40 outlets nationwide and is quickly shaping up to be the Jacksonville, Florida-based quartet's biggest crossover hit to date.

Shinedown is currently traveling the country as both headliners and as featured artists on a number of radio-sponsored festival concerts. In June, the band will cross the Atlantic for a hugely anticipated European tour, including performances at such world famous festivals as England's Download Festival, Germany's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, and the Netherlands' Pinkpop. Upon their return, Shinedown will team up with fellow Atlantic artist Staind for the much anticipated "Stimulate This!" tour. The four-band bill � also featuring Chevelle � is designed to offer hard rock fans maximum value at a minimal price. - more on this story

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Boy George Out of Jail- The Killers Orchestra- Promoters Vs Jacko- Police May Reunite Again- Eminem Late Night- More Rock Bands for Rock Band and more
antiMusic reports:

Concert promoters are battling to block Michael Jackson's series of live concerts in London this summer - accusing the star of breaking an earlier agreement to make his comeback with them.more

Eighties pop star Boy George is a free man - the singer has left prison after completing just four months of a 15 month sentence.more

Bob Dylan started a second week atop the U.K. album chart yesterday (Sunday) with "Together Through Life" (Columbia/Sony BMG)more

The Killers are set to perform with a full orchestra on US late-night talk show 'Late Show With David Letterman' tonight (May 11).more

Eminem has announced that he will perform on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' for three nights beginning on Friday (May 15).more

The Dead Weather, Jack White's new outfit with Allison Mosshart of The Kills, have announced some North America tour dates for the summer. more

Stephen Bruton, the Texas-based guitarist and vocalist renowned for his work with Kris Kristofferson, Alejandro Escovedo and many others, died Saturday (May 9) at age 60 due to complications from throat cancermore

Former Deep Purple keyboard legend Jon Lord plans to kick off 2010 with a concert in Postdam, near Berlin.more

The Zutons' saxophonist Abi Harding has revealed that the band are starting work on their new album.more

U.S. album sales were down 9.2% in April 2009 (the five weeks starting March 30 and ending May 3) versus April 2008, according to data at Nielsen SoundScan.more

NME claimsThe Police may yet reform once again, after drummer Stewart Copeland refused to rule out further shows.... But don't hold your breath, read his comments in context here

Behemoth has finished recording their forthcoming album, "Evangelion," at Radio Gdansk in Poland. Frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski will be flying to the UK tomorrow to join Colin Richardson for final mixing at Miloco Studios in London.more


Alice In Chains will support Kid Rock at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, July 18.more

Social Distortion, The Replacements and Elvis Costello will be added to Rock Band in the coming weeks. The popular game will be adding songs from all three bands as well as Disturbed and Steely Danmore

Eminem guest stars in a new Punisher comic book, rightly titled "Kill You."more

Unseen lyrics penned by late Beatle George Harrison have been put on display at the London recording studios the Fab Four made their home.more

Children Of Bodom have officially dropped off the "No Fear Energy Tour" with Lamb Of God, As I Lay Dying, God Forbid and Municipal Waste due to injurymore

New Green Day CD trashed as a rehash. A new review reads in part: After salvaging their career with that massively successful 2004 concept album, the Bay Area pop-punks of Green Day have eagerly embraced a classic music-biz rule -- If it's worth doing, it's worth doing again -- for this eagerly anticipated followup. Pity they seem to have neglected another fundamental rule: You can have too much of a good thing.more

Project Strato, the band featuring ex-Stratovarius members are excited to release an early Stratovarius demo: They say in a statement, 'This is really cool, we just found a person who has a demotape of the very early Stratovarius line-up when Tuomo was still handling the vocals as well." more

Thin Lizzy will be "special guest" for AC/DC's shows in London, Dublin and Glasglowmore

Slipknot percussionist Shawn "The Clown" Crahan rejoined the band on stage Friday (May 8) at Oklahoma City's Zoo Amphitheatre after taking several days off following the death of his mother.more

Andrea Devi Forman, the lead singer of the only Sanskrit rock band of the world Shanti Shanti, married an attorney Joel A. Santos in a traditional Catholic church ceremony in Sparks (Nevada, USA) on May eight.

Asphyx renewed its partnership with its long-time label Century Media Records and on June 22nd, 2009 the new studio album will be released in Europe. more

Maroon has announced a make-up record release show that should have been in Nordhausen on April 18th. The show will now take part in Sondershausen (20km from Nordhausen) at the STOCKSEN on May 31st.more

Stone Temple Pilots have confirmed a handful of shows for this summer. Dates are listed here

Live Nation said Thursday that its first-quarter loss widened in part because fewer people attended concerts in its core North America market. Perhaps insane ticket prices and "fees" that can be as high as half the face price of the tickets have something to do it? Things like charging a parking fee for each ticket can't help. more

Last week we were sent the wrong link to the St Helens MP3 for "How To Choose". We now have the correct link so you can check it out right here

Despite a statement to the contrary this week, 50 Cent has not been cleared of involvement in the house fire that saw a $1.4 million property burned to the ground in Long Island, NY.more

Gaza has abandoned plans to hit the road this month. But they did say, "we're still going to play Dudefest this July and will be booking for that." more

Baroness is set to head into the studio next week to begin work on the follow-up to 2007's Red Album.more

Cheap Girls have announced the release date for the remastered reissue of their 2008 full-length, Find Me a Drink Home. The LP will be released on June 23, 2009 via the band's new label, Paper and Plastick.more. Most band wait a few years to remaster and reissue, go figure. This can't be "cheap" for their fans.

A 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 car that once belonged to Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is once again being auctioned on eBay.more

Tank is teaming up with legendary NWOBHM act Praying Mantis for a May 24 concert at The Peel in Kingston Upon Thames, U.K. more

Joyful Noise has signed long-running Indianapolis indie rock act Marmoset. Their Joyful Noise debut, Tea Tornado, is set for an August 4th, 2009 release. more including an MP3 link

Nightrage will release their new album, "Wearing A Martyr's Crown", on June 22 (Europe) and August 4 (USA) on Lifeforce Records. The band is previewing the album with a stream of the song "Shed The Blood" on their Myspace

New Kids On The Block performed on "The Today Show," and announced that Jesse McCartney will be joining their summer tour. McCartney will spend almost six weeks on the road with the middle-aged boy "band" performing across the US and Canada including stops in Boston, Chicago, Atlanta and Toronto.

News Quicks are updated throughout the day, get the very latest - right here

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Blondie, Pat Benetar and The Donnas Team Up For Tour
antiMusic reports: Forget Lilith Fair, how about a tour with woman who won't put you to sleep? Blondie and Pat Benatar are teaming up for a co-headlining tour this summer.

Keeping the female theme going, support for the outing will be provided by the younger generation of woman rockers: The Donnas

The fun is set to kick off on July 21st in Saratoga, California and make it's way across the U.S. before the finale in Houston on August 23rd. - more on this story

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Eminem Joins Family Guy For Fox TV Special
PR reports: Grammy Award winner Eminem joins Family Guy's Stewie Griffin to host Animation Domination Sunday, May 17 on FOX. The evening will feature interstitials voiced by and featuring an animated version of the hip-hop superstar.

"It was a thrill to work with Stewie," said Eminem about the youngest member of the Griffin clan. "I'm a big fan of talking babies and their humor."

On working with Eminem, Stewie said "I was just about to meet him, but after I shook hands with his stylist, his assistant, his lawyer, his bodyguard, his other bodyguard, his photographer, his manager, his hanger-on, his flower girl, his driver, his videographer, his notary, his historian, his her-storian, his texter and his own greased-up deaf guy, I got the swine flu." - more on this story

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Bodom Singer Bummed About Cancelling Tour Due To Injury
Metal Underground reports: Children of Bodom front man Alexi Laiho has issued the following statement about being forced to cancel their remaining tour appearances:

"After the New York show (on May 9) I knew it was going to be over. During the 3rd song I started feeling like someone was stabbing me in my lungs, my heart and my ribs. That was the kind of pain that neither stubbornness, painkillers, nor alcohol could alleviate. I wanted to try to keep going but after seeing a second doctor in Philadelphia, I was basically told that I could f**k myself up for life if I don't stop playing. Against all recommendation, I have played and sang for the last 10 days in violent pain which has only made my condition worsen. So, I decided to listen to everyone around me, who were telling me the best thing to do would be to go home and get some proper rest and give my shoulder some time to heal.

"This was a hard decision for me and I feel bad about it. But it is the right thing to do if I want to keep making music. I apologize to our great fans for not being there for the remaining shows and I want to thank all the guys from the other bands" - more on this story

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M is for More Marley For Kids
PR reports: B is for Bob, a collection of Bob Marley's most beloved songs re-imagined for kids, will be released June 23 by UMe/Island/Tuff Gong. The international musical legend's eldest son, four-time Grammy winner Ziggy Marley, executive produced the album, which bridges the gap between the timeless Bob Marley and a new generation of kids.

Bob Marley's music is known around the world for its powerful political and spiritual message that touches people of all ages. With children in mind, Ziggy has transformed some of his father's songs for B is for Bob. Eight tracks�"Three Little Birds," "Redemption Song," "Bend Down Low," "Jamming," "Small Axe," "Satisfy My Soul," "Stir It Up" and "High Tide or Low Tide"�remove certain instruments while adding other sounds creates a feeling of hearing these songs for the first time. Meanwhile, four of Bob Marley's other masterpieces are left untouched: "Could You Be Loved," "One Love/People Get Ready," "Lively Up Yourself" and "Wake Up and Live�Pt. 1."

"Me is a common sense man," Bob Marley once said. "That mean when me explain things me explain it in a very simple way, that mean if I explain it to a baby the baby will understand too, you know." Ziggy continues, "My father's music spans generations and with B is for Bob we give the youngest their very own Bob Marley record." - more on this story

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Jason Mraz Announces Spring Tour
PR reports: Jason Mraz has announced details of his eagerly awaited summer tour schedule. The Grammy-nominated tunesmith will headline the "Gratitude Cafe Tour," set to kick off on Saturday, July 25th at the world famous Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.

Atlantic recording artist Mraz will be joined on the North American trek by very special guest G. Love & Special Sauce along with K'naan and Bushwalla,

Tickets for these shows will go on sale to the general public beginning on Friday, May 15th � check local listing for details. A second leg of Mraz's "Gratitude Caf� Tour" will be announced in coming weeks, and will include additional shows to take place in September and October. - more on this story

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Singled Out: Carbon 9
antiMusic reports: Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Stacey Quinealty from Carbon 9 tells us about "My Friend" from their brand new album "The Bull". We now turn it over to for the story:

Carbon 9 is a production band that generally writes songs in the studio, but "My Friend" was one of the songs that was created by letting loose as a group in the band's rehearsal facility. As we constructed twenty eight songs for the new album, (only to allow ourselves room to cut down to the top fifteen), "My Friend" was one we just couldn't let go. In rehearsal I kept singing the words, "My friend, my friend", and I really wasn't certain what it meant. I am one of these people that believe in a purpose for everything and I contemplated the value of this lyric constantly reoccurring in my head. I was struggling with the value of a current relationship I was engaged in and it soon made sense. Living in Los Angeles and working in the entertainment industry, no different than any other industry, I soon came to the realization that the energy and aggression of this song was being driven by my personal emotions referencing this relationship. There are so many people that we encounter in our lives that actually bring value to our everyday experiences, but there are also a few that are in it for themselves. "My Friend" is about these people! The ones that call you their friend and actually make you think they care but really don't give a s**t about you.

"My Friend"is directly about that one person that constantly stabs you in the back yet we continue to keep them close within the circle. They generally do this to keep themselves feeling powerful and in complete control, while we gloat in the knowledge and wisdom that we know exactly what they are doing and therefore we are better than them. It may be a sadistic thought; to be better than another, but are all men really created equal? Some people only feel as if they are moving upwards by bringing others down and I made a personal decision not to engage in these relationships. You are the same as your environment and you must make decisions that correctly guide your life's path. The starts, stops, and dynamic changes in this track represent the ups and downs of any ongoing relationship. "My Friend," in a nutshell, is really asking the question, "Why do I feel that I need to keep this person in my private circle?" The answer is, "I don't!" There is nothing that they can bring to me in a positive manner that their negative energy will not override. There is no room in life to allow individuals to bring you down and must be avoided at all times. A real friend does not need to call you his / her close friend, for this is understood on both sides of the table. We must stand our ground and be the individual in which we were designed to be! This individual is the true self, the one that looks deep inside and lives his / her life to the fullest. As a collective society, we must avoid these negative people and come to the realization that this is their world, not mine. It is not the word, "friend" that has value, but the actions that each individual portrays on a daily basis that enhances your life. We are an evolving species, and to evolve means to move forward. It is time to let go, it is time to EVOLVE.

ev.o.lu.tion: the gradual development of something to a more complex form.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!

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