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Full Report for 05/28/2009


Alice In Chains Starr, Dennis Rodman and More Going To Celeb Rehab
BW&BK reports: According to CMT.com, former Alice In Chains bassist Mike Starr has been selected as a cast member for the new season of the VH1 reality series, Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew.

Hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, the season will consist of eight episodes that follow the real-life experiences of celebrity patients undergoing detoxification and treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center.

Joining Starr are actress Mackenzie Phillips (One Day At A Time), former Hollywood Madame Heidi Fleiss, NBA great Dennis Rodman, Lisa D'Amato (America's Next Top Model), former Miss United States Teen Kari Ann Peniche, Joey Kov - more on this story

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Kid Rock To Booze It Up All Summer Long
Billboard reports: Jim Beam's new Red Stag bourbon will serve as the headline sponsor for Kid Rock's upcoming 2009 Rock N' Rebels Tour.

The partnership kicks off June 14 at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Lifelock 400 Race at Michigan International Speedway.

Kid Rock, whose current "Rock N' Roll Jesus" album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 chart, will serve as grand marshal of the event. The 25-city tour kicks off in West Palm Beach, FL on June 26. - more on this story

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Classic Rockers Battling Over Guitar
MusicRadar reports: It was 1972 when Ronnie Montrose says he had his 1959 sunburst Gibson Les Paul stolen. Montrose was then part of the Edgar Winter Group, and claims he had his rare 1959 'burst stolen.

Montrose says he has since hired private detectives over the past 37 years to track down the guitar, but he had no luck. Until he saw Gary Moore's guitar collection in the British guitar magazine, Guitar Buyer.

Montrose is convinced that one of Moore's pictured Les Pauls is his missing guitar. According to court reports, Moore has not responded to Montrose's efforts to establish contact since 2007, so Montrose is suing the Irish rocker. There is no suggestion Moore was behind any claimed theft in 1972. - more on this story

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Metallica Confirm DVD Plans
antiMusic reports: Metallica took to their website to update fans about some of their rumored plans: There's been a little chatter here and there about us filming a few shows this summer for potential release on DVD and among the countless Internet rumors, these ones are actually true!

We thought it would be cool to document a few shows that are unique and sure to be extra memorable for us, and hopefully for you too . . .

First up are the three sold out shows in Mexico City, Mexico at Foro Sol on June 4, 6, 7 and later this summer, we also plan to have the cameras rolling at the sold-out show in Nimes, France at Arenes de Nimes, the historic Roman amphitheatre where we'll be on July 7. For any Metallica friends going to these shows, bring your war faces and don't be scared of the cameras!! - http://www.Metallica.com

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KISS Tap Buckcherry For North American Tour
Solters reports: Last month KISS announced their U.S. and Canadian tour will be the world's first to put fans in charge of where a tour is routed. Now, KISS is adding even more excitement to their tour as they announce the selection of Buckcherry as the opening act for all dates.

This is destined to be the most explosive show of the year; and by partnering with Web site Eventful, fans will "Demand" exactly where KISS and will perform in top-voted North American markets beginning this September.

Buckcherry fans can now join the hundreds of thousands of KISS fans that have voted to date online. They have just six more weeks--until voting ends on June 30th--to "Demand" what cities they want to see the tour hit. No matter where the fans say--"from stadiums to cornfields"--if there are enough votes, the KISS tour will be there! And in order to keep the competition fair for smaller cities, final site selection will weigh population size versus total votes. More than 8,000 cities and towns are already represented on the fan-submitted list. - vote here

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Dave Matthews Band Leak New Album Online
PR reports: Dave Matthews Band launches an extensive summer tour Wednesday night with a show at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Darien Center, NY, just days before the release of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, its first studio album in four years.

Prior to the album's June 2nd release, fans can stream Big Whiskey in its entirety at Pandora. The group is the first to debut an album on Pandora.

Dave Matthews Band will make its morning television debut on "CBS Sunday Morning" (May 31st) and will also appear on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (June 3rd) and the "TODAY" show with a performance on Rockefeller Plaza (June 5th). Matthews will be interviewed on "The Charlie Rose Show" during release week. Dave Matthews Band has been tapped for the season premiere of "Austin City Limits" (October 3rd) and will headline the Austin City Limits Festival on the same day. - Listen Here

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Jeff Buckley Grace Around The World Hitting Stores Next Week
Sony reports: On June 2nd Legacy Recordings will release the first ever visual document of Jeff Buckley's Grace world tour. Although his career was cut short by tragedy his legacy lives on and is celebrated in this new release.

As a tribute to the enduring and expanding popularity and critical acclaim that continues to be devoted worldwide to Jeff Buckley more than a decade after his death, Grace Around The World � to be issued in two separate multi-disc packages �provides the most comprehensive and exciting musical portrait of the artist seen to date.

Executive produced by Mary Guibert (Buckley's mother), Grace Around The World focuses on previously unreleased live performances circa 1994-95, in concert and television locales ranging from the U.S. and UK, to Germany, Japan and France (where Buckley was the #1 best-selling international catalog artist in 2008). Accompanying the 108-minute Grace Around The World DVD will be an audio CD counterpart.
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The Mars Volta Offshoot Zechs Marquise Hitting the Road
PR reports: Days after playing the Bonnaroo festival in The Mars Volta alongside his brother Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez will hit the road once again. This time he joins another of his siblings, bassist Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez in their prog-rock groove outfit Zechs Marquise.

While sharing The Mars Volta's penchant for expansive passages, Zechs Marquise takes a hazier, psych-laden approach to its songs, as evident on its 15-track debut album Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare to be released Fall 2009 via Rodriguez Lopez Productions

The El Paso, TX based quartet brings its heaving sounds to the east coast in July, opening for the album release tour of like-minded groove-tech band RX Bandits. - more on this story

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All Time Low For Warped
Hopeless reports: All Time Low has just confirmed a string of dates on the Main Stage of this summer's Warped Tour.

The band will be touring in support of their highly anticipated forthcoming release, Nothing Personal, in stores July 7th. Having just recently finished a tour with Fall Out Boy, the Maryland foursome will be jumping on Warped Tour in Oceanport, NJ, and staying on it until the end in Los Angeles, CA.

Prior to these dates, they will do a short headlining tour with We The Kings and Cartel, hitting several cities on the east coast.
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Cradle Of Filth Singer Storms Off Stage- Weezer Snuggie- White Wedding- James Brown Settlement- Fox vs KISS Army- Queens of the Sweethead- Rancid Leak and more
antiMusic reports: Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth reportedly walking off-stage in the middle of a song during a concert in Adelaide, Australia on Sunday, which prematurely ended the show. No reason for his exit was given in this report but they do have video!

Weezer have teamed up with a U.S. blanket company to produce their own branded blanket, according to reports. The band are set to get their own "Snuggie," which is a blanket with sleeves, and instead will call the item a "Wuggie." more

White Wedding: White Stripes drummer Meg White has married fiance Jackson Smith in Nashville.more

KISS frontman Paul Stanley boasted to fans "Wow! We're already over 1 Million YouTube views of our American Idol appearance where we were joined by finalist, Adam Lambert. By all reports, it was the high point of the show, and this seems to confirm it!" Someone forgot to tell the lawyers at Fox who had the clip removed. Oops. more Then again, perhaps people were logging on to see if Lambert's outfit was really as ridiculous as they heard (hint: it was).

After years of hearings in a protracted battle over how to parcel out James Brown's wealth, a South Carolina judge approved a settlement Tuesday that gives nearly half of it to his charitable trust, about a quarter to his wife and young son, and the rest to Brown's adult children.more

Alexis Babini has confirmed an opening slot for Blues Traveler on June 9th at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, CT The singer-songwriter, who now calls Boston home, is originally from Fairfield, CT, so the gig is a hometown show of sorts. In his own words, "This will be a really great night because I'll be playing my home base and sharing the stage with a band who had a great influence on me as an aspiring singer/songwriter." more

T.I. entered an Arkansas federal prison Tuesday to begin a year and a day sentence on a weapon charge.more

Named after a David Bowie B-side, Sweethead is a new band featuring members of Queens Of The Stone Age and Mark Lanegan's band. The group plan to release their debut EP in July. more

The Brass have announced the release of their upcoming 7". Homosapien is due out in mid-June on Dead Broke Rekerds. The band features members of On The Might Of Princes and Latterman.more

Rancid is offering a full stream and a track by track commentary of their new album, Let the Dominoes Fall on their MySpace page.

Warrior Soul return with their first studio album in over 14 years. Led by controversial frontman Kory Clarke, whose ever present vocals make the band unique and immediately identifiable, "Destroy The War Machine" features eight brand new tracks including a cover of Iggy Pop's "Knocking 'Em Down (In The City)"! The disc will hit stores on July 14. A full scale tour of the United States and Europe will follow. more including an mp3 link

New dates have been added to the Gotthard Tour. Three shows in Italy and three shows in the UK have been added, with more to follow.more

Quincy Jones tells Winehouse to Beat It! It appears that the only thing that Amy Winehouse is headlining this summer is her very own cancellation-palooza. The latest: Uber-producer Quincy Jones has rescinded his invitation to Winehouse to record a song for a tribute album being compiled in his honor. more

Chimaira has announced a short run of summer headlining tour dates in July, most of which also feature Winds of Plague and Born of Osiris.dates

Jason Collett will support the Weakerthans on their upcoming US west coast tour. Jason will be performing solo at the shows and previewing a number of songs from his upcoming full length.more

Testament has announced a number of tour dates in September spanning Central and South America as well as Mexico.more

The Michael Schenker Group have confirmed that their North American tour is a go. Says Schenker: "It is official, the Visa situation has been sorted out and the US Tour is on as planned!" dates

Annotations Of An Autopsy has finished writing their Nuclear Blast Records debut, titled "II: The Reign Of Darkness." This July the band will enter Welsh recording studio Foel Studio (Napalm Death) to commence tracking the effort, which is expected to surface this fall.more

Kanye West does not read books or respect them but nevertheless he has "written" one that he would like you to buy and read. more. Have fun counting the "I" in that epic piece of "literature!"

Pretty Maids are currently negotiating new recording deals for Europe and Asia. The band intend to start recording new material in the autumn and a new album is set for release early spring 2010.more

Trivia question of the day: Which member of KISS was a songwriter for the hit TV show 'Happy Days'?

The answer to yesterday's question: Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen left the band shortly after the group recorded "Ten," he later went on to form a new group with two members of Blind Melon called Unified Theory - more News Quicks

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Singled Out: J.R. Richards (Dishwalla) Pt V
antiMusic reports: J.R. Richards made a name for himself fronting Dishwalla but this month he takes it a step further as he releases his new solo album, "A Beautiful End." Normally we ask the artist to tell us about just one song but we've waiting a long time for this album, so to celebrate we asked J.R. to pick some of his favorite songs from the album and tell us a little bit about each one. Here is J.R. with today's song "I Will Give You Life":

A friend of mine Mark Thompson, (who is Mark from the Mark & Brian show) had contacted me and asked if I would be interested in writing a song for a movie he wrote and would soon be filming. A horror/thriller called "2:13".

I have really enjoyed writing for movies in the past and ask how soon he could get a copy of the script to me. Once I had it I decided to write a song from the killers perspective.......... It was a great excuse to write something a little more twisted than I would normally write. The song "I Will Give You Life" ended up being the end title theme for the movie and is a slightly different version from the one that appears on " A Beautiful End".

Learn more about J.R., his new album, find out where he's playing, and preview tracks from the new CD (and order a physical copy of the CD) - right here!

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