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Linkin Park Singer Goes Solo, Oasis Terminal Show Plans, Radiohead Ballet, Rush Hashanah, Solo Garbage, DMX Extradited and more


09/12/2008
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(antiMusic) Since 2005, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington has been amassing a group of songs that he knew didn't fit for his main band, but could make a great side project. Finally, with Linkin Park having some time off, Bennington is finishing up that collection and he will release it in 2009 before a new LP album comes out. more

As a result of the incident on Oasis' Canadian tour, when Noel was attacked by a stage invader Oasis, are now being forced to announce that Friday night's show at Terminal 5, New York cannot go ahead as planned. Noel fell heavily on to his monitor speakers when he was pushed suddenly from behind by his attacker and suffered bruising to his ribs and hip. Unfortunately, he still has not recovered from his injuries and so he will not be able to perform

'Ride The Beast', the ballet choreographed to the music of Radiohead, is set to make its London debut later this year. The show, put on by the Scottish Ballet , uses a number of the band's songs, drawn mainly from their experimental album 'Kid A'. more

From sunset to sunrise on Monday, September 29 rock band Rush will celebrate the Jewish New Year, during Rush Hashanah on VH1 Classic. The 24-hour tribute to Rush will include two of the band's concerts including Rush In Rio and R30 as well as past and present videos from band.

Prince's 2007 run of 21 shows at London's 02 Arena is chronicled in the appropriately named coffee table photo book "21 Nights," due Sept. 30 via Atria Books. Ah but a CD is on the offering here as well. more

Rapper DMX is now in custody in a Phoenix jail on theft charges, Maricopa County Sheriff's officials said Thursday. more

Visceral Bleeding have issued the following update: "Due to Martin "Germ" Bermheden's busy schedule with THE Berzerker, we've decided to part ways. more

Live Nation has cut a deal with Philadelphia-based facility operator SMG for venues across North America that will provide a big boost to the launch of its ticketing service at third-party venues. So you may soon have the honor of being over charged excessive add-on fees by Live Nation instead of Ticketmaster. Happy, happy, joy, joy!more on the deal.

The opening of a museum dedicated to Swedish pop group ABBA has been delayed. The initial target for the opening was June 2009, but project co-founder Ulf Westman said Thursday the renovation of the building will take longer than expected more

Scar Symmetry (Nuclear Blast Records) has announced the departure of singer, Christian Alvestam. The group has issued the following: "A few months ago we decided to part ways with Christian. The reasons are mainly the clich�d 'business and creative differences' and lack of interpersonal chemistry." more

Liskfest, scheduled to take place on October 11th in Irvine, California, has been cancelled due to lack of interest. more

Brian Wilson will be honored by the Los Angeles City Council at a City Hall ceremony today. The former Beach Boy is being recognized for his musical contributions to the city he calls home more

The Urgency are heading out on the road this fall with Innerpartysystem and A Cursive Memory and right now they are offering up a free ringtone to fans. All you gotta do is text "theurgency" to 66937 for a free ringtone of their track "Fingertips".

Yahoo Inc plans to open its online music site to feature information about songs and artists from outside services such as Apple Inc iTunes or Amazon.com, an executive said on Thursday. more

Garbage's Shirley Manson will return to the recording studio next month to lay down solo material she's been working on for the past several months. Manson is now part of the cast of Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," but doesn't anticipate the role getting in the way of her music career. more

Today is the day that all the Metallica fans have been waiting for! Death Magnetic hits stores. And as promised we have the second part of our two part-part Tag Team review. Today Tony K tells us why he feels the band has been reinvigorated and made their best album in years! - Read it here



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