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3/9/2010
Radiohead has issued a statement that information about the
band's new album circulated in an email among fans is "made up,"
according to NME.com. The email, which allegedly emanated from
the band's merchandise site, reportedly said that Radiohead's eighth
studio album was titled Tehrangeles and had been completed. An
11-song track listing was also included. But a spokesperson for the
group said, "Most of it is made up and there is no album or album
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3/9/2010
Foo Fighters will begin recording their seventh studio album
in September, frontman Dave Grohl told RollingStone.com at
the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles on Friday night (March
5th). Grohl said, "Me and (Foos drummer) Taylor (Hawkins)
have already started demoing songs," adding, "I think this could be our
heaviest album yet." Grohl also revealed that the record will be
produced by Butch Vig, partially in honor of the 20th anniversary
of Nirvana's classic ...
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3/9/2010
Although Tool singer Maynard James Keenan is busy with
other ventures like his vineyards and his rock cabaret act Puscifer,
he did hint to us in a new interview that he's done some writing for
the next Tool album. But Keenan also added that he's perfectly
comfortable taking a long time between projects: "Some new band,
their first two records are the ones that are the freshest, 'cause
they've had all their lives to write ...
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3/9/2010
System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian will give two
orchestral performances of his Elect The Dead Symphony in the
U.S. this summer. Tankian will perform with the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra at Chastain Park Amphitheater on July 9th in Atlanta, and with
an orchestra assembled by The Greek Theatre on July 30th at that venue
in Los Angeles. The two American concerts will follow a string of
performances that will team Tankian with some of ...
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3/9/2010
Kid Rock appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday (March
5th) to answer charges that he assaulted three fans in 2006, according
to Jam! Music and TMZ.com. A lawsuit alleges that Rock,
along with six members of the hip-hop group Boo-Yaa Tribe, beat
up Michael Medlin, Jose Perez and Carlos Bonilla
four years ago outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood after they asked
for autographs. The trio filed suit in 2008 and are seeking ...
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3/9/2010
Gorillaz release their third studio album, titled Plastic
Beach, on Tuesday (March 9th). The disc is the first set of all-new
material from the "virtual" cartoon band since its 2005 outing Demon
Days. That effort combined with the act's self-titled 2001 debut to
sell 12 million copies worldwide, win several awards and launch a
multi-media industry around the animated foursome that includes books,
videos, merchandise and more.
"Bassist" and "band leader" Murdoc
Niccals told us ...
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3/8/2010
Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan told Noisecreep.com
in a new interview that he's too busy with his other projects to record
a new Tool album right now -- but that doesn't mean the band is
finished. Keenan said, "It's hard to say. I don't know if I can (record
with Tool) right now. I am on the operating table and I'm breaching, I'm
having a baby. The idea of making another baby right now is ...
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3/8/2010
Evanescence singer Amy Lee has little to say about We
Are The Fallen, the new band featuring three original members of
Evanescence and female singer Carly Smithson of American Idol
fame. When asked for her thoughts on the project in a new interview
with Spin.com, Lee says briefly, "I don't have any. It doesn't
have anything to do with me or Evanescence." Asked whether it would be
"safe to say" that she hasn't spoken with ...
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3/8/2010
Bullet For My Valentine frontman Matt Tuck admits that
the Welsh band wasn't happy with the way it recorded its second album,
2008's Scream Aim Fire, with most of the writing and recording
done on the road. For the group's upcoming effort, Fever, Tuck
told us that the quartet went back to their roots: "We wanted to
really focus and concentrate on writing this album properly like we did
before we even had a record ...
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3/8/2010
A benefit album compiled in 1995 but never released, featuring rare,
unreleased and live tracks from Rage Against The Machine, the Beastie
Boys, Josh Homme, Helmet, Corrosion Of Conformity
and others, has surfaced online. The record, called Exiled In The
Land Of The Free, was aimed at raising legal defense funds for
convicted murderer Leonard Peltier, who supporters allege was
wrongly imprisoned for the 1975 killing of two FBI agents. According to Pitchfork
Media, a ...
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