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7/30/2010
The friends and family of Deftones bassist Chi Cheng
have posted the first two in a series of webisodes online that will form
a documentary about Cheng's 2008 car accident and aftermath. Cheng
remains in a semi-conscious state as a result of the crash and his
family and fellow musicians have been soliciting financial aid for his
care ever since he was dropped by his insurance company just two months
after the accident.
Two more ...
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7/30/2010
The Smashing Pumpkins raised more than $80,000 at a sold-out benefit show in Chicago on Tuesday (July 27th) for Madina Lake bassist Matthew Leone.
The money from the concert at the Windy City's famous Metro club will
go to Leone's ongoing medical care. The Chicago-based musician was
hospitalized with severe brain trauma last month after he intervened on
the street to stop a woman from being abused by her husband and was
himself beaten by ...
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7/30/2010
Buckcherry is streaming its entire new album, All Night Long, online ahead of its release next Tuesday (August 3rd). The record follows up 2008's Black Butterfly, which did not sell much compared to the band's 2006's million-selling comeback effort, 15. Guitarist Keith Nelson told us that even with the decline of CD sales, he is not giving up on making albums: "I
believe in the album as an artform. I don't think that putting two
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7/30/2010
Avenged Sevenfold performed live for the first time since the death last December of drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan this past Sunday (July 26th), when the band played at the Heavy MTL festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Behind the drum kit was Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy, who made his live debut with the group after doing the drum parts on their newly released album, Nightmare.
Avenged frontman M. Shadows told us what it was like ...
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7/30/2010
Ozzy Osbourne slammed Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson in a new interview with The Quietus over an incident that occurred on the 2005 Ozzfest tour. During an August 20th show in San Bernardino, California, Sharon Osbourne
allegedly messed with Maiden's sound and had the band pelted with eggs
onstage, after claiming that Dickinson had made disparaging remarks
about her husband throughout the tour.
Ozzy told The Quietus
about the incident, "Unbeknown to me, every night ...
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7/30/2010
Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy may be resettling in New York and moving in with his current flame, actress Kate Hudson. According to U.K. tabloid The Sun,
the couple are looking for a place together in the Big Apple, with a
source saying, "They're very loved-up, they just click. Kate's had a
place in the city for five years but she wants somewhere bigger, so
Matt's suggested pooling their resources. Kate wants a studio for Matt
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7/29/2010
Ozzy Osbourne's upcoming Ozzfest tour is offering prospective brides and grooms a chance to tie the knot at one of the stops on the tour through a new offering called the Unholy Matrimony Package. The promotion will provide 10 general admission pit tickets for the happy couple and eight guests, an official wedding ceremony performed by Ozzfest MC and ordained minister Big Dave, an Ozzfest cake and a champagne toast. The wedding party will also ...
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7/29/2010
Avenged Sevenfold's newly released fifth album, Nightmare, is on track to sell between 160,000 and 175,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week of release, enough to debut at the top of next week's Billboard album chart. According to Hits Daily Double, that estimate is based on one-day sales reports compiled following the record's arrival on Tuesday (July 27th). The band's previous effort, its self-titled fourth album, sold 94,000 copies when it arrived back ...
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7/29/2010
Disturbed began rehearsals in Chicago on Wednesday (July 28th) for the upcoming Uproar Tour, which will be the first time the band has played together onstage since the end of the touring cycle for its 2008 record, Indestructible. Singer David Draiman told us that fans can expect a Disturbed show bigger than anything the band has done before: "The production for this touring cycle is turning out to be really, really amazing, really impressive. I ...
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7/29/2010
Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, who's out touring with Rob Zombie, has confirmed that the band will continue making music despite the death in May of bassist Paul Gray. While Slipknot is only in the very earliest stages of planning its next record, Jordison says they've already decided they will not recruit a new bassist: "There will be no other bass players besides Jim (Root, guitarist), Mick (Thomson, guitarist) and me, more than likely. Everyone actually ...
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