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Fans at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida were evacuated from Bon Jovi’s concert this past Saturday night due to a bomb threat. Don’t worry – everyone and their mothers are completely fine. Several bomb-sniffing dogs were sent in to inspect the area after police received a phone call that threatened to blow up the arena with two bombs was received. After police determined that it was all a hoax, fans were let back into the arena at 9:30 to enjoy the show. And if it just happened that any concert-goers were from Fort Lauderdale, they might have been able to catch Richie Sambora play at a condominium too.

With matching black shag hairdos, his and hers rocker eyeliner and the oh so overrated wearing of black nail polish to show your edginess, 49-year old Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, more famously known as Nikki Sixx can be barely told apart from his 26-year old girlfriend Katherine Von Drachenberg, more famously known as Kat Von D. And don’t get me started on the tattoos. Considering that the LA Ink star had the name of her now ex tattooed on her skin just after a month of dating, there’s no doubt that this relationship will only last just about as long as a Motley Crue song.

Mark Ronson wants to work with rock stars. The producer is keen to team up with indie and alternative acts in his search for fresh sounds and more chart-topping tracks.

He said: “I like to keep with the family and those who got me where I am. But it’s also about trying new things. So I’m trying to work with a rock band for the first time. I’m figuring that out now.”

Ronson has already experimented with indie rock by covering the Kaiser Chiefs’ classic ‘Oh My God’ and Coldplay’s ‘Clocks’ for his album ‘Version’. His reworking of The Zutons’ hit song ‘Valerie’, featuring the vocals of his close friend, troubled singer Amy Winehouse, has earned him a BRIT Award nomination at this year’s ceremony.

There are some things that are inevitable and you know should happen and would happen. It’s just like Madonna being announced to be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on Thursday. I think she’s a shoe-in because she’s pretty much the ultimate icon and the most influential woman in pop music.

Madonna was one of five acts chosen for induction at the annual ceremony which will be held on March 10 in New York City. The other artists are John Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen and The Dave Clark Five.

Congrats!

Pink released an album called ‘Missundazstood’ a couple of years back and now, it looks like there’s been a missundazstanding. A musician named Scratch has filed a lawsuit against the pop punk rocker for a featured performance on her hit CD.

In the lawsuit, Kyle ‘Scratch’ Jones claims that he is on Pink’s track ‘Respect’ but wasn’t paid for it. According to the suit, Scratch says he discussed payment with Pink but they never came to an agreement. He’s also claiming that his work was used on her DVD ‘Live in Europe’. He’s seeking $717,600 in damages.

A rep for Pink has released a statement regarding the matter saying “There’s nothing to say on this matter, as it is an unjustified lawsuit.”

It was a high-end yard sale for Ozzy Osbourne fans this weekend. They showed up in droves to place their bids on items such as a bat coat, skull sneakers, and many other items belonging to the famous Osbourne family.

The sale was run by Julien’s Auctions. Owner of the company, Darren Julien, told reporters that it was a mix of heavymetal fans and art lovers lining up to bid on the items. “For the most part, the metalheads were outbidding the art crowd.”

The items were sold from the Beverly Hills mansion that formerly belong to Ozzy and Sharon. For the most part, the items that were featured on MTV’s “The Osbournes” were in higher demand that other items. Among the items selling were a coat decorated with bats for $3300, sneakers with skulls on them for $2625, a pair of Ozzy’s sunglasses for $5250, and an oversided coffee mug that Ozzy often carried on the show for $1625.

Those who were interested in art looked for items such as a sculpture by Edouard Drouot, which sold for $10,500.

Julien predicted that the auction would bring in about $350,000. At the end of the sale, they made about $800,000. The family is donating the proceeds to the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

That’s one heck of a yard sale! I could sell the contents of my entire home and probably not make that kind of a bundle. Kudos to the Osbournes for donating the money to a worthy cause.

The 80’s nostalgia ends up tragically as the lead sing of Quiet riot has been found dead in his home.
Police discovered his lifeless body after performing a search once they got phone calls announcing he was missing. Friends and family are devastated, and former band members show their grief.

The band was currently active, singing from time to time and releasing albums once in a while, so the relationships between him and his colleagues were still good. No one seems to know what happened, but as in most cases when it comes to musicians, I suspect it was a suicide. As police didn’t reveal many details about his death, or the causes, I can’t assume anything or imagine the circumstance. But I think that if they would have found signs of unusual presences in his home or burglar steps they would have announced that.

If you were looking for a truly impressive night out then you are going to want to see what you can do about getting yourself tickets to take in the “Cover Your Eyes” Tour which is sure to be a great night out whether you decide to attend with family or with friends. Featuring such acts as Kenotia and City Sleeps as well as Bedlight for Blue eyes, this tour promises to be an amazing night out that you are not going to want to miss so make sure you see what you can do about getting yourself tickets to catch these great bands and more in action.
Highlights of this tour include stops at such venues as Jaxx in West Springfield, Virginia on November 15, The Brewery in Raleigh, North Carolina on November 16, Soapbox in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 17, The 7 Venue in Douglasville, Georgia on November 18, The Pit in Jacksonville, Florida on November 19, Island Oasis in Winter Park, Florida on November 21, Dark Room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on NOvember 24, Fat Daddy’s Sound Shack in Lewisville, Texas on November 25, White Rabbit in San Antonio, Texas on November 26 and The Blue Goat in Salina, Kansas on November 28 as well as The Foundry in Joplin, Missouri on November 29 and The Cellblock in Mesa, Arizona on December 4. There are also a slew of other performances that you know you aren’t going to want to miss out on!

James Blunt, that English crooner, is touring and you had better believe that you are going to love having this chance to see him perform live onstage! Whether you want to attend his concert with your friends or your family in tow, you know there is nothing like seeing a great performer live while you are surrounded by your loved ones. Additionally, performers like James Blunt are wonderful to see in concert because concert-goers are surrounded by the performers’ other loyal fans which is always a wonderful experience to have.
Highlights of James Blunt’s tour include stops at such locales as Carling Academy Glasgow in Glasgow, United Kingdom on January 9, Edinburgh Corn Exchange in Edinburgh, United Kingdom on January 10, Carling APollo Manchester in Manchester, United Kingdom on January 11 and on January 12, International Centre in Bournemouth, United Kingdom on Janaury 17 adn Plymouth Pavilions in Plyamouth, United Kingdom on January 18 as well as the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, United Kingdom on January 19. Other highlights of Blunt’s extensive tour include gigs at the Hallenstadion Zurich in Zurich itself on March 9, Zenith Paris in Paris, France on March 10, Ahoy Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands on March 17, Hovet in Stockholm, Sweden on March 23 and Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany on March 30 as well as Alcatraz in Milan, Italy on April 2 and a slew of other venues.
You know you don’t want to miss out on this chance to see such a talented performer do his thing live.

“There are times where I’ll walk upstairs after the show, and my mom will be sitting on the couch with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day, drinking a pint of beer. She’s totally cool.” Nice guy.. love your mother.. Forget about troubles from the evil world. That’s absolutely so cool man, when you are a successful singer and your concerts go house full jam packed you can have any one by your side to flaunt off your success and things to your girl friend but to take your mom on tour and take her to the concert and have her watch your performances and then get her some beer all sounds extremely cool, I would always love to take my mom with me where ever I go, you know sometimes you feel like catching your mom’s hand and telling let’s go to the mall and have some fun, buy ice creams and see some cool gadgets that I like to buy this Christmas and ask her if she like them too so that there is a consensus on the purchase I make. Well all in all nice to hear that his mom and he get along well.

Reggae covers and dub-wise improvising are regular features of Gov’t Mule’s marathon shows. Mighty High focuses on that heavy Jamaica in singer-guitarist Warren Haynes’ modern-Dixie redesign of classic British blues rock. Actually, there is as much Free as Lee Perry in the opening detonation of “I’m a Ram” — from Al Green’s 1971 album Gets Next to You — while drummer Matt Abts’ New Orleans backbeat under the Band’s “Shape I’m In” affirms the mix of Crescent City and funky Kingston in the original. The Rolling Stones’ “Play With Fire” is overstuffed with weed-whacked production, and the suite of dub versions in the second half of the album could use more jolting drama. But the closing remix of “I’m a Ram,” titled “Plasticine Era,” is a hip minefield of wah-wah-guitar bark, snare-drum crack and singsong bravado by Jamaican vocalist Willi Williams, whose 1978 single “Armagideon Time” is a Mule cover waiting to happen.

Radiohead isn’t signed to any major record label right now but in the end, it works out for the best. The band decided to release their album via the internet and letting fans pay whatever they wanted for it.

On average, more than 6 out of 10 people who downloaded their new album ‘In Rainbows’ downloaded it for free. Of the people that decided to pay even just a bit for it, the average price paid was around $6. Close to 1.2 million people downloaded the album and if you’re quick with the numbers, that’s a total of $2.736 million.

It may not be as much had they released the album normally but when you take away the money they would have to fork over to a record label, they’d probably make even less than that. It’s a very smart move on their part.

Meet the new king. Not the same as the old King.Garth Brooks, who edged out Elvis Presley in 1999 for the title of best-selling solo artist of all time, only to lose it five years later, reclaimed the crown from the King Monday, according to the tab keepers at the Recording Industry Association of America. Ok, now I will admit that Garth Brooks has definitely made his mark in country music, and he’s won every kind of award there is…and once upon a time I drooled everytime I saw his face… but dethrone Elvis??? GET SERIOUS, PEOPLE!!! NO ONE, least of ALL Garth Brooks, could ever dethrone Elvis! I don’t care if he sold a million copies of cd’s every day for the rest of his life…he’ll NEVER come CLOSE to Elvis on ANY level. My advice to the writers of these kinds of articles… PLEASE choose your words more carefully!! Stats are for real but yet could be misleading. Garth could be great but certainly not the greatest and still not greater than that man called Elvis.

While Nelly Furtado won her own award and should get an award for being fabulous with her red carpet look, I can’t say the same for Avril Lavigne. Honestly, I would never say it even if she looked like Charlize Theron. She looked like a wannabe prom queen from the 80s.

The 23-year old ‘Girlfriend’ singer picked up the award for Most Addictive Track at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 in Munich, Germany on Thursday. Avril accepted the award and said “This is amazing. I’d like to thank the fans for voting for me.”

It’s not that they wanted to. It just so happens that the song is so annoying and was stuck in their heads during the whole voting process.

Amy Winehouse gave one of her usual bombed-out performances at the MTV Europe Music Awards. She was even booed off the stage when she could barely say the word “Thanks” after receiving her Artists’ Choice award. However, the new drug-free Pete Doherty says that Amy is on “the straight and narrow,” Holy crap…I was going on and on about how freaking ugly she is (all the time when I see her pics on the internet and music news sites)…then I got a look at her husbands teeth! Sweet mother of Jesus! Can you imagine kissing that thing! It looks like he’s never brushed a day in his life. Bet it smell reals nice, jack! He wouldn’t be a bad looking guy though if he wasn’t so messed up on drugs and hadn’t messed up his body. Yipes; these 2 are obviously not good for each other. I bet there’s some serious mental & emotional abuse going on, in addition to the drug abuse. Hope she gets out of that situation alive.

Billed as the first Santana compilation to span his entire career, it is true that Ultimate Santana does indeed run the gamut from 1969’s “Evil Ways” to 2002’s “Game of Love,” but if you think that means it handles all phases of his career equally, you’d be sadly mistaken. Essentially, this 18-track set plays like a collection of highlights from his Supernatural-era comebacks, spiked with a couple of classic rock oldies — because that’s what it really is.

It contains no less than ten superstar duets, including new numbers with Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger (the streamlined and smoothed “Into the Night,” which has little of Kroeger’s trademark growly histrionics) and Jennifer Lopez and Baby Bash (”This Boy’s Fire,” a dance number where Santana seems incidental), plus a version of “The Game of Love” with Tina Turner (don’t worry, the lighter, brighter, superior Michelle Branch version is here too)

In other words, this is certainly not a hits disc for the fan of his earliest music, or his most adventurous music either; it’s for the pop fans won over by his latter-day comeback, and for those listeners, it’s the hits disc they’d want — but for everybody else, it’s better to seek out other compilations or original albums, because those paint a better picture of what Santana was all about than this crisp, clean collection of lifestyle pop.

Paul McCartney has slammed rumors his Beatles bandmate John Lennon was secretly gay. Lennon is claimed to have had affairs with men as well as women, before and during his marriages to Cynthia Lennon and Yoko Ono - but McCartney only saw him with women. Wonder why the rumors or coming so late… why should anyone care today? Would anyone care to know if he were gay or not after so many years, it’s just if he were gay then Yoko would have known and she would have gone public with the news long time ago, why would Paul have to say something like this after so many years have past. Ok that John Lennon was influential and people would like to know about his past but what difference does it make to even the gay community if he were gay. I think Paul and company should stop commenting on a person who is not there to confirm or deny the same.

Radiohead’s experiment of letting the fans download their new album for free has proven to be a success when their website topped the chart of music websites. Now, some of the music industry’s biggest names are following in their footsteps.

Jamiroquai and Oasis are not contracted to a record label much like Radiohead. They are also rumored to be considering on following Radiohead’s actions. Oasis has already announced that their next single will be available for download for a mere 99 pence. The Charlatans are also offering their next album for free if they visit the site of radio station XFM. Madness is considering giving away its next album for free as well.

With rapidly declining CD sales and increasing download sales but still the same wide fanbase, the performers who choose to give away their music are expected to make money from sales of concert tickets and other merchandise.

Oasis rocker Liam Gallagher hates his band’s early material - comparing his voice to cartoon bird Tweetie Pie. The Live Forever singer, 35, cringes when he hears songs from Oasis’ 1994 debut Definitely Maybe. What’s the story morning glory is a great album. Definitely Maybe is just ok. Retrospection mostly gives the negative jibes to all people because after some 10-12 or even later we all think about the mistakes we made in life and how we could have done it in a different fashion. There are always many ways to do many things but what sense you have at the age of say 25 are certainly going to be different from what sensibilities one has at 35-40. Liam everyone tries to be a perfectionist at their jobs be it a manager at McDonalds trying to deliver a perfect burger or a musician trying to make the perfect composition. Keep trying one we all will be good if not perfect.

Fall Out Boy are using their fame to raise awareness about the use of use of child soldiers at war in Africa. Great strategy to get attention…sounds very interesting, though. I hope I get to see the video. But if they are really committed to bring attention to some really important child labor and child exploitation issues then that’s a worthy cause that they are putting their efforts into bring people and the world’s attention to. And if this is another of those self gleaming, attention hogging attempt so that the people see them as a band that has concerns and wants to make the ‘difference’ that we all say with capital letters ‘DIFFERENCE’ then I tell these guys have chosen such a sensitive issue to get people’s attention that if they do not make any visible attempts to doing something on the issue then they should be banned from holding concerts and selling their music.

It is reported that My Chemical Romance front man Gerard Way has married his girlfriend, ‘Lyn Z,’ bassist in the band Mindless Self Indulgence.

The low-budget ceremony is purported to have taken place backstage on Monday (September 3), after the band supported Linkin Park at the Projekt Revolution concert in Denver, Colorado.

The ceremony was apparently overseen by an official from concert promoters Live Nation, who also happened to be an ordained minister.

The reported marriage makes Way the second member of My Chemical Romance to get married in 2007. Earlier this year, Way’s brother and band mate, Mikey, also tied the knot.

Most Popular albums of My Chemical Romance are Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge,I ‘m Not Okay(I Promise),I Brought You My Bullets,You Brought Me Your Love.

Veteran rocker Ringo Starr has been tipped to finally be honored in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame next year, according to some industry insiders. The former Beatles drummer is the only member of the Fab Four not to be inducted into the prestigious Hall Of Fame, with the late George Harrison the last to receive the honor in 2004 - three years after his death in 2001. I think it is like justice being delayed a bit in his case. He should have been long before have been included in the Hall Of Fame. I love Ringo and the Bee Gees and all of the Beatles and am I glad to see him join the other is his rightful place in The Hall Of Fame. HE HAS EARNED THE HONOR. Why is always with some people that they get their honor much more later than a few who really never deserve to be there in that esteemed list of greats. But a better way to look at it would be that may the ones who get a later recognition savor it more than the one who get it early but fail to understand the value of it all.

Ozzy Osbourne’s touring Ozzfest show has been marred by another controversy after an off-duty police officer was attacked while trying to make an arrest on Tuesday night. According to North Carolina police, one officer suffered minor injuries in a scuffle at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre show in Charlotte, where he was working as a security guard. The crowds at these concerts are so unruly and badly behaved that either there should limited entry or adequate security arrangements should be put in place before there is any confirmation on the concert taking place. But police officials insist this was one incident during an otherwise trouble-free event. Hey like if the police do not have problems tackling these maniacs then I should not be saying this, all you boys and girls go out there and have a ball. Smash some window panes and rip off the concert coz the police ain’t fear struck of you.

Scottish rocker KT Tunstall longs for a split with her boyfriend - because it will give her inspiration for songs. The singer briefly split with long-term boyfriend Luke Bullen - and it inspired her to write song Someday Soon which features on new album Drastic Fantastic. And she now plans to have more arguments in a bid for musical success. Nonsense that you need to have split with your boyfriend to find inspiration to write love and emotional songs, that way to write rock and rap songs one would have to spend a few nights with a prostitute or a gay to write these woeful songs. I thing she’s completely looking at the wrong way to find inspiration to write songs, rather than a break up she could well sit on the pot and find better inspiration. We are looking for love songs that make us happy not sad and remorseful about our past relationships gone wrong. KT don’t spoil a relation for just trying to find inspiration dear, go have some coke and cheer up.

Newton Faulkner’s debut album includes the single Dream Catch Me
Singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner has hit the top spot in the UK album chart, confirming him as one of this year’s hottest new artists.
Hand Built By Robots was released last month and now sits above Elvis Presley and Amy Winehouse in the rundown.

Faulkner rose to prominence supporting James Morrison and Paolo Nutini.

In the singles chart, Kanye West’s Stronger has held onto number one for a second week, holding off a challenge from Sean Kingston’s Beautiful Girls.

Soft rocker, acoustic alien, folk fantasist and blues boy are just a few of the nicknames you may fancy labelling Newton Faulkner. And if his personality is as laidback as his sound, the Surrey-bred Brit probably couldn’t care less what you tag him. As long as it’s not cheesy.

Eric Clapton was forced to rush his wedding to Pattie Boyd after his manager leaked the story to win a bet with the drunken rocker. Boyd feared her romance with Clapton was over following a fling with another woman in Los Angeles, and was shocked when the guitar great hit her with a surprise proposal. So you see this where the information is leaked and celebs have to run for cover or accept/deny the news. Eric is one of the legends of the music world and anything that’s related to his personal life is hot news for the fans. Eric himself made the bet that the news of his wedding could not be leaked and Roger didn’t waste anytime leaking the news and thus winning the bet of $20,000 and that’s great money to win from a singer and enough money for a leak, Roger certainly must have charged another $20,000 to newspaper/ magazine he gave the news to. 20,000 + 20,000 = $40,000 wow I would not wait a single second if I had something to tell.

Really like her - because she does her own thing AND has a beautiful voice - and hope so much she gets herself together (right expression?) - cause it would be a shame she throws her life away. The night that she overdosed, Amy said she smoked heroin, snorted cocaine, took ecstasy pills, took Ketamine pills, and drank tons of vodka and whiskey. Puke! Just saying vodka and whiskey aloud makes me gets that tingling feeling in my lip like I might vomit. How does this chick do it? How disgusting. Let’s hope she gets some help. I really am puzzled at one thing, they booze so much, they ecstasy pills and heroin and if there’s something else then I do not know the word for the obscure thing but how do they manage to keep their voices intact and still manage to sing that well, by now they should have lost their voices completely. That’s a miracle to me.

The British pop star Amy Winehouse was rushed to hospital today. This has started speculation about her health. She was taken to a hospital in London and was reported to be suffering from “severe exhaustion”. This isn’t her first run in with exhaustion issues. Just last month she had to cancel a series of concerts after she was ordered by doctors to get some rest. Other information on Winehouse leads me to believe that this is more than a case of exhaustion. It sounds more like it may be a chronic hangover. Winehouse recently spoke about her partying lifestyle and needing to calm it down. She was also witnessed at a concert in July, hitting herself in the head repeatedly with a microphone. That is incredibly messed up. If that’s not a clue you need to fix your lifestyle then what is? She has already been released from hospital and sent home with orders to rest.

Veteran rocker Keith Richards has revealed that if not for a head injury that occurred last April he would certainly not have quit cocaine. Get all these rockers and pop singer and top on the list Rappers must be taken into custody and hit hard on their heads and immediately be given a medical prescription with a warning – drug consumption could be fatal. The 63 year old ‘Rolling Stones’ star has a serious head injury after falling down from a palm tree, now what was he doing so high up on the tree, most probably watching his neighbors wife have a nice shower, couldn’t get self control over his imagination and feel head over heels. Ever since the accident he as been on the drug that he is not allowed to mix with cocaine. Now dude help your self, u want more drugs – don’t climb the palm tree again, you want more women – climb a palm without having cocaine.

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson is being sued by a bandmate for using their earnings to buy Nazi paraphernalia, African masks made of human skin, the full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl – and ex Dita Von Teese’s $150,000 engagement ring. Rock stars have which interests that range from the really stupid to the absolutely bizarre things. And that is why most art galleries and auctions have these thing on display, cos they simply know that if they have something ridiculous at an even more ridiculous price then they are also are assured of a ridiculous buyer. Yet we just do not stop adoring them for a reason that is simply alien to me. Well in the come days we should have more on this piece of news which can really lead to the break of this band, hopefully nothing bad comes out of this story but with such allegations it seems inevitable.