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Stevens Leaving INXS
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JON Stevens will leave INXS in December, ending a three-year stint as the band's "replacement" frontman.
A ubiquitous case of "musical differences" is the official reason for the split, as the band and Stevens prepare to pursue opposing paths.
Now the rumour mill has it that Stevens will inspire a Noiseworks comeback after the 1980s chart busters performed at the Sydney Roosters post-grand final wash-up at The Charing Cross hotel in Randwick on Monday night.
Stevens is the voice behind INXS's first new single for six years - I Get Up - which was written specifically for EA Sports' new video game Rugby 2004 and is being widely played in the World Cup lead-up.
He guested often for the band after the 1997 death of Michael Hutchence and joined officially in 2000. However, he's departing the current line-up before the new INXS has a chance to release its "first" album.
"We thank Jon for his incredible input in the past three years and for helping us through the difficult transition following Michael's death," INXS said in a statement.
"We've had some great gigs and great tours and will always value his contribution".
The band played at the official launch of Channel 7's Rugby Clubhouse in Sydney's Darling Harbour last night, delivering a full set for a delighted crowd of television and sporting personalities.
Yet few of them would have been aware that the show - which included past hits New Sensation, Never Tear Us Apart and Suicide Blonde - will be one of the current line-up's last.
INXS may have also unwittingly auditioned a willing stand-in for Stevens in breakfast television favourite David Koch.
Dressed in a beige skivvy, a "Koch pit" ensued when the male face of Sunrise took to the stage to sing backing vocals during Don't Change - recently covered by Grinspoon.
However, so involved was he that after a bit of air guitar on his mic stand, Koch completely took over, leaving Stevens to cower into a corner and carry the song in the shadow of the bald finance guru.
Koch was elected president of the Rugby Clubhouse ahead of former Wallaby and Channel 7 commentator Chris "Buddha" Handy.
Chisel Play Again
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AUSTRALIAN rockers Cold Chisel will reunite for a "ringside" show in Melbourne.
Chisel initially planned the shows, performed up close and in the round, to be a one-off Sydney event.
But yesterday, lead singer Jimmy Barnes said chemistry was good in the once-volatile group.
Chisel also considered it "unfinished business" if it did not tour the ringside shows nationally.
Cold Chisel will perform at Festival Hall on January 20. Tickets go on sale on October 22.
Cold Chisel still stands as one of Australia's most successful and hard living bands. Their hits include Khe Sanh, Forever Now and When the War Is Over.
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9/10/03
Punk Goes Acoustic Finally In Stores
We are pleased to announce that Punk Goes Acoustic will finally be released October 21st, 2003. We were able to reach an agreement with Victory Records and subsequently Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, Glasseater and Grade will be appearing on this release. Due to this factor and because of time restraints on the length of the album, we regretfully were not able to include everyone we would have liked and thus unfortunately some bands had to be left off of this project. Our choice as to who was removed from the final listing on Punk Goes Acoustic was not due to any personal conflicts with any of the bands, just simply the fact that production constraints would not allow us to fit everyone on the album.
As a special added bonus, the first 50,000 copies of Punk Goes Acoustic pressed will contain a special bonus cd with four tracks from bands on Fearless and Victory.
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Great now I gotta find those ULTRA RARE four extra tracks <_<
Its been a while since i last updated...
Seal Against Todays Hip-Hop
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Musician SEAL is sick to death with most urban music - because it's all so negative. The singer is frustrated the genre has become tied up with competition and the lust for money, instead of the beauty music should convey. He says, "I can't stand music that's always 'I am' and 'I'm this' and 'I've got that' and 'I'm better than you'. I loathe that kind of music. I find a lot of hip-hop boring because of that element to it. It can be so hateful. Everything and anyone you know is beautiful.' That's the lyrics to one of my songs."
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British R&B sensation Ms Dynamite has written a song for Kylie Minogue’s new album, after sending her the track anonymously. The Mercury Prize winner confesses she's a huge fan of pop princess Kylie, but wanted the track ‘Secret (Take You Home)’ to be chosen on merit. She posted it to the singer's label without her name on it - and Kylie was so thrilled, she chose it for her new album ‘Body Language’. Kylie says, "Ms Dynamite is great. I'm a big fan. It's a great track. I heard the song for the first time without knowing anything about it. Afterwards I found out Ms Dynamite was involved in writing it. "I think it's fantastic."
‘Secret (Take Me Home)’ is likely to be the second single from the LP - which will hit shops on 17 November. Since giving birth to her first child in July (03) Ms Dynamite - real name Niomi McLean-Daley - has concentrated on writing rather than performing, as she juggles her music career with life as a new mum. A friend explains, "She is not ready to quit the music scene as a performer just yet - but she really likes the idea of writing for other people."
Members of Bane, Good Riddance, Descendents form Only Crime
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a new band called Only Crime has recorded a five-song demo. The band featres Russ Rankin of Good Riddance on vocals, Pete Chilton on bass and Aaron Dalbec on guitar (both of Bane), Zach Blair (Hagfish, Gwar) on guitar and Bill Stevenson (Descendents, Black Flag, All) on drums. The site is reporting that Only Crime will be sending out the demo to labels later this month with a full-length possible for the winter.
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The track listing for Immortal Records' charity compilation A Santa Cause '03 has been released. The album is set to hit stores on November 11th, with yearly holiday releases to follow in the series. Click below for the track listing, which features bands like The AKAs, Gatsby's American Dream, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Matches.
The AKA's - Christmas in Hollis
Something Corporate - Forget December
The Matches - December Is For Cynics
Blink 182 - I Won't Be Home For Christmas
FAR w/Chino Moreno - Feed the World (Do They Know It's XMAS)
Fall Out Boy - Yule Shoot Your Eye Out
MxPx - Christmas Night of the Zombies :w00t:
From First to Last - X12 Days of XXXMASX
Matchbook Romance - I'll Be Home For Christmas
New Found Glory - Ex-Miss
Acceptance - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Gatsby's American Dream - Christmas Time is Here
Jason Gleason of Further Seems Forever - Sleigh Bells & Wine
InMemory - The Most Wonderful Time of Year
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - This Time of Year
Standstill - I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus
The Beautiful Mistake - A Cradle In Bethlehem
Punchline - Icicles
Saosin - Mookie's Last Christmas
The Red West - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Report On Unreleased Strummer, Clash Recordings
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Billboard is reporting that according to former Mescalero Martin Slattery, Joe Strummer left behind "reels upon reels of homemade recordings, some of which date back several years." The former Clash frontman had a "slew" of eight-track recordings made in his in Plymouth, England. Slattery told the magazine "There's loads of reels that haven't been listened to properly yet, all these tapes that he kind of doodled around on... We've listened to bits of it and found some kind of stuff that relates to what [the Mescaleros] were doing, but nothing totally new. But I'm not sure whether they've all been completely listened to." The recordings were all done on tape and some predate the formation of the Mescaleros in the late 90s. They are currently being copied and archived by a Strummer family friend, although it is too early to say what will ultimately become of them.
This is in addition to a number of unreleased Clash recordings that, according to Billboard, "now stand a better chance than ever of seeing daylight." Strummer rejected the notion that they would be added to Legacy's Clash reissues from a few years back, apparently uneasy with the idea that fans would have to buy the albums twice in order to get the new material. Furthermore, Hellcat label chief Chris LaSalle has said that the label has various live recordings of the Mescaleros in it's vaults.
There is no word on if or when any of this unreleased material will ever see a proper release.
Joe Strummer (1952-2002) *Miss You Joe*
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Blink 182 1 Dollar Tour
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Pop punks Blink -182 are going back to their roots by playing ten club dates in their native America - and they're only charging one dollar for a ticket. Dubbed the ‘Dollar Tour’ - which begins in Boston on 6 November, the rockers are excited to be returning to the early days of the group when they played intimate venues at budget prices. Singer Tom Delonge says, "For years we played in small clubs and that's where you can really connect with your fans. We're super stoked that we're at the point in our career that we can bring a tour like this around for only a dollar."
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Pop star Christina Aguilera has raised fears for her much-dyed hair, after bald patches were spotted through her jet-black tresses. The singer - who is noted for her dramatically coloured, wacky hairstyles - was photographed emerging from Los Angeles restaurant The Ivy this month with the right hand side of her scalp betraying a series of bald patches.
And at Britain's Q Awards, earlier this month the diminutive 22-year-old was seen desperately trying to cover up her missing strands. A fellow guest tells British newspaper The Daily Mail, "I was sitting behind Christina and she wouldn't leave her hair alone. On the front, right-hand side of her head there was a patch of scalp visible."
Leading trichologist Philip Kingsley believes Aguilera's love of artificial hair extensions are the most likely explanation for her problems. He says, "Extensions often cause bald patches where they have gripped the scalp. It doesn't matter how they are applied, when the extensions are removed, they can pull out a lot of hair. Having tight plaits - or dreadlocks - also causes problems, often leading to bald patches called traction alopecia. This means the hair has been pulled so hard to form the plaits that it falls out when they are taken out - although it does grow back."
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Blur singer Damon Albarn has been accused of arrogantly comparing himself to The Beatles -by the producer of the new Strokes album. Damon popped into the studio to help the New York band record second album ‘Room On Fire’, at the request of singer Julian Casablancas.
However, knob-twiddler Gordon Raphael was unimpressed by Damon's attitude, especially when the Blur star insisted on adding his vocals. Gordon says, "The Strokes went to a rock 'n' roll concert while we were making the album and they brought back the lead singer of the band they went to see - a man called Damon from Blur who was in some kind of state. I had never met this guy before but he starts talking about all the famous people in London that he knows and how they all phone him because he's so talented. He said the thing The Strokes needed to really make their record sell - because they're gonna have a real hard time this time - was for him to sing backing vocals on it. First he said he was one of a rare breed of British singers who could sing like The Beatles with all those harmonies. We let him go out and try for a couple of hours. He was singing backing vocals and I was having a rough time trying to sit through it and get through this experience. However, Julian's taking it really seriously, seeing if he can craft what Damon's doing into something that would make it on the record. However, in the end Damon said, ‘Well I guess the songs are just perfect the way they are.’ And so no backing vocals were used."
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Basement Jaxx Join Up With Timberlake and Ditch Britney and Madonna
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British dance gurus Basement Jaxx are keen to work with superstar singer Justin Timberlake - after being impressed with the talents of his 'N Sync band mate Jc Chasez.
The DJ’s recently worked with the hunky singer on an unnamed track for their upcoming album and the positive experience made them consider Timberlake's talents as well. Jaxx star Felix Buxton says, "He was nice you know. With JC, they phoned up and said 'Can you come down the studio?' We said 'Yeah, sure.' If we hadn't, we'd have been without a singer probably. So it's worth just having everyone and anyone down the studio, you never know what's going to happen. And Justin can sing quite well and he'd probably do us quite a few favours because people know him quite a lot I think."
In other news, the duo have turned down the chance to remix Britney Spears and Madonna’s new single - because they weren't allowed to listen to it. The pride themselves on their musical integrity, so refused to agree to work on the upcoming track, ‘Me Against The Music’, unless they could hear it first. Felix Buxton explains, "We were asked to remix the last Madonna and Britney record, but they said we couldn't hear the track. "They said, 'Do you want to do Madonna?' We asked, 'Well, what does it sound like?' They said 'It's the new Madonna single' as if that was enough. We didn't have much time, and they did eventually send a thing of it, but it was all far too late."
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Russell Crowe has patched up his differences with rocker Courtney Love after hearing the song she wrote as a tribute to him. The couple spent the night together chatting and writing poetry after the 2001 Golden Globe Awards, and then Love upset the actor/rocker by fuelling speculation they were dating.
Love has since made amends by writing ‘Hold On To Me’ and dedicating it to Crowe and the inspiring night they spent together in a Hollywood hotel. She says, "I didn't have anybody to write about. I wanted something that was fresh, passionate, lusty, loving, and all night long, he held me and I cried. I wrote poetry everywhere - on his shirt, on the wall, everywhere. And I just cried and cried because I had not met another person who had eyes like mine, ever. He just held me and patted my head and said, 'You need a best friend. You need a big brother. And I'm going to be your big brother. It was like I'd found this, like, home. And so I had this idea and I had the chorus and the next day I went into a studio and recorded it, and the lyrics came to me. He's been very, very nice since he heard it."
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DANNII MINOGUE has reunited with her French boyfriend - despite their romance being explained away by the pop star as a holiday fling. Dannii celebrate her 32nd birthday on Monday by partying with Jeremy Garamond and her fellow singer sister KYLIE - who was without her own French boyfriend Oliver Martinez. Despite Dannii's protestations, she was single again following her relationship with Garamond, the pair showed otherwise at London's Embassy club. A friend says, "She's keeping the relationship under wraps. They are back together again but she's not shouting about it from the rooftops. They are both happy to take it slowly, but there was no way she could have celebrated her birthday without him."
KYLIE MINOGUE has been exposed as a secret property tycoon - having amassed a portfolio of twenty houses around the world. Kylie has concentrated the A$68 million fortune she has amassed from her show business career in property, after taking financial advise from her accountant father Ron. Kylie started her real estate career in her native Melbourne, Australia - concentrating on the inner-city suburb of Richmond, which has shot up in value in recent years.
Local estate agent Jeffrey Wilson says, "I don't know when Kylie bought her properties here, but if was ten years ago, she would see a 100 per cent increase in value. It's a very wise investment." Minogue now has twenty houses around the world, including Paris and London.
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Outkast On Needing Space
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Outkast star Andre Benjamin has confirmed the duo are not about to split up - but he needs a little time away from partner Big Boi. Fans felt the fact the two hip-hop stars recorded two separate albums for their new ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Below’ project was a clear sign that it was the beginning of the end.
Benjamin, aka Andre 3000, has hinted at a split in interviews. However, speaking with hip-hop bible XXL, he reassures fans there will be no split. He says, "I don't think we're gonna break up. But I do think that as you get older, you want to get in separate situations. It's like if you had a brother, and y'all grew up, y'all lives together. It comes a time when you got to move out the house and get your own spot. Y'all still brothers forever. I want to see what I can do outside of what I'm doing now." The duo are obliged to record three more albums as Outkast under their current recording contract.
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Marylin Manson was so hurt by criticism following the Columbine High School tragedy, he considered giving up show business for good. The rocker was associated with the 1999 shooting terror at the Colorado school because the crazed teenagers - who murdered 12 students, a teacher and themselves in the massacre - were wearing Manson T-shirts. Conservatives then turned on Manson and his music for inciting hatred in America's youth. He says, "I would be at a restaurant and I would get dirty looks from normal people - people who weren't even right wing - and it was so defeating. It got to the point where I wasn't even sure if I wanted to be me anymore. I didn't know if it was worth it. I didn't know if it balanced out."
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The members of legendary rock band Metallica are currently searching for a selection of celebrities to star in their upcoming music video. The rockers have already approached Terminator 2: Judgment Day actor Edward Furlong to star in the promo to their new single ‘Unnamed Feeling’, and they're now looking for other well known faces to make appearances. They're most keen on recruiting an actress in her early 20s to take on a major role in the video, but there is a catch - she has to be bald.
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Kylie Minouge has lifted the lid on her childhood squabbles with sister Dannii - branding her a "total pain in the neck". The two pop stars were fiercely competitive whilst they were growing up as child stars in their native Australia, and Kylie admits their parents had to resort to drastic measures to calm their fights. She laughs, "Dannii was a total pain in the neck. At one point, I'd just had enough and decided that the room had to be divided up. Our parents put a wardrobe between the two halves of the room as a dividing line. But the stupid thing was that it could be opened from both sides, which meant that we annoyed each other all over again. We fought because I wanted to have my clothes to myself and Dannii always stole the coolest things out of the wardrobe. She just had fun taking my things." Thankfully, though, their relationship has improved dramatically since they became adults. Kylie adds, "I moved to London and she also moved there at some point. She was quite young at the time and I always felt that I had to protect her. But since then, she has turned into a grown woman with her own life. And because of that we get on much better now."