Scott Weiland Is Going For Eight Days

Ex-Velvet Revolver singer and the leader of Stone Temple Pilots Scott Weiland will spend eight days in jail for driving under alcohol influence. Also, he is going to live under probation for the following four years, including a 1/2 year alcoholism management program, said BBC News. 

Weiland was arrested for being ‘boosed’ in November 2007, when he wracked his car in L.A.  The court’s rule has ordered him to spend his ‘eight days’ before May 28^th. At the same time Stone Temple Pilots have arranged the biginning of their new tour on May 17^th. This tour incorporates 65 US cities.

Before this incident Weiland was already arrested for possessing drugs. The recent situation took place during a previous year, after which he was supposed to go through a six months rehabilitaion program. 

Stone Temple Pilots’ crescent of popularity was reached in the second half of 90’s. Later Weiland has left the band. Just during the last month the band has reunited marking their new birth by giving a concert in Los Angeles. 

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Midi Festival In Beijing Is Cancelled

A major Chinese rock-Midi Festival, which was supposed to take place between 1^st and 4^th of May this year in Beijing shall be postponed in order not to shatter the Olympics that will occur in August, said The Guardian.

Following this newspaper’s article, a festival (if it will eventually happen) should be arranged again in autumn, after the games. Festival’s organizers have explained their decision by the fact that the currect Olympics is the most important event right now, and nothing must stand on it’s way.

However, The Guardian also noted a few more possible reasons for this postponing. They may be connected to the security activities in China before the Olympics. Simply Chinese authorities could be afraid that this music festival can serve as the place for criticism against their governmental actions in Tibet. The Guardian brought up an example of such musical prostest. A recent Bjork’s performance in Shanghai where she has finished her song “Declare Independence” exclaiming “Tibet! Tibet!” can never be something what must popularize an upcoming Olympics.

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Amy Keeps On Fighting

British singer Amy Winehouse was arrested for attacking and fighting with two men near one of the London’s bars in Camden, said Sky News.

This incedent took place early in the morning on Wednesday.  One of Amy’s victims was trying to get a taxi for her, and received a kick with her head. Another one was blased with a fist.

Just for a reminder: during the last (50th) Grammy Awards ceremony Amy Winehouse won five nominations including “Debut of the Year”, “Song of the Year” and “A Record of the Year”.  However, she was not participating in it – her famous song “Rehab” Winehouse performed through the satillite TV.  An access to the United States was declined over her arrests back in Britain.

Amy’s problems with the law are often seen in the media: lots of alcohol and drug scandals made her very popular. Recently many people have discovered her music with the help of this celebrity’s lifestyle.  In the beginning of 2008 she went through the rehabilitation program.

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Arcade Fire Is Going To Make Pro-Obama Concerts

Canadian indie-rockers Arcade Fire will perform two concerts supporting democratic candidate in the American presidential campaign Barack Obama.

These two concerts shall take place on 1st and 2^nd of May in the cities of Greensboro and Carrboro, North Carolina.  Opening act was given to the band Superchunk.  Concerts were organized by the activists of One-Stop Early Voting, which is calling American university students to vote.  “This a defining moment for this country. We want to encourage people to get up, get out, and go vote,” said Win Butler (the leader of Arcade Fire) explaining his participation in such a campaign.

Arcade Fire is far from being the first band which is supporting Barack Obama in his fight against another democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.  Before this many more were saying about their siding with Obama: Bruce Springsteen, Rodger Waters, bands R.E.M. and Black Eyed Peas.

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Sir Paul McCartney Took It Higher. True Or False?

Sir Paul McCartney’s wealth was not counted to the fullest during his recent divorce scandal, and in reality it’s on 100 million pounds bigger.  The Telegraph said that his total and real amount of money shall be announced in the nearest Sunday Times issue.

Journalists are saying that the court did not take into account some of McCartney’s income sources, and the price of his villa, which belonged to his first wife Linda McCartney.  If including these ‘forgotten sources’ his wealth totals up to 500 million pounds instead of 400.  An official representative of Sir Paul refused to comment recent Sunday Times publication on this news.

As the result of a scandalous divorce, which was over in March turning into the longest court hearing process in history of the British judiciary, legendary musician paid 24,3 million pounds.  This divorce became so loud that it even inspired creation of a computer game where an aim is to get as much money from McCartney as possible.  A survey taken in March showed that 40% of Britons hate Heather Mills. 

Sunday Times journalists have estimated that McCartney is the richest singer in Britain.  Among women this position is held by Madonna whose wealth totals up to 300 million pounds.  Also, Sunday Times said that Andrew Lloyd Weber owns 750 million pounds, and Joan Rowling has 560 million pounds.   

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Yoko Ono And John Lennon's Heritage

Association of collectioners of The Beatles’ heritage from New England called World Wide Video brought legal action against John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono.

American collectioners are accusing Yoko of enroachment on the rights to the movie “3 Days In The Life” about Lennon.

This documentary was made by her ex-husband Anthony Cox in 1970 just a few weeks before The Beatles fell apart.  It contains now historical pieces of those moments when Lennon is making songs “Remember” and “Mind Games”, plus his discussion with Yoko when he proposed to pour some LSD into the US president’s cup of tea (meaning Richard Nixon). A movie about which nothing was known is basically still unknown to the public.

In 2000 this association of collectioners has purchased a movie from Cox including copyright for one million dollars. Last year World Wide Video was planning to present it in one of the schools in Maine, but Yoko’s lawyers didn’t allow this to happen. 

Eventually, World Wide Video is trying to sue her. Preliminary court hearings will start in Boston on April 30. 

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AC/DC Is Working Under Their Sixteenth Album

Legendary Australian rockers AC/DC is working on creation of their new album, said Digital Spy.

Recording of a new material is taking place in Vancouver. Producer of the new album is Brandan O’Brian, and sound director – Mike Fraser.

Following what musicians are saying, this new disk will appear in stores at the end of 2008. The album’s title is still unknown, but it was rumoured that it’s going to be “Strap It On”. However, the band has declined this information.

Upcoming release is the sixteenth studio album, and the first one after eight years of silence. Previous AC/DC’s album -“Stiff Upper Lip” was released in 2000.

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David Byrne Is Recording New Solo Album

The ex-leader of the American new-wave band Talking Heads David Byrne is recording new solo album in the joint cooperation with the famous producer Brian Eno, said New Musical Express.

A musician has decided not to open any details on this project and approximate release date.  Byrne and Eno have already worked together: in 1981 they’ve released the album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”, which afterwards became classic.

Futhermore, David Byrne made it known that he is also cooperating with a DJ Norman Cook who is more famous under the name Fatboy Slim.  Following Byrne’s words they have recorded a few songs so far, but it’s still unknown what shall happen with them in the future.  For Byrne and Cook this is not the first collaborative work.  Together they were creating the musical named “Here Lies Love” about the Philippine dictator’s widow Imelda Marcos. 

During his sole career Byrne has released more than ten albums.  Also, he founded the music label Luaka Bop, which is not producing exclusively his music.  Together with Talking Heads a musician has created eight albums since 1977 to 1988. 

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A New Movie About The Beatles

A full-length documentary movie about The Beatles, which tells a story about creation of the album “Love” will be released on June 24, says an official band’s website.  All distribution rights were purchased by the EMI Music. 

Documentary film (shall be on DVD) under the name of “All Together Now” is telling about the ex-Beatle’s members collaboration with Canadian circus company Cirque du Soleil.  As a result of this friendship two things have been made: the album “Love” (was released in 2006), and a circus performance under the same name.

All together this movie takes up 128 minutes.  Also, it will include interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and the first show (Cirque du Soleil) rehearsals in Las Vegas (shown theater is located in a hotel Mirage).

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Bruce Springsteen Is Supporting Obama

Legendary rock musician Bruce Springsteen has supported democratic candidate for the US presidency Barack Obama, says CNN.

On his web site Springsteen has published a little proclamation about the fact that he is not in agreement with those who are trying to criticize Obama over some of the candidate’s comments taken out of context.  Musician gave a high mark to Obama’s moral principles and called him “the best candidate”.

In February Bruce Springsteen said that his is not sure yet, which candidate is better Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama and decided to look further in order to make the decision on this issue. 

In 2004 Springsteen was supporting democratic candidate John Kerry.

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Liverpool Is Paying

Until the last moment Sir Paul McCartney’s concert in his hometown of Liverpool  was under the danger of being cancelled.

As it became known to BBC News, the company which is taking care over his deals McCartney Productions Ltd (MPL) was unhappy with the financial side that surrounded this concert. Eventually the city council of Liverpool agreed to pay MPL 1,7 million pounds in order to turn the concert into a reality. Also, it was specifically underlined that an ex-Beatle shall not gain any profit out of it; all the resources are going into organizing and staging of a show. 

During last year, not even looking at the lack of any agreement between two sides organizers have sold twenty five thousand tickets.  After the contract was finally signed eleven thousand additional tickets were put on sale.

This concert in Liverpool is confined to the city’s status of the cultural capital of Europe 2008.  A show will take place on June 1 at the Enfield stadium, which is “the home base of the Liverpool football club”.

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Rock/Rap From London

The British band Muse is ready to cooperate with rapper Mike Skinner who is more famous around the world as The Streets, says Digital Spy.

The leader of Muse Matthew Bellamy said that Muse would like to record a composition in rap-rock style which shall become a number one “English equivalent to Rage Against the Machine”. “Rap-rock from London – it is something very funny”, said Bellamy pointing at the fact that he didn’t contact Skinner yet.

Above all, Bellamy has confessed that he also wants to work with a new British sensation, the band called “Does It Offend You, Yeah?” from Reading which has recently released it’s debut album.

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"Godlike Geniuses" - Jane's Addiction

American alternative band Jane’s Addiction was granted an honoroble award from the British magazine New Musical Express for “nearly godlike talant or so called Godlike Genius Award” says Digital Spy.

Godlike Award will be given to musicians on April 23 in Los Angeles during Shockwaves NME Awards. On the occasion of getting this ‘prize’ Jane’s Addiction will reunite for a little while and make a short concert. 

Magazine’s editorial staff confessed that they’ve chosen Jane’s Addiction to be a winner right after the first idea of granting this award in the United States came up. 

Just for a reminder – in Britain NME Awards (since 2005 also known as Shockwaves) is given since 1953.  The list of British owners of Godlike Genius Awards includes Sir Paul McCartney, BBC DJ John Peel, Glastonbury festival’s founder Michael Eavis, bands Primal Scream and Manic Street Preachers. 

The band Jane’s Addiction was founded in 1985 by a singer Perry Farrell, guitar player Dave Navarro, bass Eric Avery and drums Stephen Perkins.  Musicians have released four studio albums, and started to organize popular alternative festival Lollapalooza.  The band was falling apart twice – in 1991 and in 2004. 

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"Chinese Democracy"

Members of Guns N’ Roses have announced that their work with long awaited album “Chinese Democracy” is over.

This album is already given to Geffen Records. Company representatives proved that they’ve received this record keeping talks with the band members about copy rights and financial side of the deal.  It was said that the album took thirteen million dollars to be made.

Work with “Chinese Democracy” spent fourteen years.  In the end of March company Dr. Pepper spreaded press release posting promises that if this album is not going to be released by the end of 2008 than every american shall get a free drink.  An exception should be made only for two ex-Guns N’ Roses guitar players. 

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U2 Is Making Another Release Of Their Original Ones

U2 is planning to make another release of their first three albums, says Billboard.

Albums “Boy” (1980), “October” (1981) and “War” (1983) will be seen in music stores on June 22. Every release shall be integrated with a vinyl copy, and two disks with rare song versions and concert records of that time.

Just for a reminder, last autumn the band also was re-releasing it’s classic 1987 album “The Joshua Tree” adding bonus, second CD and DVD.

In the meantime musicians have returned to their studio in Dublin where together with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois they’ve continued recording 12th album. Musicians are planning to release it before the end of 2008, and start the world tour.

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Duran Duran And The Brit Awards Winners

Duran Duran is looking at the possiblity of collaborating with prize-winners of the Brit Awards 2008 DJ Mark Ronson and Arctic Monkeys.

A joint work between Duran Duran and Ronson may start on the following summer.  Right now musicians are discussing various details of their cooperation.  Arctic Monkey’s drummer Matt Helders helped to create a remix of the Duran’s song Skin Divers from their last album “Red Carpet Massacre”.  Following various rumours Helders and the leader of Arctic Monkeys Alex Turner will take part in recording vocals for a remix.

This year Mark Ronson was announced to be the best performer at the Brit Awards.  He became the first not singing winner of the nomination.  Talking of Arctic Monkeys, their album “Favourite Worst Nightmare” was proclaimed to be the best album of the year.  Billboard is calling Ronson and Arctic Monkeys, “the hottest names in the British music”. 

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Coldplay Is The Most Sleepy

Music made by the band Coldplay is recognized as the most sleepy one. This was a conclusion of the study carried out by the British hotel net Travelodge among it’s 2248 clients.

Top five musicians who’s records people are listening before going to sleep include James Blunt (Snow Patrol), Take That and Norah Jones.

The first place among books that British are reading more often before going to sleep belong to an autobiographies of Jordan (a model), David Beckham, Jodie Marsh and Sharon Osbourne.

87 percents of people who were asked in this study said that they’ve stopped traditional method of fighting insomnia – counting sheep. Women usually plan their next day and man count money they’ve spent.

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Portishead Is Presenting Their New Album On TV

The British band Portishead will make presentation of their new studio album “Third” on TV.

On April 11th three weeks before an official release musicians are planning to perform eight songs. This live concert will be broadcasted by the British channel Current TV.  A show should be recorded in a little town of Portishead in Somerset county which gave the original name to the band.  The record from this concert is going to be available on the channel’s web site for two months after performance. 

The release of “Third” is planned for April 28^th. However, bad quality tracks already exist inside the net since the end of March. Their previous studio album was recorded back in 1997. 

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Franz Ferdinand's New Songs

Popular Scottish band Franz Ferdinand played at a secret concert in their native Glasgow during which they’ve represented seven new songs.

This show was taking place in Admiral Bar pub on April 2^nd. Posters at the entrance where including experimental rockers Please and dj set. 

Franz Ferdinand’s performance took only half an hour, but at this time they’ve played only new songs: “Lucid Dreams”, “Send Him Away”, “A New Thrill”, “Katherine Kiss Me”, “Bite Hard”, “What She Came For”, “Ulysses”.

Tracks “A New Thrill” and “Katherine Kiss Me” singers have already included in their performance programs, and “Ulysses” was also heard at the London’s exposition of an Albanian artist Anri Sala.  The rest of four songs were absolutely new to the light. 

All of these new songs shall be the part of Franz Ferdinand’s third album that should most likely be released in October 2008.  Following some rumours the first single from this album which did not get a name yet will be “What She Came For”. Their previous album “You Could Have It So Much Better” was released in 2005.

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"Smoke On The Water" Is The Best

British hard-rockers Deep Purple headlined the list of bands who have made the best guitar riff in the history of rock music. This is “Smoke on the Water” from 1972 album “Machine Head”.  Current survey was carried out by The Telegraph among London’s music school students. 

The second place in this chart was taken by the infamous composition “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana (“Nevermind” 1991).  The ‘bronze’ belongs to Aerosmith with their song “Walk This Way” of 1975. 

First ten places are also include three Guns N’ Roses’ songs: “Sweet Child O Mine”, “Paradise City” and “Welcome to the Jungle” (5^th, 6^th, and 10th).  Also there is Jimi Hendrix (“Purple Haze” number 4), Motorhead (“Ace of Spades” seventh place), Metallica (“Enter Sandman” number eight) and Red Hot Chilli Peppers (“Under the Bridge”, 9^th). 

Full list of songs looks like this: 

1. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple (1973)
2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (1991)
3. Walk This Way - Aerosmith (1975)
4. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix (1967)
5. Sweet Child O Mine - Guns N Roses (1987)
6. Paradise City - Guns N Roses (1987)
7. Ace Of Spades - Motorhead (1980)
8. Enter Sandman - Metallica (1991)
9. Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1992)
10. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses (1987)
11. Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden (1982)
12. Walk - Pantera (1992)
13. Johnny Be Goode - Chuck Berry (1958)
14. Back In Black - AC/DC (1980)
15. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin (1970)
16. Wake Up - Rage Against The Machine (1992)
17. Highway to Hell - AC/DC (1979)
18. My Generation - The Who (1965)
19. 7 Nation Army - The White Stripes (2003)
20. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf (1968)
21. Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1991)
22. Paranoid - Black Sabbath (1970)
23. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix (1967)
24. Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor (1982)
25. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits (1984)

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Velvet Revolver Is Firing Their Vocalist

Musicians from the rock-band Velvet Revolver have announced that they’ve stopped cooperating and working together with vocalist Scott Weiland.

The reason for breaking up was singer’s “an extremely unequable character”. Who will become a new Velvet Revolver’ vocalist is yet unknown.

An announcement was said against a backround of the news that Weiland is making a reunion with his former band Stone Temple Pilots.  He is planning to take some part in his former project.  Above all, during one of the recent concerts Weiland said that Velvet Revolver may fall apart because of his reunion with the former band. 

Velvet Revolver was formed in 2002 by the former members of Guns N’ Roses: guitarist Slash, bass guitarist Duff Mckagan and drummer Matt Sorum. Since then the band has released two albums: “Contraband” (2004) and “Libertad” (2007). In April 2008 musicians were planning to enter the studio and record their third album.

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Madonna and NATO??

Madonna’s career can serve a good example to the development of a new strategy for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This opinion was told to the British newspaper “The Guardian” by the defense strategy analyst, representative of the Dutch institute of foreign affairs doctor Peter van Ham. 

Following his words, NATO should regularly reform itself in order to face new problems of the XXI century like cyber-terrorism, mass destruction weapons and war for energy resources. 

In this connection it is useful to look and the career of Madonna who again and again was able to reinvent herself even when her popularity was going down, said van Ham.  Current situation that takes place in the NATO, this expert compared to the Rolling Stones. “Right now NATO reminds the band which we recall with nostalgia and sadness; the band that basically had to finish it’s career long ago, but decided to stay in order to amuse public.  The Rolling Stones come to mind”, – exclaimed Peter van Ham. 

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