Ozzy Is Not That Bad

22–years old Jack Osbourne, (a son of Ozzy Osbourne) is planning to make a documentary about his father, said New Musical Express. The movie is already called “John” – the real Ozzy’s name.  Following Jack’s words, he decied to do it because of a negative image that haunts Ozzy in the media. “My dad’s not an idiot – he’s nothing short of a genius. He does have huge flaws, and we’re trying to really paing an honest picture of that,” he added. Jack also thinks that the MTV reality show “The Osbournes” had damaged his father’s reputation even more. Besides Ozzy, the movie shall contain some stories about his collegues from Black Sabbath, possibly lots of interviews and footages. A documentary should be presented at the annual Ozzfest show in 2009.

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Snoop Dogg Shall Get In

Austrialian authorities have finally gave an entry visa to the infamous American rapper Snoop Dogg (real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr.,), said Reuters. A musician was not able to get Australian visa since April 2007, where he was planning to be the host at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards. The reason for not allowing this talented musician get inside the country was based on his criminal past. On August 26 this entry ban was lifted, but there will be some special right possessed by the local authorities to look after him everywhere and check his behaviour. In October Snoop should give a few joint concerts together with another infamous rapper Ice Cube.

Recently, Snoop Dogg is trying to brake the ganster image in order to prove that many bad things just arise from his turbulent LA past. One of the best things that shaped his legal outlook to the better was his presence at the reality show “Snoop Dogg Fatherhood”.

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Led Zeppelin Is About To Write New Songs

Led Zeppelin’s legends guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Johns are working on the new project together with Jason Bonham, who is a son of the band’s long time gone drummer John Bonham, said The Guardian. Following Bonham’s words they’ve already met together for rehearsals and joint songwriting, which may end up in the new album. Young Bonham had left the band “Foreigner” were he was participating for the sake of playing music with his father’s buddies. Besides all of that, Led Zeppelin’s vocalist Robert Plant is still not participating in this awesome music project.

Led Zeppelin, which fell apart in 1980 with the death of John Bonham have reunited with John Bonham’s son during the last December in London. This event turned to be one of the biggest things in the music world. After this unexpected return many people believed that Led Zeppelin is about to begin their new world tour, but Robert Plant had denied this idea. Right now he is touring with the country singer Alison Krauss in support of their joint album, and possibly soon there will be another work produced by these two musicians. Robert is definitely setting Led Zeppelin aside.

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Metal Christmas From Alice Cooper

Famous hard-rock musician Alice Cooper had recorded the Christmas song called “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”, said undercover.com.au. This composition will be the part of “We Wish You A Metal Christmas” collection that must be released on December 25, 2008. The variety of old hard rock legends make it funny and interesting again. Seems like it will be another sarcastic and talented metal work made by the best heavy rock musicians.

This is the list of artists who took part in recording of this collection: Lemmy Kilmister from “Motorhead”, Tony Iommi of “Black Sabbath”, Steve Morse from “Deep Purple”, ex “Black Sabbath” vocalist James  Dio, Joe Lynn Turner who previously sang in “Deep Purple” and “Rainbow”, and other famous musicians.

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Metallica And Kerrang!

Legendary Metallica won the honourable Hall of Fame Award from the British rock n’ roll magazine Kerrang! on August 22. The editor-in-chief  and the program’s presenter Paul Brannigan had said, “Everyone who has performed today is being under the influence of Metallica and it’s classic albums”. Listeners gave this band a standing ovation, said The Telegraph. Even after all kinds of trouble and a lack of new albums in almost six years this group is still moving on. Simply unstopable… “We are very, very appreciative of all the love we feel around us,” said the band’s singer James Hetfield.

Rage Against The Machine (playing in rapcore style) also had received the Hall of Fame status, which was previously given to the bands like Judas Priest and AC/DC. The new-metal band Slipknot was honoured by the ‘Ikon’ award. Another American band 30 Seconds To Mars lead by Jared Leto had received two awards: as the best non-British music project and as an author of the best single. The coolest British newcomers were said to be the band from London - Slave To Gravity.

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Jimmy Page Goes To Beijing

 

Legendary Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin’s guitar player) and the British singer Leona Lewis will take part in the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony that will occur on August 24. They will perform Led Zeppelin’s 1969 “Whole Lotta Love”, said Gigwise. Legendary stuff never dies, unites cultures and recalls memories of the past. Who else can do this better anyway?

Also, this ceremony shall be spiced by the presence of the English football star David Beckham. He will arrive at the stadium on the traditional London-like red tourist bus. Such participation on the side of the British stars and legends is going to symbolize the upcoming summer Olympic games that will take place in London (2012).

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Manic Street Preachers Move It On

The British rock-band Manic Street Preachers is ready to start recording their new album, said New Musical Express. The band’s leader Nicky Wire had noted that they’re about to rent a studio by the end of September. “I can’t really talk about it at the moment, but as far as we’re concerned, it’s booked and we’re going in to start recording properly around then,” he added. Musicians simply can’t wait to start working. Some of the material was already recorded prior to these statements and should be definitely used in the upcoming release. Band members keep on saying that the new song’s structure will be similar to that of “The Holy Bible” (1994 release).

The new album shall be their ninth studio work. The previous one “Send Away The Tigers” was released last year and reached number two in the British hit charts.

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U2

 

Some uncareful moves made by U2’s leader Bono led to the information leakage about the band’s new album, said The First Post. Bono was playing new tracks so loud in his house in France that fans were able to get close and secretly record it. Soon after this, four new songs including “No Line on the Horizon” and “Sexy Boots” have appeared on YouTube. The new stuff stayed online for twenty four hours until it was removed by the administration due to the copyright violation.

However, as it was said by Undercover, fans took their time to learn and memorize new songs while putting their versions on the Internet as well. At least it can show some hints about the new album. The official release is planned on November 14, 2008, but it’s name is still not revealed (except some really loud sounds coming from Bono’s house). Journalists are already making predictions and speculations about the name by calling it – “No Line on the Horizon” because U2’s record label had recently registered the domain with the same title. Is this another info leakage?

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AC/DC

AC/DC is going to release the first studio album in eight years. Finally, they’ve announced the album’s name – “Black Ice”, said Roadrunner.com. The official release is planned on October 20. Also, the whole track-list will include fifteen songs. Every fan is probably waiting for another fifteen hits right now. On August 28 everybody should hear the first single, which is called “Rock N’ Roll Train”. This band is quite famous for their specific talent to make hits out of almost every song on the album. “Back To Black” was totally one huge hit. AC/DC reminds of the unstopable train that cannot change, cannot slow down, except of always going further.

Previously, it was rumoured that the next AC/DC’s album will be called “Strap It On”, but later this information was denied by the band. The following October shall be marked with their intensive touring activity dedicated to the release. “Like all excited fans of AC/DC, we can hardly wait for the launch of this album and all that will surround it,” noted Wal Mart’s vice president Gary Severson. He also added, “We promise there will be a multitude of opportunities for fans of all ages to get involved and ‘rock again’ as we count down to October 20.”

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Phil Collins Will Have To Pay

Former Genesis vocalist Phil Collins will have to pay twenty five million pounds (50 million dollars) to his ex-wife, said The Telegraph. Things of this sort seem to be so common these days that they don’t even spark a lot of attention anymore. Huge wedding, troublesome celebrity life and big transactions in the end.

Fifty-seven years old Collins must pay these money to thirty-four years old Swiss Orianne Cevey way more than Sir Paul McCartney has paid to his ex-wife Heather Mills. McCartney-Mills deal was the longest and financially the biggest case of this type in the British legal history. Collins-Cevey situation turns to be way higher.

Totally, Collins and Cevey stayed together for twelve years, seven out of which in marriage.  When they’ve met she was just twenty-two years old working somewhere as an interpreter, Collins was married for the second time. Right now this couple has two children – Nicolas and Matthew. In 1994 Phil had paid seventeen million pounds to his second wife Jill Tavelman. Unlucky fellow it seems… Eventually it turns out that he gave one third of his 140 million pounds ‘pocket’ to his former wifes.

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U2 Recalls The Past

U2 is going to release a DVD with their concert performance “Live At Red Rocks”, which took place way back in 1983, said gigwise.com. This is not the first actual concert DVD the band is putting into production. The disc will include five songs that were previously not incorporated into other records taken during this concert, plus director’s commentary. The sound is going to be in 5.1 format.

The CD will appear in stores on September 30 at the same time with the digitally re-released concert album “Under A Blood Red Sky”, which also includes old records from U2’s “War Tour” (1982–1983) that was dedicated to the album “War”.

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French President's Wife Sells Music

Carla Bruni’s new album “Comme si de rien n’etait” sold three hundred thousand copies since the moment when it hit the stores on July 11, said AFP. Following the information given by “Naive” record company only in France they’ve sold 150 thousand copies and 160 in other countries.

In the middle of July “Comme si de rien n’etait” reached number three in the French hit’s list. During the period between 3 and 9 of August Bruni’s album made it to number five among the best selling CD’s in France. Nevertheless, it’s still not overcoming her first music work “Quelqu’un M’a Dit”, which sold two million copies in 2002. Previously she had said that all the money from the last album shall be spent on charities.

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Radiohead Sounds For 'Choke'

Radiohead had recorded lots of new songs for a movie “Choke”, which is currently being made based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name. The author of the legendary “Fight Club”. As noted by Clark Gregg (director) this movie including Radiohead’s music will most likely be released in November 2008.

In his interview to BBC 6Music Palahniuk said that Clark Gregg had invited musicians from Radiohead to ask them to write the soundtrack after he found that Chuck was listening to their debut album “Pablo Honey” while writing this novel. In the beginning Radiohead wrote one song, which had to be played at the end, but after viewing other movie parts musicians have decided to go for more songs and sounds.

“Apparently Radiohead liked the move so much, they’ve written the score, the most of the ambient music throughout it. So it’s ‘Choke – with the music of Radiohead’,” said Palahniuk.

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Metallica's Radio Station

Metallica had launched the project on it’s own satellite radio station called Mandatory Metallica, says XM Satellite Radio website. This new Metallica’s device shall be broadcasting from August 16 to September 30 on XM 51 channel. The program should incorporate all their songs including some rare records from the band’s personal archives, and cool interviews.

Besides that, as said gigwise.com, Mandatory Metallica will air some other band’s interviews. Those may be Guns n’ Roses, Slipknot and Linkin Park. It’s also noted that the start of this radio station’s broadcasting is going to happen on the same day with their new album’s release “Death Magnetic” (September 12).

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Ozzy Goes For Two More Albums

Ozzy Osbourne had promised his fans to release two more albums before he finishes his music career, said Digital Spy.  During an interview to USA Today Ozzy has noted, “I am recording another album soon. I’ve got a ProTools machine downstairs in my house now, I record from home now. I can’t turn the f…ing thing on. It’s like the brain of the house.” 

Following his words, Ozzy began to experience less appreciation while recording something because of a new software and hardware tools. Basically, it was better in the past when dealing with the old sound recording machinery. “But when you have somebody who knows what they are doing, it’s so easy to make records now, it’s not even funny. The art of making records is somewhat diminishing. It’s taking the passion out of it. But I will try to give it as much real me as I can,” he added.

Every moment of his life became increasingly valuable because of the age. “Time is very valuable to me now. I’m sixty this December. It doesn’t seem ten years since I was fifty, it really doesn’t. My mission now is to do as much as I can.”

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The Chemical Brothers And Google Earth

The British electronic band The Chemical Brothers is starting the joint project together with Google Earth which is dedicated to the upcoming release of their new double album “Brotherhood”. This album is going to incorporate the band’s top hits. The ‘Brother’s’ official website says that everyone who wants to make their personal video or photograph contributed to The Chemical Brothers may upload it to the place where it was made onto Google Earth map. The video’s length should be not less than two seconds and not longer than twenty.

The best works will compose the real band’s video in the future, which should be presented on YouTube at the same time with the album’s release. The deadline for uploading shall last until August 25.

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Burial Reveals His Secret

  

The infamous dub-step musician Burial  who was recently nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize, finally had revealed his real name. On August 5 he used his personal blog on MySpace to inform everybody that he is Will Bevan from the South London. Also, he had posted his photo for the first time. “I wanted to be unknown because I just want it to be all about the tunes. Over the last year the unknown thing became an issue so I’m no into it any more”, he wrote in the blog. At the same time he’d noticed that currently his mind is absolutely absorbed by work on the new album.

Burial (Will Bevan) became famous when he released the debut album in 2006. Due to certain personal reasons Will kept his identity secret by not making photographs and giving very few interviews. A pressure to reveal himself grew when his second album “Untrue” was nomited for the Mercury Prize two weeks ago. There was an idea or even rumours that the name Burial hides some famous musicians like Fatboy Slim or Aphex Twin. The Sun even began an investigation to open Burial’s secret.

The Mercury Prize winners shall become known in September.

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Annie Lennox

The British singer Annie Lennox had recorded two new tracks for her major hits album “The Annie Lennox Collection”, said Undercover. Following the information given by this site, the first track will be a cover version of a song “Closer Now” written by another British group Keane, and the second one “Shining Light” originally belongs to the Irish band Ash. Following her own words, she heard “Shining Light” six years ago, and since then ‘couldn’t stop listening to it’.

“The Annie Lennox Collection” shall include fourteen tracks (twelve of which belong to her four solo albums – “Dive” 1992, “Medusa” 1995, “Bare” 2003, and “Songs of Mass Destruction” 2007) plus two covers mentioned above. This release is planned on September 2008.

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Brian May - The Scientist

Queen’s guitar player Brian May had published his dissertation which made him the PhD last year.  The name of this scientific work is A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, said Space.com. It is the classic thesis on astrophysics that describes the nature of Zodiacal light.  On August 24, 2007 an infamous musician was granted the PhD after almost thirty years of staying away from science – something he was into during the youth years.

The basic experimental data for his work was gathered by Fabry-Perot Spectrometer which is located on Canari islands in 1971–72. Right after May has received the PhD he was offered a president’s seat in John Moors University in Liverpool (LJMU) that he took in April this year. Practically, Brian May came back to what he was doing and probably something he was seeking throughout most of his life.

You may read more on Zodiacal light by following this link – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiacal_light

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Smashing Pumpkins - Glows in the Dark

Smashing Pumpkins had recorded a new single under the name “G.L.O.W.”. A disc should be released in the beginning of September, and will become the third record (previous ones were “Zeitgeist” and a single “American Gothic”) since the band’s reunion in 2006 (and the first one since they’ve left Reprise Records). On August 8 the band will start a small American tour dedicated to their 20th anniversary, which should be concluded by the release of another DVD. Also, by the end of this year Smashing Pumpkins is planning to begin working on the new album.

In the meantime, the band’s leader Billy Corgan took a legal action against Lester Cohn – a documentary film director of Pure DV Productions. Smashing Pumpkin’s frontman had hired Cohn in order to make a variety of new footages from their concerts and studio sessions during 2003/2005. However, Corgan turned to be extremely dissatisfied with the quality of Cohn’s work, and demands him to return these footages. If Corgan wins, the court will rule Cohn to pay one hundred thousand dollars. At the same time the leader of Smashing Pumpkins is having legal proceedings with their former record label – Reprise Records.

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Keane's Perfect Symmetry

The British band Keane had announced the name and a release date of their new album. A disc which is now officially called “Perfect Symmetry” will be available on October 13, said New Musical Express. The band’s website is showing a countdown for the release date. This album was recorded in different places: Paris, Berlin, London and Los Angeles, and produced by Jon Brion/Stuart Price.

Previously, three musicians told the press that they are trying to violate traditional “music ethics” in order to make this album as distasteful as possible. According to their view, only following this pattern it’s achievable to make a truly great record. “Perfect Symmetry” will be their third studio album. First two albums – “Hopes and Fears” 2004 and “Under the Iron Sea” 2006 have received platinum status in the UK and reached number one on the national hit-chart.

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