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For their No Sleep Records debut, Major League were able to pull out all of the stops. While they may still be a relatively new band, Hard Feelings easily has the potential to become a classic and will find the band moving up to the big leagues of pop punk.
Texas In July have taken the best parts of One Reality and stepped their game up. With a song for every shade of hardcore, Texas In July show that they can adapt their music from one album to the next and still crush it.
Sacramento Post-hardcore rockers Mozart Season is currently on a co-headlining tour with This Romantic Tragedy through the end of January in support of its new EP Nightmares.
Taking a break from opening for Jack’s Mannequin on the “Sing for Your Supper” Tour, fun. performed it’s infectious array of pop melodies to a sold out crowd of 400 people Thursday night at esteemed college bar and concert venue, The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor.
LOS ANGELES — The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson’s home, a law enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massive crowd at the singer’s memorial service. Diprivan is an anesthetic widely used in operating rooms to induce unconsciousness. Also known as Propofol, it’s given intravenously and is very unusual to have in a private home. The law enforcement official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak about the matter. A Los Angeles Police spokesman, Lt. John Romero, declined to discuss the case. “It’s an ongoing investigation,” he said.… Read more »
Pete Wentz was treated to dinner a few months ago by Lyor Cohen, the renowned rap promoter and U.S. music chief of Warner Music Group. Wentz, 28, is the eyelinered heartthrob and bassist of punk band Fall Out Boy; but this dinner was in celebration of the hit single just released by another band, Panic! At the Disco, which records on Wentz’s own label, Decaydance. “He asked me, ‘What do you want out of life, Pete?’” Wentz says. His answer was flip: business cards. The next day he received a stack of cards listing his name and a new title:… Read more »
After suing Internet file-sharing service Napster and contending with the marketing nightmares of digital downloading, Metallica are making peace with the enemy – sort of. The band has partnered with Seattle DSL Online provider Speakeasy and developed www.metallicavault.com, a Web site that will contain hours of downloadable live recordings, demos and B-sides for free. Here’s the catch: Fans have to purchase the band’s new album, St. Anger, to get a code that allows them access to the site. That should mean increased sales figures for the band, but consumers who buy the disc will get a lot of bang, chug… Read more »
Eminem is due in Michigan’s Macomb County Circuit Court on Friday, May 30 to defend himself against a $1 million defamation lawsuit filed by his elementary school nemesis, DeAngelo Bailey. In the lawsuit, filed in December 2001, Bailey maintains that Eminem defamed him in “Brain Damage,” a song from Eminem’s The Slim Shady LP, and thus damaged his career as an aspiring rapper. In the song Eminem depicts Bailey as a junior high school bully. Meanwhile, Eminem may be able to use a lawsuit filed against the local school board in 1982 by his mother, Debbie Mathers-Briggs, to vindicate himself.… Read more »
The censors may have to stay on their toes when Ozzy Osbourne and his family host the 30th annual American Music Awards. The three-hour special is scheduled to air live on ABC, starting at 8 p.m. EST Jan. 13. “I can’t wait to see what Ozzy and the rest of the family have in store for us, and I know the ABC-TV censor is already having dreams, or should I say nightmares, about their live ad-libs,” executive producer Dick Clark said Monday. The heavy-metal icon, his wife, Sharon, and two of their three children are notorious for their profanity-laced misadventures… Read more »
