A Hempfield Area High School sophomore spent 12 days in juvenile detention after authorities in Westmoreland County mistakenly charged him with making a March 11 bomb threat, in part because the district had not changed its clocks to reflect daylight-saving time. Cody Webb, 15, of Hempfield, was arrested March 12 and charged with a felony count of threatening to use weapons of mass destruction and misdemeanor counts of making false alarms to public entities, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats. Webb, an honors student involved in student council, tennis and the Japanese Club, was immediately taken to the… Read more »
Last winter, Vans Warped tour founder Kevin Lyman attended the Consumer Electronics Show to learn more about setting up backstage wireless Internet connections. The connections he made, however, were of a different type. Technology companies, eager to tap into the Warped tour’s young, tech-savvy fan base, have jumped on board as tour partners or sponsors. The 10th annual roadshow kicked off June 25 in Houston with a lineup including such bands as Bad Religion, Good Charlotte, NOFX, Thursday, New Found Glory, Simple Plan, The Vandals and Taking Back Sunday. The tour’s extensive sponsor list includes Memorex, Samsung, Cingular Wireless, Apple… Read more »
Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana, spent only three years in the public eye, and they released only three studio albums. But what he accomplished before committing suicide 10 years ago Monday at age 27 – deciding it was “better to burn out than fade away,” as he quoted Neil Young in his suicide note – was remarkable. Beneath this bridge above the muddy banks of the Wishkah River, a troubled young Cobain would come to escape his unhappy home and the persistent gray drizzle of the Washington coast. Among the cracking concrete supports, he would smoke pot and drink… Read more »
The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that Clear Channel Communications Inc. should pay the maximum penalty of nearly $250,000 for airing a sexually explicit radio broadcast. Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio-station owner, should pay $247,500 – the maximum indecency fine allowable by law – for an episode of “Elliot in the Morning” that aired on stations in Washington, D.C., Virginia and Delaware, the FCC said. A Clear Channel official said the company would investigate the situation. “If we made a mistake, we’ll certainly live with the consequences,” said Andrew Levin, Clear Channel executive vice president for law and… Read more »
As the music world mourns the death of Johnny Cash-who passed away on the morning of Friday (September 12), at the age of 71-artists from every genre of music are paying their respects to the legendary Man In Black. Guitarist Danny Lohner, who has played with Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle, shared his thoughts with LAUNCH on Cash’s recent cover of the Nine Inch Nails tune “Hurt.” “Johnny Cash’s version blew me away,” Lohner said. “He has such a great character voice…that video is so moving and so well done, and with his wife watching him as he… Read more »
Max Collins, the lead singer for Eve 6, plead guilty on Tuesday (June 3) in front of a Pittsburgh area district justice, to two counts of disorderly conduct in relation to a recent nude escapade, reported the Associated Press. Collins was forced to pay $400 in fines and $114 in court costs, after plea bargaining down initial charges of indecent exposure, for walking around a hotel with nothing but shaving cream on his genitals. On the morning of Monday (May 27), police were called to the Crowne Plaza hotel outside of Pittsburgh after getting calls from hotel staff about Collins… Read more »
After six years of dating, Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale and No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani have decided to tie the knot. Rossdale proposed to Stefani in England on the morning of January 1 and she happily accepted, according to spokespeople for their respective bands. The couple has not set a wedding date. The two met and began dating while No Doubt were opening for Bush on a spring tour in 1996. Bush were supporting their debut, Sixteen Stone, while No Doubt were promoting their breakthrough second album, Tragic Kingdom. In 2000, Stefani performed live with Bush. Besides supporting each other’s… Read more »
Marilyn Manson is hoping that Pearl Harbor Day doesn’t lead to an ambush for him in Michigan courts. The shock rocker’s hearing on charges of criminal sexual conduct and assault-and-battery, which were scheduled to be heard on Friday (November 9), has been moved to the morning of December 7 at the request of his attorneys. Judge Gerald E. McNally of the 52nd District Court in Clarkston, Michigan will hear the case. Manson is free on $25,000 personal bail after a September 21 arraignment at the court. The charges stem from a July 30 OzzFest appearance at the DTE Energy Music… Read more »
Following the release of the first five tracks from their forthcoming compilation album A Decade Uneventful: B-Sides & Rarities (2012 – 2022), As It Is has rolled out the next seven tracks. The new, unheard B-sides released today include “Patchwork Love Acoustic,” “No Way Out Acoustic,” “Babylon Ben,” “May We Go Down As Lovers,” “Just Another Family,” “Okay (Demo),” and Still Remembering (Demo). The band shares on X (formerly Twitter), “GOOD MORNING WORLD. WE HAVE COME TO RUIN YOUR DAY WITH THESE SONGS” While fans are clamoring over the seven new releases across social media (“oh so it’s SAD sad,… Read more »
New Zealand-based rising alternative star ratbag shared biting commentary on stereotypical heterosexual relationships in new track “pinky girl.” It follows up previous single “pinky boy.” ratbag explains: “’pinky girl’ is about girlfriends being cooler than their boyfriends. Much, much cooler. It calls out men who do the absolute bare minimum in the relationship and call it enough.” ratbag continues, “And it’s about girlfriends and how they beg to find ways around resorting to murder. Half the time men are oblivious to how great their girlfriends are. Sometimes when I see half-decent men with their really cool girlfriends, I just wanna… Read more »
