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Quinn Allman, guitarist for the Used, was arrested for opposing a police officer on Tuesday after a show in Jacksonville, Florida, and was imprisoned for almost 24 hours. Allman was busted while trying to prevent Lt. J.T. Crotty from arresting fan Crystal Joanne Gordon, who was loitering in the venue’s parking lot after the show. “I was signing autographs, and this cop had his searchlights shined on everybody, and he says, ‘You have to leave the premises right now. You’re trespassing,’ ” Allman said. According to the guitarist, Crotty got out of the car, grabbed Gordon, pushed her to her… Read more »

After a nationwide talent search failed to yield a replacement for guitarist Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit has chosen former Snot axeman Mike Smith as his successor. Smith made his Bizkit debut last Sunday, when the group played live as part of Wrestlemania XIX in Seattle. “We really like jamming with Mike,” Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said on the band’s official Web site (http://www.limpbizkit.com). “He’s dope. This you will find out soon enough.” The band is still working on material that will appear on its upcoming Flip/Interscope album, due June 17. Durst has repeatedly offered different titles for the set, including… Read more »

As MP3 files purportedly featuring tracks from Radiohead’s upcoming album “Hail to the Thief” continue to circulate online, guitarist Jonny Greenwood took to the band’s official Web site (http://www.radiohead.com) on Wednesday to decry the files as “a stolen copy of early, unmixed edits and roughs.” When the cuts from “Hail to the Thief,” due June 10 from Capitol, leaked last weekend, Greenwood seemed bemused by the situation. “We’re not angry really,” he said at the time. “Shame it’s not a package with the artwork and all, but there you go.” But he now says it has become apparent that these… Read more »

A fast-moving fire – ignited by an indoor pyrotechnics display during a concert – killed at least 54 people late Thursday at a Providence, Rhode Island-area nightclub, officials said. West Warwick Town Manager Wolfgang Bauer said that emergency officials have confirmed 39 deaths and at have counted at least 15 more bodies that are still in the rubble of The Station club. “The building was well involved inside of three minutes,” said Fire Chief Charlie Hall, who told reporters that the building had no sprinklers because its relatively small size didn’t require them. “The whole place got tons of black… Read more »

More than 150 guitars belonging to The Who’s John Entwistle, who died last year, will be auctioned May 13 in London. Entwistle’s favorite, a pink Fender Precision Bass named “Frankenstein” because he patched it together from the remains of five smashed basses, is expected to sell for $8,000 to $11,200, Sotheby’s auction house said this week. Two rare electric guitars dating from 1958, which are valued at $48,000 to $80,000 each, are included in the auction. The sale also features photographs, drawings, clothing, rare posters, jewelry, French horns and trumpets. Many of the lots for sale include private notes by… Read more »

Giant guitars designed by Yoko Ono, Keith Richards and Drew Carey took center stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame charity auction. Ten-foot-tall replicas of Fender Stratocaster guitars had spent the summer on display throughout the city. A total of 90 guitars fetched about $800,000 Saturday night at an auction to benefit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the United Way and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, organizers said. Each bidder paid $75 or $150 to attend the catered gala at the rock hall. George Simon, a restaurant owner and lawyer, spent $105,000 for a guitar painted… Read more »

There’s a line in the CKY song “Escape From Hellview” that goes, “I’m on the loose with my neck in the noose/ But hey, I enjoy the intense.” So when they picked up cameras to shoot a video for the tune, they decided it would be cool to hang guitarist Chad Ginsburg from a tree. It almost became the last stunt Ginsburg would ever pull. Since the grass-roots band self-financed the shoot on a meager budget, the only stunt coordinator they could afford turned out to be unqualified. The harness he tied around Ginsburg wasn’t secure enough, and the guitarist… Read more »

Unwritten Law guitarist Steve Morris was injured at his home on Thursday (August 29) night from a bomb explosion. The homemade device was allegedly planted by Morris’s neighbor, a security guard and local police officer, according to a statement released by the band’s record company. The guitarist suffered injuries to his arms and eardrums and the band has now cancelled several upcoming tour dates as he recovers. Morris’s neighbor was arrested and taken into custody. The guitarist believes the attack was deliberate. “He planned this for a week and tried to kill me with a bomb,” Morris told the Associated… Read more »

In their debut video, for the song “Get Free,” the Vines perform in a lightning storm and are eventually struck by the fiery bolts. So being the targets of a food fight for their next video, “Outtathaway!,” was a cake walk. “It’s not as bad as lightning,” frontman Craig Nicholls agreed while backstage at rehearsals for the MTV Video Music Awards. “We almost died doing the first one, but it looked good. That was the main thing. We were prepared to risk our lives for it because that’s how we feel about the band.” The new video was shot August… Read more »

When was the last time this happened: a breakthrough artist spends the night its album debuted in the top 10 on The Billboard 200 chart playing the opening slot at a tiny Sunset Strip club instead of headlining its own show – or partying like a rock star elsewhere in town? How about Wednesday (June 12) night, when current it-girl Avril Lavigne, who’s all of 17 years old, played an unexpectedly aggressive early set at the Viper Room in Hollywood. Though Lavigne was there, in theory, to warm the mostly-music-industry-crowd up for the hitless bands Lo Cal AM and Plain… Read more »