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Corporate Avenger was dealt another blow this week when lyrics on their upcoming album ignited a rampage within a few national Christian groups. The band has been receiving death-threats due to the album’s content and it seems an ethical frenzy is beginning to snowball around the album. KOCH Records has been asked to halt the album’s release by several organizations and now the groups are taking their fight to the stores intent on stocking the title. Lead by The Promise Keepers and The American Family Organization, religious groups all across the country are banning together to try to keep the… Read more »

Atlantic Records has announced the forthcoming release of the new studio album from Tori Amos. Entitled “STRANGE LITTLE GIRLS,” this assemblage of songs is due in stores on September 18th. All the songs on the album were written by men, but are performed by Tori from the perspectives of a diverse cast of female characters. Songs composed by such artists as Neil Young, the Stranglers, Eminem, Depeche Mode, Slayer, Lou Reed, Lennon/McCartney, and others are taken apart and put back together darkly, gently, and in an uncompromising fashion. In crafting the new album, Tori wanted to talk about men –… Read more »

Compared to a year ago at this time, MTV and Eminem are locked in a very reluctant embrace. MTV has agreed to play a new video by Eminem’s group, D12, but only during the overnight hours and only after several days of negotiations with the rap star’s record label, Shady Records/Interscope Records. The video for “Purple Hills,” the album’s lead track, had to be cleaned up to minimize overt drug references, MTV spokeswoman Jeannie Kedas said on Tuesday. “We had a dialogue with the label and they provided us with an acceptable version for our air,” she said. MTV will… Read more »

Even in its early days of release, Devil’s Night-the new album from D12, the Detroit rap group that includes solo superstar Eminem-is drawing criticism for its lyrical content about drugs, booze, weapons, raping grandmothers, having sex with pit bulls, and exacting violent revenge on enemies. This certainly isn’t news to Eminem fans, who have grown used to the “Parental Advisory” stickers that grace his albums, as well as Devil’s Night. And that certainly hasn’t been enough to keep it from blowing out of stores, with an expected debut at Number One in next week’s Billboard. MC Proof, who co-founded D12… Read more »

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros will launch a U.S. tour in October behind their second album, Global a Go-Go, which arrives in record stores on July 24th. Prior to their full-fledged tour, Strummer and Co. will do a short series of in-store performances to promote the album a little closer to its release date. “Mainly we’re back like the Thirties, because we have to rely on word of mouth,” Strummer says. “MTV is a format, because they know their format works. Radio is the same, because they want the maximum number of people to listen. So we’re working outside of… Read more »

Look for the “Made in the USA” label on some best-selling music from Japan’s top pop artists. Japan’s chart-topping musicians, looking to cut music with some of the top talent in the United States or just looking for a bit of anonymity overseas in place of media mayhem back home, are heading to studios in places such as New York and Los Angeles to record. Among the top 20 albums in Japan for May, 14 were made by Japanese artists and six of those were partially or completely recorded in the United States. The other six slots in the top… Read more »

Teen dance-pop singer Mandy Moore is scheduled to sign autographs for her local fans on Sunday (June 24) at 1:00 p.m. Teen singer, Mandy Moore, hails from Orlando, FL, and discovered her interest in signing and acting at the age of 9. Through numerous appearances singing “The Star Spangled Banner” at local sporting events in Orlando, she became known as the “National Anthem Girl.” This experience proved her to be a young professional in the recording studio. At the age of 15 she signed with Sony who released her debut album, So Real, in 1999, I Wanna Be With You… Read more »

Singer Janet Jackson’s latest album will remain on the banned list in Singapore unless an offending track containing explicit lyrics is removed. “The distributor can release the album ‘All for You’ by removing the objectionable track ‘Would You Mind’,” a spokeswoman for the Films and Publications Department said. Local distributor EMI Singapore voluntarily submitted “All for You” for vetting and launched an appeal in April after authorities decided the album could not be sold. Information and Arts Minister Lee Yock Suan then upheld the ban. EMI is still trying to get the green light from Jackson’s management company to delete… Read more »

Following his two SRO appearances at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom (Saturday, June 9, 3pm/7:30pm), So So Def/Columbia Records will honor rap artist Lil Bow Wow with a star-studded party from 7pm-10pm on Monday, June 11, at a Manhattan location as-yet-undisclosed for security reasons. The exclusive party is to celebrate Bow Wow’s incredible on-going successes: Beware Of Dog, his debut album, has sold more than three million copies around the world while “The Scream Tour,” Bow Wow’s first national tour as a headliner, has sold-out across the country. The guest list for the party includes some of the biggest stars in… Read more »

After six years and two modestly successful albums, the members of the hard rock band Stabbing Westward had every reason to be surprised when their label, Columbia, pulled the plug in 1999 – the day before the quintet was to leave for Hawaii to make a new album with producer Bob Rock. “It was out of nowhere,” says frontman Chris Hall. “All of a sudden they decided they needed to fund more money towards Ricky Martin’s wardrobe and dropped 12 bands in one day; ‘This rock thing doesn’t seem to be working out for us. We’ll keep Offspring and let… Read more »