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K elly Osbourne got up on stage and sang with super-hyped rocker A ndrew W.K. on Friday evening (July 19) when OzzFest hit the PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey. She chimed in on vocals for “She Is Beautiful,” which is found on Andrew W.K.’s debut, I Get Wet. “It was a very organic, circumstantial kind of thing,” said Andrew W.K. “It was sort of like, she’s here, I’m here. It’s her family’s whole operation. She seems like she might be sitting around wanting to do something. Maybe she would like to sing a song. ‘Kelly, would you like… Read more »

Mega-nü-metal bands are kinda like Microsoft. Every time they unveil a product, it’s gotta be more advanced than the last, and each new offering is accompanied with a celebration that upstages the one before. On November 15, 1999, as Korn prepared to release their fourth album, Issues, the band played a rock show at the legendary Apollo Theatre in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, a site usually foreign to rock shows. On Monday night, to christen the release of their new disc, Untouchables, the band simulcast a one-hour concert from the Hammerstein Ballroom to 40 movie theaters across the… Read more »

Even a fortune teller couldn’t have predicted the diverse range of guest talent that will appear on Third Eye Blind’s third album, Crystal Baller, which the band hopes will be ready for release by October. Of the 12 or so songs on the record – the group currently has 26 nearly completed tunes from which to choose – at least three will feature cameos. Limp Bizkit main man Fred Durst co-wrote and will play guitar on “Misfits,” party-meister Andrew W.K. will provide back-up vocals on “Messed Up Kid” and Kimya Dawson from the Moldy Peaches will sing on “Self Righteous.”… Read more »

Record producer David Foster told the 662 graduates at Berklee College of Music to expand their horizons while pursuing their artistic passions. “Be open to things other than music,” said Foster, who has won 14 Grammy awards. “Remember the first words you learned in grade school: Look and listen. Learn as much as you can about everything. Because knowledge is power.” Foster produced Natalie Cole’s “Unforgettable” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” He and jazz vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn also received honorary degrees during Saturday’s ceremony. Horn’s five-year career as a singing pianist has included collaborations with… Read more »

Truth Hurts warns she’s about let loose a fistful of music to build excitement for the June 11 release of her debut, The Truth Hurts. She’s finishing up her official second single with Dr. Dre and labelmate Shaunta, she’s putting out a duet with R. Kelly and she also has a remix of her current hit, “So Addictive.” “Dre did the remix without me,” she said. “I walked in one day after he was finished; I was so excited I started jumping up and down. I don’t get that excited over my own songs – he really took it to… Read more »

Dr. Dre and others affiliated with a DVD recorded during 2000’s Up in Smoke Tour were hit with an invasion of privacy lawsuit Wednesday from several existing and former Detroit city officials who claim they were secretly filmed. Greg Bowens, former press secretary for former Mayor Dennis Archer, Detroit Recreation Department official Phillip Talbert and three Detroit Police officers allege that hidden cameras illegally captured a private conversation backstage at Joe Louis Arena about an explicit video the officials banned from Detroit and nearby Auburn Hills shows. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, names several defendants, including Dre; Magic… Read more »

The parents of the members of Dream Street have filed a lawsuit against the teen boy band’s creators, alleging that their children were exposed to booze, women and pornography. The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleges that Louis Baldonieri and Brian Lukow “have engaged in a wide range of conduct and activities that plainly threaten and impair the minors’ well-being,” according to an affidavit from band manager John Stuart. Baldonieri and Lukow denied the charges, with Baldonieri saying the parents were the ones setting a bad example. The adults were “teaching kids you can sign anything, then… Read more »

Eminem dresses up like Osama bin Laden and spoofs “The Sally Jesse Raphael Show” in the video for his new single, “Without Me.” Slim Shady shot the clip for the first single from The Eminem Show in Los Angeles last weekend with director Joseph Kahn (Britney Spears, DMX), according to his Interscope Records spokesperson. Dr. Dre, D12 and Obie Trice, a new Shady Records artist, appear in the video. “Without Me,” which is scheduled to debut at radio outlets later this month, was described by a spokesperson as reminiscent of the lead singles from The Slim Shady LP (“My Name… Read more »

Fieldy’s Dreams was hardly a home run when the project debuted early this year, but the Korn bassist is not about to hang up his hip-hop hat. At Saturday’s ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards, where he performed in an all-star rap-rock band with Jay-Z and others, Fieldy said he planned to start work on his second solo album sometime this year. “[Korn is time-consuming], yeah, but we have a lot of downtime,” Fieldy said before the show. “So there will probably be some more stuff from me.” Fieldy, a self-described Rock N Roll Gangster, has been staying up in… Read more »

Penton Media’s Streaming Media, Inc. today announced that Streaming Media West 2002, to be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from April 23-26 (http://www.streamingmedia.com/west), will have several sessions lead by online music experts to address net radio and the recent royalty decision by the U.S. Copyright Office. Recent articles in The New York Times, CNET and Business Week have highlighted the issues faced by Webcasters such as the royalty debate and the potential repercussions on net radio. If approved by the U.S. Copyright Office on May 21st, the new music licensing rates would force thousands of Webcasters to pay… Read more »