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Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst is hell-bent on finding an unknown to fill the role of departed guitarist Wes Borland. He wrote on his latest website journal entry, “I don’t want to jam with someone that everybody knows. We want an unknown person with an incredible vibe that is hungry to create music on the next level. Wes’s shoes are hard ones to fill, you know. It’s all about the music, and that my friends will come to you with 100 percent uncensored emotion.” He added he’s looking forward to Limp Bizkit’s guitar search tour. “I hope we get to… Read more »

R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has been ordered to stand trial Nov. 12 accused in an alleged air rage incident. Buck, 44, is charged with being drunk on an aircraft, criminal damage, using threatening words and assaulting two crew members on a British Airways flight. “The incidents were alleged to have taken place on a BA flight from Seattle to Heathrow on April 21, 2001,” the Lord Chancellor’s Department said in a statement on Friday. Buck has denied the charges. His trial will be heard by judge John Crocker at Isleworth Crown Court in west London and is expected to last… Read more »

Limp Bizkit and guitarist Wes Borland have split, according to a message posted Friday (October 12) on the band’s official website. The move comes less than a year after Borland released Duke Lion Fights The Terror by his side-project Big Dumb Face. The guitarist also toured to support the release. “Limp Bizkit and Wes Borland have amicably decided to part ways,” reads the message on limpbizkit.com. “Both Limp Bizkit and Borland will continue to pursue their respective musical careers. Both wish each other the best of luck in all future endeavors.” Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and Borland were last… Read more »

Although it probably won’t make Limp Bizkit, Staind or Linkin Park sound anemic by comparison, Paul McCartney’s Driving Rain should rock the house harder than anything the former Beatle has recorded since “Helter Skelter” – or at least “Helen Wheels.” “It’s a more aggressive record, definitely,” said producer David Kahne, who has worked with Sugar Ray, Sublime, the Bangles and Tony Bennett. “It’s got real energetic guitar songs. They’re all original, and there’s a lot of power there. I think he really loved doing that because he hadn’t done it in a while.” While Driving Rain’s guitar-blaring rockers will likely… Read more »

After performing in five acclaimed bands, Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard is savoring his independence with a solo project, the first time a member of the famed Seattle rock combo has struck out on his own. Gossard remains an integral member of Pearl Jam, which is on hiatus for most of 2001, but his new album “Bayleaf” (Epic Records) finds him relishing life in the driver’s seat, where he can write a song one day and record it the next. “… As opposed to write some songs and know that we’re going to get together in six months, and maybe… Read more »

Ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney made a surprise visit to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday to see a short film featuring his voice and music. Accompanied by his fiancee, Heather Mills, 33, McCartney arrived in the rainy lagoon city like any well-prepared Englishman, with an umbrella in hand, and posed for photographers by playing air guitar on the rolled-up umbrella. McCartney, 59, had been due to attend the premiere of “Tuesday,” a 13-minute animated movie he helped produce, on Monday, but canceled at the last minute. Perhaps more appropriately, he turned up to see “Tuesday” on Tuesday. The film, which… Read more »

Influential guitarist Chet Atkins, who helped modernize country music in the 1960s, paving the way for the massive commercial force that it is today, died in Nashville Saturday. He was 77. In 1973 and in 1997, Atkins had fought both colon cancer and brain cancer, surviving a number of surgeries. Atkins, enjoyed a multi-faceted career: as a sought-after session musician for the likes of Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers; as a prolific recording artist in his own right; and as a veteran Nashville talent scout. His discoveries included Charley Pride and Waylon Jennings. Atkins was one of the most… Read more »