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The ongoing songwriting credit battle between Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney was recently rekindled when Ono once again left the former Beatles’ name off the song “Give Peace a Chance.” First released by the Plastic Ono Band in 1969, “Give Peace a Chance” appears on the new DVDLennon Legend, and, as per the arrangement the songwriting duo reached forty years ago, it was previously credited to both men, despite Lennon being its sole author. The credits to “Give Peace a Chance” have been in contention for decades. On the 1975 Lennon compilation Shaved Fish, the song was credited to Lennon/McCartney,… Read more »

Australia’s snottiest rock quartet, The Vines have completed their second album, Winning Days, which shall hit the shelves on March 23. Mere hours after the band wrapped up their final show in support of their breakthrough debut Highly Evolved, they hopped on a plane and ended up in a barn in Woodstock, New York, ready to begin recording. Although occasionally known to be slightly, shall we say, intoxicated during their performances, the boys have consistently managed to play to packed venues all over the world. Their defiant and strangely alluring ways have managed to capture the attention of their female… Read more »

Last month CNET announced the purchase of the independent music distribution company MP3.com and the destruction of the site’s hosted music and materials of an estimated 250,000 artists and over one million songs from all over the world. The media reports that CNET’s takeover will turn MP3.com into a new site that focuses on the technologies and news of the digital music world while offering less suitable artist download and upload services. Many former MP3.com members are seeking exposure and distribution services on other less capable portals and services. MediaPal looks to fill the void left by the demise of… Read more »

The monitors backstage at KROQ-FM’s Almost Acoustic Christmas festival on Sunday were broadcasting the performances nearby, but discussion in the dressing rooms centered on what was unfolding on TV screens everywhere else. Saddam Hussein had just been captured. “Today’s a good day,” said Mark Hoppus, singer/bassist of Blink-182, who recently traveled to the Middle East to perform for U.S. troops. “We think it’s funny that a big turd like him got caught as a coward in a little hole with rats and lice,” added singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge, whose brother serves in the Navy. “He’s not ever coming back [to power].… Read more »

It looks like Jack White’s broken finger has healed at least well enough to throw punches at other garage rockers. The White Stripes frontman was involved in a brawl with Von Bondies singer/guitarist Jason Stollsteimer Saturday night in Detroit’s Magic Stick club, according to police reports. Stollsteimer, who suffered a bloody nose and bruising to his right eye, was treated at Detroit Receiving Hospital and released. White sustained cuts to his left hand. The Von Bondies singer told police that White had tried to speak with him in the club, which was hosting a record release party for alt-country rockers… Read more »

U.S. military captured a man in the basement of a building in Tikrit during raids seeking Saddam Hussein, and initial efforts to verify his identity indicate he is the deposed Iraqi dictator, U.S. officials said Sunday. “It certainly looks good,” one senior U.S. official in Washington said, cautioning more scientific testing, possibly DNA, was being done early Sunday morning to try to confirm the identity. Prime Minister Tony Blair welcomed the capture, his spokesman said Sunday, adding that it “removes the shadow” of his possible return from Iraq. The senior U.S. official said the captured man’s appearance did not immediately… Read more »

The members of Great White were spared Tuesday (December 9) when the band’s tour manager and the club owners were indicted for the fire that took 100 lives in Rhode Island earlier this year. Tour manager Dan Biechele and the owners of The Station, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, were each charged with 200 counts of manslaughter for the February 20 blaze in West Warwick that also injured 200 other people. All three men pled innocent at the hearing and were released after posting bail. Their next hearing is February 9. Biechele and the Derderians were each charged with 100 counts… Read more »

A new document leaked Tuesday (December 9) reveals that Michael Jackson was investigated on sexual abuse allegations in February and that investigators found those charges to be “unfounded.” A memo from the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, dated November 26 and leaked on the Smoking Gun Web site, says a Los Angeles Unified School District official called the agency’s child-abuse hotline soon after the airing of “Living With Michael Jackson” on February 6. The Martin Bashir documentary depicted Jackson hanging out with the boy in question, who admitted to sleeping in the singer’s bed. In addition to… Read more »

The pixie boots, eye-liner and teased hair may have gone, but fans of Duran Duran – who announced a world tour on Thursday – will be pleased their icons are not pipes and slippers, yet. “The frilly shirts have been put away…but we take ourselves and how we look seriously,” band member Roger Taylor told Reuters. “We’re not into check shirts.” The 2004 World tour will kick off next April with their first British tour in 18 years, boasting the original line-up. The band may be older but some things have stayed the same. “The girls who followed us back… Read more »

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for civil rights icon Rosa Parks to proceed with her lawsuit against OutKast and others over the rap music duo’s hit song with her name as its title. The justices let stand a U.S. appeals court ruling that reinstated Parks’ false advertising and publicity claims against OutKast and three Bertelsmann AG units – LaFace Records, the record producer, and Arista Records and BMG Entertainment, the distributors. Parks made history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of a city… Read more »