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Just when some old-school Metallica fans were ready to write the band off for crafting St. Anger – which prominently features a snare drum that sounds like a screwdriver hitting a trashcan – and for playing snippets of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” and Lenny Kravitz’s “Are you Gonna Go My Way” at the VMAs, the band has redeemed itself. OK, they were doing fine before the VMAs. Few who attended Metallica’s Summer Sanitarium concerts walked away disappointed. The tour featured the band in peak form, bashing out its oldest and heaviest songs. However, a show on Friday for fan club… Read more »

U.S. television network NBC won Vivendi Universal’s marathon show-business auction on Tuesday with a proposed merger to create a new entertainment industry giant worth more than $40 billion. NBC, a unit of General Electric Co., clinched exclusive negotiating rights to finalize a deal that would give it a major film studio, more cable channels and theme parks to vault the No. 1 U.S. broadcast network closer to the ranks of such global titans as Walt Disney Co. and Viacom Inc. If the deal is completed, the new company, to be called NBC-Universal, would include Vivendi’s Universal Pictures, the Hollywood studio… Read more »

It’s turning into a long, hot summer for Ozzy Osbourne. The metal god called in sick again Tuesday night and missed his third Ozzfest show. Osbourne skipped Tuesday night’s stop at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, with an undisclosed illness, according to a tour spokesperson. He is expected to be back on his feet in time for Friday’s show at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia. Ozzy sat out a July 9 show in Sacramento after struggling through the previous night’s set in San Francisco with what doctors described as severe laryngitis. He was still suffering… Read more »

It’s the fall of new releases for Nelly Furtado. Not only will the Grammy Award-winning singer release her second album, but she and her longtime boyfriend are expecting their first child in September. Two months later on November 25, the singer releases Fresh Off The Boat, the eagerly-anticipated follow-up to her multi-platinum selling debut album Whoa, Nelly!. Billboard reports the first single to be released from Fresh Off The Boat is expected to be “Powerless.” The singer’s label hopes to get the track out by the end of the summer. Fresh Off The Boat is being recorded in Los Angeles… Read more »

Hoobastank have announced dates for a headlining club tour today. Kicking off August 20th in San Antonio, TX Hoobastank wanted to give their fans the rare opportunity to hear new songs from their forthcoming album in an intimate setting. “We are so psyched to play our new songs for our fans in a small club atmosphere,” says Hoobastank singer, Doug Robb. “There is nothing better than that intimate environment where we can hang out with our fans.” Labelmates, Die Trying and Letter Kills will open up for Hoobastank on the entire club run. Having spent the summer recording in their… Read more »

Shady Ltd. will sponsor the Obie Trice “Rock the Mic” tour bus. Obie, a hip hop artist from Eminem’s Shady Records label, will be the tour’s opening act and share the bill with 50 Cent and Jay Z. Over the course of July and August, the tour will visit 46 cities, throughout the U.S. and Canada. It is expected to be the biggest hip-hop show of the summer. Obie, who will perform his own set in each city, is gearing up to release his debut album, “Cheers,” executive produced by Eminem and due out this September on Shady/Interscope. The Detroit… Read more »

Fred Durst must have been having a really bad day when the Summer Sanitarium tour stopped outside Chicago Saturday. The Chicago Sun-Times describes Durst as having a tantrum on stage and ending Limp Bizkit’s set after just 20 minutes. The report says heckling fans throwing garbage gave Durst a rough reception. At first, Durst encouraged the abuse, then offered to fight anyone within earshot while yelling curses and sexual putdowns. According to the report, “Had the villain in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ been a vile little boob like Durst rather than a snarly old lady in greenface, the movie’s ‘I’m… Read more »

Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell has the desire to bring his reprised Lollapalooza festival to Europe, but says there are a few glitches that would make it difficult to deliver the same high-quality show American fans are currently enjoying. Farrell, who also fronts this year’s Lollapalooza headlining band Jane’s Addiction, revealed that there are two problems that stand in the way of taking the festival to Europe-the line-up and the technology kinks that would crop up with the interactive part of the festival. “We have ambitions to be there, but once you jump across the pond, the quality changes,” Farrell said.… Read more »

Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, citing concerns about student privacy, moved yesterday to quash subpoenas issued by the recording industry to discover the identities of students the industry says are illegally distributing copyrighted music. The moves represent one of the first major obstacles for the recording industry in its campaign against ordinary computer users who share copyrighted music. Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America, said he was disappointed and vowed legal action to obtain the information. “These universities have chosen to litigate this in an attempt to deny copyright holders the right… Read more »

Every night on the Summer Sanitarium Tour, Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington is tearing it up, just as he swore he would. There was a time, though, when it looked like he might have to break his promise. Less than six weeks ago, Bennington was checked into a Los Angeles hospital with severe back and stomach pains, and doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him. “Thank God it’s over,” he said backstage before a recent performance in Philadelphia. “There’s nothing more depressing than a hospital room, with crap hanging out of your arms. They still don’t know what… Read more »