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Report: Chris Cornell goes R&B for next solo album “Scream” produced by Timbaland…

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The former Soundgarden/Audioslave leading frontman Chris Cornell is about to release his third solo disc titled “Scream” which is produced by R&B superstar Timbaland. Cornell announced he is taking a step away from his usual hard rock and metal to go for a different direction in his music…R&B. His third solo album “Scream” will hit record stores Oct. 14th of this year. Chris also sang on a few songs with Timbaland for the new album.

You can hear samples off the new album from Chris’s myspace page here:

http://www.myspace.com/chriscornell

“Scream” is the follow up of his last solo album released in 2007 “Carry On” which he covered a Michael Jackson song “Billie Jean” on it. Chris Cornell’s first solo disc is “Euphoria Morning” released in 1999.

Billboard reports:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003845956

Has Cornell gone insane? Did him covering Michael Jackson a bad influence in him? We just lost a rock n’ roll Chris Cornell and now we get a pop/R&B Cornell. BOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I heard the new songs of the new samples in his myspace, and they are crap. Sorry Chris, but I prefer your older stuff better. What the hell is the man thinking? Does he want to be a pop star now? Blech!!!!

Kev

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Report: Aerosmith to hit the studio for new album at the end of this month and go on world tour in support of it!

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Steven Tyler just announced that Aerosmith will head back into the studio for a new studio album. This album will be all new original material. It won’t be a blues cover album like “Honkin’ On Bobo” was, their last studio album released back in 2004.

The band had already booked a full world tour, said the tour will start either March or April after the new album is completed.

More on it here:

http://www.aeroforceone.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/1040206/pid/302766

Rock n’ roll is making a comeback to the mainstream! Hopefully the new Aerosmith album will be a strictly rock record, I want to hear Joe Perry’s great guitar playing. Hopefully the new album will stay away from classical orchestration and keyboard synthesizers. I want to hear rock n’ roll! Not that mellow pop shit from Aerosmith.

Kev

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Report: Jimmy Page defends Olympics performance with Leona Lewis…

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Jimmy Page is dissapointed with the negative criticism he received from critics and music fans of his performance with Leona Lewis at the Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony. Jimmy Page defended it saying that it was an honour for him and Leona to be there performing together, and he says they did a good job performing the Led Zeppelin song “Whole Lotta Love”. Jimmy is proud of the performance and says people need to be less cynical.

More on it here:

http://www.pr-inside.com/page-defends-olympics-performance-r787804.htm

I’ll have to agree with Page on this one. I heard audio tracks of the performance in youtube and it wasn’t all that bad.

The only reason I can think of why people didn’t like that performance is because people didn’t like the idea of a pop mainstream star performing with a legendary rock god. Everyone was probably expecting Robert Plant to sing with Jimmy Page at the Olympics. While I’m sure the Beijing Olympics asked for a Plant & Page duo for return, I’m positive that Robert Plant himself turned it down. That is probably the reason Page got Leona Lewis instead.

Keep in mind that Jimmy Page collaborated with almost every famous musician you can think of from Puff Daddy to the Black Crowes.

I mean, christ, he’s fuckin’ Jimmy Page, he can perform with who ever he wants. He doesn’t care if he plays guitar for Michael Jackson or even Ricky Martin or Usher. This man will play guitar for anybody. He just wants to play guitar no matter who he is playing with. It’s not always going to be with Led Zeppelin or Robert Plant, get over it people.

Kev

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Report: Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” leaks in French record store, but the band says they’re happy about it…

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Blabbermouth is exclusively reporting that several copies of the new Metallica CD has already been sold to a French record store. Blabbermouth also shows pictures of the CD cover of the new album before it’s out.

Check ’em out here:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=103902

However, Lars says he and the band have no problem with the album getting stolen and leaked. They seem to be happy that the new album is already quickly spreading around and they seem good about the promotion. Pretty funny considering that this is coming from a band who started a Napster battle years ago.

More on it here:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=103943

I’m sure the album will get leaked online very soon. According to Metallica’s website, they seemed to have a change of heart with leaked music on the internet, that’s why Metallica put up posts saying “Leak Central”.

Good for Metallica for not being angry about it! Yeah!

Kev

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Report: U2 going back to old school sound for new album…

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Bono announced on the official U2 website, U2.com, that the band U2 plans to go back to their old school rock n’ roll sound they had back in the early 80’s and 90’s. The band wants to take a step away from their electronica and pop/rock stuff they’ve done the last 4 albums and is planning to go back to their old roots. Bono compares the sound to the new album to “The Joshua Tree” up to “Achtung Baby”.

Read more on it here:

http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2249

This is sweet news!!!! Metallica going back to old school and now U2 is!!!!

Looking forward to the new album now.

U2 is an important band to me, I’ve admired them for years ever since I was a child.

Kev

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BREAKING NEWS: Metallica premieres “Day That Never Comes” video and uploads “Cyanide” audio track to their website…

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Yesterday, Metallica just premiered the video to the first single off the new album, “The Day Never Comes” to their website, click here to view it:

http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601171

I’m sure you remember the live youtube of Metallica performing “Cyanide” at Ozzfest, well here is the band performing the studio version of the song here:

http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601167

I’m usually never all that proud and happy toward bands, but with Metallica, I am extremely happy and proud for the direction that the band is going.

So far, I’m been fuckin’ blown away and impressed by their new songs. This is definitely the best the band has ever done in years.

Congratulations James, Kirk, Lars, and Rob. You guys worked hard to get the respect you want back and I think you’ll get the respect back. Everytime I listen to their new shit, puts a smile on my face seriously, the band have improved.

Welcome back, the true Metallica!!!!!!!

Kev

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Report: Les Paul to be honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…

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Les Paul, the man who created, invented and founded the Gibson Les Paul guitar and the companies empire will finally be honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 13th annual show in Cleveland, OH this coming November.

There will also be a tribute concert for the man titled “Rock and Roll Retrospective: The Les Paul Phenomenon” with artists scheduled to perform there to be announced soon. Of course, I’m sure Les Paul himself will jam on guitar with other fellow Gibson lovers.

Les Paul whose real name is Lester William Polsfuss, is 93 years old and is still playing and building guitars to this day. He continues to make the Gibson Les Paul guitar legacy huge.

The Gibson Les Paul guitar has been obsessed by famous musicians such as Jimmy Page, Slash, Joe Perry, Billy Gibbons, and the list can go on.

More on it here:

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/39443

It’s about time, Les has got the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame, it’s been a long time coming! He deserves it!

Kev

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Report: Bruce Springsteen writes new song for a film, and also gets a cameo in a comedy…

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Bruce Springsteen the boss of rock n’ roll have written songs strictly for movies in Hollywood before. One song is “Streets of Philadelphia” for the film “Philadelphia”, and the other one is “Secret Garden” for the film “Jerry Maguire”. Both of those tunes became major hits even though they weren’t included on any of Springsteen’s albums, just for the soundtracks alone.

Springsteen wrote an original song for Darren Aronofsky’s next film “The Wrestler” for the closing credits, Springsteen wrote a song for the film under the same title of the movie.

In other movie projects, Springsteen lands his first acting role for a small cameo in a film titled “Funny People” which is a comedy film. The screen writer written Springsteen in the film for a hilarious scene. Springsteen never had an acting role before.

More on it here:

http://chud.com/articles/articles/16171/1/SPRINGSTEEN-GOES-TO-THE-MOVIES-FOR-APATOW-AND-ARONOFSKY/Page1.html

Looking forward to hearing the new Springsteen tune. I always look forward to hearing new stuff by him.

Kev

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Report: Johnny Depp reunites with his old rock band “The Kids” for benefit show…

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Yep, in the pic above is a recent photo of hollywood actor Johnny Depp, rocking on stage strapped into what it looks like he is playing a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. Look how far down he’s got the guitar strapped! It’s difficult to play it that way! Other than acting, some of you may or may not know that Johnny’s other passion is music and playing guitar. It’s what he does as a hobby in his spare time.

Johnny Depp reunites with this old band “The Kids”, with original members of the band he played with when he was back in high school. As a kid, Johnny originally wanted to pursue a career in rock music but when the band broke up, Johnny decided to go for acting in films instead.

Johnny’s band “The Kids” reunited for the second time at the Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion concert, a benefit show with all proceeds going to the Dan Marino Foundation. The first time the band reunited was at the same concert back in 2007. Johnny’s girlfriend and 9 year old daughter were in attendance in the crowd cheering along with 2500 fans.

Johnny Depp is a popular iconic actor known to star in many blockbuster films such as the “Pirates of the Carribean” trilogy, “Sweeney Todd”, “Sleepy Hollow”, “Edward Scissorhands”, “What Eating Gilbert Grape”, “Chocolat”, “Blow”, “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas”, “Donnie Brasco”, “From Hell”, etc.

More on it here:

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b26691_johnny_depp_plays_like_kid_again.html

I think Johnny Depp needs to start his own solo career in the music biz. If so many actors like Billy Bob, Jared Leto, and Scarlett Johansson are coming with records, why can’t Johnny come out with his own?

Depp looks like a total badass on stage with a guitar! Johnny plays real good too judging by the videos below and of course, he’s getting the girls dancing!

Heck, maybe the Kids will release an album on their own someday!

Kev

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnS62tK3_VM

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Report: Sammy Hagar says yes to John McCain using “Right Now” as theme song…

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When John McCain used the Van Halen song in the Sammy Hagar era “Right Now” for his presidential campaign on the night he announced Sarah Palin his running mate for Vice President, Eddie Van Halen himself wasn’t happy about it, saying that the presidential hopeful used the song without the band’s permission. Eddie fired back at McCain saying he had no right to use the song.

TMZ reports:

http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/29/van-halen-to-mccain-no-you-cant/

However, the man that wrote the song himself, Sammy Hagar, responded to Van Halen saying that Sammy is all cool with McCain using the song. Sammy defended the song saying that he wrote the song because “Right Now” is a political song, he says the song is basically about if you want something in life, don’t sit around and go out and get it. The song is about making changes.

“Right Now” is a hit single that was recorded for the album “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” released back in 1991. The song became one of the biggest Van Halen hits ever made.

Blabbermouth reports:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=103798

Kudos to Sammy, I’m glad he spoke out and stepped in before Eddie threatened lawsuit on McCain. McCain don’t need anymore lawsuits by musicians ’cause he already got one by Jackson Browne. If Sammy Hagar is the one who wrote the music and lyrics to “Right Now”, Sammy owns the copyright, that means David Lee Roth has no control over that song since David Lee Roth was no part of it.

Kev