Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland Paints A Pretty Picture In Audio Message
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Stone Temple Pilot singer Scott Weiland and his family are doing quite well, thank-you very much, despite his November domestic violence arrest and subsequent conviction last month in Las Vegas. Well, at least that's the point he makes quite clear in his latest audio posting to STP's ...
| Courtney Love Is 'Funny & Affecting' In Forthcoming Julie Johnson
NEW YORK (AP) - Courtney Love is affecting and funny in at least one of her upcoming film roles, co-starring opposite Lili Taylor in the romantic comedy Julie Johnson . The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last January and has been turning up at film festivals in the U.S. and overseas ever ...
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Marilyn Manson Sees Sexual Assault Charge Reduced
NEW YORK (AP) - Marilyn Manson got a late Christmas present in Clarkston, Mich., District Court on Friday (Dec. 28) when a judge reduced a charge of criminal sexual conduct against the shock rocker to disorderly conduct, according to the Detroit Free Press. The reduction now likely paves the way for ...
| Gin Blossoms Reuniting in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) - Hey Jealousy, The Gin Blossoms are getting back together. The group, which rose from Tempe nightclubs in the early '90s to platinum-selling album success before disbanding in 1997, is scheduled to appear at Nita's Hideaway in Tempe on New Year's Eve. It will be the band's first performance ...
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Limp Bizkit Unveils Details Of Guitarist Search
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Limp Bizkit's guitarist search is set to begin January 10 in Fresno, California. The band will audition potential axemen at Guitar Centers around the country in the hopes of finding a replacement for Wes Borland, who left the band early this year. The tour wraps up February 11 in ...
| Singer Scott Weiland Pleads Guilty
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland pleaded guilty to domestic battery after fighting with his wife at the Hard Rock hotel. The 38-year-old entered a guilty plea Wednesday, but will have his case dismissed if he has no more problems in the next six months and completes 26 ...
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Vedder, Chili Peppers Set For Ramones Tribute
NEW YORK (AP) - Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rob Zombie, Green Day, the Offspring, and Rancid are among the artists confirmed to contribute to a Ramones tribute album, due for a spring release on DV8/Columbia. According to the label, some of the tracks are already completed, ...
| Late rocker Cobain's mom blasts former bandmates
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The mother of Kurt Cobain, the late singer of grunge rock group Nirvana, says she is "shocked and disgusted" by the two surviving band members' attempts to oust his widow, Courtney Love, from a board controlling the band's musical legacy. Wendy Fradenburg Cobain O'Connor's comments ...
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Creed Eyes B-Sides Album To Follow Tour
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - Creed is still riding high on its chart-topping success with Weathered, but singer Scott Stapp is already looking two steps ahead. "I think that in our minds right now, and this could definitely change, we're thinking about putting out a B-sides album after we're done touring ...
| Courtney Love To Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic: 'Kurt Cobain Was Nirvana'
NEW YORK (AP) - SEATTLE (AP) - After last week saw former Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic denounce Courtney Love in a lawsuit and in an open letter to fans, Love has responded with some public words of her own. In an open letter signed from the "The Family of Kurt Cobain," Love maintains ...
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Breeders Confirm 2002 Album, Tour
NEW YORK (AP) - After years of dormancy, alternative rockers the Breeders have announced a February release for their forthcoming third studio album and have confirmed plans to tour the U.S. in early 2002. While the band's official Web site confirms the release, no specific date or album title is revealed ...
| No love lost!...
SEATTLE (AP) - Courtney Love stands accused of being "motivated solely by her blind self interest" in a court case with the surviving members of Nirvana. Love is being sued by Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl over control of the Grunge legends music, after she launched a legal battle against the pair ...
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Pearl Jam Ready To Begin Next Album
NEW YORK (AP) -Pearl Jam is close to beginning work on its seventh and final studio album under its contract with Sony's Epic Records label. "Sometime after the first of the year, we'll be starting the process of making another record," guitarist Stone Gossard tells Billboard.com. He adds that the band ...
| Morissette's new album set for Feb. release
LOS ANGELES(Reuters) - Grammy-winning recording star Alanis Morissette is planning a February release for her first album of all-new material in more than three years, followed by a world tour, her publicist said Wednesday. The new CD, "Under Rug Swept," is a collection of 11 songs written and produced ...
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Nirvana members seek to oust
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Calling her a greedy, volatile "prima donna," the two surviving members of influential grunge rock group Nirvana have sued to have the widow of Kurt Cobain thrown off the board controlling the band's musical legacy. Cobain's widow Courtney Love last June sued to block the release ...
| New Foo, Offspring Songs Lead 'Orange County'
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The pop-laden soundtrack to the Paramount Pictures/MTV Films movie "Orange County," due Dec. 18 from Columbia, will sport new singles from the Offspring and Foo Fighters. The set, which arrives three weeks ahead of the film's Jan. 11 opening in U.S. theaters, is fleshed out with previously ...
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Russell Crowe Discusses Forthcoming 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts Documentary
UTAH (Reuters) - Oscar may be eyeing Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind, but not for what comes after. On Jan. 17, Miramax will debut a documentary called Texas at Utah's Sundance Film Festival. The film captures Crowe's band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, rehearsing and recording Bastard Life or Clarity, ...
| Michelle Branch To Play For Target House Patients
NEW YORK (AP) - Michelle Branch will visit Target House medical facility in Memphis Monday (December 10) to perform for the patients and their family members. The teen singer-songwriter will also present a $10,000 check to Target House. Target House is a home-away-from-home for patients of that city's ...
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Soul Asylum Return!
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Soul Asylum recently celebrated the group's twentieth anniversary with a show at First Avenue in Minneapolis. "It was extremely touching," says singer/guitarist Dave Pirner. "It seemed like First Avenue was overflowing with love. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I really ...
| Creed's Chart-Topper Is A Bit Experimental
NEW YORK (AP) - Creed successfully defended its Number One status on the Billboard 200 album chart this week with sales of more than 417,000 copies of Weathered. The album hasn't been officially certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association Of America, but figures show that total sales for ...
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