Missy Elliott snares eight MTV VMA nominations
Reigning diva of rap Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott leads the pack of nominees for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards with eight nominations, all for her music video “Work It.”
Reigning diva of rap Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott leads the pack of nominees for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards with eight nominations, all for her music video “Work It.”
‘NSync-er-gone-solo Justin Timberlake follows with seven nods--five of which are for his “Cry Me A River” video, and two for “Rock Your Body"--and unlikely nominee Johnny Cash snared six nominations for the video to his cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt.”
The MTV Video Music Awards are set to take place at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Aug. 28.
Read more at MTV.com
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Ace Frehley gets KISS-ed off
Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley issued a statement this week to let his fans know that the guy they’ll be seeing wearing his make-up and costume during KISS’s upcoming co-headlining tour with Aerosmith isn’t the real McCoy.
“I love my fans, and so there is no confusion, I took ‘The Farewell Tour’ for what it was billed as,” Frehley said. “We had a great final leg in Australia and, as far as I was concerned, my career with KISS was over. It was called ‘The Farewell Tour’ and that’s what I was told it was.”
Read Ace’s complete statement at RockRage Online
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Ozzy Osbourne’s tour manager found dead in hotel
Bobby Thomson, tour manager for Ozzy Osbourne, was found dead in his Birmingham, Mich., hotel room on Thursday (7/24), one day before the Osbourne-fronted Ozzfest tour touched down in the area. He had reportedly battled throat cancer for 18 months, and appeared to have died in his sleep.
Read more at Billboard.com
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Columnist pans BuyMusic.com as inferior to iTunes
Mac-friendly author and columnist Bob Levitus--a.k.a. Dr. Mac-- in his column on Friday (7/25) soundly flogged the new Windows-based BuyMusic.com store, which opened earlier this week. While comparing BuyMusic.com to Apple’s fledgling iTunes Music Store, Levitus took issue with BuyMusic.com touting a 79-cent-per-song pricing plan, which he called a “bogus claim” because “only one song in its Top 100 Downloads section cost 79 cents; all others had prices from 99 cents to $1.29.” All songs at Apple’s iTunes Music Store cost 99 cents.
Levitus also blasted BuyMusic.com’s rights-management features, which include limiting the number of CDs that a user can burn their purchased music on to, and limiting the number of portable digital-music players that a user can transfer most songs to. The iTunes Music Store does not impose these restrictions.
Read more at HoustonChronicle.com
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