New Radiohead album to drop in June?
Details are sketchy and the story’s source seems a bit squishy, but Billboard.com reports that a new Radiohead studio album will hit stores on June 10. Rumored titles: “2+2=5” and “Are You Listening.” NME.com reports that the album’s UK release will be on June 9.
Details are sketchy and the story’s source seems a bit squishy, but Billboard.com reports that a new Radiohead studio album will hit stores on June 10. Rumored titles: “2+2=5” and “Are You Listening.” NME.com reports that the album’s UK release will be on June 9.
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Great White subpoenaed to grand jury hearing for club blaze
The surviving members of rock outfit Great White have been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury that will investigate last week’s fire at a Rhode Island nightclub that killed 97 people, the Associated Press reports. Among the victims was Great White guitarist Ty Longley.
Reuters, meanwhile,
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Michael Jackson seeks injunction to block documentary
Michael Jackson’s ongoing tantrum--started by the recent airing of a documentary that widely cemented public opinion that the pop star is unimaginably bizarre--continues with his latest request that a London court grant an injunction that would stop a television company from releasing the documentary’s unused footage, AP reports.
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Layne Staley’s last interview surfaces
Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley, who last year died of a drug overdose, before his death gave an interview that is the subject of a recently released book titled “Layne Staley: Angry Chair--A Look Inside the Heart and Soul of an Incredible Musician,” VH1.com reports.
Quoted in the VH1.com article are excerpts from the book, in which a drug-sick Staley, whom the author said spoke in a rasp through missing teeth, said he knew he was “near death,” and that his drug addiction had completely ravaged his body.
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Howie Epstein dead of apparent overdose
Former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers bassist Howie Epstein--who was fired from the group last year--died on Sunday night (2/25) of an apparent drug overdose, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
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Macy Gray tests new material on tour
R&B singer Macy Gray will preview material from her forthcoming third album, “The Trouble with Being Myself,” with a tour that gets underway in March, LiveDaily.com reports. The new album hits stores on April 29.
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