Lawyers for Queen Latifah have filed a lawsuit against Perfect Christmas Productions for breach of contract
and claiming she is still owed $275,000 for her cameo role in the film, The Perfect Holiday, which they financed.
Lawyers for Poison have filed a lawsuit against Capitol Records and EMI Music Marketing claiming they breached
contracts with the band by improperly categorizing certain record sales and miscalculating everything from producer
royalties to foreign taxes. They also claim that they tried to audit their records kept by Capitol but the firm
didn't fully cooperate. They are asking a judge to order Capitol Records to allow a full accounting review of the
band's records. They are reportedly seeking $25,000 in damages. Meanwhile, People magazine have announced their
Hottest Bachelor 2008 list. Bret Michaels made the list at #8.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mel Red Recana has given Slash and his wife, Perla, the green light on
a $1 million civil suit they filed against real estate agent Gregory Holcomb and his firm Sotheby's International
Realty. The couple claim they were duped into purchasing a house that didn't have the amenities they expected.
Remember that free performance Boy George was planning for workers and family of New York's Sanitation Department?
It seems that as well as a North American summer tour have been canceled as U.S. authorities have refused to issue
him a visa. In a statement from his management, "This is not in respect of anything he has done in the past
but because he is facing a trial in November in London for something that happened in April last year."
Dead Or Alive have been forced to pull out of the upcoming Regeneration Tour due to an illness in the band. Their
slot on the tour will be filled by A Flock Of Seagulls.
Loretta Lynn, Desmond Child, Albert Hammond, John Sebastian and Alan Menken were recently inducted into the Songwriters
Hall of Fame in New York City.
Larry Gatlin, John Hiatt, Tony Joe White and the late Paul Davis are among this year's songwriter-artist nominees
for inclusion in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Of those nominees, one songwriter-artist and two songwriters
will be elected for induction during the Oct. 26th ceremonies.
Rush will be one of the 25 celebrities to be honored with their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2009.
Testament's latest album, The Formation Of Damnation, has won the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Award for Album of the
Year. The album debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #59 on Apr. 29th. Iron Maiden won for Best U.K. Band.
Dave Mustaine won the Best "Riff Lord" Award.
Journey's Revelation dropped a spot to #6 on the Billboard 200 albums chart selling 89,000 copies. Frank Sinatra's
Nothing But The Best fell a place to #17. Emmylou Harris' All I Intended To Be debuted at #22. Neil Diamond's Home
Before Dark fell a spot to #26. Madonna's Hard Candy dropped 17 places to #31. George Strait's Troubadour climbed
13 spots to #36. Alan Jackson's Good Time gained 8 places to #38.
Madonna's "4 Minutes" featuring Justin Timberlake fell 5 places to #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles
chart. New Kids On The Block's "Summertime" climbed 21 spots to #42.
Information Society will release a new collection focused on their early work entitled Apocryphon: Electro Roots
1982-1985 via the store at InformationSociety.us for $25 on Aug. 1st. The double-disc limited edition set will
include remastered versions of their rare Creatures Of Influence album, InSoc EP, live and rare tracks from their
archives. The set will be signed by Kurt, Paul and James and include a 30-page booklet full of never-before-seen
photos of their early days.
Jimmy Buffett has partnered with New York gambling company Coastal Marina to buy the Trump Marina Hotel Casino
in Atlantic City for $316 million to be renamed Margaritaville.
Loverush U.K. have officially released their debut album on iTunes. The album features vocals by several guest
artists including Marc Almond and Boy George.
B.B. King, George Thorogood and Kim Wilson are among the guest artists appearing on Elvin Bishop's new album, The
Blues Roll On, due out Sept. 23rd via Delta Groove/Eclecto Groove Music.
Former members of Rainbow and Deep Purple (Joe Lynn Turner, Tony Carey and Bobby Rondinelli) have enlisted former
Dio drummer Craig Goldy in a new project aptly called Purple Rainbow.
Iggy Pop has recorded a guest appearance on "Mars Is For Martians" which appears on The Boss Martians'
upcoming album, Pressure In the SODO, due out July 22nd. Pop co-wrote the song with band frontman Evan Foster.
In 2006, Motley Crue announced they had reached a deal with MTV Films/Paramount to start producing a biopic based
on their best-selling autobiography, The Dirt. The band have now announced that they are looking for new partners
as they believe the film should have been made already.
George Strait has recorded a guest appearance on Lee Ann Womack's new album, Call Me Crazy, due out this fall.
Grandmaster Flash published his autobiography, The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats, in the U.K.
via Broadway Books last week.
Former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard will see the release of Brown Submarines, the debut album by his
Boston Spaceships project, on Sept. 9th. The closing track from the disc can be downloaded for free at BostonSpaceships.com.
Weird Al Yankovic is believed to be in ongoing discussions with his label (Zomba Music Group) and subsidiary label
(Volcano) about his current deal in hopes to allow him to release a fresh, topical album digitally prior to a physical
release. This would allow him to hit the mark with certain songs in a matter or weeks instead of having to wait
a couple of months.
Nick Cave recently told Xfm that he plans to head into the studio to work on the next Grinderman album after the
upcoming festival tour dates with The Bad Seeds. He hopes to release it by 2009.
Boz Skaggs has been working on his follow-up to 2003's But Beautiful. The standards collection, Speak Low, is expected
out in September and a label deal is being finalized.
According to an interview of Aztec Records founder Gil Matthews with Undercover.com.au, plans are in the works
for the release of Rose Tattoo's lost 1980 album. The album was rejected by their label at the time, Albert Productions,
and has been sitting on a shelf all this time.
Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy has recorded his second album with Terence Fixmer. Fixmer/McCarthy's Into
The Night is available via Synthetic Symphony.
Lazenby have announced they have released, "Listening To Joni," as the first single from their debut
album for download at 7digital.com. A physical copy of the single can be purchased at Amazon.co.uk, HMV.com, Zawi.co.uk
and Play.com. Lazenby includes former Vitamin Z guitarist Nick Lockwood and their debut album, The Loft Years,
is expected out in the U.K. on June 23rd.
Janet Jackson is reportedly working on a new MTV reality series where she will mentor a group of aspiring singers
and dancers. Plans are to film it prior to the launch of her world tour on Sept. 10th. There is even word that
the winner may be given the chance to appear in her tour.
9 tracks that claimed to be "mastered, finished" from Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy were leaked online
via Antiquiet.com and silenced quickly by a cease-and-desist order from band representatives which included removal
of the links.
Rumors have surfaced that Phish could be reuniting in the studio with producer Steve Lillywhite to record a new
album.
The DVD release of Julien Temple's biopic, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, is scheduled for July 8th via
Legacy Recordings.
A double-CD collector's edition of The Waterboys' 1990 album, Room To Room, will be released in the U.K. on Aug.
11th featuring previously-unreleased songs, live and alternate versions.
What would happen if VH1 reminisced with their I Love The 80s in 1988? Well, probably something similar (with less
impressive music) to I Love The New Millennium which debuts on the channel from June 23rd to 26th. The show will
include interviews with Taylor Dayne, Dee Snider, The B-52's and many others.
4-time Grammy Award-winning comedian George Carlin, 71, died of heart failure on Sunday. The controversial funnyman
released 23 comedy albums (including 1981's A Place For My Stuff, 1984's Carlin On Campus, 1986's Playin' With
Your Head and 1988's What Am I Doing In New Jersey?) as well as 3 books, 14 HBO specials and appeared in several
films. It has also been announced that Carlin will become the first posthumous Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
honoree at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Nov. 10th.