 A recent copy of the Foo Fighters' tour rider has been leaked, punknews.org reports.
Posted in full on thesmokinggun.org, the rider lays out some hilarious specifications at length. One passage reads, "Please try to make [the soup] a vegetarian selection. Meaty soup make roadies fart," while other sections praise bacon as "God's currency" and show disdain for "island after tiny island of chicken boobs, floating in a mercury like sauce that gets pawned off as a thirteen dollar entree."
Click here to view all nine pages of the Foo Fighters' rider!
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:06 PM
 Death Cab for Cutie are forecasted to take the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart next week with their sophomore album Narrow Stairs. In its first day of release (Tuesday, May 13), the album sold 54,000 copies, while Jason Mraz’s album We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things moved 21,000 copies in its first day.
Billboard reports that Death Cab will likely sell 135,000 – 145,000 copies of Narrow Stairs this week, plenty enough for them to secure No. 1 placement.
Death Cab for Cutie’s last album, 2005’s Plans—their first major label release—won a Grammy, was certified platinum, and peaked at No. 4 on Billboard 200.
“I feel like the same things a lot of people like about [Narrow Stairs], a lot of people will take issue with—and that’s totally fine,” frontman Ben Gibbard told MTV this month. “I’m really at peace with anybody’s take on this album, because we had such a great time making it. I feel like there is an honesty and inspiration on the album that’s undeniable. And even more undeniable is the fact that nobody can come at us and say that we didn’t try to do something different.”
Check out the video for Death Cab's first single, "I Will Possess Your Heart":
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:36 AM
Us Weekly is reporting that Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz will marry singer Ashlee Simpson this Saturday. The couple confirmed their engagement five weeks ago and are also rumored to be expecting their first child.
When asked for confirmation of the weekend nuptials, Simpson's rep told the magazine, "This is a private matter. There is nothing to confirm."
Wentz has been batting off the rumours left and right, telling the U.K.'s Female First, "I think we're going to have our [wedding] theme based around Gremlins 2! We could have it take place in a mall and there could be little green naked monsters running about! We could even have Gizmo as a guest!"
And when the Chicago Tribune questioned him this week about his wedding plans for the upcoming weekend, Wentz joked, "I got plans. I'm going to watch The Wedding Singer ... And then I might watch Father of the Bride. But probably Father of the Bride 2 'cause I really like Martin Short."
Ashlee's sister Jessica has confirmed she'll be maid of honor in the Wentz wedding.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:51 AM
It was announced yesterday that Ozzy Osbourne's namesake festival has been pared down to a one-day "stadium spectacular" this year, and will be held at Pizza Hut Park in Dallas, Texas on August 9.
Put on by AEG Live and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, this year's Ozzfest will be headlined by Ozzy himself, Metallica, System of a Down's Serj Tankian, Korn's Jonathan Davis, Hellyeah, and more. There will also be an all-star tribute to "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the Pantera guitarist who was slain on-stage in 2004.
In a statement, Sharon Osbourne said, "Ozzy just finished an 11-month world tour, so I think he deserves a summer off. We're going to be a stadium destination festival for now—we have gone past doing the sheds every summer. We've given everyone else the blueprint, and we have to keep evolving Ozzfest. This is just the beginning. Ozzy has great relationships with all of the bands that have played Ozzfest. We're the only real festival for harder-edge bands, and these artists have been very loyal to us—there is lots of love on this lineup."
Tickets will go on sale Saturday, May 31 at www.ozzfest.com. |
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:08 AM
According to Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess, actor Joaquin Phoenix has been in the studio with him and Charlatans manager Alan McGee working on tracks that Burgess calls "brilliant" but that he doubts will ever be released to the public. The actor's perfectionism may cripple the album's future release, Burgess reports.
Burgess told Billboard that Phoenix was inspired to write songs after learning to play guitar for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, of which he was the star. "Once [Joaquin] learned guitar, he found that he had quite a lot of demons inside himself that he wanted to expel through music," Burgess says. "All the tracks that me and Alan worked with him on were brilliant, but I think he just keeps scrapping everything or redoing everything. I'm sad to say that I think it's one of those records that may never come out, to be honest with you. It's an ongoing thing. I'm trying to get Alan to force him to put it out at the moment, but I don't know whether it will [get released]." |
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:58 AM
The Foxboro Hot Tubs, the not-so-secret sideband of Green Day, have announced a small club tour of eight U.S. cities, beginning next week.
The band will release their debut album Stop Drop and Roll, a collection of 12 punchy garage rock anthems, on Tuesday, May 20.
Tickets will be a flat $20 each, and must be purchased at the box office on the day of the show. There is a maximum of two tix per person.
Foxboro Hot Tubs Club Tour
05/19 - Little Rock, Arkansas - Juanita's Cantina
05/20 - New Orleans, Louisiana - One Eyed Jack's
05/21 - Dallas, Texas - The Loft
05/22 - Austin, Texas - Emo's
05/25 - Phoenix, Arizona - The Brick House
05/26 - San Diego, California - Soma (Sidestage)
05/27 - Los Angeles, California - The Roxy
05/28 - Long Beach, California - Alex's Bar |
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:34 AM
Jason Bond, an American biologist from East Carolina University, has named a newly discovered trapdoor spider species after singer Neil Young. The spider—now known officially as myrmekiaphila neilyoungi—was discovered in 2007 in Jefferson County, Alabama, where it is indigenous.
“You can give a new species just about any name you please,” Bond told Gigwise.com. “With regards to Neil Young, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice."
No stranger to naming spider species after people he admires, Bond has also been responsible for the naming of other spiders, one after Nelson Mandela and another after his wife. |
Monday, May 12, 2008 4:52 PM
 Keeping Zeppelin reunion rumors humming right along this week is Whitesnake frontman and longtime friend of Jimmy Page, David Coverdale, who tells Gigwise.com that a world tour is “very likely.”
“I’m expecting a call from Jimmy any day asking my band Whitesnake to support them on their world tour,” Coverdale said. “Am I on board? You bet. Probably worth billions … Unlike rolling out the wheelchairs with the umpteenth Rolling Stones world tour, a Led Zeppelin tour will be incredible.”
London’s Mirror quotes a source who says the Zeppelin tour could take place as early as the end of this year or early 2009 and that each member could stand to make $20 million from the tour.
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Monday, May 12, 2008 12:35 PM
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Friday, May 09, 2008 2:59 PM
Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has issued a letter to Metallica, urging them to make their next album "kick ass." The letter, posted on Blabbermouth, reads:
"Dear METALLICA,
Hey, it's Dave! Remember me? Yeah, I'm the guy that's been listening to your band faithfully since 1983. I bought your first album Kill 'Em All from a mailorder catalogue called Under The Rainbow, I think. Actually I can't remember. It was 1983 for Christsakes! But that album changed my life and I've been listening to your albums ever since (even St Anger!).
I can't wait to hear the new s---, and no matter what you guys do I'll always be first one at the shop waiting to hear it. I'm sure you'll come out and blow everybody's f-----' minds, because you're f-----' METALLICA!
Good luck. And don't release it until it's kick-ass.
Yours, Dave Grohl.
P.S. Are you finished recording the drums yet?"
Metallica's new album, their ninth, is due out this fall and was produced by Rick Rubin.
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Friday, May 09, 2008 11:43 AM
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