Aug 17
Jay-Z named richest rapper
[source: NME.com] Jay-Z has topped Forbes.com's Hip-Hop Cash Kings list, earning an estimated AU$44million last year.
Jay-Z sold two million copies of his 11th studio album, Kingdom Come, in 2006, and served as president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings.
In addition to his music-related endeavours, Jay-Z is part owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, and endorses Budweiser, General Motors and Hewlett-Packard.
50 Cent came in a close second, netting an estimated AU$41m last year. The rapper has sold more than 11 million albums, as well as overseeing the G-Unit record and clothing labels. P Diddy, Timbaland and Dr. Dre closed out the top five.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Jay-Z.aspx
Ryan Adams quits drink and drugs
[source: NME.com] Ryan Adams claims he has quit drink and drugs for good.
The former Whiskeytown singer said he's gone cold turkey after kicking a long-term dependence on cocaine and heroin.
"I'd wake up, work, go for a drink or two and be exhausted," he told Rolling Stone magazine. "I would have drugs in order to never have to stop working in the night."
Adams revealed how, before recording new album Easy Tiger, his drug of choice was snorting a combination of heroin and cocaine.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Ryan-Adams.aspx
Violent Femmes in lawsuit
[source: NME.com] Violent Femmes members Brian Ritchie (bass) and Gordon Gano (vocals) are embroiled in a lawsuit over song credits and royalties.
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in Manhattan, accuses Gano of trashing the band's reputation by allowing its signature hit, "Blister In The Sun", to be used in an ad for fast food company Wendy's.
Gano called the lawsuit a "surprise" and added: "We just played a really, really good tour… Since the early 80s, everything's really good. We're playing better than ever."
The lawsuit said: "This action is the unfortunate culmination of an ongoing intra-band dispute between Ritchie and Gano over Gano's misappropriation and misadministration of Ritchie's interests in the jointly-owned songs and assets of the band."
The suit seeks a ruling declaring Ritchie half owner of the band's songs and an accounting of past and future royalties and unspecified damages.
Gano declined to respond in detail to the claims, except to say he wrote the band's songs… with one or two exceptions.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Violent-Femmes.aspx
Primal Scream join Thievery Corp man on new project
[source: NME.com] Thievery Corporation's Rob Garza has recruited members of Primal Scream to contribute to his new project, Dust Galaxy.
Primal Scream keyboardist Martin Duffy and drummer Darrin Mooney lent a hand on Dust Galaxy's self-titled album, which is due out in the US on Tuesday November 6.
Cornershop's Adam Blake and Didi Gutman of Brazilian Girls also contributed to the album, which is more rock-oriented than the electronica-based Thievery Corporation.
"This project finally allows me to step out from behind the control booth to continue expressing myself as a songwriter as well as a performer and musician," Garza said.
Dust Galaxy tracklisting:
"Sun In Your Head"
"Limitless"
"Mother Of Illusion"
"It's All Yours"
"River Of Ever Changing Forms"
"Sons Of Washington"
"Cherubim Sing"
"Overhead"
"Down"
"Come Hear The Tru"
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Primal-Scream.aspx
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Thievery-Corporation.aspx
Radiohead: No new album until 2008
[source: NME.com] Radiohead will not release their seventh album until 2008, despite having mastered the record in New York last month.
The band are currently out of contract and there is still no word on which label will release the music.
Meanwhile, Thom Yorke, under the pseudonym Dr Tchock, is set to re-issue Dead Children Playing, his literary collaboration with Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Radiohead.aspx
Judge dismisses Michael Jackson's latest lawsuit
Embattled US pop star Michael Jackson has finally won a legal battle, with a Los Angeles judge dismissing the request of Nona Paris Lola Jackson to be awarded joint custody of the singer's children.
The 36-year-old woman claimed she was the natural mother to Jackson's ten-year-old son, Prince Michael, and nine-year-old daughter, Paris. However, Judge Robert Schnider didn't buy it.
"I feel her evidence fails to establish any genetic relationship," he said, "between herself and the Jackson-Rowe children."
Jackson has always maintained the mother of his children was former nurse/wife Deborah Rowe.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Michael-Jackson.aspx
Madonna in shoot-up shock
Madonna has surprised some of her fellow airplane travellers by pulling out a syringe and injecting herself.
According to reports by Metro UK, passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight witnessed the singer pull out a vial of vitamins and inject herself before the plane landed. While a spokesperson for the 49-year-old wouldn't comment on the event, it's believed Madge – who ate no food and only drank water on the plane – was using vitamin jabs, apparently the latest fad in Hollywood.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Madonna.aspx
Snoop is a nightmare neighbour
US hip-hop star Snoop Doog – who was banned from entering Oz earlier this year – is apparently not the kind of guy you want to live next to.
Residents in Claremont, California, are reportedly overjoyed the rap star has at last sold his home.
"There were regular parties, and they were loud. So we would receive a lot of noise complaints," neighbour Capt. Gary Jenkins said.
"There were a lot of cars in the neighbourhood and people loitering around in the streets."
Snoop moved out of the eight-bedroom house after showing off the residence on MTV reality show Cribs. The pad included five bathrooms, a home theatre room, a recording studio, a swimming pool and spa, a pool house, a basketball court and a tennis court.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Snoop-Dogg.aspx
Pink in copyright battle
US singer Pink is facing legal troubles, with a New York painter suing her for featuring one of his works in the video for "U + Ur Hand".
Painter Vladimir Kush reckons Pink didn't have permission to use images from his "Countes Erotiques" in the clip, which was released back in 2006.
He's now filed a lawsuit against the singer and her label, Zomba, in the Manhattan District Court.
It's not the only headache for Pink, either. Her husband, motocross star Corey Hart, was recently snapped making out with a mystery woman in a nightclub.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Pink.aspx
Angelina's just dandy, says Common
US rapper Common, who recently topped the Billboard Charts with his Finding Forever LP, reckons Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie is a sweetheart.
Common is currently making the film Wanted, a comic book adaptation by director Timur Bekmambetov, and plays a hit-man.
"Angelina was the best, I've gotta tell you," he said of his co-star.
"She was, like, one of the coolest people I've ever met. I felt like the way she was encouraging me was just really warm and cool, and she brought the family around. I got to meet Brad – everybody was cool, just down-to-earth people there. It's good to meet somebody who's such a big superstar and just so cool."
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Common.aspx
Elvis fans survive scorching heat for anniversary celebrations
Elvis Presley fans have ignored the Memphis heatwave to gather at Graceland to mark the 30th anniversary of the singer's death.
"I can't describe how I feel about him because I've loved him since I was a teenager," uber fan Katie Brown said. "When I would hear him sing, I'd go into a trance and nothing else around me mattered."
Almost 50,000 fans are expected to visit over the next few days.
"According to our guys who do special events – and they're experts at counting heads – the estimate is somewhere around 40,000," police spokesman Vince Higgins said. Presley was buried at his home after dying on August 16, 1977.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Elvis-Presley.aspx
[source: NME.com] Jay-Z has topped Forbes.com's Hip-Hop Cash Kings list, earning an estimated AU$44million last year.
Jay-Z sold two million copies of his 11th studio album, Kingdom Come, in 2006, and served as president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings.
In addition to his music-related endeavours, Jay-Z is part owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, and endorses Budweiser, General Motors and Hewlett-Packard.
50 Cent came in a close second, netting an estimated AU$41m last year. The rapper has sold more than 11 million albums, as well as overseeing the G-Unit record and clothing labels. P Diddy, Timbaland and Dr. Dre closed out the top five.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Jay-Z.aspx
Ryan Adams quits drink and drugs
[source: NME.com] Ryan Adams claims he has quit drink and drugs for good.
The former Whiskeytown singer said he's gone cold turkey after kicking a long-term dependence on cocaine and heroin.
"I'd wake up, work, go for a drink or two and be exhausted," he told Rolling Stone magazine. "I would have drugs in order to never have to stop working in the night."
Adams revealed how, before recording new album Easy Tiger, his drug of choice was snorting a combination of heroin and cocaine.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Ryan-Adams.aspx
Violent Femmes in lawsuit
[source: NME.com] Violent Femmes members Brian Ritchie (bass) and Gordon Gano (vocals) are embroiled in a lawsuit over song credits and royalties.
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in Manhattan, accuses Gano of trashing the band's reputation by allowing its signature hit, "Blister In The Sun", to be used in an ad for fast food company Wendy's.
Gano called the lawsuit a "surprise" and added: "We just played a really, really good tour… Since the early 80s, everything's really good. We're playing better than ever."
The lawsuit said: "This action is the unfortunate culmination of an ongoing intra-band dispute between Ritchie and Gano over Gano's misappropriation and misadministration of Ritchie's interests in the jointly-owned songs and assets of the band."
The suit seeks a ruling declaring Ritchie half owner of the band's songs and an accounting of past and future royalties and unspecified damages.
Gano declined to respond in detail to the claims, except to say he wrote the band's songs… with one or two exceptions.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Violent-Femmes.aspx
Primal Scream join Thievery Corp man on new project
[source: NME.com] Thievery Corporation's Rob Garza has recruited members of Primal Scream to contribute to his new project, Dust Galaxy.
Primal Scream keyboardist Martin Duffy and drummer Darrin Mooney lent a hand on Dust Galaxy's self-titled album, which is due out in the US on Tuesday November 6.
Cornershop's Adam Blake and Didi Gutman of Brazilian Girls also contributed to the album, which is more rock-oriented than the electronica-based Thievery Corporation.
"This project finally allows me to step out from behind the control booth to continue expressing myself as a songwriter as well as a performer and musician," Garza said.
Dust Galaxy tracklisting:
"Sun In Your Head"
"Limitless"
"Mother Of Illusion"
"It's All Yours"
"River Of Ever Changing Forms"
"Sons Of Washington"
"Cherubim Sing"
"Overhead"
"Down"
"Come Hear The Tru"
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Primal-Scream.aspx
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Thievery-Corporation.aspx
Radiohead: No new album until 2008
[source: NME.com] Radiohead will not release their seventh album until 2008, despite having mastered the record in New York last month.
The band are currently out of contract and there is still no word on which label will release the music.
Meanwhile, Thom Yorke, under the pseudonym Dr Tchock, is set to re-issue Dead Children Playing, his literary collaboration with Radiohead cover artist Stanley Donwood.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Radiohead.aspx
Judge dismisses Michael Jackson's latest lawsuit
Embattled US pop star Michael Jackson has finally won a legal battle, with a Los Angeles judge dismissing the request of Nona Paris Lola Jackson to be awarded joint custody of the singer's children.
The 36-year-old woman claimed she was the natural mother to Jackson's ten-year-old son, Prince Michael, and nine-year-old daughter, Paris. However, Judge Robert Schnider didn't buy it.
"I feel her evidence fails to establish any genetic relationship," he said, "between herself and the Jackson-Rowe children."
Jackson has always maintained the mother of his children was former nurse/wife Deborah Rowe.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Michael-Jackson.aspx
Madonna in shoot-up shock
Madonna has surprised some of her fellow airplane travellers by pulling out a syringe and injecting herself.
According to reports by Metro UK, passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight witnessed the singer pull out a vial of vitamins and inject herself before the plane landed. While a spokesperson for the 49-year-old wouldn't comment on the event, it's believed Madge – who ate no food and only drank water on the plane – was using vitamin jabs, apparently the latest fad in Hollywood.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Madonna.aspx
Snoop is a nightmare neighbour
US hip-hop star Snoop Doog – who was banned from entering Oz earlier this year – is apparently not the kind of guy you want to live next to.
Residents in Claremont, California, are reportedly overjoyed the rap star has at last sold his home.
"There were regular parties, and they were loud. So we would receive a lot of noise complaints," neighbour Capt. Gary Jenkins said.
"There were a lot of cars in the neighbourhood and people loitering around in the streets."
Snoop moved out of the eight-bedroom house after showing off the residence on MTV reality show Cribs. The pad included five bathrooms, a home theatre room, a recording studio, a swimming pool and spa, a pool house, a basketball court and a tennis court.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Snoop-Dogg.aspx
Pink in copyright battle
US singer Pink is facing legal troubles, with a New York painter suing her for featuring one of his works in the video for "U + Ur Hand".
Painter Vladimir Kush reckons Pink didn't have permission to use images from his "Countes Erotiques" in the clip, which was released back in 2006.
He's now filed a lawsuit against the singer and her label, Zomba, in the Manhattan District Court.
It's not the only headache for Pink, either. Her husband, motocross star Corey Hart, was recently snapped making out with a mystery woman in a nightclub.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Pink.aspx
Angelina's just dandy, says Common
US rapper Common, who recently topped the Billboard Charts with his Finding Forever LP, reckons Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie is a sweetheart.
Common is currently making the film Wanted, a comic book adaptation by director Timur Bekmambetov, and plays a hit-man.
"Angelina was the best, I've gotta tell you," he said of his co-star.
"She was, like, one of the coolest people I've ever met. I felt like the way she was encouraging me was just really warm and cool, and she brought the family around. I got to meet Brad – everybody was cool, just down-to-earth people there. It's good to meet somebody who's such a big superstar and just so cool."
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Common.aspx
Elvis fans survive scorching heat for anniversary celebrations
Elvis Presley fans have ignored the Memphis heatwave to gather at Graceland to mark the 30th anniversary of the singer's death.
"I can't describe how I feel about him because I've loved him since I was a teenager," uber fan Katie Brown said. "When I would hear him sing, I'd go into a trance and nothing else around me mattered."
Almost 50,000 fans are expected to visit over the next few days.
"According to our guys who do special events – and they're experts at counting heads – the estimate is somewhere around 40,000," police spokesman Vince Higgins said. Presley was buried at his home after dying on August 16, 1977.
http://bigpondmusic.com/Artist/Elvis-Presley.aspx
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