To all of my friends, friends to be and everyone that visits this site: To you and yours Have a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009.
Please have fun if that’s what is in your plans for tonight, and PLEASE do not drive impaired. You can be a designated drunk, as long as you have a designated driver!
Talk to you next year.
” DOOMSDAY BLUES” E.P. OUT NOW !!! ”
Long Island hard rockers The Jett Blackk Heart Attack have added new tracks to their Myspace page for a total of 5 tracks from their new EP
Another Pretty Face
Hell or High Water
Heads or Tails
The Money Shot
Little Miss Untrue
6 AM TimeAgain
Check them out at www.myspace.com/thejettblackkheartattack
The band is comprised of Jonathan Cox- Guitars, Joseph Rubino- Bass, David Musser- Drums. Sir David Case-Vocal Maestro
You can catch them live at MULCAHEYS (CENTEREACH) CENTEREACH, New York on Jan 17, 2009
The Cats Meow: Rachel Weisz as Catwoman ?
Batman could return to Chicago as early as February
SOURCE: By MATT BARTOSIK
The latest gossip on the next Batman movie involves The Riddler, The Penguin, and Catwoman.
Did you get a DVD of The Dark Knight for the holidays this year? If you’ve had a chance to watch it, you may be wondering when director Christopher Nolan’s next installment in the Batman series is coming along.
Rumor has it that Nolan’s third superhero chapter will enter pre-production in February, and offices for the production could open as early as next month. But never mind all that, who’s going to be in the movie?
The most popular whispers around the Hollywood water cooler involve Johnny Depp as The Riddler and Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Penguin. But The Dark Knight co-writer David Goyer told MTV in October not to believe anything they hear.
“Chris and I haven’t even talked about it. He quite understandably is taking a long, long vacation and wants to purge himself,” said Goyer.
According to E! Online, other casting possibilities include Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz as Catwoman.
Whatever happens, we will trust Nolan to do the right thing, and he can take as much time as he likes if it means avoiding another Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy flop.
From Alex Zander and MK MAGAZINE Have a happy and safe Alc O Holiday Season. Please drive carefully and use a designated driver of some sort, a friend, a stranger, a cab, public transportation or get a room.
We’d like to continue polluting your minds for many more to come. And thanks for all the years of support. - az
Ace Frehley revealed during an appearance on Eddie Trunk’s “Friday Night Rocks” radio show on New York’s Q104.3 FM as part of this year’s edition of “The Original Merry Kissmas Special” that he will unveil the artwork for his long-awated new solo album via his newly launched web site, AceFrehley.com, on January 5. The CD is tentatively due in the spring.
Catch Ace on VH1 Classic’s “That Metal Show” hosted by Eddie Trunk. The program premiered Saturday night, December 20, at 11 p.m. and will repeat several times in the coming weeks.
In an early 2008 interview with Billboard, Frehley stated about his forthcoming solo album, “Basically, I’m trying to get back into the mindset I was in when I did my first solo record [1978's 'Ace Frehley']. That record seemed to have all the elements everybody liked — a real cool instrumental, a hit single, some real heavy rockers, a nice variety of different genres of music.”
Among his favorite new tracks are “A Little Below the Angels”, hard-rocking “Pain in the Neck” and an instrumental called “Fractured Quantum”, which is a follow-up to his previous instrumentals “Fractured Mirror” and “Fractured Too”. Another favorite is “groove song” titled “Genghis Khan”, which he likens in tone to LED ZEPPELIN’s “Kashmir”.
Frehley told MyrtleBeachOnline.com that he’s shooting for 12 tracks on his next album, his first in 18 years. Studio work has spanned several months, and some of the songs go back 12 years.
Frehley recently spent time on the road fronting a band that featured second guitarist Derek Hawkins, drummer Scot Coogan (ex-BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION) and bassist Anthony Esposito (ex-LYNCH MOB).
Tim Skold (SHOTGUN MESSIAH, KMFDM, MARILYN MANSON) and Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM) are collaborating on a new album/project called SKOLD VS KMFDM. The hard-hitting, fun and aggressive industrial rock album will feature 22 tracks and more than 70 minutes of quality mayhem. The songs tend to combine the technical guitar work and lyrical wordplay of SKOLD with the heavy beat electro formula of KMFDM. Neither a SKOLD album or simply KMFDM, it is said to be a wonderful combination of both entities.
For audio samples, go to this location www.kmfdmrecords.com/svk/
Skold joined KMFDM in 1997 and appeared on the album “Symbols”, writing and singing on the song “Anarchy”, which became a hit in clubs and spawned subsequent remixes of the track done by Skold himself. His next album with KMFDM, “Adios”, was released in 1999, with Skold taking a more prominent role in the band — not only as co-vocalist, co-writer, and bassist, but also as producer, engineer, and programmer alongside KMFDM’s founder Sascha Konietzko. Due to turmoil within the band, Konietzko and Skold parted ways and disbanded KMFDM in 1999, re-starting as MDFMK the following year. They released just one album: “MDFMK” (2000, Universal Records). The band, with Lucia Cifarelli (formerly of DRILL), took on a more “futuristic” sound, which contained less of the four on the floor KMFDM was known for and added a mix of drum and bass, trance and Europop, primarily in a production style leaning towards “electronica.” MDFMK featured all three members sharing vocal duties. Their song “Missing Time” was used in the animated movie “Heavy Metal 2000″. A couple of years later the trio reformed KMFDM and released “Attak” before Skold left to join MARILYN MANSON.
AZ and Skold in Hollywood CA
Scott Fayner who is best known as a writer for HUSTLER and is a HUGE Van Halen fan, recently posted a link to this website http://thetyser.com/ and it is just too much fun.
Go ahead and check it out.
Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS, reports: Many are expressing surprise that GUNS N’ ROSES’ “Chinese Democracy” sold only [261,000] in its first week as a Best Buy exclusive. But those who have closely analyzed the situation say that comparing GNR’s total with the 802,000 tallied by AC/DC in its Wal-Mart exclusive is like comparing apples and oranges, in that radically different circumstances surrounded the two projects.
AC/DC outsold GN’R by [more than] 500,000 not because of any particular difference between the two retailers, but as a result of the amount of exposure AC/DC had leading up to release relative to GUNS — and most of the blame for that rests at the feet of Axl Rose. IGA (Interscope Geffen A&M) and Best Buy were handicapped on a number of levels, due in large part to Rose’s refusal to participate in the setup — dramatically reducing the ability of the label and Best Buy to market the release.
SOURCE: Undercover
by Paul Cashmere
Film-maker Eddie Martin is working on a movie about AC/DC legend Bon Scott.
The yet-to-be titled movie is in its early stages. “We’ve been working heavily on it for a couple of months. It’s early days,” Martin tells Undercover News. “We are in the writing process. We’ve been meeting with Gaby, Mary, Irene and The Valentines crew, people like Vince Lovegrove, Bon’s early friends”. (Irene was Bon’s former wife).
Eddie says he is still looking for people from the era who knew Bon. “It is at research stage,” he says.
Casting is also being considered. Tom Budge (Three Dollars, Australian Rules, The Night We Called It A Day) is the front-runner for the part of Angus Young but Bon is still to be cast. “We have been considering casting and we are not going to contain this to Australia,” he says.
One of the things that has come out in his research is that despite the numerous books written about AC/DC, he feels no-one has actually nailed the real story yet. “Obviously we have gone through most of them, but talking to Bon’s friends they aren’t happy with the books and feel they have been misrepresented. We want to go much deeper with the movie,” he says.
The person Eddie is desperate to find went by the nickname Silver. “She is definitely the one person we want to find,” he says. “She was an Adelaide girl who lived with him in London after he broke up with Irene”.
It will be a number of years before we see the Bon Scott movie on the big screen. “We’d love to be shooting in 12-18 months,” Eddie says.
Ronald Belford ‘Bon’ Scott was born on July 9, 1946 and died on February 19, 1980.
Bon was born in Scotland and the family migrated to Australia in 1952.
Bon formed his first band The Spektors in 1964. Next came The Valentines, then Fraternity, and in 1974, he joined AC/DC, replacing original singer Dave Evans.
Bon died before ever really reaping the rewards that AC/DC would later bring. At the time of his death, the current album at the time, ‘Highway To Hell’ was just reaching Top 20 status in the USA.
Bon Scott was 33 when he departed the planet. He died after a night of drinking in a car outside 67 Overhill Road in East Dulwich in South London.
WHITE ZOMBIE’s 4-CD/1-DVD box set, “Let Sleeping Corpses Lie” (Geffen/UMe), sold 2,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
A trailer for “Let Sleeping Corpses Lie” can be viewed below.
Released on November 25, the CDs bring together for the first time all 64 original studio recordings released by the band led by Rob Zombie during its 1985-1996 career. The DVD offers nine music videos, 10 live performances, and some hidden gems.
Disc One of “Let Sleeping Corpses Lie” includes all of the tracks released on the New York City band’s own Silent Explosion label — the four songs on the 1985 “Gods On Voodoo Moon” EP, of which only 300 copies were pressed; the two songs on the 1986 “Pig Heaven” EP, which had only 1,000 made; and the seven on 1987’s “Psycho-Head Blowout” EP, which NIRVANA’s Kurt Cobain called one of his favorite albums.
Disc Two encompasses WHITE ZOMBIE’s first two full-length albums, 1987’s “Soul-Crusher”, which began on Silent Explosion but was re-released by Caroline Records the following year, and 1989’s “Make Them Die Slowly”. Disc Three offers the three-selection “God Of Thunder” EP and the band’s 1992 major label debut, “La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1″, which broke the band into the Top 40, earned double platinum and spawned the Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy-nominated “Thunder Kiss ‘65″ and “Black Sunshine” (with Iggy Pop). Also heard is “I Am Hell” from the soundtrack to the 1993 animated flick “The Beavis & Butt-head Experience”.
Disc Four opens with “Children Of The Grave” from a 1994 BLACK SABBATH tribute album and “Feed The Gods” from that year’s “Airheads” soundtrack album. The centerpiece, however, is 1995’s “Astro-Creep: 2000, Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head”, which ranked in the Top 10 for two months, was certified triple platinum and spun off the Modern Rock Top 10, Grammy-nominated “More Human Than Human”. The 64 “Let Sleeping Corpses Lie” recordings conclude with 1996 soundtrack contributions to “Escape From L.A.”, “Beavis And Butt-head Do America” and “The Crow: City Of Angels”, with its Grammy-nominated cover of the disco hit “I’m Your Boogieman”.
Among the DVD’s videos are those for “More Human Than Human”, winner of the MTV Video Music Award for Best Hard Rock Video, as well as “Thunder Kiss ‘65″, “Black Sunshine”, “Super-Charger Heaven”, “I’m Your Boogieman” and “The One”. Live performances include “Soul-Crusher”, “Spiderbaby (Yeah Yeah Yeah)”, “I Am Hell” and “Creature Of The Wheel”.
WHITE ZOMBIE officially disbanded in 1998 after the release of the “Hellbilly Deluxe”, the triple platinum solo debut for Rob Zombie, who has since enjoyed continued success both on record and as a film director with his vision of the dark side.
A review on Amazon.com read
“What I am so sorely diappointed with is the package. The “fondlability and fetishability factor,” to misquote Frank Zappa. White Zombie has been almost as much about the image and artwork as the music and the buyer is left swindled. I recall a radio interview in 1995 or so promoting Astro Creep: 2000 — Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head in which Rob spoke about how much the band enjoyed giving the fans a complete package that included stickers, posters, etc. Here we get a small, sepia digipak with some artwork, all in the same tone, none in color, no lyrics, no notes from the band members or critics, no complete historical articles, no original cover art, NOTHING. We get something nice to load into iTunes and then file onto the shelf. I was so looking forward to tearing this sucker open and spending an afternoon reading through its book - now I guess I’ll re-watch The Devil’s Rejects (Unrated Widescreen Edition) instead.”