British party pals Kelly Osbourne and Amy Winehouse are planning to collaborate on Osbourne's next album. Osbourne wants to first finish up her TV projects in the works before beginning her third album following 2002's debut 'Shut Up' and 2005's follow-up 'Sleeping In The Nothing'.
[Via Contact Music]
[Kristi Lee's Dirrty Mouth- Kelly Osbourne Teams Up With Amy Winehouse?]
Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado will be hosting the Monolith Festival this year. The venue has been labeled as one of the coolest places to catch a show in America. Along with the great venue will come great headliners such as The Flaming Lips, Spoon, The Decemberists and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Monolith will take place September 14 and 15!
[Via Pitchfork]
The Smashing Pumpkins had originally scheduled only 17 performance dates split between San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium and Asheville's Orange Peel. Three more dates have been scheduled after fans crashed servers on Sunday night buying tickets. Ticketweb, a smaller ticket vendor, had to transfer sales to Ticketmaster in order to handle the fans ticket buying requests.
[Via Gigwise]
Roxwel has found four new tracks off the new Velvet Revolver album "Liberated." The band hired on Pearl Jams producer Brendan O'Brien to produce the new tracks and we will all be able to hear the rest of them July 3rd when the album hits stores. VR is currently on a small north American tour.
[Via Blabbermouth]
Marilyn Manson's new self directed video "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" ended up on YouTube last week. The video contained some very convincing sex scenes between Manson and his girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood that have caused a bit of controversy. Manson himself remained fairly neutral about the cause célèbre during a recent interview with MTV News. He did include that Evan should be paid VERY well because no one else could play the part.
Nine Inch Nails is NOT happy with their record label Universal Music Group for jacking up CD prices. Lead singer Trent Reznor feels record labels are getting more and more desperate from their "self inflicted wounds." Reznor compares prices of CD's with other newly released albums and found NIN pricier. When Reznor asked a label rep why he was told because they have "true fans" that will pay the price. Reznor was NOT at all happy with this answer and is planning a full-length remix collection of substance that will be announced soon.
[Via Punkbands]
Perry Farrell former frontman for Janes Addiction resurrected Lallapalooza in 2005 making it a once stop festival in Chicago's Grant Park. Now Farrell is looking into taking Lallapalooza around the world! He tells MTV News, "I'm going to look to take it global. I want to put together an event around the world in the next 10 years that will refashion, redress and transform. "I like the idea of being outdoors. It's something I'm looking into now, and if it happens, it will happen quick. That's my ambition."
The Exies lead singer Scott Stevens has no problem speaking his mind on Paris Hilton sentence to 45 days in jail. Stevens feels Paris "Did something anyone would be punished for. She's no different than anyone else, and she needs a reality check and needs to take the hit like everybody else would." If anyone wants join Stevens on his mission of keeping Hilton behind bars The Exies are making it possible by setting up a petition to on their Myspace page. Stevens isn't playing Simple Life favorites. Once he's done with Paris he plans on confronting Nicole Richie about her weight!
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