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The New York indie rockers’ new video premieres Friday night on ‘FNMTV.’By Danielle Beavers

If you don’t think one Ezra Koenig is enough, you’ll be pumped to see a flurry of his clones when Vampire Weekend debut the video for their song “Oxford Comma” on Friday (June 20).
Drawing inspiration from some of the members’ favorite films, the band winds up, well, all over the place: Expect farmers, revolutionaries, cowboys, Native Americans, kids and, yes, plenty of singer/guitarist Koenig.

“The concept is just like this one long shot — it’s set up on a dolly,” drummer Chris Tomson explained. “Basically, there’s action coming in and out and interacting with Ezra through the course of the song.”
The group recently teamed up with British director/comedian Richard Ayoade at Ronnybrook Farms in Ancramdale, New York, for the shoot, and their work will finally premiere Friday night on “FNMTV.”
“We definitely had a conscious idea,” bass player Chris Baio said of the band’s ambitious clip. “There’s a visual aspect, there’s a musical aspect. We’ve definitely tried to keep it unified and put some thought into what the cover was, what this is gonna look like. It’s just as important to us.”
It was also important to branch out a bit after the impression they made with the video for “A Punk,” which featured quirky, sped-up footage of the band playing in a large empty room.
“I feel like the last video had a certain kind of appeal that almost transcended what we were interested in,” Koenig said. “This video reflects a little bit more and, on a certain level, is a little more complicated, so this video is a good opportunity for us to try something new. It’s nice that now we’re at a point where we have more resources and we can talk to the director.”
Don’t miss the video premiere on “FNMTV,” Friday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.

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50 must remain unarmed and at “curbside” when dropping off the couple’s sonBy Gil Kaufman

The battle between 50 Cent and ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins — mother of the couple’s 11 year-old son, Marquise, whose house burned down in a suspicious fire earlier this month — heated up on Thursday when Tompkins took out a temporary restraining order against the rapper. The legal order, which requires 50 to forfeit all firearms and stay at “curbside” when picking up and dropping off Marquise, also bans 50 (born Curtis Jackson) from being on any property where Tompkins is, according to her lawyer, Paul Catsandonis.
“Threats have been made against my client and she needs to take the proper safeguards to protect herself and her family,” Catsandonis told MTV News. While the lawyer said the threats came from “Mr. Jackson,” he would not go into specifics.
One reason he declined to elaborate on the alleged threats was because 50 has filed a defamation lawsuit against Tompkins, who has accused him of being involved in the fire last month, which burned down the $4 million New York home owned by the rapper that she was living in with their son. The fire, which officials called “highly suspicious,” sent Tompkins and the child to the hospital for treatment for smoke inhalation.
Following the fire, TMZ.com aired footage of Tompkins stating that 50 was “obsessed” with her and that he’d recently threatened her life. “If he can’t have me, no one can,” Tompkins said. “He said that he was going to have someone come kill me, and see what he does. This is what he did.” An attorney for 50, Brett Kimmel — who could not be reached for comment at press time — said at the time of the fire that, “any suggestion that [50] had anything whatsoever to do with the fire at his home is outrageous and offensive.” 50 had tried to evict Tompkins from the property last month unless she began paying rent, Kimmel said, and the couple had been fighting in court over the property for several months.
Explaining the defamation suit, which was to be filed on Friday in New York, Kimmel reportedly told New York’s Daily News, “there comes a point where you can no longer sit on your hands and listen to her spread these falsehoods. Besides hurting his reputation, they have a damaging impact on their son.”
Catsandonis confirmed that he’d been served with the defamation papers, which he said alleged that his client was engaging in a “character assassination” of the rapper as a result of her comments following the fire. “They’re seeking $20 million in the defamation suit and also seeking enforcement of the visitation order from family court,” he said. As for the restraining order, it is temporary now, but Catsandonis, who called the defamation suit “baseless and retaliatory in nature,” said he will argue in court next month for a permanent order.
In responding to the defamation suit, Catsandonis said he is also considering filing a countersuit claiming defamation against his client.

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‘If they saying something crazy, it’s right there,’ Fif says of his need to record his phone calls.By Shaheem Reid

Round … um, everybody is losing count. On Thursday (June 19), 50 Cent told his side of the latest drama between him and Young Buck on New York’s Hot 97 radio station.
Earlier this week, 50 released portions of a call between him and Buck, in which his former crew member broke down in tears over his dismissal from the group and financial difficulties. Buck responded Wednesday afternoon with a dis record called “Taped Conversations.” 50 retaliated by putting out the entire phone call on ThisIs50.com.
“A lot of times people don’t see what the other person is doing,” 50 said, explaining to host Angie Martinez why he taped the talk between him and Buck. “They don’t understand the cause and effect. They don’t see the other person; they just pay attention to me.”
50 said the phone call took place just three months ago, at a time when he “was trying to be as helpful as possible” to Buck. 50 also said that he wasn’t coming with any records toward Buck, but did imply that their friendship is beyond repair.
“It’s crazy. When I see people showing me so many different things within their character, I don’t value them anymore,” the Unit’s leader said.
When asked if he taped all his phone conversations, 50 said, “With idiots, yeah! So if they saying something crazy, it’s right there.”
Right before the break, Fif told stories of Buck’s impulsive spending and once again alleged that he has a drug problem: “He needs to go to a program and get some real help,” 50 said. “Then maybe we can talk to each other.”
The MC brought up footage that recently appeared on the Internet in which Buck curses his former comrades during a concert.
“He’s in the middle of his show, saying ‘F’ me and everything else that created him.”
On Hot 97 on Friday at 12 p.m. ET, 50 plans to debut his new mixtape Sincerely Yours, featuring him and his team rhyming over old-school R&B beats.

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Police say two brothers had been in altercation with T.I. and his entourage in a club earlier that night.By Gil Kaufman

More than two years after the highway gun battle that resulted in the death of T.I.’s childhood friend and assistant, Philant Johnson, police have arrested two Cincinnati brothers they accuse of being the triggermen in the assault.
Hosea Thomas, 34, and Padron Thomas, 40, have been charged with murder and felonious assault in the May 3, 2006, incident, which killed Johnson, 26, and wounded three others, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
T.I. (born Clifford Harris) had performed a gig at the Cincinnati club Bogart’s on the night of the incident. Several witnesses told the paper that tensions had mounted in the club after T.I.’s crew threw money into the audience from the stage. Police say that the Thomas brothers were present at an afterparty held at the Club Ritz, where they were allegedly involved in a series of altercations with the Atlanta rapper’s entourage. Cincinnati Homicide Detective Tim Gormly told the paper that the suspects wanted to join T.I. and his group in the club’s VIP area, but they were denied entrance. At some point in the night, one of the Thomas brothers was hit in the head with a bottle, Gormly said.
T.I. and his crew left the club in a pair of vans and were followed by two SUVs, police said. At 3:30 a.m. near a highway ramp close to the club, the men in the SUVs began opening fire on the rapper’s entourage, killing Johnson — a lifelong friend of T.I.’s — wounding the others and causing slight injuries to T.I. from flying glass.
“It was just a total accumulation of everything that happened that night,” Gormly said.
Hosea Thomas, whose past criminal history includes convictions for drug possession and trafficking, was arrested in the Johnson shooting on Wednesday and is being held without bond. Padron Thomas, a listed sex offender who was previously convicted of robbery and rape, is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for an unrelated drug case, the Enquirer reported. Each brother was charged with murder and seven counts of felonious assault — one for each person in the vehicles. Hosea Thomas was also charged with having weapons despite a previous conviction, and Padron Thomas was charged with tampering with evidence.
Police said solving the case was difficult because the shooting happened in a moving car and there weren’t many witnesses who actually saw the shots fired. Even after identifying the Thomas brothers, it took months before there was sufficient evidence to charge them, Gormly told the paper.
Johnson’s family has been calling police often, looking for answers since his death. Gormly said he was glad to be able to call Johnson’s mother Wednesday night with good news. “A family that keeps in touch over two years, ­you know they really care for Philant,” he said. “So, yeah, it feels good to give them the news.”
T.I., who gave the eulogy at Johnson’s funeral, recently told MTV News that his arrest last year on charges of illegally attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers was, in some ways, tied to the shooting of his friend.
As part of his community service, the rapper has been telling kids not to get too caught up in the emotions of the moment. “I’ve experienced it. All that forward-thinking and transitioning from one area of life to another area of life — all that was flipped upside down and scrambled all the way up after Philant died in Cincinnati,” he said. “Everything was, like, ‘OK. I thought I had everything under control. Now, obviously, this new person I’ve become has cost my homeboy his life.’ It caused me to think differently in certain ways, and in hindsight, I can say I was sadly mistaken.”

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Just before he made it big, Koenig was an eighth-grade English teacher getting gum stuck on his chair.By Nicole Guanlao, with additional reporting by Joseph Patel

BROOKLYN, New York — What does Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig have in common with Sting and Gene Simmons? It’s definitely not a shared sense of style. But like Sting and Simmons, the cardigan-and-Top-Sider-sporting 23-year-old spent a year as the antithesis of the flashy, rule-breaking rock star: a teacher.
Before belting out tunes like “Oxford Comma” and “A Punk” in front of sold-out crowds and landing on the cover of Spin — along with bassist Chris Baio, keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and drummer Chris Tomson — Koenig was juggling band practice and performances with a day job as an eighth-grade teacher at Junior High School 258 in Brooklyn, New York.
“It was a pretty hectic lifestyle,” Koenig said. “I mean, [being a full-time musician] is a hectic lifestyle too, but to teach all day, then go record or try to, you know, play a show, and then wake up and go to work again was pretty difficult.”
Koenig’s students didn’t make life any easier for the recent Columbia University grad, who landed the job in the rough school through Teach for America. Upon first glance at Koenig’s boat shoes, members of his English class knew their new teacher would be the butt of jokes and the victim of pranks, recalls Koenig’s former student, 15-year-old Quraan Jones.
“We would call him Peter Pan, Spider-Man, Ashton Kutcher, every name in the book,” Jones laughed. The students were surprised that the man standing before them not only ditched the quintessential teacher wardrobe, but also looked young enough to be in a class with them.
“I couldn’t believe he was my teacher, because it looked like he just got out of high school,” said Isaiah White, 15, another former student.
Despite the students’ countless attempts to push Koenig’s buttons, Jones says that for the most part, he was a “laid-back” teacher who formed bonds with students and managed to win the class over by the end of the year. He even shared some well-guarded secrets with a chosen few.
“Towards the end of the year, I would stay after class with him, and we spoke and he told me, ‘Oh, I’m like 23. Don’t tell anybody!’ ” said Jones.
Along with concealing his age, Koenig also tried his best to prevent the class from finding out that he was a member of a band that was already beginning to generate buzz online.
“I guess there were a few times where I had to bring a guitar to school, so even just the fact that I played guitar impressed some of the kids,” Koenig said. “And then from there, I guess, you know with Googling and stuff, some of the kids found [the band's MySpace page].”
But Jones doesn’t remember the class’ reaction to Koenig’s guitar-strumming in quite the same way.
“He would bring [his guitar] from time to time and practice in class, and then we would be like, ‘You’re wack!’ and then play jokes on him,” Jones recalled.
During one of their hangout sessions after school, Koenig finally came clean to Jones about his rock-and-roll dreams.
The few students who knew about Koenig’s other life couldn’t picture him anywhere else but in a classroom and doubted that the same teacher they played tricks on would ever find fame.
“When I first saw him on MTV, I was really shocked and surprised,” said White. “I couldn’t believe it was him.”
But maybe all of the paper-ball fights, gum on his chair and objects thrown at his hair prepared Koenig for equally unforgiving rock-club audiences. Eventually, Koenig’s students also became his fans, posting comments of support and encouragement on the band’s MySpace page. Thanks to a special invite by their onetime teacher, Jones and White even attended a Vampire Weekend concert.
“One day, he called me and told me, ‘Oh, I’m going to have a show. Come here,’ ” Jones said. “So when I came, I listened to his music, and I thought it was good.”
In the fall of 2007, a deal with XL Records cut short Koenig’s teaching career. But despite the fact that Vampire Weekend were a featured artist on MTV, made the Billboard top 20 and appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” Koenig’s students refuse to see their former teacher as Ezra, the rock star.
“I still see him as the same Mr. Koenig,” Jones said. “I still have that thing in my mind that this is the same man we threw paper at, wrote on his shirt and put gum on his chair.”

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‘Puff surprised me with it,’ singer says of Weezy’s guest verse.By Shaheem Reid, with reporting by Yasmine Richard

Cassie just wants to be the wifey. Is that too much to ask for a gorgeous model/ singer/ Kanye West video co-star? Apparently so.
“It could go a bunch of different ways,” she said earlier this week in L.A. on the set of her video for “Official Girl.” Chris Robinson directed and the million-selling Lil Wayne guest-stars on the record, which was produced by Danjahandz. “For me, it meant being with somebody, but not really being with them and wanting their confirmation and wanting them to say it out loud: ‘I want to be your official girl.’
“I’ve had a past experience with it,” she continued. “You get through it, but it’s sort of challenging when you’re in that matrix and trying to figure things out. Then you realize at the end if the person wants to be with you, and it’s about how you feel and how you want it to be. So, unfortunately, that situation didn’t work out [for me]. But yes, I’ve been through it, and it happens to a lot of people. So I was happy to be a part of the song.”
In the video, Cass says, her choreography is at a whole new level. “I’ve never seen myself dance like this before,” she said.
“It’s a series of things,” she added about the clip’s plot. “You kind of catch me in a crazy-girl stage. It’s about the fly chick, she’s going into the hotel, feeling out her situation, talking to the guy who she thinks is there, but it’s really not. You have to see it. It’s hard to explain.”
Cassie said she couldn’t take any credit for Weezy F. Baby’s cameo in the song and video — all the credit goes to Sean Combs.
“Puff surprised me with it,” the singer said of Wayne’s verse. “He laid the verse. I had no idea. I got on the phone and said, ‘Thank you.’ It’s great. With how he’s doing now … he’s platinum today, and he decided on his platinum day to be here with me. It’s great. He’s one of the best rappers out right now.”
Cassie’s sophomore LP should arrive by September. It features production by Bryan Michael Cox, 7 Aurelius, Diddy, Mario Winans, Eric Hudson and Kanye West. Wayne is the only confirmed guest star.

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Brit filmed the cameo — separate from the group — last week.By Gil Kaufman

Britney Spears may have looked “hot and blond” in the cameo she filmed for the Pussycat Dolls’ new video, “When I Grow Up” — which will premiere on FNMTV Friday night — but we may never know just how hot and blond. Spears, who filmed a bit part in the video for the first single from the Dolls’ upcoming album last week in Los Angeles, was edited out of the final cut of the clip.
A spokesperson for the Dolls could not be reached for comment on why Spears was not included in the video. The group’s members did not elaborate on the edit during the taping of “FNMTV” Wednesday night in Los Angeles.
Spears was filmed last week driving in a car for her cameo, though an unnamed set source told US Magazine she did not interact with the group or dance while on set. “They all wave at each other as they are passing in traffic — that is it. Of course, Britney looks hot and blond. It is a very short sequence, but [Britney] had a lot of fun with it. Britney really likes the Dolls’ music and when she saw them on the MTV [Movie Awards], she was totally down to do the video,” the source told the magazine.
Neither Spears’ nor the Dolls’ spokespeople would comment on the shoot at the time and attempts to reach Spears’ representatives on Thursday (June 12) about the now-shelved cameo were unsuccessful. The video was filmed just a few days after the Dolls performed the song in public for the first time at the MTV Movie Awards.
The hook-up with the Dolls was part of what has been a measured return to the spotlight for Spears after more than a year of personal and professional missteps and drama. It came on the heels of a two-episode arc on “How I Met Your Mother” that has sparked talk this week of a possible Emmy nomination.

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In second day of deliberation, judge says they ‘are at the point of no return.’By Jennifer Vineyard

CHICAGO — It seems it isn’t easy being a member of the jury on R. Kelly’s child-pornography trial One juror had a temper tantrum at dinner Thursday night and nearly got himself kicked off the case, and another asked to be relieved of duty on Friday (June 13), during the second day of deliberations.
Shortly before noon on Friday, juror #40, a black male in his 40s, sent a note to the judge asking, “How can I be removed and go home? I really need to.”
In a hearing to determine whether he would be relieved, #40 said his cousin passed away on Monday, and he wanted to find out about funeral arrangements. He also said his uncle and wife were hospitalized this week. But Judge Vincent Gaughan asked the man to remain on the jury and told the court deputies to call the man’s family members for information on the cousin’s funeral.
Sequestration is also weighing on juror #44, a white male in his 40s, who was upset with the table service at the restaurant where all the jurors were dining.
“I’ve been waiting for a f—ing half-hour for a drink. All I want is a couple beers and a hamburger,” juror #44 yelled, according to the testimony of three deputies who were sworn in during a hearing Friday to discuss the matter.
After his outburst, the deputies said they told him, “That’s enough of that language.” His fellow jurors told him, “There’s no need for that.”
“You guys have been monitoring me all day; you know I’m not drunk,” # 44 allegedly responded. The deputies said, they took him outside, where they had to restrain him, claiming he turned violent — even though he was also laughing and calling himself “an a–hole.”
Gaughan told the court that it was an option to remove the juror, but the defense objected. “We ask you to direct the jury to continue,” Kelly attorney Sam Adam Sr. said.
Gaughan questioned #44 to see what the problem was and whether he would be able to continue deliberations without incident, but the juror laughed in response.
“Why are you laughing?” Gaughan asked. “You’re grinning at me. Do you have mental problems?”
Juror 44 explained that he was becoming a bit claustrophobic. The judge advised him that his “actions have consequences.”
“I don’t want any more outbursts,” Gaughan said.
After the judge polled the jury to make sure the other members were willing to continue deliberations with the problem juror, # 44 rejoined the panel. Five minutes later, however, the other jurors sent the judge a note saying they wanted to discuss the matter further.
But later on Friday, the jury asked if they could deliberate until 7 or 8 pm CT. “I think we’re at the point of no return,” Gaughan said, inferring that the jury would reach a verdict without any further changes. He then released the three alternates.
[This story was originally published at 1:50 pm E.T. on 6.13.2008]
Find a review of the major players in the R. Kelly trial here. For full coverage of the R. Kelly case, see the R. Kelly Reports and check out this complete timeline of the events leading up to the trial.

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‘I just wanted to write music … that I think Arnold would want to sing over,’ Tim Lambesis says.By Chris Harris

As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis isn’t ashamed to admit it: He’s an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan, through and through.
“I love watching his movies,” the singer told Metal File last week, just as his band prepared to hit the road as part of this summer’s Warped Tour. “I don’t see how you could put an Arnold movie on and not be entertained. Even the lesser of his films, like [1994's] ‘Junior,’ the ones that were goofy and sort of out there for him, they’re still pretty great.”
But Lambesis’ unusual adulation for the Governator extends beyond his action-packed DVD collection. In fact, his appreciation runs so deep, the “Twins” thespian inspired Lambesis to strike out on his own, with a new side project inspired by Arnie, called Austrian Death Machine. Lambesis plans to release his band’s forthcoming debut album, Total Brutal, on July 22.
In essence, though, it’s really a Lambesis solo LP. Not only did he write all the band’s songs, he performs all of the material on Total Brutal, which was recorded inside his home studio in between As I Lay Dying tours.
“This is one of the albums where the recording took longer than the writing process,” Lambesis explained. “I actually wrote most of the songs in about a week, because I just wanted to write ‘em all before I ran out of time between tours. Then we went on tour for a while, and I came back and started recording the tracks. Because it’s not a full band, and just one person, it was a lot harder to get everything right. When As I Lay Dying records, everyone knows their parts perfectly well, and they’re all more than capable of playing everything perfectly. In my case, I had to pull a little studio magic to make everything right. It’s a solo project where I’m trying to do everything, and there’s no shame in a little ProTools trickery.”
The idea for Austrian Death Machine — which Lambesis hopes to tour with this fall — came to him during a casual conversation with some friends backstage while AILD were on the tour.
“I think an Arnold one-liner came up in the conversation, and I was saying how amazing it would be to start a band where people were actually piling up at the front of the stage to sing along to those one-liners,” he said. “It was just a thought at first, but about a year later, I had some time off, and so I just made it happen. I wrote as many songs as I could, recorded them, and now, I have a full album. It actually surprised me how easily it came together, because it was something that I just did on a whim. And it sort of surpasses my own expectations.
“[Austrian Death Machine] is a chance for me to show, musically, what I’m capable of,” he continued. “I didn’t try to write the most technical music in the world; I just wanted to write music that had a certain type of aggression that I think Arnold would want to sing over. A lot of [As I Lay Dying's] fans don’t realize that, in addition to being a singer, I’m also very involved in the songwriting process.”
Total Brutal will feature 17 tracks, including “Come With Me If You Want to Live” (which boasts a guitar solo from Killswitch Engage’s Adam Dutkiewicz), “Who Is Your Daddy, and What Does He Do” and “It’s Not a Tumor.” Producer Jason Suecof (God Forbid, Trivium); AILD’s Nick Hipa; Haste the Day’s Jason Barnes; and Daath’s Eyal Levi and Emil Werstler all contribute guitar solos to the effort. While Austrian Death Machine’s songs do feature some of Arnold’s most famous lines, as provided by a Schwarzenegger impersonator, the actual singing is handled by Lambesis.
“Part of what I wanted to do with this band was do things stereotypically on purpose,” he said. “Every band wants to be unique and avoid doing what’s typical for the genre. In this case, I wanted it to be absolutely typical, so it’s everything you’d expect to hear from a metal band, everything that embodies metal, and I think that’s what makes Arnold the perfect frontman. At least as a character in movies, he embodied everything that’s metal: He’s a huge, muscular guy, and he knows how to win a fight. I think the ability to poke fun at heavy music, while at the same time writing really brutal music, is a fun combination. I’m really proud of the record came, and I think As I Lay Dying fans will definitely be able to latch onto it. It’s less melodic and more thrash brutality. It has a little more of a tough-guy feel — on purpose.”
For Lambesis, working on the Austrian Death Machine record wasn’t nearly as intense as his work with AILD, because he didn’t have to endure the same emotionally draining experience he does when he writes lyrics for that band.
“Everything in As I Lay Dying is really very passionate for me, vocally and lyrically, and there’s a lot of conviction behind what I write, so I wanted to do something that was a little bit on the lighter side,” he said. “I felt Arnold was the perfect guy to be in a band with. He’s the most brutal guy in the world, and his movies are just pure testosterone. It seems to be perfect for the genre of metal — this brutal warrior who is able to destroy all these villains.”
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Underoath have titled their forthcoming album Lost in the Sound of Separation. We recently spoke to the band about the effort, and you can read all about it here. …
Looks like those rumors about Mastodon’s next album being a concept piece inspired by Czarist Russia are true. This image of Rasputin has been making the Internet rounds as of late, adding more credence to the tittle-tattle. Mastodon recently entered the studio to commence tracking of the disc, alongside producer Brendan O’Brien (Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots). It’s believed the record will be ready in time for release later this year. …
While the rest of Velvet Revolver continue to search for Scott Weiland’s replacement, guitarist Slash is apparently working on his solo debut. He told Spinner.com that he’s “working on it pretty aggressively right now, while I have the time, because as soon as Velvet finds its singer, then it’s going to be off to the races with that.” Slash doesn’t know when the record might be ready for release but is hoping to have it out before the next VR LP hits stores. “It’ll be my first solo record,” he added. “All the other ones were just me putting other bands together and going out and just jamming. This will actually be a little bit more personal.” …
If you haven’t already, you should head on over to MTV’s Headbangers Blog, where right now, you can stream Judas Priest’s entire new album, Nostradamus. In next week’s Metal File, we’ll be bringing you an interview with guitarist Glen Tipton, in which he talks all about the LP and the possibility of his band being voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. …
Did Light This City break up? That’s what we’re hearing, but no official word has come down from the band or the label, but a statement should be released before the weekend, according to one member of the group, who asked not to be named. The rumors started soon after the band pulled out of its current tour with Death Angel, God Forbid and Soilent Green and nixing an appearance on the upcoming Thrash and Burn Tour, with Darkest Hour. …
In other breakup news, it seems Long Island’s From Autumn to Ashes have gone the way of the dodo — maybe. Frontman Francis Mark said in an online post: “At this point, I feel that we have accomplished everything we could have hoped for with FATA. It doesn’t feel much like a breakup; just feels like the end. It’s complete. I would say that we are going on indefinite hiatus, because the term breakup suggests a more negative circumstance.” …
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