by Blogbot
SuicideGIrls hit the record release party for Escape The Fate’s self-titled major label debut at Crazy Girls in Hollywood this past Wednesday night. Folks were partying like Napster never happened, as the free (top shelf!) drinks flowed courtesy of the band’s new label, Interscope (who were also kind enough to comp the valet).
“The goal is the journey”
– Benji Madden
Though they may have joked about the trappings of fame in their 2002 breakout hit “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” brothers Benji and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte appreciate everything their success has brought. Having come from a broken home – and suffered the financial and emotional hardship that resulted from it – they also know the value of family, a theme which lies at the heart of their latest release Cardiology.
by AJ Focht
The music industry has won the day as file sharing program Limewire has been forced to stop its “searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality.” Limewire was ordered by US courts to shut down its services after being found in violation of mass copyright infringement.
This major file sharing service may have closed down but it is only a temporary block until its users find another site. The music industry has been fighting internet pirating sites since Napster, and for each victory they win another hundred sites pop up in their place. The Internet Industry Association says, “the music industry needs to focus on new business models.”
With that in mind, could MySpace be the answer the music industry is waiting for? With the launch of the new Myspace reboot, the site has taken a step away from the social networking world and is going in a new direction.
by Fred Topel
“I hope one day Poison will make another record.”
– Bret Michaels
Reality TV rarely represents anything viewers would recognize as actual reality. The Bachelor uses real people but puts them in a dating pageant that never seems to result in any actual marriages. Survivor drops them on an island where no one’s life is actually at risk, and it’s just a popularity contest in the end.
“Everything in life is fear based”
– Nikki Sixx
Its December 25th 1986, and Nikki Sixx is alone in his mansion, crouched naked under his Christmas tree with a needle in his arm, scribbling in his diary about watching his holiday spirit coagulate in a spoon. He writes, Merry Christmas its just you and me, diary. Welcome to my life.
This is just one scene from a particularly harrowing chapter in Motley Crue bassist and founder Nikki Sixxs new memoir The Heroin Diaries — a collection of riveting entries from his personal journals spanning one year from 1986 to 1987, a year he considers the height of his downward spiral into drug addiction. Its a story about drugs, depression, and the train-wreck of self-destruction — but ultimately its one mans story about survival told with unflinching and unapologetic honesty.
by Brett Warner
A mere two months after the dissolution of The Smiths, former New York Dolls fan club president Steven Patrick Morrissey released a single of his own, the now-classic “Suedehead” in February of 1988. The song was a bigger UK hit than any of his previous work with the band, and the defensively sardonic debut solo LP Viva Hate arrived that March. A falling out with producer and collaborator Stephen Street put plans to record a second album indefinitely on hold. As such, Morrissey released a string of hold-over singles: “The Last of the Famous International Playboys,” “Interesting Drug,” and “Ouija Board, Ouija Board” all in 1989. Critical backlash at “Ouija Board” -as well as an ongoing royalty dispute with former Smiths band makes Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke – nearly derailed Morrissey’s solo career altogether.
