CHILI PEPPER GOES TO MARS
The Mars Volta will get red hot on their upcoming album Amputechture, with some help from John Frusciante. The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist appears on the follow-up to their 2005 album, Frances the Mute, according to NME. How?d he get involved? Well, Frusciante is returning the favor, as Omar Rodriguez appears on a track on the Peppers new hit album, Stadium Arcadium. Stadium Arcadium comes in at number seven on this week?s Billboard chart.
SLASH PREPS NEW CD, SLASHES GN?R REUNION RUMORS
Fans of Guns N? Roses who thought there might be a chance that former guitarist Saul ?Slash? Hudson might return for a reunion will be disappointed to learn that is not going to happen. Slash told MTV News, ?I don?t know where [the rumors come] from, but I haven?t dealt with Guns N? Roses any more than I have in the last ten years. So, it?s not really a thing with me. I have, in the foreseeable future, no re-involvement with that band whatsoever.? Instead, the guitarist is fully involved in the upcoming second album from his multi-platinum new band, Velvet Revolver. Of the new record, Slash said, ?We?re in pre-production and it sounds amazing. I?m just really excited ?cause hopefully we?ll get this thing out before the year?s over. I don?t want to say [anything specific about] the songs, but the name for the album is Libertad, which is Spanish for liberty. It?s something that we feel strongly about: liberty, freedom, you know.? Meanwhile, music Slash wrote can be heard on the soundtrack to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, which is in theaters now.
PANIC CHANNEL SCORES MADDEN NFL 2007
Madden NFL 2007, the wildly popular video game, is due out on August 22nd and Panic Channel is among the 36 acts that will appear on the game. The game has a history of featuring breakthrough new artists. In the past, Madden introduced gamers to music from Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, the All-American Rejects, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, Jet, Yellowcard, Seether and Good Charlotte. This bodes well for Panic Channel, which is comprised of three former members of Jane?s Addiction. Panic Channel plans to promote the game with an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel on August 21st. MTV will also air a special on the ?Music in Madden? phenomenon which will air in late August. Meanwhile, negotiations are underway to include other bands on the game, such as Rise Against, Audioslave, the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Cartel.
VOODOO MUSIC FEST MYSTERY REVEALED!
The Red Hot Chili Pepper?s posted a very mysterious link on their Web site last week that was related to their upcoming show at the 2006 Voodoo Music Fest in New Orleans. The page requested you to enter your phone number and replied that you?d be hearing more soon. The news came via text message announcing other bands that are filling up the line-up. Who will join the Chili Peppers and Duran Duran? Well, My Chemical Romance, Blue October, The Flaming Lips, Kings of Leon, Wu-Tang Clan, Broken Social Scene are all on board. For more details on the event, which is scheduled for October 28th and 29th, head over to VoodooMusicFest.com.
EVANESCENCE TO PLACE 'CALL' IN AUGUST
Evanescence has officially picked "Call Me When You're Sober" as the first single from its upcoming new album, The Open Door. The song will arrive at radio stations around August 7th, while the new CD hits the streets on October 3rd. The band's second major label offering, The Open Door will follow up 2003's six-million-selling Fallen. When asked to describe the sound of the new disc, singer Amy Lee told LAUNCH it was hard to explain. ["It's different than the last album, but it's still Evanescence. I think the fans are really gonna love it. I'm a fan, I love this band, I wouldn't be doing it if I wouldn't love it, and I love it, so I guess that's sort of my gauge for everything. But it's different, it's kind of fun and sexy, but it's still, like, dark and, like, really epic at times."
DISTURBED: 'LAND OF CONFUSION' TIMELY AS EVER
The video for Disturbed's cover of the Genesis hit "Land Of Confusion" is in the final stages of production, with renowned comic artist Todd McFarlane directing. The memorable Genesis clip used eerie puppets to poke fun at figures such as Ronald Reagan, and Disturbed singer David Draiman told LAUNCH that the song's political content made a new version timely. "I think that that was part of the impetus of recording it. Danny (Donegan, guitarist) actually came up with the idea of trying it. I wasn't really all for it in the beginning. I'm not a huge Phil Collins fan. But I couldn't deny that the lyrical content of the song made sense and definitely fit the type of lyrical directions that I go in."
LACUNA COIL OFFERS LIVE TRACK, 'OFF-FEST' DATES
Lacuna Coil will make a live version of its new single, a cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence," available through iTunes today (Monday, June 26th), according to TotalRock.com. The track comes off the band's recently released fourth album, Karmacode, and follows first single "Our Truth." The Italian group will begin its stint on the main stage of this summer's Ozzfest on Thursday (June 29th) in Seattle, Washington and has also scheduled some "off-fest" dates in between Ozzfest stops.
QUICK HITS
ABC's free-episode feature ends this week, so watch Lost, Alias, Desperate Housewives and Commander in Chief while you still can.
Directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez chat about their next project in this interview.
The Pet Shop Boys' new video has been posted on their site...
...Meanwhile, their new CD and others are streaming on AOL.
Futurama is returning, thanks to Comedy Central.
A new Clerks 2 trailer has been posted.
THIS WEEKEND'S TOP TEN MOVIES - JUNE 23-25
1. Click, $40 million
2. Cars, $22.5 million
3. Nacho Libre, $12.1 million
4. Waist Deep, $9.5 million
5. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, $9.2 million
6. The Lake House, $8.3 million
7. The Break-Up, $6.1 million
8. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, $4.75 million
9. X-Men: The Last Stand, $4.4 million
10. The Da Vinci Code, $4 million
LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for MONDAY, JUNE 26
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Kevin Spacey, the Streets
JAY LENO (NBC) - Kate Bosworth, Damon Wayans, India Arie
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Regis Philbin, John Landis, Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Ray Romano, Sue Johanson, Jose Gonzalez
CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Lucy Liu, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
DAILY SHOW - Lance Armstrong
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - Jason Alexander, Meagan Good, Jamie Kennedy
The Mars Volta will get red hot on their upcoming album Amputechture, with some help from John Frusciante. The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist appears on the follow-up to their 2005 album, Frances the Mute, according to NME. How?d he get involved? Well, Frusciante is returning the favor, as Omar Rodriguez appears on a track on the Peppers new hit album, Stadium Arcadium. Stadium Arcadium comes in at number seven on this week?s Billboard chart.
SLASH PREPS NEW CD, SLASHES GN?R REUNION RUMORS
Fans of Guns N? Roses who thought there might be a chance that former guitarist Saul ?Slash? Hudson might return for a reunion will be disappointed to learn that is not going to happen. Slash told MTV News, ?I don?t know where [the rumors come] from, but I haven?t dealt with Guns N? Roses any more than I have in the last ten years. So, it?s not really a thing with me. I have, in the foreseeable future, no re-involvement with that band whatsoever.? Instead, the guitarist is fully involved in the upcoming second album from his multi-platinum new band, Velvet Revolver. Of the new record, Slash said, ?We?re in pre-production and it sounds amazing. I?m just really excited ?cause hopefully we?ll get this thing out before the year?s over. I don?t want to say [anything specific about] the songs, but the name for the album is Libertad, which is Spanish for liberty. It?s something that we feel strongly about: liberty, freedom, you know.? Meanwhile, music Slash wrote can be heard on the soundtrack to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, which is in theaters now.
PANIC CHANNEL SCORES MADDEN NFL 2007
Madden NFL 2007, the wildly popular video game, is due out on August 22nd and Panic Channel is among the 36 acts that will appear on the game. The game has a history of featuring breakthrough new artists. In the past, Madden introduced gamers to music from Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, the All-American Rejects, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, Jet, Yellowcard, Seether and Good Charlotte. This bodes well for Panic Channel, which is comprised of three former members of Jane?s Addiction. Panic Channel plans to promote the game with an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel on August 21st. MTV will also air a special on the ?Music in Madden? phenomenon which will air in late August. Meanwhile, negotiations are underway to include other bands on the game, such as Rise Against, Audioslave, the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Cartel.
VOODOO MUSIC FEST MYSTERY REVEALED!
The Red Hot Chili Pepper?s posted a very mysterious link on their Web site last week that was related to their upcoming show at the 2006 Voodoo Music Fest in New Orleans. The page requested you to enter your phone number and replied that you?d be hearing more soon. The news came via text message announcing other bands that are filling up the line-up. Who will join the Chili Peppers and Duran Duran? Well, My Chemical Romance, Blue October, The Flaming Lips, Kings of Leon, Wu-Tang Clan, Broken Social Scene are all on board. For more details on the event, which is scheduled for October 28th and 29th, head over to VoodooMusicFest.com.
EVANESCENCE TO PLACE 'CALL' IN AUGUST
Evanescence has officially picked "Call Me When You're Sober" as the first single from its upcoming new album, The Open Door. The song will arrive at radio stations around August 7th, while the new CD hits the streets on October 3rd. The band's second major label offering, The Open Door will follow up 2003's six-million-selling Fallen. When asked to describe the sound of the new disc, singer Amy Lee told LAUNCH it was hard to explain. ["It's different than the last album, but it's still Evanescence. I think the fans are really gonna love it. I'm a fan, I love this band, I wouldn't be doing it if I wouldn't love it, and I love it, so I guess that's sort of my gauge for everything. But it's different, it's kind of fun and sexy, but it's still, like, dark and, like, really epic at times."
DISTURBED: 'LAND OF CONFUSION' TIMELY AS EVER
The video for Disturbed's cover of the Genesis hit "Land Of Confusion" is in the final stages of production, with renowned comic artist Todd McFarlane directing. The memorable Genesis clip used eerie puppets to poke fun at figures such as Ronald Reagan, and Disturbed singer David Draiman told LAUNCH that the song's political content made a new version timely. "I think that that was part of the impetus of recording it. Danny (Donegan, guitarist) actually came up with the idea of trying it. I wasn't really all for it in the beginning. I'm not a huge Phil Collins fan. But I couldn't deny that the lyrical content of the song made sense and definitely fit the type of lyrical directions that I go in."
LACUNA COIL OFFERS LIVE TRACK, 'OFF-FEST' DATES
Lacuna Coil will make a live version of its new single, a cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence," available through iTunes today (Monday, June 26th), according to TotalRock.com. The track comes off the band's recently released fourth album, Karmacode, and follows first single "Our Truth." The Italian group will begin its stint on the main stage of this summer's Ozzfest on Thursday (June 29th) in Seattle, Washington and has also scheduled some "off-fest" dates in between Ozzfest stops.
QUICK HITS
ABC's free-episode feature ends this week, so watch Lost, Alias, Desperate Housewives and Commander in Chief while you still can.
Directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez chat about their next project in this interview.
The Pet Shop Boys' new video has been posted on their site...
...Meanwhile, their new CD and others are streaming on AOL.
Futurama is returning, thanks to Comedy Central.
A new Clerks 2 trailer has been posted.
THIS WEEKEND'S TOP TEN MOVIES - JUNE 23-25
1. Click, $40 million
2. Cars, $22.5 million
3. Nacho Libre, $12.1 million
4. Waist Deep, $9.5 million
5. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, $9.2 million
6. The Lake House, $8.3 million
7. The Break-Up, $6.1 million
8. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, $4.75 million
9. X-Men: The Last Stand, $4.4 million
10. The Da Vinci Code, $4 million
LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for MONDAY, JUNE 26
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Kevin Spacey, the Streets
JAY LENO (NBC) - Kate Bosworth, Damon Wayans, India Arie
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Regis Philbin, John Landis, Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Ray Romano, Sue Johanson, Jose Gonzalez
CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Lucy Liu, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
DAILY SHOW - Lance Armstrong
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - Jason Alexander, Meagan Good, Jamie Kennedy
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