Day in Rock reports: We continue our Static-X special today with Wayne telling us a bit about "Destroyer," the first single from the new CD. Here is Wayne: "One of the keys to our early success was keeping the songs simple. For Destroyer, I started with the most simple drum beat used a million times in rock music.
I programmed the beat on my Akai MPC 2000 and started playing guitar to it. The opening riff came to me quickly. I wanted to make sure this song stayed in the Evil Disco line for the chorus.
I love the lyrics on this song. I imagined a person who destroys the mood where ever he/she goes." Listen to the song at the full story link new album, "Year Zero", is being streamed at the YearZero.
nin.com web site Due on April 17, "Year Zero" is reportedly the first of two concept albums, the second of which mainman Trent Reznor hopes to finish next year.[see full story for more]- Smile walked into WFNY, 92.
3 Free FM's studios last week for "Talent Tuesdays" on The Dog House's morning show, they were expecting their first shot at commercial radio play. But what they experienced was something quite different. Upon entering the studio for their interview, bassist John Carnes made a comment about the decline in quality of the station.
As a result, the show's two hosts, Jeff Vandergrift ("JV") and Dan Lay ("Elvis"), shot back with relentless insults, calling him a "pansy" and eventually "a faggot." The DJs kicked the 21-year-old bass player shot at playing their song, "This Machine," off of their self-released debut album, R.E.
S.T., on air.
As with every Tuesday's segment, the hosts discussed the song and brought callers on with their reactions. After playing the song, Elvis exclaimed, "I thought the bass sucked, threw the rhythm off of everything. It felt like a faggot was playing it.
" Carnes, outside of the studio, immediately reacted to the use of the slur and came back in to react. Sleazeroxx.com reports: Axl Rose is returning Promoter Paul Dainty has scored the coup play Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in June.
TMZ reports: Could art be misrepresenting life for Paris Hilton? Her lawyers are threatening to sue MTV over a comedy pulled her over for DUI. The celebutante played herself in a sketch comedy show produced by her friend Nick Cannon, says Page Six, in which she sells "What Would Paris Do" bracelets, for a new MTV show called "ShortCircuitz.
" bimbette (not Paris) in a miniskirt gets pulled over for drunk driving, checks her WWPD bracelet, and proceeds to treat one of the cops as though he were a stripper pole.[see full story for more]- "Joacim [Cans, vocals] broke a bone in his elbow during a taekwon-do training session on Monday. Says he: 'It was during the warm-up, we were doing rushes across the room when I somehow slipped and went full-speed into the concrete wall.
I managed to get the right arm up to try to stop the momentum, so that arm took all of my weight and got sandwiched between me and the wall. The thing with a broken elbow is, you don't get a cast or even a bandage.
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