Gigwise reports: The man who created and managed the FBI, after scamming at least 1400 people out of hundreds of millions of dollars in a pyramid scheme. abcnews.com reports.
The website reports that Pearlman and his associates swindled people out of $317 million, by selling investors (many of them account" through his company Trans Continental Airlines Inc. [see full mysteries of the hip-hop world: Who killed rap pioneer Jam Master Jay? In court papers, the prosecutors identify gunman who shot Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, inside his New York recording studio in 2002.
They say Washington also is a suspect in the 1995 fatal shooting of Randy Walker, a close associate of the late rapper TMZ reports: The family of murdered rapper Christopher Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G.
, has filed another wrongful death ...
this time in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The lawsuit, filed yesterday and obtained by TMZ, is in addition to the one filed in federal court years ago, however, the new complaint involves state-related claims. The lawsuit also names two former police officers as co-defendants.
[see full story for more]- for Video of the Year and Group Video of Year at the 2007 CMT Music Awards, but when all was said and done, the cable network's viewers made nice with Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts. Underwood's "Before He Cheats" was named rises in royalty fees that could be "fatal" to the nascent industry, a coalition of web broadcasters has claimed. The increases will start on 15 May and The decision to impose the fees was made by a panel of judges who threw out requests to overturn an earlier ruling.
[see BBC reports: Bob Geldof and the BBC have unveiled The Dictionary of Man website and an eight-part television series, The Human Planet, will be made with help from BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm. Crews will travel the world to try to film the 900 separate groups of people that anthropologists believe exist. [seefull Blabbermouth reports: After scrapping the original May 29 release date, VELVET REVOLVER has settled on July 3 to unveil its second RCA album, "Libertad".
Impacting in mid-May, the first new tracks the group has been playing of late during shows in South America. "RCA did a bunch of research on what the first single should be," bassist Duff McKagan told Billboard.com last night (April 16) before a gig in Buenos Aires.
"I'm pretty anti that stuff. The band had something they wanted to go with, but RCA just kept coming with it. So we decided, it's fine.
It's a great f*ckin' rock song. It has a kick-ass guitar riff, a great chorus, a really big bridge and a great Slash Blabbermouth reports: ALICE IN CHAINS and OZZY OSBOURNE, GENESIS, HEART and ZZ TOP. with additional tribute bands NICKELBACK, GRETCHEN WILSON and KEANE, on Saturday, May 12 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Hosted by Bam Margera ("Jackass", "Viva La Bam"), "VH1 Rock Honors" will air on VH1 Thursday, May 24[see full story shaken up. Erna's Hummer H3 collided with a Toyota Camry near Boston, Massachusetts, leaving Lyndsay Taylor with life-threatening injuries. Taylor, who was in the back seat of the car Erna hit, was listed as critical after being admitted to a local hospital but her condition is improving.
The rocker's Methuen, Massachusetts has left Erna "shaken up". The manager says, "He's Sully's thankful he got out with a split lip and some aches and pains, but he's traumatised about the girl." [see full story for more]- for drivers who live outside London, but contribute to the traffic within the British capital.
Fairbrass is impressed with the work current London Mayor Ken Livingstone has done, but believes there is more potential for change. He says, "London has turned into a rich man's playground. I have been living here since 1982 and London has definitely improved.
"But I think Ken has been in the hotseat too long - it's time for a change.[see JOHNSON is set to end his year-long hiatus by headlining the Sydney, Australia join reformed rockers Midnight Oil, Crowded House and Silverchair at the 7 July (07) concert, held in conjunction with similar events in London, New Jersey, Rio de Janeiro and Toyko. [see full story for more]- Lambgoat reports: The Chariot will be on the road consistently during the coming months, including stints with Misery Signals, The Human Abstract, and the Warped Tour.
Here's the latest: Lambgoat reports: Genghis Tron has lined up a few Canadian dates for early-May. Here you go: punkbands reports: Mike Ness recently did an interview that ran on Arizona's azdaily.com.
In it he talks about a Social Distortion greatest hits album which is on the way. The record will include a new song. "All I can tell you about that is that I had a song that was pretty much the template for the new album, and we went in and recorded it.
We're gonna release it sooner. We're gonna put it on the greatest-hits album. So if people want to get a taste of what the new album will sound like, they can hear it on that song.
A song called "Far Behind."[see full punkbands reports: The Hives are currently finishing up the follow up to 2004's Tyrannosaurus Hives. Nicholaus Arson on my forhead.
It s hard work but I do it man. I do whatever it takes to get that shot. Hey Dumbo!
!! - hold that pose!
Bright lights big animal! Phew! Ok good think we got it.
Expected release is set to late summer / fall.
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