I Read The News Today... For Sept. 7, 2010

Stone Temple Pilots have announced two western Canadian dates to take place in Vancouver and Calgary on Nov. 4 and 6, respectively. —Live Nation

Luke Doucet's scheduled a Canadian tour to take place this November in support of his recently released Steel City Trawler album. He'll have Sunparlour Players and The Beauties with him on select dates. —Six Shooter

Nelly Furtado, Hedley's Jacob Hoggard, Jully Black, Jian Ghomeshi and LIGHTS are featured in a new anti-racism PSA:



Now this is just unfortunate: Wayne Coyne lost his virginity while a Steely Dan album was playing. Even something like Jefferson Airplane would have been better. —Spinner

Morrissey has sparked new racism allegations after he called the Chinese "a subspecies" due to their "treatment of animals." It's not the first time he's been called a racist.  —The Guardian

Scott Weiland is releasing an album of traditional Christmas songs later this year. Apparently it includes a reggae version of "The Little Drummer Boy." Uh huh. —Blabbermouth

Weezer's Hurley is streaming on their MySpace. Surprisingly, it's a little bit better than 2009's Raditude. —MySpace

Jack White has produced the theme song for a remake of Elvira's Movie Macabre, the 1980s comedy TV show that aired B horror movies. Movie Macabre will return to TV on Sept. 25 in the U.S. —Mondo Celluloid

Warp Records has reportedly signed Richard D. James on for another Aphex Twin album. The last Aphex Twin disc was 2001's Drukqs, so if this is actually true and not just some rumour, it's kinda huge. —The Quietus

I'm Still Here, the Casey Affleck-directed (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Gone Baby Gone) documentary about Joaquin Phoenix's "rap career," premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. Now... is or isn't it a hoax? —Billboard

Former WCW and WWE wrestler "Diamond" Dallas Page is putting the smackdown on 3OH!3. He's suing them for copyright infringement, claiming he owns the "hand diamond" gesture that's in the duo's logo. —Miss Tila

My Chemical Romance have relaunched their website with a cryptic tweet that simply reads, "Stay tuned...". Hmm. —Twitter

Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor says he's "conflicted" about continuing the band after the death of bassist Paul Gray, despite comments from drummer Joey Jordison that the band would continue. —Blabbermouth

In other news, Taylor's book about the Seven Deadly Sins is out March 1 through Da Capo Press. —Blabbermouth