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Rob Zombie Out-Rocks Ozzy

This is the tale of two madmen. Neither Ozzy Osbourne nor Rob Zombie have put a new record out recently, but the farewell night of their tour together Monday at Toronto's Air Canada Centre proved that no matter what, people still love a freak show. Most had come to witness the grandmaster freak himself, The Ozzman, while they still had the...
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Rob Zombie @ Air Canada Centre (Photo by Richard Beland)

Rob Zombie Serves Up Visual Feast

I arrived at the Kool Haus a little late for this one expecting the typical line-up that stretches in front of the Guvernment and down Queen's Quay. However with the exception of a few desperate fans and scalpers trying to pick up tickets to the show, which had been sold out for weeks, it looked like everyone was already inside for Lacuna Coil's...
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Rob Zombie — Educated Horses

Sometimes metalheads are so focused on their hardcore posturing that they forget that music is supposed to be fun and sexy sometimes. It takes someone like Rob Zombie to remind them of that. His return to the recording studio from the director's chair isn't groundbreaking stuff, but who really wants it to be? Since his days with White Zombie, Rob...
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Rob Zombie Educated Horses

Rob Zombie — Past, Present & Future

There’s something about Rob Zombie and his cartoonish Universal Monsters image that is indelibly cool as this retrospective proves. Past, Present & Future is packed: it’s got the White Zombie "debut" hit "Thunderkiss ’65" and some Astro-Creep tunes; it celebrates his soundtrack cuts and collaborative efforts with Alice...
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Rob Zombie - Past, Present & Future

I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending May 27, 2011

A bunch of ex-KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent's dogs are dead. Really dead. As in not just "playing dead." That sucks, but at least he's not being charged over it. The Battle of the Cloud has taken a different turn: the Recording Industry Association Of America sued business management website Box.net this week because users have apparently been...
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I Read The News Today... For March 28, 2011

Guided By Voices, Neko Case, No Age, Kurt Vile and a bunch of other Pitchfork types got added to... the Pitchfork Music Festival. The Strokes are going to start working on yet another Strokes record that sounds like Is This It next month. —Consequence Of Sound You can add Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner to the list of people who dislike...
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I Read The News Today... For March 24, 2011

Quick! Start practicing your falsetto! Bon Iver's long-awaited sophomore album is coming out sometime in June. —Rolling Stone Rufus Wainwright is releasing a box set later this year for all your Judy Garland-inspired needs. —rufuswainwright.com MUTEK's annual Avant_MUTEK series is coming to Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and New York. International...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 8, 2011

The Trews will release their new Hope & Ruin album on April 12 through Bumstead Records. They're touring Australia in March, and North American gigs will undoubtedly be announced soon... —thetrewsmusic.com The recently reunited Death From Above 1979 have announced their first show in the U.K. in five years. Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger...
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I Read The News Today... For Dec. 17, 2010

Diamond Rings is opening for Robyn next year. This is officially the gayest tour announcement we've reported on today. —MySpace Here's a tip: Don't eat yellow snow. But going to see The Johnstones on their Yellow Snow Tour this January? Yeah, that's fine. —MySpace In today's installment of Truly Bizarre News: Former From First To Last frontman...
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Diamond Rings (Photo by Jess Baumung)

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

The Tragically Hip's Paul Langlois released his Fix This Head debut solo album today. "Can't Wait Anymore," which appears on it, was used in Nov. 20's Toronto Maple Leafs/Montreal Canadiens game. You can hear it here. Jay-Z says he supports (and supported) Kanye West's "George Bush doesn't care about black people" comments in the wake of Hurricane...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 23, 2010

Die Mannequin will play a free show at Toronto's Tattoo Rock Parlour tomorrow night. They'll be joined by Dearly Beloved and Darlings Of Chelsea. —MySpaceDeer Tick are auctioning their tour bus to help victims of flooding in Pakistan. The proceeds will go to Oxfam's relief efforts there. —eBay Andrew Bird will release an instrumental album,...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 20, 2010

Former Inbreds singer/bassist Mike O'Neill is helping Halifax indie rockers In-Flight Safety record new material. —TwitterDallas Green has written a song about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster called "At The Bird's Foot." But he says it's different from many of the other songs about the tragedy because he focuses...
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I Read The News Today... For July 28, 2010

Win Butler says he will "forever give" Bono "credit" for "engaging with George W. Bush when he was president," no matter how much people slag the U2 frontman. We're less concerned about Bono as we are this codified endorsement of GWB by an "indie rocker." —NME Kanye West might hate Twitter with...
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U2's The Edge, Bono and Adam Clayton (Photo by Richard Beland)

I Read The News Today... For June 28, 2010

Tattoos and tequila indeed. Motley Crue singer Vince Neil was arrested for DUI in Las Vegas on Monday. —Associated Press Just because Bono's injured doesn't mean The Edge can't show up at Glastonbury and play one of U2's songs on stage with Muse: Daniel Lanois has been released from hospital following a motorcycle crash earlier...
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Rob Zombie Not At War With Compact Discs

Rob Zombie wants to set the record straight about Hellbilly Deluxe 2, his fourth solo album and the companion to his 1998 post-White Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe debut: no matter what you've heard, it won't be his last CD. "This has been the longstanding rumour that I've answered about ninety thousand times now," he explains. "What I...
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Rob Zombie's CSI: Miami Episode Trailer

Here's the trailer for the Rob Zombie-directed episode of CSI: Miami. It airs Monday (March 1). In it, the Miami team travels to Los Angeles to clear one of their team members of evidence tampering in a murder... but things obviously get dangerous, violent and shadowy. No word on whether there's any slasher murders, zombies or anything else,...
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Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper Announce Horror Show Of A Tour

Arguably, nobody's influenced Rob Zombie more than Alice Cooper. Cooper, the original horror rocker, has left an obvious mark on Zombie, who's been making horror movie-inspired rock since his days in White Zombie in the '90s. Cooper has appeared in horror films like 1984's Monster Dog, and Zombie's also gone on to a successful career as a...
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Rob Zombie — "Sick Bubblegum"

Here's Rob Zombie's new video for Hellbilly Deluxe 2's "Sick Bubblegum." It features Zombie and his backing band playing in a the living room of some kind of ritzy, taxidermy-adorned house while a bunch of ladies chomp on bubblegum. Hellbilly Deluxe 2 is out Feb. 2 on Roadrunner.
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Korn, Rob Zombie Headlining Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival

Nu-metal fans! Do you want to party like it's 1999? (You probably still are, but anyway...) You'll have the chance to do that when Korn and Rob Zombie headline this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, which takes place across North America this summer. Lamb Of God, Five Finger Death Punch, Atreyu, Norma Jean, In This Moment, 3 Inches...
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Rob Zombie To Direct CSI: Miami Episode

Rob Zombie is obsessed with death and horror. CSI: Miami is full of both. That makes him a pretty perfect choice to direct an episode of the television show. Zombie's episode, which will air March 1, will reportedly bring the CSI unit to Los Angeles, where they have to solve a crime involving evidence tampering and secret tapes. The episode went...
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