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July For Kings Reunite
Perhaps one of the most disappointing stories of 2006 was the
announcement that the band July For Kings was coming to an end, as
lead singer Joe Hedges would be focusing on his solo career.
While everyone enjoyed Hedges edgy solo sound, and his brilliant
album "Curvature," deep down, everyone really missed July For Kings.
In October of 2007, the band announced they will return, as July For
Kings in 2008 with a brand new record.
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Cartel To Be Band In a Bubble...Literally
In May
of 2007 the band Cartel did one of the strangest publicity stunts in
recent memory, as the band entered a huge transparent bubble on
Hudson River Park’s Pier 54 in New York City from May 24 through
June 12 and recorded their sophomore album. Fans were able to
watch them eat, sleep, and record the follow up to the debut album.
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Weiland Won't Rule Out STP Reunion
In an
interview with the Washington Post in August, former Stone Temple
Pilots and current Velvet Revolver lead singer Scott Weiland
revealed that he wouldn't rule out a reunion someday with his former
band. "I feel that there could be a better final chapter, a
better bookend. If all the planets line up, you never know what
might happen one day."
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 Future
of Internet Radio In Jeopardy
2007
was a crazy year for internet radio as the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB),
an oversight body created by Congress to settle royalty disputes in
the music business, issued a new, higher fee structure for Web music
broadcasts that nearly shut down just about every internet radio
station on the internet. It wasn't until two house
representatives Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Rep. Donald Manzullo
(R-Ill.), stepped in at the 11th hour and pushed an equality act
that effectively saved internet radio for the time being.
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 Brett
Scallions Tells His Story
In July of 2006, we were lucky enough to score an
interview with Fuel Bassist Carl Bell, in hopes to clear up the
controversy as to why the band's former lead singer Brett Scallions
had left the band. "Brett had some voice issues…struggling
with his voice at times," Bell said. "A lot of it was his voice to
be honest with you; he had kinda lost a little bit of it."
We were lucky enough to talk to Scallions a few months later, and to
our surprise he had read Bell's quotes on Alternative Addiction and
was disappointed. "I’ve read the interviews, both with Kevin
and Carl, and it breaks my heart to see the road that they’ve taken.
I don’t know if they are doing it out of frustration, maybe things
are going as well in the Fuel camp as Carl would hoped for, so he’s
gotta take shots at me? But I’m gonna take the high road here, I’m
not gonna fire back. And trust me…I could lay out all kinds of dirty
laundry if I wanted to. But its not about that."
Scallions explained his departure had nothing to do with his voice
letting him down, "I was drinking and doing all kinds of drugs and
stuff that I shouldn’t have been doing, but I was depressed about
the environment that I was in. I wasn’t happy, and there was just
one day I was like ‘You know what, you’re gonna kill yourself if you
keep doing this, you gotta get out of this situation.'"
Scallions also revealed that in 2008 we can look for a new record
that he's spent the last few years writing, and is in the process of
bringing a band together to record it.
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