Lindsay Lohan to play Manson girl.
US actress Lindsay Lohan is to portray one of the cult followers loyal to convicted murderer Charles Manson, in a new movie called Manson Girls.
Archive for March, 2008
Tommy Lee starts new mile-high club.
Tommy Lee helped set a new world record yesterday by getting a tattoo while 45,000ft in the air.
I missed out on HIM’s last Australian outing back in 2006, so there was no way I was gonna miss out this time. They are one of my fave bands over the course of the past few years and I was very much looking forward to this gig for some time now.
Opening proceedings for the night were an all-girl outfit called McQueen. Never heard of them before and I don’t think I’ll hear from them again. They had the ‘look’ down pat, but their stock-standard-cum-rehashed riffs meant that they sounded like a cross between the Ramones and Motley Crue. Pretty forgettable really and they ended up playing a pretty long set which was a little frustrating.
HIM hit the stage a little after 9pm and pretty much had the (very young) crowd in the palm of their collective hands. Festival Hall was packed to the rafters with screaming teenage girls and at times it felt like Beatlemania in there - the screeches were that loud!
HIM were tight, concise, brilliantly melodic and featured a set that was hit-after-hit-after-hit. When you have such an expansive and catchy set, it makes for a great concert. The band played wonderfully but it all started sounding samey over the course of the night They have a formula they adhere to in nearly every one of their songs, so at times, it did feel a little repetitive.
I think it would have been an amazing gig at a more intimate setting. I just don’t think they have the chops to play venues such as this. Granted, Festival Hall is not that big, but in a club or a pub, I reckon HIM would just annihilate the place.
Couple this with the fact that lead crooner Ville Valo’s stage raps are completely non-decipherable - it all led to a pretty impersonable performance. And whilst the band sounded simply amazing, his vocals were a rather large let-down. I mean, for someone who is so visually charismatic - his audience participation was next to zero - often turning his back to the crowd and mumbling incoherently into the mike. Presumably in English, but one can never tell. Small gripe I know, but come on - let us know you’re pleased to see us dude. Yeah?
Still, they ended the set with an amazing rendition of Black Sabbath’s ‘Black Sabbath’ track. They concentrated on their vast array of catchy hits from their catalogue and only featured a few songs from the disappointing latest offering, ‘Venus Doom’.
A good gig. Not a great one…
Reznor vs. Radiohead: Innovation Smackdown.
Rock the vote!
Hard rock legends Motorhead are the subject of a new AT&T Wireless ad campaign. Check out the 30-second commercial at this location.
Motorhead entered the studio in January to begin recording the follow-up to 2006’s “Kiss of Death”. A late spring/early summer release is expected.
Bronze Records has just released a nine-album Motorhead cardboard sleeve reissue series in Japan featuring the following albums:
Overkill (1979)
Bomber (1979)
Ace Of Spades (1980)
No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith (1981)
Iron Fist (1982)
Another Perfect Day (1983)
Orgasmatron (1986)
Rock ‘N’ Roll (1987)
No Sleep At All (1988)
Each cardboard sleeve reissue from Motorhead features JVC K2 24-bit remastering.
But wait there’s more! Check out the awesome Lemmy action figure after the jump!
A look at ten reasons why ‘Family Guy’ is absolutely terrible.
I find ‘Family Guy’ about as funny as Will Ferrell… ie. not funny at all.
South Park fans will soon be able to watch any episode of the seminal animated show free online, thanks to a deal between show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Comedy Central’s parent company, Viacom.
According to Comedy Central reps, Parker and Stone are the driving force behind South Park Studios, the series’ new online HQ offering free viewing of all 12 seasons of South Park. Currently in its beta format, the site and its episodes are ad-supported, but require no additional fees to view as many episodes as a fan’s heart desires.
In an appropriately glib statement, Parker and Stone said they were inspired to start the site when they got “really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.”
New episodes will appear on the site soon after airing on Comedy Central and will remain available for one week. After 30 days, the new episode will return to the site permanently. Parker and Stone insist that the new service won’t affect DVD sales as hardcore fans of the show could still want to own the episodes in “hard copy” form.
There’s no word yet on whether other genre shows will follow South Park’s new model.
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Cyber Vigilantes Foil Gadget Thief.
A group of tech-savvy internet users solved a home robbery and seized back stolen goods as police sat stumped looking for clues.
Far From Devil Worship And ‘Harry Potter,’ Young Witches Explain What They’re Really About.
Hollywood horror films would have us believe that anyone who identifies as a “witch” worships the devil and uses “black magic” to manipulate the wills of others.
Marilyn Manson has apparently filed a motion with Los Angeles Superior Court judge Michael L. Stern requesting that all of his financial information to be kept secret in the on going legal battle with former keyboardist, Stephen “Madonna Wayne Gacy” Bier, who filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Manson in August 2007.
Bier, who claims Manson spent his royalties on African masks made of human skin, a full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl that Manson is said to have turned into a chandelier and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair, is seeking $20 million dollars in damages. Manson countersued in December claiming that Bier did not fulfil his obligations to the band.
To move to keep Manson’s financial information a secret is similar to one granted to Lindsay Lohan earlier this year in her lawsuit over a 2005 traffic accident. Manson’s attorneys specifically requested the Lohan treatment from Stern, who served as judge in that case, as well.
“He’s trying to hide his skeletons from you all,” Bier’s attorney, Keith A. Fink, said.
According to Bier, Manson allegedly also purchased swastika wall tiles and matching rugs, a mounted grizzly bear and two mounted baboons as well as alleging that Manson arranged for his girlfriend, Evan Rachel Wood, to star in the ‘Heart Shaped Glasses’ video for the “highest salary ever paid to any actress in any music video in history.”
Bier said that when he requested his share of the band’s royalties, Manson “devised a campaign to drive him out of the band and rob him of his entitlement.”
Manson has denied the charges.
“The fact that he’s claiming that I’ve treated him unfairly, financially, is really ridiculous,” Manson told MTV. “And I would never spend my money on a Chinese girl skeleton. That would be crossing the line. It’s a Chinese boy, for the record.
“It just seems like another ex-bandmember suing me and trying to assassinate my personality as a means to financial gain, and it just seems old. It’s just not fair. If I spent my money on anything, it was my family, and paying his salary for a year when we weren’t even touring.”
I’m gonna be brutally honest here (and brutal is a word that is going to be used liberally in this review), I’ve never been a fan of Swedish 5 piece Meshuggah. I have appreciated their intricate, mechanical and overtly technical attack on music, but they were never my scene. Their ability to methodically twist, turn and practically invert musical theory is something to behold. They mesh so many different forms of musical brutality and have this monstrous tonality that at times makes them seem not of this planet. You can’t tap your foot to this band, no matter how hard you try and melodies are so deeply buried in their sheer bludgeoned rhythms that it often is an exercise in sheer concentration to try and figure out just what the fuck is going on. And so the band have recently expunged their new offering Ozben to an unsuspecting public. I had no intention of buying this album, I’m not a fan of the band - but what caught my eye was the amazing cover art. I just couldn’t take my eyes off the majestic beauty of this thing… (artwork courtesy of the freaky Joachim Luetke) - and I strictly purchased this CD on its looks alone! I know! Bizarre! Weird! Like whoa dude, are you ok? And you know what? I’m glad I bought this because this piece of shiny plastic has blown me away in its ferocity, its intricacy and its mind-bending avant-garde pretentious, brutal as fuck swagger. I’ve had it pounding out of my car stereo in such volume that drivers in cars next to me look over in my general direction and tap the side of their heads as if trying to tell me something I don’t already know! This truly is a release that fully endorses why so many are calling it the Metal Album of the Year. This is the future of Metal.
Watch. Listen. Look. Learn. Oh yeah, and God is dead! 
Universal Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with a first look at Benicio Del Toro as The Wolfman in director Joe Johnston’s new film, which Universal Pictures will release on February 13, 2009. Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving co-star in the horror pic in which a man (Del Toro) gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.
