Peep the new Vicarious Music-approved video from the Metermaids out of Brooklyn, NY - “Turn The Lights Out!”

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Now take this as you like: In his recent book, “Rock Roadie,” Hendrix’s former assistant James “Tappy” Wright claims Hendrix was murdered by his then manager Michael Jeffrey. According to Wright’s account, Jeffrey allegedly confessed to Wright that he had murder Hendrix to collect on Hendrix’s life insurance policy. At the time, Jeffrey had been written as the beneficiary of Hendrix’s $2 million life insurance policy, and according to Wright’s alleged conversation with Jeffrey from 1971, Jeffrey was worried Hendrix was going to fire him. Jeffrey, who died in 1973 in a plane crash, is quoted by Wright as saying: “I was in London the night of Jimi’s death and together with some old friends… we went round to Monika’s [Dannemann] hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth…then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe…I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive…That son of a bitch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I’d lose everything.” The coroner’s report stated that Hendrix died of “barbiturate intoxication and inhalation of vomit.”

Interpret this as you see fit, conspiracy theory or not. Be sure to check out the articles in NME and The Daily Mail (UK) for more information.

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Sad news has surfaced today for the Rock and Roll community. Pink Floyd founding member Richard Wright passed away Monday evening after a long battle with cancer.

The family does not wish to release any further information.

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Shirley Manson of Garbage is one of my favorite bad ass rock chicks.  Always has been, always will be.

We  haven’t heard much from her lately and that’s probably because she has quietly been plotting her move from rock star to action star.

News just in that she’s landed herself a part on The Sarah Conner Chronicles as a Terminator.

How very perfect for her.

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You all know that Vicarious loves themselves good ‘ole 90’s rock-and that means we love the legendary Alice In Chains. 

After the tragic passing of Lanyne Stanley we were hesitant to accept a reunion with a new lead singer.  It’s no secret that is HARD to pull off-both stylistically and with die-hard loyal fans.

We were pleasantly surprised by William DuVall, who although looks NOTHING like Layne, has a voice that bears a striking resemblence.  His tone is there, but fortified with a blues intensity-we thought he was pretty good and did the classic Alice In Chains material justice.

Over the past 3 years the new line up has toured several times, of course sparking the question if new material would ever surface. Well, for the first time in 13 years the band is back in the studio working on new material for a brand new album.

No title or release date have been set.  We don’t know how we feel, so leave us a comment and let us know your opinion.

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A LETTER FROM THE FRONT: 30 SECONDS TO MARS / EMI (THE LAWSUIT)

To our Friends and Fans,

Despite rumors to the contrary, 30 Seconds to Mars is NOT calling it quits. We are incredibly happy, healthy and very much together here, in Los Angeles, recording our new record. Besides this ridiculously overblown lawsuit (courtesy of Virgin/EMI), we are having one of the most inspiring, wonderful and exciting times that we’ve experienced to date. (More on that later…)

Beyond this distraction, we are so incredibly grateful to all of you around the world that have supported us so passionately. We would never consider stopping this just yet. These past few phenomenal years have been beyond imaginable and we owe every single bit of it to you. Thank you all for that!

So, as you may have heard we are being sued by our former record company for the ridiculously oversized, totally unrealistic and pretty silly (but slightly clever) sum of $30,000,000. Insane? Yea that’s what we said too.

A little history…

We had been signed to our record contract for 9 years. Basically, under California law, where we live and signed our deal, one cannot be bound to a contract for more than 7 years. This is widely known by all the record companies and has been for years. In fact, so aware of it are they that they desperately try to make deals outside of California whenever possible. It is a law that protects people from lengthy, unfair, career-spanning contracts. This law also gave us the legal right to explore other possible opportunities.

Yes we have been sued by EMI. But NOT for failing to deliver music or for ‘quitting’. We have been sued by the corporation quite simply because roughly 45 days ago we exercised our legal right to terminate our old, out of date contract, which, according to the law is null and void.

We terminated for a number of reasons, which we won’t go into here (we’d rather not air any dirty laundry) but basically our representatives could not get EMI to agree to make a fair and reasonable deal.

A few things to note…

If you think the fact that we have sold in excess of 2 million records and have never been paid a penny is pretty unbelievable, well, so do we. And the fact that EMI informed us that not only aren’t they going to pay us AT ALL but that we are still 1.4 million dollars in debt to them is even crazier. That the next record we make will be used to pay off that old supposed debt just makes you start wondering what is going on. Shouldn’t a record company be able to turn a profit from selling that many records? Or, at the very least, break even? We think so.

That, and other issues, like the new regime at EMI firing most of the people we know and love, wanting to place advertisements on our website, EMI owning 100 percent of the masters of our record…forever, and basically having a revolving door of regimes at the company made it easy to not want to continue as is.

As the result of this takeover - and the firing of over 2000 employees - we have lost many of the people that were near and dear to us at Virgin/EMI and crucial to the success of 30 Seconds to Mars. A few of the great ones are still there, but it is hardly the same company we have known. After more than 5 regime changes in 9 years you’d think we would be used to the inconsistency, but the team that took the journey together for A Beautiful Lie was a very very special group of people and it’s a huge loss that so many of them are gone. (Quick fact: There is not a single employee at Virgin Records who was working at the company when we signed.)

FYI Virgin/EMI was not required to make this lawsuit public or to list such an egregiously and stupendously large amount of mullah. In fact, they were not required to set any price even close to this. We did not want to take this public, but we felt it best to explain our point of view to you, our
friends and fans, in hope that you can better understand our point of view.

We would always do our best to avoid a fight, but sometimes it’s important to stand up for what you believe in. We hope that by doing what’s right we can help to change things for the better, for ourselves and possibly others.

P.S. We will always remain grateful to the people at Virgin/EMI who were so integral to our success. And we hope that, above all, we can find a resolution to this in as civil and kind a way as possible.

There are certainly more important things out there in the world to spend time and energy on.

To be continued…

Jared Leto
30 Seconds to Mars

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Ugh!

With news spreading around about Pam Anderson’s alleged secret relationship with a memeber of the Abu Dhabi royalty, I guess no one can deny the rumors that Tommy Lee is shacking up with Rock of Love 2 reject Daisy de la Hoya.

First she sinks her skanky little teeth into Dave Navarro…

And now Tommy Lee? Can someone say STAR FUCKER??? Click here to see the always classy Daisy ever so graciously flash her boobies for Tommy Lee/Motley Crue’s Tit E Cam.

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