HOLLYWOOD, CA - Seems like everyone's suing everyone these days. Records suing musicians, musicians suing labels, lawyers - the story goes on and on. James Yoshinobu Iha and D'Arcy Wretzky-Brown, of the rock band Smashing Pumpkins, are suing Virgin Records America, claiming the label has screwed them out of ringtone fees as early as 2005.
Continue reading...Friday, November 2, 2001
HOLLYWOOD - A California Superior Court judge ruled on Monday that neither heavy metal band Slayer nor the music industry can be held liable in the 1995 murder of a 15-year-old girl by three teenage boys, Billboard magazine reports. The ruling stated that there was insufficient proof that the band's music influenced teenagers Jacob Delashmutt, Joseph Fiorella, and Royce Casey to rape and murder Elyse Pahler on July 22. In their defense, the boys claimed that Slayer's lyrics had instructed them to stalk and kill Pahler as "a virgin sacrifice to Satan."
Continue reading...Saturday, October 20, 2001
By flaunting its wild style, celebrating both the designers who create art from fashion and the personalities who make fashion from life, VH-1 brings the best from the world of fashion, modeling, photography, and design to your living room with the VH-1/Vogue Fashion Awards. The show, which brings together the best the worlds of music and fashion have to offer, will air live from New York on Oct. 23 at 9 p.m. EST.
Continue reading...Friday, October 12, 2001
HOLLYWOOD - Seems like every week, "one hit wonder" groups are breaking up. Last week, it was the Australian band Savage Garden and this week, the British pop group Elastica have gone their separate ways after being together for nearly a decade. Front woman Justine Frischmann issued an official statement on Oct. 3, saying: "Believe it or not Elastica have been together for almost 10 years, which is probably as long as any band should be together." After Elastica's one 1995 hit, "Connection," the band was never heard of again.
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