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TOMMY LEE: University Of Nebraska Senate To Vote On Resolution About Reality Show Contract
Maggie Stehr of the Daily Nebraskan is reporting that the biting reality of the controversy surrounding the Tommy Lee (photos) reality show has some University of Nebraska-Lincoln Academic Senate members all Tommied out. Although general interest in the rocker is softening, the executive committee d...October 21, 2004
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Report: GORGOROTH Face Two Years In Polish Prison After Causing 'Religious Offense'
Norwegian black metal band GORGOROTH are being investigated in Poland for causing religious offense after a show that included dozens of sheep heads on stakes, a literal blood bath and a naked, crucified woman, newspaper Aftenposten reports. The concert in Krakow was broadcast by state TV station TV...February 4, 2004
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PUNKVOTER: Musicians Take Anti-BUSH Message Directly To The Fans
Billy Gould (ex-FAITH NO MORE),Jello Biafra (ex-DEAD KENNEDYS),Fat Mike (NOFX),Billy Joe Armstrong (GREEN DAY),THE OFFSPRING, BAD RELIGION and FOO FIGHTERS are among the musicians that have come together to form Punkvoter, a coalition to educate, register and mobilize over 500,000 progressive vo...September 30, 2003
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Australian TV Show Puts The Heavy Metal Influence To The Test
Frances Grant of the New Zealand Herald reports that "some of society's assumptions don't stand up to rigorous scrutiny. It's easy, for example, to lay the blame for youth suicides on heavy metal rock lyrics. But do Ozzy Osbourne and the like really have the morbid effect on young people that some b...July 22, 2003
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ANCIENT CEREMONY 'Banned' From Performing At Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival
German "dark extreme" metallers ANCIENT CEREMONY have reportedly been banned by city officials from performing at this year's Summer Breeze festival "because of the band's Satanic and blasphemous attitude," according to an official statement from the group. "Promoters were even set under pressure by...May 18, 2003
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Rock Musicians Speak Out On Possible War With Iraq
An increasing number of rock artists are speaking their minds about a possible war with Iraq, with many of them seeing the potential military operation to oust Saddam Hussein as an issue that affects more than just enlisted soldiers and their families. Others, on the other hand, argue that even if S...January 23, 2003
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DEE SNIDER: Too Twisted For ABC?
The following item comes to us courtesy of The New York Post: TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider may have been a bit too twisted for the suits at ABC's late night info-fest, "World News Now". Snider, formerly known as the hulking drag queen who snarled the '80s anthems "We're Not Gonna Take It" and...February 18, 2002
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