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Pete and Kate Get Real, RIAA Targets NIN Fans, Bumbershoot Lineup Announced and more

4/4/07, 9:23 am EST

Pete Doherty and Kate Moss offer a glimpse into their private life in what may or may not be their MTV reality show audition tape.

  • The Shins, Wu-Tang, and Panic! are slated to perform at this year’s Bumbershoot festival in Seattle, Sept 1st – 3rd. For our comprehensive guide to the best music fests this spring and summer, check back here later this afternoon.

  • 50 Cent will guest star on tonight’s episode of America’s Next Top Model. Or you can watch baseball.

  • That whole “Keith Richards snorts his dead dad” thing isn’t true, according to Kurt Loder, who we think knows everything.
    UPDATE: Keith Richards has this to say about it: “The complete story is lost in translation ! The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English Oak . I took the lid off the box of ashes and he is now growing oak trees and would love me for it!!! I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were. That tight!!! I wouldn’t take cocaine at this point in my life unless I wished to commit suicide.”

  • In case you needed another reason to hate the RIAA: They’re going after Nine Inch Nails fans who downloaded music that was deliberately leaked by the band.

  • Metallica have announced their 2007 European tour, including a performance in Stockholm. Full tour dates after the jump.

    Jun 28 Lisbon, POR Super Bock Super Rock Festival
    Jun 29 Bilbao, SPA Bilbao BBK Live Festival
    Jul 1 Werchter, BEL Rock Werchter Festival
    Jul 3 Athens, GRE Rockwave Festival
    Jul 5 Vienna, AUT Rotundenplatz
    Jul 8 London, UK Wembley Stadium
    Jul 10 Oslo, NOR Valle Hovin Stadion
    Jul 12 Stockholm, SWE Stadion
    Jul 13 Aarhus, DEN Vestereng
    Jul 15 Helsinki, FIN Olympic Stadium
    Jul 18 Moscow, RUS Luzhniki Stadium


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BMS | 4/4/2007, 10:36 am EST

Wow…this has less comedic value than the Liz writings from months ago…way to lower the bar Danny.

Niko | 4/4/2007, 10:43 am EST

yeah this column is just pathetic

MICK | 4/4/2007, 10:45 am EST

Why are Kate & pete news here? What kind of celebrity is he?

Spaceboy | 4/4/2007, 11:03 am EST

why doesn’t the RIAA just give it up? You cant stop people from downloading music…why are they trying to fight it? Its like trying to stop the snowball from rolling downhill..just let it go

abandonedstation | 4/4/2007, 11:45 am EST

poor keith. now he really will have to snort his father since everyone thought it was so damn cool.

50 cent has officially lost all street cred. Unless on the show tonight he kills one of the models, cremates her, and snorts her ashes.

today’s stupid list:
-Pete Doherty letting a video camera get anywhere near him
-RIAA. When they can’t even sue the right people, how do they expect to stop all this file sharing?

Krunch | 4/4/2007, 12:04 pm EST

The retraction of the Keith snorting his Dad’s remains story was issued by the Stone publicists. It is damage control. He totally did that.

Jeff | 4/4/2007, 12:23 pm EST

Attention Keith’s publicists: Go away! You’re ruining a great story!

Aries73 | 4/4/2007, 12:30 pm EST

The bar was on the ground from the start. He’d have to bury it to get it any lower.

Deez Nuttzz | 4/4/2007, 12:47 pm EST

I’d like to offer a little PSA, and this really goes to anyone doing any on-line writing; when you use the phrase “after the jump” you sound like a TREEEEMENDOUS Douche-nozzle. Especially when the “jump”, whatever the hell that is supposed to be, is actually just two lines of white space between the close of your article and the info.

rockhead | 4/4/2007, 1:19 pm EST

About Keith richards: pure marketing garbage, this old man only drinks water and eat healthy food.He wants to show a fake rebel image who doesn’t believe anybody no more.

rockhead | 4/4/2007, 1:20 pm EST

oh, i forgot to mention i’m downloading the NIN new album right now.

Trent Reznor | 4/4/2007, 1:25 pm EST

For NIN fans: http://www.frcphotos.com

cup | 4/4/2007, 1:38 pm EST

please save keith and his dad’s memory.

cup | 4/4/2007, 1:38 pm EST

nipples rock.

Rod | 4/4/2007, 1:51 pm EST

Screw the RIAA.

Fuck The RIAA | 4/4/2007, 1:55 pm EST

Launch Radio Networks reports: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has become notorious for suing anyone from high school students to retirees for downloading music from the web, has gone after web sites such as Idolator that have posted leaked songs from the upcoming NINE INCH NAILS album, “Year Zero”. The problem, however, is that the tracks were leaked intentionally. Several songs from the album were left on computer hard drives at venues on the band’s current European tour, with fans finding and posting them on the web for others to download and swap. According to Billboard.com, the RIAA sent cease-and-desist emails to web sites that posted the tracks, leading one industry source to say, “These f***ing idiots are going after a campaign that the label signed off on.”

While a number of songs have been intentionally released, the entire NINE INCH NAILS album has not leaked online yet. The CD arrives on April 17.

In addition to the leaked tracks, the marketing campaign for “Year Zero” has featured cryptic messages on T-shirts and a maze of linked web sites that expand upon the album’s storyline of a future U.S. on the brink of apocalypse.

The same source told Billboard that NINE INCH NAILS frontman Trent Reznor views the campaign as a “new entertainment form.” The source added that the campaign will continue for the next 18 months.

“Year Zero” is reportedly the first of two concept albums, the second of which Reznor hopes to finish next year.

NINE INCH NAILS finishes its European tour on April 10 in Finland and has just announced another round of shows on that continent beginning in August. A trip to Australia and Japan is planned for May. North American dates have not been announced yet.

joe wade | 4/4/2007, 9:45 pm EST

yea keith…noones believes youre little excuse. why exactly arent you dead yet? because it definately looks like youre TRYING to kill yourself.

joe wade | 4/4/2007, 9:45 pm EST

yea keith…noones believes youre little excuse. why exactly arent you dead yet? because it definately looks like youre TRYING to kill yourself.

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