Looking back at this week’s top music headlines, it looks like the plot of a movie: murders at a rock concert and singers attacked at airports, bands injured in tour accidents, and more.
Plus, in a strange twist, American Idol loudmouth Simon Cowell is upset at Rage Against the Machine fans.
Find out what music new made headlines this week as we countdown some of the top stories.
- 1Bloody Anniversary for Rock Concert Fans
This week the music world mourned a handful of sad anniversaries, ranging from the tragic slaying of Pantera/Damageplan guitarist Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott who was shot while performing onstage in Columbus, Ohio, to the string of deaths at the Rolling Stones’ Altamont, a Woodstock-like festival that took an ugly turn, reportedly at the hands of the event’s unlikely security team: the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club.
Full Story: Rock Concert Murders Mark Somber Anniversary
- 2Rock Singer, Family Injured in Tour Bus Crash
Reports from Weezer’s official website indicate that the tour bus carrying singer Rivers Cuomo, his wife and daughter, their nanny, and Cuomo’s assistant crashed in upstate New York after encountering icy road conditions. Cuomo reportedly “cracked 3 ribs and sustained some mostly minor but very painful internal damage, as well as hurting his lower leg.”
(See dramatic photos of the rescue, here.)
Full Story: Weezer Tour Cancelled: Bus Accident Injures Singer, Family
- 3Welcome to the Jungle Tabloids
They say that no publicity is bad publicity—and it’s a lucky thing for Axl Rose, since bad publicity seems to be the only type he gets these days.
The Guns’n'Roses singer got tangled up in a brawl at a Los Angeles airport as he prepared to join the band in Taipei, Taiwan to kick off the highly-anticipated (or not) tour in support of Chinese Democracy.
Full Story: Rock Star, Woman Attacked at LA Airport
- 4Cops Alerted to Jazzless Band
Everyone’s a critic, but a man in Spain has taken things to a new extreme by calling the police to complain that a saxophone and drum band performing at the Sigüenza Jazz festival was offensive—not because they were too loud—but because they “weren’t jazzy enough.”
According to the UK’s Guardian, the man reportedly claimed that “his doctor had warned it was ‘psychologically inadvisable’ for him to listen to anything that could be mistaken for mere contemporary music.”
Talk about a music snob!
Full Story: Spanish fan calls police over saxophone band who were just not jazzy enough
- 5Rage Against American IdolIn a pairing we could’ve never predicted, American Idol loudmouth Simon Cowell has been making headlines this week thanks to his beef with fans of political rap-rock outfit Rage Against the Machine.
Fans of the band have reportedly launched a campaign to push the group’s 1992 song “Killing in the Name” to the top of the British music charts in time for Christmas—which means the top slot would be stolen away from Cowell’s latest pet project: Susan Boyle, the unlikely YouTube singing sensation best known for her recent makeover.
Full Story, here.
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MusicVixen says...
What a sad week for rock'n'roll.
