The Presidente Tribute Series is back for the 2010 tour of the VI!

Riders on The Storm, A Tribute to The Doors is back on the islands to rock for 2 nights.
We begin on Friday June 4 @ Crazy Cracker’s, Cruz Bay, St John. Then on Saturday they play at The Caribbean Saloon, in Red Hook St Thomas.
Both shows start at 10pm and it’s just a $5 cover. And don’t forget to grab $2 Presidentes and Presidente Lights all night long.

This Tribute series is made possible by Presidente, Presidente Light, The Galleon House, The Inn at Tamarind Court, Seaborne Airlines and 104.3 THE BUZZ

1  Devo  “Fresh”

2  New Politics “Yeah Yeah Yeah”

3  Stone Temple Pilots  “Between the Lines”

4  Against Me!   “Teenage Anarchist”

5  LCD Soundsystem  “Drunk Girls”

6  Cage the Elephant “In one Ear”

7  Seasons After  “Cry Little Sister”

8  Flyleaf  “Chasm”

9  Vampire Weekend  “Cousins”

10  Travis McCoy  “Billionaire”

While The Killers take a break from recording new tunes, frontman Brandon Flowers is prepping his first solo album, Flamingo, set for an autumn release.

He recently sat down to talk about the process, and revealed he’s not only doing a duet with one of our faves, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, but also collaborating with producers Stuart Price – who’s worked with Madonna and Kylie Minogue – Daniel Lanois (who’s worked with Bob Dylan and U2) and Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young).

Flowers says:
“It’s a pretty good line-up, I think. Stuart and Daniel have been working together, and I’ve done another three tracks with Brendan on his own. Jenny’s helped me out on a couple of songs, and we also get to duet on the record, on a song called Hard Enough, which turned out great. She’s always popped into my mind whenever I think about getting a female vocalist involved because she’s a fellow child of Las Vegas, too. It’s all very rooted right here in Las Vegas dirt.”
Wow! He has quite the variety of musical aesthetics working at once!
We can only imagine what the final product is going to sound like!
We’ve got a good feeling about this one, folks.

The island’s mightiest band is back to The Caribbean Saloon and not even Skynet will be able to contain them!

Ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has sounded off on Axl Rose’s allegations that his former manager Irving Azoff, who heads Front Line Management, plotted to “sabotage” the singer’s “new” version of the hard rock band.

Earlier this week, Rose filed a $5 million dollar countersuit against Azoff, claiming the industry honcho was “devising a secret plan to set up Rose and the band for failure so that Rose would have no choice but to reunite with the original Guns N’ Roses’ members,” a move the dreadlocked singer staunchly opposes.

Rose’s suit also fires back at Azoff for allegedly abandoning his manager duties on the eve of a major tour, and for filing a lawsuit in March seeking $1.8 million in commissions from the band’s run of tour dates through Asia, Canada, and South America in support of their 2008 comeback album Chinese Democracy.

But Slash doesn’t buy it. “I don’t know where Axl is coming from”

Slash firmly supports Azoff.

“I know where Irving is coming from — he’s looking for commissions for a tour that he booked,” the top-hat-sporting rocker added. “[It's a] pretty reasonable kind of thing. Axl’s countersuing, so I’m not sure exactly what the merit is that he’s countersuing, exactly.”

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Rose claims that Irving — whose Front Line Management was recently acquired by Ticketmaster — has gained too much power in the music industry, which he uses to punish artists and harm their careers if they don’t follow his orders. Adding to Rose’s anger: Azoff filed his suit against William Bailey, the singer’s real name — something that “carries significant emotional damage from Rose’s childhood.”

What do you think of the lawsuits? Team Axl … or Team Slash and Azoff? Tell us in the comment section below!

Axl Rose has waged war against former Guns N’ Roses manager Irving Azoff, accusing him of attempting to sabotage the rocker’s career after he refused to reunite with the band’s original members.

Azoff, the CEO of management firm Front Line, originally filed suit against Rose in March, claiming the singer reneged on an oral agreement giving him 15 percent of his earnings from a big money concert tour – a deal said to be worth $2 million.

But Rose has fired back at Azoff, accusing the music mogul of failing to properly promote the band’s 2008 album “Chinese Democracy” in an alleged bid to force him to reform the original Guns N’ Roses line-up.

In legal papers filed in a Los Angeles court on Monday, the frontman also takes aim at his one-time manager for allegedly lying about a possible joint tour with fellow rock legends Van Halen and mishandling Guns N’ Roses’ tour dates, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The lawsuit states, “Upon realizing that he couldn’t bully Rose and accomplish his scheme, Azoff resigned and abandoned Guns N’ Roses on the eve of a major tour, filing suit for commissions he didn’t earn and had no right to receive.”

Rose is demanding more than $5 million in damages for breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and breach of contract.

Marilyn Manson and his 22-year-old fiancée, actress Evan Rachel Wood, will star in an upcoming horror-slasher movie called Splatter Sisters, which is the epitome of art imitating life: last year, Manson — who had yet to reconcile with his on-again, off-again girlfriend — told SPIN.com, “I have fantasies every day about smashing [Wood's] skull in with a sledgehammer.”

Now that’s quality casting.

According to Variety, Splatter Sisters — described as a “sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movie circa 1989″ — will be produced by Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green and film vet Edward R. Pressman (American Psycho, Bad Lieutenant). Adam Bhala Lough, the man behind the 2008 Lil Wayne documentary The Carter, will direct.

“This is a role Marilyn Manson was born to play, and with Evan Rachel Wood bringing dramatic gravity to the ensemble, I have no doubt this will take the horror genre to a new level,” Green said at the Cannes International Film Festival, where Splatter Sisters was announced.

Added Pressman: “Lough’s unique talent and energy will make Splatter Sisters a very special and markedly commercial film. I’ve always been attracted to smart movies about killers made by directors with a real vision.”

No word yet on a release date, but Variety reports that Splatter Sisters is the first film a new franchise of sexploitation-serial-killer-slasher-road-movies inspired by horror classics of the 1980’s.

Excited for Splatter Sisters? Or upset that Manson isn’t focusing on music? Sound off in the comment section below.

The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez Lopez and former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante have released a 29-minute proggy and  sonic instrumental album together as part of a charity  for the Keep Music In Schools program.

The  ‘pay what you want’ scheme allows fans to download it for free but are encouraged to pay what they can as all profits are being donated to Keep Music In Schools charity program.

The album titled ‘Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante’ was “recorded many years ago” according to the duo, although most of the tracks have remained unreleased until now.

By giving away music, Frusciante is apparently making good on his “musical lesson” to RZA, while the better known half of the Mars Volta continues to blaze his spaced out path to progressive rock immortality.
Download it here ‘Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante’

What a great time on St. Croix this weekend!!! We wined and dined with Jodi at Bacchus (mostly wined), chilled with Kevin at The Pink Fancy (super thanks for always making STX feel like home!), enjoyed dark beer and Shepard’s Pie at Tavern 1844, cheered on our Buzz athlete, Gabi in the Iron man, met the territories best reporter, Wes Small!!! Whew… I’m not done yet.

Kat carted us through the rain forest jungle to Rhythms at Rainbow beach, on Sunday night, I played a fun sunset acoustic set, met some really cool Buzz fans (like a belly dancing carpenter!), danced under the stars to Marisol and the Drunken Dumplings and then Alan & I flew back home, to St Thomas, on our very own Seaborne Airlines flight (thanks for working late guys!!!). I need a day off.

We can’t wait to come back and do it all over again.

The rumors are true!

Following a cryptic countdown on the Killers’ website that began earlier this week, comes the news that frontman Brandon Flowers is planning to release his debut solo album, entitled Flamingo

Thursday the Las Vegas quartet’s website revealed a “Brandon Flowers” logo and this simple message: “THE NEW SOLO ALBUM — FLAMINGO — COMING SOON.”

In December, Flowers’ publicist told SPIN that Flowers had no intention of going solo, but after finishing their tour behind their most recent album, Day & Age, and dealing with the recent death of his mother, the frontman seems to have changed his tune.

However, the Killers’ aren’t over by any means. Back in January guitarist Dave Keuning admitted the band’s gigs in Australia would likely be their last for a while, but when asked if the hiatus was permanent, Keuning replied, “not as far as I know.”

In response to rumors that the band members were sick of each other, they posted an official statement on their website: “The Killers would also like to take this opportunity to assure their fans that any concerns about the future of the band are unfounded… there are no plans for an indefinite hiatus.”

The Killers also extended their record deal with Universal Publishing, which also covers solo projects, Billboard reports. Killers’ drummer Ronnie Vannucci has also joined supergroup Mt. Desolation alongside members of Keane, Mumford & Sons, and the Long Winters.

Excited for a Flowers solo record?