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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’

Check out Slash’s new video for his single “By The Sword” featuring Wolfmother’s lead singer Andrew Stockdale

After playing the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, OH on May 23, Limp Bizkit will start “Rollin’” on a full U.S. tour in July and August. The Gold Cobra Tour begins in Holmdel, NJ on July 3. Other stops include Cleveland on July 5; Cincinnati on July 7; Charlotte on July 8 and Biloxi on July 10. Snoop Dogg will join the trek starting July 11 in Atlanta, and the two acts will tour together through August 15 in Auburn, WA. Limp Bizkit will then head to Europe for more than 40 headlining shows, according to Pollstar.

The original lineup of Limp Bizkit – Fred Durst, Wes Borland, Sam Rivers, John Otto and DJ Lethal – will unleash a new album, dubbed Gold Cobra, later this year. The band already has leaked a new song called “Why Try,” which is posted for streaming on LimpBizkit.com. Gold Cobra will be the Bizkit’s first new studio album with the original lineup since 2000’s Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, and it is rumored to feature guest appearances by a host of Hip-Hop artists, including Raekwon and Paul Wall.

Meanwhile, Fred Durst recently posted on Twitter, “We will be performing on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show on May 10. We have no idea what we’re gonna play. They want an older song. Hmmmm.”

You can also hear “Why Try” below:

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?

Come to St Croix and cheer on our Buzz athlete Gabi in the Half Iron Man and then join us at Rhythms at Rainbow Beach for a pre Cinco de Mayo party!!!! Here is a pic of Gabi training by climbing the buzz tower in record time!!!

gaby on tower

Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor and his new bride, ex-West Indian Girl singer Mariqueen Maandig, have procreated — in the form of a new musical project called How to Destroy Angels.

Details are sparse on the new project, but an email from NIN’s publicist says the group will release a “self-titled, six-track EP this summer.” How to Destroy Angels also have Twitter, MySpace,Facebook,YouTube, and Vimeo pages, plus a new website, which offers the only other clues about the band: an image of a girl that’s presumably Maandig and a video teaser of a pair of woman’s hands (again, presumably Maandig’s) playing evil industrial sounds on a vintage MS-20 keyboard — a keyboard that she confessed her love for vi Twitter back in February.

Not so coincidentally, on Feb. 1. Reznor Tweeted another little hint: “1st official day of work in the studio,” he wrote, commemorating his return to music after NIN’s final live show in September, without specifying what, exactly, he was working on. Well, now we know.

And the news echoes his statements from December 2009, when he wrote, “2010 has a number of things planned including new material from Nine Inch Nails and something else that isn’t Nine Inch Nails. I am in a state of rediscovery and reinvention that feels unfamiliar, unsure and exactly what I need.”

A movie based on the life of Ozzy Osbourne is to go into production imminently. Sharon Osbourne said of these plans: “There’s about to be a big announcement. It’s been picked up and it’s going into production. We’re going to make a press announcement hopefully within the next two weeks. There’s no cast yet, but we have a producer and we have lots of money and we’re all starting.”

Any ideas who you think should play Ozzy? Leave your suggestions below.

Billy Corgan has launched a Twitter tirade against Courtney Love, who’s now known as Courtney Michelle. She in turn, has for once been very restrained in response.Corgan began it all by announcing: “My face is my face, my heart is my heart, my money is my money. Oh, and my songs are MY songs (alluding to the fact that he allegedly wrote songs for the just-released Hole album Nobody’s Daughter). If you can’t write your own songs maybe you should just be happy that you fooled someone into doing your work for you. Maybe you should go (somewhere) nice [and] live off your husband’s money, (you) know, the money he made for writing all those great songs”.

Not satisfied, he carried on by taking a swipe at the fact that Courtney recently lost custody of her daughter, Frances Bean: “The world is aware of your lack of responsibility, as seen in the (government) taking away your parental rights. Only you could abandon such a beautiful, incredible child who is smarter than (you), cooler than (you), and better than (you). Oops, did I say too much?”

So far, all Courtney has said is: “All I am is nice about you so if you wanna be mean, be mean”.

We wait the next round of insults.

1  Cage the Elephant  “In One Ear”

2  Vampire Weekend  “Cousins”

3  Stone Temple Pilots  “Between the Lines”

4  One Republic  “All the Right Moves”

5  Phoenix  “Lisztomania”

6  Flobots  “White Flag Warrior”

7  We are the Fallen  “Bury Me Alive”

8  Slash/Wolfmother  “By the Sword” (ft. Andrew Stockdale)

9  Travis McCoy  “Billionaire”

10  Cypress Hill  “Rise Up” (ft. Tom Morello)

The Buzz just gave away a pair of tickets to the Guns N Roses concert this Thursday in San Juan.

Desiree from Canovanas went online, registered at Buzzrocks.com and won! Desiree and a friend will be arriving in style to the concert in the Ultra Lounge Party Buzz with The Buzz crew and siting in Arena to one of the most anticipated concerts this year.

Thanks to Coors Light, The Hard Rock Cafe, Ultra Lounge Party Bus, Seaborne Airlines and Jose Dueno

Listen to Desiree as we call her to let her know she is the winner… g n r ticket winner

A short video clip of BUCKCHERRY singer Josh Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson talking about their forthcoming record can be viewed below. “It’s definitely a rock ‘n’ roll record,” says Nelson. “I think that we’ve grown, we’ve expanded, lyrically, musically, as songwriters and as musicians. I think it’s next logical step in our evolution.” 

Congratulations Sheryl from St Thomas! She won a trip for 2 to PR courtesy of Seaborne Airlines, accommodations at the Sheraton Old San Juan, Dinner for 2 at The Hard Rock Cafe, ride to the concert in the Ultra Lounge Party Bus and 2 arena tickets to see Guns N Roses in concert! Thanks to Coors Light for helping making this contest possible

Girls rock The Buzz once again! click here to listen… Winner