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Filed under: News , Holy Hell LAPD Former Cake drummer Pete McNeal appeared in court in late January after being arrested in December in Los Angeles for a single felony count for child sex abuse. According to a report by Fox News , McNeal is facing a charge of oral copulation/sexual penetration of a child under the age of 10 and was released after posting $250,000 bail. An arraignment date has been [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Getty Images As Spinner previously reported, an inquest into the death of Amy Winehouse had ruled the singer's demise the result of "misadventure." Now NME reports that the person who performed Winehouse's autopsy was not qualified by law and that the investigation itself may be declared illegal. Inner North London Corner Dr. Andrew Scott Reid appointed his wife, Suzanne Greenaway , to the role [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Buzz60.com The Rolling Stones were masters of controversy in their heyday, but now its their legacy which is causing a stir. A soon-to-be-opened museum in the German town of Luechow has had female fans in an a tiff over the urinals in the men's room, the L.A. Times reports. The urinals are based on the band's infamous red lips-and-tongue logo, which designer John Pasche created [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell AP Photo|AFP/Getty Images In another piece of news that sounds at once outlandish and also weirdly appropriate: Hulk Hogan once almost joined an early version of Metallica .The WWF/WWE living legend and star of ' 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain ' apparently found work as a session musician before becoming the Super Destroyer and between Hogan and Metallica there is a [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Holy Hell Damon Dahlen, AOL Some fans just can't take a hint. Chairlift singer Caroline Polachek was reminded of this earlier this week during the Brooklyn band's record release show for 'Something.' "Btw, shoutout to the crazy girl who came on stage last night," the group tweeted the day after the Jan. 23 gig. "Sorry we had to kick u out, but [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Vimeo So, apparently YouTube doesn't like gay men hugging with their shirts off. Matador Records revealed that Perfume Genius ' new teaser video for his upcoming album, 'Put Your Back N 2 It,' was rejected by the video site for violating its Adult Image/Video Content policy. So, how bad is the ad? For a portion of the 16-second clip, Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) is [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Courtesy of Disney So yeah, this happened. Disney has inexplicably designed a Mickey Mouse logo based on -- you guessed it -- Joy Division 's 'Unknown Pleasures.' One of the U.K.'s darkest bands will lend their logo to the happiest place on earth. According to a listing on the Disney store website (via Pitchfork ), "Inspired by the iconic sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album, this [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Sum 41 have been forced to cancel their Kerrang! Tour in the UK due to health issues with lead singer Deryck Whibley , who says doctors are warning "I could be in a wheelchair" because of a back injury. "I feel really terrible about letting down the fans," Whibley said in a statement on the Canadian pop-punkers' site . "So, as much as I [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Pantychrist A punk singer for the Hamilton, Ontario, group Pantychrist was charged this week with first-degree murder in the death of Jessie Kovacs, a 55-year-old disabled Hamilton man. According to the Hamilton Spectator , Danielle Delottinville, 28, was arrested without incident Wednesday along with two other men: George Cooke and Matthew Cooke. Kovacs was found in his apartment on Dec. 22 tied and taped with his hands [...]

Filed under: News , Video , Holy Hell Ethan Miller, Getty Images The Internet is an interesting place. Hopes, dreams, shopping, music and Travis Barker 's penis can all be accessed on the world wide web. Wait ... T. Bark pulled a B. Favre (alleged)? According to NME, gossip website MediaTakeOut.com published several photos of Barker's junk, reporting an "unnamed" musician had sent the photos to a female admirer. [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell , Awards Getty (2) Madonna won a Golden Globe award Sunday night (Jan. 15) for Best Original Song but it might be a while before Elton John is singing her praises. The pop stars took pot shots at each other during a televised pre-show red carpet special on NBC with censors deleting John's comments. When asked by Carson Daly about [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Hayley Madden,Redferns/Verve Nearly 45 years after a banana appeared on their iconic 1967 debut album, the Velvet Underground are suing the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts citing copyright infringement and seeking unspecified damages. According to the New York Post -- and also reported by Exclaim -- Lou Reed and John Cale claim the image's use [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Gustavo Caballero, WireImage Whether you're at the movies or the symphony, before the show you are always prompted to do one thing: Turn off your cell phone. But at a recent performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony at the New York Philharmonic , someone did not heed the warning. According to the Daily Mail, venerable conductor Alan Gilbert was on the final page of the chilling piece. The strings [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell John Shearer, WireImage After pleading for psychiatric help on Twitter , Sinead O'Connor has revealed that she tried to commit suicide last week. The Irish singer admitted to the attempt to U.K. newspaper The Sun. "I took an overdose," O'Connor said. "God obviously wants me around -- though I can't think why." The 45-year-old O'Connor's overdose took place last Thursday, Jan. [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Universal Music Lights released her single 'Toes' last year but the Canadian electro-pop singer wants fans to know that online naked photos currently circulating and revealing basically everything except the toes aren't of her. Lights, born Valerie Poxleitner, tweeted that certain nude pictures online claiming to be of the singer are fakes. "There are nude photos of someone on the Internet that are supposed to [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images After traveling to Las Vegas to marry her boyfriend , then quickly separating only to reunite again, Sinead O'Connor took to her Twitter account on Wednesday desperately asking for psychiatric help and medication. "i realize i will be in trouble 4 doing this but..Ireland is a VERY hard place to find help in," she began in a string [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Getty Images/AP Photo Jason Isbell, singer and former Drive-By Truckers member, launched a Twitter feud with country singer Dierks Bentley last week. According to Billboard , Isbell says Bentley's new single 'Home' is similar to 'In A Razor Town,' a song from Isbell's 2007 solo album 'Sirens Of The Ditch.' Isbell raised the issue on Jan. 6 with a tweet repeatedly misspelling [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Holy Hell Getty Images Sarah McLachlan , the 40 million-selling, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, seems like she's led a charmed life. Certainly her adulthood -- aside from an unfortunate divorce that she spoke to us about last year -- has been fortuitous since she launched her acclaimed career back in 1988. But McLachlan's teenage years, like many of ours, were anything but charmed as the aspiring singer says she was [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell Kevin Winter, Getty Images Two months after they announced their separation , Zooey Deschanel and her husband of two years, Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard , have officially filed for divorce. According to People magazine , the 31-year-old 'New Girl' star filed the documents with L.A. County Superior Court on Dec. 27, listing their date of separation as Oct. 31, [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Holy Hell , Television Cory Schwartz, Getty Images One thing you can't call a Guided by Voices performance is dull. The influential lo-fi rockers may have aged a bit, but their shows still feature the same high kicks, chain smoking and tequila swilling that we've come to know and love. While the studios of ' The Late Show With [...]