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Briefly: Rage, MP3Board, Reading Festival, Wu-Tang And Ozzy, Spinal Tap
Following Mike D's shoulder injury, which led to the postponement of the Beastie Boys-Rage Against the Machine tour, Rage has postponed two warm-up shows at San Francisco's Fillmore which were to take place on July 27 and 28. The shows have not been rescheduled.
MP3Board, a site which aggregates links that lead to MP3 files, has introduced LinkBlaster, which content owners can use to delete links that they feel violates their copyright. Webnoize reported that the person responsible for placing the link can then petition MP3Board to have the link reinstated if the person feels that the link doesn't violate a copyright.
Tickets to the U.K.'s Reading Festival have sold out. Headliners include Oasis, Pulp and Stereophonics.
Loud Records is releasing "Loud Rocks" on Sept 5. The CD features collaborations between rock acts and rap acts: Wu-Tang Clan and Ozzy Osborne, the Clan and System of a Down, Everlast and Mobb Deep, and others.
To coincide with the re-release of the film "This Is Spinal Tap ," Spinal Tap has announced the launch of its own file-trading site Tapster, which offers a free download of "Back From the Dead," a previously unreleased Spinal Tap song.
The launch of Tapster also coincides with the recent judicial blow to Napster, the MP3 file-trading service. According to Spinal Tap frontman David St. Hubbins, "There's a fine line between exploitation and opportunism."
"Napster's a bit complicated, really, what with all of the songs available,'' said Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel. "One of the brilliant things about Tapster is that there's only one song to choose from.''
