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Former BLACK SABBATH frontman Tony Martin has released an unplugged Christmas song entitled Who Put The Devil In Santa? The track, which is available for streaming on Martin's MySpace oage, was recorded entirely by the singer (including all instrumentation) except for the kids' background vocals, which were laid down by Tony's youngest daughter.

pOkay, so. We've long heard rumblings about a potential rock opera movie musical, presented in three glorious dimensions, based on the life of Cleopatra, directed by a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001752/"strongStephen Soderbergh/strong/a and soundtracked by former Guided by Voices frontman a href="http://www.robertpollard.net/"strongRobert Pollard/strong/a. But getting a firm grasp on all of it has proved a little tricky since the Pollard part of that equation hasn't exactly been forthcoming with the juicy details./p pThere's been an upswing in interest in the flick lately, including recent a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117994550.html?categoryid=1050amp;cs=1"emstrongVariety/strong/em/a and a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/12/01/exclusive-ray-winstone-cast-as-ceaser-in-cleopatra-musical-soderbergh-calls-it-viva-las-vegas-meets-tommy/#more-7192"strongMTV.com/strong/a articles that all but confirm everything we'd heard about the project. Apparently, the film is called emCleo/em, Soderbergh says that Catherine Zeta-Jones will play Cleopatra, Hugh Jackman's all but ready to go as Mark Anthony, and English actor Ray Winstone has been cast as Caesar. They expect to start shooting in April, in, it bears repeating, 3D./p pThe script for emCleo /emwas written by author/former Guided by Voices bassist Jim Greer. Soderbergh told MTV.com, "He went away for like six weeks and wrote this great script! It's like an Elvis musical in a way. It's not serious. I mean it's historically pretty accurate but its sort of like emViva Las Vegas/em meets emTommy/em."/p pOh, and Pollard? According to MTV, he's all in. emVariety /emreports, "The music has been written by the indie rock band Guided by Voices," but unless it was written before Pollard stopped using the GBV name in 2004, that probably means just Pollard.br /br /Pollard's people won't officially confirm anything specific about his involvement in the project, but note that a 2006 article in emthe New York Times/em describing the longstanding creative partnership between the Fading Captain and the acclaimed director gets Pollard's involvement in the then-incubatory emCleo /emproject right. We tracked down a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/movies/29olse.html"strongthe emTimes/em piece/strong/a, which says, "the two have started working together on another project, emCleopatra/em, which is being written by Jim Greer...the film is described by Mr. Soderbergh as emTommy/em meets emViva Las Vegas/em." Hey, two years later, he's still using the same soundbite!/p pAs a bit of background, Soderbergh wrote the introduction to Greer's Guided by Voices oral history/biography Gemuided by Voices: A Brief History/em, while a href="/article/record_review/20958/Robert_Pollard_Zoom_It_Happens_All_Over_the_World_EP_Music_Fr"strongPollard wrote the music for Soderbergh's 2005 film emBubble/em/strong/a.br /br /While we wait for more information about this whole crazy project, we'll remind you that Bob's new sensation a href="http://www.bostonspaceships.com/"strongBoston Spaceships/strong/a will released a href="/article/news/146459-pollard-preps-new-solo-spaceships-circus-devils-discs"strongemThe Planets Are Blasted/em/strong/a, their rather quick follow-up to this fall's fine a href="/article/news/51300-pollard-forms-new-band-with-gbv-decemberists-folks"strongemBrown Submarine/em/strong/a, February 17 from Guided by Voices, Inc./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/td_cJdxnAJMGzPaDk3JZ1kWp9aM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/td_cJdxnAJMGzPaDk3JZ1kWp9aM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/3AtumPpxQS0" height="1" width="1"/

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U.D.O./ex-ACCEPT frontman Udo Dirkschneider has cancelled his appearance at a special concert on December 13 at the ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany celebrating Doro Pesch's 25-year career as the reigning queen of German heavy metal.

Vocalist Tobias Sammet of the German melodic metal/hard rock bands EDGUY and AVANTASIA has issued the following update: Hey folks, this message is dedicated to our fans all over the world, the real fans.

Vocalist Biff Byford of the legendary British heavy metal band SAXON has answered a couple of fan-submitted questions regarding the band's upcoming European co-headlining tour with ICED EARTH.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/71206?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Mighty+Tesco+feels+bite+of+the+Hamsterch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Tesco+%28Business%29%2CMorrisons+%28Business%29%2CSupermarkets+%28business%29%2CAdvertising+%28media%29%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CRecession+%28UK%29%2CUK+news%2CBusiness%2CMediac5=Credit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CMedia+Weekly%2CAdvertising+Mediac6=Julia+Finchc7=2008_12_03c8=1127801c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Tescoc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FTesco" width="1" height="1" //divpOn one side there is an ageing crooner in a cardigan and on the other an impish TV presenter who favours wooden beads. It is Countdown vs Top Gear with Des O'Connor versus Richard Hammond - and the man known as The Hamster is winning hands down./ppHammond and O'Connor are going head-to-head as the Christmas TV faces of two of the UK's biggest supermarkets, and O'Connor's Tesco is now trailing way behind Hammond's Morrisons. Tesco, the UK's biggest retailer, yesterday revealed its worst sales figures for 14 years. Like-for-like sales - which exclude gains from new stores - were ahead just 2% in the last three months, or half the growth achieved in the previous quarter./ppIn an unusually gloomy quarterly trading update, Tesco's chief executive, Sir Terry Leahy, blamed the economic downturn: "We are pleased with our progress, but we are also realistic - the current economic climate and the strain this is putting on consumers everywhere is something that all businesses are feeling, including ours." But not all supermarkets are as gloomy. Bradford-based Morrisons is - so far - storming through the recession. Tomorrow it is expected to reveal recent sales up around 7.5% on last year - maintaining much the same impressive rate of growth as it reported three months ago./ppTesco's performance is also markedly worse than its rivals Sainsbury and Asda. Sainsbury - which has hired "I'm a Celebrity ..." hosts Ant and Dec to star in its adverts alongside its usual frontman Jamie Oliver - last month revealed like-for-like sales up 3.9%. Meanwhile Asda, which is reflecting the new austerity by shunning celebrities and filming traditional family Christmas ads in the Yorkshire Dales, grew 6.9% in the three months to the end of September. But Morrisons is now top of the pile, pulling in thousands of new shoppers every week, especially in the south-east, where it was almost unheard of until a couple of years ago./ppThe Morrisons empire, built by Sir Ken Morrison, was always a fiercely Yorkshire business. But it descended into chaos, with tumbling sales and profits after it took over its larger rival Safeway. Shareholders demanded a management shake-up and Marc Bolland was installed as chief executive, even though he had spent his career working for Dutch brewer Heineken and had never run a shop. Bolland did, however, understand marketing./ppThe stores were given a new green and yellow look and out went the outmoded "More reasons to shop at Morrisons" adverts. In their place Bolland brought in a raft of celebrities - Denise van Outen, Lulu, Alan Hansen, Nick Hancock and, more recently, Richard Hammond./ppThe TV adverts now concentrate on image, while press adverts go toe-to-toe with Tesco and the others on price. One retail executive said: "It was an old-fashioned grocer competing with the slicker marketing of rivals. The new Bolland empire has given the brand a slick new look and feel. He has taken the brand and the business and given it a polish". It is, however, far too soon to write off Tesco. Yesterday's poor sales figures were actually slightly better than most City experts had predicted, and its shares rose. The grocer, which accounts for pound;1 out of every pound;7 spent on the UK high street, decided months ago that a full-scale recession was on its way and, in a bid to stop bargain-hunting shoppers drifting away to discount outlets such as Aldi and Lidl, launched its own range of Discounter goods./ppIn September, some 350 new lines - from Shampoo to curry sauce and teabags - went onto Tesco's shelves. The range was the biggest since Tesco launched its Value label in the last recession, with prices higher than Value, but lower than the premium, proprietary brands and the grocer's standard own-label equivalents. The supermarket rebranded itself as "Britain's biggest discounter" and the bargain range has been expanded to 800 products. Yesterday's lower sales figures, said Tesco, are a direct result of introducing these lower-priced goods. "We think this is the right strategy to help our business and our customers through the tougher times ahead."/ppAccording to Tesco, the new range is pulling in 300,000 new customers a week and now accounts for 5% of everything that goes through its tills. At the same time, sales of higher-priced organic foods and the grocer's Finest upmarket heat-and-eat meals has gone into reverse. Aside from the impact of the discount range, the big supermarkets are currently locked in a fierce price war. For retailers, discounting means selling more just to stand still./ppCity analysts were yesterday divided over exactly whether Tesco was cleverly planning for the future, or falling out of favour. Oriel Securities said it was obvious that shoppers were switching to Tesco's lower-priced Discounter range "but in general we are seeing a waning in the UK's love affair with the market leader"./ppBut another from broker Cazenove, said the data showed Tesco "is back on the front foot in the UK and is ahead of its competitors in preparing for battle fought in a deflationary world"./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/tesco"Tesco/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/morrisons"Morrisons/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/supermarkets"Supermarkets/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/advertising"Advertising/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/recession"Recession/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/CLbwvFvARtn2nH1AAGdlSI88mF4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/CLbwvFvARtn2nH1AAGdlSI88mF4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan's side project PUSCIFER will make its live debut on at the Pearl @ Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 13 and February 14.

The sad evolution of AFI frontman Davey Havok, from the mid-90s normal punk rock frontman to mid-2000s glam-woman. Let this be a lesson to all of you aspiring rock stars - you just might need to cut off your balls to become successful.

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pa href="/article/record_review/147782-guns-n-roses-chinese-democracy"strongemChinese Democracy/em/strong/a's release date has come and, fortunately, gone. By now we know the album is an overproduced turd (who could have seen that one coming?), but whatever happened with the free cans of soda a href="http://www.drpepper.com/"strongDr. Pepper/strong/a was going to a href="/article/news/49539-chinese-democracy-in-2008-free-dr-pepper-for-all"stronggive/strong/a a href="/article/news/49554-axl-rose-responds-to-dr-pepper-proposition"strongeveryone/strong/a upon the unveiling of a href="http://web.gunsnroses.com/index.jsp"strongGuns N' Roses/strong/a' anticipated "masterpiece"?br /br /Well, Dr. Pepper made good on the promise by offering a coupon on its website for 24 hours, but a problem arose when the demand from thirsty GN'R fans crashed the site. In response, Dr. Pepper "extended the window for the giveaway from 24 to 42 hours, added a toll-free line to handle consumer requests for the coupons, and set up an interactive voice recorder to accept coupon requests," according to a a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/02/gunsnroses.soda/index.html?iref=mpstoryview"strongCNN report/strong/a. Ridiculous problem ridiculously solved, right?br /br /Not so fast. Plenty of people still didn't get their free Dr. Pepper, and some of these people blame GN'R frontman Axl Rose himself, despite the fact that he wasn't officially involved in the promotion at all.br /br /To clear up the misunderstanding, CNN reports that Guns N' Roses lawyer Laurie Soriano wrote a letter to the good Dr. requesting an apology. She told CNN, "The door to a lawsuit being filed is always open until the fans are taken care of and Dr. Pepper has done the right thing."br /br /So, wait, Axl Rose can sue Dr. Pepper for half-assing a promotion he wasn't involved in because his fans think he's responsible? Hey kids, let's play the misplaced blame game!br /br /P.S. It is funny when a writer for CNN gets a sentence like "No one is LOL" published./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/3W0MUmKhpEH5afxPFgLZ-PbeTZk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/3W0MUmKhpEH5afxPFgLZ-PbeTZk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/loGtbq3F2H8" height="1" width="1"/

Fan-filmed video footage of BIOHAZARD frontman Evan Seinfeld getting smacked in the face by a stagediver earlier tonight (Tuesday, December 2) during the band's concert at Voxhall in Aarhus, Denmark can be viewed below.

Vocalist Kelly Shaefer of the reactivated seminal technical metal pioneers ATHEIST has issued the following update: Since our return to the scene in 2006, so many from all over the world have written such great notes of inspiration to us through replies to blogs, or through emails, but I would like to create more of a community of people sharing the thoughts that you send to us, and post them

pThose punkin' instigators in a href="http://www.theprodigy.com/" target="_blank"strongthe Prodigy/strong/a are back, and they've got an awfully stern warning for all who dare intrude. emInvaders Must Die/em is the band's fifth studio LP, due March 2 in the UK and March 3 in the States on the band's own Take Me to the Hospital imprint, via a href="http://www.cookingvinyl.com/"strongCooking Vinyl/strong/a. br /br /The 11-track set is bolstered by some drum work from Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, and, of course, plenty of outsized beats besides. Check out the video for the title track below; if you act fast, you can also score a radio edit of the song stronga href="http://www.theprodigytickets.com/download" target="_blank"right here/a/strong.br /br /The band will spend a good bit of the next several months on the road, including a string of dates in April with a certain Dizzee Rascal.br //ppa href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/147774" target="_blank"read more/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2uR2XSkBtG3j_Jpu_jLh5C_GWAk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2uR2XSkBtG3j_Jpu_jLh5C_GWAk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/hKgAIASJFGA" height="1" width="1"/

SEPULTURA singer Derrick Green, guitarist Andre NM (NITROMINDS), drummer Marcão (AÇÃO DIRETA, DEAD FISH) and bassist Ricardo Brigas have joined forces in a new São Paulo, Brazil-based thrash metal project called MUSICA DIABLO.

pThe covers of the last two a href="http://www.itsmorrisseysworld.com/" target="_blank"strongMorrissey/strong/a albums, a href="/article/record_review/20042-you-are-the-quarry" target="_blank"strongemYou Are the Quarry/em/strong/a and ema href="/article/record_review/20044-morrissey-ringleader-of-the-tormentors" target="_blank"strongRingleader of the Tormentors/strong/a/em, have featured the former Smiths frontman cradling a gun and a violin, respectively./p pThe cradling tradition continues with the cover for his forthcoming album emYears of Refusal/em, as according to the Morrissey fan site a href="http://www.morrissey-solo.com/" target="_blank"strongMorrissey-solo/strong/a, it features Moz cradling...a baby. And sporting some sort of growth that vaguely resembles a href="/node/147851/" target="_blank"strongBeyonceacute;'s robot finger prosthetic/strong/a. We're sure there's some sort of symbolic meaning behind all of this...perhaps something religious?/p pimg src="/sites/default/files/yearsofrefusal525.jpg" border="0" /br / br / a href="/article/news/51016-morrissey-names-new-album-preps-southpaw-reissue" target="_blank"strongAs previously reported/strong/a, emYears of Refusal/em was produced by the late Jerry Finn, and is due out on a href="http://www.polydor.co.uk/" target="_blank"strongPolydor/strong/a. Morrissey-solo reports that it will be released February 16 in the UK, with lead single "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" out February 9. It was originally supposed to be released this fall, but various delays-- including Morrissey's split with his management-- have a href="/article/news/142845-morrisseys-years-bumped-to-next-year" target="_blank"strongpushed it back/strong/a.br / br / None of this has been confirmed yet, so stay tuned. But even if it turns out that that isn't the emYears of Refusal /emcover artwork, it brings comfort to know that such an image exists in this world./p pThanks to Jon Yslas for the tip!/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/M1JWdpnIERGPOxomF2LtB75DncY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/M1JWdpnIERGPOxomF2LtB75DncY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/vC_3UT9uUQQ" height="1" width="1"/

!--paging_filter--pa href="http://www.myspace.com/bradfordcox" target="_blank"Bradford Cox/a, frontman of Deerhunter and Atlas Sound, on Stereolab and doom-wop. /p pbWho was your favorite artist of 2008?/b/p pJana Hunter makes some very haunting doom-wop. I've been listening to her stuff a lot lately. I also really like the Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls./p pbWhere was the best show you played in 2008?/b/p pa href="http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2008/12/best-2008-bradford-cox"read more/a/p

Steve Markowski of Beyond the Dark Horizon recently conducted an interview with frontman Vorph of Swiss industrial metallers SAMAEL.

The Australian branch of Roadrunner Records has posted the sixth and final video in a series of clips featuring MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn, aptly titled Robb Flynn's Rants. In the latest installment, which can be viewed below, Robb tells the viewers what's in store for MACHINE HEAD in 2009.