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While not exactly dark music news, this is disappointing to say the least... From Newsweek.com The Gospel According to Anne By David Gates Oct. 31, 2005 issue - Sometimes Anne Rice won't leave her bedroom for days on end—and neither would you. Glass doors open onto a terrace that looks over the red-tiled roofs of La Jolla, Calif., to the Pacific Ocean. A live-in staffer brings meals to the table at the foot of her ornately carved wooden bed, which faces an ornately carved stone fireplace. She exercises in a huge bike-in closet. She's got two computers and enough books to last her a year. Splendid isolation? Splendid, sure. But she's often got family visiting in a downstairs guest suite, she reads The New York Times every morning—"Nicholas Kristof is a hero to me"—watches news "till I can't stand it anymore," and spends up to an hour and a half a day e-mailing with her extraordinarily faithful readers. They've been worried about her. After 25 nove

Wow, this is sad to hear. God Lives Under Water was a very cool act and definitely underrated... GOD LIVES UNDERWATER VOCALIST DAVID REILLY PASSES AWAY IN PA HOSPITAL. Corporate Punishment is very sad to announce the passing of our good friend, God Lives Under vocalist David Reilly. Complications from an untreated infection are the reported cause of death for Reilly, who was pronounced dead around 5:15 AM on Sunday Oct 16th . God Lives Underwater was established in 1995 and was quickly signed to Rick Rubin’s American Recordings. The group had the radio hit, “From Your Mouth” from their 1998 Interscope/1500 Release, Life In The So-Called Space Age, which was heralded as a cross between Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails. Corporate Punishment Records released David's first and only solo recording, the EP Inside in 2004. Recently, David signed with Ruff Nation/Universal who were slated to release his debut full length, How Humans Rx, in early 2006. ( Some of these recordings can be fou

This is one of the better interviews that I've read with Trent Reznor. And the first place that I've seen it printed that he was a heroin addict, usually they just mention that he's sober, but never go any deeper than that. From: Reznor's Edge Nine Inch Nails returns, angry as ever, and With Teeth By Jonathan Zwickel Trent Reznor is not unhappy. He's not tortured, distraught, deluded, strung-out, miserable, or bitter. The Nine Inch Nails auteur is, however, angry. The bile that seethes through With Teeth, his first record in six years, which debuted at number one in May, is the emotional link to his first three, renowned for the bleakness of their man/machine collision. Teeth is also Reznor's first output after a drawn-out dance with heroin; its vicious focus reveals that sobriety has brought a newfound sense of purpose. Industrial music's prime instigator spoke to New Times on a recent morning before heading to his next tour stop in Dallas (Reznor and Nin

Well, glad to see that replacing the drummer isn't going to slow ol' Trent and the boys down in their world tour. It's amazing that they could get someone on short notice handle it as I'm sure it'd be a challenge to get someone on board and functioning smoothly. Although I'd assume that if you made it through the tour you'd have a very nice blurb on your musical resume'. From NME.com: Australian sticksman Alex Carapetis has been named as the newest addition to the group, after Jerome Dillon was forced to quit their current US tour in order to seek treatment for an unspecified heart condition. Carapetis played his first show with the band on Friday at the Chicago Allstate Arena (October 14), replacing temporary stand-in Josh Freese . Freese filled in for Dillon at Nine Inch Nails ' shows in Utah (October 4) and Denver (October 5). As previously reported, Dillon was hospitalised for the second time following the band's show in Sacramento

Yeah, I got my Depeche Mode tickets for Denver's Magness Arena show in November. 2nd row in the balcony. They were after charges $91 each, for that kind of money I'd like Depeche Mode to come out and personally serve me dinner. Oh well, I'm looking forward to it and it should be fun, or at least it better be...