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It’s hard for any artist to re-invent themself but Rob R-Rock has died and been reborn as Kaptain Nemo."

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APP.COM - Arrest made in fatal fight outside club | Asbury Park Press Online

APP.COM - Arrest made in fatal fight outside club

yet another update

similar article here:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/story/7195455p-7050211c.html

APP.COM - Arrest made in fatal fight outside club | Asbury Park Press Online

APP.COM - Arrest made in fatal fight outside club

yet another update

similar article here:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/story/7195455p-7050211c.html

Victory Records for sale?

Chicago indie label Victory Records is rumored to be on the auction block as talks regarding a potential upstream deal with Warner Music Group have taken a downward spiral. Add to the mix all key employees at Victory who were there during the release of Hawthorne Heights' "If Only You Were Lonely" have fled the label with the remaining on their way out. Sprinkle some lawsuits from Taking Back Sunday and Hawthorne Heights and what do you get? Firesale or the need for stop-gap financing. Either way, bad news for Brummel and company.

A far cry from 2002's potentially lucrative deal-gone-wrong with MCA.

Below is the listing from Inc Magazine's February 2007 issue, under "Companies for Sale"

Music Recording Company - Illinois

Seeking working capitol of $7 MM, the company records and promotes new recordings from established, well known artists as well as purchases existing music catalogs.

Asking: $7 MM
Annual Sales: $15 MM
Location: Illinois
Contact: Todd Cushing - EBIT Associates LTD
Phone: 847-566-0500
e-mail: tcushing@ebitassociates.com


But wait, there's more!
Apparently there's legal action against folks just posting this rumor.

http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=210524

Ironically, the failed liberal radio network is on sale for even less!

Ozzfest 2007 ...FOR FREE!

Ozzfest 2007 free attendance, continued nu metal poserdom

Ozzfest 2007 will now be FREE to enter (pending some sort of jumping through hoops) however, Sharon will still suck for lambasting IRON MAIDEN and for forcing Ozzy to tour years after the poor guy is even able to walk without assistance.

APP.COM - Gang called FSU tied to fatal brawl | Asbury Park Press Online

UPDATE on the situation that happened a few weeks back.


Gang called FSU tied to fatal brawl

Members were at club in Asbury night man died
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 02/4/07

BY JAMES A. QUIRK
STAFF WRITER
Story Chat Post Comment

When James Morrison and three of his friends walked into Club Deep in Asbury Park the night of Jan. 14, they hoped to catch Ramallah, one of several hard-core punk bands slated to play.

Instead, within 20 minutes of entering the venue, Morrison, 25, lay dying in the arms of one of his friends on the sidewalk just outside the club, his skull split open from a blow to the back of the head.

It is not clear exactly what happened that night inside Club Deep. Those who attended the show with Morrison say the brawl that led to his death was touched off by someone in the club taking offense to a Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt worn by Morrison's friend.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office has released few details concerning Morrison's murder, and no arrests have been made. The venue's owners will say little about the incident and have closed Club Deep for the winter.

However, interviews with Morrison's mother and the friends who were with him in the club, as well as dozens of anony-mous letters and e-mails sent to the Asbury Park Press, suggest that a violent gang active within the hard-core music community may have played a part in Morrison's death.

The gang is FSU, which stands for Friends Stand United, or two curse words followed by the word "up." Once responsible for driving out neo-Nazi elements in the Boston hard-core punk scene of the mid-1980s, FSU is now a bizarre gang of young men who assault individuals at hard-core shows in dozens of cities across the country. Many of the bands that were slated to play Jan. 14 at Club Deep are affiliated with FSU, or are known to attract gang members to their shows, according to sources with the New Jersey State Police Organized Crime Control Bureau.

Morrison's mother, Lorrie Morrison, 44, of Little Egg Harbor, said she has spoken at length to the friends who went with her son to Club Deep the night he was murdered. Most of the fans inside the show, as well as many of the members of the bands scheduled to play, were wearing FSU shirts, she said.

"It's definitely FSU who is responsible" for the death of her son, Lorrie Morrison said. "If they say it's not, they're lying."

"While we are familiar with FSU, we're not going to comment on any involvement any FSU member had or didn't have with the death or Mr. Morrison," said First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw.

Violence and FSU

FSU first became an increased concern of the State Police roughly a year ago, officials there said. Though FSU lacks the sophistication of larger gangs such as the Bloods, whom the State Police consider a criminal enterprise, officials stressed that the gang is viewed as a very serious and growing problem.

"Their primary thing is how violent they can become at these concerts," said Lt. Gerald Lewis, a spokesman for the State Police. "If one of their members gets picked on and assaulted, they will swarm the person, and increase their violent acts. . . . Their sole contributing criminal activities are assault and aggravated assault."

Violence and death at concerts of bands connected to FSU are nothing new. In December 2005, Ray Darrin Pierson, a member of FSU, was shot to death outside of a Shattered Realm concert in Tucson, Ariz. No arrests have been made in that case. Shattered Realm hails from New Jersey and has toured with Ramallah; three of its musicians are open FSU members.

It's not clear exactly how FSU devolved from a positive force purging the hard-core scene of its most unsavory elements to a gang that has the power to intimidate other hard-core fans, shut down shows and even venues. The shift took at least a decade to coalesce, but now FSU has active "crews" in nearly any state that has an active underground hard-core scene, especially Boston, New Jersey, upstate New York and Seattle, according to law enforcement officials.

In a 2006 article for The Stranger, an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle, reporter Megan Seling wrote: "FSU did start in the '80s as a group of people who fought racist skinheads at East Coast hard-core shows, trying to eradicate Nazis from the scene. But FSU's current insular message of fraternity and demand for respect is far removed from their anti-racist beginnings. In recent months, they've threatened and assaulted a number of members of the hard-core scene, including band members, show promoters, and music fans."

The presence of FSU members in Seattle has vexed the music scene there for years. In January 2006, gang members showed up at an all-ages show and threatened the California hard-core band Dangers, causing them not to play. At issue was the possibility that the Dangers would play their song "Neo Neo-Nazis," which lambasts FSU for morphing into nothing but a group of thugs who terrorize people at hard-core shows.

And FSU is particularly infamous in Boston, thanks in part to the widespread sale of the Boston Beatdown series of DVDs — controversial documentaries about the Boston hard-core scene that feature hard-core fans, many of them wearing FSU "colors," randomly assaulting lone individuals. Boston officials attempted to ban the sale of the DVDs and cracked down on many hard-core shows after the Boston Herald and ABC News ran features on their contents in late 2004.

Online postings

Most of the bands slated to perform the night Morrison was killed did not respond to or declined interview requests.

Members of Wisdom In Chains, in a response sent via MySpace, told the Press: "It's so sad what went down, we really don't know any details, and we are ashamed to have our name associated with this tragic event. The shows are usually a great time, and in 10 plus years of playing in bands at venues around the world this has never happened before. Our hearts go out to all affected by this."

In a blog post to their own page on MySpace, members of Ramallah wrote: "Please stop posting comments and sending messages about the incident at the show in Asbury Park on this past Sunday. None of Ramallah was involved, nor did we see anything that happened. We also did not know the kid that was killed. We have been blamed, lumped in with whoever was involved, and received tons of negative e-mails about what happened. None of this is our fault, we were supposed to play a show and didn't. Most of the people voicing their opinions were also not at the show and know even less about what happened than we do."

Objections to T-shirt

The brawl that led to Morrison's murder may have all started with an FSU member taking offense at a Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt.

Friends of Morrison who attended the show spoke to the Asbury Park Press of what happened inside Club Deep — a club on the boardwalk, near Second and Ocean avenues — on Jan. 14. Fearing retaliation from FSU members, they asked that their names not be printed.

Morrison, a Navy veteran who served during the onset of the Iraq war on board the USS Bataan, had moved to Waretown with a friend just a week before the Jan. 14 show. A musician himself, Morrison enjoyed attending local shows with his friends. Their plan Jan. 14 was to see Ramallah, a hard-core act with roots in Boston that, while popular in the underground scene, has played only sporadic shows in the area.

The quartet arrived at around 5:30 p.m., not too long after bands began to play. The lineup advertised for the show was Years Spent Cold, Hard Response, Wisdom In Chains and Ramallah.

"This was the only concert I've ever been to where I didn't get searched going through the door," one friend said.

Inside the club, for reasons the friends say they still don't understand, the atmosphere was immediately tense.

"From the time we walked in, it was like all eyes were on us," one friend said. "It was like they already knew what they were going to do. Most of the club was flying gang colors — kids were wearing FSU Nation jackets, FSU shirts."

Within 15 minutes of walking through the door, one of Morrison's friends — who was wearing a Lynyrd Skynyrd shirt that features a Confederate flag — was approached by a man and told to take the offending shirt off.

Morrison's friends say he tried to defuse the situation, but the man then removed his jacket, pointed to the FSU T-shirt he was wearing underneath, and asked, "Now what do you think about that?" before throwing a punch.

Chaos ensued. Morrison sprang to the defense of his friend. According to his mother, Morrison may have been struck in the head and body with a bar stool at this point.

Another friend, who was outside smoking a cigarette when the fight broke out, said he saw the young man wearing the Skynyrd shirt being thrown down the front steps of the club. He rushed to his friend's aid, only to find that Morrison and another friend were being pushed out the door by security guards and dozens of people from inside the club.

Hit from behind

Morrison had already been badly hurt inside the club, his friends told the Press. Outside, he and his friends were quickly surrounded by people from inside the club. The club owner appeared and told everyone to clear the area.

"We started to walk away, and then all of a sudden, someone hit Jim, and he hit the ground and died," a friend said. "I know he wasn't struck with a fist. From the sound it made, it sounded like brass knuckles — it made this loud, metallic cracking noise. I've never heard anything like that."

Asbury Park police received a call at 5:50 p.m. that a fight had erupted at Club Deep that resulted in injuries. At the scene, police found Morrison on the ground in front of the club, according to Warshaw.

Morrison was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 6:30 p.m. A subsequent autopsy ruled the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the back to the head, Warshaw said.

Investigators have not disclosed whether Morrison was struck with a specific object, or if his death was caused by falling to the curb or sidewalk. Upon viewing her son's battered face and head in the hospital, Lorrie Morrison said she refuses to believe his death was caused by a fall to the pavement.

The days following Morrison's death have been a blur for his family. His mother said she has heard nothing from the club owners and received little information from investigators concerning the progress of the case. Meanwhile, speculation, theories, accusations and hyperbole abound online, on everything from MySpace pages to message boards on thenjscene.com and skinheads.net.

"It's really starting to hit me now," Lorrie Morrison said. "I was hoping it was all just a bad nightmare, something I could wake up from."

James A. Quirk: (732) 643-4215 or jquirk@app.com

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The market does NOT work this way sweet lips!

The Lactivist Breastfeeding Blog: Overzealous Big Pork Stomps on Breastfeeding Blogger

The Lactivist Breastfeeding Blog: Overzealous Big Pork Stomps on Breastfeeding Blogger

I'm a capitalist and all, but this is just ridiculous!


The Lactivist is being threatened with a lawsuit.

Why? Because I was selling a shirt that said "the other white milk."

First, a little background if you're new to the site. The Lactivist is a blog about breastfeeding and human milk banking. It's mostly a gathering place for breastfeeding moms to come and share their thoughts and experiences and to keep up to date on the latest issues in the fight for the rights of a child to eat in public. To help fund the site (and to raise money for the non-profit milk banks) I have a CafePress store that sells t-shirts with funny pro-breastfeeding slogans. Things like "Milk on Tap" and "That's my baby's lunch you're staring at."

Thus...the shirt that read "the other white milk."

I received a letter this morning from Jennifer Daniel Collins, an attorney at Faegre & Benson that represents The National Pork Board. It stated, for the most part, that my use of the phrase "the other white milk" violates their trademark on the phrase "the other white meat." As such, they've demanded that I remove the shirt, demanded that the image of the shirt be removed from any site I know of, demanded that I destroy any shirts that exist with the logo and demand that I not at any point in the future use the phrase in a commercially profitable way.