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Authorities in Chicago are considering criminal charges against the Dave Matthews Band after reviewing surveillance footage of an August 8 incident in which the group's tour bus allegedly dumped human waste into the Chicago River. Police Commander Michael Chasen said he's certain that the band's bus is the culprit, thanks to the footage, which was shot from nearby buildings and shows a bus crossing the bridge as a tour boat passes below (see "Dave Matthews Band Sued For Stinking Up Chicago River"). Criminal charges could include violations of public nuisance laws and ordinances to protect public health and safety, according...

CHICAGO (CBS 2) Rock star Dave Matthews and his tour bus driver are facing a filthy lawsuit. The Illinois Attorney General's office says they're responsible for dumping up to 100-gallons of raw human waste from a tour bus onto the Kinzie Street Bridge earlier this month. The nasty mess rained down on passengers aboard a sightseeing boat two weeks ago. The suit charges both the band and the bus driver with violating state water pollution laws, as well as common law public nuisance laws. A spokesman for the band says all of its tour buses were parked at the time...

If you're confused and need direction this political season, hold tight, because you can be sure that a rock star will be along shortly to show you the way. Musicians, some loosely defined, are mobilizing big-time this year to oust Bush. A CD, titled "Rock Against Bush, Vol. I," was released earlier this year, purportedly to raise money for organizations which encourage young people to vote. Bands such as Sum 41, Offspring, New Found Glory and Jello Biafra with D.O.A. are included on the compact disc – I believe the latter is also included on the dessert menu.

Just reported via WSKY in Gainesville, FL. Foreign students & nationals are being denied concert tickets to the Moveon sponsored Dave Matthews concert at the O'Connell Center at the University of Florida. Confirmed by staff at the University of Florida.

Dave Matthews in town for shows, but buses `parked'. The bus driver for rock star Dave Matthews called from the road Monday to say his luxury coach was not the one responsible for dousing passengers on a Chicago River tour boat with foul-smelling muck over the weekend. Witnesses on the architectural sightseeing cruise told police they saw a long black tour bus dump liquid waste Sunday afternoon as their boat crossed under the Kinzie Street bridge. About two-thirds of the passengers seated on the upper deck of Chicago's Little Lady were soaked with the "brownish-yellow" substance. One witness gave Chicago...

Bruce Springsteen has proved that he can get fans in a sold-out stadium to sing along with "Born to Run," but can he help John Kerry win the White House? This is a question that many are trying to answer now that the Boss, Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and several other bands have announced that they will play more than 30 concerts in nine swing states in October. The proceeds will go to a new Democratic political action committee, Vote for Change, and the goal, Springsteen wrote last week in a New York Times Op-Ed article, "is to change...

When the Dixie Chicks made their snide comment about President Bush, hundreds if not thousands of people lined up at radio stations across America to dump their Dixie Chicks CD's.Let's face it, artists are paid to entertain us, they are the jesters of society and true they are allowed to have a personal opinion, they should keep their opinion to themselves and not use their social position to promote their idealology. We all have an opion but few of us have a sounding board to share our opinion with thousands of people.Some folks commented that dumping their Chicks CD's did...

nation's artists and musicians have a particular place in its social and political life. Over the years I've tried to think long and hard about what it means to be American: about the distinctive identity and position we have in the world, and how that position is best carried. I've tried to write songs that speak to our pride and criticize our failures. These questions are at the heart of this election: who we are, what we stand for, why we fight. Personally, for the last 25 years I have always stayed one step away from partisan politics. Instead,...

Excerpt from Rolling Stone Magazine: Dave Matthews: "I'd drink with George W. just to get him out of the White House. Rolling Stone: Do you feel like an outsider in America? Dave Matthews: A lot of people feel like outsiders, and we are viewed as outsiders by the government. Or as Un-American. I am way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney. They have no fucking idea what it is to be American. They are fucking idiots who are programmed to everything in the hands of the few. They think it's right that them and theirs have everything and...

Judging from the amount of incorrect assumptions, observations and predictions coming from the crowd down in Tinseltown, dumbness must be a prerequisite for stardom and notoriety. Whether it is Janeane Garafolo or Mike Farrell telling ...

Judging from the amount of incorrect assumptions, observations and predictions coming from the crowd down in Tinseltown, dumbness must be a prerequisite for stardom and notoriety. Whether it is Janeane Garafolo or Mike Farrell telling ...

Dave Matthews Speaks Out About the War I hope this letter finds you all well and that in these uncertain times you find moments to be joyful. I want to speak my mind about this war with Iraq, or I will choke on my conscience. What is the motivation? Regime change? Shouldn't that be up to the people of the region and the people of Iraq? The only real threat from Saddam Hussein is to his neighbors and none of them support a U.S. invasion. Is it to stabilize the Middle-East? Wouldn't it only do the opposite by causing further...

http://www.dmband.com/news/news_popup_iraq.asp ...I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.   Bottom line: this war is wrong and this war is un-American.   Peacefully submitted,Dave Matthews