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Judge Sides With Original Supernova In 'Rock Star' Suit Ruling requires Tommy Lee's band to change name following show's finale. David has defeated Goliath. According to a Tuesday (September 12) ruling by San Diego Judge John Houston, the producers of CBS' "Rock Star" are going to have to come up with an alternate name for Supernova, the band made up of Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee, Voivod's Jason Newsted and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke. Last month, the original Supernova — an Orange County, California, punk trio — filed for a preliminary injunction in San Diego's U.S. District Court...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The reclusive indie rock entrepreneur known as Long Gone John is rummaging around his backyard warehouse, searching cardboard boxes on wood shelves that reach to the ceiling. Every box is filled with CDs or seven-inch singles, most of them by punk and retro-rock bands with names you've never heard of: Savage Pencil, Loafin Hyenas, Crowbar Salvation. He stops searching when he comes across a 45 by a band called Servotron. "See this?" he asks, proudly handing over a copy. "I had this pressed on special silver vinyl. It's really expensive. I lost a lot of money...

Has CMJ Become the Monster That Ate College Radio? Thousands of underground radio stations like KALX rely on indie chartmaker CMJ to publish playlists accurately. So imagine their surprise when it began falsely stacking college charts with its own pay-to-play releases. BY KATY ST. CLAIR At a UC Berkeley that seems to reinvent itself every ten years with new waves of lefties, evangelical Christians, scheming Republicans, and geeks, one thing has always remained constant: The campus radio station, KALX. The station has been documenting the underground since its inception in 1962 when it began in a cigar box -- yes,...