Idolator is giving away tickets to stops on Fall Out Boy's club tour, which is winding around the country up until the Dec. 16 release of Folie A Deux. This weekend, we'll be giving away tickets to the band's shows in Columbus (The Basement, Dec. 1) and St. Louis (Creepy Crawl, Dec. 3). To enter, send an e-mail with your favorite Thanksgiving leftover (mine is apple pie, because you can have it for breakfast!) to tipsATidolatorDOTcom. One entrant per show will win a pair of spots on the guest list—just make sure that your e-mail's subject line says "FOB Tickets" and whether or not you want to attend the Columbus or St. Louis concert. (Transportation to and from the venues isn't part of the prize.) Contest closes at midnight ET as Saturday becomes Sunday, so get your entries in now!
The 2008 Rolling Stone Hot List is here, and it’s chock full of smoking new bands, spicy new actresses and scorching trends. But who is hottest right now? It might be Twilight star Robert Pattinson, whose portrayal of “vegan” vampire Edward in the film version of the hit book series has made him an instant star among ladies young and old. Click above for a look at the fervor surrounding Pattinson at a recent event at Hot Topic, and click below for the rest of this year’s Hot List, including MGMT, Ambien tripping, the Answer and the inevitable backlash against Michael Cera.
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In Rolling Stone’s new Britney Spears cover story, Spears reveals that she thinks her ex-husband Kevin Federline is letting the kids pick up some bad habits. “Preston says the f-word now sometimes,” she says. “He doesn’t get it from us. He must get it from his daddy.” She talks more about her relationship with K-Fed (”I think I married for the wrong reasons”) in the documentary Britney: For the Record, which airs on MTV November 30th at 10 p.m. Click above to watch Spears get introspective about her marriage, and click here to see Spears rehearsing some steps and musing on the role of dance in her life.
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Here at Rock Daily, there’s plenty of things we’re thankful for. Chinese Democracy. The Jesus Lizard reunion. Johan Santana’s left arm. To pay homage to those pilgrims who came to America to escape oppression and slaughter turkeys, this long weekend’s Rock List is dedicated to “thankful” songs. Tell us which thankful songs you’re most thankful for, and on Monday we’ll work off all those yams we ate by counting the votes and revealing the readers’ list. Before you start feasting or battling the Black Friday shopping crowds, here are our faves:
• Led Zeppelin - “Thank You”
• Fall Out Boy - “Thnks fr th Mmrs”
• Sly & The Family Stone - “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)”
• Alanis Morissette - “Thank U”
• Talking Heads - “Thank You For Sending Me An Angel”
Dr Pepper's recent publicity stunt in which the soda manufacturer offered to give every American (with a few exceptions) a free soft drink if Guns N' Roses managed to release its long-awaited Chinese Democracy album by the end of 2008 was an unmitigated success in terms of attracting attention for the brand. Apparently, Guns N' Roses had nothing to do with it, and now the band's lawyer Alan Gutman has taken the soda manufacturer to task for a "shoddy" promotion he says fooled fans and ripped off the band's image.
Gutman send a letter to Dr Pepper Snapple Group president and CEO Larry Young describing the giveaway as an "unmitigated disaster which defrauded consumers" and claims Dr Pepper "brazenly violated [their] clients' rights," according to Billboard. Gutman demanded that Dr Pepper extend the giveaway and print a full-page apology in several of the nation's prominent newspapers. And, of course, he wants damages for Axl Rose and company in return for "the unauthorized use and abuse of their publicity and intellectual property right."
After Dr Pepper's servers crashed on Sunday after the GNR album went on sale and the giveaway commenced, the company extended the registration -- originally scheduled to end Sunday at midnight -- until 6pm on Monday night. During that time, Americans could enter some personal information in exchange for a coupon for a 20-ounce soda, which Dr Pepper said would arrive in 4-6 weeks. Gutman claims that not only did Dr Pepper use GNR's intellectual property without permission, but also that the botched nature of the giveaway reflected poorly on the band.
Anyone who goes to the site now looking for their free soda due to Chinese Democracy being released is greeted by the normal front page of DrPepper.com, which contains no visible mention of the high-profile giveaway. If you didn't register for your soda in the first two days the album was on sale, you're out of luck, unless Gutman succeeds in forcing DR Pepper to extend the deadline again.
We've asked Dr Pepper whether it has a response to GNR's accusations via both instant message and e-mail, but it has yet to respond.
Update (4:21 pm EST): A Dr Pepper spokesman says he will have a response for us soon.
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While Twilight will still be ruling the cinemas this weekend, there are still a few Oscar-bait films getting releases over the Thanksgiving holiday. Click below for Peter Travers’ thoughts on Gus Van Sant’s Milk and Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia. And if you’re really into suffering, stick around to watch the Rolling Stone film critic toss Transporter 3 into the scum bucket.
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