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Quick Hits: Lindsay Lohan, David Lee Roth, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Coheed And Cambria, Pete Townshend, Joaquin Phoenix/Johnny Cash, Renaissance, and Chris Farlowe
January 4, 2006


Lindsay Lohan

After being hospitalized in Miami with an asthma attack, Lindsay Lohan is reportedly "resting comfortably" and expects to be discharged today, according to a Reuters report. The singer/actress has suffered from asthma since childhood and had experienced difficulty breathing while staying in a Miami hotel. In the midst of this, Lohan's revealing new interview with Vanity Fair hits newsstands today. In the interview, Lohan admits that she suffered from bulimia which led to a two-week hospital stay with a swollen liver and kidney infection last year. "I knew I had a problem and I couldn't admit it," Lohan tells Vanity Fair, according to Reuters. "I was making myself sick. I was sick and I had people sit me down and say 'You're going to die if you don't take care of yourself.'" Lohan also says she realized how bad the problem was when she saw herself on Saturday Night Live. "I saw that SNL after I did it. My arms were disgusting," said Lohan. "I had no arms."

Even though David Lee Roth just started a brand new, high-profile gig as a morning radio host, he is already getting the rumor mill churning about a Van Halen reunion. In a recent interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Roth said, "I talked to the drummer [Alex Van Halen] about a week ago, and I think, eventually, the inevitable will happen," referring to a reunion with his old bandmates. "It definitely won't be rockers with walkers," he added. "Getting onstage and singing 'Dance the Night Away' -- let me tell you how difficult that isn't going to be." Roth last recorded and released a few new songs with Van Halen for a Greatest Hits CD in 1996.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have revealed some more details about their anticipated new record, Stadium Arcadium. According to an e-mail sent to fans today, the veteran Rock band's new release will be a double album, the first of their career. Some of the new song titles include "Dani California," "Hard To Concentrate," "Desecration Smile," "Charlie," "Snow" and the title cut. Singer Anthony Keidis described the new album to Q magazine as "heavy, but it's emotionally heavy with lots of beautiful melodies."

In his first night home from a long year of touring, Coheed And Cambria singer/guitarist Claudio Sanchez broke his hand while sparring with his brother Matthew, who is a boxer. The injury, known as "boxer's fracture," involves the ring finger and small finger of the right hand. The injury requires three weeks in a cast and a week or two of physical therapy. Therefore, Coheed has been forced to postpone about a month of tour dates in Europe with Thrice.

In a recent entry to his online diary, Pete Townshend talks about his hearing loss and warns fans that the use of headphones can lead to hearing loss. Townshend says the reason it takes him so long to record new material is because after he uses studio earphones, he experiences ringing in his ears and must rest for 36 hours. "My own particular kind of damage was caused by using earphones in the recording studio, not playing loud on stage. This is a peculiar hazard of the recording studio," he writes. "I was working with a piece of music that depended on me finding a correlation between the harmonic clusters in a piece composed using a computer and the overtones of a normal acoustic piano. With my hearing rolling off severely now at around three or four kilohertz, I don't have much luck with high harmonics or piano overtones (I can still hear speech OK). Needless to say, I didn't finish what I started." He adds a warning to those who use headphones, saying, "If you use an iPod or anything like it, or your child uses one, you MAY be OK. It may only be studio earphones that cause bad damage. But my intuition tells me there is terrible trouble ahead... we use earphones at almost every stage of interaction with sound." Townshend also said The Who will tour sometime this year.

Joaquin Phoenix did his best Johnny Cash impression once again as he hosted a screening of Walk The Line for 50-some inmates at California's Folsom State Prison on Tuesday, capped by a live performance of some of Cash's greatest hits. E! Online says that Phoenix played several acoustic songs at the prison, including "Folsom Prison Blues," along with co-star and musician Shooter Jennings, who played his father, Waylon Jennings, in the film. The show took place nearly four decades after Cash's infamous concert at the penitentiary, which was captured in the successful and influential album Johnny Cash At Folsom State Prison.

Make sure you check out these two new releases from Friday Music: Chris Farlowe's anthology, Rock N' Roll Soldier (1970-2004), is being released on January 31. Find more info here. In addition, legendary prog rockers Renaissance have released a deluxe two-CD live set called In The Land Of The Rising Sun. All the details on this jem are here.

 




 
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