(From www.pollstar.com) 

Headbanging to Metallica, Motorhead or Megadeth could be hazardous to your health, according to the British Medical Journal.

Declan Patton and Andrew McIntosh from the School for Risk and Safety Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, have studied how heavy metal afficionados jerk their heads to a beat - and the effect it has on their brains.

The Patton and McIntosh research on “headbanging techniques” suggests that thrashing about “like an electro-shocked rabbit” may cause similar effects to whiplash.

The report explains that a typical death-metal rhythm of 146 beats-per-minute or faster, combined with head-banging arcs of at least 45 degrees, will likely cause “mild head and neck injury.” Faster tempos and wider arcs could lead to “definite risks of mild traumatic brain injury.”

Anecdotal evidence also points to the potential health hazards of thrash rock, the survey says.

“In 2005, doctors believed that Terry Balsamo, the guitarist from Evanescence, experienced a stroke from head banging,” the report notes.

The study also used what it calls “the theoretical headbanging model,” which measures the all-important beats per minute and the degrees of head arc, to show rebellious cartoon teenager Beavis in little danger of harming himself - but Butt-head could be in real trouble.

Having studied film of the two headbanging to The Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” at 164 beats per minute, the Aussies discovered Beavis’ head arc is about 45 degrees, which is below the injury threshold.

Butt-head has a bigger problem. He headbangs with a range of motion of about 75 degrees, which is likely to cause risk of “level one” injuries including painful headaches and dizziness.

Apparently, Butt-head also butts his head much faster than Beavis.

Patton and McIntosh, who attended hard rock and heavy metal concerts in the course of their research, suggest metal fans wear a neck brace while headbanging, or “stick to listening to Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, Enya and Richard Clayderman.”

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 Jett pictured left

From www.tmz.com 

We’re told 16-year-old Jett was vacationing with Travolta and wife Kelly Preston.

There have been reports that Jett was autistic, though Travolta has denied it, saying he suffers from Kawasaki Syndrome, a condition which often leads to heart disease.

From www.punknews.org 

Despite much doomsaying by analysts and trade groups, music sales are actually up by 10% as of the end of 2008. According to a report from Nielsen SoundScan, sales are up, but much of this growth can be attributed to vinyl and digital sales. The report notes that more than 1.5 billion songs were sold digitally in 2008, a 10% bump over 2007. However, vinyl sales were up by 89% over the previous year. That is a relatively small number (1.88 million) but not all retailers participate in SoundScan.

While it’s impossible to say, many of the smaller or independent retailers will not be reporting to SoundScan. Those retailers are often more likely to specialize in vinyl so it is difficult to be sure how much of those sales come from vinyl. The only bad news came for physical CDs which were down 14% from 2007.

Boy what a day it was! 1st people were late because of my dumbass, 2nd we went the wrong way and took forever to get to the stadium, 3rd the bus drops us off and we forget  someones ticket, 4th my good friend Jason and father in law were on the party bus were on there for about over and hour and gettind drunk and missing all of the 1st half, 5th the Dallas Cowboys lost at the last Texas Stadium home game ever! I am not being sarcastic when I say I had a blast! Pictures will be posted as soon as I downsize them

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It’s funny,” says Al Millio, the younger Knux brother (yes, they’re blood kin separated by 2 years), “Because people make such a big deal about the fact that we produce and play our own music, and that it sounds ‘different’ or whatever, but to us that’s more hip hop than making lame sh** that sounds like everybody else.”

For those of you who like to put things in boxes, it’s like this: The Knux are a self-produced group comprised of two brothers from New Orleans. They play all their own instrumentation and fight like The Kinks. Their debut album sounds like Outkast, Juvenile, Tha Pharcyde, and The Strokes concurrently blasting out of a drop-top Jag on Sunset Blvd. on a Saturday night in the summer. Wrap your head around that.

“When we made the album we refused to give the album to the label one song at a time,” says Krispy, who at 25 is the elder Knux brother. “We knew that they wouldn’t get it, they’d think we were buggin’ and they’d try to make us change things.” Instead, the two, who signed to Interscope in 2006 thanks to an incredible demo, “We played it for all the executives at once,” remembers Al, “And you could see in their faces they were all shocked to hear something like this from some new artists that they barely even knew were on the label.”