Charlie Sheen and Snoop Dogg are releasing their single ‘Winning’ on Wednesday, reports CTV.

The duo’s track is set to be aired on radio on Tuesday ahead of its release at midnight, and all proceeds from downloads of the song will go to Sheen’s ‘Torpedos Against Tornados’ foundation, set up to help victims of the recent tornadoes which devastated Tuscaloosa last month.

Rob Patterson, a former ‘Korn’ guitarist, co-wrote the track and said: “Look, it’s a good song. But I honestly don’t want people to take it seriously. It’s meant to be fun and entertaining.”

Explaining the lyrical content of the track, Charlie told E! News: “Well, the genesis of the song is about, you know, winning. It’s just everything in life.”

“I think Snoop did a really good job at kind of encapsulating the whole vibe of, you know, the movement.”

Rob was the person who asked Snoop to come into the studio and record a rap for the track, and was surprised by how enthusiastic and quickly Snoop got his part ready after coming over to Charlie’s home studio.

Rob added: “He arrived at 9 p.m. and was out by 11 pm. We were all shocked by how quickly and how professionally he was able to just bang it out.”

The track itself stars off with former ‘Batwatch’ actress Carmen Electra saying “Oh, good evening, Mr. Sheen. Are you winning?” Snoop then interjects, proclaiming “No, he’s smokin’ right now!”

The track will be available in both a family friendly version and a more hardcore rap version, complete with expletives, from iTunes.

This is too much! I can’t even comprehend – wow. Well, it seems like every idiotic idea these days is  backed up with the ‘for charity’  excuse, so once again, I can’t say anything bad. Please… support?

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Korn was the reason for “ugly” metal chicks — or so says the frontman of All That Remains.

The metalcore band’s vocalist, Phil Labonte, says when Korn was big, the girls looked worse.

“There’s way more hot chicks at shows than there was before,” says Labonte.

“When fuckin’ Korn was the big band before in nu-metal, girls were all dressed stupid and ugly. And now that Korn and that style of music isn’t the specific style of metal, chicks look better and they dress better. All that stupid baggy shit looked dumb.”

The Massachusetts band will play three shows in Canada next month:

- Feb. 5 Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix
- Feb. 6 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
- Feb. 19 Vancouver, BC @ Croatian Cultural Centre

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Former KORN star TERRY BOZZIO quit the group because his bandmates refused to make him a full-time member.

The drummer quit earlier this year (07) after failing to convince founders Jonathan Davis and James ‘Munky’ Shaffer to take him on as a bona-fide bandmate.

Shaffer reveals, “There were certain demands that he made. We weren’t ready to meet those demands. We just brought him in to write.

“It’s like some chick that you hang out with and all of a sudden they want to move in. What do you say to that? ‘You were supposed to stay for the weekend, but you moved in all your (stuff).’ It was kind of like that.

“He was a great guy and a phenomenal drummer but the demands that he made were offensive. He wanted to be a member of the band, and that included ownership.

“We were like, ‘What, you want to have 25 per cent of everything?’ We can’t just sign away the right to music on a whim.”

Bozzio quit the heavy rockers in April (07), after he replaced David Silveria in December (06). (KL/WNWCBBM/GES)

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KoRn are back with their eighth studio release and the band has gone… untitled.

“I think it was where we were at. It [felt] like we were starting over, kind of like the first KoRn album when we put it out,” Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu explained to andPOP.

“It’s like a new beginning for us.”

A new beginning, indeed.

The last two years have seen some big changes to the original KoRn lineup. For 13 years, the band from Bakersfield, California, consisted of Jonathan Davis on vocals, Fieldy on bass, James “Munky” Shaffer and Brian “Head” Welch on guitar and David Silveria on drums.

But in February 2005, Head left the band to raise his daughter and to devote his musical career to Jesus. Last month, a few short weeks before the new KoRn album came out, his autobiographical book, “Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story” was released.

His transformation garnered media attention, even a special on CNN, but Fieldy underwent a similar change, without having to resort to leaving the band.

“I think that maybe a lot of people think that it’s a big party out here, because it was at one point. It took me a long time to figure out that it ruined my life, it ruined my family. I mean I’d overeat before I went to bed. I’d rip people apart with words. As soon as I got drunk or high, I would be lusting over whoever women, cheating and lying. People maybe don’t realize that I’ve flipped my life around and I’m living the other side of life, a positive life. I wake up every morning and I pray and I read my bible,” Fieldy said from his tour bus outside of the Molson Amphitheater in Toronto before his band took the stage to headline their Family Values Tour.

“If I look back on it, yeah it was a slow change, I mean 20 years of my life, seven days a week, doing the same thing over and over, partying until you get old enough to where you can’t keep your hands still because they’re shaking, you’re dry heaving, you’re depressed, you’re lonely. [Until] a point it’s like, ‘what am I doing to myself?’ At the end of the day we’re trying to be that black sheep or the one per cent. I find that living this other life, I am. Before, I was just the majority of everybody.”

The second lineup change occurred in 2006, when drummer Silveria went on “hiatus,” taking a break from recording the new record and the current tour. Down to only three founding members, KoRn brought in keyboardist Zac Baird, who also toured with the band in support of “See You on the Other Side,” and Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, who is filling in for Silveria.

“We’re still doing this when everybody thought that we’d be failing because David left, but it hasn’t changed anything. We’re still moving on and still doing what we’re doing. We’re still bummed, but at the same time it just happened to be that just a drumbeat left. Now when you got us left and we’re not ready to stop, then it’s inspiring.”

The new album was for the most part produced by KoRn and Atticus Ross, who has worked with Nine Inch Nails, Bad Religion and Rancid, aside from a couple tracks done by The Matrix. It hasn’t been fairing all that well amongst critics, but the first single, “Evolution,” has successfully made its way onto mainstream media outlets.

Fieldy is proudest about the track “Starting Over.”

“It’s so different. At the end of the song Jon sings this vocal melody that’s probably one of my favourite’s on the whole entire KoRn album. Actually, favourite thing he’s ever done,” Fieldy said.

“And lyrically he’s talking about when he almost died in the hospital. I’ve never almost died, but for it to be emotional [means it] is a pretty powerful song, where it touches me and almost makes me get, like, watery eyes. It’s pretty cool to hear an experience of someone almost dying.”

Last summer, in the middle the European leg of the “See You on the Other Side” tour, Davis was hospitalized with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (a fancy word for having low blood platelets). He had a high risk of hemorrhaging, which could have easily happened during one of their concerts. The chorus to “Starting Over” has lyrics like “My time is over/God is gonna take me out.”

Back to the future, Fieldy doesn’t quite want to attain world domination with this record, but close enough. “Really I’d like to see KoRn become one of the biggest, most powerful bands in the world because at one point it would be really cool to get a bunch of bands involved and do some major project for the world. My passion’s for little starving kids, because they can’t really help themselves. So the bigger we become, the more powerful, the more we can influence other bands. I was watching the other day a lot of bands do it. I forget what they’re doing it for, some other disease or something, but it’s so cool that you can get almost like a bunch of family together, a bunch of bands together, and say like ‘hey man, let’s make this big change and do something.’ I think the bigger we get the bigger change we can make.”

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KORN and EVANESCENCE have become the latest hard rock acts to share traveling costs on the road this summer.

The two groups will co-headline this year’s Family Values tour, which will begin in St Louis, Missouri in July.

Korn revived the Family Values tour last year after a five-year break.

The 26-date trek grossed $6.2 million according to Billboard Boxscore.

Last Monday, MARILYN MANSON announced a summer tour with metal act SLAYER.

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Former KORN rocker BRIAN ‘HEAD’ WELCH is documenting his split from the US band in an upcoming book.

SAVE ME FROM MYSELF: HOW I FOUND GOD, QUIT KORN, KICKED SPEED, AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE is due for a July release and is Welch’s first book.

Welch left the band in February 2005, after announcing he had found religion and was battling drug addiction.

The 36-year-old is also eyeing a 2007 release for his debut solo album IT’S TIME TO SEE RELIGION DIE and a documentary film about himself he has been working on, WASHED BY BLOOD.

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A man has been arrested and charged with murder for the death of Andrew Richardson, who died at a Family Values Concert.

Michael Scott Axley, 24, was arrested Monday night after police received tips from people who knew Axley and witnessed the fight. Although there were reports of two men involved in the beating, the police are not looking for anyone else.

The fight took place on July 30. Covered in blood, Anderson suffered a fatal brain injury and died two days later.

“All the bands on the Family Values Tour offer their sincerest condolences and prayers to the family of 30-year-old Andy Richardson,” rock band Korn said in a statement.

It is unknown when Axley will appear in court.

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A brawl between fans has resulted in one death after the Family Values Tour hit Atlanta on Sunday.

Billboard reports that 30-year-old Andy Richardson died on Tuesday as a result of injuries sustained in the fight. He had been on life support until recipients were found for his organs.

Richardson was reportedly attacked by two men while the Deftones were on stage. Although no arrests have been made, police say that “persons of interest” have been identified in the incident.

Tour headliners Korn released a statement addressing the tragedy.

“Korn are appalled at the actions of these men and are imploring anyone who witnessed this senseless act or has any information about the attack to please immediately come forward by contacting local authorities,” said the band.

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The mysterious illness that has forced Korn singer Jonathan Davis to cancel a number of European tour dates has been revealed.

Through a statement on the band’s web site, Davis revealed on Tuesday that he suffers from a blood disorder called immune thrombocytopenic purpura. It means that a low blood-platelet count prohibits blood from clotting properly. For an unknown reason, the body’s immune system then attacks and destroys it’s own platelets.

The rare condition can be brought on by a viral infection or as a reaction to certain medications.

“[The doctor] took some blood tests and when the results came in, they rushed me to the hospital,” said Davis. “It turned out that I have ITP? a blood infection where, because of an allergic reaction I had to some medication, my blood platelets were really low. If I continued to headbang onstage, I could have had a brain hemorrhage and dropped dead on the spot.”

Davis has been released from hospital, and says he expects to make a full recovery within a few weeks.

The band plans to play all dates on the upcoming Family Values tour.

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Rockers Korn have gone into the studio to record a mash-up with Dem Franchize Boys, according to MTV.

They were in L.A. Wednesday to collaborate on a cobonation of Korn’s Coming Undone and DFB’s Learn Wit It, Rock Wit It.

No word on how the song might surface, or whose album it would appear on.

The mash-up comes two years after the phrase “mash-up” became popular, when Jay-Z and Linkin Park recorded a handful of songs together by using parts of each artists’ songs.

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The city of Bakersfield, California has named a street after Korn.

The rock band returned to their hometown Friday to launch their world tour and receive the honour from the city’s mayor.

The street’s name? “Korn Row.”

Korn will finish the North American portion of their tour on April 4 in Toronto. Mudvayne is opening all dates.

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It feels like more than two years since nu-metal rockers Korn released their last album, 2003′s self-produced Take a Look in the Mirror. After all, a lot has happened since then, including the unexpected departure of guitarist Brian “Head” Welch.

Now with only four members, Korn’s back with a new sound, a new outlook and a brand spankin’ new album released December 6, See You On the Other Side.

If the popularity of the first single, Twisted Transistor, is any indication, then Korn is not leaving for the “other side” just yet.

Fellow guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer is still upset that Head left the band indefinitely. Head was Munky’s musical mentor and the one who sold him his first electric guitar.

There has since been little to no contact. He says dealing with Head’s absence in the band is like dealing with the death of a brother.

“I was surprised when I got the final word that he’s not coming back,” Munky tells andPOP. “That’s when I was like, sad, angry. There’s been very little contact. An email, a phone message, but that’s about it. It sucks.”

Drummer David Silveria says it was hard for the band to go on without someone who has been with them since the beginning.

“We lost our brother who we’ve been making music with for 15 years,” says Silveria. “We were friends for that long; it felt like home, we were family. We just had to rise to the occasion and life goes on and our careers go on and Munky stepped up and turned into twice of the guitar player he was before.”

Silveria adds that when they look back, they had seen it coming for a while.

“It was a big blow to the heart?but we could tell that for the past few years that his heart wasn’t totally into it. We knew he was having trouble being a single father. He was a really loving dad and it was killing him that his daughter didn’t have her dad home all the time.”

Munky says it’s ironic that Head would leave for religious reasons when lead singer Jonathan Davis “doesn’t like organized religion,” but it has personally made him a better guitarist.

“It’s changed in that it’s given me a lot more creative space to make different sounds. It’s definitely made me a better musician.”

He says it was never an option for the band to break up. Instead, they tried to look at it as a blessing.

“That has never been an option and that’s why we have succeeded for so long. We can use this loss and sit back and make another OK record and feel good about it, or we can use this loss as an opportunity to recreate our sound and recreate what we do and our direction. That’s how it gave us a new fresh outlook, a new chapter on the band and the band’s future,” Head says.

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The band’s future has included collaborating with pop-producers The Matrix, who have worked with the likes of Avril Lavigne and Hillary Duff.

Silveria says after repeatedly turning down the opportunity to work with the powerhouse duo, the band finally decided to give them a chance.

“They said they wanted to come in and we were a little skeptical. But they came in and blew us away.”

Munky says fans should expect this record to be the “most versatile album by far,” and this versatility can be seen in their new music video for Twisted Transistor, where they enlisted mutual friends, hip-hop stars Lil’ Jon, David Banner, Snoop Dogg and Xzibit, to portray them in the video.

“[The video] is a rockementary, a mockementary of us. But it’s not us. It shows that we like to have fun and we’re not always so serious. We’re serious about our music but we love to have fun too.”

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Silveria says the album reflects how they’ve evolved as musicians but fans can still expect “a mean and heavy record.”

Munky agrees and says they still maintain the unquestionable Korn style but that the album definitely isn’t as angry as ones in the past.

“If you listen to a lot of the lyrics, it’s all kind of sadness. Not so much an anger-driven record but still driven from a dark place.”

He hopes fans will embrace Korn’s “other side” with this new album.

“They have to know that as we grow, our tastes are going to grow,” says Munky. “You don’t wear the same clothes you wear 10 years ago, do you? Your taste changes. You grow creatively as a person and I think they’ll understand that and respect that. They’ve stuck by us for 10 years and I really think the majority of them will.”

And how will Korn be able to stick around for another ten years?

Munky replies simply: “We’re a good fucking band, man.”

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