MIXED MUSIC NEWS ---------------- Welcome to a new rubric in Sledge Hammer! In this rubric you can in every issue read the hottest news and romours about the hottest stars. Nothing more to say, so let's get on with it. 2Hip Hop n' Rap News1 3ULTRAMAGNETIC MC's1 is back with a new funk, that only the real fans will understand on2 'One, Two, One, Two'1 3EVERLAST1 got busted at the JFK Airport in New York with a gun and ammunition. After a few years off, is3 DJ MARK THE 45 KING1 ready for a comeback of dimensions!! Even he made some sick tracks for Jaz, then it's his remix of Diamonds2 'Best Kept Secret'1 that keeps pumping again and again. He will soon come with his new album 2'The Lost Break Beats'1, look out for that one!! There's a new rapper in3 MAIN SOURSE1, after Large Proffesor left. The name is MC Mickey D, best known for winning the 1988 New York Rap Battle. The world needed the bitches answer to Icecube, Big Daddy Kane and Treach, and now they are here!! 3GIRLS WITH GUNS1. As they say 'We just want to represent. It's 93 and niggas still ain't saying shit, but bitches still kickin' ours.' Watch out!! @IPgreenmC 3ERIK B & RAKIM1 have split up. After many romours it's now reality. 3ERIK B 1is having fun with his management company , while 3RAKIM1 is working on his solo album, with a number produced by 'Madness For Real' and 'Funk Flush'. After 3 years,3 JUNGLE BROTHERS1 are back, and in their time away they have made tons of new tracks, but without finding the old routine from two years ago. You expect much from a group who made so wonderfull music that you thought that they had super powers, like the Fantastic Four. But check it out, it's still fuuuunky!! 3DR.Dre1 and3 ICECUBE1 will make an album together as soon they have finished the Snoop Dog's and Don Jaguar's albums. 3BRAND NUBIAN1 have big problems with GLAAD (Gay & Lesbians Alliance Against Deformation), becuase of the text in2 'Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down'1, which theyclaim to encourice to violence against homesexuals. 3ICE-T1 is busy. He is working on his first book 2'The Ice Oppinion - Who Gives A Fuck'1, and two new movies 2'Surviving The Game'1 and2 'Johnny Nmemonic'1. 3De La Soul & Teenage Fan Club, Boo Yaa Tribe & Faith No More, Pharcyde & Lemonheads, House of Pain & Helmet, Cypress Hill & Stone Temple Pilots, 1and3 ICE-T & Slayer1. To find out how that sounds, get the soundtrack to 2'Judgement Night'1. 2Now some Heavy Metal News.1 As mentioned before 3SLAYER1 and 3ICE-T 1have made a song together. The old trash kings and the black bigmouth dude have made a song for the new Emilio Estevez movie 2'Judgement Night'1. The song should be a medley of 3 old 1980 punktacks remade by 3SLAYER.1 Talking about3 SLAYER1... They are on the halfway in completing their new studio album, which is not produced by Rick Rubin. On the new CD from3 BAD RELIGION1 is Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder with them on two numbers. It was supposed to be a secret, but not for very long... The good old 'Fast' Eddie Clarke from his time in3 MOTORHEAD1 is out with his new album 2'Ait't Over 'Til It's Over' 1Let's hope it's more hardrocking than his embarrising time in 3Fastway1. But Lemmy is with him on the track 2'Laugh At The Devil'1 then there have to be some balls in it!! The old guitarrist in3 MANOWAR1, Ross Friedmann is back with a new band, 3HEYDAY1. 3MOTORHEAD1 is preparing a new album. They promise us that it will be in the old hard3 MOTORHEAD1 style. After they lost their deal with Epic, it's unknown which label who will release the new album. After Black Sabbath,3 DIO1 is now working on a solo lineup, consists the monster drummer 3Vinny Appice (ex-Dio & Sabbath)1, the basist3 Jeff Pilson (ex-Dokken)1 and the guitarist 3Tracy G. (ex-World War III)1. The band is working on the album 2'Strange Highways'1. The Florida band3 SAIGON KICK1 should be ready with their 3rd album late september. The powerfull 3PANTERA1 is working on their new album2 'Crush'1, it will be out in October, but probably with another name. The american hardrockers3 ARCADE1 have released their first record 2'Nothin' To Loose'1. The most known members of the band must be the singer3 Stephen Pearcy (ex-Ratt)1 and the drummer3 Fred Coury(ex-Cinderella)1 On the 11th October will3 PEARL JAM 1released their long awaited 2nd album The producer is Brendan O'Brien who also produced for The Black Crowes. Now it's for sure. In January will the sixth album from3 MOTLEY CRUE1 will be out. It will be the first album without Vince Neil at the mike. The new singer will be John Corabi, and they should work perfectly together. The old Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille and his new band 3NEEDLE PARK1 is working together with the singer from Quireboys, about the recording of the old Hank Willams classic 2'Hey Good Lookin''1 for the movie 2'Son In Law'1. 3OZZY OSBORNE1 and3 BLACK SABBATH1 is back They will start their world tour in December. As Ozzy says "We wrote the shit, and people wants to hera the shit". 3RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS1 are searching for a new guitarist after Arik Marshall got kicked out some months ago.