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  Scott Weiland Countersues Stone Temple Pilots for 'Conspiring' to Fire Him

  June 3, 2013 – As the new Stone Temple Pilots rides forth with Linkin Park's Chester Bennington taking lead, Scott Weiland is making his grievances against his former bandmates a legal matter. The orphaned singer is asking a judge to rule against the group's continued use of the name, and also for a minimum of $7 million in damages. …
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  New Stone Temple Pilots Cover David Bowie's 'Young Dudes' With Slash and Duff

  June 3, 2013 – Scott Weiland says Stone Temple Pilots can't exist without him as the band's singer, and yet, this happened: STP with fresh front-bro Chester Bennington, accompanied by Guns N' Roses' dynamic duo Slash and Duff McKagen, covering David Bowie's glam-rock anthem "All the Young Dudes." The alt-rock godfathers (and their hard rock forefathers, and their rap-rock offspring) performed the song as part of a May 30 set at Los Angeles' Club Nokia …
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  Who Charted? Daft Punk and the National Leave Jared Leto in the Dust

  May 29, 2013 – First! The robots have won. Due to both the militarily mighty marketing campaign surrounding Random Access Memories and the glistening brilliance of that very same album, Daft Punk have conquered the Billboard 200. According to Nielsen SoundScan they sold 339,000 copies of their first full-length in eight years — that's nearly three times the number that 2005's Human After All has sold in total in the United States. …
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  Lawsuit Type Thing: Stone Temple Pilots Members Get Litigious on Scott Weiland

  May 28, 2013 – Stone Temple Pilots' often underrated third album was called Tiny Music... Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop, but their next one could be subtitled Songs From the Courthouse Cafeteria. STP frontman Scott Weiland has been slapped with a breach-of-contract lawsuit by the rest of the band, and he has responded with a "letter to my fans" contending he's in the right both legally and ethically. …
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  Stone Temple Pilots Induct Linkin Park's Singer, Share New Fiery Single 'Out of Time'

  May 20, 2013 – After giving Scott Weiland the boot, Stone Temple Pilots have officially relaunched with Linkin Park's Chester Bennington as their lead singer. The alternative rock OGs debuted the new lineup at the annual Weenie Roast festival thrown by Los Angeles-area rock station KROQ over the weekend. …
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  Watch Scott Weiland Threaten to Fight Obnoxious Heckler

  March 11, 2013 – Don't mess with Scott Weiland. In a solo show at New York City's Irving Plaza on Saturday night, the allegedly fired Stone Temple Pilots singer fired some devastating verbal bombs at a heckler, as Grunge Report notes. …
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  Scott Weiland Wants You to Root for Him

  March 6, 2013 – It's more than 20 years since Stone Temple Pilots' debut, Core, yet, frontman Scott Weiland remains swept up in the winds of STP-related controversy. Hours before launching his solo Purple at the Core tour, Weiland's on-again/off-again bandmates in STP announced via press release that he'd been let go. …
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  Scott Weiland: 'It Hurts My Feelings' When STP Don't Get Along

  March 4, 2013 – The Scott Weiland-Stone Temple Pilots employment brouhaha continues! …
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  Scott Weiland Dismisses Stone Temple Pilots Firing as Publicity Stunt

  March 1, 2013 – Tonight, Scott Weiland kicks off his Purple at the Core tour, where he plans to play some of Stone Temple Pilots' early-'90s hits. What's increasingly unclear is whether he's still a member of that alternative-rock band, which he co-founded. On Wednesday morning, STP unceremoniously announced it had fired the longtime frontman. …
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  Scott Weiland Didn't Know He Was Fired From Stone Temple Pilots

  February 27, 2013 – We woke up this morning to the news that Scott Weiland had been fired from Stone Temple Pilots, the post-grunge giants that he founded all the way back in 1986. Well, as it turns out, the band's singer found out about this latest development just like the rest of us did: in articles. …
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