Music Legend Escapes House Fire

The fire was reported at 8:05 p.m. Monday and was brought under control several hours later. - more on this story

Red Hot Van Hagar Supergroup Chickenfoot Tour Sells Out

antiMusic reports: Demand for the first Chickenfoot live dates has led to a record sellout. The new supergroup, featuring Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers), Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar of Van Halen, and guitar legend Joe Satriani, had this to say:

Beyond our expectations, the public on-sales for the nine road-test shows sold out all tickets in record time. The band was blown away by your response and can't wait to take the show on the road!

CHICKENFOOT will be back in August and September to play a major North American tour and there will be sufficient tickets to meet your demands. Due to the size of the venues for these shows, we do not forsee any issues with pre-sale availability. - more on this story

Lollapalooza 09 Announced

FMQB reports: As per tradition, Perry Farrell called in to Modern Rock WKQX (Q101)/Chicago to announce the lineup of this summer's Lollapalooza festival in Grant Park.

Confirming rumors that have been floating around for weeks, the three day festival will indeed be headlined by Depeche Mode, Tool and The Killers, along with Beastie Boys, Kings Of Leon and of course, the reunited Jane's Addiction.

Other notable acts on board include the legendary Lou Reed, Ben Harper and his new band Relentless7 - more acts, plus the video announcement

Eminem Reveals Drug Inspired Album Art

MusicRadar reports: Eminem's just-released artwork for his upcoming album Relapse makes us long for the days of the vinyl LP. What better way to take in the prescription pill-laced collage of Slim Shady?

The artwork is a close-up head shot of Em over a black background, with his face being a mosaic of hundreds of little pills and capsules.

Eminem has spoken publicly about an addiction to prescription drugs, which included a well-publicized stint in rehab and a later relapse - hence, the title.

On his own Twitter page, Eminem himself writes "This is getting very real..." and includes a link to the image that you can see - here

Pixies Boxsets Coming

HER reports: Some rock bands sound as fresh and valid today as when their albums first dropped. A perfect example would be the Pixies, acclaimed as the most influential, pioneering band of the late '80s alt/rock movement. Over the course of five studio album releases from 1987 through 1991, the Boston-bred group - which included singer/guitarist Black Francis, guitarist Joey Santiago, bassist Kim Deal, and drummer David Lovering - created a body of work that spawned many alt/rock radio standards, and influenced countless subsequent bands, including Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Radiohead.

Now, these five classic releases are going to be reissued as both Limited Edition and Deluxe Edition collector's sets entitled Minotaur. Spearheaded by Jeff Anderson, founder of A+R (Artist in Residence), who has put together expansive and eye-catching versions of releases by Nine Inch Nails, Beck, and Sigur Ros - Minotaur will be available for pre-order at www.ainr.com beginning Monday, June 15, 2009. The Minotaur Deluxe Edition will retail for $175, while the Minotaur Limited Edition will be priced at $450.

The Deluxe Edition will include all five Pixies studio albums - Come On Pilgrim (1987), Surfer Rosa (1988), Doolittle (1989), Bossanova (1990), and Trompe le Monde (1991) - on 24k layered CD and Blu-ray (five discs total), with reinterpreted artwork by Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer who created all of the artwork that accompanied the Pixies' studio albums. Also included in the Deluxe Edition will be a DVD of a Pixies 1991 performance at the Brixton Academy in London, the group's videos, possible live tracks, and a 54-page book, all housed in a custom slipcase. The Minotaur Limited Edition version will include everything in the Deluxe Edition, as well as all five albums on 180 gram vinyl, a Giclee print of Oliver's artwork, and a 72-page hardcover book, all housed in an oversized custom clamshell cover. - more on this story

Sat Night Green Day- Smashing Digital Pumpkins Club- Angus Signed AC/DC Guitar- Baby Foo- Moby Injured Kickboxing- Pirates Buy 10 Times More Music and more

antiMusic reports: A police report on Madonna's fall from a horse in the Hamptons is silent on whether paparazzi scared the animal, as her spokeswoman has said.more

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and his wife, Jordyn, have welcomed their second daughter. And, Grohl says, she likes to make noise. The 40-year-old rocker says Harper Willow Grohl was born on April 17. more

Billy Corgan has decided to provide fans with new Smashing Pumpkins music via a subscription service on the band's website. He plans to offer a 12-week paid subscription for $40 that will give access to various media updates detailing the creative process in the studio.more

Green Day will be appearing on Saturday Night Live on May 16th according to The Futon Critic. find out who will host here. Hint: it's an SNL alum

The United Firefighters of America are auctioning off a guitar signed by AC/DC's Angus Young to help raise money for Volunteer Fire Departments so that they can get the equipment they need by finding good used equipment for them and/or raising funds to offer them grants.more

The study the RIAA probably doesn't want you to hear about: Ars Technica has posted about a new study from Norway found that those who said they download illegal music for "free" bought ten times as much legal music as those who never download music illegally.more

The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival rang up it's second biggest year ever, with an aggregate attendance of 160,000, according to producer Paul Tollett, president of Goldenvoice, a division of AEG Live.more

Detroit rocker Bob Seger and a bandmate are named in a negligence lawsuit filed by a man who says he suffered injuries in a crash involving a car registered to Seger.more

Moby is hobbling around his New York home after breaking his ankle during a kickboxing session. Moby explains on his blog, "I fractured my ankle. It's turned all different colours. I fractured my ankle at kickboxing. more

Heaven and Hell's 'The Devil You Know' hits the streets on April 28. It is the highly anticipated new album featuring 10 soon-to-be-classic tracks from the Dio-fronted version of Black Sabbath. Want a preview? Go here

Scott Ian, guitarist of Anthrax, has revealed that the band will be releasing their new studio album, "Worship Music" in October instead of the previously announced month of June. more

Calvin Harris has admitted that he lied about losing the master tapes of his new album at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 last year. The singer revealed that he made up the fib last April in order to buy himself some more time to finish recording the LP. more

Indie rockers Portugal. The Man will make their television performance debut this Wednesday, April 22 on Fuel TV's "The Daily Habit." Portugal. The Man will perform "People Say," the lead-off track from their brand new album, The Satanic Satanist, due out July 21, and "1989," from 2008's CD, Censored Colors.

Apple Corps, The Beatles record label, has published images of the new Beatles covers at The Beatles official website. As previously reported, on the 9th of the 9th of the 9th, The Beatles catalog will be reissued. more

Organizers say former Fugees singer Lauryn Hill will be the headline act for the Stockholm Jazz Festival in July.more

Eagles' Timothy Schmit Taps Kid Rock, Dwight Yoakam For Solo Set Amidst touring with the Eagles and this weekend's Poco reunion at the Stagecoach festival in Indio, Calif., Timothy B. Schmit is putting the finishing touches on "Expando," his first solo album in eight years. more

Richie Havens, who was the first act on stage at the original Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969, will perform at noon on Aug. 14 at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on the original festival sitemore

The Destro have just entered the studio with Unearth's Ken Susi to record their yet-to-be-titled sophomore album on Ironclad Recordings.more

Stryper will announce the first 5 shows of the Stryper 25th Anniversary Tour this Friday via Stryper.commore

Jorn Lande has rejoined Masterplan, the band led by former Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow.more

Coldplay and Duffy each have three nominations for the Ivor Novello Awards, which honor the best in British song writing. Both are up for the Best Album, Most Performed Work and the Best Selling British Song (the whole Joe Satriani thing puts an interesting spin on this) more

Biclops (ex-The Postman Syndrome) are currently in the studio at The Machine Shop (Lamb Of God) with producer Will Putney, completing their debut full-length for a to-be-determined label.more

Throwdown will enter the studio on Wednesday to begin tracking their new album, "Deathless."more

Download Festival has announced a string of new confirmations for this years event. The festival will now also see performances from the likes of Hatebreed, Voivod, God Forbid, Suicide Silence, Sylosis, Therapy?, Tim 'Ripper' Owens, In This Moment, We Are The Ocean, Turbo Wolf, A Day To Remember, Backyard Babies - more

Iron Maiden Planning New Album and Tour

antiMusic reports: Today we welcome Rock Radio as a new official source for the Day in Rock! You can also grab their latest headlines on the RockNews.info newswire. Here is their first report, an exclusive about an antiMusic favorite: Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain has confirmed to Rock Radio that the band are already planning their fifteenth studio album.

In an interview with Rock DJ Tom Russell on Maiden Day, McBrain said: "We're scheduling to get together to write the new album in November or December this year.

"We have actually booked a studio and I think we'll kick off in the second week of January with the new record.... As to touring - the end of the year, or definitely 2011. We may actually go out at the end of 2010. Once you've got the new album finished and packaged, and the record company's happy with all the bits and pieces, then you want to go touring." - More from Nicko and the audio for the full interview

Wanna Meet Lamb Of God?

PR reports: Lamb Of God have announced a series of in-store appearances during their headlining run on the No Fear Music Tour (with As I Lay Dying, Children of Bodom, God Forbid, and Municipal Waste supporting). The whole band will be in attendance to sign merch and personally meet with fans.

Also, at each event, Lamb Of God will be giving away a signature Will Adler ESP/LTD Signature Series guitar! Further information on the in-stores can be found below.

Lamb Of God is also offering their fans a chance to be in a video for "In Your Words." The band will assemble the Homebrew Edition video from fan-submitted video of themselves preparing for a Lamb of God show or tailgating once there. - more on this story

Secret Cure Album

PR reports: MySpace Music is proud to exclusively present The Cure Live from Secret Shows album. The legendary rock band performed at the Troubadour for a very special MySpace Music Secret Show in December 2008.

The album consists of a compilation of some of their classic and new songs from their latest album 4:13 Dream. Beginning today, the MySpace community and The Cure fans can relive the event and stream the audio from the show for free by visiting The Cure's official MySpace profile MySpace profile .

Tracks featured on The Cure Live from Secret Shows include: • Underneath the Stars• Pictures of You• Lullaby• The Reasons Why• The End of the World• Lovesong• Friday I'm In Love• One Hundred Years• Boys Don't Cry, and many more! - more on this story

Dave Matthews Band Pass Kick Off

Red Light reports: The Dave Matthews Band iTunes Pass launches today, April 21, on the iTunes Store With iTunes Pass, music fans can get new and exclusive music, video, remixes, art and other content from their favorite artists over a set period of time, delivered to their iTunes library as soon as it's available.

Fans who purchase the Dave Matthews Band iTunes Pass ($19.99) beginning today will receive an instant download of the band's latest single, "Funny the Way It Is," and the new album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, as soon as it's released on June 2nd.

They'll also receive plenty of additional content from now through September, including Scenes from Big Whiskey, a documentary on the making of the record, exclusive bonus music (including b-sides and live music from the band's Spring and Summer 2009 tours), two tracks in advance of the album's release ("Shake Me Like A Monkey" and "Lying In the Hands of God"), a download of the "Funny the Way It Is" music video, a deluxe digital booklet of the album artwork, drawn by Dave Matthews, and more. - more on this story

The Black Dahlia Murder Set DVD Debut

Metal Blade reports: The Black Dahlia Murder are set to release their first ever DVD, Majesty, this May. This side splitting peek into the hard working band's humor laced brand of daily life will have you smelling the funk of the van from coast to coast and keep you coming back for more. Stay tuned to the band's MySpace page or Metal Blade's site/MySpace page as we will be releasing teaser clips taken from the DVD up through the release of Majesty.

Vocalist Trevor Strnad comments, "The Black Dahlia Murder DVD entitled Majesty is finally finished and ready to be unleashed on the world. Diehard fans will recognize that the title has been plucked from the chorus of Nocturnal. It was filmed and edited by our good friend/drinking partner Robbie Tassaro, whom we have worked with in the past for the filming of our 'What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse' video. Robbie is a hilarious man in himself, and probably the only person we could trust to really capture the essence of the band. Doing a DVD was something we were very apprehensive about... doing video stuff is always a risk when you can't afford the luxuries that the MTV darlings can... I mean look at the majority of death metal videos on you tube... the comments are all people laughing how cheesy they are. For Christ's sake, look at our video for Funeral Thirst! That's ghetto metal fabulous. - more on this story

The Killers Get Chairlift Support

Columbia Records reports: Chairlift is pleased to announce an upcoming US tour with The Killers. The band has currently been on a tour across North America with YACHT, Sebastian Tellier and Peter, Bjorn and John, and will now join The Killers in support of their forthcoming Columbia Records debut, Does You Inspire You, out today, April 21st.

Following the success of their indie label-released debut and an iPod commercial featuring their song "Bruises," Chairlift signed to Columbia Records. For their major label debut, Chairlift remixed and mastered Does You Inspire You, while adding two new tracks, "Dixie Gypsy", and "Le Flying Saucer Hat", both of which were originally intended for the debut.

The band will also be hitting the summer festival circuit, performing at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, All Point West and Lollapalooza. - more on this story

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