Zakk Wylde Goes To Prison

"The former Ozzy guitarist did a half-hour set for 40 prisoners, declaring: 'It seemed like the right thing to do, since my first gig with Ozzy was in a prison [1987 at Wormwood Scrubs].'" - Classic rock has video of Zakk here

Biker Exposes The Fake Reality Behind Gene Simmon's Family Jewels

It only takes viewing a couple episodes of Gene Simmon's Family Jewels to start to doubt just how real that reality show is. You can only do the fish out of water thing so many times and have so many implausible circumstances for even people with room temperature IQs to not start questioning how legit the show is.

Now Motorcyles-USA.com has a blog about a recent run-in with the "production" of a scene for the show that was a mock Thelma and Louise storyline staring Gene's non-wife and it leaves little doubt just how real and spontaneous the so-called "unscripted drama" really is.

Apparently the producers of the show put out a call for "extras" to show up at the famed Orange County, Ca biker bar Cooks Corner for filming for the show and the experience left one biker with a nasty taste in his mouth as he exposes just how bogus the "reality" of the show actually is. - Read the sad tale here

Former Maiden Vocalist Attacked

Rock Radio had a report about former Iron Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley and his new band having a little run-in with some ruffians while one tour. Here is part of their report: The Blaze Bayley band were attacked on a street in Greece during their current tour, frontman Bayley has reported.

Two men, whom Bayley says were clearly on drugs, nearly ran down one of the band's entourage after their show in Agrinio, then followed the tour van and threw a brick through one of its windows, narrowly missing someone inside.

Bayley also says drummer Larry Paterson wounded his eye during the show after the small stage forced the band to fall over one another and he got a drumstick knocked into his head. - Read Bayley's account of the attack here

Joe Perry To Team Up With T-Pain For Football Show

The Miami Dolphins announced today that Aerosmith's Joe Perry will be the main act at the Land Shark Tailgate Stage on the AT&T Grand Plaza with his band, Joe Perry Project, on Sunday December 6, prior to the Dolphins-Patriots game, with a live performance starting at 12 noon.

Perry and his band will perform a series of songs from his fifth solo CD Have Guitar, Will Travel, released in October this year, that will include the album's first single, We've Got A Long Way To Go. In addition to experiencing Perry's trademark rock and roll based ferocity, fans will be treated to an exclusive rendition of Aerosmith's unforgettable number one hit single Walk This Way, featuring leading singer/rapper and producer, T-Pain, who will make a special guest appearance with Perry live on-stage.

"I've tailgated up north a few times and it's hard cooking sausage with your fingers frozen," says Perry. "I'm looking forward to getting some ribs going in Miami and to being able to feel my fingers, which is always sure to help my performance." - more on this story

Arsonists Crash Their Van- Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck Team Up- Live No More- Bob Dylan Wasn't Joking- Judas Priest Steel Box- Weezer/Paramore Bamboozled and more

Arsonists Get All The Girls were involved in a van accident while traveling in Oregon yesterday morning. Here's the official word: "This morning at 7am we flipped and totaled our van on highway 84 in Oregon. We are all lucky to be alive with only cuts and bruises. None of us have strong religious beliefs but we feel that of all the days we could have this happen, it happened on Patrick's birthday - it almost seemed as if he was watching over us today." more

Having reprised their live collaboration in Tokyo earlier this year, guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck have added three North American concert dates to their plans for February. more

FMQB had this interesting news: Live have broken up, after two decades together. Guitarist Chad Taylor announced to the band's e-mail list that he and bandmates Chad Gracey and Patrick Dahlheimer's relationship with singer Ed Kowalczyk "had grown cold." Taylor wrote that while the band had been on a hiatus, he learned that Kowalczyk had secretly legally maneuvered control of the band's company more

Bob Dylan is reportedly fuming after critics accused him of making a Christmas covers album as a joke. Dylan's decision to release a disc of his favorite festive hits - called Christmas in the Heart -- left some commentators bemused, and speculating the project is a gimmick. more

Judas Priest filmed their appearance at Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, FL on August 17th for an upcoming 30th Anniversary DVD release of the British Steel album. more

Former Smiths star and current Cribs guitarist Johnny Marr is set to write the score for a new film staring Antonio Banderas and Snoop Dogg. more

Weezer and Paramore are the first two acts announced for The Bamboozle 2010. more

Churchill Downs, the Louisville racetrack that's home to the Kentucky Derby, has announced plans for a three-day music festival in 2010 called Hullabalou. Headliners for the event, scheduled for July 23-25, include Bon Jovi, Kenny Chesney and the Dave Matthews Band. more

Asia (the real version of the group) are currently working on their new album. more

On December 19th and 20th, Ed Roland of Collective Soul and special guests will be performing at Eddie's Attic in the Atlanta Area. more

Artwork from The Clash's 'London Calling' album is set to be auctioned off later this month. Made up of sketches, drawings and designs for the cover of the 1979 album, the auction is expected to fetch up to £70,000. more

Deftones and CharityBuzz have now launched the final new batch of items for the Benefit For Chi Auction. These include guitars, autographed and donated by:
Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Trent Reznor / NIN, Ozzy Osbourne & Disturbed, Plus other cool rarities, including artwork from Brandon Boyd of Incubus, plus autographed gear from My Chemical Romance, Trivium and Fall Out Boy. CharityBuzz.com/BenefitForChi

Sleazeroxx reports that a Randy Rhoads funeral program is being auctioned off on eBay. We took a look and the auction ended with zero bids. The bozo running the auction was looking for $600 bucks for program.

The Three Days Grace Show that originally supposed to take place November 17th at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver has been be moved to Tuesday, January 12th at General Motors Place. more

The Flaming Lips will cover Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety during the band's New Year's Eve concert. more

Nada Surf had this update for fans on Tuesday: "The band are finishing up a covers album and we'll be making a full on announcement of the release (and tour) in early 2010. The one thing we can tell you is that it will include a version of the Depeche Mode song 'Enjoy the Silence' and for your listening pleasure, we've put a home demo Matthew recorded on our myspace site. " more

To celebrate today's release of their brand new album, Stir the Blood, The Bravery stopped by the Yahoo studios to record a live session of their hit song "Slow Poison" watch here and a cover of their favorite track by Fleet Foxes, "White Winter Hymnal". watch here

For The Fallen Dreams will team up with Lionheart and Upon A Burning Body this month for a short tour of Northeast. more

The Monolators, a true-to-life garage band, are the subjects of this week's episode of Parlour to Parlour. They also happen to be the band from which last week's featured artist, the Cobra Lilies, was born. more -

Muse Set Chart Record as They Prepare for SNL and Festival Gigs

Muse's current single "Uprising" has now topped Mediabase's Alternative Rock chart for 13 consecutive weeks, breaking the record for number of consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Mediabase Alternative Rock chart for the 2009 calendar year.

"Uprising" is the first single from the British rock trio's fifth studio album The Resistance, which earned the band their highest-ever debut on the Billboard album chart when it bowed at No. 3. Muse's previous album, 2006's gold Black Holes and Revelations, peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard album chart. The Resistance also notched 20 No. 1 debuts around the world, including Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, and the U.K.

Muse, which is vocalist/guitarist Matt Bellamy, bassist Chris Wolstenholme, and drummer Dom Howard, will perform on Saturday Night Live on December 19th. In addition, the band have announced a series of upcoming holiday radio shows in the U.S, including KROQ's legendary Almost Acoustic Christmas at Los Angeles' Gibson Amphitheatre on December 13th. - more including dates

Cracker Van Beethoven Tour

After returning from a successful Iraq tour for U.S. troops last week, Cracker will be closing out the year with a string of California dates with co-founder David Lowery's "other" alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven.

The two bands will hook up for a Petaluma, CA show on December 27th, before heading to San Francisco and Solana Beach. Cracker will then perform a New Year's Eve blow-out in Denver on Dec. 31st, and then link up again with CVB in January for additional dates in St. Louis, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Philadelphia, Washington DC, NYC and Toronto.

Cracker, featuring co-founders David Lowery (vocals/ guitar) and Johnny Hickman (lead guitar / vocals), along with bassist Sal Maida (Roxy Music / Sparks) and drummer Frank Funaro (The Dictators / Joey Ramone / Del Lords), are out in support of their critically-acclaimed Sunrise In The Land Of Milk and Honey album, while Camper Van Beethoven will be reconvening to run through indie rock staples that span from their 1985 debut Telephone Free Landslide Victory (including their quintessential early alt-hit "Take The Skinheads Bowling") to their more recent 2004 effort New Roman Times. - more on this story

Rage Against The DVD

MVD Visual and Sexy Intellectual are pleased to announce the DVD release of Revolution In The Head: Rage Against The Machine and the Art Of Protest on February 23, 2010.

Features rare footage of Rage Against The Machine and many other protest artists, news clips, location shoots, videos, seldom seen photographs, and much more...

Featuring brand new interviews with: - Renowned producer and engineer, Garth Richardson - RATM Biographer, Colin Devenish - The band's live sound engineer, Dave 'Rat' Levine - Plus the man who signed them, Michael Goldstone - more on this story

97 Killed in Concert Fire- AC/DC Member Tossed Out of the Rock Hall- Jason Newsted Hospitalized- Roadie Sues Blink-182 and more of the top stories of 2003

Today we look at the top stories from the first half of 2003 as we continue our quick look back at some of the biggest stories of the past decade. Tragedy struck early in the year when almost a hundred people were killed at Great White concert at the Station Nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, when the ceiling of the venue caught fire and the blaze quickly spread throughout the club. At press time 97 people are confirmed dead and more than 200 people were injured. Great White guitarist Ty Longley is currently missing. [He was later more as one of the victims]. The fire started when flames from the band's pyrotechnics display ignited the ceiling above the stage. Fans in the audience at first thought it was part of the show but panic broke out once the fire quickly spread and filled the nightclub with dark smoke causing patrons to rush towards the exits. more. One of the follow-up stories dealt with fan's anger at MTV for their lack of coverage, and their resident dork posing as a metal head defense of the network's lack of coverage in light of their previous wall to wall coverage of the death of Tupac, St. Left-eye and Jam Master Jay. more

Maurice Gibb, a member of the Disco supergroup the Bee Gee's, died at a Miami hospital. He Was 53. Last Thursday Gibb was rushed to the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami where he underwent emergency abdominal surgery. more

"I think I am about the first person to ever get thrown out of the Hall of Fame," former AC/DC Bass player Mark Evans told Australian rock site Undercover. As you may or may not know AC/DC will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this month. At first bass player Mark Evans, who played on the groups first three studio albums (those released in the US), was to be inducted along with the other members of the band but then suddenly Mark found out that the Rock Hall had changed the rules and he wasn't going to be inducted. more

Jason Newsted missed his first show in 17 years, a source close to the band tells antiMUSIC. What kept the hardest working bassplayer in rock from taking the stage when Voivod rolled through Anaheim, Ca this week? Food Poisoning. Newsted was taken to an area hospital at approx. 3 PM on Monday where he was diagnosed with food poisoning and severe dehydration more

Blink-182 have been slapped with a lawsuit from one of their former roadies, who claims that he came up with the title to the band's 2001 "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket." Larry Palm filed suit against the band last week in Los Angeles, claiming breach of oral contact, fraud, and unjust enrichment, among other allegations. more

If what Scott Weiland has told Rolling Stone is correct then the band code named "The Project" that features former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum has a new lead singer and also has a new name, "Reloaded". But drummer Matt Sorum isn't quite ready to announce either the name or singer. He was half right. more. They made his hiring and the Velvet Revolver name official here

Phil Anselmo isn't fronting three bands anymore. He's narrowed it down to one, and it's not influential metal band Pantera. He was juggling being vocalist for Pantera, Down, and Superjoint Ritual at the same time and he said that he's chosen to just stick with Superjoint Ritual . "There was a lot of business with Warner Bros. and this and that Down and Pantera and this and that, and etc. etc.... Whatever. Pretty much what I'm doing here is I'm sticking with Superjoint, and I'm not doing f--kin' anything else. This is where I'm most comfortable and this it the type of music that I wanna do, you know?" more

Axl tells us that the new Guns N' Roses album is coming soon! This one didn't pan out as expected (soon equaled six years) but it was cool to have Axl Rose crash our party and he was actually really cool in person. antiGuy had a news item/editorial about the encounter: Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose is confident that the album will be released soon. On Sunday Night, antiMUSIC co-hosted a viewing/release party for the new Led Zeppelin DVD at the Cat Club in Hollywood. GNR frontman, Axl Rose was among those who showed up for the party. more

Chester Bennington, vocalist for the rock band Linkin Park was admitted to a Los Angeles area hospital last Friday afternoon after an attack of severe back and abdominal pains. Bennington remains hospitalized as doctors are still trying to determine the cause of these ailments more

The Who's Pete Townshend is at the center of a child porn controversy after a British paper reported that an "unnamed" UK rock star was under investigation for his involvement with online child porn. Townshend admits that he has paid to view child porn on the Internet but claims that he was simply investigating the websites in his "one-man battle" against child porn. more

R. Kelly was arrested for the second time for child porn related charges. Kelly would is currently facing child porn related charges in Illinois was arrested by authorities in Florida after investigators searched the rappers home and discovered a dozen nude photographs of a girl police suspect is underage. more

Over the past few years Metallica has never shied away from using litigation to achieve their goals. In the past the band has taken on Napster , fans who swap their music online, a perfume company and even their own record label. Now it appears they have their legal guns aimed at an unsigned band out of Edmonton, Canada that is using the name Metallica without the California group's permission. more

On the positive side: Metallica is once again a four-member band. The bassist slot that has been vacant since the departure of Jason Newsted has now been officially filled by former Ozzy Osbourne and Suicidal Tendencies bassman, Robert Trujillo. more

Police in England and the Netherlands recovered more than 500 reel-to-reel tapes from The Beatles "Let It Be" sessions during anti-piracy sweep on Friday. more

When he's not belting out songs with his band U2, Bono is out trying to save the world. It looks like people are paying attention to his efforts as his name is on the short list for this year's Nobel Peace Prize . more

Incubus filed a lawsuit against Sony Corporation hoping to get out of their recording contract with Sony imprint Epic Records. more

Rob Zombie has teamed up with R&B crooner Lionel Richie. The duo recently recorded a new version of "Brick House," the classic song from Richie's former group The Commodores. more

John Densmore , the original drummer of the Doors filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against his former bandmates, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger. Densmore charges Mazarek and Kreiger with breach of contract, trademark infringement and unfair competition. more

The Police gave the audience at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony a special treat on Monday night when the trio reunited in honor of their induction. Sting , Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers took the stage together for the first time in 18 years at the decidedly un-rock n roll black tie affair at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. In related news, Stewart Copeland has filed suit against The Doors' Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger. more

The Offspring who in the recent past took to selling Napster gear on their website when the online file swapping company was in the midst of controversy are now having some more fun at the expense of Axl Rose. And Axl isn't too happy about it. The southern California punk band became the target of Axl Rose's legal guns when they proposed calling their new album "Chinese Democrazy (You Snooze You Lose)," a tongue in cheek reference to the Axl Rose led Guns N Roses album that has been under development for close to a decade now. [They ironically took forever to deliver an album themselves] more

Warning to bands, if you give a sub par performance or appear "out of it" during a concert then your fans may sue to get their money back. That's a lesson Creed is learning at the moment as four fans have reportedly filed suit against group asking to be reimbursed for tickets and parking following a controversial show last December in Chicago where Creed frontman was allegedly "so intoxicated and/or medicated that he was unable to sing the lyrics of a single Creed song." more

The RIAA have finally followed through with their threat to go after individual file traders. Last Thursday the record industry trade group filed separate lawsuits against four student file traders. more

Wind-Up Records has decided to pull Evanescence debut album from Christian music stories following some backlash from comments made by the group in an interview. more

Apple, the company that brought the world the first mass market graphical user interface for micro-computers when they introduce the MacIntosh in 1984, have now become trailblazers in legal online MP3 distribution. Late last month the Cupertino, California based company rolled out their iTunes Music Store, which offers downloads of songs for $0.99 cents each. more

In one of the strangest music related stories in a while, a fan in Bergen, Norway was injured during a concert last Thursday night when he was struck in the skull by a flying sheep's head. The Associated Press reports that members of Norwegian death metal band, Mayhem, were carving up a dead sheep on stage as part of their show "when the animal's head flew off lead singer Maniac's knife and struck 25-year-old Per Kristian Hagen." more

We'll be back tomorrow with a look at the biggest stories from the second half of 2003 as our end of the decade countdown continues. -

3 Doors Down Acoustic Christmas

Bringing Christmas cheer a bit early, 3 Doors Down are set to release an 8-song EP of acoustic versions of tracks from their current release, 3 Doors Down, including two versions (full band and acoustic) of a newly penned Christmas track, "Where My Christmas Lives," announced today.

Titled Where My Christmas Lives, the EP will be available at iTunes and all digital retailers for $5.99, as well as the studio and separately the acoustic version of "Where My Christmas Lives" will be available each digitally for .99.

"'Where My Christmas Lives' is a song about family. Family is what makes Christmas what it is. The times we share with family at Christmas make memories that last forever," said lead singer Brad Arnold. - more on this story

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