Kravitz Won't Walk Aerosmith's Way

Rock Radio was one of the media outlets that responsibly reported the original story. They said in part, "A&R legend John Kalodner says if Aerosmith have to replace Steven Tyler, the only man for the job would be Lenny Kravitz - and even then it wouldn't be Aerosmith.... Kalodner worked with the Boston band for 20 years, masterminding their return to glory." Kalodner had to a lot say about the situation with Aerosmith and Rock Radio reported the quotes in context, the one that's been taken out context by other "media" was Kalodner saying, "I was talking to Marty Frederickson about this because he co-wrote Jaded and worked with them for ten years or so. The only person he said could even make Aerosmith anything - and I agreed - would be Lenny Kravitz." - Read Rock Radio's original report here to see all of Kalodner's comments in context

Rage Against The TV Idol Machine- Weezer Cancel Tour Due To Accident- Pete Doherty Arrested For Smashing Stupidity- Suburbs Star Dies and more

A Facebook group dedicated to keeping Simon Cowell's X-Factor winner off the Christmas Number One spot has gained nearly 300,000 followers, reports Rock Radio. Rage Against The Machine for Christmas No.1 is encouraging rock fans to buy the classic track Killing In The Name as a download single from December 13, in a bid to stop the talent show winner from heading the chart on December 25. more

Weezer has canceled the rest of its December tour after the lead singer was injured in a bus crash in New York where the group's tour bus skidded on ice, struck a guide rail and slid into a ditch Sunday morning. more

Pete Doherty got into his second round of trouble in Germany in one week after he was arrested for throwing a pint glass at a car and breaking its back window on the weekend. more
Mariachi El Bronx has taken a short break from kicking sombrero ass to film a new video and record a Christmas song with touring partners The Killers. Come get a yuletide facial here

Meshuggah's new live DVD+CD release, entitled Alive, will be released on February 5th in Europe and February 9th in North America. details

If you haven't yet picked up Switchfoot's latest album 'Hello Hurricane,' Amazon is running a special right now where you can get it digitally for just $5.00! Grab it here

The Outlaws, the storied Southern Rock band whose career has spanned four decades, completed their latest recording in the summer of 2007. On the verge of its release, band founder and legendary guitarist Hughie Thomasson passed away unexpectedly. The studio album 'Once an Outlaw', a true project of passion for Thomasson, was never released. The family of Thomasson is pleased to announce it plans to release 'Once an Outlaw', a poignant and almost mystical piece of work produced and recorded by Hughie Thomasson in Tampa, Florida, in 2010. more

Coheed and Cambria will release Year of the Black Rainbow in April, 2010. more

Classic Rock Magazine has announced what they promise will be "the best new rock festival in the world" - and they're backing it up by listing Emerson, Lake and Palmer and ZZ Top as headline acts. more

The Moondance Jam, the country's pre-eminent classic rock festival, has announced the initial booking for this year's festival, which takes place July 14th - 17th, 2010. Legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd will headline the closing night of the festival more

Something Corporate will be reuniting for 2010 Bamboozle Left festival in Anaheim, CA in March. more

The Funeral Pyre is currently writing material for a new full-length. The group has written nine songs thus far and says that "We'll probably be recording sometime early to mid next year" more

Bruce C. Allen the lead guitarist for influential Minneapolis alternative rock band, the Suburbs has died. The Music's Over reports that In ailing health over the past several years, Allen was admitted to a local hospital in recent weeks for uncontrollable bleeding and internal organ failure. He passed away after being taken off life support on December 7, 2009. more

Enuff Z'nuff are heading over to Europe in the New Year for a tour with Faster Pussycat. This will be the first Euro since frontman Donnie Vie returned to the band. Chip Z'nuff says there is a chance that Steven Adler might join them to sit in a few songs, but that hasn't be solidified yet. Also of note: Although Jake E. Lee was the guitarist on the band's latest album, he is not touring with the band. You can grab the dates here.

Irepress has announced the addition of Benji Gram (ex-Eroica) to their line-up on guitar. The group notes that "Many of you who have been keeping up with our tour blogs should know that Ben has been Irepress' right-hand man for the past year with being our tech on the road. more

Bart Steele discusses his lawsuit against Bon Jovi, Major League Baseball etc. You can check out the four part interview. If you want to understand his reasoning behind the controversial lawsuit, read his explanations here

Bullet For My Valentine have announced via Twitter that they have finished recording their third album for an early 2010 release. more

Happenin Harry is hosting a new night of music in Beverly Hills this coming Wednesday that will of course include his All-Star Jam where you never know who will show up and play. Grab the details here -

Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin Team Up For Tour

Three Days Grace will begin a co-headline tour with Breaking Benjamin in Peoria, IL on January 15th at the Peoria Civic Center. The tour will also feature Flyleaf.

Three Days Grace's most recent release Life Starts Now debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 charts making it the highest debut ever for the band. "Break" the first single from Life Starts Now has reached #1 on the Active Rock BDS Charts and Top 5 at Mainstream Rock.

Tickets for most shows go on sale Saturday, December 12, 2009. Fan club early pre sale begins on Tuesday, December 8, 2009. For a full listing - go here

Pearl Jam Map Out Some Summer Tour Dates

Pearl Jam announced today that they will play a series of select European festival and headlining tour dates in June and July of 2010.

The band's European dates kick off in Dublin, Ireland at the 02 Arena and close at the Optimus Alive Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.

Pearl Jam recently toured North America, Australia and New Zealand in support of their ninth studio album, Backspacer. Released on September 20, 2009 in the U.S. and September 21, 2009 internationally, Backspacer debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Chart. - more on this story

Eric Clapton Taps Roger Daltrey For Early 2010 Tour

On the heels of two major U.S. Grammy nominations for his CD release with Steve Winwood last year, Eric Clapton has announced a series of North American solo shows.

The tour will begin on February 25 in Pittsburgh, PA and will travel to 11 U.S. cities and feature a very special guest, Roger Daltrey to kick off the show.

In recent years, Clapton has done some of his most innovative and collaborative work, pairing with iconic artists such as Steve Winwood, Jeff Beck and JJ Cale for concert and CD projects. - more including dates

Scott Weiland Auctioning Personal Items and Memorabilia

Scott Weiland, the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, will offer the public a rare glimpse into his personal life next week as he auctions off a variety of clothing and personal affects to benefit his ArchAngel Organization. Weiland formed ArchAngel when his brother, Michael Weiland, passed away in early 2007 after a long struggle with addiction. Proceeds from the auction will be given to Michael Weiland's widow and two children.

According to Scott Weiland: "The overall idea is to grow this into something more, while still helping my brother's family, and to also reach out and help families who are or have recently been through the same painful and seemingly hopeless situation. For now however, this is what we can and what we are able to do. Have fun with it and know that 100% of the profits are going to help my sister in-law and my nieces Sophie and Claudette."

Items being auctioned off include a guitar signed by Stone Temple Pilots, designer suits and denim, and clothes worn on stage, at awards shows, on tour and at various other public engagements. Other items include Scott's casual attire, clothes he wears around the house as well as some "crud" Scott had at his house or studio. Most items are signed by Scott Weiland. New items will also be added periodically. Auctions will last two weeks and all items will have inexpensive starting prices.

The ArchAngel auction site can be accessed through - http://www.SoftdriveRecords.com/archangel

Shadows Fall, Throwdown, Five Finger Death Punch And 2 Cents Winter 2010 Tour

Shadows Fall and Throwdown are pleased to announce their upcoming 2010 US Winter tour. The tour will feature Shadows Fall, Throwdown, Five Finger Death Punch and 2 Cents.

The tour will start January 21 and run through February 20, 2010. This tour will be everything you expect and more out of a hard hitting metal show and as an added bonus for the ladies, the first 100 women to line up at each show will get in absolutely free. Tickets will be going on sale this weekend.

Shadows Fall's tour this past fall was one of the most successful hard rock tours of the season and they have another amazing run scheduled for this winter. - more on this story

Smashing Pumpkins Giving Away New Song

The Smashing Pumpkins have released "A Song For A Son" online for free as the first offering from their upcoming album Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, a 44-song work that is being recorded now. "A Song For A Son" can be downloaded for free at the new Pumpkins site. The site will also offer a widget enabling fans to host the song anywhere on the web.

As Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan has said about the album, which will be released one song a time until all 44 tracks are out: "Each song will be made available absolutely for free, to anyone anywhere. There will be no strings attached. Free will mean free, which means you won't have to sign up for anything, give an email address, or jump through a hoop. You will be able to go and take the song or songs as you wish, as many times as you wish."

"A Song For A Son" is emblematic of the entire collection of music, which CORGAN has said "harkens back to the original psychedelic roots of The Smashing Pumpkins; atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty." Teargarden By Kaleidyscope will be issued independently (release date TBA) now that the band are free agents, and the Pumpkins are planning a world tour slated for spring 2010. - Q & A With Corgan

ABC Kills Sharon Osbourne- Did Metallica Steal Sanitarium?- New York Doll Legend Dies- Dimebag Murdered- Rolling Stone Has Cancer and more top stories from 2004

Today we look at the top stories from the second half of 2004 as we continue our quick look back at some of the biggest stories of the past decade.

A fatal shooting occurred at a Damageplan concert on Wednesday night (Dec 7) in Columbus, Ohio. Dimebag Darrell (Abbot) was one of the victims. Columbus, Ohio's NBC 4 reports that the shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m. at the Alrosa Villa where Damageplan was performing. NBC 4's reporter on the scene, David Wayne, initially reported that two members of the band, including Dimebag, were shot and killed and the gunman also died on the scene. However, it was later learned that Dimebag was the only band member murdered. Two fans, Nathan Bray and Erin Halk as well as the band's head of security, Mayhem (Jeff Thompson) were also murdered. more

Sharon Osbourne is still among the living but ABC is prepared for her demise. A reader sent in a link to an obituary for Sharon on the ABC website. Her life story is there, and the obituary is ready to go as soon as they fill in the date, her age at death and the cause of death. Here is the first part of the obituary: Née Sharon Arden Born October 9, 1953 in London, England XXXX: XX Sharon Osbourne, best known as the woman who saved Ozzy Osbourne from himself, XXX today of XXX. She was XX. Wife and business manager of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne, a.k.a. the Prince of Bleeping Darkness, Sharon lived in backstage obscurity until her family's wildly popular MTV reality show, The Osbournes, catapulted her to household-name status. Her XXX today of XXX was?.

Did Metallica inadvertently "borrow" a musical idea from another band for their 1986 dark "power ballad" "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"? Several Internet reports definitely seem to suggest so. A song called "Rainbow Warrior" by the obscure NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) band Bleak House appears to contain undeniable similarities to the Metallica classic. more

Arthur "Killer" Kane, bassist for the pioneering punk outfit The New York Dolls, died Tuesday (July 13). The bassist died in a Los Angeles hospital from complications with pneumonia. He was 55. more

The Ramones' founding guitarist, Johnny Ramone, died Wednesday (Sept. 15) after a five-year battle with cancer. Ramone, passed away Wednesday night in his Los Angeles home in his sleep Wednesday night. He was 55. more

20 CBS stations have been hit with a combined $550,000 fine for Janet Jackson's Super Bowl halftime nipple flash. The pop singer bared her breast during the finale of her special halftime performance. Now the CBS stations will have to pay the price. more
A secret tape could clear Michael Jackson of child sex abuse charges. Gavin Arvizo,12, is asked on the recording if there is any sexual misconduct by Jackson. The youngster emphatically replies: "No." The interview was carried out by private investigator Brad Miller in February - just before the alleged offences are said to have taken place.

Some Canadian fans of Coheed and Cambria are a bit miffed at the band (or rather one member of the band) following their recent appearance in Calgary. A few angry fans logged on to the band's official website message board to tell the tale of how Claudio took to the stage, reportedly drunk, and started bad mouthing Canadians and according to one fan in attendance he kept "taunting the crowd to throw bottles at him." more

Rolling Stone drummer Charlie Watts was diagnosed with throat cancer and is undergoing treatment. The band's manager made the news public Saturday (Aug. 14). Watts was diagnosed with the disease in June and is undergoing chemotherapy, according to the Associated Press.

Rumors flared again last week after Hagar appeared on US radio station KSHE, stating in an interview that he thought the Van Halen re-union was fun, but it bought closure to that chapter. He went on to voice his unhappiness with the high ticket prices from the tour and how he wished some members of the band were into fan interaction as much as he was. more

Ashlee Simpson says she didn't lip sync. The pop singer got more than she bargained for from appearing on "Saturday Night Live " last weekend. What would normally be an appearance to help sell a few copies of her CD has turned into a media event after her embarrassing performance when the wrong "canned" song was played and the audience clearly heard singing but the microphone was nowhere near Simpson's mouth. more

An Ohio musician has filed a petition in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office against Staind, claiming that the band obtained legal use of the name Staind through fraudulent practices. If Jon Stainbrook, who fronted a band called the Stain, wins, Aaron Lewis' band could be forced to change its name. more

The Vines frontman Craig Nicholls revealed in court on Friday that he suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism. Nicholls made the revelation at a hearing for assault and malicious damage charges stemming from an incident at the Triple M radio show at the Annandale Hotel where he allegedly damaged a photographers camera and caused a scene on stage more

Kinks guitarist and co-founder Dave Davies has been partially paralzyed on his right side due to a stroke that hit him while promoting his new solo album, Bug, in June of this year. According to the Associated Press, doctors have stated that Davies will be in the hospital for at least another month, as he continues undergo physical therapy.more

According to several postings at TommyThayerSucks.com, the KISS Expo in Charlotte, NC on Sunday (August 8) was raided by federal marshals and a lawyer representing KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons. Several thousand bootleg DVDs were confiscated in the raid but no one was arrested.more

Former Creed guitarist Mark Tremonti, drummer Scott Phillips and bassist Brian Marshall have joined forces with former Mayfield Four frontman Myles Kennedy to form Alter Bridge, and will issue their debut album on Aug. 10. more

Fred Durst has checked in on his online blog about the upcoming U.S. election and talks about the leader he feels the world needs. It's not Bush or Kerry, instead he describes his ideal leader; a description that may lead some hardcore Christians (or people familiar with the doctrine) to think Durst is describing the early characteristics of the Antichrist and how he is supposed to come to power. (as the reader that sent us the link pointed out) We have to give Fred the benefit of the doubt that he is sincere, but it does make for a fun headline and some interesting speculation. Or maybe he is hoping for the job? more

Singer Laura Branigan died in her sleep Thursday at her East Quogue, New York home. She reportedly suffered a brain aneurysm. Branigan had complained about a headache for the past two weeks but did not seek medical attention. She was 47 more

Guitar shredder Ron Thal of the New York City-based alternative-rap-metal project BUMBLEFOOT has been asked to join GUNS N' ROSES as the replacement for Buckethead more

"We all need some compensation," says a group of former London state school kids that sang the famous chorus "We don't need no education" in Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall." more

With the first half of the decade recapped we're going to wait until January to look back at the second half. - more on this story

Big Stars Lined Up For Experience Hendrix Tour

Experience Hendrix, the fourth edition of the biennial concert tour that features an all-star line up of music greats paying homage to the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix gets underway in early March of next year with special performances across the country.

Featured artists who will be performing music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix include some of the best known and most respected artists in contemporary rock and blues including Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford (of Aerosmith), Doyle Bramhall II, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Double Trouble's Chris Layton, along with bassist Billy Cox. Cox, who first befriended Hendrix when the two were in the 101st Airborne Division of U.S. Army, played in both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. Cox commented, "It's a thrill for me to play Jimi's music for audiences now as it was in the 1960s. The Experience Hendrix tours have shown how timeless this music really is." Joe Satriani remarked, "I finally get to pay tribute to my hero the right way, on stage with an amazing, once in a lifetime, line up of musicians!" Sacred Steel featuring Robert Randolph, Susan Tedeschi and David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos are also performing on selected Experience Tour dates.

Various combinations of these music greats will be performing Jimi's signature songs including "Purple Haze," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return), "The Wind Cries Mary," "Little Wing" and "Red House." As has been the case with previous Experience Hendrix tour incarnations, special guests are expected to sit in at many of the dates making the concerts all that much more memorable for both new and veteran Hendrix fans. Past special guests have included Paul Rodgers, Buddy Guy and Carlos Santana. - more on this story

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