Brian Setzer Hospitalized After Collapsing at Concert

(Nightwatcher) Brian Setzer, the Grammy Award winning front man/guitarist for the Stray Cats and the Brian Setzer Orchestra, collapsed while performing at Isleta Casino, just south of Albuquerque New Mexico Monday night.

Audience members report that Setzer was about two songs into his initial set when he walked off stage appearing shaky. An Isleta employee says that Setzer collapsed after leaving the stage and was rushed to Heart Hospital of New Mexico. more

AP reports that Setzer "was briefly hospitalized because of dehydration, high altitude sickness and vertigo." You can read their full report - here

AC/DC Add Leg To Black Ice World Tour

For Those About To Rock, Get ready for packed houses, pumping fists and an electric shock from which you'll never recover. AC/DC's Black Ice World Tour is heading back to Europe!

Members of the AC/DC Fan Club enjoy special access to tickets from a grouping of reserved tickets not available to the public. If you plan on purchasing tickets to see AC/DC ignite crowds from a stage near you - either in the Fan Club On-Sales or the public sale - please refer to the chart below for on-sale dates and times.

As usual, tickets will be available to the general public, and at the same time to members of the AC/DC Fan Club through a separate Fan Club On-Sale. To participate in the upcoming Fan Club On-Sales, members simply need to log in and visit the ACDC.com tickets page to receive their unique Fan Club On-Sale passcode at the time of the sale - more on this story

Megadeth Not Retiring, They Are Preparing Next Album

(Rock Radio) Dave Mustaine had confirmed there will be another Megadeth album after Endgame - and he's already nearly finished writing it.

The revelation comes after months of speculation that Mustaine was planning to retire when he escaped from his current record deal with Roadrunner, which he's been unhappy with for some time. Even the album's title hinted that Megadeth might be winding down.

But now the thrash icon tells Metal Hammer: "I'm excited with what's going on in my band. I've got my book coming out and I've got this tour coming up with Slayer." On the new album: "I've got almost my entire next record ready to start recording, so I can start packing my bags." - more on this story

Stone Temple Pilots Almost Done With New Album- Kings of Leon On Hold- Rage Against Simon Cowell Plan Working?- Free Metal Christmas Album and more

Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland tells Spinner.com that the band is "almost finished" recording its Don Was-produced new studio album. "There will probably be 11 songs on the record and we have nine completed already," he says. more

Kings Of Leon are set to take six months off. "I'm going to sit on my couch and cry tears of joy sitting in my pants with a tub of chocolate chip cookie ice cream." Nathan Followill told Q Magazine. "Then it's onto the golf course, a bit of fishing and some camping in the wild." He added. Despite the break, the drummer revealed that the band had begun writing material for their fifth album. more

The fan plan to Rage Against the Simon Cowell Machine a.k.a. his TV talent show in the UK appears to be working. BBC reports that "Rage Against The Machine is ahead of X Factor winner Joe McElderry in the race for the Christmas number one, early sales figures suggest." A Facebook group aiming to get the RATM's 1992 hit Killing In The Name to beat the X Factor winner to the top of the UK charts has attracted more than 750,000 members. But before you get your hopes up, read more

Concert for missing Metallica fan announced: A hard rock and heavy metal concert will be held to raise money to help in the search for missing Virginia Tech student, Morgan Harrington. The concert will be held on Saturday, December 19th at the Canal Club in Richmond - more than two months after Morgan Harrington was last seen at a Metallica concert in Charlottesville. more

Metallica.com had this update on Tuesday: It's been well over ten years, so we are really looking forward to heading back to Lyon, France for our first show at Halle Tony Garnier since 1996! We will be there May 23, 2010 with tickets on sale December 23, 2009. more

As a thank you to their fans, Manchester Orchestra is posting a new song on their website each day until Christmas. They will be bringing Mean Everything To Nothing in it's entirety (Recorded Live for KBZT in San Diego) followed by a surprise song on Christmas Day! more

The release date of the album made by Danger Mouse and The Shins' James Mercer, has been announced. Released on March 8 under the name Broken Bells, the self-titled album will feature 10-tracks more

A date in Seattle has been added to Muse's forthcoming US tour. The band will play Key Arena on April 2nd 2010 more

Bleeding Through In Studio Video Part 2 is up now on MySpace Metal. Check it out here

The tracklisting for the concept album by Fatboy Slim and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has been announced. Called 'Here Lies Love', the album documents the life of Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines. You can check more info and the tracklisting here but we were sad to see that not one song title contained the word "shoe." So we're not sure just how true to life this album will be but it should be a shoe in for a Grammy, maybe even the Nobel Peace Prize.

Drag the River and Cheap Girls have announced a ten day tour together in early 2010. dates

Merry Metal Christmas "FREE MP3 Album" This Christmas get the gift of music from Nightmare Records, 25 tracks and over 2 hours of music FREE to enjoy the holidays with some beautiful and yet seriously rockin' tunes. Not all of these were written as Christmas songs, but they all fit the feel and intent of the album" Grab it here

The Black Dahlia Murder, Augury, Hatesphere, and Obscura will tour the U.S. together in late-February and March. dates

Rufus Wainwright's sixth studio full-length album entitled, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu is due out in Spring 2010. New tour dates are here

Alesana will headline a U.S. tour in February and March. Support will be provided by A Skylit Drive, The Word Alive, Of Mice And Men, and We Came As Romans. dates

Between The Buried And Me will be donating 20% of their merch sales during the entire month of December to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. more

Prong was recently tabbed to remix 'Bait & Switch' for KMFDM's remix album titled Krieg. more

In Episode 23 of Parlour to Parlour, Michael Fortes uncovers a power pop goldmine in Seattle when he finally meets The Tripwires' John Ramberg (The Minus Five, The Model Rockets). here

Nominations for the 67th annual Golden Globes were announced early this morning, with U2 and Paul McCartney among the nominees. more

Motley Crue front man Vince Neil owes his lawyers $62,000, the Costa Mesa-based law firm Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton claims in Superior Court. more

Buckcherry's singer states the obvious: he isn't the one to replace Steven Tyler in Aerosmith. Read what he had to say here. They'll need someone with a lot more dynamic voice to fill that void. -

The Juliana Theory Reuniting For Anniversary Shows

Broken up since February of 2006, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania's indie-emo-pop trailblazers The Juliana Theory have remained quite silent. Aside from the formation of Vesta (featuring 3 members of TJT), all has remained rather still in the Juliana camp. But with the recent announcement of an upcoming J' Theory B-Sides Album, future vinyl re-releases, and a few cryptic posts on lead singer Brett Detar's twitter, rumors have been abuzz on the web.

August 2010 marks the ten-year anniversary of the release of The Juliana Theory's defining and influential sophomore album "Emotion is Dead." With this coming anniversary the band will put speculation to rest and reunite for two shows only to play the entire album from start to finish.

Having not made music together since disbanding shortly after the final show of a European tour in January of 2006, this will be their first time to share a stage again as well as the first time playing the record in its entirety. "There's a few songs off of Emotion is Dead that we've never even played live before so I think it's going to be pretty great to play the whole album in sequence. I'm really looking forward to it," said frontman Brett Detar. "I'm super excited for these shows, not only for us, but its finally the chance for all of our fans to get that last show. And my 2 year old daughter will get to be there this time around too," added guitarist Joshua Fiedler. "We haven't played in the US since 2005 so I think it's going to be pretty great to get back up there together," remarked bassist Chad Alan. As for the impetus behind this reunion, Detar elaborated, "When we broke up it was for real and it still is. We're not into pulling a KISS move – getting back together all the time. The thing is, we never played a farewell show. We posted a goodbye blog and that was it. I think it was pretty unfair to our loyal fans and to us too. Now the five of us get to do what we always should have done and say goodbye properly – to do right by everyone. It'll be great to share the stage with my brothers again and with the anniversary that just makes the whole thing even better." - more on this story

Free Song From The 88 For Christmas

Christmas music fans are in for a rare treat beginning today. iTunes has selected the track "All I Want For Christmas Is You", a new holiday tune composed by The 88 for their Holiday Discovery Download as an iTunes exclusive.

Beginning today (December 15), fans of The 88 can download "All I Want for Christmas Is You" free for one week.

So ring in the holiday cheer with a new Christmas tune that's destined to be a classic. Bing, Frank and The 88 on Christmas Day – what could be finer?

No direct link provided but here is their - Myspace link

The Academy Is... Anniversary Show

The Academy Is... have unveiled details for a special hometown performance. The show, set to take place at Metro in Chicago, IL on February 6th , will commemorate the 5-year anniversary of their breakthrough debut "Almost Here."

TAI will be joined by friends Sing It Loud, as well as other special guests for the celebration. Tickets for the event will go on sale at 12:00PM on December 19th and some members of TAI will be at Metro's box office to kick everything off and collect canned food donations for the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

Formed in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates back in 2002, TAI captured attention right from the start with their inventive, electrifying take on expressive punk-inspired rock 'n' roll. Released in February 2005, the band's debut album, "Almost Here," earned unanimous critical acclaim, with Alternative Press declaring it a "bona-fide punk-pop masterpiece." - more on this story

Sanctuary and Nevermore's Warrel Dane Sets Solo Band Debut

As the world eagerly awaits the next groundbreaking Nevermore album, The Obsidian Conspiracy (Spring 2010), vocalist Warrel Dane triumphantly returns with a massive undertaking as he performs the first solo show of his illustrious career.

This show will encompass material spanning one of metal's most defining and revolutionary vocalist's entire catalogue focusing on his highly anticipated inaugural solo effort, Praises To The War Machine, but will also see him perform a few select Sanctuary tracks for the first time in over a decade. Fans of Nevermore need not worry as some deeper cuts will also see the light for the first time in years.

Matt Wicklund (God Forbid guitarist) states: "On Saturday, December 19th at Studio Seven in Seattle I will be playing the debut show for the WARREL DANE band. I am very excited and honored to be a part of this and to be working with one of my favorite vocalists and long time friends. Willis Mathiasen (drums), Dagna Barrera (bass) and Jonny Smokes (guitar) are all doing a wonderful job and everything is really sounding amazing! We will be playing all of the songs from the record Praises To The War Machine, as well as a couple of old Sanctuary hits and maybe a few other surprises. I encourage everyone that can to come out and rock with us! I'd like to thank Tracy Moody and Nicole Russel at Studio Seven for helping to bring us all together so this can happen. After this event I will be heading back home to New Jersey to continue working on new material with my brothers in God Forbid. We have been coming up with some great tunes and I am really excited to continue working on it!" - more on this story

Order Of Ennead Finish New Album

Floridian extreme metallers Order Of Ennead have finished recording their second album. The band have set An Examination Of Being as the title for the new album.

An Examination Of Being was recorded at udio Hammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with producer Mark Lewis (Trivium, Chimaira, All That Remains), who also produced Order Of Ennead's eponymous 2008 self-titled debut.

Order Of Ennead lead guitarist John Li comments: "So what can I say about this new album? In my honest opinion, it's much heavier and darker than our self-titled debut, more cohesive, thematic, melodic, but not completely over the top. In a nutshell, the works. To me, the songs sound totally different than the demos and I was blown away after the songs began to take form. They sound BIG. - more on this story

Blues Legend Nick Gravenites 'Bluestar' To See First CD Release

Much sought after out-of-print solo LP by San Francisco/Chicago guitar legend Nick "The Greek" Gravenites, best known for his work with Janis Joplin, The Butterfield Blues Band, Big Brother & the Holding Company and Quicksilver Messenger Service, gets its first CD release.

Originally released on LP by the Line label in 1980, 'Bluestar' features John Cipollina (Quicksilver) on guitar and Huey Lewis on harmonica. Foremost reissue label Renaissance Records in conjunction with ItsAboutMusic.com will be releasing the digitally remastered CD on December 8, 2009.

Nick Gravenites grew up on the southside of Chicago hanging out in the mid-50's with fellow musicians Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Michael Bloomfield, who went on to form The Butterfield Blues Band. Learning first-hand from the southside blues greats like Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush, The Butterfield Blues Band burst onto the music scene redefining the blues. - more on this story

Bouncing Souls Release Live EP

LimeWire Store has released Live at Lime with Bouncing Souls. Currently celebrating their 20th anniversary, the iconic punk outfit recorded five exclusive tracks before they left for an extensive European tour.

The fast and furious five-song EP features rip-roaring Souls numbers "Gasoline" and "True Believers" (featuring Sick of It All's Lou Koller), as well as "The Mental Bits" (featuring Fishbone's Angelo Moore), "I Think That the World...," and "Sing Along Forever." Like a fine wine, the Souls' brand of punk only gets better with age.

"Anyone who's seen a Bouncing Souls show knows they are a great live band, so they were a perfect fit for our Live at Lime series," said Tom Monday, Director of Partner Relations. "Not only was the band a lot of fun to have in the studio, they sounded great and enlisted some awesome musician friends like Sick of It All's Lou Koller and Fishbone's Angelo Moore to join in. I think this is one of the best sessions we've done, hands-down." - more on this story

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