Slipknot Show Fatal For Iowa Fan

The fan was pronounced dead at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital after CPR failed to revive him. Friends said Nickels had a history of heart problems in his family. - more on this story

AC/DC Wrestlemania?

Sleazeroxx reports: Veteran rock band AC/DC will [reportedly] appear at World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) Wrestlemania XXV event in Houston, Texas, it's been [reported - there is no official confirmation of this UK press claim].

The band will perform the theme for this year's pay-per-view, which will take place on April 5th.

Online wrestling magazine Wrestling-Edge reports that WWE CEO Linda McMahon announced AC/DC's participation at the recent 36th annual Global Media and Communications Conference in New York. [We're trying to confirm this report, which originated in the UK music press (so we're skeptical) and there are a few bogus AC/DC reports floating around right now. So we'll keep you posted] - more on this story

Slayer, Marilyn Manson and Bullet For My Valentine Mayhem Tour- Madonna To Assault Europe Again- Colbert and McCartney- Jeff Buckley To Be Butchered and more

antiMusic reports: Sharon might want to think twice about bringing back Ozzfest as a tour this year as Revolver magazine reports that Slayer, Marilyn Manson and Bullet For My Valentine will head up this year's Mayhem Festival. The tour reportedly starts on July 10 in Sacramento and will also All That Remains, Trivium, God Forbid and Cannibal Corpse.

Madonna is set to return to Europe with her 'Sticky & Sweet' tour, says an announcement on her website . The Material Girl will this time visit the cities she did not get to last year, says the message more

The Comedy Central TV channel says Paul McCartney is going to drop in on Stephen Colbert. McCartney will be a guest on Wednesday's "The Colbert Report," talking up his latest album, "Electric Arguments." more

Former "American Idol" star Katharine McPhee has signed a new deal with Verve, Billboard.com can reveal. The artist is recording her label debut, due before the end of the year. more

Capitol Records is bringing its entire catalog of I.R.S. Records to digital formats for the first time. From Feb. 10 - March 17, the label will add more than 100 albums and tracks from the roster more

Butchering Tom Waits wasn't enough, now Scarlett Johansson plans to butcher Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye". The song, if you can call what she does singing, was reportedly recorded for Scar's new film 'He's Just Not That Into You'. more

Sebastian Bach has issued the following update: "My plan in 2009 is to release two CDs if possible. One will be the (country) CD I am working on with Jeffrey Steele and Vicky McGehee. The other CD will be a straight-up, hard ass rocker". Maybe for his country one he can include a duet with Ronnie Lee Keel?

The story of Bonnie and Clyde is getting a retelling, with pop star Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers in negotiations to play the infamous 1930s bank robbers. That's sure to suck! more. Maybe next they can redo Gone With the Wind and have Britney Spears star in it?

Cannibal Corpse will be hitting the road for 4 weeks in support of their upcoming release Evisceration Plague. Support for the North American tour, presented by Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, will come from The Faceless, Neuraxis, and Obsucra more

Decrepit Birth are in pre-production mode for their third full-length album, titled "Polarity." This will be the band's first release on Nuclear Blast Records and is tentatively set for a summer 2009 release date.more

Cradle Of Filth have cancelled their scheduled appearance at Finland's Frostbite Festival, which will take place in Lathi, Finland on February 6th and 7th. more

The latest episode of Talking Metal features an interview host Mark Strigl conducted with Autumn Hour, Hades, and Non-Fiction vocalist, Alan Tecchio. Topics include Autumn Hour, Dave Lescinsky, Clint Arent, Johnny Rod, Sarah Connor, Garage Band, Miami Mike's Sports Zone Bar, Hades, and Screaming Metal. Additional podcast topics discussed by Strigl and host John Ostronomy include "Chinese Democracy," HeavyMetal.About.com, Nick Simmons, Lars Ulrich, Tom Hunting, Ron Lipnicki, Lamb Of God, In This Moment, and Century Media's Maiden of Metal calendar. The podcast can be downloaded at this - location

John Landis Sues Jacko Over Thriller

E! reports: Remember that Thriller musical we told you about yesterday? Seems Michael Jackson already has a sequel in the works. This one will be playing out not on Broadway, however, but in a Los Angeles courtroom.

John Landis, the filmmaker whose credits include Animal House, The Blues Brothers and Trading Places, is suing over another of his best known hits—Jackson's "Thriller" video. Landis says Jackson owes him big bucks in royalties for the classic 14-minute clip.

Per the complaint, filed in L.A. Superior Court last week and obtained by E! News, the 58-year-old filmmaker accuses the 50-year-old Moonwalker of "fraudulent, malicious and oppressive conduct" for failing to fork over a check. [So he waits 25 years to sue?] - more on this story

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band World Tour

PR reports: Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band To Launch 2009 US And European Tour in April.

Response To First Ticket Sales In Scandinavia Causes System Crash With Unprecedented Sales In Stockholm, Sweden And Bergen, Norway

Before the tour, Springsteen is set to perform at Super Bowl XLIII. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced the forthcoming world tour - dates

Fall Out Boy Announce Tour Plans and iPhone App

Universal reports: Fall Out Boy has announced the dates for the 'Believers Never Die Part Deux' tour, the band's 2009 headline arena tour, kicking off April 3rd in Phoenix at Mesa Amphitheater. Supporting Fall Out Boy will be Cobra Starship, All Time Low, Metro Station and Hey Monday.

Eight select markets (exact ones tba) will be on sale the weekend of Friday January 23rd; the remainder of the dates will be available for purchase beginning on January 31st. A special presale will be offered for Overcast Kids, The Official Fan Club of Fall Out Boy. Sensitive to the economy, Fall Out Boy will price tickets competitively; in some markets they will be $25.00.

In addition, Fall Out Boy has released their new iPhone App, which will allow fans to purchase tickets right from their iPhone. The app also continues to bring Fall Out Boy and their fans closer. With the GPS-aware functionality, fans can opt in to display their location and can share images and experiences from the shows every night as-it-happens with other fans all around the world. - more on this story

Gomez, Phantom Planet and Maroon 5 Super Group

NME reports: Members of Gomez, Phantom Planet and Maroon 5 have teamed up to form a group entitled Operation Aloha, with plans to release their debut album on May 12.

Dajon Everett, Ian Ball and Olly Peacock of Gomez, James Valentine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5, and Sam Farrar of Phantom Planet joined forces with eight other musicians and decamped to the Hawaiian island of Maui to record their self-titled debut which was inspired by the "tranquility, freedom and spirit of Hawaii".

The 14 musicians lived in tree houses during their stay on the island, which lasted 30 days. - more on this story

Meshuggah and Cynic Tour

PR reports: Early next month, two of the finest acts in extreme music, the mighty Swedes of Meshuggah and prog-metal forefathers Cynic, will embark on a three week North American tour sponsored by Myspace Music.

Both bands continue to pound pavement in support of their most recent releases – Meshuggah, behind their brutal March 2008 offering obZen, and Cynic behind their inspired November 2008 return Traced In Air. - more on this story

McCartney's Amoeba's Secret Released

PR reports: On June 27, 2007, Paul McCartney and his great band shocked the music world by performing a surprise, first ever in-store concert at famed Los Angeles record shop, Amoeba Records. Four songs from this now legendary show were recorded and made available on limited edition vinyl entitled Amoeba's Secret. On January 27, 2009 this historic performance will be available exclusively in the U.S., for the first time ever on CD and digitally.

The CD is packaged in a unique edition mini-LP jacket and features four songs: "Only Mama Knows" and "That Was Me" from McCartney's Hear Music release Memory Almost Full, the obscure Wings gem "C Moon" and the Beatles classic "I Saw Her Standing There." - more on this story

The Early November's Ace Enders Ready To Hit The Ground

Vagrant reports: Already a household name from his early days as frontman of al-rock heroes The Early November, Ace Enders is gearing up for the release of When I Hit the Ground on March 17 2009 via Drive-Thre/Vagrant Records. He's also hitting the road with Craig Owens (Chiodos) and The Color Fred.

Taking the name du jour of Ace Ender and a Million Different People, this is his new band and not one of his many side projects for which he's famous. "I view this release as a combination of both a new beginning and an extension of previous projects, as weird as that sounds," Ace explains. "It's a happy middle ground from what I want to be in the future to what I know I am right now. For me, the style of this record is about knowing my roots and where I came from, but having goals from moving into the next thing at the same tie. I'm not trying to over-extend myself and try to be something I'm not. When I Hit The Ground is my favorite record I've ever done." - more on this story

Butch Walker TV

PR reports: Butch Walker, who has seen success as a solo artist and front man while also producing and writing GRAMMY-nominated hit songs for some of the world's biggest artists including Pink, Katy Perry and Dashboard Confessional, marks the success of his critically acclaimed fourth studio album Sycamore Meadows with the announcement of national TV and radio performances, a worldwide ad campaign and nationwide tour.

Walker will make his national TV debut on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with a performance of his new single "Here Comes The..." featuring Pink, who also appears on the album track, on Tuesday, February 3rd.

The two have contributed to each other's albums in the past and Ellen will mark their first TV performance together (http://www.ellentv.com). Prior to the Ellen performance, on January 29th Walker will perform songs off of Sycamore Meadows on NPR's premiere music program World Café, which is syndicated on 168 NPR stations nationwide - more on this story

REPO! Road Tour Diary: Salt Lake City

antiMusic reports: We've been telling you all about REPO! The Genetic Opera and the recent REPO! Road Tours. The third tour just wrapped up but if you missed it you're in luck as REPO star and co-writer Terrance Zdunich (plays Grave Robber) gives us the lowdown!

Here is Terrance: Based on the overwhelming successes of Repo Road Tours 1 & 2, REPO!'s director, Darren Lynn Bousman, and I, are embarking on a 3rd and final U.S. tour. This time, we're attempting to outdo ourselves: more stops, more merchandise, more guest appearances!

But, as always, bigger plans equal bigger complications. We've spent the last 4 weeks hustling like crazy to put this—a 12-day, 11-city tour—together. I worked through both X-mass and New Years to make it happen, and Darren and I have collectively fronted a healthy sum of cash to finance the journey—far more then was needed for either of the previous Road Tours (in addition to the new travel and lodging costs of our "special guests", there are expenses for manufacturing RRT3 merch, plus required box office guarantees, so Darren and I are looking at about a $25,000 risk). So, for us, RRT3 in not only about having fun and spreading the REPO! word, but a need to recoup our financial investment. No pressure…right? - Read the full diary entry with photos!

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