AC/DC Singer Addresses Health Issue

"The doctor's looked me over, poked, scanned and prodded all possible areas. In the end they gave me a clean bill of health, but insisted that I take a bit of time to recuperate and rest up. We've been touring non stop since this time last year and have a lot more touring to do. Thanks for all of the get well wishes and I hope to see you all again very soon." - Original report is here

Aerosmith Star Undergoes Cancer Treatment

Rock Radio reports: Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton has explained the 'non invasive surgery' he recently underwent was related to his ongoing struggle with cancer – and that everything has gone fine.

Hamilton was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2006 and made a full recovery, but recently missed shows on the Boston heroes' abandoned US tour in order to receive treatment against radiation therapy which helped kill the disease.

He says: "I love the expression 'non invasive surgery'. I've rarely heard anything as brilliantly vague and at the time it's exactly what I wanted to convey. Let's just say that old prick Mr C needed to get hit in the nose a few more times. He must not have liked it because he hasn't been seen."
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McCartney's Historic New York Concerts Coming To CD/DVD and Vinyl

PR reports: Paul McCartney's historic three-night musical christening of New York's Citi Field, witnessed by 120,000-plus attendees and universally hailed as a concert experience for the ages, will be immortalized November 17 when Hear Music/Concord Music Group releases "Good Evening New York City".

This momentous musical experience will be available in two formats: a 3-disc (2 CD + 1 DVD) standard edition and a 4-disc (2 CD + 2 DVD) deluxe version featuring expanded packaging and a bonus DVD including McCartney's traffic-stopping, headline-making July 15 performance on the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee (including bonus numbers not aired on the Late Show with David Letterman broadcast). The set will also be made available in high quality vinyl.

In any configuration, the 30+ songs and nearly 3 hours of music comprising "Good Evening New York City" are a must-have for attendees wishing to relive the July 17, 18 & 21 shows, those who couldn't get tickets and/or anyone interested in an audiovisual document of a living legend. "Good Evening New York City" marks McCartney's 2nd release for Hear Music. The first was 2007's highly acclaimed Memory Almost Full. The standard version of "Good Evening New York City" will be available at participating Starbucks company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada and wherever music is sold. - more on this story

Slash and Friends Details

antiMusic reports: Slash took to his Myspace page to update fans again this week. Aside from an update about his solo album, this time he gives details about the upcoming Slash and Friend Event at the Mirage in Las Vegas, where he was asked to perform to mark the 20th anniversary of the hotel and casino.

Here is what he had to say about that: "there are a lot of posts about the upcoming Vegas event, but the actual line-up for the Mirage gig Oct 2nd is: Tommy Clufetos on drums, Johnny Griparic on bass, Ted "Zig Zag" Andreadis on keys, John 5 on guitar, myself on guitar & Franky Perez, vocals. That, is basically the house band, my special guests that night are, more or less in this order: Rocco Deluca, Nicole Scherzinger, Courtney Love, Rick Nielson, Robin Zander & Joe Perry. Also, Matt Sorum is jamming a couple songs + there will be some other surprises.

"I also just got confirmation that the Joe Perry Project is playing as well, it promises to be a bitchin' evening. tickets are available through Mirage Entertainment on the Mirage website.

"And, there is another gig I'm putting together - more on this story

ZZ Top Double Down Live

Kayos reports: On October 20, Eagle Rock Entertainment, through its wholly-owned Eagle Vision subsidiary, will release ZZ Top's Double Down Live, the first historic concert performance ever to be approved for release by the band. Clocking in at just under two hours, this double dose disc delivers twenty-eight years of hard rock, blues, and boogie – ZZ Top Style!

Disc one, filmed in 1980, is dubbed "DEFINITELY THEN" and is packed with 22 early ZZ Top classics from their Tres Hombres and Fandango! albums, including: "La Grange," "Tush," "Cheap Sunglasses," "Tube Snake Boogie," and more, many of which remain in their live set to this day. This concert was captured at the Grugahalle in Essen, Germany for the Rockpalast TV series. The concert took place hot on the heels of the release, 30 years ago, of their classic Deguello album (it features 9 of the 10 songs from it). The show found ZZ Top in the era prior to the band's discovery of sequencers and synthesizers and epitomized the down 'n' dirty take no prisoners attitude of "that lil' ol' band from Texas" nickname. To this day, this disc is a true best of ZZ Top in the seventies.

Disc two, subtitled "ALMOST NOW," was shot during their European tour in 2008, includes 11 performances, interview clips, and backstage footage to create the ultimate ZZ Top on the road movie. - more on this story

Original Candiria Member Dies

PR reports: The current members of Candiria have learned the sad news that original Candiria guitarist, Chris Puma, passed away last week, on September 20th.

The band has issued the following statement: "Chris Puma died on September 20th 2009. The cause is not known to us, as his family did not speak of it. He leaves behind two children, 3 year old Aislinn A'marie and a 4 month old Aidan Todd. Chris was a great friend to the founding members of the band, and a respected musician among his friends and peers. He was a kind and gentle person and he will be missed."

Puma was one of the founding members of the band, playing guitar in Candiria from 1992 to 1997, while helping to create the unique sound that Candiria is known for today. He can be heard on such Candiria records as Deep in the Mental (1995) and Surrealistic Madness (1995). -

Pearl Jam To The Top- Judas Christmas Tunes Released- Police War Stories Coming- R.E.M. Jam- Aerosmith Chat- Chickenfoot Delay- Elbow Reissue and more

antiMusic reports: Pearl Jam topped the U.S. pop album chart for the first time in 13 years on Wednesday. The veteran Seattle rockers sold 189,000 copies of their ninth studio album "Backspacer," during the week ended September 27, according to Nielsen SoundScan. more

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford is releasing a Christmas album just in time for Halloween. But you don't have to wait until then to bang your head with Santa as two tracks from the effort are available (for purchase mind you) at Halford's web store.

Police drummer Stewart Copeland doesn't want to make his new book, "Strange Things Happen: A Life With the Police, Polo, and Pygmies" (HarperStudio) a conventional autobiography. "It really isn't because of all the stuff I left out, the boring stuff -- I was born here, then I moved there, then I went to this school, then that school...Who cares?" Copeland tells Billboard.com. "These are war stories." more

Nick Cave's plans to build a gold statue of himself in his hometown of Warracknabeal, Australia have been put on hold. more

Three-fourths of the founding members of R.E.M. reunited on Monday night in Athens, GA, when retired drummer Bill Berry played with Mike Mills and Peter Buck .more

Chickenfoot have moved the release date of the Deluxe Edition of their debut album from October 26th to Monday November 23rd. (This is a UK release).

Jimmy Eat World has reunited with longtime producer Mark Trombino to work on a new "batch of songs."more

AeroForceOne will be holding an exclusive online chat with Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton on Wednesday, October 7th at 7pm ET. more

Former Epitaph Records melodic hardcore act 1208 have announced a one-off reunion performance to support T.S.O.L. for a bill at Brixton South Bay.more

Cause For Revelation have announced their return after an extended hiatus, and plans to enter studio in October to record their sophomore effort entitled "Resurrecting The Hostility."more

The inventors of the MP3 format are offering an enhanced music recommendation and multimedia content system they claim will become just as universally accepted. more

Elbow are set to re-release their debut album 'Asleep In The Back' October 26, with extra bonus songs and live tracks. more

Roby Gelly, bass player teaming up with Gory Blister and Allhelluja, unfortunately suffered an accident [Monday] night in Milan while driving his motor bike to come back home. During the crash against a car, he broke his femur. more

Behemoth have been added to the bill for Bloodstock Open Air 2010. This will be their only UK Festival exclusive date in 2010. more

Music Sales Still Down Year-over-year album sales in the month of September were down only 5.9%, according to Billboard analysis of Nielsen SoundScan data. Year to date, album sales are down 13.7% versus 2008 and 31.4% versus 2007. more

Greatest Quote of the Week: AP gave us this gem, "AC/DC did it. So did Black Sabbath. Van Halen did it, but not everyone was happy. INXS didn't do it. Nor could Queen. And Motley Crue probably shouldn't have even tried." more -

Metallica Offering Song Downloads

antiMusic reports: The fans spoke and Metallica listened. The band announced this week that fans will be able purchase individual songs from the Metallica live download site.

Here is the announcement: "When we launched www.livemetallica.com over five years ago, it seemed like the next logical step of service in the digital age as we've always encouraged you to record and trade our shows. The site gives us the chance to offer you a high-quality recording of the show you went to, or any other show for that matter, and you don't even have to sneak your tape deck, um uh, we mean portable digital recording device, into the arena! So here we are 269 shows, 5,338 songs and 310,386 downloads later and we want to thank you for all your support, encouragement and comments. Lo and behold, five-plus years later and no two set lists have been the same! Wow!!!

"Speaking of those comments . . . the one overwhelming request we've had is to offer up single-track downloads. Since we always aim to please, YOU GOT IT! That simple. Check out the new and improved LiveMetallica.com and you'll see that every song we've recorded live since the site launched from Phoenix on March 2, 2004 is now available for you to pick and choose from for $.99 each song on mp3. For the über-fan, of course the full show can still be downloaded for a dough-saving $9.95 mp3 . . . super-audiophiles can grab the high-quality FLAC version for $12.95 a full-show download. - more on this story

Top Five Interrupted Gigs

PR reports: Europe's leading secondary ticketing company, viagogo, has polled its customers to establish the top stories behind interrupted gigs. The Doors topped the poll with their interrupted gig at the New Haven Arena in 1967: front man Jim Morrison was arrested on stage by local police for breaking the state's obscenity laws and inciting the crowd to riot.

A 2007 Bloc Party gig in Utrecht, Holland came a very close second in the poll: the band was forced to stop playing when the crowd spotted a couple having sex in the audience. Suitably distracted from the gig, the audience felt inspired to have a go themselves and couples throughout the auditorium started having sex, prompting the band to slink off stage.

In third place is Britney Spears' April 2009 gig in Vancouver: Britney stormed off stage 15 minutes into her show, later claiming that the auditorium was too smoky for her to perform and she was uncomfortable with the number of fans smoking marijuana in the audience. When the gig finally resumed 40 minutes later, Britney told the crowd not to smoke weed. - The full top 5 can be found here

Sevendust Working On New Album

antiMusic reports: Sevendust have begun work on their next album and offered an update to fans about where they are at in the process and who is involved. Here is what they had to say: " We've been writing and recording demos with Corey Lowery engineering, which have been amazingly productive and creative, over the past few months. We wanna thank Corey for making a very cool atmosphere for us and helping us achieve the material we needed. We look forward to continuing work with Corey in the future.

We've have hired on Johnny K(Disturbed, Staind) to produce the next Sevendust record. We've enjoyed his work over the years and believe he is the guy for the job. This record is VERY important and we have some of the best songs going into this process than we ever have. We read your comments on here and we believe you will not be disappointed. We still have a ways to go but we hope to have it out by spring next year.

We will be up in the Chicago area for the rest of the year working on it and are ready to peel faces off with this thing. It's a very creative time for the band and being back to the original line up will reinstall the elements that made us what we are. Thank you for your support and cannot wait to put this recorded out. - more on this story

Kings of Leon Now Kings of Top 40 Radio

RCA reports: Kings of Leon's single "Use Somebody" has hit the #1 spot on the Top 40 Radio charts in both airplay and audience. Amazingly, this is happening exactly one year after the album Only By The Night was released.

At this point, with all the radio "Use Somebody" is getting in all the formats, the song is reaching a cumulative audience of 100 million on the Hot 100. The album has sold 1.3 million copies in America to date.

Kings of Leon are in the middle of a triumphant North American arena tour that will come to an end in the states on October 16 in Nashville, TN. This weekend they will be headlining the prestigious Austin City Limits Music Festival. - more on this story

The Melvins Release New Album

PR reports: Having just finished up their tour with Down (including a stop-over at All Tomorrow's Parties), grunge godfathers The Melvins released their punishing remix record Chicken Switch this week via Ipecac Recordings.

Unlike traditional remixes, Chicken Switch is a collection of re-named remixes (or perhaps it makes more sense to call them mash-ups?) that cull from entire Melvins' albums as the source material. The result is 15 new tracks that include so many bits and pieces of classic Melvins sludge that it's hard to tell the original songs from which they came, and this is not a bad thing.

And who better to create these noise masterpieces than some of the band's favorite noise masters? Remixers include Eye Yamatsuka (Boredoms), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Matmos, Merzbow and many others who are well-suited for the challenge. Grab one of the album's slightly dancier tracks - here

Kristina Train Announces Album And Tour

PR reports: On October 20, Blue Note Records will release Spilt Milk, the stunning debut album from singer Kristina Train. After a run of opening dates with Chris Isaak last month, Kristina will be hitting the road again in the coming weeks opening for Keb' Mo' and Susan Tedeschi, giving audiences around the country an early chance to hear her perform the affecting songs from her debut in a live setting.

"In showbiz you need flashy costumes and talent," said Isaak. "I have the flashy costumes, Kristina has the talent! She is really an amazing singer. I am a fan like everybody else who hears her voice… She is that good."

With Spilt Milk, Kristina—who was born in New York City and raised in Savannah, Georgia—has made an urbane, soulful, and lush debut that showcases her stunning voice. As a vocalist, she alternates between gentle balladeering and powerful belting, her bluesy vibrato revealing the breadth and elegance of a young Dusty Springfield — a little bit London, a little bit Memphis. - more on this story

Hollands Releasing Mother EP

PR reports: The concept of mixing rock and roll music with string arrangements is nothing new, but with the release of Hollands second EP, Mother, on October 13th one can only marvel at the sonic beauty orchestrated between the pounding drums, driving guitar and elegant and complimentary violin and cello parts often emphasized by distortion and other effects.

Moving from the guitar-riff laden opening track, "Air Conditioned Heart" to the closing song, "Dirty Rum," a soft, folk-esque contemplation of the brokenness of death, Mother is an exploration deep into the mind of John-Paul Norpoth, the lead songwriter for the group.

Over the summer the band received some great coverage for their first EP, Faces, including, Short and Sweet NYC and Insomnia Radio, and now they will be performing on an upcoming episode of Fearless Music Television. - more on this story

Anders Manga Inks Euro Deal

PR reports: Anders Manga has signed a contract with Danse Macabre Records for the exclusive European distribution of his next album, "Infinite Gaze to the Sun," which is slated to release in early January and is Anders' 6th full length album.

"Anders Manga is the hottest goth-electro-crossover from the USA," said Danse Macabre chairman Bruno Kramm. "His exciting and charismatic visual style is complimented by a unique and charming musical vision. Danse Macabre is proud to add this extraordinary artist to its roster."

"It makes sense to be joining the Danse Macabre group in Europe," Anders said. "It is a company for artists run by artists so it's the perfect situation for me. Bruno has toured the world in Das Ich for many years and has a wealth of experience and knowledge in all areas. There couldn't be a better situation for me."
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Priestess To Headline Canadian BLAST! at CMJ

PR reports: New York, listen up! The third annual Canadian BLAST! at CMJ is just around the corner and here's your chance to hear the bands that are blowing your northern neighbors away. Heat rises and that's sure to be the case for these smoking hot Canadian acts who are making their way South to play Canadian BLAST! at Arlene's Grocery (95 Stanton St.) on October 22nd. Come early, stay late…

12:00am: Priestess has become one of Canada's most successful hard rock bands. Touring with heavy hitters like Megadeth, Motorhead, Mastadon, GWAR and participating in several high-profiled events such as Heavy MTL with Iron Maiden, Festival d'été de Quebec with Stone Temple Pilots, and Monsters of Rock/Ozzfest with Ozzy Osbourne. Priestess' profile skyrocketed when their song Lay Down was featured in the smash-hit videogame Guitar Hero, earning them a legion of new fans. Their music has also been heard in the HBO series Entourage, Friday Night Lights and it was recently announced that their new song Raccoon Eyes will be on the upcoming EA Sports' NHL 10.

11:00pm: Jets Overhead will surely mesmerize crowds with their hypnotic take on ambient rock. The band was nominated for a Juno Award for New Group of the Year in 2007, and they've just released their sophomore album NO NATIONS on Neil Young's Vapor Records. The Los Angeles Times exclaimed that "The band's lush, driving rock is the bristling, slightly psychedelic offspring of the likes of Radiohead and Pink Floyd." - more on this story

Carpathian Forest Reissue

MMP reports: Metal Mind Productions presents a live album by Norwegian black metal legends Carpathian Forest. The album entitled "We're Going To Hollywood For This – Live Perversions" features a remastered recording of the band's great gig in Kraków in early 2004.

The track list includes a great range of material from the band's albums – from "Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods" up to "Defending the Throne of Evil".

Remastered edition will be available in a digipak edition limited to 1000 copies. The release date is scheduled for 19th October in Europe and 26th January 2010 in USA (via MVD). - more on this story

Chase Long Beach Tour

ESM reports: Chase Long Beach will be launching a U.S. tour this fall, beginning with a hometown performance at the Long Beach Marathon in Long Beach, CA on Sunday, October 11.

Touring in support of its most recent release, Gravity Is What You Make It, the band is the first west coast ska-punk band signed to indie label giant Victory Records in over a decade

Since 2002, the seven men and women of Chase Long Beach have been making a name for themselves with musical originality and creating a sound they can be proud of. Working hard from their home turf of Southern California and reaching out to live audiences around the world, the result has been a musical phenomenon and energetic live performance that speaks to their wide audience and provides the answer to the next wave of ska-punk sound. - more on this story

. Anvil - This Is Thirteen

This Is Thirteen feels like an ageless metal record- it isnt death metal, speed or thrash metal, but simply a distinguished metal record cut from the cloth of their classic past where they embrace all of the elements that made them so influential in the first place. (3 stars) - Read the full Anvil - This Is Thirteen review

. Quick Flicks: Dee Dee Ramone- The Great Kat- D.O.A.

Kevin Wierzbicki takes a look at recent music DVD releases including the Dee Dee Ramone documentary History on My Arms, The Great Kats Beethovens Guitar Shred and D.O.A.s thirtieth anniversary release The Men of Action. - Read the full Dee Dee Ramone- The Great Kat- D.O.A. review

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