Alice In Chains Roar Back With Top 5 Debut, Announce Conan Appearance

Next up is an October 30th performance on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," followed by a trio of headlining radio dates in Texas, and then a headlining tour of Europe, set to kick off November 12th in Glasgow.
Alice In Chains is guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell, guitarist/vocalist William DuVall, bassist Mike Inez and drummer Sean Kinney. - dates

Def Leppard Pyromaniac Busted

antiMusic reports: A Utah Def Leppard fan may have taken the lyrics to "Rock of Ages" literally to heart when he started a blaze outside of group's concert after he ousted from the venue. "Burn it up lets go for broke /Watch the night go up in smoke," may be inspirational lyrics but now this man is facing several charges for his pyromaniac like behavior.

The Salt Lake Tribute reported on Wednesday: A Logan man thrown out of a Def Leppard concert in August was charged Tuesday with arson for allegedly setting fire to dry grass surrounding West Valley City's USANA Amphitheatre.

The 28-year-old man was charged in 3rd District Court with third-degree felony arson, criminal trespassing, a class B misdemeanor, and intoxication, a class C misdemeanor, in the Aug. 25 blaze. - more details here

Members of Guns N' Roses, Korn, Beach Boys, Whitesnake, Steely Dan, KISS and More Catch The Spirit of Christmas

PR reports: Where classic rock meets the timeless music of Christmas, VSR/EMI CMG Distribution presents Northern Light Orchestra's new album, The Spirit Of Christmas, in stores October 20. Featuring an ensemble of some of the most legendary rockers from the sixties through today, The Spirit of Christmas is guaranteed to be a recording entity that provides the very best in entertainment.

With orchestrated rock music featuring incredible guitar work, soaring vocals, and unparalleled musicianship, NLO succeeds in bringing back classic rock for the baby boomers as well as modernizing a beloved genre of rock music. The Spirit of Christmas combines the talents of executive producer and longtime record executive Russ Regan (Neil Diamond, Elton John, and Barry White) as well as the incredible instrumental abilities of Phillip Bardowell (Beach Boys), Rose Stone (Sly and the Family Stone), Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake), Bruce Kulick (Kiss), Elliot Randell (Steely Dan), Dizzy Reed (Guns N Roses), Jason Hook (Alice Cooper), Shane Gibson (Korn) and many more renowned rock musicians.

The press has been especially drawn to the emotionally moving NLO experience filmed at Phoenix's Orpheum Theatre. Most recently, the orchestra performed in a laser light High Definition, one hour live concert featuring many of the performers from the Spirit of Christmas recording. This one hour Christmas Special will air on broadcast and satellite television including JCTV, Cornerstone TV, Daystar Network, TCT and NRB Networks with potential airings on PBS affiliates as well. Also, in 2009 alone, 500,000 "teaser" sampler discs are being sent out and will be distributed free of charge at gas/convenience stores. Free autographed guitars, t-shirts and drum heads will also be awarded by many mainstream syndicated Rock shows. In July 2009, over 25,000 sampler discs were distributed free of charge at Rocklahoma and 15,000 at NASCAR in Louisville, Kentucky. Anyone who is a fan of the Trans Siberian Orchestra, Kansas, Electric Light Orchestra, Yes, and everything that comes in-between, will enjoy the powerful music of Northern Light Orchestra!

- For more information on Northern Light Orchestra

Aerosmith TV- AC/DC Dominate Awards Noms- KISS No 1?- Cranberries Plan New Music- Ticketmaster / Live Nation Merger Hits Big Hurdle and more

antiMusic reports: Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry will make a special walk-on appearance during The Ellen Degeneres Show this Thursday, October 8th. more

AC/DC have been nominated for ARIA Awards (Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards) for Highest Selling Australian Album, Best Rock Album, Best Group and Album Of The Year. more

According to Hits Daily Double KISS' new album, "Sonic Boom", is on track to sell between 150,000 and 175,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, giving them a beeline on their first chart-topping release ever. more

Some new material is part of the plan for the Cranberries, but the reunited Irish band will work its way slowly to that point according to singer Dolores O'Riordan. "It would be nice to come up with a new record. I don't see why not," O'Riordan tells Billboard.com. more

The UK Competition Commission has ruled against the merger of Ticketmaster and concert promoter Live Nation. In a provisional ruling, it said it was concerned about the joining of the world's largest ticketing firm and the world's biggest concert promoter. more

Small Brown Bike are apparently taking their reunion a little further and are now working on new material.more

Shelby Singleton, the famed record producer and owner of Sun Records died of cancer on Wednesday according to The Music's Over.

Gaslight Anthem have announced plans for a food drive at their October 15th show in New York City at Terminal 5. more

Legion, the frontman for Swedish blackened death metal group Devian and former frontman of Marduk, was recently involved in a motorcycle accident. more

Ravage has issued the following tour update regarding their recent cancellations: "We'd like to apologize now to our friends in Idaho as we have been forced to cancel both Idaho shows. We are still stuck in Eugene OR. If you can believe it - we couldn't - the repair shop told us that the part was LOST...LOST! In the mail by the company shipping it!" more

Foo Fighters and Shakira have been announced as performers for the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards more. Apparently the European awards are to be hosted by someone people have actually heard of before.

Dying Fetus will embark on a North American co-headlining tour with The Faceless in November. Dubbed "The Planetary Depravity Tour", the trek will also include Beneath The Massacre, Vital Remains, Annotations Of An Autopsy and more on select dates . -

Chester Bennington's Dead By Sunrise Online Album Listening Party

PR reports: Dead by Sunrise, the new band fronted by Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, will hold an exclusive listening party for its debut album Out of Ashes on its MySpace page this week. Fans will be able to stream the album, which will be released by Warner Bros. Records on October 13th, in its entirety at Myspace from October 8th through the 10th. MySpace will direct users to the listening party via links on both the site's homepage and its music page.

Dead by Sunrise's MySpace page is featuring the video for the band's first single "Crawl Back In," which continues its assault at Rock radio after being the most-added track for four consecutive weeks in September. "Crawl Back In" is currently included in MySpace founder Tom Anderson's playlist on his heavily trafficked homepage.

The band, which is Bennington on vocals, guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh (from Orgy/Julien-K), bassist Brandon Belsky, drummer Elias Anda (also from Julien-K), and keyboardist Anthony Valcic, will perform at The Gramercy Theatre in New York City on October 14th, and at the Roxy in Los Angeles on October 19th. - listen here

Evanescence's Amy Lee Updates Fans On New Album

antiMusic reports: Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee took to the band's Myspace this week to update fans on the band's new album and answer fan questions. Here is what she had to say:

I've been sitting here reading through so many of these questions and comments... trying to find one I haven't answered and want to... I guess I just want to say thanks for making me feel good. Ha. It's really nice to know so many of you miss the music and want to know when you'll hear it again. I've gotten to the point where I'm working on it almost every day (night I should say). I'm in love with it. Enough to fight for it. Enough to reopen the door to a world of chaos even though it scares me. I don't want to give away too much about what it will sound like, because so much will change before the end, but its... not what you would expect. Its definitely not happy married music, but its not like I'm dying the whole time either. It's dark, sarcastic, fun, strange, familiar and very different at the same time. It makes me feel alive and I wish I could show you right now. If you were here, at my house, I would pour you a drink and we would turn it up really loud and rock out to it, and I know you would love it. Thank you everyone who has said their lives were touched by the music. It touches my life too, and so do you, in many ways.

Somebody asked how it made me feel when someone tells me the music changed their life. It makes me feel like I'm not crazy. It feels wonderful. Also somebody asked why I talk about blood so much, complete with quite a few lyric quotes. It made me laugh. I promise to offer slightly less blood on the next album. Slightly. - more on this story

Thirty Seconds To Mars To Give Away 30 Guitars In 30 Days

EMI reports: Thirty Seconds to Mars have begun a Twitter-powered "30 Guitars in 30 Days" giveaway, rewarding one Twitter follower each day with a brand new guitar for the astronomically low price of 1 Tweet.

Co-presented by Culture Jam and Michael Kelly Guitars, fans can enter to win 1 of 30 Nostalgia Series guitars (including fitted hard-shell cases) by sending a single tweet through Culture Jam's custom application at: thirtysecondstomars.culturejam.com. The band will select one winner daily.

The "30 Guitars in 30 Days" giveaway is the most recent fan-focused intiative from Thirty Seconds To Mars. Recently fans have had the unique opportunity to participate in both the recording process of This Is War as well as the album packaging. "The Summit" brought fans from around the world together both online and offline to record sounds that were included on the album and the "Faces of Mars" contest allowed fans to submit photos of themselves which will ultimately end up on multiple different covers of the album. - more on this story

New Order's Sumner To Bring Bad Lieutenant to US

HER reports: While a major North American tour is being planned for 2010, Bad Lieutenant - the new project helmed by Joy Division/New Order's Bernard Sumner - announces their U.S. concert debut with two very special headline shows - Wednesday, November 18 at the Park West in Chicago, and Saturday, November 21 at Webster Hall in New York.

Tickets for the Chicago date go on sale at 10:00AM on Saturday, October 10 at and can be purchased through Ticketmaster outlets - ticketmaster.com - or charge by phone 800-745-3000. The New York show will go on sale at 12NOON on Friday, October 9 and tickets will be available via Ticketmaster outlets - ticketmaster.com

These shows are in support of Bad Lieutenant's debut album, Never Cry Another Tear which was released digitally on October 2 exclusively through Amazon.com (and remains an Amazon Top 5 seller); beginning October 13, Amazon.com will exclusively offer the physical CD for sale; on November 10, Never Cry Another Tear will be available through all other retail outlets via a partnership with Original Signal Recordings. - more on this story

Paramore Almost Top The Charts

Fueled By Ramen reports: "brand new eyes," the just-released third studio album from Paramore, has entered the SoundScan/Billboard 200 album chart at #2. With sales in excess of 175,000, the success of "brand new eyes" marks the biggest first-week sales in Fueled By Ramen's history.

The stunning sales success of "brand new eyes" began last month with unprecedented pre-order numbers. Over 34,000 albums were sold in advance of its official release – the most successful album pre-order campaign in Fueled By Ramen label history.

"brand new eyes" is also proving a massive international hit, entering the album charts at #1 in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK as well as #2 in Mexico and #3 in Canada. The album's chart-topping success isn't the only evidence of Paramore's increasing superstardom in the UK – over 40,000 tickets for their upcoming tour were sold in just one day, with the band's first-ever headline date at London's 12,500-capacity Wembley Arena, slated for December 18th, selling out in little more than eight hours. - more on this story

Mudvayne Set New Album Release In Three Formats

Adrenaline reports: Mudvayne are back with a self-titled release that will hit stores on December 22, 2009. One could say that this new album is the hardest, but yet most melodic record, Mudvayne has ever created.

Alongside the blistering new tunes. Mudvayne have outdone themselves once again with the mind-blowing packaging for the new album. The new album is revolutionizing album artwork design, as this is the first album to ever use black light reactive ink. Every bit of art and text in the packaging of the record will be printed on ink that can only be seen with a black light. Fans receiving this record as a gift during the holiday season, could truly have a "White Christmas" courtesy of Mudvayne

The album will be available in three formats. Those include, the standard jewel case edition, a deluxe edition that comes with a black light, and the super deluxe edition that includes a larger black light, a special edition black light reactive poster, and more. - more on this story

Dio Evil or Devine Again

MMP reports: Ronnie James Dio is without question one of the most famous and respected singers in the entire history of heavy metal. Known from his solo career and such legendary bands as Rainbow and Black Sabbath, Dio is often recognized for his extremely powerful voice, which throughout the years became his trademark. In late 1982 Ronnie James Dio and fellow former Black Sabbath member, drummer Vinny Appice, formed a band that was not meant to be a solo project but a band as a whole. Ronnie recruited an old bassist that had served his time with him in the band Rainbow, Jimmy Bain. Along with a hot new guitarist out of Ireland, Vivian Campbell, this band was to become DIO!

This exclusive re-release of "Evil or Divine – Live in New York City" brings a truly unique collection of some of the greatest and most memorable songs in Dio's catalogue, brilliantly performed at the Roseland ballroom in New York City in 2002.

The set list includes songs that span the length of Dio's distinguished career. Though favoring his early solo works, there is a bit of Rainbow, as well as Black Sabbath. Including such remarkable songs as "Long Live Rock and Roll", "Heaven and Hell", "Stand Up and Shout", "Don't Talk to Strangers" and "Holy Diver", this album is a must-have for all true fans of heavy metal. The new digipak edition is limited to 1000 copies. Digitally remastered using 24-Bit process, released on a golden disc. Metal Mind Productions set the release date for 2nd November. - more on this story

Inhale Exhale Week: Day Four

antiMusic reports: Inhale Exhale's new album, Bury Me Alive, hits stores this week and to celebrate we asked frontman Ryland Raus and guitarist John LaRussa to pick their favorite five tracks from the effort and tell us a little bit about each one. Here they are with today's song "Over and Out"

Ryland Raus: The theme is time travel. About wishing you could go back and correct things that were done wrong in the past. But also realizing that the experiences of our past should not be changed, because they have aided in molding who we are today. Sometimes thinking about what you should have done or said can drive you right out of your mind. In the finale of the song, this process is portrayed.

John LaRussa: This song was almost a B-side for me. It was the first song I was happy with for the record. So it's the oldest. But after I messed with it a bunch and got with the band on it, I think it came out better than I thought. Lots of energy and fast-paced, which is what I was shooting for on it. Chris (drums) really helped keep it tight and fast.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!

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