Ozzy To Perform With Metallica and Other Big Names Set To Jam

Metallica isn't the only one bring out the big guns to join them on stage. Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy will jam with Eric Clapton, while Annie Lennox and Lenny Kravitz will join Aretha Franklin on October 30th, the same night Metallica takes the stage with the Godfather of metal. - more

Pearl Jam Bootlegs Coming To Phones

PearlJam.com reports: PearlJam.com had this update for fans on Tuesday: PJ and the Ten Club are further expanding their bootleg program to accommodate mobile devices. We're starting out small, with the new Pearl Jam mobile bootleg app available Verizon BlackBerry(r) Tour(tm) customers.

To get it, Tour customers text "PJ" to "5509" (standard messaging rates apply). For those of you who have this type of phone, let us know what you think of the bootleg app. We always like hearing your feedback.

Remember, you can still enjoy all of the 2009 and 2008 bootlegs here at pearljam.com. MP3 downloads at 256K for $9.99 a show. Lossless FLAC downloads for $14.99 and made-to-order double (in some cases triple) disc sets for $16.98 with free shipping in the U.S. - more on this story

Beatles: Rock Band Rocks Video Game Industry

antiMusic reports: Music games are rocking the video game market with two new releases boosting game sales last month according to Billboard.

Two heavy hitters hit the market in September, The Beatles: Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 with the Fab Four winning out with total sales of 595,000 units to Guitar Hero's 499,000.

The Beatles: Rock finished third overall in game sale, behind Halo 3: ODST and Madden NFL 10, and Guitar Hero 5 grabbed the fourth place spot. Check out the Billboard report for more details - right here

Faith No More Eye U.S. Tour- Slash Wolfmother- Rock of Ages The Movie- NIN Wedding- AC/DC Blu-ray- Blood Brothers Reissues- Cheap Trick Xmas and more

antiMusic reports: Before we get to today's quicks we have a follow up to the Rock Radio report we ran a couple days ago about Metallica killing the hopes for a Big Four Tour. We were informed that the quotes from Kirk Hammett used in that report came from an interview with WKLS Project 9-6-1 Morning Show with El Jefe and Shaffee. You can check out the full interview on Shaffee's blog here.

Faith No More bassist Billy Gould apparently has told fans via Twitter that a US tour is now in the planning stages. more

Slash has finished recording a song with Wolfmother guitarist and singer Andrew Stockdale, who provided vocals on an untitled track. Stockdale described the number as "relentless." more

According to Variety, Hairspray helmer Adam Shankman is signing on to direct and choreograph Rock Of Ages, the screen version of the Broadway musical for New Line Cinema. The film will begin production by next summer, and will be released by Warner Bros. in 2011. more

Nine Inch Nails main man Trent Reznor, who married singer Mariqueen Maandig on Saturday more

Epitaph Records announces plans to reissue The Blood Brothers' classic albums Burn, Piano Island, Burn, Crimes, Young Machetes and March On Electric Children on November 17. The CD and digital re-issues will include rare previously unavailable live tracks and videos, music videos and B-sides for the ultimate collectors' edition.more

Sony Music is prepping AC/DC: No Bull for a high-definition release on December 8.more

Pelican's new album What We All Come To Need, doesn't come out until next Tuesday (October 27) but you don't have wait until then to hear the effort in it's entirety as the band are streaming it on their Myspace page

A few days ago, Jack White made an appearance on the chatroom for his fancy fan club The Vault, announcing to subscribers that The Dead Weather were already preparing songs for a new album more

Animosity has broken up. Formed in 2000, the band has released albums with Tribunal Records and Black Market Activities. Frontman Leo Miller sent Lambgoat a statement explaining what happened.

Cheap Trick's tour with Def Leppard is off but the band have posted a new event on their website. The listing simply says: 12/10 – Chicago, IL – "Jack's Cheap Christmas Event" – Allstate Arena Rosemont. Show starts at 7:30p. CT on stage at 9:20pm.

3 Inches Of Blood have scheduled a special headlining show in memory of their fallen friend and ex-bass player Brian Redman.more

AFI have kicked off their tour in support of Crash Love, and during soundcheck on Oct 14th they recorded a damn good version of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. Get your free download at Antiquiet.

In anticipation of Karma To Burn's forthcoming Live 2009 - Reunion Tour DVD on Napalm Records, the band are embarking upon a handful of exclusive US dates across the Midwest and East Coast. more

Spin.com is spinning a preview video of the forthcoming Nirvana Live At Reeding CD/DVD. Check out the clip of the band performing "School" from the Bleach album right here

Seems that Cloven Hoof have lost their voice: "Russ North has left Cloven Hoof to pursue a solo singing career away from heavy metal. The band wish him luck in his new venture. The Barbaars festival in Holland and the Newcastle Cluny shows will have to be cancelled as result of Russ's departure, but a vocalist will be in place for the Hard Rock Hell festival in December. A new singer will be announced shortly."

Wait.Think.Fast. new song, "Trouble" has been posted online hereThe band is about to go into the studio with producer Craig Schumacher (Devotchka, Neko Case, Calexico) to record an album and this is one of the forthcoming songs.

In this week's episode of Parlour to Parlour, Michael Fortes recount how he scored a last-minute interview with indie-folkers Norfolk & Western (featuring members of M. Ward's and Jolie Holland's bands) backstage at the Aladdin Theater in Portland - and totally blew it. Check it out here

Beautiful Small Machines release their new EP Simple Joys today on iTunes. The songs are inspired by the dark themes of the film Blade Runner.. The title track of the EP features vocals from Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon. Simon is a said to be a big fan of the fledgling band and jumped at the chance to work with them. You can buy the EP now at itunes

Finally, if you want even more up to the minute news, we just added two new listings to the RockNews.info newswire. You can now get the latest headlines from Antiquiet.com and Consequenceofsound.com, plus all the other great sources! Check it out here -

Lita Ford Jamming With Queensryche On Tour

antiMusic reports: Morley Seaver delivers another can't miss interview! This time he talks to hard rock queen Lita Ford and her partner in crime Jim Gillette as they discuss Lita's comeback album and more! It's a fun interview you'll want to check out.

We could pull excerpts from this interview all day long, but we decided to just pull out the most news worthy exchange where Jim tells Morley that Lita isn't only opening for Queensryche on their current tour but she is joining Queensryche onstage during their set. And And yes, a hit duet is included. Here is that part of the interview:

antiMusic: Yeah, really. So you've got the tour coming up with Queensryche. What kind of set are you doing? Just going with new stuff… Jim: The Queensryche thing is really different. She's actually playing WITH Queensryche. We're only playing a few songs. Maybe 3 or 4. But it's cool because it's right in the middle of the Queensryche set. What a kickass show it's going to be. I mean you're rocking a Queensryche set and all of a sudden the queen is out. They're going to start by playing "Close My Eyes Forever". Geoff Tate is going to sing Ozzy's part. I mean is that cool or what? And then I'll come out and sing "Crave" with her and then maybe do a couple more new ones. And then we're done.

- Now go read the rest of the interview here!

Megadeth Radio Coming This Week

PR reports: Megadeth are set to be the latest act to go A.P.E. on the virtual airwaves. Listeners everywhere should prepare for the debut of the band's "predictably unpredictable" Artist Personal Experience radio station, "Megadeth Radio."

Band founder and frontman Dave Mustaine has complete creative control in the programming of his 24-hour channel, which features interviews, news, personal commentary, and playlists of his favorite music. The multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated rockers follow hot on the heels of A.P.E. stations: Radio Weezer, Christina Aguilera Radio and Eagles Radio Hosted by Joe Walsh as Megadeth Radio, debuts on October 22 at 11:00 am EST.

Megadeth Radio is set to become the destination of choice for both the band's fans as well as anyone who appreciates hard-rocking radio, and will be distributed across Clear Channel Radio's iheartradio network, which includes hundreds of local radio websites; the popular iheartradio mobile app, which has been downloaded by 3.5 million people; widgets; and megadeth.com. Just like the other A.P.E. stations, fans can participate in Megadeth Radio by emailing their comments to megadeth@aperadio.com or calling 1-866-686-1010. - more on this story

The Bouncing Souls Rocking The Holidays With Some Help From Their Friends

antiMusic reports: The Bouncing Souls are going Home For The Holidays again this year. The band celebrates their 20th anniversary this year, so they have pulled out all the stops for their annual holiday event.

The four days of fun will take place at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ. and kicks off the day after Christmas and each night will include sets from the Bouncing Souls but different special guests like Bayside, Blacklisted, Chuck Ragan (playing an acoustic) and more.

Here is what the band had to say about the festivities: We're well on our way to making Home For The Holidays Jersey's coolest holiday tradition! This is our third year which marks the distinction between 'maybe we can pull this off' and 'a lifetime commitment'. We're happy to assemble a wild cast of our friends and comrades to entertain you and wish you well for the coming year. What's better at the holidays than getting together with a couple hundred of your closest friends and toasting each other's health? - more on this story

Ryan Star To Debut New Video Today

PR reports: Mark Burnett Records/Atlantic recording artist Ryan Star has announced details of his new single. "Breathe" – which will be featured on the acclaimed rocker's upcoming debut album, entitled "11:59" – is available now at all digital retailers.

Currently impacting at multi-format radio outlets nationwide, "Breathe" will be accompanied by a truly provocative companion video. Directed by MTV VMA nominee, Jonathan Lia, the video is set to premiere on CNN.com/Live on October 21st during the 2pm broadcast. The clip sees Star addressing the rising tide of unemployment in the US, performing on the streets of New York among various real people, from all walks of life, who are currently unemployed. A dedicated website, located at www.breathe4jobs.com, will enable potential employers to contact the diverse individuals featured in the video.

"I wanted to do something more important than just another typical video," Star explains. "I wanted a video that was relevant and can make a difference in the real world. Our world. So when I started thinking of how to represent 'Breathe,' this idea made sense because unemployment is the common thread that I have been seeing everywhere I have been touring. It just feels to me that people everywhere need to hear a positive message, that things will all be ok and that we are here for one another." - more on this story

Weezer Video, TV, Snuggie and Tour Update

PR reports: Weezer, 2008 Grammy Award Winners for best music video, will premiere their video for "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To," the first single off of their latest release Raditude, on October 20th. The video will be available exclusively on Babelgum for one week. It features actress Odette Yustman ("Cloverfield") as the gorgeous femme fatale who visits the sleepy town of Weezerville and throws the locals- played by duplicate versions of the band members- into chaos.

In addition to the video, fans will also be able to watch behind-the-scenes footage and an interview with acclaimed director Marc Webb, whose credits include the beloved breakout film "500 Days Of Summer" and music videos for My Chemical Romance, Regina Spektor and Green Day. This isn't Webb's first experience working with Weezer; he directed the band's video for "Perfect Situation" which featured actress Elisha Cuthbert.

In support of Raditude, Weezer announces a string of tour dates, kicking off October 24th at the Palladium in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles and New York City shows have already sold out. Tickets for the remaining dates go on sale next week. On October 29th and 30th, Weezer will appear for back-to-back performances on The Late Show With David Letterman. Weezer releases Raditude on November 3rd. On the same day, they will introduce the Weezer Snuggie, the band's personalized version of the now-famous blanket with sleeves. - tour dates

Saint Motel Robbed

PR reports: Saint Motel, an emerging, indie-pop band from Los Angeles, CA, discovered their van had been robbed Sunday afternoon, October 18, 2009 between 1:30 PM and 4:00 PM while on tour in Chicago, IL.

The thieves smashed one of the van's windows and stole an electric bass, an acoustic guitar, iPods, a laptop, food and one of the member's dirty laundry, while the band was taping an in-studio performance at JBTV.

Fortunately, this isn't a major setback for Saint Motel considering only incidentals were stolen. "They didn't get our main equipment which is the life blood of the band." Says lead singer A/J Jackson. - more on this story

This Time Next Year Follow Radiohead's Choose Your Own Price Model

Equal Vision reports: As the music industry is adapting to new technologies, it seems as though everyone has forgotten why we're all here: the music. Equal Vision Records & This Time Next Year have introduced a new system to give music to anyone who is willing to listen.

Fans can "choose your own price" - from $0 to $1,000,000 it is it up to the fan to decide what to pay for the music. Fans also have options in what types of files to download - mp3, AAC, FLAC, or Apple Lossless - for those who are concerned about the quality, unlike other music download options.

Additionally, the file previews aren't limited to :30 like iTunes or Amazon. Listeners can hear the full album in a number of places, including the download website. Fans still wanting to purchase a physical copy can do so through MerchNow, Amazon, FYE, or Best Buy.
- choose your own price & download

Singled Out: The States

antiMusic reports: Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Chris Snyder from The States tells us about "Erasers" from their brand new EP "We Are The Erasers". We now turn it over to Chris for the story:

"Erasers" is actually a really good example of how States songs come together, because sometimes it literally takes years for a song to develop from an idea to a finished song. "Erasers" actually developed from a little bridge in a song I wrote four years ago as a Christmas present for my girlfriend. That song was just acoustic guitars and some keyboards and words taken from a Billy Collins poem called "Litany." I really liked that song, but I only spent three or four hours writing it, so really it was kind of a stream-of-conscious collection of ideas that ended in this weird cacophony of keyboard noise. In short, good ideas, no structure.

Fast-forward three years to the summer of 2008, when the band was putting together the material that we were going to record in Nashville that winter with our producer Chris Grainger. One day, Joe and I were in the practice room fooling around. I think Pete was stuck in traffic on his way to rehearsal. I'd been listening to some old songs of mine trying to find ideas, and I pulled out the guitar figure that is now the introduction to the song. Joe really liked it right off the bat, and we spent about a half hour working through the rhythm and the full band stops that happen throughout the song. By the time Pete showed up, we had a basic structure going. Pete knew exactly what he wanted to do almost immediately, and by the time we left that day we had most of the song figured out.

In June of 2008, we took a trip to Nashville to do some pre-production for the record with Grainger. "Erasers" was one of the songs we had decided to work on, and after playing through it once, Chris commented that he really wanted to hear a breakdown. We experimented with a few ideas and ended up with the middle structure of the song as it exists now -- "and your eyes will be like ours / tired and comely..." to the part where the band drops out and it's just me singing "everything she's ever thought, every feeling in her heart, all she's known is sadness, all your heart is empty pouring out." The afternoon where the band and Grainger figured that out was a big moment for us as a band, the kind of "Ah-hah" feeling you get when you finally figure out how to do something really hard. For us, it was figuring out how we were going to approach the rest of the writing for the record, and figuring out how to approach the inevitable editing process that comes towards the end of a few months of writing, when you have dozens of ideas and they all have to become songs, somehow.

I hardly ever write the lyrics to songs before they're written. In fact, most of the songs on the EP didn't have real words until we were down in Nashville most of the way through recording. I'm not sure why it works this way for me, but States songs have almost always worked that way. In the case of "Erasers," I had some words that I really liked that were from the original version of the song, when it was called "Litany." Most of these made it into the first verse (for instance, "what if you forgot all there was to know, buried your thoughts in the falling snow?"). The band has always written political songs, but with this record we felt like we wanted to experiment with what it meant to write a political song, so we tried to be more imaginative in our approach. "Erasers" is modeled, in part, after George Orwell's 1984 and Michel Gondry's amazing film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in the sense that it's about a society not too different from ours in which you can choose to erase yourself entirely and start over again, with a mind as pure as snow. But there are also sinister overtones, along the lines of a Big Brother -- "and if your blood should refuse to flow, and if your thoughts should begin to slow, we will be there, we will be there, and you'll be blameless, you will be erased." For me, the song is about the danger of ideologies, whether it be a political party, or a religion, or whatever, that threaten to swallow you whole, to replace who YOU are with some prefabricated notion of who THEY want you to be.

We've been playing the song on tour for a few months now, and it's getting a really positive response. Frankly, it might be one of the better songs we've ever written. I think people really respond to the big changes in dynamics that happen between the verses and the choruses, and the fact that the lyrics seem really personal even while they're vaguely creepy. Everyone likes to be creeped out a little bit, right?

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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