Morrissey Hospitalized After Collapsing On Stage

A message on his website simply says: Morrissey is in stable condition after his collapse in Swindon Saturday night. Thanks go out to all his well wishers, more information will be posted as soon as it is available. - Read the AP report for some more details

Benefit for Deftones Chi- U2 Suffer Big Sales Drop- John Bush Back In Anthrax?- Ratt Infestation Coming- Stillborn Fest- Sevendust/Nonpoint Halloween and more

antiMusic reports: The Deftones have announced a benefit concert from their bassist Chi Cheng, who went into a coma following a car crash last November. The benefit will take place on November 19th at the Avalon in Hollywood. The band's website promised more details on Monday, as of Sunday night they had a photo flyer for the event advertising that the Deftones as the only performer. Visit deftones.com for the very latest.

NME had this: U2 frontman Bono has admitted that he has been disappointed by the lack of success of their 2009 album 'No Line On The Horizon' which was released in March and has sold a respectable 1 million but is the group's lowest selling in more than a decade, with 2004's 'How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' selling 3.2 million copies to date and 2000's ''All That You Can't Leave Behind' clocking up sales of 4.3 million. more

Ratt announced today that Infestation will be the title of their next album, due out in March 2010 via Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records. Infestation is the band's first studio album since 1999.

In an interview on Sat night's (October 24th) Maximum Threshold show, Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano revealed that John Bush (Anthrax singer from '92 - 05) is likely to record vocals for the group's new album. more. If that wasn't enough Blabbermouth reports: ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante has told Noisecreep that the band is "in the process of regrouping with singer John Bush. more

Paul McCartney will return to Hamburg, where The Beatles honed their craft, to launch his first European tour in five years.more

This year's Stillborn Fest will be comprised of five shows in late-September and will feature performances from Crowbar, Hatebreed, The Acacia Strain, The Casualties, and Thy Will Be Done. dates

The Cult, The Damned, Buzzcocks, Face To Face and The Headcat (featuring Lemmy from Motorhead and Slim Jim from the Stray Cats) will perform at the 2010 Musink tattoo and music convention. more

Alice Cooper comments on the passing of Soupy Sales: "Being from Detroit, I came home everyday and watched Soupy at lunch. One of the greatest moments of my life was getting piefaced by Soupy. He was one of my all time heroes." Alice had been a guest of Sales about 30 (very) odd years ago, here is a clip.

Sevendust, Nonpoint, Soulium and more are set to rock "Guavaween" this Halloween night in Ybor City. Lots of other stuff happening at the event as well. Info is here

Something To Burn have made a brand new video available for the song "Say Goodbye," which can be viewed here STB released their new album Transitions digitally on September 15th on Softdrive Records, owned by Scott Weiland.

Crimson Falls have decided to part ways with guitar player Ringo Van Dingenen. more

The Demonstration, the North Carolina group featuring members of Killwhitneydead, has announced the amicable departure of bass player Josh Coe, who has left the group to join Delta Highway, a Memphis blues band. more

Sacred Oath will perform a free concert in front of FYE at the Danbury Fair Mall on Saturday, October 31 at 4 p.m. The Halloween concert is a special "meet-and-greet" event organized by the FYE music store chain more

Getting people to watch the remade Melrose Place must be like putting a pig in a dress and asking strangers to hump it.more -

Metallica Offering 50K Reward For Missing Fan

antiMusic reports: Metallica have stepped to the plate to help find a missing fan. Fox News reported on air Saturday that the Metallica's James Hetfield spoke with the father of Morgan Harrington, the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who went missing outside of a Metallica concert on October 17th.

A website findmorgan.com was established to aim in the search effort. According to that site, "The Harrington family is offering a $100,000 reward for the safe return of their daughter, Morgan Harrington, or information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Morgan Harrington's disappearance. The Band Metallica is also adding an additional $50,000 to the reward bringing it to $150,000 for Morgan's safe return or information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Morgan's disappearance."

The story has received national attention and now the FBI has joined the search. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Friday the FBI will be able to investigate tips from around the country. - More information at FindMorgan.com

Ultra Rare Beatles Album Discovered

Nightwatcher reports: There was something odd about the copy of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP John Tefteller was staring at. The faces were different. Where John, Paul, George and Ringo were supposed to be, others had taken their place.

"At first look, I thought, 'Okay, this is a standard Sgt. Pepper LP, but — hey, wait a minute, it's still sealed. It's not opened,'" relates Tefteller, owner of John Tefteller's World's Rarest Records. "And then as I look at it closely, I go, 'Whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. There's no Beatles on here. Who are all these people?' "

Those people worked for Capitol Records, and Tefteller was about to find out this particular Sgt. Pepper album was no ordinary Beatles record. In fact, it may be one of the rarest Fab Four LPs of all time, and at this writing, he is negotiating its sale to noted Beatles collector Stan "The Beatleman" Panenka. - more on this story

Family of Sublime's Late Singer Object To New Sublime

PR reports: The Estate of Bradley Nowell, Sublime's late singer, guitarist and primary songwriter, issued a statement regarding the use of the band's name by Sublime bassist Eric Wilson and Sublime drummer Floyd "Bud" Gaugh.

Sublime members Floyd "Bud" Gaugh and Eric Wilson, along with new vocalist Rome Ramirez, who performed with Gaugh and Wilson earlier this year, are scheduled to perform under the name "Sublime" on Saturday, October 24th at Cypress Hill's 2009 Smokeout Festival. Sublime, with its original members, has not played together since their final performance with Nowell on May 24, 1996. The advertising and promotion of the new group as "Sublime" has been done without the consent of the Estate of the late Bradley Nowell (consisting of widow Troy Nowell, father Jim "Papa" Nowell, and son Jakob Nowell). The Estate intends to take appropriate legal action to protect Brad's intentions, as well as the legacy and integrity of his body of work.

Nowell's family released the following statement on the band's official Web site today: "It was recently announced that Sublime bassist Eric Wilson and Sublime drummer Floyd 'Bud' Gaugh are 'reuniting' and teaming with singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez in a band they intend to call 'Sublime.' Prior to his untimely passing, both Bud and Eric acknowledged that Brad Nowell was the sole owner of the name Sublime. It was Brad's expressed intention that no one use the name Sublime in any group that did not include him, and Brad even registered the trademark 'Sublime' under his own name. - more on this story

Duff Talks Chinese Democracy

antiMusic reports: Duff McKagan is currently supporting his solo band Loaded and took some time to speak with AskMen.com about their latest album, "Sick," his bandmates and their influences and he answered the obligatory Guns N' Roses question as well. A couple of the questions and answers are below:

AskMen.com: Sick sounds amazing and I think reflective of some of your earlier influences, but it's a departure from your days with Guns and Velvet Revolver. What would you say to fans of your more well-known work who are interested in picking this album up?

Duff: I think Loaded is its own standalone band and I think a really good band, from my experience, is the greatest sum of all of its parts. Every guy brought something to the table and we took the best of those parts and made it a whole. Same thing with Velvet Revolver; you still had Slash and I, you had those elements, but you got Scott Weiland in there and Matt [Sorum] as a songwriter and even Dave Kushner — you take the best parts of them. With Loaded, we've always been sort of left of center; we're not a straight-up commercial rock band. People are saying it's [Sick] more punk rock, but punk rock to me was something that I experienced and I played in a lot of punk rock bands, but that was a long, long time ago. I'm certainly not going back; I'm not harkening back to those times.

AskMen.com: What do you think of Chinese Democracy? Duff: It's funny; so many people have asked me that question and I gotta figure out why people think my opinion matters.[And then, our call dropped.] Sorry about that. I didn't want you to think I hung up because of the question (laughs). Perfect timing. I think Axl did a great job on that record and other than that, the songs and the band are a completely different thing, so for me to really comment on the band, I might as well be commenting on the new Slipknot record. It's that far removed from me. We [Guns] made our last record in '92 or '93 or something -- that was 16 years ago. That was a lifetime ago for me. I was still using and stuff back then. So, that's how long ago it was for me. It's great [Chinese Democracy]. There are songs on it that I like and there are songs on it that I don't like, just like any other record. - Check out the full interview here

Elton John Cancels Shows Due To Illness

BBC reports: Sir Elton John has cancelled a second concert at short notice after doctors advised he was too ill to perform.

The star, 62, has called off Saturday's show at Newcastle Metro Radio Arena as he continues to recover from the flu.

It follows the cancellation of Friday's gig at Sheffield Arena which, it was hoped, would allow him to recuperate. - more on this story

Creedence Clearwater Revival Singles Collection Comes Out Next Week

PR reports: Creedence Clearwater Revival's golden era of hit singles (fall of 1968 through spring of 1972) rivals that of any band in rock 'n' roll history. The Southern-flavored quartet from El Cerrito, Calif., turned out 17 hits in a 44-month stretch, nine of them in the Top 10, five of them in the Top 5.

On November 3, Fantasy Records will release The Singles Collection, a two-CD, one-DVD box with a slip case, containing all of Creedence Clearwater Revival's U.S. singles -- 30 songs in all. Top 5 smashes like "Bad Moon Rising," "Green River," "Down on the Corner," "Travelin' Band," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Run Through the Jungle," "Up Around the Bend," "Long As I Can See the Light" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door" are joined by seldom-heard singles that never charted ("Porterville" and "Call It Pretending" on Fantasy's Scorpio subsidiary, and later singles "Tearin' Up the Country" and "45 Revolutions Per Minute [Parts 1 & 2]").

The 30 songs, (which are presented in their original single mixes, many of them in mono --- are making their CD debut), housed on two CDs, will be joined by a DVD containing four never-before-available, long-pre-MTV music videos: "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," "Bootleg," "I Put a Spell on You" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door." Also included in the package are a poster featuring the dozens of international single sleeves, and a 16-page booklet with liner notes by former Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres, who lived and wrote in the Bay Area during CCR's golden half-decade. - more on this story

Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne, Posies Stars To Jam For Laura Ann

PR reports: Dozens of musicians will perform a benefit concert Sunday November 8 at the Echoplex in Echo Park for fellow musician Laura Ann Masura. Masura, a former member of Evil Beaver, Motorhome, the Prescriptions and Dime Box Band, suffered a motorcycle accident in September that almost resulted in the amputation of her foot. As she heals at her Echo Park home, friends and fellow musicians have banded together to raise money for costs that Masura's health insurance doesn't cover.

Josiah Mazzaschi of the band Light FM has organized an impressive line up for the concert, which starts at 5 PM and costs a mere $12 per ticket. (ALL proceeds go to Laura Ann. This ain't UNICEF. The Echoplex's Liz Garo has generously donated use of the venue.) To appear: The Happy Stars (Brian Young from Fountains of Wayne and Joe Skyward from The Posies), The Pulsars (Dave and Harry Trumfio), Tim Rutili (Red Red Meat, Califone), Syd Straw (Golden Palominos) Pity Party, Light FM, and The Backward Clock Society, featuring Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins, Kerry Brown of Ancient Chinese Secrets and Mark Tulin of the Electric Prunes. Rotary Rachel (Rachel Lichtman of luxuriamusic.com) will emcee and DJ between band sets.

JAM FOR LAURA ANN is more than a concert. There will be items raffled all evening long; a fortune teller (none other than Madame Pamita from cult all-girl surf band the Neptunas); and a BBQ in back of the venue. Jars of Laura Ann's Jams, made artisanally by Laura Ann this past summer, will be for sale. (In fact Laura Ann was on her motorcycle, en route to a farm for strawberries for the jams, when a car hit her.) - more on this story

Vanna, Therefore I Am, and A Loss For Words For This is New England Tour

PR reports: Maple Syrup. Maine Lobster. The Boston Red Sox. Mark Walhberg. Dunkin' Donuts. Clam Chowder. These are few of the things New England is known for... until now. Crimson Management are pleased to announce their First Annual This Is New England Tour. With New England being a reputable hot bed of up and coming music of all genres, the purpose of this tour is to showcase some of the region's native-born acts that are making waves in the greater music scene today. The lineup will feature VANNA, Therefore I Am, and A Loss For Words. The tour starts November 28th in Hartford, CT, and spans 17 dates with the last show in Providence, RI. on December 19th.

As the headliner, Vanna (Epitaph Records) hails from Boston, MA with their own blend of hardcore, alternative, and good ol' fashion rock & roll. Their second full length, A New Hope (produced by Steve Evetts), was released March 24th 2009. For the past four years Vanna have relentlessly criss-crossed the country and has cultivated an army of diehard fans, better known as "Vanimals."

Therefore I Am (Equal Vision Records) is the post-hardcore outfit from Boston. Their debut full-length The Sound of Human Lives was released June 23rd 2009. They toured this past summer on the Vans Warped Tour and are currently on the road with From First to Last, Greeley Estates, and The Color of Violence. Named one of Alternative Press' "Top 100 Bands to Know in 2009", Therefore I Am are quickly carving out a name for themselves in the national music scene. - more on this story

Who Frontman Roger Daltrey Schools Music Students

PR reports: On Wednesday Oct 21 student musicians at the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma attended a master class taught by legendary Who singer Roger Daltrey.

The iconic performer, interviewed by Flaming Lips manager and CEO of the new school Scott Booker, answered questions from the student audience and met with The Flaming Lips who were also in the audience.

"I'm very impressed with your college," said Daltrey before touching on topics such as interpersonal band dynamics, the musicality of Townshend's legendary guitar destruction and the importance hearing protection. - more on this story

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