Them Crooked Vultures New Song Now Online

Visit the official Them Crooked Vultures MySpace Music profile to stream "New Fang," check out live dates, and for more information - go here

Eric Clapton Cancels Rock Hall Show For Medical Reasons

antiMusic reports: The Rock Hall's big bash has hit a snag (maybe two). Eric Clapton definitely won't be playing and Bruce Springsteen may not perform at the event at Madison Square Garden.

The event is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Clapton pulled out the event because the removal of gallstones. Clapton "will spend time recuperating at home in the UK and is very sorry to disappoint the fans and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," a statement said.

Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen's status on the bill is not known. He canceled a concert in Kansas City at the last moment on Monday due to what Reuters is calling a "bereavement". Kansas City broadcaster KMBC-TV quoted police officials as saying that a 34-year-old member of Springsteen's road crew died at his hotel, but that the death was not suspicious. - Read the Reuters report for some more details

U2 Announce 2010 Tours

antiMusic reports: U2 360° is coming back to North America in 2010, the band said on their website Sunday. Here is the rest of the announcement:

The tour will touch down next summer in Anaheim; Denver; Oakland; Seattle; Edmonton; East Lansing; Miami; Philadelphia and Montreal. U2 360° will also return for one night only in Toronto and Chicago before finishing the North American leg in New York at the New Meadowlands Stadium. On U2 360° the band currently play 22 live tracks, the first time fans have heard tracks from No Line On the Horizon, one of the best selling albums globally this year..

Tickets for the performances in Oakland, Edmonton, and Toronto will go on sale Monday November 2 with additional North American on sales taking place over the following few weeks in November. (Tickets are also about to go on sale for 2010 European dates in Athens, Greece and Istanbul, Turkey. - dates

Blue October Cancel Tour After Singer Suffers Extreme Mental Anxiety Attack

PR reports: The Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009 has been canceled due to the hospitalization of Justin Furstenfeld, lead singer of the tour's headlining band Blue October. Furstenfeld, who was also the spokesperson for Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009, is being treated for suffering from an extreme mental anxiety attack. His doctors have ordered that the tour—which was committed to reducing the stigma associated with mental health, depression, and suicide—be canceled to allow for his recovery.

"Mental health diseases are unpredictable," says Furstenfeld. "And on the eve of this tour in support of a cause that means the world to me, I am in need of time to heal from a setback in my own personal life, which is severe enough for me to seek hospitalization. I hope that my action to seek the strength and safety of treatment will inspire others that are suffering to do the same."

The Pick Up The Phone Tour was to benefit suicide prevention and was created through a partnership between the non-profit organizations To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA), Postsecret.com, Synclive.com, and 1-800-SUICIDE—The National Hopeline Network.

Ticket refunds will be available from the point of purchase for each date and venue. For more information about the Pick Up The Phone Tour 2009, please visit - http://www.putp.org

Wolfmother's New CD Has Arrived, Tour Kicks Off Next Week

Filter reports: Brothers and sisters, sound the siren. Cosmic Egg has arrived. The highly-anticipated sophomore album from Aussie rockers Wolfmother is finally upon us.

Recorded with heralded UK producer Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins, nine inch nails), Cosmic Egg is a follow-up to the band's 2006 self-titled debut, which included "Woman," the 2007 Grammy winner for Best Hard Rock Performance.

To celebrate the release, the band will be embarking on a North American tour, beginning next week in Dallas, TX, and will be performing acoustic in-store sessions in select cities. - more on this story

Switchfoot To Perform Entire New Album During Upcoming Tour

PR reports: Switchfoot will kick off its fall headlining tour in San Diego on November 8 for 94.9's Anniversary Bash. The band will then appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," performing on the outside stage on November 12th.

The tour will feature Switchfoot playing Hello Hurricane in its entirety, followed by fan favorites from its previous records. The band will be collecting donations for local food banks along the tour route, so fans are encouraged to bring non-perishable items to the shows. (See below for tour itinerary and a list of food banks that will receive donations.)

Switchfoot is also launching a new website, http://www.theworldyouwant.com, which will spotlight goodness, beauty, and truth in everyday life. Fans are invited to contribute stories about people they know who are making this world a better place and the band will read some of these contributions from stage during the tour. - more including dates

Deftones Release More Details for Chi Benefit

antiMusic reports: Deftones released more info on Monday about their upcoming benefit concert: On November 2nd, 2008 our bass player and brother Chi Ling Cheng was involved in a horrific car accident which has left him in a semi-conscious state. In his journey to recovery, the Cheng family has accumulated an overwhelming amount of medical bills that insurance does not entirely cover.

As a result, we will begin our mission to raise significant funds to help ensure Chi's recovery by playing a benefit show at the Avalon in Hollywood, CA on 11/19. Tickets will go on-sale for our fans this Wednesday, 10/28 with a general on-sale to follow on Friday, 10/30. All proceeds will go to the Chi Ling Cheng Special Needs Trust that has been set up by the Cheng family to help pay for the growing medical costs required for Chi's survival and recovery.

In the event that you do not live in Los Angeles, or you don't end up getting a ticket for the show, we will be launching a series of online auctions, an online store and making available other opportunities for you to make a donation to the Trust. More details will come soon. We have the best fans in the world and Chi values all of you greatly. Please continue to show your unwavering support by helping with this very important cause. More details on this coming tomorrow.

- http://www.deftones.com

Want To Meet Anvil, Between The Buried And Me, Dethklok And Mastodon, Atreyu And Escape The Fate, Taking Back Sunday, Tesla, The Used and more

Live Nation reports: This Wednesday Live Nation gives fans ultimate access to some of their favorite bands when for one day only every single fan who buys a ticket to a Live Nation club show is automatically entered to win an Ultimate Access Pass to the venue for which they bought their ticket. The Ultimate Access Pass is Live Nation's golden ticket, good for admission to every single show in 2010 to an individual Live Nation venue. Every Live Nation club venue will have an Ultimate Access winner, with the names of winners posted on LiveNation.com Thursday morning at 12 Noon Eastern time. On Ultimate Access Wednesday every single ticket will be available at reduced cost as Live Nation drops the service fee on hundreds of thousands of tickets in its club venues across the country for one day only.

In addition to offering the concert goers the chance to win the Ultimate Access Pass, Live Nation is bringing music fans and their favorite bands closer together by hosting fan-and-band meet and greets at venues across the country. Bands including Anvil, Between The Buried And Me, Dethklok and Mastodon, Hellogoodbye, Hollywood Undead with Atreyu and Escape The Fate, LMFAO with Shwayze, Taking Back Sunday, Tesla and The Used will spend the afternoon meeting fans, taking pictures and answering questions. The box offices at Live Nation clubs will be open on Wednesday afternoon, selling no service fee tickets to all scheduled events. All fans purchasing tickets at the box office on Wednesday will also be entered to win the Ultimate Access Pass for that club.

It all happens Wednesday, October 28th as Live Nation drops the service fee on hundreds of thousands of tickets in its club venues across the country. In addition to the onsite meet and greets, the No Service Fee offer will also be available at www.LiveNation.com for 24 hours beginning at 12:01 a.m. local time on Wednesday, October 28th on participating shows. - more on this story

Alice In Chains Release iPhone App

EMI reports: Alice In Chains has announced an October 27th release date for the Black Gives Way To Blue iPhone app. The app features full songs from the band's acclaimed new album on Virgin/EMI, music videos, news, photos, social networking and much more.

The app separates itself from the pack with an impressive level of interactivity; its custom-built functionality allows fans to interact with each of the album's 11 tracks via a touch, drag and hold feature that reveals hidden visual gems.

"With the Alice In Chains app, we wanted to represent every song on Black Gives Way To Blue as an interactive and immersive experience," says Jeff Zakim,
Senior Director, Global Digital Marketing, EMI Music. "We achieved that with the custom-designed Interactive Tracks. The interactivity is furthered by giving fans the ability to share, comment and connect across Fan Wall posts, email, Facebook and Twitter." - more on this story

Warbringer Opening For Slipknot Tonight, Megadeth in Dec

Century Media reports: Warbringer have had their tireless work ethic validated once again this week as the legendary Slipknot have chosen the band to open for them tonight, Tuesday, Oct. 27th, at the Save Mart Center Arena in Fresno, CA.Warbringer will be the only opening act that night.

This huge announcement comes on the heels of the band being handed picked by Megadeth for select North American dates in December. The band received the news as they were playing headline dates on route to kick off a lengthy U.S. trek with Vader, Decrepit Birth, The Amenta, Augury and Swashbuckle Nov. 4 in Baltimore, Maryland.

John Kevill (vocals) further states: "To be honest, I never in a million years thought a band as huge as Slipknot would specifically request us to open a show for them and we are beyond excited to have this opportunity. There are already over 4,000 tickets sold so this is easily going to be the biggest show we ever played in the U.S. Unfortunately we'll have to miss Albuquerque to do this and apologize to our fans who've been asking us back. In the meantime, we have almost 2 months of North American shows with Vader and Decrepit Birth and then Megadeth and Suicide Silence before ending the years with 3 headline shows in Hawaii, so the rest of the year is looking completely bad ass. The band's live performance is better and more lethal than ever before, so we look forward to seeing you all soon." - more on this story

Dallas Green of Alexisonfire Bringing City and Colour To The US

PR reports: City And Colour, the solo project of Juno Award-winning, Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, of Alexisonfire, announces a US headlining tour.

Beginning January 7, in Washington, DC at the 9:30 Club, the tour includes stops in New York at Webster Hall and Chicago at the Metro, before wrapping up in Los Angeles at the Henry Fonda Theatre.

There will be a members only pre-sale, starting October 27 through the cityandcolour.ca mailing list, offering buyers of the first 30 tickets sold in each city a meet and greet with Dallas Green. - more including dates

Singled Out: James Maddock

antiMusic reports: Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today James Maddock tells us about the title track from his new album "Sunrise on Avenue C". We now turn it over to for the story:

The song "Sunrise on Avenue C" began about 6 years ago when I wrote a song called "Broken" which had that verse melody which I really loved but the rest of the song, the chorus, the bridge and really the whole recording of "Broken " didn't really survive more than a few months. It was ok but I just forgot about it but always loved that verse melody. So id always be fooling around with it.

Fast forward a few years and I'm living in New York and having plenty of late nights in the east village. Coming out of Nublu or Speakeasy's at 6am, having tied one on in no uncertain terms. Well, my relationship with Avenue C was sealed! Ok, so on a visit to the UK in the summer of 2006 I was staying with my friend in Brighton when I was suddenly visited by the line "Sunrise on Avenue C" It came to me in a flash and I thought it was
pretty, so it stuck. I toyed with Avenue B for a while but C won out!

Anyway, I started to play that old "Broken" melody and came up with a few lines around that idea. Being in the east village at a ridiculous hour and feeling messed up and how it might feel to be on this adventure of having just arrived in New York with your girlfriend and trying to make a life here.
The song began to take shape. I re wrote the lyrics many, many times. In fact I have almost an entire book full of different versions of it. Tweaking it till I felt it was ok. In fact I even rewrote the 2nd verse after id recorded it because someone pointed out that it wasn't quite satisfying the way it was and I agreed with him. It needed a more personal lyric. One that fleshed out the relationship between the 2 characters, so I wrote the verse "We came to make this place our home" etc. Now a few things about the recording. I was rehearsing the song with Leslie Mendelson and she was playing the piano here in my Chinatown apartment and as I remember it, she kind of played that intro line and I just jumped on it and said "Do that again" and that was it! We had the intro counter melody thing which sets the song up so nicely. What else can I say? Well originally, I didn't have the "Sunrise, Sunrise" bit but after playing the song to JW Johnson when he worked at Razor and Tie he suggested it needed another section so I came up with that and that's how it ended up.

One last thing that I really want to add is that I wanted to conjure up a feeling that I had one time while crashing on someone's floor after a night of over indulgence on First Avenue and 6th street. I'm half asleep, its probably 7am, there are maybe 6 or 7 people lying all over the place at my friend Pats apartment. Its quiet and everyone is just still and trying to sleep. Then in the far distance, what sounds like half a mile away, out in the street, I hear the wonderful sound of a brass instrument playing the old gospel song " A close walk with thee" It sounds so beautiful and crystal clear that I think I'm in a dream. What is this beautiful sound? Where is it coming from? Who is playing it? Then I slowly realize that it's coming not from outside but from right here in this room. As I drifted back to full consciousness I looked over and saw it was Clarke Gayton quietly, so quietly, so perfectly. Playing that song on his trombone and I swear it was so beautiful I could hardly
believe it.

And that's kind of the feeling I wanted to get on the song and that's why he is playing that solo at the end of the song. So that's it. That's the story of "Sunrise on Avenue C"

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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