Led Zeppelin Reunion Rumor

Plant could be considering another one-off at Glastonbury, after confirming he has had talks with festival boss Michael Eavis. He tells the BBC, "There's place for me there, but I have no idea who with." - more on this story

Timberlake Stalker Targeted Metallica and Axl Rose In The Past

antiMusic reports: What do Justin Timberlake, Metallica and Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose have in common? Apparently a stalker. Timberlake had to file a restraining order against a woman recently but it turns out that the woman already served time for violating such an order to stay away from Axl Rose and Metallica received a restraining order against her in March.

BW&BK reports that: The [Metallica] docs were filed in L.A. County Superior Court by drummer Lars Ulrich, who requested Karen Jane McNeil stay at least 150 yards away from all of the members of the band, their families and the people who run the Metallica fan club.

(Guns N' Roses frontman) Axl Rose also had issues with McNeil beginning in 1995 - she was eventually sentenced to a year in prison for violating a court order to stay away from the GN'R frontman. - more on this story

The End of Megadeth?

Rock Radio reports: Megadeth recently released Endgame, their strongest album in years. But it's not just the album title - in interview after interview mainman Dave Mustaine has made vague comments that suggest he's thinking about a future without the band he's led since its inception.

Rock Radio has pointed it out before, but this time Mustaine's gone further than before. It's a matter of record he's been unhappy with the US part of his label, Roadrunner Records, for some time. It's also a matter of record he's suffered hand and spine problems in recent years, which at one point threatened to end his playing career.

Now, responding to fan comments on the Megadeth forum, he's stated that Endgame might be their last album, and that if folding the band has to happen, he'll accept it in the spirit of becoming a better person afterwards. He says: "The president of Roadrunner came out and said this was the last record but if we didn't re-sign with them for more records they were going to stop selling Endgame. I've always known there's another record owed. I'm a man of my word and I'm going to fulfill my contract - rest assured, though, that I'm not going to release a compilation record or a live record for my final record with Roadrunner."

[Maybe Dave should have listened to all of the former Roadrunner band's who complained about the label's F'd up PR dept. before his signed on the dotted line. Sounds like the BS comes straight from the top.]

- He had more to say, read it here

Sugar Red Drive In Serious Van Crash

PR reports: On early Sunday morning of October 25th, the van carrying Sugar Red Drive members - Archit Tripathi- Vocals, Jim Knauss- Guitars, Davey Alexander- Bass, and P.J. Gasperini- Drums, was involved in a serious accident near Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The vehicle hit a guard rail, spun out, and flipped over. Miraculously no one was killed. Bassist, Dave Alexander, suffered the most serious injuries breaking his arm, dislocating his elbow, and breaking his thumb. He underwent surgery in a Kalamazoo hospital Sunday afternoon and is expected to make a full recovery.

Incredibly the 3 other band members and crew only suffered bruises and abrasions. When asked about the accident, Drummer P.J. Gasperini replied, "All bands pay their dues on the road - we just got a few more lumps than most do." - more on this story

Jack White's Dead Weather Release Unannounced EP- Ozzy Wrestling- U2 Historic Free Show- AC/DC- Steven Tyler Solo Event- Biz Vs Fans- Black Eyed Slash and more

antiMusic reports: Jack White's latest band, The Dead Weather has cryptically released a brand new live five-song EP, titled Live From Third Man West, recorded at… you guessed it… Third Man Record's pop up L.A. store in August. details here

Ozzy Wrestling - According to Pwtorch.com, WWE announced on last night's (October 26th) Raw that Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne will guest-host next week's edition of WWE Raw. more

U2 will play a free concert in Berlin to help the city celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Music network MTV said the Irish rockers will perform in front of the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 5 during the MTV Europe Music Awards more

Bruce Springsteen canceled a performance in Kansas City on Monday after the death of his cousin who was the assistant road manager of the E Street Band.more

AC/DC's Italian concert promoter, Barley Arts, has announced that rumors of AC/DC dates in Turin, Italy on June 8th and 9th, are false. more But in other AC/DC news, a UK record shop owner got a big surprise when a "scruffy geezer" came to the counter with a copy of AC/DC's monster hit, "Back in Black," and the geezer asked the shopkeeper if he wanted him to sign the album. "Er... who are you?" replied the shopkeeper. "I'm the singer." Turns out the geezer was AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson. Read the full tale here.

Steven Tyler, whose ear-piercing voice and huge lips have been Aerosmith's trademark for nearly four decades, will stage a multimedia solo presentation January 23 at the Capitol Center For The Arts in Concord, NH. more

Noel Gallagher has confirmed that he plans to embark on a solo career following the break-up of Oasis in August. "I'm looking forward to doing my own thing, bringing out my own music," he said. more

Deftones released ticket presale info for their upcoming benefit for Chi. Grab the details here.

In somewhat related news, our friends over at Antiquiet say "Deftones Soar, Slipknot Roars And Sublime Whores Their Legacy At Cypress Hill Smokeout" Check out their write up here

Music Biz vs fans again: And the music industry continues to shoot itself in the foot! A group of 25 publishers, producers and musicians in Europe are asking that YouTube hand over server logs showing who uploaded, as well as watched, their material. Sue your fans! Great marketing plan there. Read more here

Singer Morrissey returned to the stage at London's Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday, and made light of his collapse during a recent concert in Swindon. more

Remember Puddle Of Mudd? If you do, you might be interested to know they will release their fourth studio album, Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate, on December 8, according to FMQB

Jarvis Cocker has put out the flames sparked by his comments about a Pulp reunion being taken out of context by the UK press. Jarvis tells Teletext. "Someone asked me if I fancied playing at the 40th anniversary of Glastonbury, I said yes, they twisted that into a 'Pulp reform' story. It's not true." more

Slash joined the Black Eyed Peas on stage at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles Sunday night (October 25) to perform the Guns N' Roses classic "Sweet Child O' Mine". Watch video footage of his appearance at Blabbermouth

Nile have announced a listening party and signing session for their new album 'Those Whom the Gods Detest' to be held on Friday November 6, 2009 at 7pm at Earshot Records in Greenville South Carolina more

Slayer have confirmed an in-store performance at Hollywood & Highland Hot Topic in Los Angeles, CA on November 4th at 3:30 PM.more

The vocalists for Arkaea, the band featuring Fear Factory members Christian Olde Wolbers (guitar) and Raymond Herrera (drums), had this bad news for fans "Unfortunately Arkaea had to leave the Kittie tour 5 shows early. I apologize to all my friends and fans who were expecting to see us perform, we'll defiantly make it up to you very soon." more

Wanna watch a video of Van Halen lip-synching "Unchained" on a French TV show from 1981? If you do, jump over to BW&BK

Catalepsy advise fans: "We have decided to kick Bert out as he randomly left us while we were in Philly in August on our tour with Endwell. We were forced to cancel all remaining shows as our other vocalist Josh was sick at home. He had went home because 'his mother was in a coma.' We later found out this was a lie. He also had a history of stealing things from peoples houses that we stayed at, venues, as well as money from the band. We apologize to anyone who ever had anything missing."

The Killers are set to release their version of The Eagles' 'Hotel California' on November 30. more

The Strokes' Julian Casablancas has made his forthcoming debut solo album, 'Phrazes For The Young', available to listen to in full online before its official release. Check it out at NME

Feel The Shake Again: Jetboy have completed recording an EP of their first original material in 20 years, and are currently negotiating for its release later this year more

Haste The Day and Amarna Reign will hit the road this week for a brief tour. Dates are here

On Sunday night at the Riviera Theater in Chicago, Illinois, hard rockin' blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa joined Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule onstage during their second set, trading licks for a spellbinding version of "Sco-Mule" and tearing it up on a cover of the Albert King classic "Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home." wanna see it?

Cold War Kids will return on January 19th with a brand new four-track EP that will be supported by a four date U.S. tour. more

Lostprophets have announced details of a forthcoming UK tour. Heading out in early February, the 19 date tour will take in venues across the UK more

Rancid has announced plans to play a benefit on Saturday, November the 7th in Las Vegas for the Tony Hawk Foundation. The Stand Up For Skateparks event, sponsored by Hawk's new Tony Hawk: RIDE video game, takes place at the Wynn Las Vegas resort more

The Haunted have cancelled their previously announced U.K. tour (October 29 - November 4) with Casino Brawl and Romeo Must Die as a result of "some very special circumstances," according to a statement released by the band. more

The 2009 We The People Festival in Los Angeles will feature a number of acts including Bad Religion, Suicidal Tendencies, Pepper and more

Rolling Stones' Controversial Tour Documentary "Cocksucker Blues" Screens in New York. more

One and half hit wonders Bulletboys announce the return of original member and bassist Lonnie Vencent. more -

Metallica Release Game

Warner Bros. reports: Tapulous, a leader in music games for the iPhone and iPod touch, today announced that Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica, the newest addition to the Tapulous family of games, is now available from the App Store. Featuring classics like "Enter Sandman" and "One", Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica will give music fans an interactive outlet to rock out to Metallica using an iPhone or iPod touch in a way they never have before.

"Tap Tap Revenge fans have been wanting an app from us that rocks and no band embodies rock music better than Metallica," said Tim O'Brien, head of business development at Tapulous "The Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica App really captures the head-thrashing metal of James, Lars, Kirk and Robert and is our most amped up game to date."

The Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica App features the high quality gameplay that Tap Tap Revenge players have come to expect. Accompanying the career mode is a new fast-paced Arcade Mode where players are challenged with bombs and other special objects that make the game more fun than ever before. Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica is also the first game in the Tap Tap Revenge series to include a Bluetooth-based Battles Mode where players challenge friends to a point-by-point battle where they can deploy bombs and other special objects to distract the opposition and secure victory. - more on this story

David Bowie Called For Exorcism of Semen Seeking Witches

antiMusic reports: This one about David Bowie was just too goofy to pass up for this Halloween week! Our friend Nightwatcher has the report: A white witch helped cure David Bowie of his crippling drug-fueled paranoia, according to a revealing new book about the rock star. Writer Mark Spitz spent years talking to Bowie, as well as the rocker's family and friends, in a bid to explode myths about the Let's Dance legend in his new tome, "Bowie."

Bowie told the author, "I'd stay up for weeks. Even people like Keith Richards were floored by it. And there were pieces of me all over the floor. I paid with the worst manic depression of my life. My psyche went through the roof, it just fractured into pieces. I was hallucinating 24 hours a day."

Spitz adds, "Increasingly Bowie was convinced there were witches after his semen. They were intent on using it to make a child to sacrifice to the devil, essentially the plot to Roman Polanski's 1968 supernatural classic Rosemary's Baby."

So he called in the Ghost Busters! Ok, 'white witch,' read more of this strange tale - here

Rush Compilation Details

Noble reports: Anthem Entertainment has announced the release of 'Working Men', the first 'best of' live performance compilation from renowned rock trio Rush. Released in the UK on Monday November 16th, this outstanding live collection is available on CD and digital download by Atlantic Records.

Culled from Anthem Entertainment and Zoë Vision's three other Rush releases – 'Rush in Rio', 'R30' and 'Snakes & Arrows Live' - the Working Men album features live recordings of the band's greatest hits as well as one previously unreleased track, 'One Little Victory'.

RUSH - Geddy Lee (vocals, bass, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitar, vocals), and Neil Peart (drums and percussion), are one of the most inventive and compelling groups in rock and roll, equally famed for both their virtuoso musicianship and provocative songwriting. - more on this story

Husker Du's Grant Hart Taking His Hot Wax on the Road

MVD reports: Con D'or Records and MVD Audio are proud to announce the tour of Grant Hart in support of his latest release Hot Wax on both CD and vinyl for worldwide distribution.

'80s alternative rock has gone down in the history of music as one of the most fertile and influential musical movements ever - as judged by the amount of notable bands that would subsequently "follow the leaders." And one of the leading lights of the movement was unquestionably Hüsker Dü. After the group's split, drummer Grant Hart moved out front with guitar in hand, and also handled lead vocals on his solo releases. But Hart has spent the last few years working on Hot Wax.

Joining Hart on the disc is a diverse cast of musicians from Godspeed You Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion, and Rank Strangers with the tracks being recorded in both Montreal and Minneapolis. Hart explains: "The song 'Narcissus, Narcissus' is my first attempt at combining ancient Greek mythology and American rock-a-billy. By merging those influences with an ice cream truck atmosphere I think I have found a style that defines this period of my career. 'You're the Reflection of the Moon on the Water' is one of the most organic rock and roll songs that I have ever written. It's style owes a lot to my devotion for Patti Smith. It was inspired by a comment made by a monk during the selection process to find the next Panchen Lhama, who said of one candidate, 'He is the reflection of the moon on the water but he is not the moon'." - more on this story

Fall Out Boy Comp Coming Next Month

UK PR reports: Fall Out Boy are set to release a Greatest Hits album on November 16th through the Mercury Music Group. The 18-track Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits will contain two rarities and two never released tracks.

Final track listing for Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits is listed below. Also included will be a DVD with Fall Out Boy's 14 Greatest Hit videos with exclusive band commentary.

Fall Out Boy have sold a total of over 7 Million albums worldwide. Their last three albums '(Folie A Deux', 'Infinity On High' and 'From Under The Cork Tree') have spurned such hits as 'Sugar We're Going Down', 'Dance, Dance', 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race' and their cover of Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'. - more on this story

Reminder: Rolling Stones Boxset Out Next Week

PR reports: November 27 and 28 mark the 40th anniversary of the recording of the Rolling Stones concerts at Madison Square Garden that yielded the epochal Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, the band's definitive live album. In recognition of that historic occasion when "The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band" played "The World's Greatest Stage," ABKCO Records will release Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set and a Super Deluxe Box Set on November 3rd and November 17th respectively. The late Lester Bangs reviewing the original album in the November 12, 1970 issue of Rolling Stone wrote, "It's still too soon to tell, but I'm beginning to think Ya-Ya's just might be the best album they ever made. I have no doubt that it's the best rock concert ever put on record."

The Deluxe Box Set comprises three audio CDs including a remastered disc of the original Ya-Ya's repertoire as well as a disc of five previously unreleased Stones tracks recorded at the same Madison Square Garden shows. The third CD encompasses unreleased performances by the shows' stellar openers: B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner, five songs from the former and seven songs from the latter. The Box Set also includes a 56-page Collectors Edition book featuring photos and an essay by Ethan Russell, the acclaimed photographer who accompanied the Stones on the '69 tour, as well as the original Rolling Stone Magazine review by Lester Bangs and a series of recollections from a cross-section of fans who attended the concerts and a replica of the original Stones '69 tour poster by David Byrd. There will be a code in a limited number of Box Sets enabling fans to download "I'm Free" for Guitar Hero 5.

Included as well is a bonus DVD by legendary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, also entitled Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The film includes brilliantly shot full-length performances of the five previously unreleased Stones songs -- "Prodigal Son, " "You Gotta Move," "Under My Thumb," "I'm Free" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Beyond the song performances – presented in 5.1 surround sound -- the film includes a sequence with Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Jack the donkey during the cover shoot for the Ya-Ya's album and backstage tête-à-têtes between Keith Richards, Jimi Hendrix and Mick Taylor. During "Satisfaction" Janis Joplin is seen doing an impromptu boogaloo at the side of the stage. There is also a sequence shot at Olympic Studios in London during a mixing session plus a heliport summit meeting with the Grateful Dead. The film will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 26. - more on this story

Scorpions Offshoot Kottak Hitting The Road

PR reports: Kottak has announced they will be touring the southwest United States October 30th through November 7th, 2009.

According to Jimmy Ratchitt (Vocals & Guitar), "The band is ecstatic to get out and play for our fans in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada! We're based in Los Angeles and it's been awhile since all of our schedules have synced-up enough to plan a tour like this and we can't wait to get out on the road!"

Jimmy Ratchitt is the alter ego of famed Scorpions drummer, James Kottak. Kottak also includes Athena on drums (lil' sis of Tommy Lee), Johnny Lucas on lead guitar, and Price Vernon on bass. - more on this story

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