Dio Suffers Cancer Treatment 'Hiccups'

While at M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre on his second trip, he met a DIO fan named Carmen who has been having treatment every other day for a year, and is eagerly awaiting a bone marrow transplant. Ronnie and Carmen have become fast friends. Carmen is a very positive happy person whose existence, like Ronnie's, depends heavily on music and sports. On the third trip, we also met his mom and sister, whose total support is so important to all cancer patients. They have become part of our family as well. - more on this story

Winehouse Guilty- Chris Cornell Club Show- My Chemical Romance May Play Clubs On Next Tour- Fates Warning Reunion Shows- AC/DC Add Dates and more

Amy Winehouse pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting a theater manager who asked her to leave a family Christmas show starring Mickey Rooney because she'd had too much to drink. The singer was given a fine and a warning to stay out of trouble more

Chris Cornell will play a solo acoustic show on January 29, at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA. It will be the second performance in his "Songbook" series. Fans can expect a selection of music that spans Cornell's entire catalog as well as a few surprises. more

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way has hinted the band will tour "punk clubs" for their new album, the recording of which is nearing completion. "The record we've made reflects the size of the venues we're going to play them in," Way explained. "We can play these songs in stadiums; we can play them in arenas. But we can also play them in punk clubs, and maybe that's all people are gonna be able to go to next time around, who knows?" more

Metal Blade Records will be releasing a special edition of Fates Warning's Parallels on March 16th. To coincide with this release the Parallels lineup, Ray Alder (vocals), Jim Matheos (guitar), Frank Aresti (guitar), Joe DiBiase (bass), and Mark Zonder (drums), are planning a few one-off reunion shows. more

Iced Earth regretfully announce that we will not be able to perform at the previously announced dates in Chile, Argentina and Colombia due to circumstances out of our control. more

Epitaph have announced a Deluxe Edition of Alkaline Trio's new album This Addiction which includes a DVD concert and 6 bonus songs. They are offering a bunch of different preorder bundles of the album including this deluxe edition, you can grab all the details here

Four new dates have been announced for the AC/DC's Black Ice European Tour 2010. Dates in Scandinavia include stops in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. more

Lambgoat reports that Periphery has finally acknowledged the rumored departure of singer Chris Barretto. Details regarding his exit have not been disclosed, though Barretto has subsequently joined another band more

Speaking of losing vocalists, Singer Eric Kalsbeek has left Dutch metal outfit Textures to focus on his job and family. more

This Or The Apocalypse is currently tracking the follow up to their debut album "Monuments" (2008) for Lifeforce Records. Recording is taking place at Spin Studios in New York with Josh Wilbur (Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold) and Chris Adler (of Lamb Of God) at the helm. The group has uploaded a studio blog video documenting the process thus far here

Ozzy Osbourne will be the guest on the US nationally syndicated radio show Rockline with host Bob Coburn, on February 3rd more

Death Cab For Cutie plans to spend much of 2010 working on the follow-up to 2008's Narrow Stairs album. more

The 2010 Pemberton Festival has been sort of cancelled. Much like the 2009 Pemberton Festival, it also never existed in the first place. more

Want to know what Piebald are up to? Wicked Good Scene caught up with them and they have a lot to say and a lot going on. Check it out here

Meliah Rage have announced a special Boston-area show to mark the release of their new album, Masquerade more -

INXS Remember Michael Hutchence On His 50th Birthday, Will Donate Proceeds From Song Sales To Haiti Relief

The late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence would have turned 50 this Friday. In celebration of his birthday, fans around the world have banded together to try and make their song, "Don't Change," number one. The band themselves have issued a tribute to their late friend and bandmate, and they also announced that all proceeds from the sale of the single will be donated to the Red Cross Haiti relief effort.

Here is that announcement followed by the tributes: The sales of the song, which first hit the airways in 1982, are currently soaring through digital sites such as iTunes and Amazon and look set to achieve number one position in some markets. Thanks to the support of the Universal Music Group and INXS, all proceeds from sales will be donated to the Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

With what would have been Michael Hutchence's 50th birthday coming up this Friday, January 22nd, INXS has released the statements in celebration of their brother. From Andrew Farriss: Michael ( Hutch ). Michael and I met as school friends in Sydney around 1972. Firstly he was a good mate - sincere and yet funny too. We both liked music but I remember us talking more about motocross dirt bikes and girls than music. - more on this story

Andrew W.K.'s Lost Album Coming Out In Double Disc Edition

After three years of loyal patience, Andrew W.K. fans can finally experience the 'lost' third album from the established party rocker. Previously released in Japan and Korea in 2006, Close Calls With Brick Walls will officially become available in the United States on February 23, 2010, being released by Steev Mike, as a special two album package (the original Close Calls With Brick Walls on one disc, and an additional CD called Mother Of Mankind, containing rare and unreleased material).

After the recent release of 55 Cadillac - a compilation of improvised solo piano compositions - Close Calls With Brick Walls and Mother Of Mankind deliver the slamming, inspirational music for which Andrew W.K. is loved, coupled with new sounds and feelings rarely associated with his traditional work.

Close Calls With Brick Walls was recorded in multiple sessions throughout 2004 and 2005, using the full Andrew W.K. touring band for the first time. With a full instrumental band, the new album includes exciting new performances, styles, and rhythms. The lyrics are more complex although still very playful, and Andrew's voice has grown into something much more distinct and expressive. - more on this story

Paul McCartney Releasing Song For New De Niro Film

This March sees EMI Records release Paul McCartney's Golden Globe nominated track '(I Want To) Come Home', taken from the forthcoming Miramax film 'Everybody's Fine' starring Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore and Kate Beckinsale. Paul specially wrote and recorded the track after being asked to by director Kirk Jones and seeing an early screening.

The film ends with '(I Want To) Come Home' starting up before the final credits and providing the perfect backdrop to a film that explores many different areas of family life and relationships. 'Everybody's Fine', which opens in the UK on 26th February, is about a widower (De Niro) embarking on a road trip to catch up with his grown up children and their lives in order to complete one simple mission - to get his family all together round the same table for Christmas. His kids are forever telling him that they are all fine, but he soon discovers it's not quite the case.

Talking about relating to the film Paul said, "I could definitely identify with Robert De Niro's character because I have grown-up kids who have their own families." The track opens with just Paul at the piano, intimately singing lyrics that fit De Niro's character; 'For so long I was out in the cold and I taught myself to believe every story I told', before he's joined by strings and the track starts to build. Paul collaborated on the orchestrations with composer Dario Marianelli and the results are spectacular. - more on this story

Dave Matthews Joins Haiti Telethon

Dave Matthews will join a host of artists that will come together in New York, Los Angeles and London to perform as part of a global telethon to raise much needed funds for the earthquake-wracked nation of Haiti. The two-hour telethon, the most widely distributed telethon in history, will air on most major networks and cable/satellite channels on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 8:00 pm ET/PT and 7:00 pm CT.

Featured performances include Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Bono, Jay-Z and many others. In addition to the musical performances, "Hope for Haiti Now" will feature more than one hundred of the biggest names in film, television and music supporting the cause with testimonials and by answering phones during the telethon. The event will be live streamed online globally across sites including YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, CNN.com and others.

All musical performances will be available for purchase for $.99 per song through iTunes beginning Saturday January 23. All proceeds from the telethon and iTunes sales will benefit and be split evenly between the Haiti relief funds managed by "Hope for Haiti Now" charities which include: Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the American Red Cross, UNICEF, Yele Haiti Foundation, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and United Nations World Food Programme. -

The Whigs Announce Album, Letterman Appearance and Tour With Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

The Whigs are proud to return to The Late Show with David Letterman on March 31st in support of their upcoming album, IN THE DARK. Set for a March 16th release on ATO Records, IN THE DARK, with its impressive range and undeniable vigor, sees The Whigs doing what all-great bands do - furthering their artistic scope with each successive effort. Bursting with energy and emotion, The Whigs tear open the artistic envelope, bringing both nuance and eclectic strength to this exciting new collection of songs without losing the pedal-to-the-metal power that earned them universal praise as one of America's finest young rock 'n' roll bands.

Beginning February 26th in Sacramento, California, The Whigs will join Black Rebel Motorcycle Club for a 3 week North American tour. The band will also appear at this year's South By Southwest Music Conference and will embark on a soon to be announced co-headlining tour in late March. - more on this story

SNL's Christine Ohlman Album Features Duets With Marshall Crenshaw, Dion And Ian Hunter

Christine Ohlman, a.k.a. "The Beehive Queen," whose "day job" is that of the flashy, gritty long-time featured vocalist with the Saturday Night Live Band, has completed her first new album in five years, The Deep End, to be released by the Horizon Music Group through Selct-O-Hits on April 6, 2010.

Having won the respect of many fellow artists over the years, Ohlman recruited a stellar group of them to contribute to the new CD, including Marshall Crenshaw, Dion DiMucci and Ian Hunter as duet partners, as well as an all-star list of accompanists: G.E. Smith, Eric "Roscoe" Ambel from the Del-Lords, NRBQ veteran Big Al Anderson, Catherine Russell, the Asbury Juke Horns (Chris Anderson and Neal Pawley) and more.

Working in a swampy, guitar-driven style of contemporary rock/R&B, Ohlman and The Deep End co-producer Andy York (John Mellencamp) crafted 15 songs of life and love tempered by loss. It is Ohlman's first album of new work since 2004; her recording hiatus followed the deaths of both long-time producer and mate Doc Cavalier and guitarist and founding member of Ohlman's Rebel Montez band, Eric Fletcher. (The band presently includes Michael Colbath, bass; Cliff Goodwin, guitar; and Larry Donahue, drums.) - more on this story

Trouble Andrew Tour To Include Olympics Performance

Musician Trouble Andrew returns to his snowboarding roots with a historic concert at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, performing his signature brand of "electro sk8/crunk rock" at a 12,000-capacity outdoor venue.

The two-time Olympian and Burton-sponsored pro snowboarder (aka Trevor Andrew) will play songs from his 2009 10-song debut CD Trouble Andrew, as well as new material from his forthcoming second full-length CD.

Trouble Andrew's live performances have been garnering raves, one critic noting: "Whether rapping or singing, he enthralled the audience, even writhing around the floor like he was Iggy (synth-) Pop." - more on this story

The Record Producers: Todd Rundgren Special This Sat

BBC 6 Music radio will air a fascinating 90-minute documentary on "The Record Producers: Todd Rundgren" on Saturday January 23rd at 22:00. As part of BBC Radio's critically acclaimed "Record Producers" documentary series, the 90-minute special will air on BBC 6 Music two weeks before Rundgren performs the British concert premiere of his psychedelic 1973 album "A Wizard, A True Star" at the HMV London Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday February 6th

The Record Producers documentary will also include dialogue of Rundgren discussing some of his most popular albums including A Wizard, A True Star and Something/Anything, and will give listeners exclusive access to the original multi-track tapes of two songs from Rundgren's most successful production as a record producer – Meat Loaf's multi-million selling "Bat Out Of Hell".

The documentary will be followed by a 30-minute companion programme "The Producer's Playlist" where, Record Producer Steve Levine will present a selection prime cuts from Patti Smith, New York Dolls, Hall & Oats and Utopia, all produced by Rundgren, whose own solo recordings also feature on the show. - more info on the show

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