This Week's Top stories

Here are the top stories from this week's Day in Rock and the top Day in Rock digest stories

Rare Zeppelin Recording- New Stone Temple Pilots Album Coming Soon- Duff McKagan Movie- Bachman Turner Overdrive Star Dies- Metallica Exhibition- more

Top rock stories for the week of November 1st, 2010: The Metal Den has obtained an extremely rare live audience recording of "Communication Breakdown" by Led Zeppelin from Nov. 6th 1969 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. Check it out here

Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz says the band has started working on a new album, and fans can expect it "very soon." more

Wendy Dio says in a new interview that her late husband Ronnie James Dio's autobiography "is three-quarters written. I'm gonna finish it. I have a book deal already. I have to finish it by June, and it will come out in early 2012." more

Murderdolls - the band consisting of Joey Jordison (Slipknot, Rob Zombie) and Wednesday 13 - will return to level Europe in early 2011. It will be their first full European headline tour in over six years. more

CKY's concert will be streamed live at 8pm CDT (9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific/1a GMT) on Friday, November 5th for free at therave.com. Hourcast and Lionize open the show. more

The Blender Gallery will be holding The Ultimate Metallica - Photographs By Ross Halfin Exhibition between November 10th and 20th. Halfin will also sign copies of his new book, The Ultimate Metallica, on Saturday, November 13 between 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM. more

Bret Michaels has announced his 'Rock Your World Super Cruise which is set to take place in November 2011. More details here

Black Label Society tells Omaha fans "Black Label Society will play a rescheduled date – get ready for the madness, we'll work out the new dates soon"

Peter Frampton appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show today more.

Tom Waits to reissue first four albums Singer-songwriter will release 180-gram vinyl editions of each on December 21 more

The Cult's new single from their forthcoming Capsule 2 release, 'Embers', is available exclusively through iTunes for the next two weeks more

According to a note sent to iTunes partners, Apple is close to increasing its song sample length to 90 seconds for any song longer than 2-and-a-half minutes. more

Cheryl Cole and Bon Jovi set to end Kings Of Leon's UK album chart reign more

Camp Freddy have announced their fourth annual Xmas Residency at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. more

Original Britny Fox vocalist Dizzy Dean Davidson has revealed that he is about to begin work on 'Our Unlived Life', the debut album from his new band Dean Davidson & The Bedlam Hearts more

Glenn Danzig is one of the artists approached about contributing a song to The Hangover 2: Due Date. more

The Metal Den has posted video footage that was recorded in Dimebag's personal home studio in October 2004, just prior to the murder of the legendary Texas guitar giant. The video features Damageplan (Dime and Vinnie Paul's new band at the time) rehearsing the Pantera classic "This Love" for their upcoming tour. more

Burton Chamberlin - who helmed ZZ Top's Double Down Live - is working on a documentary spotlighting former Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan and his band Loaded. The feature-length film, based on the group's upcoming album, is scheduled for release in March 2011. Duff's also playing an NFL half-time show this weekend. Details here

Jim Clench, former bassist for Canadian supergroups April Wine and Bachman Turner Overdrive, has died. April Wine's official website reports the veteran Canadian rocker, who replaced Jim Henman in Nova Scotia's April Wine from 1971-75 and later replaced Randy Bachman in Winnipeg's BTO from 1977-79, passed away Tuesday (11/02/10) at the age of 61 more

Propagandhi is actively seeking a record label to release their next album. The band has issued the following: "Don't make us do it ourselves. We've all seen what happens when we're left in charge of things. I know, the industry is in a tailspin and the relevance of the label-band relationship is more in question than it ever has been, but there are still some things a band like us needs to make it work smoothly." more

William Shatner sings Cee-Lo Green's "F**k You" on George Lopez Tonight. check out the video here

Eyehategod will hit the road with Phobia in late-November for a tour of the Southeast. more

This Christmas' major movie is Gulliver's Travel featuring Jack Black. The trailer has now been released and the KISS song 'Rock And Roll All Nite' is featured as well as a really funny miniature version of KISS. more

Mick Jagger lends his support to 'Save The 100 Club' campaign Rolling Stones man says the London venue is a place for new bands to 'cut their teeth' more

Muse's Chris Wolstenholme is celebrating after becoming a father for the fifth time. more

Robert Plant is set to be the subject of a new BBC documentary following the release of his new album, Band Of Joy. more

Eisley have signed to Equal Vision Records after departing from Warner Bros. Records earlier this year, after two full-length albums and several EPs. Look for a new album from them next year. more

Last night, Metallica performed in Santa Monica, CA in Hangar Eight at the Santa Monica airport. The show was put on to promote the release of the new Call Of Duty: Black Ops video game. BW&BK have the setlist info here

Two Cow Garage have finalized their West Coast Tour plans in support of their newest record, Sweet Saint Me more.

Sacred Oath will perform a 90-minute-plus set of songs from their 4 studio albums (including their latest release World On Fire) at a free concert in New Haven, Connecticut sponsored by 88.7 FM WNHU radio. more

Sleazeroxx reports that Black Sheep frontman Willie Basse has been added to Dokken's upcoming show on Sunday, November 7th in Redondo Beach, CA at Brixton South Bay. Show is at 8pm Fans that buy five tickets or more will receive an autographed Dean Guitar at the show. more

Hellyeah have announced North American tour dates that will take place in December more

The Good, The Bad and The Queen are apparently working on a new album. The band features Clash basist Paul Simonon, as well as Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen, Simon Tong (The Verve) and producer Dangermouse (Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz). more

Steve Lukather says he will not record any more Toto albums more

Runner Runner will join Forever The Sickest Kids and I See Stars on the "Tour For Kids Who Can't Read Good" starting on November 12th in Wichita Falls, TX. more

The World We Knew has lined up a December tour on the East Coast more

Things aren't looking good for the future of Myspace. more -

Aerosmith Plan Old School Album

(Gibson) Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer is looking forward to making a new Aerosmith album. He hopes his band can release a new record by this time next year.

"I would like to see a record within a year from the Aerosmith boys," he said. "My brothers and I are destined to make another record in the next year or so.

"It's going to be an old-school Aerosmith record. We're going to do it the old way with the whole band [in the same room] and it should be a good one. We're all anticipating." - more on this story

Slash Talks Guns N' Roses Reunion

Slash praised the recent reunion of Axl Rose and Duff McKagan on a London stage. The Daily Express reports that the guitar great is glad that his two former Guns N' Roses colleagues made amends.

Slash and McKagan both quit the famous rock band and later formed Velvet Revolver. Bass player McKagan made a surprise appearance on stage with Rose at London's O2 Arena in October. Slash says, "It was cool. I got an e-mail from Duff going, 'I'm checked into a hotel and Axl is in the room next to me.'... He just sort of kept me posted through the day... So it was cool. And then the next day he told me it was great, everything was very cool, they went out and had dinner, and so they had that sort of, whatever, rekindling kind of thing..."

And on the inevitable question of a full GN'R reunion, Slash was thoughtful. "We'd have to do things way differently than we did in '91, '92, '93 and whatever... And I don't think that's changeable," he said. "That whole production would have to tighten up and be like a real working band, and I don't think that's salvageable." -

KISS Hit With Copyright Violation Claim

(Rock Radio) The official YouTube video channel of American glam legends KISS has been closed for breaching copyright laws – just weeks after bassist Gene Simmons controversially called for all rights breakers to be sued and jailed.

Visitors to the band's OfficialKISSonline channel were advised in a YouTube error message: "This channel has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of our community guidelines, and/or claims of copyright infringement."

Some Kiss videos embedded on the band website's front page were replaced with the message: "This video is no longer available because the associated YouTube account has been terminated." At least one replacement message stated S'more Entertainment had lodged a breach of rights claim against Kiss - more on this story

Pearl Jam Set New Album Release

(hennemusic) Pearl Jam kick off their 20th Anniversary year with the release of "Live On Ten Legs," a new live compilation.

"Live on Ten Legs" features 18 PJ tracks recorded over the course of the band's 2003-2010 world tours by recording engineer, John Burton. All tracks have been newly remixed by longtime PJ engineer Brett Eliason and remastered.

The live compilation album will be available through the band's Ten Club and select digital and independent music retailers on January 18, 2011 (January 17, 2011 internationally). - more on this story

Monster Magnet Guitarist Quits

(hennemusic) Monster Magnet guitarist Ed Mundell has quit the band after 18 years, for "personal reasons."

MM leader Dave Wyndorf posted the news on the band's website. "What can I say? [Ed] told me this two months ago and I gave him some time for him to perhaps reconsider, but no go. It's a bummer, yeah but we've been through this kind of thing before.

"Make no mistake, Magnet goes on. We start the 'Mastermind' tour tonight [Wednesday, November 3] in Cologne, Germany with Phil Caivano and Garrett Sweeny handling dual guitar chores." - more on this story

The Rolling Stones To Tour

(hennemusic) While Keith Richards is out doing press for his autobiography, "Life," he shared some upcoming plans: The Rolling Stones will tour in 2011.

"Everybody's ready to go out there again," Keith told BBC 6 Music. "Who said it should stop, and who said when? That's what we wanna find out. We'll know when it comes to an end, with a crashing halt."

Not only will the band tour, Keith says there will be new material, as well. "After these many years working together, we have a lot of unfinished stuff to work on that we had to leave off the last album." - more on this story

U2, Metallica, AC/DC and Rush Take Top Tour Honors

(hennemusic) U2, Metallica, AC/DC and Rush were among the big names honored at the 2010 Billboard Touring Awards in New York on Thursday night.

AC/DC snagged the "Top Boxscore" award for its three sellout shows at Sydney's ANZ Stadium.

Metallica picked up the "Eventful Fans' Choice" award, as voted by music fans across the States – essentially, a "Favorite" or "Best Concert Tour Of The Year" prize. - more on this story

Ronnie James Dio Autobiography and Tribute Album and Concerts Planned

(Gibson) Last Friday at Dimebash 2010 on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip, Ronnie James Dio's "Stand Up and Shout" Cancer Fund raised over $10,000. It was a good day for reflection and celebration for Wendy Dio, Ronnie's widow, who runs the charity.

Speaking with Eric Blair of BlairingOut.com, she provided an update on the status of her husband's unfinished autobiography. "The book is three-quarters written," she said. "I'm gonna finish it. I have a book deal already. I have to finish it by June, and it will come out in early 2012."

Dio also revealed that she would be gathering her husband's friends from the music industry for a tribute album and a series of concerts in New York, London and Los Angeles early next year to raise money for the fund. She described the tributes as "a celebration of life." - more on this story

Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith and R.E.M.

(hennemusic) More details are coming out about the new R.E.M. album, "Collapse Now," due early next year

"Collapse Now" is produced by Garret "Jacknife" Lee (Snow Patrol, U2), and will feature a pair of special guests

Patti Smith joins the band on the album's closing track, "Blue," while Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder appears on "It Happened Today." - more on this story

Marilyn Manson Going Punk

(Gibson) Marilyn Manson's forthcoming album is going to be a punk rock affair, according to his guitarist.

Speaking to The Blairing Out with Eric Blair Show, Twiggy Ramirez (aka Jeordie White) said Manson's eight studio album is "kind of like a little more of a punk-rock Mechanical Animals," referring to the 1998 album.

Ramirez said that the album was "almost done" and would most likely be out in 2011. "It's fantastic," he said. "It's our best record yet, I think. I mean, everyone always says that, but I think this is our best work so far." - more on this story

Vince Neil Confirmed for Skating with the Stars

We told you about this in our digest yesterday but Gibson has a lot more details: Later this month, Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil will go from shouting at the devil to trying to perfect a double toe-loop. The rock singer will be one of the six celebrity contestants on ABC's Skating with the Stars, which is produced by the same people behind Dancing with the Stars.

"I was a figure skater when I was 12," Neil told People.com. "When they called, the people in my office were laughing but I told them, 'I actually used to skate. I haven't skated for a long, long time. I like to do things that sound like fun and this sounds like fun.'"

Neil will join actress Sean Young (Blade Runner), reality television star Bethenny Frankel (The Real Housewives of New York City), Olympic skier and gold medalist Jonny Moseley, actress Rebecca Budig (All My Children) and actor Brandon Mychal Smith (Disney Channel's Sonny With a Chance). The series begins its six-episode run on November 22 at 9 p.m. ET. - more on this story

Bon JoviTube Live

(hennemusic) Wanna enjoy some live Bon Jovi from the comfort of your computer or mobile device?

You'll get your chance next Wednesday, when the band teams up with YouTube to stream their live set from New York's Best Buy Theatre.

Fans will help get to help shape the setlist by sending in a text or posting a video on YouTube. - more on this story

Jimi Hendrix Murdered? Experience Member Noel Redding Discussed Possibility in New DVD

The Redding Experience DVD is set for release on December 6th 2010. We were sent some background info on the release.

The DVD features a never before seen interview with Noel Redding the bass player in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, which was recorded at Redding's home in Ireland in 1988.

Producer Will Scally explains how the interview came about. "I had known and been friends with Noel for many years and always found him a very upfront, straightforward guy. We often spoke about doing an interview, he wanted to speak about the band, money, drugs and the death of Hendrix and much more – even speaking about the possibility of Hendrix being murdered. He was on good form that day and wanted to record this for posterity." - more on this story

Emerson, Lake and Palmer Breaking Up

(hennemusic) After four decades, Emerson, Lake and Palmer are done. Drummer Carl Palmer has told Classic Rock that ELP's 40th anniversary reunion gig at this summer's High Voltage Festival will be the trio's final appearance together.

"Well, for reasons I won't go into, it's always hard to rev it up," said Palmer. "We rehearsed for it for a month, which almost killed me. Not the physical side of it, just keeping interested. Me personally, I didn't need a month. But that's what we did, and when it came to the gig, what you saw was what you got.

"That's as good as it will ever be (again). Everyone seemed pretty happy with it, and I think that gig will be far as the three of us can take things." - more on this story

U2's Spider-Man Musical Delayed

(Gibson) The curtain will still rise on Broadway's new musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark – it will just be a couple weeks later than planned. The stage production, featuring music by U2's Bono and The Edge, was supposed to begin previews on November 14 and open officially on December 21. Now, previews will start later this month and the show will open in January, according to Rolling Stone.

The reason for the delay: the creative team required more time for dress rehearsals and to meet safety standards for the actors (who, with Spidey's penchant for webslinging, will be doing some acrobatic moves). The Spider-Man musical has been in development for more than three years with a budget that has increased to $60 million.

Bono recently said that he and guitarist The Edge are trying to convince the other two members of U2 (bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr.) to record an album based on the songs from the musical. -

Alter Bridge Announce Winter Tour

Alter Bridge will release their third album, AB III, next Tuesday (November 9th) and with a new album comes a new tour. Here is the official word on the outing and the confirmed dates:

This run marks the band's first national tour behind AB III, and it'll feature scorching live renditions of cuts from their new offering as well as fan favorites.

Kicking off December 10 in Grand Rapids, MI, the tour sees Grammy Award winning guitarist, Mark Tremonti (Creed), frontman Myles Kennedy (lead vocalist for Slash's solo touring band and Mayfield Four) and former Creed members, Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips picking up exactly where they left off on their road to rock 'n' roll domination. - more on this story