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(LG) A Plea For Purging is currently at Michigan's Random Awesome! Recording Studio with producer/engineer Josh Schroeder (See You Next Tuesday) recording a new album. more
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Green Day Fans Hijack Poll

(Rock News Desk) Green Day have been voted the best punk band of all time, ahead of genre stalwarts like the Clash, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols.

But Rolling Stone, who ran the poll, admit the result was almost certainly skewed because the US three-piece's official website and leading fan club site both asked people to vote for the act.

The magazine admits: "Even the members of Green Day would probably object to being ranked higher than the Ramones and the Clash on this list – but the Internet has spoken and we have to honor that." more on this story

AC/DC Singer To Race at Daytona

(hennemusic) AC/DC lead singer and budding race car driver, Brian Johnson, will co-drive in the 50th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway.

FoxSports reports the racing series' official website Grand-Am.com says the 63-year-old plans to drive for Predator Performance in a Riley prototype car.

Johnson will co-drive with Chattanooga businessman Byron DeFoor, who owns and races numerous high-horsepower Can-Am and BMW GT cars; they will be joined by two to three professionals at the Rolex 24. more on this story

Film Featuring Metallica's James Hetfield Coming To DVD

(hennemusic) The award-winning documentary, "Absent," which studies the effects of absent fathers and the negative effect the 'father wound' leaves on society, will be released on DVD September 5.

In the film, reports Rockville Music Magazine, Metallica frontman James Hetfield recalls his personal struggles when his father, Virgil Hetfield, abandoned the family when James was 13.

Virgil Hetfield attempted to reconnect with James later in his life and was filmed in a brief interview for 1992's "Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica," a two part documentary about the making of the "Metallica" (or "Black") album. more on this story

Guns N' Roses Add Tour Dates

(hennemusic) More dates for the upcoming fall tour by Guns N' Roses have surfaced.

This week, the band has posted news of shows in La Paz, Bolivia (Oct 12), Guadalajara, Mexico (Oct 22) and Asuncion, Paraguay (Oct 14).

These concerts all fill in around GNR's headlining slot on the closing night of Rock In Rio on October 2. more on this story

Kings Of Leon Meltdown May Come At Royal Cost

(Rock News Desk) Insurance firm Lloyds, who backed Kings of Leon's cancelled US tour, could be made to pay out up to $15m in lost revenues for venues and promoters – and that could affect the band's chances of playing big shows in the future.

Lloyds of London are one of several companies which secure the investment of all those involved in putting on large-scale shows. When the Kings called off their trek after frontman Caleb Followill's onstage breakdown at the beginning of August, the claim forms started arriving.

"It's kind of like a credit report – you have to earn your reputation over time. Insurance companies are going to be looking at that," Elizabeth Wightman of Steelbridge Insurance tells Rolling Stone. "There's a lot of rating factors: venue size, age of the performer, health of the performer, how far they have to travel, whether it's plain, train or automobile." more on this story

Ozzy Osbourne's Teeth Fall Out

(Gibson) Ozzy Osbourne has suffered a dental dilemma. Last week, his two front teeth fell out, and the rocker had to call his manager/wife Sharon Osbourne just before she made an appearance on U.S. late-night show Chelsea Lately to figure out what to do.

Sharon told Chelsea, "I just got a phone call from him... He goes, 'I've got a problem... My two bottom crowns have fallen out,'" reports the Toronto Sun.

"I said, 'The two front bottom ones?' He said, 'Yeah.' I go, 'We've got a problem...' He's got a show to do on Thursday." more on this story

Panic! At The Disco Fall Tour

Panic! At The Disco are hitting the road this fall with Foxy Shazam for a North American tour.

The tour kicks off October 9th at Reno, Nevada's Knitting Factory and then continue through mid-November (see attached itinerary).

The band is currently poised to head out on a major international tour, encompassing festival appearances in Japan, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, and the United Kingdom more on this story

Former Fall Out Boy Frontman Loves Being Nobody Again

(Rock News Desk) Former Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump says he's delighted his solo career allows him to be playing to a hundred people who want to see him rather than 100,000 who don't.

"I love the silent freedom, where there's not a lot of expectation," he says. "I'm nobody again, and I love it.

"When I listen to the last Fall Out Boy record, I hear me pushing the band in ways they didn't want to go. It took some self-awareness to be like, 'Okay, I should have somewhere to do this so the band doesn't have to.' more on this story

Candiria Frontman Returns With Park Lane

Candiria frontman Carley Coma returns with Park Lane who are releasing their debut single tomorrow.

Band is hard at work on their debut album, "Letters From The Fire," but you can get a taste with the first single, " The Edge," which is being released tomorrow (August 9th)

Here is the background info we were sent: It was fate that ultimately united rock band Park Lane with lead singer Carley Coma, formerly of Candiria – a groundbreaking group in the late '90s and early '00s that found itself on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of their Top 10 Metal Bands. more on this story

New Album From Deep Purple's Roger Glover

(Kayos) Eagle Rock have set an September 6th release date for Roger Glover and the Guilty Party's "If Life Was Easy" album.

That's right. An all-new studio album from Deep Purple's Roger Glover. It's been a long time coming but Glover's finally followed-up his 2002 Snapshot album. If Life Was Easy is truly a milestone in the legendary bassist's career.

Recorded as much on the tour bus and in hotel rooms (after performing around the world for thousands at a pop) as in proper recording studios, the effort rocks with the proper combination of sincerity and strength. From blues to psychedelica, from hard to streamlined and beyond, the music rocks. Glover, with the help of Nazareth's Dan McCafferty and Pete Agnew as well as Mickey Lee Soule of Elf and Rainbow, has fashioned an album no self-respecting Deep Purple fan can afford to miss.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Hitting The Silver Screen

Red Hot Chili Peppers will celebrate their new album "I'm With You" by bringing a song-by-song live concert to the silver screen.

The performance will be broadcast via satellite to select movie theaters around the world, including more than 450 theaters in the U.S.

The band will perform the entire album in sequence, followed by some of their greatest hits in a special high-definition cinematic in-theater event, Red Hot Chili Peppers LIVE: Im With You. more on this story

U2's Achtung Baby 20th Anniversary Edition Details

Last week Gibson told us a little bit about the special U2 Achtung Baby reissue. Today we have the official word with more details:

Twenty years ago, Bono described Achtung Baby as "the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree" while Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that "stripped-down and defying its old formulas, U2 has given itself a fighting chance for the 1990's." The album won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and became one of the most significant records of the nineties and of U2's career.

To mark twenty years since its 1991 release, an anniversary edition of U2's Achtung Baby is due on November 1, 2011, in the United States (internationally, October 31, 2011). more on this story

Vince Neil Plans Motley Solo Tour

(hennemusic) Motley Crue's summer tour with Poison and the New York Dolls continues to roll along across North America. Now comes word that Crue singer Vince Neil has scheduled some 2011 solo tour dates of his own.

Motleyshout.com has confirmed the following Vince Neil solo tour dates in between breaks from the Crue's current world tour, which will take them to Japan and Australia later this year.

Vince stated last week that Motley's current tour is scheduled to last until fall of 2012. more on this story

Another Dream Theater Preview

(hennemusic) Having released "On The Backs Of Angels" - the first single from their upcoming album, "A Dramatic Turn of Events" - prog-rockers Dream Theater are teasing fans with a small sample of another new track.

Set for release September 13 (US), the new set marks the recording debut of new drummer Mike Mangini, who played his first live DT gig in Rome early last month.

DT have posted a 71-second snippet of the song "Bridges In The Sky" on youtube for fans to check out. more on this story

Mike Portnoy Says New Group is Not A Solo Project

(Rock News Desk) Mike Portnoy says he has no interest in being defacto frontman of his new band Adrenaline Mob – and he didn't want the role in former outfit Dream Theater either.

The drummer stunned fans by quitting the prog metal outfit he'd former last year. In the aftermath singer James LaBrie suggested their new lineup, featuring sticksman Mike Mangini, was more balanced "without anybody in the background trying to grab the limelight when maybe they should just be grooving." But Portnoy rejects the idea he fought with LaBrie for top billing, and insists he's equally happy working behind Symphony X frontman Russell Allan in Adrenaline Mob.

The drummer tells Noisecreep: "I absolutely am not the defacto frontman in the Mob. That title surely goes to Russell, who's one of the best frontmen in the business. I'm just happy to be part of the band, and not necessarily leading it." more on this story

The Darkness Look To AC/DC, Queen, Aerosmith For Inspiration

(Gibson) Hot off their face-melting reunion at this year's Download Festival, The Darkness are back in the studio. The Lowestoft-based group are looking to pick up where they left off in 2006, when they broke up on the heels of their second album, One Way Ticket to Hell… and Back. Now, the boys who belted "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" are putting the finishing touches on their third album, a disc singer Justin Hawkins links to some of rock's heaviest hitters.

Hawkins told Total Guitar, "Home is where the heart is. When you write songs, you need a grounding to set the stories in. There's a lot about small-town life. The album has songs about stuff that's happened to us in the town. It's AC/DC, Queen, Aerosmith, etcetera."

Regarding the group's most noticeable influence, Queen, Hawkins said that the band put a lot of thought into just how much of Freddie Mercury and company they can wear on their proverbial sleeves. "We could do all those big Queen arrangements," he pondered. "It's just whether we want to. Do you overblow it? Do you underblow it?" more on this story

Paul McCartney Phone Hack Scandal Victim?

(Gibson) Former Beatle Paul McCartney is the victim of a phone-hacking scandal in England. The attack comes after his ex-wife, Heather Mills, claimed a journalist with the Mirror Group confessed to hacking into voicemail messages left by then-boyfriend Sir Paul in 2001.

McCartney told the BBC the phone hacking was a "horrendous violation of privacy."

"When I go back [to Britain] after this tour, I am going to talk to the police because apparently I have been hacked," McCartney said. "I don't know much about it because they won't tell anyone except the person themselves. So I will be talking to them about that. I do think it's horrendous violation of privacy. I do think it has been going on for a long time and I do think more people than we know knew about it…" more on this story

AC/DC Release Board Game

(hennemusic) Following in the footsteps of The Beatles, KISS, Elvis and – more recently – Metallica, AC/DC now have their own Monopoly game.

The AC/DC Collector's Edition of Monopoly gives fans a chance to build their own AC/DC empire through control of albums and properties like Black Ice and AC/DC Lane.

Game Play: Players will buy, sell and trade AC/DC albums and international locations. Players improve their properties with Gold and Platinum Records.

6 Tokens: Cannon ("For Those About To Rock"), Bundle of Dynamite ("T.N.T."), Bell on Fire ("Hells Bells"), Lightning Bolt ("Thunder Struck"), Angus's School Boy Hat ("School Days"), Stacks of Cash ("Money Talks") more on this story

Walter Trout Kicks Off North American Tour

Walter Trout kicked off a two-month long North American tour yesterday in Mammoth Lakes, CA.

Trout has been out promoting his 20th album Common Ground, with appearances throughout Europe and the U.S. over the past year.

The title of Trout's latest Common Ground is also a prayer. He sings "If there's a place where truth can still be found, Lord lead us to the common ground." more on this story

Poison Ponder New Album

(Rock News Desk) Poison frontman Bret Michaels believes the band will make another album when the time is right.

"I'm not sure when it'll happen," he says, "But I'm sure it will one day. I love writing music and I love those guys."

He also says Poison were always going to be around for a long time: "I did imagine a lifelong career with the band. Life is about loyalty to me – you stick together. I'm still amazed by Poison and what we've done together so far." more on this story

When John Lennon Met Paul McCartney

(Gibson) When Rod Davis joined The Quarrymen as a skiffle-crazed banjo player in 1957, he had no idea the group would evolve into the biggest band in rock and roll history, The Beatles. Speaking to BBC News on the occasion of the anniversary of the group's first date at the legendary Cavern Club, Davis recalled leaving the group for a holiday in France that summer and returning to find his seat had been filled by a younger kid named Paul McCartney.

"The famous meeting with Lennon and McCartney was 6 July and, a couple of weeks after that, I remember practicing at [John's] Aunt Mimi's [house] and it was the only time I ever remember being there," he recalled. "I turned up at Mimi's and there was this guy there, who I didn't know. So I said to John, 'Who's this, John?' And he said, 'That's Paul; he's come to listen to us practice.' By then obviously they'd offered him the banjo player slot; so if I hadn't been such a rubbish banjo player, Paul McCartney wouldn't have got in the group."

Davis disputed the date assigned by Beatles historians for The Quarrymen's first show at the Cavern Club, long reported to have been August 7, 1957. "No question about it, I played three or four times at The Cavern and it was definitely before August," he said. "I have my dad's passport which says, 'Entry to Boulogne 29 July, 1957,' so I was definitely not [at the Cavern in August]." more on this story

Guns N' Art for Matt Sorum

(Sub) Guns 'N Roses/The Cult/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum has unveiled five original art pieces. Here is the official word:

The first five pieces in the "Art Of Drums" collection marks nothing less than the creation of a new visual medium: not oil, not acrylic, but a drummer's rhythm bottled up through a manipulation of time and light and translated onto canvas as visual art.

Created in collaboration with SceneFour, the Los Angeles-based creativity house behind artistic ventures with the RZA, Bootsy Collins and many other luminaries, Sorum's pieces are the first from what will over the coming months become a series of iconic drummers joining the visual art realm through the harnessing of this groundbreaking approach. more on this story

Korn's Jonathan Davis Explains Painful Lyrics

(Rock News Desk) Jonathan Davis says Korn's lyrics are mainly about pain and torment because he's writing about what he knows.

The frontman explains: "I've always written about what I've been dealing with. It might be because of my background growing up, being called 'freak' by kids in Bakersfield, that those themes are natural to me."

He says his own proudest achievement with the band is their Untouchables album and he's looking forward to releasing their latest project, a dubstep LP made in collaboration with Skrillex and other DJs: "It's come out to be some very interesting stuff." more rock news

Kisser Gets Anthrax Tattoo

(Rock News Desk) Andreas Kisser has had an Anthrax tattoo inked to mark his time standing in for Scott Ian during the summer.

The Sepultura guitarist was called up because Ian needed to be with his wife during the birth of their first child. All went well and the baby was born early, but Kisser played the dates in July anyway, and was thanked by the band for making the experience so easy for them.

Kisser says: "It's an amazing feeling. To be part of the Big 4 shows, and jamming at the end, was great. And I was representing Brazilian heavy metal in a way. more on this story

Check Out The Harry Nilsson Movie For Free

(Sub) SnagFilms.com has launched a special viewing of the film "Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everyone Talking About Him?)".

The film is only free for two weeks (starting last Friday). The film is a full-length profile of the Beatle's favorite American musician, Harry Nilsson, and includes never before seen footage of the singer/songwriter with John Lennon and other influential celebrities from the 1960s and would resonate with your audience.

The film is part of our SnagFilms.com's Summerfest Promotion and you can check it out here

Get Scared Hit The Road

Get Scared hit the road this weekend for their first-ever headlining run of tour dates.

They are touring in support of their recently-released full-length Universal Motown debut, Best Kind Of Mess.

The tour kicked off in Albuquerque, NM Saturday (September 6th), and according to their PR the tour will showcase their unique brand of horror-inspired alternative rock. more on this story

Help Get Your Favorite Song In The Library of Congress

Here is your chance to help get your favorite song in the Library of Congress. They sent over word that they are currently accepting public nominations for its annual National Recording Registry.

Each year since 2002 the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) and members of the public have nominated recordings to the National Registry.

The breadth and depth of nominations received highlights the richness of the nation's audio legacy and underscores the importance of assuring the long-term preservation of that legacy for future generations. more on this story

Adrenaline Mob Singled Out Week: Psychosane

Adrenaline Mob (Symphony X's Russell Allen, Sonic Stomp's Mike Orlando, Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy Fozzy's Rich Ward and Nena's Paul DiLeo) are releasing their self-titled debut EP this week. To celebrate we asked Mike to tell us about some of the songs. Today he tells us about "Psychosane":

Psychosane started off as a song I tracked many years actually prior to teaming up with Russ & forming Adrenaline Mob. Our usual method of me bringing the recorded tracks over to Russells Chanty Shack & gettin to work on Lyrics & melodies with Russ was again the norm here.. Though on a break I added the release of the song where MP sings over & the section before the solo as a direct inspiration from Portnoys incredible playing style & saying to myself, this will be perfect for Mike & myself to really lean into this section & sync up together. After the basic song was arranged Russ & I started hitting lyrics & melodies. The title was already there & was something I had from way back when.. It was inspired by the movie American Psycho actually where the main character seemed at times so sane & in control but then would just cut someone to pieces. Russ & I then turned it more to the musical factor of it cutting you to the core with the power of the song.

The track has a real cool overall bounce & hop to it which is something I love to convey in songs. The verse has got a cool Pantera vibe where Russ hit these insane powerful notes that rip through your brain.

The pre chorus was something Mike P. always said he heard there..big 3 part harmonies ala Alice in Chains vibe which I feel jumps out of the track in a great way & sets up the slammin groove of the chorus. The energy of solo I felt had to match the songs so I went for it in true Adrenaline style & ending with a real cool Talkbox, which live Russ & I do together! Psychosane just really encompasses many aspects of Adrenaline Mob & is one of my favorite tracks!

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the EP right here!

. Hot In The City: The Meat Puppets and Ronstadt Generations

Hot in the City showcases the hottest new releases with an Arizona connection. In this edition Kevin Wierzbicki takes a listen to The Meat Puppets Lollipop and Ronstadt Generations Lulo - Read the full The Meat Puppets and Ronstadt Generations review