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Vince Neil Going To Jail

(Rock AAA) Motley Crue's Vince Neil is to serve jail time following his arrest for drunk driving last year.

The singer will spend two weeks in a Los Angeles prison followed by two weeks of house arrest after being caught over the limit in his Lambourghini at the end of June.

It's his second prison term for the same offence – he spent three weeks behind bars in 1984 after crashing his car while under the influence of alcohol. The incident caused the death of Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle Dingley and seriously injured two people in another car. more on this story

Steven Tyler Rejected Led Zeppelin Offer

(hennemusic) Aerosmith's Steven Tyler not only jammed with Led Zeppelin following that band's celebrated 2007 reunion, but was asked by Jimmy Page to write a record with them and he turned the offer down.

Tyler dropped the Zeppelin bombshell on Howard Stern's show early Tuesday morning, while making the media rounds in NYC to promote American Idol's launch Wednesday night.

Tyler told Stern, "When I looked Jimmy in the eyes and it came time to...'you wanna write a record with me?' I went, 'No'" Find out why

Has The Who Played Their Last Show?

(Rock AAA) Roger Daltrey fears the Who may have played their last gig because Pete Townshend's hearing problems are still an issue, says the singer.

The band were forced to refuse offers of a large-scale tour in the USA following their Super Bowl appearance last year after Townshend revealed his long battle against tinnitus wasn't going well.

Despite Daltrey's cancer scare he hoped his bandmate would find a solution using new hearing technology – but it hasn't worked out. And the Who's Killing Cancer charity show in London last week may have been their last live appearance. more on this story

Don Kirshner RIP

(Gibson) Don Kirshner, the '60s music publisher behind the music of The Monkees and many others, died on Monday of heart failure. He was 76.

Kirshner discovered Bobby Darin in the '50s and began Aldon Music with Al Nevins, creating a veritable songwriting factory in the Brill Building in New York City. Kirshner's writers included Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.

He used many of those writers to provide the hit music for the TV show The Monkees. Time magazine called him, "The Man with the Golden Ear." more on this story

Travis Barker Releases Solo Album Details and New Video

(Interscope) Blink-182's Travis Barker has confirmed more details about the album, Give The Drummer Some, which will be released March 15, 2011.

The first single will be "Can A Drummer Get Some," featuring The Game, Swizz Beats, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross. "Jump Down," featuring The Cool Kids, and "Carry It," featuring RZA, Raekwon, and Tom Morello, are currently available on iTunes. Watch the video for "Carry It" here.

Other confirmed tracks include "Devil's Got A Hold of Me," featuring hip-hop supergroup Slaughterhouse, "Misfits," featuring Steve Aoki, "Cool Head," featuring Kid Cudi, "Don't F*** With Me," featuring Paul Wall, Kurupt, and J Roc, "City of Dreams," featuring The Clipse and Kobe, and "On My Own," featuring Slipknot's Corey Taylor. More very special guests are in the works with details to be announced soon. more on this story

Queens of the Stone Age Working On New Album

(Rock AAA) Josh Homme is in the early stages of working on a new Queens of the Stone Age album, he's confirmed.

Rumours have been rife that the project was underway for some time, but Homme has finally confirmed them while explaining it will be a long process.

He tells Radio 1: "I've been reconnecting with playing for playing's sake and falling back in love with the music. It's been so long since I was able to play without any sort of pressure. more on this story

Slipknot Clown Giving Away Free Black Dots of Death Download

(60 Cycle Media) The Black Dots of Death have officially confirmed the final track listing for their upcoming debut Ever Since We Were Children, which will now feature the track "I Am Lost."

The brainchild of percussionist and co-founding member of Slipknot, M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan, The Black Dots of Death will release their debut album March 1, 2011 on Sopra Evil / Rocket Science Ventures.

Clown says, "The Black Dots of Death for me is a rebirth, a midlife second coming." more

Melissa Etheridge Replacing Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong

(hennemusic) Green Day's Broadway musical version of "American Idiot" is getting a makeover for one week next month.

Melissa Etheridge will be taking Billie Joe Armstrong's place as "St. Jimmy" in the show while the Green Day singer is off taking care of other business.

Armstrong had signed on to do 50 performances in the show, starting January 1 through to February 27, with some down time in that window. more on this story

3 Inches Of Blood Recording New Songs and Hitting The Road

(Century Media) 3 Inches Of Blood are preparing for a tour with Eluveitie, but before that gets started they will be making a quick pit stop into Shostroud Productions in Vancouver to record a couple of their new cuts with Sho Murray (City of Fire) and Byron Stroud (Strapping Young Lad, Fear Factory).

One of the songs will be played live on the upcoming tour and will be making its way online soon. The band comments:

"It's a great time for us to be touring North America again. We haven't slugged it out in the US since Mayhem fest in summer 2010 and we're always happy to play to our loyal Canadian brethren. Everyone in the 3IOB camp have been eagerly anticipating this tour. We've never toured with a band like Eluveitie before. Their fan base is probably more similar to ours than most other bands we've toured with in the past. The Holy Grail guys are always fun to hang out with and we're curious to check out System Divide. We're extra pumped for this tour because it will give us the opportunity to road-test a new song or two. Hope everyone digs the new jams." more on this story

Singled Out: Attackhead's Dark Ritual

Hey Metal Maniacs and Gutter dwellers, Mark Chapman here from the So Cal thrash metal band Attackhead. As part of the Day in Rock report I am going to give you all some insight into the writing process and inspiration for our song Dark Ritual. This song is based on the Aztec ritual of human sacrifice and pretty much tells a story from beginning to end.

I remember I can up with the opening riff, which is also the chorus, one day while sitting around practicing some time back in 2005. Like most of our songs I just tucked the riff away in my mind and played around with it until something else came to me. Before long I had the verse to go along with the chorus so the song was pretty well structured. I wanted to have an evil part in the middle to break up the song so it would not be boring. After playing with the verse and chorus for a few weeks I came up with the break down riff in the middle and subsequent solo break. George and I worked out a nice dual guitar solo for the second half of the solo break and we were basically done. This song is a little strange as it ends on a verse instead of a chorus. I then brought the song to the band and we massaged it a little further until everyone was happy with the feel.

Once I knew how the drums were structured and had a good idea of the tempo of the song I started writing the lyrics. I usually come up with the theme first then put myself in the role and write the story. I believe I was watching something on TV about human sacrifice and thought it would be a good subject for this song. I did a little research and began writing. I usually sit down with my guitar and play the verse when I am writing the lyrics so I have the proper tempo and beat to match the words. After an afternoon I had the finished product and began memorizing the lyrics for our next rehearsal.

Dark Ritual has a fast tempo and a very Slayer like sound. It is a great song to play live and is very popular with our fans. This song is on our Debut LP "Voices in the Dark" and was redone with our new Label for "Voices in the Dark – Second Attack" out Jan 25th, 2011. Grab a listen here

NYC Sucks Volume 1 Free Compilation Release

Metal Sucks sent over this bit of info for any metalheads looking for some free music: Volume 1 of NYC Sucks, the completely free comp we've compiled to spotlight some of the best metal bands currently dominating the New York metal scene.

This volume features fourteen songs by as many bands, who run the gamut of genres, from death to tech to prog to grind to black to hardcore to doom and more. We truly feel that this is a great sampling of all that New York's thriving metal scene has to offer, and we're beyond proud to be sharing it with you — absolutely, 100% free of charge.

You can stream, or, better yet, just download the comp at the below address. It contains high-quality 320kbps MP3s, and as well as a PDF of digital liner notes with information about all the bands. Please help get the word out… send the comp to your friends, put it up on torrent sites, submit it to .rar Mediafire blogs… just spread the friggin' music by any means necessary!
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Tracklisting here

Ozzy Osbourne Explains How To Be Normal

(hennemusic) Brisk - the iced tea drink brand owned by PepsiCo. - is bringing back its classic claymation commercials.

As we told you last month, Brisk's new campaign features Ozzy Osbourne and Danny Trejo in separate ads.

Ozzy recorded the voice work at Another Country Studios in Chicago, back in early December. In the new full video/ad, Ozzy explains "How To Be Normal"… Watch it here

Jeff Beck Party Honoring Les Paul Coming To DVD and Blu-Ray

(Kayos) Eagle Rock Entertainment has announced a February 22, 2011 simultaneous release of Jeff Beck: Rock 'N' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul on DVD and Blu-ray.

Filmed in high definition at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City this past spring, this musical celebration of the great Les Paul features selections of his songs and other great rock 'n' roll tracks.

On June 9, 2010, which would have been Les Paul's 95th birthday, Jeff Beck and a host of special guests paid homage to the musical icon at the very club where he performed every Monday night. Rockabilly songstress Imelda May and her band, led by Darrel Higham, as well as Gary US Bonds, Brian Setzer and Trombone Shorty, join Beck on many of the tracks. This collection of talent, performing in the clubs intimate setting, truly captures the spirit of Les Paul's weekly gigs, and the DVD puts the viewer right there in the audience for a showcase of stunning musicianship and truly great songs. Spotted in the audience at this spectacular event is an amalgam of stars, such as David Bowie, Meat Loaf, Steven Van Zandt, Paul Shaffer, Kirk Hammett, and Nils Lofgren. more on this story

Glee Slashed

(Gibson) Slash says you're not likely to hear Guns N' Roses songs performed on Glee any time soon – the show's request to use GN'R tracks has already been knocked back once.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the guitarist said: "Actually, we got asked about that once already but it got turned down. In the current climate of what's going on in entertainment these days, I try to be more optimistic than negative because it's really easy to get negative about it, but I draw the line at Glee."

Slash went on to say, "Glee is worse than Grease and Grease is bad enough… When Grease came out I was like, "Oh, c'mon, give me a break." Actually, I look at Grease now and think: Between High School Musical and Glee, Grease was a brilliant work of art." more on this story

Panic! At The Disco Set New Album Release

Panic! At The Disco will release their new album "Vices & Virtues" on March 29th.

Here is what Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen had to say about it: The album's first single, entitled "The Ballad of Mona Lisa," will be available at all digital retailers on February 1st.

That same day will see the multi-platinum certified band debuting new music from "VICES & VIRTUES" with a very special live performance at New York City's Bowery Ballroom, tickets for which sold-out in one hour. more on this story

The Roots and Yngwie Malmsteen Late Night Jam

Yngwie Malmsteen will sit in with the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon house band, The Roots, on Thursday, February 3rd.

Malmsteen will be featured throughout the entire show. "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" airs on NBC at 12:35AM, ET/PT. more on this story

Foo Fighters Tease

(Gibson) Foo Fighters have offered fans a teaser of their forthcoming album in the form of a 29-second snippet.

The clip kicks off with a heavy instrumental introduction which may remind some fans of Dave Grohl's all-star metal project, Probot, before Grohl sings "These are my famous last words" in a classic Grohl growl.

The clip then ends, but fans are offered a series of options including the choice of sharing the song on social networking sites or downloading the teaser as a ringtone, as well as, of course, playing the track again. more on this story

Fair To Midland Announce Spring Tour With Periphery and Scale The Summit

Fair To Midland has announced a headlining tour this spring ahead of the May release of their new album.

Dates will span coast to coast starting in early March reaching through the middle of April with support from Periphery and Scale The Summit.

"We are extremely excited to try out our new songs live in front of all of our friends. It has been too long since we have headlined a tour. Expect a whole new show." says front man Darroh Sudderth. more on this story

Lemmy Dishonored

(Gibson) ThisisStaffordshire.co.uk is reporting that the recent bid to erect statues honoring Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has been rejected.

Council members from the city of Stoke-on-Trent rejected a petition to honor the two rock heroes who were born in the city.

Councilor Matt Wilcox said that he felt the proposal was too selective."It's actually quite selfish to focus on these two specific artists," he said. "And I think there should be a more diverse monument to the range of that this city has produced." more on this story

Helmet, St. Vitus, Crowbar for Metalliance Tour Dates

Last week we told you that 2011 Metalliance Tour lineup will feature Helmet, Saint Vitus and Crowbar. Today we the tour dates.

The festival tour will kick off on March 17th Dallas, TX and will conclude on April 5th in Hollywood, Ca.

Crowbar front man Kirk Windstein says, "Wow! This tour is gonna rule! I've loved Helmet since the beginning and loved St. Vitus even longer. With the new Crowbar record having hit the streets by then, look out! This bill will bring just what we need to crush each city with an avalanche of stylistic thunder!" more on this story

L.A. Guns Plan Unplugged Album

(Gibson) L.A. Guns (the Tracii Guns version of L.A. Guns, that is) will record an acoustic live album at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, California, on February 19.

The album, to be called Acoustic Gypsy Live, will feature acoustic versions of the band's hits as well as two new songs. Original L.A. Guns guitarist Mick Cripps will join the band on stage for some tracks.

Tracii Guns' lineup of L.A. Guns features vocalist Jizzy Pearl (Love/Hate, RATT), who in addition to having a powerful hard rock voice is known for crucifying himself on the Hollywood sign in a promotional stunt. Pearl also sang on L.A. Guns' 1999 album Shrinking Violet, following the breakup of Love/Hate earlier that year. more on this story

The Twilight Singers Announce Euro Tour

(SKH) The Twilight Singers have announced their first European tour in five years which kicks off March 18th in London at the Electric Ballroom.

The band will celebrate the launch of their forthcoming album Dynamite Steps (Out in the US on February 15th and worldwide on February 14th) by performing two special shows at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles (Feb 15th) and the San Francisco Amoeba Music store (Feb 17th) the week of release. These will be the first ever in store performances for the group.

The following week, The Twilight Singers will return to Jimmy Kimmel Live on February 23rd to perform their latest single "On The Corner" The song is currently available as a free download at the Sub Pop Records website more on this story

There's An App For Led Zeppelin

(Gibson) A new iPhone/iPad app is sure to go over like a lead balloon…in a good way. The new This Day in Led Zeppelin app is following in the footsteps of the popular This Day in Music app, providing fans with more than 1,000 pages worth of information about one of the most legendary bands in rock history.

"I had the idea of making individual apps for some of the biggest acts in the world, and thought the best one to start with would be Zeppelin, because of their iconic status," said Neil Cossar, of This Day in Music, in a statement about the app.

Among the app's features: a detailed list of every show Led Zeppelin every played, a Zeppelin quiz with hundreds of questions, critiques of every track the band ever recorded, a career overview of the group, photographs of the band and more.

For more information, visit www.thisdayinmusicapps.com.

Protest The Hero Announce Album and Tour

Protest The Hero have announced a world tour in support of their third studio album, Scurrilous, which is set for release on March 22 on Vagrant Records in the U.S.

Scurrilous is the follow up to the band's 2008 sophomore release, Fortress, and reunites the band with producer Julius "Juice" Butty.

Protest the Hero will begin their world tour with dates in Europe and the UK from January 26th through February 12th supporting Darkest Hour. more on this story

The Decemberists Webcast Today

You can check out The Decemberists in a live video webcast hosted by NPR Music and Oregon Public Broadcasting today (Wednesday, January 19) at 12:00pm PT/3:00pm ET.

The hour-long set will include a very special performance and interview before an intimate audience at OPB's studios in the band's hometown of Portland, Oregon, and will be webcast at http://www.npr.org/music/.

This will mark the first extended live performance of material from The Decemberists' new album The King Is Dead, which was released yesterday on EMI's Capitol Records, and Monday on Rough Trade Records in the UK and Europe.

ZZ Top Extreme for Pushking

Russian rockers Pushking have release a video for "It'll Be OK," also features ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons and Extreme axeman Nuno Bettencourt.

The Fabrizio Grossi directed clip finds Pushking vocalist Konstantin "Koha" Shustarev trading verses with Gibbons, while Bettencourt lays down one of his signature guitar solos towards the end of the track. The World As We Love It also includes guest appearances from Paul Stanley (Kiss), Steve Vai, Udo Dirkschneider (Accept), Steve Lukather (Toto), among many others.

The song comes from The World As We Love It, the band's star-studded new album which is set to hit stores on February 1st. For now check out the video here

Wanda Jackson Album Release Show

(PR) The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma will kick off the 2011 spring semester Jan 28 when Queen of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson comes to the Performance Lab for a free, release week concert celebrating her new Jack White-produced album, 'The Party Ain't Over' (out Jan 25).

It's been an unforgettable 2010 for ACM UCO. The school hosted master classes and exclusive mentoring sessions with top artists, including Jackson Browne, the Mountain Goats and Local Natives.

Many of the artists also performed concerts at the school's brand new music venue, The Performance Lab, which offers students hands-on experience in the world of live music booking, promotion, and production. http://acm-uco.com/

More Free Beatles On Ukulele

(Big Machine) Over the next two weeks, The Beatles Complete On Ukulele (TBCOU) will release the following free downloadable MP3's:

On January 18th 2011- "I Want to Hold Your Hand" performed by Violet Ryder (105)

January 25th, 2011- "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" performed by The DFW Crew (106)

Available for download here

Iron and Wine Join Team Coco

(Submitted) Iron and Wine has announced Team Coco as the exclusive listening party partner for their new album, Kiss Each Other Clean.

The entire album can now be heard on the official site of Conan O'Brien and his online network, at http://teamcoco.com/ironandwine.

The band will also perform on TBS' Conan on January 24th, the eve of the album's release. Kiss Each Other Clean, which Spin gave a 9 out of 10 rating and Uncut named "Album of the Month," is being released January 25th, 2011 through Warner Bros. Records in North America and internationally on January 24th, 2011 by 4AD. more on this story