KISS Launching Their Own Pro Football Team

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Zakk Wylde Speaks Out About A Rod Doping Scandal

Black Label Society frontman and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde was the featured guest on the latest episode of Talking Metal and the talk actually ventured away from metal and over to third base as Wylde shared his views about the Alex Rodriguez doping scandal.

Here is what he had to say about the matter, "I just thought it is kind of weird. Didn't he just go through this 4 years ago when the Yankees won the World Series? Remember he came out and said 'I tried it for awhile and it was wrong of me and I shouldn't have done it but I know this wasn't making my numbers go up and it wasn't like I was hitting the ball any further so I just stopped doing it. Maybe I wasn't even doing it right to begin with or taking the right stuff. Who knows if it was even phony' and he goes 'I am not on anything right now so whatever.'

"And it just seemed like it was over. It was like he came out and didn't lie and everyone was fine with that. Now all of a sudden they are going after him again so I don't understand it. I really don't.

"Put it this way, if he takes a piss test, blood test and a hair sample and there is nothing in his system then who the f**k cares? Does anyone have any blood, hair or urine samples from whenever they thought he was taking it in 2001 and 2002?

"It is like 'no, we don't have any evidence' then who can you put this guy in jail? You don't have the murder weapon, you don't have any blood, you don't have any evidence, no fingerprints. OJ, they had evidence. A Rod they have no evidence." Check out the full episode here.

Black Sabbath Go Double Gold

(hennemusic) Black Sabbath were presented with "double gold disc" awards for "13" prior to the band's performance in Toronto on Wednesday, and bassist Geezer Butler is sharing photos from the event.

Geezer posted pictures to his Facebook page of the award presentation, as well as shots of personalized official Toronto Maple Leafs jerseys the band members received.

The Toronto date is part of the band's current North American tour, which wraps up September 3 in Los Angeles, following which Black Sabbath will play a series of dates in Latin America starting October 4 in Santiago, Chile. See the photo here.

Testament Reveal Dark Roots of Thrash Details

Testament have revealed the details of their upcoming live DVD and 2 CD release, Dark Roots of Thrash, which they will be releasing on October 11th in Europe and October 15th in North America.

The release will feature the band's performance at a sold-out concert at the Paramount in Huntington, NY back in February and will feature 19 tracks from the show.

Nuclear Blast Records will be releasing Darks Roots Of Thrash various formats including a standard DVD+2CD and 2CD versions, plus a limited Bluray+2CD (Europe only), LP (Europe only), as well as Nuclear Blast mail-order only items (LP colored in gatefold, DVD+2CD DIGI + tourpass and limited BlueRay+2CD DIGI + tourpass) via their website.

Testament guitarist Eric Peterson had this to say about the new live release, "Metal heads! In case you've missed us on our Dark Roots campaign tour here's a day in the life and good representation of our show! Check it out, and put on your list of metal to get!"

Frontman Chuck Billy adds "For all you die hard metal heads out there Dark Roots Of Thrash is a must have for your collection. This live DVD and CD is something you can put in you player and crank up for the feeling of a live Testament performance! You will get 18 songs from the early days of thrash metal to where we are today. Heavy metal forever!"

The album and DVD were directed by Tommy Jones (Death Angel, Kataklysm, Soilwork) and mixed by Juan Urteaga (Vile, Exodus, Sadus, Machine Head). more on this story

Paul McCartney Working On New Album

(Radio.com) Former Beatle Paul McCartney has been writing and recording what will be his 16th studio album, which is expected to be released sometime this fall.

Rolling Stone reports that McCartney, who has been traversing the U.S. for the last couple of months on his Out There Tour, has been working on his follow-up to 2012′s Kisses On The Bottom with a cadre of guests, including producers Mark Ronson, Adele hitmaker Paul Epworth, and Giles Martin, son of "fifth Beatle" and producer George Martin.

The album will also feature the son of a Beatle contemporary, producer Ethan Johns, whose father Glyn Johns worked with The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. The young Johns has also produced a handful of seminal indie records like Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker, the first two Kings Of Leon records, and the last three Laura Marling records. In an interview with RS, Johns said that he and McCartney first started recording a song called "Hosannah" on vintage instruments to analog tape.

"It had an incredible feel," said Johns of the song, "a really evocative piece of music, a very interesting lyric, and the performance was great. Then we started to experiment with it, and I put a bunch of psychedelic strangeness on it. You have fun. 'Oh, try this! Do that!' It's just very inspiring to be around."

Johns and McCartney recorded four new songs in total over the three to four weeks they spent in the studio, first at London's AIR Studios then later at the famous Abbey Road Studios. more on this story

Woman That Attacked Lester Chambers Charged With Assault

(The Blues A woman has been charged in connection with the onstage attack on Lester Chambers at the Russell City Hayward Blues Festival in California last month after Chambers brought up a controversial subject from the stage.

Dinalynn Andrews-Potter, 43, will answer allegations of assault and elder abuse after the 73-year-old singer was pushed into his band's amplifiers while they performed "People Get Ready."

After the incident he said: "This just bamboozled me. I don't know what to do now. I wish one day we could just have everybody happy together. Everybody that wants to be happy and share love and joy at the same place." Find out what sparked the attack.

Head Says Things Are Better With Korn This Time

(TeamRock Radio) Korn guitarist Brian 'Head' Welch says there's not a single bad thing about his reunion with the band. In fact, his life has spun 180 degrees since he left in 2005, and it doesn't matter to him how it happened.

"Back then I was just up to no good, up to no good at all, to the point where I really just ended up sick," Head says. "Not necessarily sick in the sense of throwing up but just feeling sick and ill every night, towards the end of every night on tour back in the day.

"Now I really feel like we are having a better experience overall. It's such a contrast from how it used to be – it's a total 180." more on this story

Protest The Hero Announce New Album Release

(TeamRock Radio) Protest The Hero have confirmed their fourth album will be called Volition, and it's due out on October 28th in Europe and October 29th in North America.

The release comes after Protest The Hero raised $200,000 in just a week via an Indiegogo campaign to fund recording sessions for the new album.

"Volition contains a couple of blazin' bangers we hope some or/ most of you will enjoy!," The band say. "We will be peacing on a North American tour beginning in November." more.

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Announces Tour and Prog God Award

Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson have announced that he will be embarking on a UK tour next Spring and also responded to news that he will be receiving the Prog God Award at this year's Progressive Music Awards.

The tour will be kicking off on April 28th in 28th Brighton at the Dome and will be concluding with two nights at the 02 Shepherds Bush Empire in London on May 24th and 25th.

The Progressive Music Awards will be taking place on September 3rd in London and are spearheaded by Day in Rock news partner Prog Magazine. Here is what Anderson had to say about his Prog God Award honor and addressed a controversial past honor he received, "After winning the Grammy for best 'Hard Rock/Metal" album back in 1988, this seems like an opportunity to justify that strange and misplaced accolade with a new album to celebrate the more forceful, full-on rock credentials which are found in many of my songs over the last 45 years.

"It's not an end to the acoustic and gentler moments but more of an emphasis on the louder aggressive flute style which marked me out from the earliest days of Jethro Tull."

He adds, "The innocent voyage of restless souls: that's prog rock. Sometimes bombastic, self-indulgent and worse, it is also an honest, gut-felt reaction to the often simplistic and repetitive nature of much of pop and rock.

"It is, indeed, an honour to receive this illustrious Prog award and dwell in such lofty heights amongst the good and the great of the last forty-plus years. I remain very happy to inhabit the progressive rock world, as both performer and listener.

"And where else could a self-taught, mediocre but extremely loud flute player make a decent living? Not in country and western, I would suppose. But, hey: if the boots fit and the buckskin-fringed coyote crooner calls, then count me in Cowboy! Brokeback Mountain could never sound sweeter."

Prog Magazine Editor Jerry Ewing had this to say, "For 45 years Ian has been playing live, and I don't think I have ever seen two shows the same! It doesn't matter if its Jethro Tull or Ian on his own – its always magnificent, groundbreaking and captivating. Without him rock would be a very different and lesser place, so to announce him as our Prog God at the same time as he announces a UK tour seems hugely fitting."

Anderson will be touring in support of his forthcoming album, which he describes as a 'Folk-Prog-Metal' concept album. The album will be released next year and fans can expect to hear tracks from the effort along with Jethro Tull classics on the tour. more on this story

Former Praying Mantis Singer Speaks Out About Firing

(Classic Rock) Fired Praying Mantis singer Mike Freeland says former bandmate Tino Troy has lied about him and he can't understand why. Troy dismissed Freeland and drummer Gary Mackenzie last month, and later stated the vocalist had to go because the quality of his performances had crashed since the recording of 2009 album Sanctuary.

"Mike's vocal performance was second to none; the ensuing shows we did were pitch-perfect. I still don't know to this day what happened over the last couple of years," Troy said. "Perhaps you should ask Mike that question. As far as I'm concerned he lost it, for reasons best known to himself and those closest to him."

The singer has responded to Troy's comments by saying: "I don't want to wage any war with Praying Mantis. I've said nothing to instigate such a thing.

"I was very ill during my last two performances with them, but I'm not going to bore you with the details. In hindsight, I should have had the guts to cancel the gigs – but I've always gone with the notion that the show must go on." He is not done.

Guitarist Says The Strokes Will Be Back

(Gibson) When the Strokes didn't tour in support of their most recent release, Comedown Machine, rumors swirled that the band would soon call it quits. But if you believe guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., the Strokes are most certainly still together. In fact, he hopes the guys will get back together to do some Strokes-related business soon.

"At some point we will do something and we will speak about it wholly and it will feel good," Hammond Jr. told NME. "The Strokes are always…going to have something. I'm not saying that's the word from the band, just that's how I look at it, how it feels -- like we've gone past the point of not doing stuff."

Comedown Machine , which marked the band's fifth studio album, debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 albums its debut week out, pushing 41,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen Soundscan. more on this story

Sean Kelly Plans Metal On Ice EP and Tour

(Classic Rock) Canadian guitarist and author Sean Kelly is gearing up to release an EP inspired by his book Metal On Ice. The title documents the glories and struggles of Canada's hard rock and heavy metal heroes in the 80s and early 90s, drawing on interviews with members of the bands that made that chapter of Canada's music history so memorable for its fans.

Metal On Ice includes interviews with members of Anvil, Voivod, Brighton Rock, Helix, Coney Hatch, Kick Axe, Sven Gali, Slik Toxik and many others.

The Metal On Ice EP will feature Carl Dixon of Coney Hatch, Brian Vollmer of Helix, Lee Aaron, Darby Mills of Headpins, Nick Walsh of Slik Toxik and Russ Dwarf of Killer Dwarfs.

A Pledge campaign is underway to support the recording, and a live tour featuring the guest vocalists alongside a house band is being prepared. more on this story

The Union Release New Video and Announce DVD and Tour

(Classic Rock) The Union will release a live DVD in September ahead of their second UK tour of the year, the band have confirmed. They've also launched a video for their track Tonight I'm Alive, which is to be released as a single.

Guitarist Luke Morley, also of Thunder, says it was a happy coincidence they were able to recruit Prisoner's Wives actress Emma Rigby for the promo.

"My wife worked with Emma on Prisoner's Wives," he reports. "When it turned out Emma was a fan of our last album, she was the natural person to ask.

"The video is quite unlike anything we've done before – there's a twist at the end of it. Plus, Pete and I are barely in it, which isn't a bad thing!"

Watch the video, grab the tour dates and get more details about the DVD here.

Echo And The Bunnymen Prog Offshoot Poltergeist Announce Tour

(Prog) Poltergeist, the new prog outfit formed by original Echo And The Bunnymen members Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson, have confirmed a UK tour for October.

The trek is in support of debut album Your Mind Is A Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder), available now via Proper Records, and featured in the Prog Magazine No37.

Guitarist Sergeant and bassist Pattinson are joined by drummer Nick Kilroe in the band. Sergeant says their name is something he'd wanted to use from his earliest days: "Poltergeist was formed in my head as a schoolboy in the 1970s." more on this story

Roadrunner Records Releasing 30th Anniversary Box Set

(TeamRock Radio) Roadrunner Records will mark over 30 years of delivering some of the world's best rock and metal music with a four-disc box set featuring 54 tracks.

Among the featured artists are Slipknot, Airbourne, Korn, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dream Theater, Sepultura, Porcupine Tree and Heaven And Hell.

The label say XXX: Three Decades Of Roadrunner Records is "a documentation of not just Roadrunner's history, but of metal itself. Check out the tracklisting here.

Tesla Release New Song 'Taste My Pain'

(hennemusic) Sacramento rockers Tesla have released a new single, "Taste My Pain". Recorded in June at bassist Brian Wheat's J Street Recorders studio, the band plans to include it on a forthcoming album, which they're aiming to release next year.

Tesla's latest album, "Twisted Wires And The Acoustic Sessions", was released in 2011. The project featured 6 songs that were recorded in 2005 and 6 newly recorded tracks, including acoustic remakes of songs from the band's catalog, plus two brand new songs, "Second Street" and "Better Off Without You".

Tesla just wrapped up a summer series of shows and will return to live action September 13 in Clear Lake, Iowa. Listen to the new Tesla song here.

Vince Neil Promises Big Things From Upcoming Las Vegas Residency

(hennemusic) Motley Crue singer Vince Neil is promising that the band will deliver some big things when the band launches its second Las Vegas residency next month.

"There's a lot of cool stuff we're going to use this time," Neil tells Vegas.com. "Technology changes so rapidly and new stuff comes out all the time. All of a sudden someone goes, look at this, and we go, 'Holy sh*t, that's cool.' We have to outdo ourselves every time we put something new together. This one – I don't know how we're going to top this one. There's some crazy stuff going on in this thing and just a lot of fire and smoke and monsters and all kinds of cool stuff."

Billed as an "Evening In Hell", Motley Crue returns to The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for an exclusive 12-show run from September 18 through October 6. more on this story

Anders Osborne Releasing 'The Coolest Record' He's Ever Made

(The Blues Anders Osborne will release latest album Peace on October 8, he's confirmed. Peace follows the release of his Three Free Amigos EP, also via Alligator, earlier this year.

He says his 11th full-length studio outing continues where his previous two Alligator Records titles – American Patchwork and Black Eye Galaxy – left off.

Osborne calls it "the coolest record I've ever made" and adds: "Peace is light from darkness. The songs are written from the outside looking in. They're not making any judgements – I'm just stating facts." Check out the ironic album art here.

Black Sabbath Announce New Tour Date

(hennemusic) Black Sabbath have added an October 15 date in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to their fall tour of Latin America. Along with openers Megadeth, the bands will perform at Esplanada do Mineirão in Belo Horizonte.

The new date replaces the previously scheduled show at Estadio Monumental in Lima, Peru on October 16th; no reason has been announced for the cancellation of the original show.

Currently on the road across North America, Black Sabbath will launch their Latin American tour in Santiago, Chile on October 4. more on this story

Singled Out: Baby Bee's High Heel Leather Boots

Today Joe Stark from Baby Bee tells us about the song "High Heel Leather Boots" from their brand self-titled EP which was produced by Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Stone Temple Pilots). Here is the story:

This one came fast... This is usually not the case but I think I had probably struggled through writing a few sh*t songs with my brother before this super simple melody hook entered my head. That melody and the lyric "Kick It Like" both came almost simultaneously ... I remember pacing around thinking "Kick It Like what?" Then I let my appreciation of the female form take over my imagination and the answer rolled off the tongue... High Heel leather Boots. There is a sort of rhythmic cadence to that phrase that felt to me like something an early 50's rock and roller might say.

I took this tune to my brother Dave and we worked up a few different verse lyrics and a slow sexy feel with the music. The third incarnation of the song came when we worked with producer Dave Cobb. He suggested singing the verses over one chord instead of a progression, sped it wwaaaayy up, and got us that crazy rock and roll surf guitar break.

Around this time I asked Dave to cop the intro to Led Zeps "Rock and Roll" which we later learned was John Bonham coping Chuck Berry's Johnny B Goode... so this truly went full circle around the classic rock pendulum. This was really a fun song to write and record and it feels great every time we play it live.

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