The Day in Rock Digest for 11/3/10: Former Mushroomhead guitarist and founding member John E. Sekula (a.k.a. Jj Righteous) passed away on Thursday, October 28 at the age of 41. moreKyuss are to reunite next year for a tour – well, most of the influential stoner band anyway. Under the name of Kyuss Lives, vocalist John Garcia, bassist Nick Oliveri and drummer Brant Bjork will get together in the spring. more
Representatives for Bret Michaels have dismissed reports of an alleged affair between the rocker and Miley Cyrus' mum Tish broke up her marriage to Billy Ray Cyrus. more
Guns N' Roses fans fell prey to a prank by a hacker that gained access to Axl Rose's official Twitter account, Russian computer security company Kaspersky reported in a press statement. more
Converge has announced plans to begin writing their next album this week. As usual, most of the album will be written and ultimately recorded at guitarist Kurt Ballou's own studio more
Unearth have tapped drummer Branden Morgan of Misery Signals for their upcoming European dates as part of the Persistence Tour. The band says, "Branden is a great drummer and has been nailing all the tunes in rehearsal. Everyone headed to the Persistence Tour can expect Unearth to be as solid as ever during this run." more
According to Monica Rizzo from People.com, Motley Crue's Vince Neil will be participating in ABC's new reality competition, Skating With The Stars. more
Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour is unimpressed with the state of the music industry, insisting modern singers fail to measure up to his icons Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. more
Korn: 'Working with Ross Robinson was not comfortable at all' - video New recruit Ray Luzier says he found producer 'difficult' more
This Friday, November 5th, you will have another chance to catch Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell playing with his hobby project , Sir Sodoff & The Trainwrecks, at Harper's Bar & Grille in Tarzana, CA. more
Vocalist Kasper Thomsen will sit out Raunchy's upcoming European tour with Sybreed and Threat Signal "for family and personal reasons" and will be temporarily replaced by "good friend" Travis Neal from Divine Heresy. more
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Denim And Leather album, Saxon will be playing the whole of this record at next year's Sweden Rock. more
Prior to his show with Gaslight Anthem, Chuck Ragan has announced a special fundraising event on November 6th at the Eine Welt Haus in Munich, Germany to raise money for kids with a refugee background. more
Adler's Appetite, the band led by former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler, has announced more 2011 tour dates. more
Abysmal Dawn has set "Leveling The Plane Of Existence" as the title of its new album, due in North America on February 1 via Relapse Records more
On this day in 1964, During The Rolling Stones North American tour, a 17 year-old Stones fan fell from the balcony during a gig in Cleveland, Ohio. The Mayor of Ohio banned all future pop concerts, saying, "Such groups do not add to the community's culture or entertainment." And on this day in 1997, Metallica came to an out-of-court agreement with a fan who claimed he lost his sense of smell after being dropped on his head by fans at one of Metallica's shows four years earlier. Find out what else happened on this date in music history here -
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