The Day in Rock Digest for 9/8/10: Katy Perry's massively hyped new album only spent one week on top as Disturbed's new album, "Asylum" will debut at the top of the charts after selling 171,701 copies last week according to Hits Double Daily (Katy dropped to No 4). The Goo Goo Dolls new effort, Something For The Rest Of Us, moved 31,553 units to land at No 7. Heart also makes a Top 10 debut with their new album, "Red Velvet Car". moreJimmy Page will release an ubber expensive photo book on September 27th but don't count out a real autobiography. He says, "I thought that a career in pictures was really the best way to do it at this stage, but I wouldn't discount the idea of an autobiography" more
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) had recorded a new song, "Better Days", for the Julia Roberts movie Eat Pray Love. It looks like the song itself will be released as a limited edition 7″ on September 20th. more
Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn has issued the following update: "Today, Sept 7th, between the hours of 1:15 PM and 3:15 PM while I was picking my son up from school, my house was broken into and many priceless items were stolen. Items include my wife's jewelry, laptops, wakeboards, cash, and most importantly 4 of my guitars including the guitar that I recorded my first album Burn My Eyes with. " more
Arsonists Get All The Girls has announced plans to headline a fall U.S. tour. The trek will also feature Ion Dissonance, Within the Ruins, And Hell Followed With, Structures, and Destruction of a Rose. more
Phoenix advises fans that their Salt Lake City show on September 23rd has moved from The Rail to In The Venue. more
Nada Surf's If I Had a Hi-Fi is on sale at Amazon.com for $5 the whole month of September. Get it here
Alexisonfire will headline a Canadian tour late this fall with support from Norma Jean and La Dispute. more
KAMELOT singer Roy Khan recently returned to Norway due to health issues. It was then announced that the band's North American would go on with CIRCUS MAXIMUS frontman Michael filling in. The band now says, " However, after today's rehearsal, we all decided that we do not feel right about doing the North American tour as anything less than a 100% Kamelot Experience." more
Death Angel have announced the dates for it's first ever headlining tour of North America. The tour will be in support of the band's latest studio album 'Relentless Retribution' which is planned for release in early 2011. Support on the tour will come from Early Man Bonded By Blood and Lazarus A.D. more
Deftones will be heading over to the UK for a run of headline shows in November. Coheed And Cambria will be along as openers. more
Hortus Animae vocalist Martyr Lucifer has commenced work on his debut solo album, tentatitively titled "Farewell To Graveland". more
The Beatles are the most influential band of the last half-century. According to GodisintheTVZine.co.uk, the Fab Four topped a British poll by Zippo asking which artist or band had the largest sphere of influence over the past 50 years. more
Ratt bassist Robbie Crane will be the bass player for Lynch Mob on their upcoming European dates. more
Procession have revealed the tracklisting for their upcoming studio album. The album, titled 'Destroyers Of The Faith,' is planned for release sometime in October and will be made available in both Vinyl and as a digital download. more
Billy Idol's guitarist Steve Stevens will be appearing at an in-store meet & greet on September 12th at Steve's Music Store - 51 St-Antoine West Montreal , QC. more
Ebc Roxx the "musical racing project" featuring German singer Ela; American rock and blues singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer Tony Carey (Rainbow, Over The Rainbow); and Jόrgen "J.R." Blackmore (guitar), son of former Deep Purple and Rainbow guitar legend Ritchie Blackmore will release its debut album, "Winners", on September 17. more
Maroon, After The Burial, The Agonist, and The Eyes Of A Traitor will tour Europe together this fall. more
"Absolute Power", the thirteenth full-length album from Pro-Pain, will now be released in North America on September 28 via Regain Records. more
Yesterday we told you that tonight's antiMusic sponsored "Happenin" is happening in New England for the first time. But we also wanted to tell you that next week's show will feature Slayer star Dave Lombardo's new band Philm. The band also features Pancho Tomasellu of WAR and Gerry Nestler of Civil Defiance. We'll have more details next week but grab all the details about tonight's show here -
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