New Led Zeppelin Songs Written- Stone Stoned Temple Trouble- Dave Matthews Bomb Plot- Slash and Ozzy Tour?- My Chemical Weezer- Zuton Guilty- Battle for INXS- more was a top 10 story this week . Here is the recap: Jason Bonham says that the never fully off the ground regrouping of Led Zeppelin without Robert Plant did produce some new music: "I was in a band for a year after the O2 reunion, with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones writing material," Bonham tells Nightwatcher. "It didn't come out, but that was a very good time in my life, just jamming with them and coming up with material. Even though nothing came out, it felt like a band." Read the full interview here. Stone Temple Pilots have scrapped a trio of Texas shows, sparking rumors of trouble on tour. Jam! reports that the news, announced by the El Paso Times newspaper on Tuesday, comes less than two days after the rockers hit the stage in Houston, Texas an hour late and frontman Scott Weiland rambled on about his drug addiction and marriage breakdown. more - see a digest entry from the next day later in this report.
A man has been arrested in Chicago, Illinois after allegedly plotting to blow up a baseball stadium where the Dave Matthews Band was performing on Saturday night. According to Jam! Sami Samir Hassoun was ambushed by a team of police and federal agents moments after dropping what he thought was a bomb into a trash can more
According to BraveWords.com sources, Slash (Velvet Revolver, ex-Guns N' Roses) is rumored to be taking part in the second leg of Ozzy Osbourne's North American Scream tour more
Madball has apparently dismissed drummer Jay Weinberg amidst the band's Canadian tour. As you may recall, Weinberg joined the band a few months ago. Frontman Freddy Cricien had the following to say: "I'm letting Jay go in Canada because I just feel he doesn't represent this band well on a character level. It would go against my own code of ethics to keep him around" more
Iron Maiden set for Roskilde festival 2011. The legendary metal band is the first to be confirmed to play the Dannish event next summer more
Keanu Reeves has suggested that work has begun on a third Bill and Ted movie. Reeves played Ted Theodore Logan in 1989's Excellent Adventure, and its 1992 sequel Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. Reeves has told MTV News that he is excited to reprise his time-travelling role nearly 20 years after the pair's first outing. more
Skarhead will touring briefly in California and Mexico next month. more
(Hed)P.E. has revealed the tracklisting to it's forthcoming studio album. The album, titled 'Truth Rising,' is set for release on October 26, 2010 through Suburban Noize Records. more
Yellowcard have entered the studio to begin work on their Hopeless Records debut. The album will be their first since 2007's Paper Walls more
Guitarists Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction) and Dave Kushner (Velvet Revolver) have joined forces to record a cover of The Kinks' classic 'You Really Got Me' for an upcoming Hyundai Central Region Dealer commercial. more
Rotting Christ has announced the second cancellation of a South American tour in just 3 months. more
Manowar have cancelled their performance at the Parque Metropolitano Simσn Bolνvar in Bogotα, Colombia on November 26th. more
Stone Temple Pilots have postponed 12 dates on their tour in the wake of singer Scott Weiland's rambling speech onstage during the trek's Houston stop. Billboard reports, the group has taken a "short break" beginning with the show scheduled for Tuesday in El Paso, according to its announcement, and will return to the road on October 8 in Tampa. more
Weezer and My Chemical Romance teamed up onstage for a one-off fan-only show in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 21. The two bands performed "My Name Is Jonas" at the AXE Music One Night event in Hollywood. more
INXS are facing a legal battle over the rights to the songs and images of late frontman Michael Hutchence. The band has been sued by executives at Chardonnay Investments, a company based in the Virgin Islands which bought the rights to collect royalties from the airplay of Hutchence's songs and the use of his image more
While Lars Ulrich says that bass player Robert Trujillo has been amazing for Metallica, the drummer admits former bassist Jason Newsted copped a raw deal when he left the band. "Jason was an incredibly dedicated musician but I don't think we took advantage of everything he had to give," Lars admitted. more
The lead singer of The Zutons, who broke a man's nose after his girlfriend was insulted, has been found guilty of assault. BBC reports that Dave McCabe, 29, headbutted Peter Appleby during a row outside a nightclub, Liverpool Crown Court heard. more
"Animal (F**k Like A Beast)" was clearly the filthiest of the PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen" list, and while it certainly caused a stir at the time, W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless now regrets it, especially as he has renewed his religious faith. He says in part " I renounce, denounce and pronounce that I will never play that song ['Animal'] live again. Actually, I've not played it live for several years." For the full context of that rejection, go here
According to Seattlepi.com, Converse is longer selling a pair of Chuck Taylors that depicted guitar legend Jimi Hendrix as a colorful, multi-armed Hindu deity. more
Culture Brats recently interviewed Laurie Everton, who takes old Ken and Barbie dolls and transforms them into dolls that look just like Jon Bon Jovi, Bret Michaels, Adam Lambert, Tom Keifer, Ashton Kutcher, and other rock stars and celebrities. Check it out here
Underoath has posted the track listing for their next album, Ψ (Disambiguation). It's due out November 9, 2010 and follows Lost in the Sound of Separation which was released in 2008. The record is the first from the band since the departure of longtime drummer Aaron Gillespie. more
Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Billy Idol, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, and Jason Segel are among the star who have signed up for a star-studded rock-of-all-ages tribute and Costume Ball inspired by 35 Years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show more
Corey Glover, lead singer of Living Colour, will be lending his talents to Sekond Skyn, for two shows September 24th and 25th. more
Justin Townes Earle has put his tour on hold to go to rehab following his Sept. 16 arrest in Indianapolis for battery, public intoxication and resisting law enforcement. more
The members of the rock band Parmalee were robbed at gunpoint following a show in Rock Hill South Carolina on September 20th. The band had just finished playing at The Money, a local bar directly across from Winthrop University, and were in their RV when two suspects, Dytavis Hinton and Demario Burris, entered the vehicle with a handgun demanding money. more
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has finally been confirmed as a judge on US TV gameshow American Idol and he says his bandmates are jealous of his new role. "At first they were jealous. They heard it through the press and not me, but I said to them: 'Four months ago you were looking for another lead singer.' more
Court records show Heart's Nancy Wilson has filed for divorce from writer-director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous/Fast Times) after more than 20 years of marriage. more
Bono's AIDS charity has come under fire Jam! reports that a representative for Bono's AIDS charity has spoken out after the organization came under fire for spending more money on wages than on good causes more
Yahoo has an exclusive stripped down Michael Franti performance of a few tracks from his new album, The Sound of Sunshine. Check it out here
Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian maintains the departure of Dan Nelson was entirely the singer's own choice despite Nelson's insistence the band threw him out. And he says there are no hard feelings with returned member Joey Belladonna, even though Ian publicly stated he'd prefer John Bush to front the band. more
Billy Idol and his current 2010 band, consisting of Steve Stevens (lead guitar), Billy Morrison (rhythm guitar), Stephen McGrath (bass guitar), Jeremy Colson (drums) and Derek Sherinian (keyboards) will be playing a few select shows in California in December to close out a successful year. more
Arsis has announced plans to headline a December tour with support from Powerglove and Conducting From The Grave. more
The Who's Roger Daltrey answers some of the hundreds of questions submitted by fans in a new audio interview. Check it out here. Sadly, he skipped our question "Who are you? Who? who?" It's Friday cut some slack.
Paul Stanley, Slash and Mark Slaugher ares set to appear in "Turn It Up!", a feature-length celebration of the electric guitar. more
Devin Townsend will be performing a free acoustic show at Scrape Records in Vancouver, BC (323 East Broadway) on Friday, October 8th more -
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