The Day in Rock 8/12: Slash + Michael Jackson, Ryan Adams Rockin New CD, Flaming Lips Do Over, Matchbox Twenty Tour, New Mushroomhead, St. Comic Relief, Frampton Still Alive, Brittany Murphy The Singer?, G3 Rides Again, Probot Correction

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Slash + Michael Jackson 
Blabbermouth Reports: Former GUNS N' ROSES and current VELVET REVOLVER guitarist Slash is scheduled to appear at the Michael Jackson 45th birthday party taking place at The Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on August 30. Comedian Steve Harvey will be serving as the Master Of Ceremonies at the event, dubbed "Celebration Of Love", which is being presented by Michael Jackson fan clubs from around the world. - Click Here for the Full Story

Ryan Adams Rockin New CD
ryan-adams.com reports: Ryan just finished recording his new album "Rock n Roll" to hit stores in November. "Rock n Roll" contains all new material that Ryan recorded in New York City.  - Click Here for the Full Story

Flaming Lips Do Over
Chart Attack reports: Flaming Lips will release a collector's edition of Yoshimi, which will include some extra tracks along with a bonus DVD that will come out on September 2. "If You Go Mad" and "Up Above The Daily Hum," songs Wayne Coyne and his cohorts recorded between 1999's Soft Bulletin and 2002's Yoshimi album, will both be tacked onto the album. 

The DVD will feature some of the band's videos as well as behind the scenes looks at how the band created those child-like dramas for videos like "Do You Realize?" �the new DVD will also showcase a trailer for an upcoming Flaming Lips movie called Christmas On Mars as, well as animated videos for "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part I" and "Fight Test." - Click Here for more info

Matchbox Twenty Tour
Launch Reports: Matchbox Twenty has announced the dates for their upcoming North American tour. 

Matchbox Twenty tour dates (subject to change):

September 24 - Tallahassee, FL - Leon County Civic Center
September 26 - Greenville, SC - Bi Lo Center
September 27 - Wilmington, NC - Trask Coliseum
September 28 - Winston-Salem, NC - Lawrence Joel Veterans Mem. Col. 
October 1 - Portland, ME - Cumberland Civic Center
October 3 - Halifax, NS - Halifax Metro Centre
October 4 - St. John, NB - Harbour Station
October 6 - Ottawa, ON - Corel Centre
October 7 - London, ON - John Labatt Centre
October 8 - Hamilton, ON - Copps Coliseum

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New Mushroomhead. 
Digital-Noise reports: Mushroomhead have set October 14th as the release for their upcoming album, titled "XIII".

The first single from the album, "Sun Doesn't Rise", is featured on the "Freddy vs. Jason" soundtrack.

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St. Comic Relief
It's Tuesday and you need a laugh. Metal Underground reports: Love or hate Metallica's St. Anger album, you should check out this parody of their latest effort, which pokes fun at the whole album to the tune of a few different songs.

Click here for the MP3  - . Click Here for the Full Story

Frampton Still Alive
"Don't Hesitate" because Peter Framton is still alive and well and even has a hit single.  Tattoomedia emailed us this update: Peter's new album "Now" will be released on August 26, 2003 and includes the current radio hit, "Verge of A Thing" as well as a classic remake of the Beatles, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".  You can hear these at http://www.frampton.com/jukebox if you'd like to sample the new material

Later this month, Peter will also kick off the "NOW" tour sponsored by VH1 Classic - Click Here for More info and tour dates

Brittany Murphy The Singer?
Vh1.com reports: Look out J. Lo, Janet and Tina Yothers � there's another actress about to launch a singing career. Brittany Murphy says she's hitting the studio this fall.

"I am going to start recording an album in November," she revealed, although the  chatty "Just Married" star was uncharacteristically tight-lipped about what her music will sound like. "Hey, 'Yo, yo,' you know, I have been around the '8 Mile' environment," she joked, adding more seriously, "you'll see [what kind of music it is]. It's going to be a surprise.""  Click Here for the Full Story

G3 Rides Again
Epic Reports: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Yngwie Malmsteen Announce G3 Tour 

The 2003 incarnation of Joe Satriani's popular G3 tour will kick off on October 9th at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, AZ and continue across the US, ending in late November (more dates TBA). Having achieved tremendous success and critical praise in their own careers, this tour will mark the first time the three influential guitarists have joined forces on the same stage. Continuing with the same successful formula as in years past, fans will be treated to individual sets by each guitarist with their own bands before joining Satriani and his band on stage for an all-star jam session. 

"It's always great to get out and play with Steve and adding Yngwie to this year's tour will definitely kick our jam sessions up a notch or two! I'm looking forward
to hitting the road!" exclaimed Satriani.

See the below itinerary for the confirmed start dates of the 2003 G3 Tour 
(more dates TBA):

October 9 Dodge Theatre Phoenix, AZ
October 10 House of Blues Las Vegas, NV
October 11 Humphrey's by the Bay San Diego, CA 
October 12 Reno Hilton Theatre Reno, NV 
October 15 Paramount Theatre Seattle, WA
October 17 Chronicle Pavilion Concord, CA
October 18 Greek Theatre Los Angeles, CA
 

MORE DATES TBA

Probot Correction
The publicist for Dave Grohl's Probot has informed us that original press release sent out (and reported here yesterday) was incorrect: The track listing for the PROBOT record originally had a song slated to be mauled by SLAYER frontman Tom Araya was scrapped and replaced with a track with Kurt Brecht-the man responsible for 20 some years of hardcore belligerence in D.R.I.

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