Day In Rock 08/21: Stones Retiring?- Van Halen Add Dates- Warped Riot- Axl and Sebastian- Shadows Fall and Static-X Tour- Ben Lee Covers Entire Against Me! Album-- more

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Full Report for 08/21/06

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antiMusic reports: Atreyu's new CD 'Lead Sails And A Paper Anchor' hits stores next Tuesday and to celebrate we asked Brandon to pick his top five favorite tracks from the CD and tell us a little about each one. Today he tells us about " Two Become One". Here's Brandon:

"This song for me was all around awesome. From the beginning, when we were writing, it was one of my favorites. This song was a really fun one to record. We got to do all of the vocals for this record on the beach in San Simeon, CA. It was crazy to record vocals while standing on sand and listening to waves crash in front of you at 2 am. It was awesome."

Listen to the songs, grab tour dates, check out behind the scenes videos and more- here!

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Rolling Stones Retiring?

antiMusic reports: Will the members of the Rolling Stones soon start gathering moss? Maybe if a report citing an always reliable unnamed source is to be believed. In fact, this source says that Sunday's concert in London will be their swan song.

That's right, Mick and Keef are reportedly hanging it up following their concert at London's O2 Arena this coming Sunday (8/26/07), the final stop on their "Bigger Bang Tour."

Strangely, the Stones camp haven't announce this supposed retirement so maybe they like the irony of going out with a whisper instead of a bang, contradicting the tour name. Of course, the news of the retirement comes from an unnamed source so for all we know it's the mailroom guy at their label, the reporter's next door neighbor, the aliens that brought Mick Mars to our planet, Batboy or Clara the Talking Dog. So grab those salt shakers as you read the- news

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Van Halen Add Dates Following Sellouts

PR reports: Tickets for the first Van Halen tour in more than 22 years with David Lee Roth as lead vocalist went on sale this weekend and resulted in immediate sell outs in multiple markets around the country, including Charlotte, Detroit (Palace), 2 shows in Toronto, 2 in Chicago and one in Philadelphia.

Tour producer Live Nation immediately added additional shows in Philadelphia (WachoviaCenter 10/3) and Detroit (Joe Louis Arena 10/20) which will go on sale this Saturday, August 25th. An additional stop was also scheduled for Washington, DC's VerizonCenter (11/1), extending Van Halen's historic trek to 29 dates in all. - more on this story

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Warped Riot

antiMusic reports: All hell broke loose following Saturday's Warped Tour show at the Gorge Amphitheater when the after party at a neighboring campground turned into a riot with burning toilets, fights and five arrests.

Grant County deputies responded to an injury call at a campground near the Warped event site and when they arrived they encountered several fights as well as burning portable toilets then things turned ugly as some campers pelted deputies with beer bottles, cans and rocks, and the windshield of a fire truck was shattered by debris, according to AP.

Police arrested five suspects for obstructing a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct and intimidating a public servant with threats to do harm.- more on this story

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Axl and Sebastian

antiMusic reports: Fans that want a new CD featuring Axl Rose won't have to wait for "Chinese Democracy" as Axl is a featured guest on Sebastian Bach's new album "Angel Down" which hits stores on November 20.

Sebastian revealed the collaboration in an exclusive interview with Blabbermouth. Here is a tiny part of that conversation (read it all at the end link): Basically, the collaboration with me and Axl started when he asked me last December to sing on� I was at his house and he was playing me the new "Chinese Democracy" album � actually, there's more than one; there's, like, four � but he was playing a song called "Sorry", which is a very heavy, grinding kind of riff and we were partying and stuff and I started singing a high harmony on the chorus of this song and he flipped out, and he goes, "That sounds great." He goes, "I want you to sing that on the record." So in January, I went to Electric Lady [studios in New York City], and I sang the chorus of this song "Sorry", and it came out really, really amazing.

So now that I'm finishing my record, just for the fun of it, when I got to L.A., I just texted Axl, I go, "Hey, dude, when are you gonna come and sing on my record?" I was just joking. [Laughs] I didn't think he would do that. But he never ceases to amaze me. And his response was, "When? Where? What time? Where is the studio? What time do you want me there?" - Read the entire interview with Sebastian right here

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Morrissey Sets US Dates

antiMusic reports: Morrissey is coming, Morrissey is coming. The Moz has announced a string of US dates to conclude his Ringleader Of The Tormentors tour. Kristeen Young has signed on to support the outing.

He'll first travel to Tijuana, Mexico for a one-off at El Foro on September 20th before heading stateside the next night for a show at The Pearl in Las Vegas. He'll take a day off and then begin a four night stand at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

As if that wasn't ambitious enough, LA residents will have chances to see Moz as he takes over the Palladium beginning Rocktober 1st. New Yorker's don't feel left out. He plans a five night engagement at the Hammerstein Ballroom and he'll hit other places across the country as well. Some of the dates are make-ups for the shows that illness stopped from happening in June.- da dates

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50 Cent Suppositories

antiMusic reports: The walking punchline that is 50 Cent is reportedly looking to enter the dietary supplement business.

Somehow adding the supplement company to his already bloated "name brands" that includes a record label, energy drink, publishing company and clothing line has something to do with a film he's making where he plays a boxer.

"I'm getting ready to do a dietary supplement company," Fiddy said according to Contact Music. "So I have a nutritionist and a physical trainer travel everywhere with me. I'm preparing for a boxing film." - more

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Shadows Fall and Static-X Team up for Operation Annihilation Tour

PR reports: Atlantic recording group Shadows Fall has unveiled details of its upcoming co-headline tour. The Operation Annihilation Tour sees the acclaimed metal outfit joining forces with the one-and-only Static-X for a series of dates slated to kick off on Friday, October 5th at Piere's in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Sharing the bill on all dates will be 3 Inches of Blood and Divine Heresy. Additional dates will be announced shortly. Tickets for all announced dates will go on sale to the public this weekend, Friday, August 24th and Saturday, August 25th.

A special pre-sale ticketing system will be available to members of the bands' mailing lists and websites. In addition to standard pre-sale tickets, Premium and VIP packages will be offered that include t-shirts, tour posters, and a meet-and-greet with Shadows Fall and Static-X.- yadda yadda yadda, you want the dates right?

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Ben Lee Covers Entire Against Me! Album

CMJ reports: Australian nice-guy-with-acoustic-guitar Ben Lee has covered the entirety of the recently released Against Me! album, New Wave (Sire).

He's made it available to stream or download for free at his MySpace page or his blog.

Apparently Lee became obsessed with the album after checking it out because he "like[s] to keep [him]self up to date with what's going on musically in the world."- more on this story

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Portugal. The Man in North America

PR reports: As a follow up to their eminently successful, 35-city SRO North American summer tour, much buzzed-about indie-rock up-and-comers Portugal. The Man will join up with Rocky Votolato for a 30-date trek across the U.S. and Canada. With The Great Depression opening, the tour will kick off on September 17 in Lawrence, KS, playing major and secondary markets, and will wrap up in Austin, TX on October 20.

P.TM's Fall jaunt is in support of their new album "Church Mouth" (Fearless) which was released July 24 and put the band onto the Billboard charts for the first time in their career, having debuted at lucky #13 on the trade's Top Alternative New Artists chart.- more on this story

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Relient K Releasing Christmas Album Just in Time for Halloween!

PR reports: Relient K - the band that brought you Five Score And Seven Years Ago, mmhmm, Two Lefts Don't Make a Right�(But Three Do) and The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek - is heralding the holiday season in its own inimitable style with the release of its first-ever, full-length Christmas album: Let It Snow, Baby�Let It Reindeer. The album, scheduled for release by Capitol Music Group on October 23rd, features Relient K's take on 10 holiday classics and six original songs.

From the glory of "Handel's Messiah" and "Angels We Have Heard On High" to the goofiness of 1950's novelty song "I'm Gettin' Nuttin' For Christmas" and "Santa Clause Is Thumbing To Town" (wherein Relient K imagines a Christmas full of catastrophes that reduce St. Nick to hitchhiking), Let It Snow, Baby�Let It Reindeer captures the many sides of the season.
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What To Watch

DiR reports: Rock acts on television this week include Velvet Revolver, who perform on 'The Late Show with David Letterman' on Wednesday hours after singer Scott Weiland visits 'The Sauce'; and The Cliks, who perform on 'The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson' on Thursday.

Yup, pretty slow week but be entertainment with more - Rockdirt here

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What To Buy

antiMusic reports: It's Tuesday, time for the new albums to hit stores. Here are a few new releases hitting shelves this week.

Adema - Kill The Headlights
Aiden - Conviction
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Caribou - Andorra
Cartel - Cartel
Decadence Within - Reflections
Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor
Full Blown Chaos - Heavy Lies The Crown
- more here