Sacred Cows: This song is a call to arms to people to find out what matters to you and go for it. The idea of a sacred cow is something, in religion, philosophy, martial arts, whatever, that can no longer be questioned, it must simply be accepted. I first experienced this idea in the context of martial arts (I train and teach Jeet Kune Do). Many martial arts aren't interested in whether or not what they do is effective or useful, they're just interested in maintaining their traditions.

Sacred Cows applies this idea not to an external, but to an internal. What elements of yourself do you just blindly accept and no longer question? Are you living as you'd like to? Are your outlooks on the world your own or ideas you got from other people? Accepting where you are at without question means you will never get anywhere, never grow. We need to build our own rituals, find what matters and is sacred for ourselves, not for other people.

Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus, super-sized golf legend Phil Mickelson, and as many as a hundred others thought so, too--but after investing a ton of $$$, they're definitely not lovin' the idea now.

I somehow felt like I was going to regret that, but we agreed to take a chance and trust him, so we gave John Bon Jovi the cassette that night and we never heard back from him. A short time later we heard the chorus for our song "I'll be theeerrre for youuuu" as JBJs next big hit. My manager at the time wanted to sue his ass but we were doing well and were very busy with all the Atlantic developments going on that I didn't want to cause problems for our momentum that we had going at the time. I hated when people would note the resemblance between John Bon Jovi and me at the time and I didn't want to give the world any other reasons to compare me to the Golden Boy Johnny.

Speaking of musical football, Billboard had this today: Usher and Keith Urban will help ring in the 2008 NFL season with a free Sept. 4 concert at New York's Columbus Circle. Highlights will be sprinkled across the NFL Network, NFL.com and Sprint's NFL Mobile Live. more

Members of the Allman Brothers Band sued UMG Recordings for more than $10 million on Monday over royalties from compact discs sales and digital downloads services such as Apple's iTunes. more

The latest episode of "Talking Metal" features an interview features an interview hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy conducted with StoneRider guitarist and vocalist Matt Tanner. Topics include StoneRider's "Juice Man" video, the Atlanta music scene, and Raging Slab. Additional podcast topics include Grand Magus and Jersey City, New Jersey's Sand Bar. The 25-minute podcast can be downloaded at http://www.talkingmetal.com

George "CorpseGrinder" Fisher, frontman of legendary Death Metal band Cannibal Corpse, has interviewed for Jasmin St. Claire's forthcoming autobiography, 'What the Hell Was I Thinking?!! Confessions of the World's Most Controversial Sex Symbol', which also includes interviews from Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister, porn legend Ron Jeremy, and a host of others. Check out more at www.myspace.com/metalsdarkside

Rolling Stone magazine unveiled plans on Monday for a major design overhaul, scaling down its signature large-format pages to a standard magazine size in a bid to bolster advertising and sagging newsstand sales. Bolster advertising? Isn't 70% of the mag already advertisements? Read more here

Eyehategod will play a show to celebrate their 20th anniversary in New Orleans on August 29. details

Sounds like Oasis are about to announce a tour any day now - they're telling fans to keep checking for updates. more

This will be the second time Escovedo has shared a stage with Springsteen; the first was in April of this year when they teamed up on Escovedo's single "Always a Friend".

Today's misheard lyric comes from antiMusic's very own J. Simpson. The lyric is to Pantara's "Walk" and the line "Re, Spect, walk, what did you say? Re, Spect, walk, are you talking to me?"

That lyric has been misheard as "Breath, Spit, Walk what did you say? Breath, Spit, Walk are you talking to me?"

Guitarist Billy F Gibbons explains, "Earlier this year, because of a routing quirk, we accepted a 'fill-in' date at a little old theater in Knoxville. That experience reminded us of our roots, both in terms of a stripped-down, gut-bucket musical approach and the direct connection with the people who came to see us. So we said, 'why not do this on a more extended basis and have some real fun?'"

After an explosive rupture with Dexys Midnight Runners, five visionary men created a fresh start, a powerful new band called The Bureau that immediately recruited two key players from The Upset and then enlisted a jazz trombonist. Blythe, Spooner, Stoker, Williams and Talbot, plus Brown, Jones and Taylor, rattled the rafters of a derelict night club with a battery of new songs and went howling through Holland in February 1981. By August they were touring the US with The Pretenders.

"We are honored and grateful for the generosity of Disney, Creative Artists Agency and the dedication of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers in supporting the lifesaving work of City of Hope," said Michael A. Friedman, M.D., president and chief executive officer, City of Hope. "This Concert for Hope demonstrates their commitment to improving the lives of patients with cancer and to helping create a future in which cancer is not only treatable, but curable and preventable."

Frontman Ivan Moody commented on the upcoming tour: "After kicking ass with all our metal friends on MAYHEM this past summer, we knew that our next step had to be massive!! And after a list of brilliant projects we had the opportunity to tour with, we have put together an Annihilating Bill!!! This fall, Death Punch will be charging back through the states with one of metal's premiere front women [In This Moment], the crushing sounds of long-time underground bad asses Bury Your Dead, and some stellar newcomers, Another Black Day. We are pulling out ALL the stops and we are taking no prisoners!!"

The North American schedule � which features support from Homeschool/Atlantic Records R&B sensation Estelle � will begin on October 3rd at Baltimore's Rams Head Live! and then traverse the continent through a November 1st finale at Albany, New York's Washington Avenue Armory

New songs from the Brooklyn quintet's third full-length album will be unveiled throughout North America in September, starting in Portland, OR with festival appearances in Colorado and California.

In addition to the launch of the audio, the band shot a video to accompany the song earlier this summer while in Los Angeles with director Brian Thompson (As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, Angels And Airwaves) and The Vault LA. There is a behind the scenes sneak peak available here

"I'm really pumped about Chiron," frontman Phil Labonte says. "It's one of the favorites on the new disc so we can't wait for people to hear it. We had a really good time working with Brian for the video too, and we're very happy with his work." In the meantime, All That Remains is currently out on the road as part of this year's Vans Warped Tour is already busy supporting the Sept. 16 release of 'Overcome.' "These shows have been NUTS!" Labonte continues. "Kids come out and go totally bonkers, or wait in line for two or three hours just to say, 'what's up.' It's really amazing to be a part of this."

Hot in Indianapolis. Certainly the warmest day of the tour since Boston. That sun sure was vigorous. Got up and got out there with Donnie and Rifqa at doors, where some volunteers were helping promote with signs. We sold some CD's and told people to come see us play at 6:00. Then we found out they'd changed our set time to 5:30. Crap. We changed all the signs and sent everyone out to promote the new time. Hung out intermittently with Byron at merch. Showed the bus off to some Wickes peoples. Watched some great sets.

The bus started smoking at a certain point, and Randy had to call someone to check it out since the generator had switched off. Then Randall ran off with a runner and tracked down 4,000 CD's for Ludo to restock with. Busy day for the TM! We played early that evening to a great crowd, did an Idiot Parade, loaded out, grabbed food, did a signing, met good people, showered, loaded out the merch, hung out at the barbecue, and then called it a night. Great work team! Let's go to Milwaukee!!!

Find out where you can see them, preview tracks from their new CD and learn more about Ludo here.