Ash and Rose: While somewhere on the road, I picked up a book called The US Guide to Surviving Terrorism. This was in the first couple years after 9/11. It was a serious, government-issued book on how we should deal with the threats that we might encounter going about our lives. My favorite section was about what to do if terrorists boarded the plane you were on. It said, if terrorists board the plane, do not try to deter them, lie down on the floor and wait for further instructions. A page or two later it said, if US Marshalls enter the plane to attempt to apprehend the terrorists, do not try to help them. Lie down on the floor and wait for further instructions. So basically, no matter who is doing something, we're just sheep whose job is to mutely lie there while other people tell us what to do. Sounds fun.

Now, I'm not exactly sure why, but for some reason this whole thing made me think of the children's song Ring Around the Rosie. You know, ashes ashes we all fall down? As you may or may not know, that song is about the bubonic plague- ashes ashes, we all are going to die, so let's sing and dance in the meantime. These two ideas fused together into this song.

KW Foods LLC is set to open 10 Fatburger locations throughout the Chicago area, as well as another one in Los Angeles.

Singer Gerard Way has been working on his comic book series The Umbrella Academy, while brother Mikey Way has been penning his own comic book as well.

"No! What?! Right. I can give you a definite no on that. In one word: No. In two words, hell, no!," Rock said on Ryan Seacrest's Los Angeles based radio show Wednesday.

Coldplay have added four shows to their October/November tour of the US which resumes October 26 in East Rutherford, NJ. The band will now play shows in Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia and Atlanta. more

Apparently, there are talks between Paul McCartney and Louise Harrison�George's sister, who's lived in the U.S. since before the Beatles blew up�to open a Beatles museum in Branson, Mo., Harrison's home city. more

A new set of Elvis and Priscilla Presley Barbie dolls have been unveiled. The dolls sport replicas of the outfits the couple wore on their wedding day in Las Vegas in 1967. more

Madonna PR rep shot down a slew of rumors: "There are several totally untrue rumors currently floating around about Madonna. One is that she is canceling shows, canceling a birthday party, that she's adopting a second child from Malawi and that she hurt her ankle. None of these are true," Liz Rosenberg told E! News. more

The Cult has reportedly parted ways with Roadrunner Records, the label that released the group's latest album, "Born into This". That CD sold 12,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release [not really surprising given that label's PR dept] On the good news front, the band have announced some new tour dates. Grab those here

Swedish metallers Opeth have announced that they will perform in Dubai, United Arab Emirates at the 2009 Desert Rock festival, scheduled for March 6th - 7th at Dubai Festival City. more

Circa Survive has apparently fulfilled their contractual obligations to Equal Vision Records and should be announcing a new record label soon. more

Misery Index has been added to the Brutal Truth show on August 14 at
the Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. Javelina + others will open the
show - doors at 8pm/$15 - show is at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St

Big City Kids, the newest act to join the Authentik Artists roster will be exclusively premiering their new track "One Night Stand" on August 18th via Tap Tap Revenge, the wildly successful music game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard will honor songwriter Diane Warren with the inaugural Film & TV Music Career Achievement Award at an exclusive lunch reception in Los Angeles on Nov. 14. more

Michael Schenker will once again share the stage with one of the band's he helped found, The Scorpions, when they roll through the UK in October. details

Canadian hardcore act Comeback Kid have announced the release of their first DVD. Along with a full length live show, the DVD will include a retrospective documentary. Dubbed ""Our Distance," the film uses intimate footage to follow the band both onstage and off, touring, and recording from Comeback Kid's first show to present day. more

Under MySpace rules and regulations, "images of violence are prohibited" on the popular social networking site. This led to the photos being taken down "within a half hour" according to Oceano guitarist Andrew Mikhail. "They even took them off our personal profiles. Guess they were too raunchy after all."

This forthcoming DVD captures Morrissey 'Live at the Hollywood Bowl' 15 years after his last gig at the legendary venue. A 17,000 plus audience is captivated with a career defining performance that includes The Smiths' classic tracks 'The Queen Is Dead', 'The Boy With The Thorn In His Side', 'Girlfriend In A Coma', 'How Soon Is Now?', Please, Please, Please Let me Get What I Want' and 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out'.

The quartet has signed a worldwide deal with Century Media Records and a five song EP, Wasted Heart, will be issued in September in conjunction with their upcoming European headlining tour. This run also marks the band's first trip to the UK. The new offering was recorded by Martin Feveyear and the full-length album is set for an early 2009 release.

Today's misheard lyric is to Fall Out Boy's "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" and the line "I'm the leading man, and the lies I weave are oh so intricate! Oh so intricate! " That lyric has been misheard as "I'm a little man! And I'm also evil! Also into cats! Also into cats!"

So, finally it's time. On Monday, August 18, Chaq Mol and I will enter the studio together with producer �rjan �rnkloo (Misery Loves Co.) to begin the songwriting process of a new, yet untitled full-length album.

Best described as a "reverse-psychology" punk band, the Yuppie Pricks has much in common with the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Their backgrounds, bank accounts and fashion sense however, do not. Like Middleton and Hollingsworth, guitarist Preston Hetherington III is a multimillionaire stockbroker who lists among his hobbies "hunting endangered species." The group's third album, Balls, out now on Chicken Ranch Records further ups the ante of PC-baiting on both sides of the fence, especially in this heated election year.

According to a press release, the CD is "filled with a self-described 'Jekyll and Hyde' mix of disturbingly dark stuff and 'good ol' country.'"

After a day off in blustery Winnipeg, Manitoba (twas a holiday called Civic Day and the streets were bare), we were all geared up to take Saskatoon, Saskatchewan by storm. There were very few people at Warped Tour that day (probably by extension of the fact that there are very few people in Saskatoon), but the ones who were there kicked it hard. Ludo volunteered at lunch time at catering by helping serve foods from 11:30-2:00. I served Saskatoon Salad, Matt did Canadian Shrimp, Randall served Manitoban vegan chicken, Ferrell served something (beef? no...), Marshall served something (justice? no...), and Convy served Prince Edward Island smoothies. Yay. Ate with The Randies, convinced Oreskaband to play horns on Epic with us onstage, and then headed back out into the Saskatchewanian day.

We played to a scantish chunk of humanage (80 people??), but it was a good time the whole way through. As we were breaking down the merch tent at the end of the day, some drunk kid in a Canadian band pissed on our merch tent. He then insisted for 20 minutes that we were wrong and he didn't. It was very douchetastic. Whatever. I will never be friends with that guy. He cannot come to my birthday party. Packed up, loaded out, and shortly thereafter found ourselves en route to Calgary! Home of Byron!

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