Moore was seriously injured in an ATV accident June 30 outside Charlottesville. He had a punctured lung and broken ribs. Moore went back into the hospital last month due to complications.

Metallica return on September 12th to Berlin for the official record release party of their new album Death Magnetic. They celebrate as first band ever in the brand new O2 World Berlin more

Coldplay are giving away free music on their website. Death Will Never Conquer is available to download from their official site according to Kerrang!

Set Your Goals is no longer on the Eulogy Recordings roster following a buyout of their recording contract. Interestingly, the buyout (rumored to be over $100,000) didn't come from another label, but rather the group's manager. more

Some folks believe that intimacy is best when it's spontaneous and guess what? Bloc Party totally agrees. The band will digitally release their third disc, Intimacy, this Thursday, August 21st. A nice surprise, given that the CD's physical release will not be available till October 28th via Atlantic. more

Author Mick Wall's When Giants Walked The Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin is a new hardcover book by Orion that features 400 pages and will hit stores in the UK on October 16th. A description is here

British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, has been denied entry in Thailand after failing to board a flight in Bangkok to London, immigration officials said Wednesday. more

According to The Boston Globe, legendary rockers Aerosmith are heading back to the studio in October and will hit the road next spring. more

Fishbone frontman Angelo Moore will be making a rare solo appearance tonight (Wed) at the Joint in Los Angeles during the antiMusic sponsored Happenin' Harry's Hellhole! Nehemiah of The Real World will also perform and the night will be capped off by an all-star jam by Happenin' Harry and the Haptones. Grab the details and post funny message to Harry here

The Verve are now streaming their new long-awaited album Forth on their Myspace page

Winds Of Plague has parted ways with drummer Jeff Tenny more

TO/DIE/FOR has cancelled its previously announced appearance at the Big Bang Festival in Lebanon. According to the group, "[the festival organizers] changed the dates and we are not available on those days." more

Dr Who actor John Barrowman is releasing an album called 'Music Music Music'. The record is released on November 24 and features songwriting contributions from Take That's Gary Barlow, including first single 'What About Us', out November 17. more

Popular "mixtape" sharing site, Muxtape, has been temporarily shut down due to some conflict with music industry trade organization, the RIAA. The website now displays this message: Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA. more

The SOS Master Tickets agency has attracted furious complaints from fans who ordered festival passes on its website, which has now gone offline.

The follow-up to her 2006 album "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone) is due at some point in the fourth quarter or early next year. The as-yet-untitled record will be issued on Capitol in the U.S.

Jackson died about 2 a.m. Monday at Detroit Sinai-Grace Hospital, said his wife Claudreen.

Fans who attended a film clip shoot in London last week were among the first in the world to hear AC/DC's new single "Rock 'N Roll Train", and, instead of leaking an unauthorized recording, have set about recreating it themselves on YouTube.

Pete Doherty's group had been due to headline Moonfest, in Westbury, on Friday but police said organisers had not hired enough stewards.

Ironically, the single was the first the retired baker bought when he was a teenager in 1965. Carter, from Stoke, England, was given just a 30 per cent survival rate by doctors, who advised his wife Eva to play his favourite track through headphones strapped to her husband's head.

Chips won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for the Anthology project, and also produced documentaries on Paul McCartney ("Liverpool Oratorio" from PBS' "Great Performances", "Put It There"), Jimi Hendrix ("Hendrix: Band of Gypsies"), the Pet Shop Boys, Elizabeth Taylor and The Who.

The Beatles issued the following statement on their website: Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Chips Chipperfield, who has sadly passed away. Chips was the Grammy award winning producer of the Beatles Anthology, and a long serving member of the Apple Corps family. Warm, wise and kind, he was loved and respected by all those who worked with him. His youthful spirit and enthusiasm for life will continue to be an inspiration to all those who knew him. He will be dearly missed by all of us.

Today's misheard lyric is to Metallica's "(Welcome Home) Sanitarium" and the line "Welcome to where time stands still." That lyric has been misheard as "Welcome to where mimes are killed."

Bonus lyric: Metallica's "Creeping Death" and the line "So let it be written, So let it be done." That lyric has been misheard as "So let the retards, Get in your car."

50, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, raked in $150 million last year, while Jay-Z earned $82 million.

After crossing the border, spending a day in Helena, Montana, sleeping to Idaho, counting in the shipment of merch, setting up the tent, loading gear off the truck, and wiping the remaining Calgarian dust from everything we owned, we hung out at the Idaho Warped Tour for a spell. It was hot. Hot as hell. I think it got up to 105 degrees.

We had lunch, did some interviews at 2:00, then hung out for awhile before our show. Loaded in, greeted Oreskaband at the stage, loaded on, and then battled through a painfully, horrendously hot set. The horn players for Epic were, well, epic though, and the set went over like gangbusters. It was too hot though. So we all sang Jingle Bells to cool off. It didn't work, but it sounded nice. Ran to merch, did a signing, grabbed showers, talked about fall touring, and then slept our way over into Washington state. Good show, Boise!!!

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