Conalane was apparently recommended to Velvet Revolver by ex-Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler, and also by Stone Gods, the band formed from the ashes of The Darkness.

William Balfour, 27, was arrested at Stateville Correctional Center on a warrant accusing him of murdering the relatives of the singer and Oscar-winning actress, Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond said.

Goodwin had complained earlier he wasn't feeling well. He had been heading to Halifax to headline a sold out Q104 Quarter Century Concert with Sam Roberts, Matt Mays & El Torpedo, and 54-40, honoring the 25th anniversary of Halifax radio station Q104. Joel Placket Emergency filled in their slot in the lineup.

Stapp promptly embarked on a solo career, while guitarist Mark Tremonti, drummer Scott Phillips and original bassist Brian Marshall formed Alter Bridge with vocalist Myles Kennedy and released two albums.

The TRVSDJAM set will be streamed live in high-definition (HD) quality on the Internet at newyearsnation.com, and broadcast live to NYN parties across the U.S. through NYN-TV, a live, HD quality broadcast powered by BitGravity, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for interactive broadcast. Through NYN-TV, guests at NYN parties in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, New York City, Portland and Seattle will be able to see TRVSDJAM's performance and dance to their music.

Coldplay was the hottest iTunes album download this year: Its "Viva la Vida" was crowned the best-selling album of 2008, while Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" was named the top-selling single. more

Bullet For My Valentine have released a 90 second video trailer for Scream Aim Fire: Deluxe Edition, coming out December 9th. The clip includes a sneak preview of 4 Brand New songs, as well as new episodes of Bullet TV. Check it here

Singer Boy George admits in a recording played in a London court that he restrained a male escort with handcuffs. But the former Culture Club singer says he had no intention of hurting the man. He also denies he tried to assault the escort or that he swung a chain at him. more

Music including Jimi Hendrix's rendition of 'The Star Spangled Banner', Queen's 1977 single 'We are the Champions/We Will Rock You' and The Police's 1983 album 'Synchronicity' has been added to the Grammy Hall Of Fame.more

One of our favorites Butch Walker: Check out the new video for "The Weight Of Her," the lead single from Butch's new CD, Sycamore Meadows. It's set against the California desert (actually not far from where antiMusic is based!), and features Butch getting carjacked and held hostage by a gas-station robbing Taryn Manning (of Boomkat, "8 Mile" and "Hustle & Flow" fame.) Watch it here.

Britneymania leads to jail. A former employee of UCLA Medical Center pleaded guilty Monday to selling information from the medical records of celebrities and high-profile patients, including Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett, to the National Enquirer.more

The long-awaited sophomore album from MSTRKRFT, "Fist of God," will be released in the States on Steve Aoki's Dim Mak/Downtown in March, Billboard.com has learned.more

Last week we told you about the theatrical showing of Cheap Trick at Budokan, but we have a little follow-up. Here is a refresher: On Thursday, December 4th D&E Entertainment will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of a newly-restored concert film from Cheap Trick that previously has only aired once on Japanese television in 1978. With a running time of just over 60 minutes, Live at Budokan captures the concert that catapulted Cheap Trick to stardom. D&E will be hosting the premieres in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, and other markets. Now the update D&E let us know that they have also built a website for the event, so fans can leave messages, request theatres, and buy tickets in various markets. Check that out here

Jack White and his band the Raconteurs called on Ricky Skaggs to help them record a bluegrass-inspired version of their song "Old Enough."more

Lita Ford teams up with Dee Snider, lead vocalist for Twisted Sister, in a duet for the band's just released video "I'll Be Home for Christmas" available here

Live Nation has signed a three-year deal with Blockbuster whereby the latter will be the exclusive physical retail ticket outlet for Live Nation Ticketing, Live Nation's new in-house ticketing company, beginning with the start of the 2009 concert seasonmore

Willie Dixon's blues classic "Back Door Man" has been covered by The Doors, The Grateful Dead, John Hammond Jr. and Howlin' Wolf, but today Kicksville pay homage with a cover that stays true to the raunchy original while reinventing it with slippery slide guitars and down-and-funky electronic flourishes. Listen to "Back Door Man," Kicksville's fourth digital single from 'Season 1,' here

Digital music sales account for 18 percent of the U.S. music market and that figure will grow to 41 percent in five years, Forrester Research said in a report released on Monday. more

Ok KISS fans, have you ever wanted to capture Ace Frehley's guitar sound? Gibson will hook you up right here.

Speaking of Ace, his former tour mates Y & T are set to record their first original songs in a decade more

Turbonegro guitarist Knut 'Euroboy' Schreiner has announced that he has now fully recovered from cancer.more

To commemorate the year, Yahoo! has pulled together the annual "Year in Review," based upon the top searches of 2008 on Yahoo!. Including categories such as Top 10 Overall Searches, Top 10 Movie Trailers of 2008, and Top Politicians, amongst many others, the full Yahoo! "Year in Review" went live on Monday. In creating the "Top 10 Music Videos" list, Yahoo ranked the videos based on the number of video spins this year on Yahoo! Music.

The Kashmir hitmakers announced last month that they plan to hit the road in 2009 without Plant, who has opted out of the reunion shows.

Additionally, Amazon.com, Inc. and MySpace today exclusively debuted the music video for "My Lucky Day," the first time that the two sites have collaborated on streaming video. Fans can visit the Amazon Bruce Springsteen Artist Store, and the MySpace Bruce Springsteen Artist Profile page , to watch the video and download the new single.

After a great stint together in country-rock chart-toppers Southern Pacific, McFee, Cook and Knudson decided to carry on creating great music together and recorded the tracks at McFee's Lizard Rock Studio in Solvang, CA. The songs and the band evolved from 50 years of experience in the music business and the belief that together they could come up with some great songs to showcase their musical roots.

"Hey Yoko" started out as a melodic finger picked instrumental one day out on the back patio of the studio. Sitting there with our laptops open to garageband, Mikal Reid and I played it out and what we ended up with had this Beatlesque McCartney quality to it. So we labeled it "Scrambled eggs instrumental" and moved on to something else.

Several weeks later, I happen to be watching a John Lennon documentary that really got into his life as an activist and war protester. I couldn't help but see the parallels between his anti-war stance on Vietnam and the stances that some musicians were beginning to take on the present war in Iraq. The melody for the verse basically was taken from the melody of the original guitar line and the chorus came from one of my daily trips up the 405 freeway in traffic to the studio. In bumper to bumper traffic I found myself behind one of those people who has managed to collect every cheesy bumper sticker that has ever been made and that's when I came up with the idea of "Hey Yoko where's our John?"