TMZ stalkerazi's caught up with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl where he proceeded to trash not only Metallica but the new Guns N' Roses CD. Watch it here

Tickets for a concert by hard rock band AC/DC in Vienna sold out within minutes on Wednesday. The concert is set for May 24 at the 50,000-capacity Ernst Happel stadium where the final of the Euro 2008 football tournament was held in June, and promoters are said to be considering a second concert in the Austrian capital.more They also sold out their Scottish concert at Hampden Park on June 30, 2009 in just 75 minutes. more

Over a billion digital full tracks have been sold in 2008, up 28% over 2007, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures released today more

Billboard reports that the Doors documentary "When You're Strange" will premiere Jan. 17 at the Sundance Film Festival. more

Simon Cowell says he wants Britney Spears to appear as a mentor on the eighth series of American Idol. The 'Circus' star recently performed on the UK's Pop Idol (a show also run by Cowell) and now the pop mogul is hoping she'll use her experience in the music biz to help contestants. more

After spending most of 2007 and 2008 working on side projects, the members of Alexisonfire will be regrouping in 2009 to record their as-yet untitled fourth album.more

Thrice has unveiled plans for a limited edition vinyl box set edition of their recent four EP cycle, The Alchemy Index. Due February 17, 2009, the vinyl box set is limited to 3000 numbered copies and will feature The Alchemy Index: Volumes I & II: Fire & Water and The Alchemy Index: Volumes III & IV: Air & Earth pressed on four EPs. more

Who doesn't want free music? Priding themselves on making "alt rock for kids that won't drive the adults crazy," Atlanta based musical trio The Baby Grands has found a unique way of teaching children about the joy and goodness of sharing while celebrating the recent release of their self-titled debut on the new indie label Backspace Records: giving themselves away! Well, almost. Actually, they're giving away free downloads of three songs from The Baby Grands to anyone who emails a request to [email protected] before February 1, 2009.

Lily Allen has a new video game on her website. Escape the Fear Game can be accessed here

the bird and the bee, the irrepressible L.A. duo made up of singer Inara George and keyboardist/producer Greg Kurstin, will be premiering the video for "Love Letter to Japan" � the lead single from their forthcoming album Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future � Friday, December 19 on MySpace

Paul Simon and Christopher Guest have been appointed to the board of trustees of Boston's Berklee College of Music. "this one goes to 11!" more

Lower Definition has dropped off the remainder of their current tour. The band has issued the following statement: "We've been having countless van problems throughout the last months worth of shows. We are always the band with the oldest van on all of our tours and after putting on over 80k miles on the van, it just begins to crap out and we have to repair it constantly." more

Protest the Hero have begun work on their first DVD. The Canadian band will be filming their performance at the dge Electric Christmas/ Underground Operations Ho! Down" on December 18 at the Sound Academy more

Brian Eno is reportedly set to provide the score for the newest movie from 'Lord Of The Rings' director Peter Jackson. Exciting news until you learn that Susan Sarandon stars in it. more

March 2009 sees the release of Thin Lizzy's 'Still Dangerous,' the real Live & Dangerous! Still Dangerous' is being pimped as the raw, unadulterated, untouched sound of Thin Lizzy at the absolute height of their power. more

Bassist Rob Hakemo of M.A.N � the group formed out of the ashes of Sweden's Transport League (featuring former Mnemic frontman Tony Jelencovich) � underwent "gallstone" surgery at the �stra hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden on Tuesday, December 16. more

The first three Deep Purple reunion albums � "Perfect Strangers" (1984), "The House Of Blue Light" (1987) and "Nobody's Perfect" (1988) � will get the SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) treatment in paper sleeve editions. more

The star was speaking on the Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 today (December 18) when he made the admission.

In the lawsuit, filed this week in U.S District Court in Texas, Fremantle claims Palazio's competition -- which allegedly jacked Idol's name and trademarked logo -- has tarnished the singing show's good name.

"There's one story about me buying my first car, a Ford 100E. It was a rust bucket, obviously. I got in the car and drove about 100 yards and the seat went through the floor. I sat there on the road, and the guy who had sold it to me said '(Bleep), you've just fallen through the (bleeping) floor. Ahhhh, you should've checked that before you took it, me son.' That was me first hard lesson in motorcars."

Dr. Andrew McIntosh, biomedical and injury expert at the University Of New South Wales, carried out research into headbanging, and published his findings in the British Medical Journal.

Following in the footsteps of Girl Talk and Dangermouse, Sentence and Swell decided to mix two radically different pieces of music. In Nightlife in Illinoise, the duo remix songs from Sufjan's Stevens's critically acclaimed album Illinoise with beats and a cappellas from the Metermaid's debut album Nightlife. The result is a lush album that highlights the strange folky eccentricities of Stevens and the earnest lyrics and creative production of the Metermaids.

"Let It Go" was actually one of the last songs I wrote for my new album '.' It's funny how songs come into being in so many different ways. At the time, I was working with my co-writer/producer Eve Nelson on some music to submit for a TV show. They were looking for female driven quirky pop songs, so Eve and I scheduled a session to write something for that. We ended up being so in love with the song we created that I kept it for my album and we bailed on selling it to the TV show. The song was "Let It Go" and it became my single.

This is how it went down. . . . .I had been playing around with a new piano riff that I really liked and I'd come into the session that afternoon with the chords and vocal line for what eventually became the verse of "Let It Go". At that point though, I was thinking of it more as a chorus and I didn't really have any ideas for a verse yet. So Eve and I spent a few minutes tossing around our thoughts when she had the brilliant idea that we make the original riff the verse, and come up with a new chorus. Eve sat down at the piano next to me and started to jam until we found the right chords for the chorus. It happened really quickly. My memory of this song is that it kind of wrote itself. We only spent about 3hrs in the studio that day and by the time I left, we had the basic arrangement and production elements of the track all dialed in. I went home with a disc to spend some time thinking about melody line and lyrics.