Redeye: So we're in this club in Tokyo, the band, crew, my wife, friends, having a great time. Only dim red lights in the club. This beautiful Japanese girl is all over us, couldn't understand a damn thing she was saying but spoke for hours. So there's me, my wife, this girl, we're just being silly, whatever, friends are laughing and taking pictures... get back to the hotel the next morning, go to bed, soon after I'm hearing this "voom voom voom" noise a half-second apart, I'm moving back and forth with it, thinking to myself "wow, the water's choppy." Then I realize I'm in a hotel, not on a boat. F**king earthquake. We get out of bed, the first thing I do is throw on a pair of pants - I WILL not die with my dick out, f**k that. We stand in the doorway of the bathroom, I hold my wife and tell her "this is gonna be a very long 30 seconds, just hang tight..." and we wait. The building didn't crumble, we went back to bed.

He was transported to UVA Medical Center, where's he's listed in fair condition. A statement on the band's website said "Please join us all in wishing LeRoi a speedy and complete recovery."

Windup Records sent over these details: Tickle Me Pink bassist Johnny Schou was found dead this morning at home in Colorado. The quartet from Fort Collins was to celebrate the release of their debut album with an in-store appearance in Denver today.

During the interview Metro asked Duff about Matt Sorum's comments that a GNR reunion is inevitable. Duff said in part "there is no backroom talks, there never has been.. but anything can happen, you see all these bands getting back together. I guess hell froze over for the Eagles and they did it. But it's not something I count on, or even need in my life." He had more to say, you'll have to listen to the full interview for that.

Metro also asked about Matt's comments about the new Velvet Revolver singer: "Matt your drummer, this week, said that there is actually a guy who you are quote, massaging, and if you will sort of checking it out, feeling it out, letting him work with you." (laughs from Dave, "your massaging him and feeling him out"). Then Duff said, "I wouldn't use, probably the words Matt used, but there is a guy we feel is pretty close to what we are looking for. And he's a great guy, amazing singer..." (Dave: "He must be hot, if your messaging him").

"One Day As A Lion is both a warning delivered and a promise kept. "A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. It's a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask. One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California.

The BBC will air a long lost Beatles interview featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney talking about the day they met and their songwriting partnership. The precious film sat forgotten for 44 years in a garage in south London until film fan Richard Jeffs realized a piece of pop history was contained inside. more

MP3 blog Aquarium Drunkard has quite a find for Fugazi fans. The site has acquired four Fugazi tracks performed on John Peel's legendary Peel Sessions. The late renowned broadcaster Peel used to have bands record four pieces of music exclusively for his show at the BBC studios. more

The next time you want to know why you are being screwed when you over pay for a concert ticket, here is one big reason: Latin music pop star Shakira is in talks with concert promoter Live Nation for a contract that will include touring, merchandising and recording, according to people familiar with the talks. The Colombian-born songstress, whose 2006 hit "Hips Don't Lie" was No. 1 in the United States, is expected to complete a multimillion-dollar deal with Live Nation before the end of the year. more

Albert Hammond, Jr.'s upcoming album �C�mo Te Llama? is streaming in its entirety over on his MySpace page The album is out next week (July 8) on Black Seal Music. New York-ers, come check out Albert Hammond, Jr.'s free in-store performance on July 8, at the Union Square Virgin Megastore.

After almost a week of rumours surrounding the state of her marriage to Guy Ritchie, a rep for Madonna today flatly denied that the singer and her husband are divorcing. more

Imogen Heap will make a brand new track available exclusively through iTunes on July 8th, 2008. The aptly-named track "Not Now But Soon" currently appears on the album "Heroes: Original Television Series Soundtrack", which is out now. The track will be made available through iTunes accompanied by a bonus 'making of the song' video. The press release called it new, even though it's out now on a soundtrack. So blame them for the misleading info.

Joby Ford: I remember when� f**kin' like when Sunny Day Real Estate and Jimmy Eat World first hit� That's where emo started, for me. Those two records. But now it's really just doubled on itself and gone through such a regression. The sensitive, aggressive emotional music nowadays is f**kin hilarious man. Oh my god. To me, strapping on a guitar and rockin' the f**k out� It's this thing, this feeling of empowerment. I can't imagine someone strapping on a guitar, and that's what comes out. You know what I'm saying? Like at what point in these kids lives did they say "Dude, that rocks so much. That's what I want to do." I mean, the first concert I ever went to was AC/DC, and I was like Wow, man, f**k yeah! It was exciting rock n' roll, and I just think to myself, like� these kids go to these shows and they see some pussy crying over f**kin' spilled milk or something, and they're like "Yeah! I wanna do that!" It's like� no, man. You're missing the point. read this full interview

Coldplay will do another 200,000+ in the US this week, bringing total sales in America to around 1 million.

MySpace has already seen what lies in the mind of the disturbed and on July 8, you too can experience CULT OF LUNA's vivid world of insanity with ETERNAL KINGDOM. Based upon the diary ramblings of an inmate in a Swedish mental asylum, ETERNAL KINGDOM will take you to places so deep within the mind that you may not ever be able to leave.

Over 600,000 YouTube views have already occurred since the video hit the internet last Monday and everyone can see that two of the biggest names in sports have re-sparked their four year old feud. view that here

In a lawsuit filed today in L.A. County Superior Court, Roland Cano says he was at his post at the front door of the trendy shop, when Steve-O and his 6'9", 375 lb. goon showed up with a crew filming the reality show "Dr. Steve-O." When Cano refused to let them in the event, he says Steve-O's bodyguard and former football player Reggie "Big Regg" Pace "without provocation, violently punched [Cano's] head repeatedly."