Here is Frost with today's song "Outlines Of Us": Coatez and I kind of spearheaded this one the day after we'd all stayed in a flophouse back east. Tired and half asleep, we climbed the stairs of this ancient building and went to bed. Next day, we discovered
we'd all had the same dream; blood and brains all over the walls. We concluded there had been a murder/suicide there.

So I romanticized a classic, archetypical "if I can't have you, no one will" story about the anti-hero murdering his one and only true love, when he realizes she doesn't share his desire. The spurned lover then destroys everything, including himself, when he realizes she cannot be his. Sexy times :(

The singer checked into a facility in Pasadena, California, last month, prompting speculation he had slipped from sobriety, 20 years after he kicked hard drugs.

The "Boy," deluxe will include the previously unreleased tracks "Speed of Life," "Saturday Night" and "Cartoon World" and a previously unreleased mix of "I Will Follow." They also toss in some live versions of "Boy-Girl" and "11 O'Clock Tick Tock".

A tipster has very important innuendo regarding the new singer of Velvet Revolver, which will not be picked by reality-TV committee: "I have some new information coming from fans/family close to the hard rock Australian band Rose Tattoo to which Slash & Duff are HUGE fans of and shared the stage with many times, that Duff has been in communications with an Australian singer currently living in the USA.

Performing live with Roth for the first time in more than 23 years, Van Halen proved its timeless catalog of hits still packs the punch it did decades earlier. Each night, the band treated the capacity audiences to a dream set list of more than two hours of Van Halen gems plucked from their original era. Favorites including, "Jump", "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love", "Panama" and more, received a jolt of vivacity and spirit.

"I've gotten a lot of online inquiries about my involvement in this Boston tour," says the guitarist. "Tom Scholz is the only original member appearing on this summer's tour".

The insider notes that tickets for Stone Temple Pilots and Sheryl Crow shows (both to take place at Concerts on the Green, near Qualcomm Stadium) are selling below expectations. "You always hear about the high cost of tickets with extra Ticketmaster charges and everything and that eventually the promoters will respond and bring tickets back down to earth. I think the promoters will get burned so badly this year that this will finally be the year they wake up and start bringing prices down for next year."

Wanna jam with Weezer? You may be in luck! Weezer have yet to announce any tour plans behind their new, self-titled "Red Album," but the band is planning an interactive short trek that will get them up close and personal with fans. Frontman Rivers Cuomo told MTV News, "It's called the Hootenanny Tour, and it's coming to your town in June. We're gonna bring ourselves and invite a bunch of Weezer fans down to bring their instruments and, uh, jam with us. more

The Virgin Megastore in New York's Times Square will close down in the first quarter of 2009, according to a published report that quotes a senior executive at the Vornado Realty Trust. more

Hurt and Tantric will co-headline the 7th annual Layne Staley Fund tribute and benefit concert. The event will be taking place on August 23rd at Seattle's Showbox SoDo.

Looks like Disney Records may be getting some competition: "American Idol" runner-up David Archuleta has signed a record deal and is expected to release an album later this year, his new producers at 19 Recordings/Jive Records said on Thursday. Now this leaves us to ponder this. Does it matter who wins this thing as the Idol corp and RCA seems to get a lock on all of the finalist and seem to sign most of them and screw up most the chances for most of them to have a real career. Not that this kid had much luck of being anything more than a novelty, but still. more on the story of his deal with the devil.

Down will be playing the Barby Club in Tel Aviv after their Turkey date this July. The exact date is said to be July 29th and tickets are priced at NIS 160, which translates to $48. more

Stevie Wonder will tour Europe for the first time in more than a decade, organizers said on Thursday. The Motown icon will open the trek on September 8 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. more

No posing allowed: Dillinger Escape Plan have announced their touring schedule for summer of 2008. Along with the previously announced trip to Europe, the band will be supporting Ire Works on the Warped Tour and with Cavalera Conspiracy, Throwdown, and Bury Your Dead. dates

Rev Theory's video for "Hell Yeah" recently became the first ever video to premiere on XBOX Live. The four minute mini-movie set in the beautiful California desert was directed by Travis Kopach (Black Tide, Buckcherry) and features a high-speed car chase, WWE Diva Ashley Massaro and a rip-roaring performance in an airplane graveyard! Check it out here

Boy George has announced a tour of the US and Canada which will see him perform all across the continent for the first time in ten years. The tour which kicks off July 10 in Aspen will run through to August 23 more

Two keynote speakers for the First Annual Indiegrrl Women in the Arts Conference taking place in Spencer, VA from August 21 - 24, 2008, have been announced: The Donnas personal manager Molly Neuman and singer/actress Bonnie Bramlett. more info

Your honor we now present exhibit 100 to further demonstrate how the music industry is destroying itself: VH1 and VH1.com will exclusively premiere the video of the New Kids On The Block's new single, "Summertime" on-air and online on Sunday, June 8 at 2p (EST).

MJ's US album release of "Mi Sentimiento/My Feeling" offers a fusion of reggaeton, bachata, dances hall, R& B and ballad sounds that combine to create a revolutionary sound unlike anything that Latin music has experienced before. listen to "He Venido"

The MC Magic Story continues to astound as the much-anticipated release of Magic City Part 2 is set for June 10, 2008. Magic City Part 2 features J Records' star Baby Bash, DJ Kane, lead singer for the Cumbia All Stars (formerly Kumbia Kings), hot newcomers Sophia Maria and Tiffany Dunn and special guest star TOO SHORT "All My Life" (Music Video)

"Saving Abel," debut album of southern rock quintet Saving Abel, has achieved a career milestone for the band by taking the No. 1 position on Billboard's Heatseekers listing, in its twelfth charting week. "SAVING ABEL" also tops the Nielsen Soundscan new artists album chart this week.

Chavis Records recording artists The Dogs Divine and Asphalt Valentine announce the Lock Up Your Liquor Tour. Both bands have teamed up for select dates throughout 2008 and are out in support of their debut releases 'Way Of Life' and 'Strip Rock Roll' respectively. 'Way Of Life' (produced by Chip Z'Nuff and Paul Crosby) streets July 1st with "Strip Rock Roll' (produced by Andy Reilly) to follow. The label didn't provide any dates.

Note: If your tour is sponsored by a cosmetics company, please don't bother us about providing coverage. It's not going to happen. And if your tour is sponsored by any other company, we may cover it, but we have a policy of removing the corporate names from the stories. We won't be accomplices to you whoring your band unless these corporations start ponying up tickets for the fans. Sorry.

The CD's first single, "Flush", will be made available exclusively via iTunes on July 8. For more than a decade, Brian "Head" Welch was lead guitarist for the controversial rock band Korn, but in early 2005 he shocked the international music community when he abruptly quit the band and announced that he had been saved by Jesus Christ.

Travel entrepreneur Malcolm Bluemel is to buy the station, backed by Fish and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson and Gary Moore.

In a reminder of the way that the massively-popular homemade video of "All the Same" ignited a worldwide viral wave of interest in SICK PUPPIES, the band is launching a "make-a-video" contest on their official on-line home pages.

Trent writes: I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of nine inch nails for the foreseeable future. We've added, we've subtracted and we've wound up with unquestionably the strongest lineup I've EVER had. Joining me onstage will be Robin Finck, Alessandro Cortini, Josh Freese and Justin Meldal-Johnsen.

We've been working on something really special for these shows and so far I couldn't be happier with the results. We'll be revealing some live performances shortly here on nin.com

In the article titled "Ozzy's Freak Show," the tabloid also claimed the 59-year-old rocker was in such a poor state that he had to be transported around the show on an electric buggy and that event organizers held last-minute discussions to determine whether he should be allowed to carry on his emcee duties.