"Light From Above" is a song that was written while we were in the studio. It's one of the newest songs on the album. One night while I was playing the piano, Gabriel grabbed his guitar, and we spit out a cool jam session. It eventually turned into "Light From Above".

I recorded the piano part on our producer's grand piano and layered it with a keyboard to get a unique sound. When I wrote the part, I never imagined that I'd be playing it live, but it turns out that I can. "Light From Above" is one of my favorite songs.

"I understand that we have it, although I imagine there will be plenty of bands prepared to kick and punch us out of the way for the privilege!" said McKagan. "I would so love to have been at their London gig before Christmas, but we had dates of our own that obviously took precedence.

Gigwise has some more details: Sixty-two-year-old Ola Brunkert played with the band on their first single 'People Need Love' and toured with them in 1977, 1979 and 1980. He is the only musician, alongside bassist Rutger Gunnarsson, to be credited on all of the group's albums, and retired to Majorca after the break-up of the band twenty-five years ago.

The Van Halen released this statement when the original dates will nixed: According to Eddie Van Halen's physician, he is undergoing a battery of comprehensive medical tests to determine a defined diagnosis and recommended medical procedures.

Maybe now Paul will remember what he was thinking when he wrote "Can't Buy Me Love". Here are some details about the judge's decision from an AP report: A document released by the Family Court said the judge awarded Mills a lump sum of $33 million plus the assets she currently holds worth $15.6 million.

BOSTON will be bringing two new recruits on tour this year. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Michael Sweet, the veteran STRYPER frontman, will both sing and trade riffs with Gary Pihl and Tom Scholz on guitar.

This announcement about the announcement is a bit short on details. All they told us is that Motley Thru will make a "colossal announcement in Los Angeles on April 15 (location tbd). This will by far be one of the biggest music announcements of the year!!" They'll also fly out some contest winners to be at the press conference to hear this history changing announcement in person! We'll give you the link later on.

Dates and Times:
Thursday, March 27, 7:00 p.m. Apple Store, SoHo (New York)
Thursday, April 3, 4:00 p.m. Apple Store, The Grove (Los Angeles)
Sunday, April 6, 4:00 p.m. Apple Store, San Francisco (San Francisco)
Wednesday, April 9, 6:00 p.m. Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue (Chicago)

The contest, to be separated into four stages, will culminate with the selection by the members of Radiohead of a winner who will be awarded a $10,000 prize to produce a full-length animated music video. Aniboom's contest will be announced on television for the first time tonight on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's programming block for young adults, and will be promoted on Adult Swim and on MySpace, where fans will be able to vote for their favorite video.

Commented Kaufmann: "I was barely able to escape and I'm VERY lucky to be alive. It was their intent to take everything I had and then kill me. The Oakland police caught them about an hour later and I made a positive identification.

"The club in Houston was one such club, but the word was not passed down to me. Ignorant of any preparations taken by security to handle the "melee" if such did occur, when Jordan went to the barricade to help people over, he was tackled by security (an action which exerted far more force than was required) and his guitar was broken. Seeing his guitar in shambles, I grabbed the mic stand and jumped in the security guards direction with every intention of using it violently and or sexually.

The band seems to be following the trajectory of previous "secret" Green Day side project, The Network, which first released their album independently before being "upstreamed" to Green Day's major label home.

Tomorrow, March 18, EARACHE Records will debut the ROCK BAND "Thrash Pack," one of many exclusive downloadable content packs to come from the label. Consisting of 3 of the fastest and hardest-hitting tracks from EARACHE's past and present, the "Thrash Pack" is perfect for ROCK BAND players eager for the challenge of what many consider to be the game's 3 toughest tracks, players who are looking to add more metal to their ROCK BAND experience and/or ROCK BAND completists.

Here is what she had to say about the real reason they cancelled the tour: "We tried to be as honest as we could with it, without giving our life stories, and it definitely did come back to bite us, but in the end, it was the best thing for us to do, to communicate with our fans that we needed time. We needed time to come home and catch our breath," Williams said.

Yet another Jamaican engineering student drawn to the country's pop scene, Michael Campbell's "Dread At The Controls" show on JBC radio quickly became essential listening during reggae's '70s heyday, so much so that word of Dread's reputation soon reached reggae fans who had never even stepped onto the island.