"Pleasure Seekers"- this is my favorite song on the record. I think the music and the vibe of the song dictated the tone for the lyrics. This song makes you want to move. Being born in 1979, the excess and adventure of the 1980's were kind of like my foster parents. I used to sit in my sisters room and listen to her records over and over. That was the first time in my life I ever felt connected to anything. When I first discovered punk music I made a note to myself that my newly founded desire was more than a phase. That's where the chorus comes into play. The title of "pleasure seekers" fits the song perfectly. This is a celebration of discovery.

"We're already testing the program on certain upcoming tour on-sales," Moriarty said, noting that concertgoers who use Ticketmaster electronic delivery system TicketFast would not be charged with additional service fees.

A man accused of illegally posting songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by the rock band Guns N' Roses has agreed to plead guilty, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday. Kevin Cogill will enter his guilty plea to one federal count of copyright infringement at a hearing on December 8, said Craig Missakian, assistant U.S. attorney. more

According to Gavin Allen from WalesOnline, The Alarm frontman Mike Peters is planning to stage a charity music festival in Las Vegas next summer (the first fortnight of July 2009) with The Alarm playing alongside rock giants Guns N' Roses and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. more

Hot on the heels of yesterday's Swedish Chinese Democracy love-in comes another chance to hear GN'R's latest before anyone else. The band want fans to upload an "inappropriate air guitar" video to YouTube � the best gets to take 100 friends (yes, 100) to the UK's exclusive Chinese Democracy listening party. more

From November 17th-20th, Virgin Radio Italy will be broadcasting Guns N' Roses' new album Chinese Democracy each day, according toBW&BK.

Chris Pitman of Guns N' Roses is now pushing a side project called SexTapes. The music is a bit psychotic, but with plenty of melody mixing up the punk and psychedelic overtones. SexTapes is unique, so it doesn't really sound just like any other band, but as a reference, some say SexTapes sounds like a cross between Jane's Addiction, Led Zeppelin and Queen with a modern twist. You be the judge.

At the moment, Mastodon has decided to continue on the tour as a trio. Doctors and Bill are hopeful that he will rejoin his bandmates in time for their headlining tour of Europe which begins November 30th, in Utrecht, Holland and will end on December 7th, at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Somerset, England.

Peter Gabriel co-founded the venture called We7 - a free advertising-funded music streaming service which will have music from four major labels and hundreds of indies available to listen to.

Charles R. Nesson '60, the founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is defending Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student charged in 2005 with downloading seven songs from a file-sharing network.

The group initially hoped to be able to play some of the shows with vocalist Chris Shinn, who formed Unified Theory with Blind Melon's Christopher Thorn (guitar) and Brad Smith (bass), filling in, but those plans were eventually abandoned.

A new Bruce Springsteen song, "Workin' on a Dream," will premiere Nov. 16 on NBC's Sunday Night Football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins. more

Eminem is unlikely to release his forthcoming new album, Relapse, before the end of 2008, claims an anonymous record company "insider." [gotta love those anonymous insiders!] more

You might think the five combined songwriting minds of The Killers and Elton John would be enough to bang out a Christmas hit. But you'd be wrong. The band 'hit a wall' while recording at producer Stuart Price's house, where, coincidently, Pet Shop Boys stopped by to visit. Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant saved the day. more

Joshua Radin will perform on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" tonight, November 12th.

Antagonist frontman Carlos Garcia was featured on The Price Is Right as a (winning) contestant yesterday, Nov. 10. video is available online here

Nevermore are the latest confirmed for the legendary German metal festival Wacken Open Air which takes place from July 30th - August 1st.more
Janet Jackson claims her previous label Def Jam tried to shape her into something she isn't, which caused her to part ways with the company in September. "There were some people who didn't like the direction I took with this album ['Discipline']." Janet tells Sister 2 Sister magazine. "They wanted me to sound more like Sade."... ouch! read more
Must Skip TV! Girls Aloud will be hosting their own TV special this Christmas, to be screened on ITV. Billed as 'The Girls Aloud Party', the show will see the five-piece - singing and interviewing other celebutards, including fellow fast food posters' Take That. more
Dengue Fever will be performing a free, all-ages show at Garrison Theater (Scripps College Performing Arts Center) in Claremont on Friday, December 5 at 7 pm. The performance will be followed at 7:30 by a screening of the documentary film Sleepwalking Through The Mekong, which chronicles Dengue Fever's 2005 journey to Cambodia, the country of their musical inspiration and home to lead singer Chhom Nimol. There will be a Q&A panel after the screening with Dengue Fever and director John Pirozzi.

Authentik Artists has signed an exclusive agreement with Detroit, MI-based That Was Something and will be releasing their new EP Down, But Not Out on December 9th. Down, But Not Out was produced by and features guest vocals from Rob Freeman (Sound The Alarm, Cobra Starship). Wanna hear?

Death Angel need a new bass player. Want the gig? Details are here.

She's already the Queen of Soul, but now Aretha Franklin has been named the greatest singer of the rock era in a poll conducted by Rolling Stone magazine. All due "Respect" to Aretha but who did they poll, Clive Davis? Just like the (c)Rock Hall it sounds like it's Jann's inner circle of aging hippies that made the calls here. more

Tickle Me Pink have posted the explicit version of the video for their single "Typical." The uncensored video features Digital Playground adult film star Gabriella Fox. The track comes from the band's debut album, Madeline. Fans 18+ can check out the clip here

Rock Games pay off big time! When Harmonix founders Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy - the guys behind mega-hit games Guitar Hero and later, Rock Band - sold their company to Viacom's (VIA) MTV for a reported $175 million in 2006, the deal didn't end there. Turns out there was also an earnout agreement, where the pair gets a bonus if Rock Band did well. And Rock Band did very well. more

Guitar Center and Motley Crue tapped The Last Vegas from Chicago, IL, as the winner of Guitar Center On-Stage at the Whisky A-Go-Go Monday night. They win the chance to play to half-filled halls on a Motley tour, some kind of (mis?)management deal and some other stuff that was massively hyped under the banner of "Make Rock History". RockStar Supernova anyone? more details

The legendary Tony Visconti (Bowie, T. Rex) produced the album. The group will also embark on their first full US tour since touring with Morrissey and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.

The former was recorded July 2 outside Denver, while the latter was taped June 7, 2008, at St. Louis' Busch Stadium.

Bassist Rex Brown -- who, like Down frontman Philip Anselmo, hails from Pantera -- tells Billboard.com that the group "is all our priorities now," with plans for a full spate of touring in 2009 and to record a fourth album shortly after that.

The New York-based industrial-techno-punks will return to the UK for the 15-date Kerrang! Tour alongside Brit heavyweights Bring Me The Horizon, Kerrang! Award winners Black Tide and fast-rising Northern Irish trio In Case Of Fire.

I wrote this song, with Pat Klein, about my first wife. She was a supremely gifted singer/songwriter who suffered from deep depression. Before her, I'd never worked with an artist who every word they sang came from deep inside. She was 21 years old, but had the gravitas of an old bluesman, like Robert Johnson. She could move a room to tears. The music was all she had to cling to, to keep her sane.

The "Dark Angel" (Ariel was the singing angel) in the song refers to her muse. It was an unreliable partner, deserting her, sometimes, when she needed it most. Her "Magic" was fragile. The "frozen sea" is what artists call writer's block. Eventually, she would let the darkness of her tortured mind wrap around her and she'd pull a "jewel from the crown" of creation.

Our first singer, John Garner, wouldn't sing the piece. He said that it was "satanic". I explained what the lyrics meant, but he was a "Christian" and wouldn't have it. Paradoxically, he was happy to sing "Under the City" on our first record. That song WAS satanic!

"Who goes there? Well that depends, / A flip of the coin or fashion trends / Angels fall and devils climb, in your troubled mind"

That song, based on themes of a "city under the city" in stories by H.P. Lovecraft, was pessimistic in the extreme, seeming to say that all your good works may just land you in Hell!