"Digital Leash"- This song is loosely based on the life of Marshall Applewhite. He was the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult. He convinced people that a spaceship was coming to earth to pick him up. In order to prepare there bodies for heaven he and his followers committed mass suicide.

Sometimes leaders are more lost then the people they lead. I'm fascinated by cults and especially cult leaders. They seem focused on snapping the leash that connects them to the regular way of life. Fantasy over reality. I feel the same way sometimes.

The London native had completed an 18 city American tour as a featured performer with Experience Hendrix, a series concert series celebrating the legacy of Jimi Hendrix featuring an all-star line-up of artists including his one-time Hendrix bandmate and dear friend Billy Cox. Portland was the tour's last stop and Mitchell had been staying in town for some vacation time before his planned return to England.

"Twilight�Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," the musical companion to the upcoming Summit Entertainment film, has made an explosive No. 1 debut atop this week's SoundScan/Billboard 200 album chart. The Chop Shop/Atlantic Records soundtrack�highlighted by Paramore's brand new single, "Decode"� also claims the #1 spot on SoundScan's Digital Albums chart.

Jerry Montano (ass-kickee) is suing the chaps off John Rich (ass-kicker) for that October beatdown in which the country singer turned Jerry's face into a swollen, gushing, bloody mess inside Rich's room at the Mondrian Hotel in L.A.

Billy Joel and Elton John will reprise their wildly successful co-headlining concerts beginning in March of next year.more

Ever wonder why college tuition is so ridiculously high? Aside from dead wood tenured professors, these esteemed indoctrinational institutions like to waste good money on pointless studies. One such pointless study by the University of Maryland Medical Centre found that genres like heavy metal narrowed arteries and made people more anxious, where as "joyful" music improved blood flow. John Denver-style country music was found to be the most uplifting. Amazing what conclusions you can draw from studying under a dozen people! more

Remember that rumored Guns N' Roses charity show in Vegas? According to the rumor Gilby Clarke was the man instrumental in setting it up. The problem is he told BW&BK that he has heard anything about it. read the story

Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots/ex-Velvet Revolver will perform on the November 21st episode of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Weiland will also guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on November 26th.more

Hellyeah/former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul will be guest on the nationally syndicated radio show Rockline, with host Bob Coburn, on November 17th at 8:30 PM (PT) / 11:30 PM (ET). more

AC/DC's latest effort continues to sizzle on the Canadian album charts. "Black Ice" was locked in at No. 1 for a third straight week, selling 27,000 copies. more

Jamie Ewing of Bent Outta Shape passed away last week at his apartment in Brooklyn. He was 25more

The first date of Exodus and The Haunted co-headlining Mexican mini-tour, which was scheduled to take place on November 20 in Monterrey, Mexico at Caf� Iguana. has been postponed until February 2009 more

Oasis are planning on buying a private jet. The band are looking into how much a Gallagher-owned plane would cost, and have even thought of a name for it. more

Gwen Stacy, Vanna, and In Fear And Faith will team up with Our Last Night for a three-week tour in early-2009.dates

At 90, Bebo Valdes is still unstoppable. The legendary jazz musician, who just landed one more Latin Grammy nomination, is celebrating his nine decades with a music tour along his son and fellow jazz star, Chucho Valdes, in Spain. more

'N Sync singer Lance Bass has revealed that following cosmonaut training he received in Russia in 2002 he was two inches shorter than he was before he started.more

Depswa has revealed the track list for their upcoming new 7-song EP titled "Distorted American Dream". The band also announced that they have 14 new songs finished for a full-length album to be released in the near future. more details

Iced Earth and Scrape Records will be conducting an autograph signing at Scrape Records in Vancouver to commemorate the store's 11th Anniversary on Wednesday, November 19. more

A documentary tracing the life of Grace Jones over the past "four or five" years is set to be released, the singer/actress has revealed. The star, who released her latest album 'Hurricane' on November 3, told BBC 6music that British filmmaker Sophie Fiennes was behind the project. more

Joe Bonamassa has announced that he will be playing a one time only show at London, England's prestigious Royal Albert Hall on Monday, May 4th, 2009.more

Wednesday 13 and Rayen Belchere will return to the studio this December to record the sophomore release for Bourbon Crow.more

Revelation has set a release date for the forthcoming discography release from New Jersey's Mouthpiece. The early 90s hardcore act existed from 1991 through 1996 and the disc compiles the entirety of their output during their time together.more

Fascism starts with smoking bans! Bosses at The Cliffs Pavilion venue in Southend have been issued with a warning after Paul Weller flouted the smoking ban during a gig there on Saturday (November 8).more

American Idol has allocated more than $64 million in grants to six U.S. and international charities from contributions to its "Idol Gives Back" fundraising event. more

The events are free and open to the public, and fans who pre-order Chinese Democracy at BestBuy.com and bring their receipt will gain "front of the line access" plus receive a FREE exclusive Chinese Democracy T-Shirt at the events, while supplies last.

Frontman Rod Stewart told Raysgigs.com that all the original members aside from late bassist Ronnie Lane, who died in 1997, were set to reconvene on Monday (November 17) to run through their old hits.

We're told cops were called to Paula Abdul's house -- either late last year or early this year -- and found Goodspeed inside her car, unconscious from a drug overdose. Sources say Goodspeed suffered from "extreme mental illness" that spun out of control in the last two years.Goodspeed, who was obsessed with Abdul, frightened the "A.I." judge -- LAPD's Threat Management division took the case and there was an active investigation.

The paper quotes an unnamed source as saying: "A middle-aged woman ran over and threw her arms around him, almost knocking him over. Ringo was a bit shocked, he just wanted to get away."

It is the follow up to Antony's I Am Bird Now which received the UK's Mercury Prize in 2005 and led to his subsequent widespread notoriety.

The manuscript is a salary register from Liverpool City Hospital and features the name E. Rigby, a scullery maid who has signed for her monthly wage. Her annual earnings were 14 pounds.

The DVD of their hometown gig, 'Live At Elland Road', will be released on November 24 and will also feature footage of the band's BBC Electric Proms show which took place at the London Roundhouse on October 27 last year.

The first single, "Ulysses," was produced by renowned producer Dan Carey and will be released on January 19.

Producers Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa and Eric Eisner have signed on to produce a biopic about Garcia. It is said that the untitled project will focus on the counterculture icon's early life in San Francisco before he joined the band that become The Grateful Dead.

New York: I was in Italy working/recording with Dustin O'Halloran and he started playing the most beautiful guitar picking.... I don't know where the words & melody came from, they seemed to drop from the sky - except for the chorus because I really did have the dream that I describe in the lyrics. It was one of those easy songs that just sort of wrote itself. We decided to record instantly to not loose the moment. We managed to get down the guitar, a rough vocal and some piano. Then we just sort of forgot about the song for a while.