We Felt Alive: The original idea came from a jam session during a rehearsal. It's a good representation of the joy we felt making music together at that time.

The song is about being young and adventurous, and excited about living. It reminds me of being 18 or so, when the world seemed wide open to me and I could do absolutely anything I wanted. And I think we felt that way as a band when this song was written.

The title track from Guns N' Roses' new album, "Chinese Democracy," will be available to download by U.S. radio outlets at 5 a.m. ET tomorrow morning (Oct. 22). more A 55-second audio sample of the song is streaming here

A waxwork version of Sir Paul McCartney's head has been left on a train--and now $4,000 is being offered for its safe return. The owner of the head, Joby Carter, left it on a London-to-Reading train last Thursday (October 16), reports BBC News. more

Good news for California criminals. If you get convicted of a crime you can now claim discrimination! Jurors in the Britney Spears trial remained deadlocked 10-2 on whether she was guilty of driving without a valid California license Tuesday. A mistrial was declared, prosecutors said they wouldn't pursue the matter further more. Hum, what's so hard? A child could figure this case out. She was driving + She didn't have a license = Guilty! Guess they really were a jury of her peers.

Green Day has released another video of the band recording their new album in the studio with producer Butch Vig. The clip shows bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool working on new material. Watch that here

The All-American Rejects have just completed their video for the first single, "Gives You Hell," from their forthcoming album, When The World Come Down. The Marc Webb (AFI, Weezer, My Chemical Romance) directed video was shot in Los Angeles and features an "embarrassing underwear shot" of the band and an "evil Tyson neighbor." Check out the behind-the-scenes of the video here .

Kerrang! Radio keeps the hilarity going with this gem: "Reports that Jack White was being lined up as the new Led Zeppelin frontman have been rubbished today....There were rumors doing the rounds the White Stripes frontman had been approached to tour with Jimmy Page & John Paul Jones." Had we heard this rumors we would have seen them as rubbish on their face. But hey! It's a fun headline. Besides we'd like to see Jack Black front the band.

The Black Keys will head to Los Angeles this weekend for songwriting sessions with ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons and producer Rick Rubin, in the hopes of creating material for the latter group's upcoming, Rubin-produced album.more

Cheap Trick have posted a video promo for their forthcoming four-disc (DVD + 3 CD) package, BUDOKAN!: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, that brings the sight and sound together for the first time. The set will arrive in stores November 11th. Watch it here. For those with a vinyl fetish: Separately on October 28th, a new 12-inch vinyl LP of the Live at Budokan original 10-song album will be issued on 180 gram audiophile pressing.

The official video for Eagles of Death Metal's "Wannabe in LA" is live today on the MySpace music homepage. Their PR folks advise us that the video paints a perfect picture of the So Cal-locale, palm trees, sun, fun, and of course buns. Check it out here

Lauren Harris, daughter of Iron Maiden founder Steve Harris, has announced her first Calm Before The Storm headline tour dates. more

Got Tix? Maybe not! Thousands of people have been warned they may not receive concert tickets from a website that has been shut down by the Metropolitan Police. The site - Paperticket.co.uk - sold tickets for gigs ranging from Barry Manilow to the The Killers. more

Mindless Self Indulgence will team up with Bring Me The Horizon, Black Tide and In Case Of Fire to tour the United Kingdom for a tour sponsored by a lame over priced energy drink. Dates are here

Zune continues its focus on discovery of new artists. Music fans can download the "CMJ 2008 Collection" to hear music from this year's bands or the "CMJ Rewind" for a taste of past CMJ artists, as well as subscribe to custom Channels programmed by CMJ and KEXP to get new music automatically pushed to their collection each week. go here

But Ozzy's not a fan of the "V" word. "The word variety sticks in my throat," he tells Spinner. "It's not like we're Sonny and Cher or something."

"Attention please! During the recording days of All in Blood with You we were contacted by a guy from Russian Slayer fan club. He told us that he was going to prepare a tribute album with worldwide participants, celebrating 25 years of slayer. We accepted the offer and recorded Blood Red off the classic Seasons in the Abyss. The track and the signed contract were sent to him. For months we were sending him emails following the project and yet there were no proper responses.

"All commitments until the end of the year, including the UK tour starting in London on Halloween, will naturally be honoured.

"Lumpy Money," a three-CD "audio documentary" due out Nov. 25, is the first offering in the series -- and, according to Zappa's widow Gail, the most unique.

In addition to all five studio albums on fresh vinyl, the box set contains: full-color 24-page lyric and photo book * a repressing of the first 7" single * rare and out-of-print bonus tracks and b-sides * MP3 downloads of The Proximity Effect, Let Go, The Weight Is a Gift, and Lucky.

The disc is due out on DVD and Blu-Ray and runs through 18 songs recorded over two nights in London.

Kurdt Vanderhoof (guitars) was suffering with his back problems for a long time. After several treatments this summer all looked good so far, but last weekend it got so bad again that his doctor warned him about doing a bigger tour before the problem is solved.

antiMusic: Do you feel it's just generally easier to get your musical ideas across with you executing all positions?)

Lindsey: Ah, I don't know if it's easier or not, but you know, it's two different things. When you work with Fleetwood Mac say, obviously you've got to go in with something that's a little more fleshed out as a song because you have to present something tangible. I think the actual process of making a song from start to finish is probably a little more like movie-making when you're talking about working with a band because it's way more verbalized. It's certainly more political, the choices you make, you talk about them. It's obviously a synthesis of everyone's sensibilities.

When I work alone, I mean, that's a whole other way of working. It tends to be at times. It may not have been on Say You Will because all of that material pretty much had been completed. But on most of the solo work, you could make the analogy that it's more like painting because I don't think you necessarily have to have the song in as completed a form. And normally when I'm working on solo stuff, I leave the songs in a less fleshed out form purposely. Obviously that wouldn't work if you were trying to sit down with four or five other people and say, what are we playing? And I'd say: well I don't know.

It's more like a painter who may have a sort of intention or sort of a clue about what he wants to do but he's not that worried about where he ends up. And you start slopping the paint on the canvas and it eventually will become something. And the writing and the actual recording of the song almost become one thing. So I guess that's how I look at the solo work or why I tend to do a lot of things myself, because it becomes part and parcel with the writing.