Damon: The perfect musical introduction to Bigelf. I wrote it over a decade ago and always planned on it being an opener for a carnival-esque record. I was listening to The Move non-stop back then(still am), I think they inspired the riff in this song but then it took shape into something really special and timeless. With it's sinister big top circus quality and twisted vaudevillian military imagery, there is no song like it. For me, it ranks up there with Sgt. Pepper and Karn Evil 9. One of my top 5 all-time Elven faves!

Ace: This song could be described as "Bigelf's equivalent for Sgt. Pepper on acid". Lots of different parts, time signatures, tempo changes and sound effects. This song was a true challenge to knock out in the studio.

Fans of the legendary rock band have speculated there will be a world tour since they reunited for a one-off show last December (2007).

Singer Plant has frequently denied the band is to hit the road for a string of gigs, but rumors the other three members - Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Jason Bonham - have been rehearsing together have sent gossips into a spin.

Now the comeback looks to be a step closer to reality, with reports suggesting Tyler has taken over vocal duties during practice sessions in London.

"That's really nice to hear!" Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said by phone from his home in Northern California.

We're told the two bodies were found dead on the scene at 2:44 PM. When the fire department arrived and discovered the bodies, police were brought in and the home was declared a crime scene.

UPDATE 6:40 PM Friday: An all points bulletin has been issued for a boy, believed to be Hudson's 7-year-old nephew, who may have been taken from the scene. Police are looking for 1994 white Suburban with the license plate X584859.

UPDATE 7:35 PM Friday: Police are looking for looking for William Balfour, who they claim could be with the missing 7-year-old. According to records, Balfour listed Hudson's mother's address as a place of residence within the last year. According to the Illinois Department of Corrections website, Balfour is currently on parole after serving jail time for attempted murder.

TMZ's been keeping close tabs on developments, get the very latest here

Pete Wentz and Patrick Vaughn Stump have teamed up to take over the radio airwaves to as many stations across the fifty states in a span of 24 hours.

Merl Saunders, a jazz and rock keyboardist who collaborated with iconic acts including Miles Davis and the Grateful Dead, has died. He was 74. Saunders died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Francisco of complications due to a stroke, said his son, Merl Saunders Jr. more

The original lineup of Jane's Addiction crammed into tiny Los Angeles Mexican bar La Cita Thursday night (Oct. 23), playing an hour-long set for a privileged crowd and fueling hopes for a full-scale reunion. more

Slash appeared on the Toucher and Rich show on WBCN/Boston this morning, where the ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist heard the new GNR single "Chinese Democracy" for the first time. Slash told the morning duo, "That sounds cool...it's good to hear [Axl's] voice, you know?" He added that he's "curious to hear what the album sounds like." more

Blink-182's "Dammit" along with a trio of songs from Souxsie & the Banshees will be added to Rock Band 2 next week. Other tracks in the selection come from the Psychedelic Furs and Silversun Pickups.more titles being added

An All-American Rejects fan has put together a controversial and potentially funny little video for the band's new single, "Give You Hell," which features a Robot Chicken-style parody of the Highschool Musical crew. The video is somewhat NSFW.more

Slayer recently entered the studio to begin work on their forthcoming album. The band is working on a new album due out next summer.

Julian Pavone is an exceptionally good drummer and he's only four-years-old. Videos of the phenomenon first surfaced two years ago, and now, Pavone is making history as the youngest performer to grace the stage of Whiskey A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip.more

Snow Patrol has premiered the early listening party of their album, A Hundred Million Suns, on MySpace.com over the weekend. So you can go check that out right here.

Not into Snow Patrol? What about The Cure? The Cure's new album titled "4:13 Dream" was made available on the band's official MySpace profile on Saturday October 25, and MySpace users worldwide can stream the entire album for free. Listen here

Enuff Z'nuff were scheduled to play San Diego on Saturday night but the show never came off. Apparently their drummer Randi Scott was shot during a robbery. This according to a post on their message board from the band's new guitarist Tory. We're not 100% sure if Tory was being serious or not but he reports that "on the positive side, [Randi] should make a full recovery and we took some cool new promo shots." Randi and Tory are also bandmates in The Black Mollys check them out here.

His medical woes behind him for now, according to Live Daily, Gregg Allman will head out on the road in late December for his long-delayed first solo dates of the year. more

Rise Against have been forced to cancel their show Sunday and Monday night due an illness which caused frontman Tim McIlrath to lose his voice. more

In Flames have released a limited edition EP featuring the roll out single "The Mirror's Truth" off the quintet's critically-acclaimed full length release, A Sense of Purpose. Also included on the EP are the previously unreleased tracks "Eraser," "Tilt" and "Abnegation." Their MySpace

Mos Def will release his Downtown debut, "The Ecstatic," on Feb. 9, Billboard.com can reveal. The first single, "Life in Marvelous Times," will hit iTunes as an exclusive on Nov. 4.more

Kid Rock and his Made in Detroit apparel line are working with Wayne State University to help start a college scholarship fund for area music students.more

Blue Man Group will be holding auditions at Musicians Institute (www.mi.edu) exclusively for MI students and grads on Tuesday, November 11th from 12-5pm. They are currently seeking percussionists for immediate openings in shows running in New York, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Universal Orlando, Berlin, Oberhausen, Tokyo and Stuttgart. If you qualify, contact Director of Artist and Career Services Todd Berhorst ([email protected]) for more information.

A jury of seven men and five women was sworn in for the murder retrial of music producer Phil Spector and attorneys began searching for six alternates, revealing that the ghost of another trial � the O.J. Simpson murder case � hangs over the current proceedings.more

The new member of Leaves' Eyes and Atrocity is Los Angeles based drummer Seven Antonopolous (ex-Opiate For The Masses). Seven: "I've been a big fan of the bands for a long time. I can't tell you how excited I am to play with such amazing people! more

Homeless man Anthony Silva has claimed a $4,000 reward after finding the waxwork head of Sir Paul McCartney in a bin at Reading, England train station.more
Rob Zombie's brand new song, "War Zone," is available exclusively at the official site for Punisher: War Zone. The original track "War Zone", written for and inspired by the film. The song will also serve as the first single from the soundtrack. About his contribution, Rob Zombie said: "I love writing music for films, rather than just throwing them an unwanted B side or remix. This track was written exclusively for Punisher War Zone. A punishing track for a punishing movie." Grab it here

Dude you're getting a Dull! Universal Music Group is teaming with Dell to give customers the option of adding pre-loaded MP3s from the label's catalog to new computers purchased from the company. The deal does not provide access to the full UMG catalog, but rather a collection of curated playlists organized by various themes

Wu Tang Clan, are dusting off those mics and getting back on the road. The saga continues in Portland at the end of November and wraps up in the middle of January.dates
Necrophobic, welcome their new bassist, Alex Friberg, and have issued an update on their new album: "Necrophobic is from now on a 5 piece strong legion! During 2008 the band did a number of shows as a 5 piece with Erik Danielsson (Watain) as a session member. " more

The guitarist told Billboard that he's "at the very tail end of the demo phase" for the solo project, which he hopes to start recording early next year.

He began creating material during Velvet Revolver's last tour and said that while it will have references to his work with that band and Guns N' Roses, "there's really no particular direction. I just wanted to take a little bit of a break from all the politics and the democracy that is a band and just sort of do my own thing for a little bit. There will be a lot of stuff I don't have the freedom to do in a band situation."

This is a reissue of the Target exclusive which debuted at #25 on the Billboard Comprehensive album chart in September 2007. It contains three new songs by frontman Ed Roland, exclusive to this release, according to Amazon.com.

Wanna taste of what the songs are about? Ed and Joel spoke with us the week of the original release about some of their favorite tracks from the album.

"You're All That I Know". Joel says of the track, "I think this song showcases some real maturity in Ed's songwriting and in the Collective Soul sound. A great chorus hook and interesting guitar parts over some cool changes. I got to sing background vocals on that one as well. I also replaced what was once a clarinet solo with a guitar solo. Now that's way it's supposed to be!"

And here is Ed's take on the song: "That's basically about my wife. We've been married a little over a year. She's a wonderful woman. She changed my outlook on life and it's my way of telling her she's the one. 'You're all that I know when the sun goes down/ You're all that I know when the sun comes rising like that devil in me.'"

Here is a little info that we went sent over: According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, between 5am Eastern on 10/22 and 5am Eastern on 10/23, "Chinese Democracy" was played 683 times - full length - on all BDS monitored terrestrial and satellite radio stations.

WAAF-FM in Boston and WHJY-FM in Providence both played it 18 times during that time period. WBSX-FM in Wilkes-Barre was next with 17 spins.

These questions and answers will be put into a very special podcast that will be made available worldwide through the band's website.

NHOR : Where do you feel that Steve Lukather fits in the music scene of today, and what are your expectations for this album? SL : Where do I fit in? (Laughs) You know, I don't really fit in anywhere. I think that's a big problem. Some people, when they're metal, they're metal, and that's what they do. If they're jazz, they're jazz, or if they're rappers, they're rappers. I've always cross pollinated in between all styles. In my youth, and a large portion of my adult life I was a session musician, playing on albums as divergent as McCartney, Elton John and Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, and eveything in between. Cheap Trick and The Tubes one day, then Aretha and Alice Cooper the next day. I just morphed with the situation. With the music of my old band we reflected a lot of the styles of music that we liked. Since there wasn't a particular pretty boy pop star in the band, we were just kind of the band to rake through the coals.

Doing the new Ra record was all about simplifying and thickening what we'd already done on "From one" and "Duality". When it came time to start the record I immediately came up with the riff for "Broken Hearted Soul". Being half Puerto Rican but being in a band named after an Egyptian god, I wanted to do something with a bit of Latin flavor and this pseudo flamenco line is what came up. Then I thought of playing it acoustically for an intro. The groove was funky so I figured why not make the track bounce with the drums.

As for the rest of it... I've been working with all these new emo type bands and I think it rubbed off on me a little for the pre chorus and choruses. I love this song. Lyrically it came directly out of my relationship experience and quoted verbatim several things I actually lamented. The thing I was most proud of with the track was the feeling that there really wasn't anything like it on the radio so I felt very successful having created something unique in a market flooded with similar music.