Now Wil tells us about today's song: On top of being a REALLY heavy song sonically, what's cool about "Wasted" is its not just about being wasted, but its also some of the thoughts and feelings I had that came out of me being�. wasted. Everyone's been there before. Drink a little, smoke a little, and it all comes out. It's like a truth serum.

"Wasted" is definitely a definitive moment captured in time lyrically and I love turning it up loud and playing it live every time.

E! has more details: The "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"-dispensing '80s hard-rock band will pay $1 million to settle lawsuits resulting from the deadly 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that took the lives of 100 people, including the group's own guitarist, Ty Longley.

On working with the acclaimed filmmaker, Hetfield explained to MTV.com, "That's the beauty, I think, of writing vague but powerful lyrics � that someone like a movie director can interpret it in his own way and obviously, someone creative is able to take the metaphors and apply them to whatever he needs in his own life." Go Watch The Video

The band have also just unveiled another song from their upcoming album Death Magnetic. The hard-charging track, "Cyanide" is now available for sale on iTunes.

The leak: Seems some diehard fans got their hands on the album early and it's all good with Lars. Blabbermouth has a little on that: Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has commented on the premature release of the band's new album, "Death Magnetic", via a French record store. A shop in Paris reportedly sold a number of copies of the CD this morning well ahead of its official September 12 worldwide release date with illegal "Death Magnetic" MP3 files making their way online by this afternoon.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a concert promoter to pay R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo $700,000 stemming from A lawsuit filed earlier this year. Ne-Yo was dropped from R. Kelly's tour last year after two shows. He claimed he was dropped because he had upstaged Kelly. more

Coldplay lead the nominations for this year's Q magazine awards with four nods, it has been announced. The band are up for awards including best album and best act in the world today. Who picks these things?more

The Smashing Pumpkins will release their new single, "G.L.O.W.," via the upcoming "Guitar Hero: World Tour" videogame. The song will be part of a downloadable song pack.

The 2008 Hero Awards, which honors ordinary people who do extraordinary things, will be hosted by Dean Cain and air on My Network TV at 8 PM on September 11th. The Hero Awards banquet and event benefit Feed The Children. The event will feature appearances by close to 100 film and television stars as well as several musical performances. American Idol runner up Bo Bice will perform an acoustic version of "I'm Gone," from his latest album See the Light. www.heroawards.org

In the "you can't handle that on strong acid" department, Porcupine Tree's "Gavin Harrison will be performing a 50 minute solo set at the prestigious Modern Drummer Festival more

Metallica will play an intimate show exclusively for BBC Radio 1 on Sunday, September 14. The show, which will be held at the BBC Radio Theatre, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 1 the following day more

Rhino has secured U.S. rights to the Sex Pistols live DVD "There'll Always Be An England" and will release it Oct. 14, Billboard has learned. "England" features the pioneering punk outfit's original lineup of Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock performing at November 2007 reunion shows more

Morrissey has split with artist management firm ie: music after just three months. An ie: music spokesman confirmed that it had parted company with the ex-Smiths frontman, but declined to give any details. more

Wikipedia is an undeniably helpful resource for researching bands, with data that tends to be updated in near real time. Amazon hopes the same sort of thing will happen on its new SoundUnwound site, which borrows a page from Wikipedia's playbook by allowing users to edit information about any band, label, album or song. more

Black Label Society will soon be heading across the sea for a European tour. More shows are expected to be announced shortly but the initial dates are listed here

Orange Goblin are very proud to announce a new era for the band with the signing to world renowned metal label, Candlelight Records. The band has already started writing new material for a release in 2009. more

A spokesperson for Rush has contacted ClassicRock.com to deny web reports that the band are quitting Atlantic Records for the independent Canadian company Rounder. In fact, "Rush are still contracted to Atlantic for one more album. more

According to Black-sabbath.com, the four Dio-era Black Sabbath albums that constituted the Rules Of Hell box set (released on July 22) are being re-released individually. more

Black Light Burns mainman/ex-Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland has issued the following update: "The new record is about 90% finished. Nick [Annis, BLB guitarist] and I are doing some final guitar tracks tomorrow and then we'll polish the mixes. more

His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed, no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday. "He's one of the greatest entertainers in the world. That's the way I feel about him," Moore-Reed said.

The track, called 'Mocking Bird', is a rare recording of Bowie's first band The Konrads, and is available to listen to online now at Last.fm.

The album captures Rod & Gab making their live Japanese debut, at Tokyo's Duo club on March 30th this year. The show had been sold out for weeks; such was the level of anticipation from their Far East fanbase. 'Live In Japan' mixes tracks from Rodrigo y Gabriela's acclaimed, self-titled debut album with older live favorites, and also includes a new track - 'OK Tokyo' as well as Rod & Gab's legendary solo jams recorded for the first time. The album is being released as limited edition by ATO Records.

General ticket on-sales begin on Saturday, September 6th, for East Coast dates and on Saturday, September 13th, for West Coast dates. Portland-based band Loch Lomond will open on the tour.

An event entitled 'Rock and Roll Retrospective: the Les Paul Phenomenon' will be held at Case Western Reserve University during the week-long event, with a tribute concert taking place on November 15.

The Brian Wilson and eBay Giving Works auction will feature spectacular and unique items that tie in with Wilson's new album, That Lucky Old Sun, released today by Capitol/EMI. Bidders go to will have a chance to win a custom That Luck Old Sun surfboard, designed under Wilson's creative direction and shaped by legendary surfboard shaper Robert August, and Wilson's handwritten lyrics to "Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl," from That Lucky Old Sun. All items for auction can be found at www.ebay.com/brianwilson.

Here is the official PR announcement: Bad Brains' history with hometown Washington D.C. has been well documented. In 2008, the band returns to their hometown after many years away from Washington D.C. for a historic Election Night show at the 9:30 Club.

Today's misheard lyric is to Bon Jovi's "Living On A Prayer" chorus. That lyric has been misheard as "Oh.. We're Half Way There.. Oh..oh.. Living Off My Hair."