The singer had been unwell all day but insisted on coming to the gig and not letting fans down. JET took to the stage at 8pm GMT and performed "Rip It Up" and She's A Genius" before Nic passed out. Nic got up on his feet and jokingly told the audience he had Swine Flu before collapsing for a second time.

"We have about a month left (of this year's Crue Fest 2) and then we're going to be taking quite a bit of time off," Crue bassist Nikki Sixx tells Billboard.com. "I feel like we're ending being out for quite a long time, touring and 'Saints of Los Angeles' and the Carnival of Sins (tour) and 'Red, White & Crue'...really going away on a big high to start working on writing a new record and looking forward to the next Crue Fest, which'll probably be in 2011."

The show was to feature two stages and a host of bands, with Slipknot headlining. The second stage was set to include all local acts.

Three Days Grace will be releasing their third album Life Starts Now on September 22. The album was recorded in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and reunites the band with producer by Howard Benson.

NOFX, Rise Against and Underoath "rumored" to be playing Liskfest 2.0, September 5.

Built To Spill are set to embark on a headlining tour of the US, kicking off on August 20 in Troutdale, OR.more

MySpace Music scored the exclusive premiere of alternative rockers Brand New's brand new single off their upcoming 4th studio album Daisy due out September 22nd 2009 on DGC/Interscope/Procrastinate Music Traitors. Beginning today fans can listen to "At The Bottom" by visiting the band's official MySpace Music profile at www.myspace.com/brandnew

Audiences will get to see the King of Pop perform one more time after a judge approved a major deal to produce a movie fashioned from footage of Michael Jackson's final rehearsals. more

Andrew WK has announced details of his new album, the follow up to 2008's 'The Japan Covers'. Called '55 Cadillac', the album was recorded by WK in just two hours, and then edited down to eight piano-led tracks. more

Poison The Well has lined up a handful of late-summer shows in the Southeast with Vanna, This Time Next Year more

The Jonbenet has scheduled what they claim to be their final shows. The group has issued the following: "The Jonbenet has three shows left. One is Fallcore in November where we will be playing an unorthodox. yet memorable set. The other two are December 18th and 19th in Austin and Houston. These will also be the final shows for At All Cost. Come out. It's been fun." more

Doomriders has publicly addressed the recent cancellation of their upcoming tour dates with Kylesa. Here you go: "Due to scheduling issues between Doomriders and Nate's other band, Converge, we had to pull out of the tour." more

Spin wasn't impressed with The Killers set at Lollapalooza, they write: "There might have been more people wearing Killers T-shirts than those of any band at Lollapalooza this weekend, but it was hard to imagine, merch sales notwithstanding, a more insipid headliner." Ouch! Read the review here. (we can imagine a couple more insipid "acts" ... Limp Bizkit? Missy Elliot?)

Boasting an impressive list of over 100 fist-pumping tracks sure to make your blood boil, Br�tal Legend puts metal's most celebrated rock Gods in the forefront of this unique 3rd person action experience.

"None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again. Not straight off," he told The Believer magazine. "I mean, it's just become a real drag. It worked with [2007 album] 'In Rainbows' because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we've all said that we can't possibly dive into that again. It'll kill us."

Side A was awesome, the song sounded great. Then we flipped it, put the needle on, then heard applause� we didn't have that on our song. Then we hear "I am iron man" �what the ----?

It was week 12 in the rehearsal chamber of our Antarctican stronghold, and we hadn't played a single note. For 3 months we did nothing but celebrate the epic record we hadn't written yet with feasts and orgies that would shame Caligula. As a matter of fact I do believe him saying how ashamed he was at some point during the debauchery. Anyway it was a wonderful party and everyone had a bang up time! Oh, wait. This is about the song. I digress...

At some point in the festivities, our manager Sleazy (Killjoy, as I call him) turned on the lights and kicked everyone but GWAR out. Apparently the party was over. Apparently we were grossly overbudget and months behind schedule on the record we hadn't even started. As our guests were given their hats and coats and ushered out of the top tower window, Oderus protested to Sleazy saying "let them stay!" Balsac misheard this and started chanting "let us slay" and the rest of us followed suit. At some point Flattus Maximus woke up and grabbed a guitar from his guitar pile. He wrote the music to "Let Us Slay" note for note before passing out face down in an inflatable kiddie pool of celebrity vomit. Fortunately we were recording everything. Oderus garbled something incoherently, which we later found that if played backwards, were lyrics that perfectly matched up to the song! Ta Dah! Hit song. So you can see, the writing process with GWAR is a very taxing and lengthy process, calling on every shred of our talent and intellect.