"A friend of mine conducted an interview with Slash last year in which he called me a thief and wished that I 'rot in jail,'" Kevin Cogill said. "I found that surprisingly crass, especially considering the guy has made no bones about shoplifting cassette tapes with the same rationale as today's downloaders. So if he wants to see me in jail, I'll see him in the cafeteria."

This is the band's highest chart position to date, showing tremendous growth over their 2007 debut full length So Wrong, It's Right, which debuted at #62 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. With the release of Nothing Personal, independent label Hopeless Records is also celebrating its highest ever chart debut in the company's 15-year history.

Davis makes a guest appearance on the new album from ex-Faith No More frontman Chuck Mosley, and he's listed as appearing "courtesy of Warner Bros. Records." A management spokesperson confirmed the deal to HardDrive Radio.

Former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson has spoken out against Love's plans to use the name of the band that he cofounded. "There is no Hole without me," Erlandson told Spin in a new interview where he also said, " I'm open to discussions regarding the real Hole, and if she has a solo album together, I think that's great. I think she should finish it and put it out and do that."

Zakk Wylde has posted a short update on his Twitter account regarding his meeting with Ozzy Osbourne on Monday (July 13), where he presumably discussed his status in Ozzy's solo band. Zakk wrote, "Hey Berserkers, everything is great with Ozzy/Dad." more

Pearl Jam's new single, "The Fixer," made an abbreviated debut last night (July 14) during Fox's broadcast of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The track officially goes to U.S. radio and digital retailers on Monday. They also released the tracklisting for their new album. more

A painting of the Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, depicting him as a vampire, is being auctioned on eBay. Weirdly, the portrait of Wood is by the brother of his currently-estranged wife Jo - the artist Paul Karslake. It was commissioned by FX TV channel to help launch the new series of hit US drama True Blood. more

Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington's new side project, Dead By Sunrise, is previewing the song "Morning After" on their Myspace page

Alice In Chains has tapped Alex Courtes (U2, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol) to direct the video for the band's new single, "Check My Brain". more

Buckcherry have lined up two Canadian dates, in Alberta, in August. More Canadian shows will be announced soon. Announced dates are here

Unearth's McGrath subs for Lamb of God's Morton for end of Europe tour Due to the upcoming birth of his first child, Mark Morton will be leaving the end of Lamb of God's European tour to return to Richmond. Subbing for Morton on the last six shows will be Unearth guitarist Buz McGrath.

Kimya Dawson, of Juno Soundtrack fame, does a duet with Third Eye Blind on the song "Why Can't You Be." The song appears on Third Eye Blind's new forthcoming album Ursa Major as an iTunes exclusive. A stream of Kimya/Third Eye Blind duet can be heard more

See You Next Tuesday have announced plans to go on hiatus directly following their current tour with Arsonists Get All The Girls, which runs through mid-August.more

Influential rock radio station WBCN (104.1 FM)/Boston will flip formats on Aug. 13, according to parent company CBS Radio. The station, which has been broadcasting for 41 years, will remain as a Web and HD-cast after the change. more

On July 23rd, 2009 Twisted Sister will be performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. They want fans to appear with them, details are here

Former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes has returned! His new band Secret Society premiere "Got No Time", the opening track from their new album 'Death By Misadventure' exclusively at Sleaze Roxx

Throwdown recently completed the tracking process for their forthcoming E1 Music debut, "Deathless," which is due out this fall.more

Authentik Artists is set to release Meeting Of Important People's new self-titled album on August 11th, 2009. Fans of The Shins will embrace the haunting melodies over garage pop, mod-folk, even dancy funk.

Steven Adler played on the first of the last three tracks yesterday, along with Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) on bass. The song kicks ass and the drums and bass sound so recognizable and sound so ----ing good.

Here is Gabriel's update: I've been meaning to catch you up on what' s been going on in Rapture world. First off, I'm sad to say that at the begining of April our buddy Mattie Safer decided to leave the band. We are sad to see him go but it seems it is the best for all of us.

Since then Luke, Vito and I have been on a creative tear. We've been working out of our little Brooklyn make shift studio, writing, demoing and jamming. I'm pretty damn excited to share the fruits of our labor with you. But its still gonna be a minute before we hit the studio for real.

'Petits Fours', is the debut album from Grand Duchy, aka Violet Clark and Black Francis.

JB Brubaker "Meddler" is one of the most upbeat happy sounding songs we've ever written. There is a huge lead section in the middle that is rather triumphant sounding. This song is easily my hardest song on guitar. I think I am play straight up lead parts for about 90 seconds straight and I think they're all kind of hard.

The last breakdown in this song is one of the weirdest rhythms we've ever written, though it certainly doesn't sound that way. The breakdown beat is in 6/8 but there are 3 chords that accompany the melody that comes in over top of the rhythm. Those chords are in 4/4 so the chords cycle through the 6/8 rhythm in a very irregular pattern that we simply had to memorize. It took me a good hour to understand where the chords changed and probably another hour to get it into my muscle memory. Maybe I'm just a slow learner.

Matt Greiner Jake and I collaborated on the lyrics and vocal patterns for Meddler. Initially I didn't have lyrics written for the triumphant sounding lead halfway through the song. Jake thought it would be cool to have the lyrics parallel the music and take a positive turn. We came up with "Everyone together, we will strengthen ourselves," which at first sounded generic to me. However, after tracking the part and screaming gang vocals on the word "together," the part really came together for me.

Meddler is easily one of my favorite songs to play. I experimented with some tom/snare stuff during the beginning of the first breakdown and I think it translates well and intensifies the part. In my opinion, this song is Jake's best vocal performance on the record.