Less than a minute after tickets for last August's Neil Diamond concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden went on sale, more than 100 seats were available for hundreds of dollars more than their normal face value on premium-ticket site TicketExchange.com. The seller? Neil Diamond.

Ticket reselling -- also known as scalping -- is an estimated $3 billion-a-year business in which professional brokers buy seats with the hope of flipping them to the public at a hefty markup.

The Interscope album moved 484,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, the best sales week for an artist since Britney Spears' "Circus" arrived at No. 1 in early December with 505,000.

Approximately 100 musicians are expected at the first meeting of the Featured Artists' Coalition (FAC) in London today (11 March).

Kerry Katona is auctioning her old breast implant to raise money for charity. The MTV star revealed on her Facebook page that she is selling the lump of silicon on auction site eBay.more

According to The Dallas Morning News, Dallas Cowboys executive Stephen Jones told a crowd at the University of Texas at Arlington Tuesday night that the team was close to booking AC/DC at the Cowboys' new stadium in Arlington. more

Prince will perform on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" three nights in a row, March 25-27, as he builds anticipation for the March 29 release of two new albums, "LOtUSFLOW3R" and "MPLSoUND."more

Singer Chris Brown on Wednesday withdrew from Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards because of the controversy from criminal charges against him for allegedly attacking his girlfriend, pop star Rihanna.more

Ryan Adams has married his actress-singer girlfriend Mandy Moore in a secret ceremony in Savannah, GA. The pair got engaged just last month, after dating on and off for around a year. more

19 April sees Paul McCartney play a one-off intimate gig in Las Vegas. Ticket sales opened on 14 February and sold out� seven seconds later.more

Michael Jackson has added 16 more concerts to his summer residency at London's O2 Arena following strong demand for the pre-sale tickets more

The Adolescents tell fans that they are "currently rehearsing and I am writing lyrics for the next album. We are scheduled to record during the first 10 days of April, then mix. Should be finished by May." more

Godsmack frontman Sully Erna conducted a brief video interview with RockerRazzi.com at the World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic Celebrity Invitational where he states that the band is currently working on a new album. The video can be viewedhere

Sinner (featuring Primal Fear members Mat Sinner and Henny Wolter) will play a joint show with Primal Fear in Moscow, Russia on April 4 at the 1 Rock Club.more

Super Furry Animals have revealed that they have quit playing gigs in indoor venues. Frontman Gruff Rhys told NME.COM that the band would only play festival shows for the foreseeable future - joking that the reason was because they are yet to perfect the technology that could harness their new "epic" sound. more

Australia's Rock Out festival � which was scheduled to take place next month in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne � has been postponed until the fall.more

California deathcore masters Suicide Silence have finished recording their new album, "No Time To Bleed", with acclaimed producer Machine (LAMB OF GOD) for a summer release via Century Media Records.more

Frodus has announced a reunion show and a deluxe reissue of their album, Conglomerate International, on vinyl. The influential post-punk band released music on Tooth and Nail Records, Fueled By Ramen Records and others. It saw members go on to form Decahedron, Frantic Mantis, The Cassettes, Man and Waspmore

The CEO of ticket scalping site LiveStub asks regulators to get answers on key questions before approving the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger. Good luck with that. (Be sure to follow the campaign contributions.) more

Night Ranger's Jack Blades says "There Is Talk Of Doing Another Damn Yankees Record!" If you wanna hear about it, go here

In a new interview with Gibson, Korn bassist Fieldy says of his new memoir: 'I'm only realizing now how bad I sucked' more

311 have rolled out the dates for their spring tour and their annual summer Unity Tour. The spring shows kick off on April 15 in Tucson, AZ and will wrap in Springfield, MO on May 15. more

Delta Spirit will be performing on Last Call with Carson Daly on Thursday, March 12 in support of their album Ode To Sunshine (Rounder). They will be performing their single "People C'Mon" on Daly's outdoor stage in front of over 300 fans.

Gods & Queens recently finished recording for a split 7" release with Medusa. The group's track is an outtake from their debut album, remixed with new vocals.more

White announced the project Wednesday in Nashville and hosted a private party to hear the new CD and see a performance by the group. He says The Dead Weather's debut album, "Horehound," will be released in June on his Third Man record label.

Williams, a native of Newport News, Virgina, was admitted to the Sentara Hospital in nearby Hampton after he suffered a stroke on 2 March. He fell into a coma and later died of cardiac arrest.

"It will give people the untold story," Michaels tells Billboard.com. "It gives you the sex, the drugs, the rock 'n' roll, but it also gives you the diabetes. It gives you every aspect of my life and what I'm going through. I think it's pretty frank. It's honest. It's at times self-deprecating. It's about what happens when you try to live out your dream and the reality of it all sets in and it's the hardest and the strangest thing you will ever do. I think when you read it you'll really get the understanding of what it's all about."

It is understood he had been playing with band-mate Iain Bayne on the Black Isle north of Inverness and had been returning to his home in Fife.

This one is about another experience I had with my crazy mother. She divorced my dad while we were on our first national tour, and after she cleaned his house out, we came through and stayed with him to make sure he was happy and on track to getting over her. I saw the piano that had been in our house since I was young was STILL there. It was the only thing she didn't take.

So, with my dad's permission, we loaded it up and took it back to LA with us. Halfway home, I got a phone call saying she had filed charges against me for Grand Larceny, and if I didn't have the piano back within ten days, I would be arrested. Best part of the story: I wrote this song about how nuts she is, and I wrote it on that piano that's still in my room.