Here is what he had to say: "It's an inside job that forced me to reschedule those upcoming 6 shows! Inside being the operative word here. My insides were giving me lots of trouble, ulcers and such. They were really uncomfortable and painful, which required me to seek immediate medical attention.

Hamilton was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2006 and made a full recovery, but recently missed shows on the Boston heroes' abandoned US tour in order to receive treatment against radiation therapy which helped kill the disease.

This momentous musical experience will be available in two formats: a 3-disc (2 CD + 1 DVD) standard edition and a 4-disc (2 CD + 2 DVD) deluxe version featuring expanded packaging and a bonus DVD including McCartney's traffic-stopping, headline-making July 15 performance on the Ed Sullivan Theater marquee (including bonus numbers not aired on the Late Show with David Letterman broadcast). The set will also be made available in high quality vinyl.

Here is what he had to say about that: "there are a lot of posts about the upcoming Vegas event, but the actual line-up for the Mirage gig Oct 2nd is: Tommy Clufetos on drums, Johnny Griparic on bass, Ted "Zig Zag" Andreadis on keys, John 5 on guitar, myself on guitar & Franky Perez, vocals. That, is basically the house band, my special guests that night are, more or less in this order: Rocco Deluca, Nicole Scherzinger, Courtney Love, Rick Nielson, Robin Zander & Joe Perry. Also, Matt Sorum is jamming a couple songs + there will be some other surprises.

"I also just got confirmation that the Joe Perry Project is playing as well, it promises to be a bitchin' evening. tickets are available through Mirage Entertainment on the Mirage website.

The band has issued the following statement: "Chris Puma died on September 20th 2009. The cause is not known to us, as his family did not speak of it. He leaves behind two children, 3 year old Aislinn A'marie and a 4 month old Aidan Todd. Chris was a great friend to the founding members of the band, and a respected musician among his friends and peers. He was a kind and gentle person and he will be missed."

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford is releasing a Christmas album just in time for Halloween. But you don't have to wait until then to bang your head with Santa as two tracks from the effort are available (for purchase mind you) at Halford's web store.

Police drummer Stewart Copeland doesn't want to make his new book, "Strange Things Happen: A Life With the Police, Polo, and Pygmies" (HarperStudio) a conventional autobiography. "It really isn't because of all the stuff I left out, the boring stuff -- I was born here, then I moved there, then I went to this school, then that school...Who cares?" Copeland tells Billboard.com. "These are war stories." more

Nick Cave's plans to build a gold statue of himself in his hometown of Warracknabeal, Australia have been put on hold. more

Three-fourths of the founding members of R.E.M. reunited on Monday night in Athens, GA, when retired drummer Bill Berry played with Mike Mills and Peter Buck .more

Chickenfoot have moved the release date of the Deluxe Edition of their debut album from October 26th to Monday November 23rd. (This is a UK release).

Jimmy Eat World has reunited with longtime producer Mark Trombino to work on a new "batch of songs."more

AeroForceOne will be holding an exclusive online chat with Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton on Wednesday, October 7th at 7pm ET. more

Former Epitaph Records melodic hardcore act 1208 have announced a one-off reunion performance to support T.S.O.L. for a bill at Brixton South Bay.more

Cause For Revelation have announced their return after an extended hiatus, and plans to enter studio in October to record their sophomore effort entitled "Resurrecting The Hostility."more

The inventors of the MP3 format are offering an enhanced music recommendation and multimedia content system they claim will become just as universally accepted. more

Elbow are set to re-release their debut album 'Asleep In The Back' October 26, with extra bonus songs and live tracks. more

Roby Gelly, bass player teaming up with Gory Blister and Allhelluja, unfortunately suffered an accident [Monday] night in Milan while driving his motor bike to come back home. During the crash against a car, he broke his femur. more

Behemoth have been added to the bill for Bloodstock Open Air 2010. This will be their only UK Festival exclusive date in 2010. more

Music Sales Still Down Year-over-year album sales in the month of September were down only 5.9%, according to Billboard analysis of Nielsen SoundScan data. Year to date, album sales are down 13.7% versus 2008 and 31.4% versus 2007. more

Here is the announcement: "When we launched www.livemetallica.com over five years ago, it seemed like the next logical step of service in the digital age as we've always encouraged you to record and trade our shows. The site gives us the chance to offer you a high-quality recording of the show you went to, or any other show for that matter, and you don't even have to sneak your tape deck, um uh, we mean portable digital recording device, into the arena! So here we are 269 shows, 5,338 songs and 310,386 downloads later and we want to thank you for all your support, encouragement and comments. Lo and behold, five-plus years later and no two set lists have been the same! Wow!!!

A 2007 Bloc Party gig in Utrecht, Holland came a very close second in the poll: the band was forced to stop playing when the crowd spotted a couple having sex in the audience. Suitably distracted from the gig, the audience felt inspired to have a go themselves and couples throughout the auditorium started having sex, prompting the band to slink off stage.

We've have hired on Johnny K(Disturbed, Staind) to produce the next Sevendust record. We've enjoyed his work over the years and believe he is the guy for the job. This record is VERY important and we have some of the best songs going into this process than we ever have. We read your comments on here and we believe you will not be disappointed. We still have a ways to go but we hope to have it out by spring next year.

At this point, with all the radio "Use Somebody" is getting in all the formats, the song is reaching a cumulative audience of 100 million on the Hot 100. The album has sold 1.3 million copies in America to date.

Touring in support of its most recent release, Gravity Is What You Make It, the band is the first west coast ska-punk band signed to indie label giant Victory Records in over a decade