Slash took to Twitter to defend Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie's vocal performance on a new recording she did with Slash of the Guns N' Roses classic "Paradise City," also featuring Cypress Hill. A leaked copy of the recording surfaced online last week, while Slash is contemplating whether to include it on his new solo album. The former Guns guitarist tweeted, "Until now, not too many people have heard Fergie sing Rock & Roll but she sings it better (than) most dudes I know. She's a screamer at heart."

The record, titled Slash & Friends, is tentatively due out in March 2010.

Among the other guests appearing on the album are Dave Grohl, Flea, Chris Cornell, Duff McKagan, Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Nicole Scherzinger, Meat Loaf, Maroon 5's Adam Levine and Ozzy Osbourne, who contributes vocals to the first single.

Slash "and friends" will perform at a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Youth Nation at Hollywood's Avalon Theater on November 22nd. Ozzy, Billy Idol, Andrew Stockdale, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, Dave Navarro and Travis Barker are all tentatively slated to appear.
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Paul Stanley says that although Kiss has always been impressed with the band's choices of opening acts, back in the day it was Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band who really gave Kiss a run for their money.

Stanley recalls that during Seger's stint opening for the band in 1976, he set the bar pretty high for Kiss to follow every night: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "Bob got his first gold album on tour with us. And there were nights, where I can remember being in the dressing room and listening to the crowd reaction, and looking at the band and saying (laughs) 'We better go out there and kick some ass.' Bob was no nonsense great rock and roll, and the band delivered the goods, and the crowd went crazy. And that always made us work harder. We always wanted great bands on the bill because it made us prove why we were the headliner."

Kiss with Buckcherry tour dates (subject to change):
November 19 - Sacramento, CA - ARCO Arena
November 21 - Fresno, CA - Save Mart Center
November 22 - Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
November 24 - Anaheim, CA - Honda Center
November 25 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
November 27 - San Diego, CA - San Diego Sports Arena
November 28 - Las Vegas, NV - Pearl Concert Theater
December 1 - Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena
December 2 - El Paso, TX - University Of Texas
December 4 - Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center
December 5 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
December 6 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
December 8 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center
December 10 - Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
December 11 - Council Bluffs, IA - Mid-America Center
December 13 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mellon Arena
December 15 - Sault Ste. Marie, ON - Essar Centre
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Bon Jovi tops the charts this week with its new album, The Circle, which sold 163,000 copies. It's Bon Jovi's second consecutive chart-topper, coming on the heels of 2007's Lost Highway, which sold 292,000 in its first week and marked the first time Bon Jovi ever debuted at Number One on the charts. The group has had chart-topping albums prior to that -- first in 1986 with Slippery When Wet and then in 1988 with New Jersey. Frontman Jon Bon Jovi tells us he and the band have come a long way since scoring their first Number One album: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "You know when I was 25 and we wrote 'Bad Name,' you were the kid with long hair in the mall -- sex, drugs, rock and roll. All that kind of stuff. You were a cowboy. You were gonna ride into town. You were dead or alive. That's who I was at that time. I'm not that guy anymore. I've grown up in the public eye. We've been at this a long time."

Bon Jovi will be on tour next year to back The Circle.

Bon Jovi set up an exclusive deal with NBC this year to plug the new album.

The group expects to have a greatest hits album out next year.
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