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Velvet Revolver and ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash was joined by Ozzy Osbourne, Rolling Stones axeman Ron Wood and Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie during his headlining appearance on Tuesday night (June 30th) at the Quart festival in Kristiansand, Norway. Slash's backup band included Led Zeppelin drummer Jason Bonham, Rob Zombie guitarist John 5 plus former members of Jane's Addiction and Scars

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Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Queens Of The Stone Age singer/guitarist Josh Homme have started a new group, with Grohl playing drums. According to Spinner.com, Grohl talked about starting the band as far back as a 2005 interview with Mojo magazine. A source told us that the trio has already completed work on their debut album in Los Angeles, although a

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Ron Wood joined Slash and Jason Bonham onstage Tuesday night (June 30th) at the Quart Festival in Kristiansand, Norway, according to iorr.org. Wood who was playing his signature black and silver Tony Zemaitis "metal front" guitar performed during Slash's set and tore through such Rolling Stones, Faces, and Bob Dylan favorites as "Honky Tonk Women," "Stay With Me," "Knocking On Heaven's Door," and

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U2 paid tribute to fallen pop icon Michael Jackson during the opening night of the band's U2 360 tour on Tuesday (June 30th) in Barcelona, Spain. Singer Bono dedicated the song "Angel Of Harlem" to the late Jackson, saying, "We wrote this one for Billie Holiday but we are going to play it tonight for Michael Jackson." The group also wove bits of Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and "The

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Newly-released exclusively through Starbucks stores is the Paul Simon Opus Collection: This Better Be Good. The 16-track career-spanning compilation features such Simon standards as "Kodachrome, "Late In The Evening," "Slip Slidin' Away," and "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard," among others.The tracklist for the Paul Simon Opus Collection: This Better Be Good is: "Kodachrome," "Peace Like A

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Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has worked with a lot of the same music business personnel as the late Michael Jackson, and says he even met Jackson once, during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony at which Aerosmith was inducted. But Perry did not really know the late "King of Pop," and told us he's cautious about believing everything that's being said about Jackson since his shocking death

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R.E.M. has a digital EP coming out on July 7th featuring live versions of four songs from the band's second album, Reckoning, that were recorded during "working rehearsals" at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in July 2007. The track listing includes: "Harborcoat," "Letter Never Sent," "Second Guessin'" and "Pretty Persuasion." The EP provides a glimpse of what will be on R.E.M.'s two-disc live album, due

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Green Day's latest album, 21st Century Breakdown, has been certified gold for sales of more than half a million copies, according to the trio's publicist. The disc just sailed past the 600,000 mark when this week's Billboard album chart came out on Wednesday morning (July 1st). The record, which was released on May 15th, still has a long way to go before it matches the sales of the band's 2004

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Musicians from across the rock world have issued statements about and tributes to Michael Jackson, the legendary pop icon who passed away on Thursday (June 25th) at the age of 50. Since his shocking death in Los Angeles from what early reports say was a heart attack, fans and fellow artists around the world have reacted strongly to the passing of the so-called "King of Pop." Velvet Revolver/Guns

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Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer is doing more than playing music this summer -- he's also promoting a book. Kramer will publish his autobiography, Hit Hard: A Story Of Hitting Rock Bottom At The Top, on Tuesday (June 30th). The book chronicles his years of drug and alcohol abuse, as well as battles with depression, a dysfunctional relationship with his father and an antagonistic, ''co-dependent''

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Mick Jagger has been named Rock's worst actor in a list published by Britain's The Independent. Rounding off the Top Three worst rock star actors are Sting and Madonna.The Top 10 Worst Rock Star Actors according to The Independent: 1. Mick JaggerKey Movies: Performance, Ned Kelly, Fitzcarraldo, and Freejack.2. StingKey Movies: Quadrophenia, Brimstone And Treacle, and Dune.3. MadonnaKey Movies:

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A pair of handwritten lyric notebooks from late AC/DC frontman Bon Scott were sold at auction for $35,000 on Monday (June 22nd) at Christie's in New York City. The books contain lyrics for 25 songs handwritten by Scott between 1974 and 1980, and include such AC/DC classics as "High Voltage," "It's A Long Way To The Top," "T.N.T." "The Jack" and "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." A Sears bass guitar

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Velvet Revolver's Matt Sorum, Motley Crue's Tommy Lee and 30 Seconds To Mars' Shannon Leto are a few of the drummers making guest appearances on the new album from tribal drumming trio Street Drum Corps, called Street Drum Corps Presents BANG!'s Big Noise. Also appearing are Angels & Airwaves drummer Atom Willard, Atreyu drummer Brandon Sellar and others. With that project completed, the trio is

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Gene Simmons has confirmed that a deal between Kiss and Wal-Mart is in the works to distribute the band's first studio set in a decade. Blabbermouth reported that the store will designate a specific section of their stores -- said to be called the "Kiss Korner" -- for the band's new and past products.Paul Stanley posted an update on the band's new album on kissonline.com. Stanley, who's producing

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Jimmy Page and Jack White were in Los Angeles on Friday for the premiere of It Might Get Loud, a documentary that brings both musicians together, along with U2 guitarist The Edge, to talk about guitar playing and their own personal histories. The movie opens in New York and Los Angeles in mid-August.Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich will host a screening and discussion of the Danish documentary The

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Metallica is now selling the only official biography of late bassist Cliff Burton, called To Live Is To Die: The Life And Death Of Metallica's Cliff Burton, at its website, Metallica.com. The book, written by U.K.-based author Joel McIver, includes a foreword from Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett. Others interviewed in the book include Burton's bass teacher Steve Doherty, Burton's girlfriend

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Alice Cooper has made a career out of being scary on stage, but he's also experienced a moment or two of fear as a father. Alice, who has three grown children, reminisced to us about the time he caught his then-teenage daughter, Calico, in her bedroom with a boy: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "And there's this really good-looking guy sitting on her bed and she's taking a shower

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Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer will celebrate his 59th birthday on Sunday (June 21st) by hosting 20 wounded soldiers as his personal guests at the band's show that night at the Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia. The troops, who all served in Iraq or Afghanistan, are currently receiving treatment and therapy for their injuries at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Some are

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Ozzy Osbourne's long-awaited memoir will be published in the U.K. on October 1st, according to TheBookseller.com. The book, titled I Am Ozzy, was originally slated to arrive almost two years ago but was delayed twice. Ozzy will do a week-long publicity tour in England upon the book's publication which will include two book signing events. Publisher Antonia Hodgson called the book "fantastic,"

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Eddie Van Halen has filed a lawsuit against the Nike shoe company, according to Los Angeles station KTLA-TV. The Van Halen guitarist filed his claim on Friday (June 12th), alleging that Nike used the trademarked striped design from his guitar for its new line of "Dunk Lows" tennis shoes. According to the suit, Van Halen copyrighted a red, white and black streaked design for his "Frankenstein"

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Metallica announced in an email blast to its mailing list on Tuesday (June 16th) that the band is rescheduling a concert in Ottawa, Canada, originally scheduled for October 29th, to November 3rd. The reason? According to the email, "the date change is due to a scheduling conflict with a very cool event coming up around that time. We wanted to let you know about the new date in Ottawa ASAP, but

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Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says in a new interview with Rolling Stone that the upcoming stage version of the band's 2004 punk rock opera American Idiot is "incredible." The musical, which opens on September 4th at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California, is directed by Michael Mayer, who won a Tony Award for his production of the Broadway rock musical Spring Awakening.

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Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry told Reuters that he expects bandmate and guitarist Brad Whitford to rejoin the group on its just-launched summer tour in early July. It was announced earlier this month that Whitford would sit out at least part of the tour while recovering from surgery. Perry revealed that Whitford had an operation to relieve internal bleeding caused when he hit his head getting out

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Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen opened up in a rare interview with Spinner.com, saying that he's "re-learning" how to play the guitar ever since getting sober more than two years ago. When asked about his playing technique nowadays, the hugely influential axeman said, "It takes me a good hour to loosen up my fingers . . . after two and a half, three hours, you kind of get into a zone that I'm

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Metallica will play a benefit concert for the Marin County Museum in San Rafael, California this September, according to the Contra Costa Times. The announcement was made by frontman James Hetfield in a video screened at a museum gala last week for the "Marin Rocks" exhibition, where attendees paid $200 a ticket to raise funds for the project. The Museum pulled the project from its original

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