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Ron Wood hinted that the Rolling Stones are gearing up for their first road trek in three years, telling BBC 6 Music, "It's all very good. I saw Mick (Jagger) and Charlie (Watts) last week. Everything is great." When asked about the rumored tour, Wood added that he was confident that the Stones will be out on the road in 2010, adding, "Let's hope so, yeah!"Unconfirmed rumors claim that the Stones

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U2 performed a short set in Germany on Thursday, November 5th to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. According to the Associated Press, the band kicked off show at the Brandenburg Gate with the hit song "One." Frontman Bono thanked the crowd "for coming out in the cold" before wishing Berlin a happy birthday. The 30-minute, six-song set also featured "Beautiful Day," "

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Velvet Revolver and ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash told the U.K.'s BBC 6 Music that he wishes people would stop asking him if he's ever going to rejoin Guns. Slash explained, "I just feel for people that don't seem to get it. All things considered, it's been a really long time, and everybody's moved on. At the same time, I appreciate that I was part of a band that had such a huge impact and

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Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler told Classic Rock magazine this week that he intends to work on "Brand Tyler" instead of a new Aerosmith record for the foreseeable future. Following the band's performance at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the United Arab Emirates over the weekend, Tyler said about his future plans, "I don't know what I'm doing yet, but it's definitely going to be something Steven

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Bon Jovi's new album, The Circle, comes out next week, but if you ask the guys in the band, it wasn't supposed to happen this soon. There were plans to release a greatest hits album this year, but once Jon Bon Jovi got to writing some new material, he got on a roll and had enough material for an entire studio set -- and then some. He tells us how he went about telling record exec L.A. Reid the

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Roger Daltrey lost his voice towards the end of Tuesday night's (November 3rd) show at Cleveland's House of Blues. Although Daltrey has had slight problems throughout the tour -- and has juggled some of the song's placings in the setlist for when he's properly warmed up for each tune -- the Cleveland gig saw him at his rawest.Cleveland.com reported that Daltrey apologized to the crowd towards the

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AC/DC have topped Australian business magazine BRW's list of that country's wealthiest entertainers for 2009. The band earned $105 million in Australian dollars, or $95 million U.S., nine times the amount they earned the previous year. BRW reporter Jane Lindhe said, "They've always been steady on the list but have come from $12 million last year to $105 million this year, blowing everyone out of

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Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan told the Chicago Tribune's "About Last Night" column this week that he always wanted to make it big in music and even yearned to play bass in Metallica at one point. The 56-year-old WWE Hall of Famer said, "When Metallica was looking for a bass player, I called and never heard a word back from them . . . I would have quit wrestling in a heartbeat to be a bass player

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Rush drummer Neil Peart wrote at the "News Weather And Sports" section of his website, neilpeart.net, that the Canadian trio will be getting together this month in Los Angeles to discuss their future. Peart wrote, "In this autumn of 2009, the three of us are poised on another kind of 'reinvention' . . . Of course, these are parlous times in the music business, so our time-honored pattern of

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Lenny Kravitz plans to release a new album by next summer. He tells Billboard.com that he may even finish it up by this December and put it out by spring 2010. As for the sound, Kravitz describes it as "schizophrenic." He adds, "It's a very Gemini album. It's super raw, very raw with a lot of jazz and R&B elements. There's still a rock sound to it, of course, but it's more on the funk side."

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Bon Jovi has signed on to perform at the 20th anniversary celebration for the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany on November 9th. Billboard.com reports that the New Jersey rockers will play the new single, "We Weren't Born to Follow," live at the event -- a fitting song for the occasion. Jon Bon Jovi says he wrote a fan letter to the German government "about how we've had such a relationship with

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Foo Fighters issue their first best-of collection, simply titled Greatest Hits, on Tuesday (November 3rd). The 16-track set comes in both a standard edition and a deluxe version, with the latter containing a DVD and a 28-page book featuring never-before-seen photos from throughout the band's history. Also included are two new songs, "Word Forward" and "Wheels," both newly recorded for this

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Queen guitarist Brian May, Slash, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, Jeff Beck and Aerosmith's Joe Perry were among the guests at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour 2009 awards held at Park Lane Hotel, London on Monday, November 2nd, 2009.Iggy Pop was named as "Living Legend", with Chrissie Hynde of Pretenders fame on hand to present him with his award. Iggy joined rock heroes Alice Cooper, Lemmy, Jimmy

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Metallica teamed with rock legends Ozzy Osbourne, Lou Reed and Ray Davies at Madison Square Garden in New York on Friday night (October 30th) for the second and final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary concerts. Once-in-a-lifetime team-ups were in abundance as the rest of the night's lineup included U2, Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck and special unannounced guests Mick Jagger,

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Paul Stanley says that he feels no shame in Kiss being lumped in with other vintage, or classic rock acts -- in fact, the band is thrilled with the fact that they're now spanning there different generations with their music and bombastic live shows. Stanley, who's out on the road with Kiss in support of their first album in a decade, called Sonic Boom, told blabbermouth.net, "I'm proud to be in

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Once-in-a-lifetime team-ups were in abundance once again on Friday (October 20th) at Madison Square Garden for the second and final night of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th Anniversary concerts. Headlining night two of the Anniversary shows were U2, Metallica, Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Ozzy Osbourne, Lou Reed, and Ray Davies. Among the special unannounced guests were Mick Jagger, Bruce

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Foo Fighters taped an episode of the VH1 performance program Storytellers last Wednesday night (October 28th) at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, according to FMQB. The show will premiere on Friday, November 27th at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT. The hour-long, 13-song performance will feature a collection of the band's biggest hits, as well as the new track "Wheels," along with stories

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With Halloween here again (Saturday, October 31st), we asked a few of our favorite rockers to share some of their thoughts on this mysterious and scary holiday. Tool and Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan told us that he enjoys Halloween because it's more than just costumes and trick or treating: "It's an interesting season to me, having done a little research on it. It's an interesting

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Foo Fighters staged a live performance at their Studio 606 rehearsal and recording complex in California on Friday (October 30th), with the show streamed live on Facebook. The concert was also webcast on Livestream.com. You can watch a free re-run of the performance at facebook.com/foofighters.The live event came just days ahead of the November 3rd release of the Foo Fighters' first greatest hits

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Stevie Wonder, John Fogerty, Simon & Garfunkel, Smokey Robinson, and Jackson Browne were but a few of the music legends who rocked Madison Square Garden on October 29th to kick off night one of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden.Tom Hanks, who was one of the event's producers

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Sting says that Barack Obama just might be a sign of divine intervention. Sting was quoted by The Associated Press as joking, "In many ways, he's sent from God because the world's a mess." After spending time talking with the President, Sting explained that he "found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world."Although he's kept his distance

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Rumors about a Led Zeppelin reunion have resurfaced again, thanks to the news that singer Robert Plant has been in discussions about performing at next year's Glastonbury Festival in England. According to NME.com, however, what sparked speculation about a Zeppelin gig was when Plant remarked, "There's a place for me there (at Glastonbury), but I have no idea who with." The surviving members of

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Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett spoke with ExploreMusic.com earlier this week in a new video interview about Morgan Dana Harrington, the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who went missing outside a Metallica concert on October 17th in Charlottesville, Virginia. Metallica added $50,000 to the $100,000 reward already being offered by her family for information on her whereabouts. Hammett said

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Eric Clapton has backed out of Friday's (October 30th) appearance at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts to have his gallstones removed, according to Reuters. According to a statement, Clapton, who is 64, "will spend time recuperating at home in the UK and is very sorry to disappoint the fans and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."According to rockhall25.com, the Jeff Beck Band

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Following two shows with his main band Aerosmith in Hawaii last week -- the group's first since singer Steven Tyler was injured back in August -- guitarist Joe Perry has scheduled a batch of new solo gigs behind his latest solo effort, Have Guitar, Will Travel. Perry's touring outfit, the Joe Perry Project, will begin its run on November 10th in New York City, ending two weeks later in San

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