AC/DC Earn $500K From Classic Song In Movie

Variety's Artisans series sat down with several music supervisors and asked them about the most amount of money they'd ever spent on a track for inclusion in a film.

Thomas Golubic, who has done music placement for shows such as "Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead", revealed that the biggest deal he'd ever put together to secure song rights was the AC/DC track.

"I remember being absolutely horrified when I heard that number," recalled Golubic. "And we spent a lot of time coming up with what we thought were great alternates, but there was going to be no budget on that, and they had money so they paid for it." More on this story.

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Announces Book Signing

Due October 14, the book sold-out of its limited-edition run of 2,500 copies upon its initial release in 2010, becoming the fastest-selling book in Genesis Publications' 40-year history.

To launch the re-release, the guitarist will be the featured interview guest for "Jimmy Page In Conversation", at the Kaufmann Concert Hall on November 3 at 7:30 PM.

Page will then host an in-store book signing at the Union Square Barnes & Noble on East 17th Street on November 5 at 7:00 PM. More on this story.

Motorhead Guitarist and Sons Rock Black Sabbath Classic

The group, dubbed Phil Campbell's All Starr Band, features the Motorhead guitarist and his three sons Todd, Dane (Straight Lines) and Tyler (The People The Poet) and they released the YouTube clip to promote their tour dates which kick off tonight in Swansea.

The tour will feature six dates in all and five of the shows will include support from Buffalo Summer. The dates include tonight's show in Swansea at Sin City, 16th in Wakefield at the Warehouse, 17th in Chester at The Live Rooms, 23rd in Cardiff at The Globe, 24th in Plymouth at The Junction (No Buffalo Summer), 29th in Southampton at Joiners and the trek will wrap up on the 30th in Coventry at the Kasbah.

Check out the video here.

Slash and Myles Kennedy Unplug For Standing In The Sun

The second single from his second solo album delivered Slash one of his two first-ever No. 1 US rock radio hits, in addition to that project's lead single, "You're A Lie."

The acoustic jam was recorded as Slash promotes the September 16th release of his third album, "World On Fire." The project once again sees the guitarist working with his touring band, Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators, and producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette. Watch it here.

Very Baddest Of ZZ Top Trailer Goes Online

ZZ Top recorded for three different labels throughout the years, including London Records (1971-76), Warner Brothers Records (1979-1990), and RCA Records (1994-2003); their latest release, 2012's "La Futura", was issued by American Recordings.

"We're glad that material originally issued by three different labels over the course of all these years will now be housed under one 'roof,' so to speak," said guitarist Billy Gibbons. "It's kind of a big, bad family reunion on some level."

Watch the trailer here.

Joe Strummer Car Being Auctioned On eBay

Bought by Strummer in 1987 for $4200, the blue 1963 Ford Thunderbird is described as being in "pristine condition". The online auction runs until August 21, the day Strummer would have turned 62.

The Ford is being sold by the Beverly Hills Car Club in California. In the Ebay listing, the seller says: "In 1987 and 1988 Joe Strummer was living in Los Angeles, in a beautiful wood-framed house with a swimming-pool on Ridgemount Drive off Laurel Canyon where he recorded his first solo album, Earthquake Weather, at Baby O studio on Sunset Boulevard. More on this story.

Bernie Marsden Live Performance Goes Online

The album features a highly-anticipated guest appearance by former boss David Coverdale, who sings a new version of Trouble - one of the first tracks the pair collaborated on in Whitesnake.

Marsden, who's described the album as "kind of retro but with a 2012-2013 sound," says: "Just wait until you hear DC's vocal on the new version - it's fabulous."

Also appearing are Joe Bonamassa, Ian Paice and Don Airey of Deep Purple, Jimmy Copley of Jeff Beck's band and Mark Feltham of Nine Below Zero.

Stream the show here.

Children Of Bodom Frontman Explains Surviving In Today's Music Scene

When asked about the situation following the group's appearance at Bloodstock, the Finnish guitarist/vocalist says: "I think it applies to all genres of music - it's harder to make a living nowadays because people don't buy records like they used to.

"But it's nothing to complain about - you've just got to get out there and play live. Just keep touring and you'll be fine." The band are set to support Machine Head on their 21-date North American tour in October along with Epica and Battlecross, and they will begin work on the follow up to 2013's Halo of Blood before the turn of the year.

Laiho says: "We've rolled with Machine Head a few times in the past. My best memories are kick-ass shows, parties, camaraderie and vocal coaching from Robb Flynn back in 2008, so I think we'll have a good time tearing it up over North America."

Stream the full interview here.

Joanne Shaw Taylor Releases Mud, Honey Lyric Video

She says: "I wanted to retain the same vibe that we captured on the first album. The new one is a combination of rock and blues - I think it's going to be exciting, and hopefully my fans will love the rockier edge."

Mud, Honey started life as an instrumental track before Taylor decided to add words during the recording process. She explains: "It sounded so big and heavy it seemed a shame not to write some lyrics for it. It's a fictional song about a gangster style character who's burned too many bridges - I decided to go with a darker subject matter because I felt that's what would do the heavy track justice."

Check out the video here.

Singled Out: Die So Fluid's Black Blizzard

Black Blizzard was inspired by the Dust Bowl disaster of the 1930s. I wrote the lyrics when I was living right near the Hollywood Bowl and the Lasky-DeMille Barn, one of Hollywood's first film studios. I hadn't been living in Los Angeles that long, having relocated from London. I became fascinated by its history and the whole concept of migration and what leads people to travel great distances, following dreams, seeking fortunes, broken promises, false hopes, basic survival�... In the thirties millions of people were driven from their homes on the Great Plains where they had been encouraged to settle and farm. Some died from malnutrition and dust pneumonia. Many came to California looking for work, starving and destitute, due to drought, barren land, foreclosure, and destruction caused by storms. The dust storms are often thought of as a natural disaster but how quickly and easily we forget that this was a man made crisis caused by greed, politics and incorrect farming techniques. Plowing displaced native long grasses that had trapped moisture in the soil, turning it to unanchored dust during drought. Winds swept it up into choking towering black clouds of biblical proportions that blocked out the sun, and buried homesteads.

It struck me as such powerful subject matter for a song that would warn of what happens when man in his ego disrespects the earth. Here is a terrifying illustration that occurred less than a hundred years ago, staring us right in the face. Nature is wild and untamable, we cannot control it, when we are long gone the planet will still be here transforming. With short term thinking we've actually put a great deal of effort into making it increasingly more unlivable for the human race. I believe we're all connected through nature and it's tragic this has been forgotten and the attitude sneered at. It also tells the story of how easily the innocent can be manipulated and put blind faith into any belief they are told convincingly enough to buy into. The lyric 'Your god has abandoned this project' means that the pyramid of worship collapsed, from the worship of money, power, and influence through to the peoples faith in the system.

We made a video with director David Kenny which dealt with the subject in a less literal way, but still conveying the foreboding nature of it with epic impact. The character I play is like the storm personified arriving to inspect damage done by catastrophic events caused by an ill-fated society. There's just a scavenger tribe of kids left in the woods and one survives, so at least we added a faint glimmer of hope in the darkness. We made the character queen-like and it really works well with the regal eastern inflections of the string parts played by Samy Bashai, world class British Egyptian violinist. The song has roots in both realism and fantasy.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album right here!

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