The Day in Rock 8/06: U2 Get It Right, Metallica Go Double Platinum, Final Strummer, Plus news of Slipknot, Jagger, Donnie Vie, Fuel, Motorhead, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. 

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U2 Get It Right
Launch.com reports:  U2 is currently working on the follow-up album to 2000's All That You Can't Leave Behind. In July, Bono told Ireland's Sunday Independent newspaper that the band is closer than they've ever been to getting the sound they want.

"We are getting closer to making the music we have always wanted to make," Bono said. "There is a difference between the music that you hear in your head and what you put on a CD. Your grasp is sometimes further than your reach, and right now this band is on fire and about to do its best work."

Reports say the new album will showcase the Edge's guitar work. Bono told the New York Times, "The songs are very direct. They're big songs, big melodies and really, some full-on guitar playing by a very frustrated man. [The Edge] is so gifted. If this is a great record, and I really think it will be, it will have a lot to do with him."

The album is being produced by Chris Thomas, best known for his work with the Sex Pistols, INXS, the Beatles, Roxy Music and Pink Floyd.

Several months ago rumors were circulating that the title of the new album was Solar, but those rumors are untrue.

U2 expects to release their new album in 2004. They'll follow up the release with a world tour.

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Metallica Go Double Platinum.
Despite mixed reviews from fans and critics, Metallica doesn’t seem to have any problem selling their new CD.  The once multiplatinum Fleetwood Mac’s new one has gone gold and Radiohead gets certified.

Reuters reports: METALLICA's eighth studio album, "St. Anger", has been certified multiplatinum for U.S. shipments in excess of two million copies in a little over a month of release, according to the Recording Industry Association of America's July numbers.

Fleetwood Mac earned its 14th gold record (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 units) in July for "Say You Will."

Alternative act Radiohead earned its sixth gold record for "Hail to the Thief."

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Final Strummer
NME.com reports: The final details of the last album by JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALEROS - ’STREETCORE’ - have been announced. 

The record, which was being worked on when Strummer died of heart problems last year, will be released on October 6 via Hellcat/Epitaph.

The tracklisting runs:

’Coma Girl’ 
‘Get Down Moses’ 
‘Long Shadow’ 
‘Arms Aloft’ 
‘Ramshackle Day Parade’ 
‘Redemption Song’ 
‘All In A Day’ 
‘Burnin’ Streets’ 
‘Midnight Jam’ 
‘Silver And Gold’ 

Martin Slattery and Scott Shields of the Mescaleros helped finish the follow-up to 2001's 'Global A Go-Go'. 'Redemption Song' is a cover of the Bob Marley classic.

A single, 'Coma Girl', will be released on September 22.
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Slipknot +Rubin = New CD
Rolling Stone.com reports: The members of Des Moines-based rock combo Slipknot have convened with producer Rick Rubin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer) in Los Angeles to start work on the follow-up to their 2001 commercial breakthrough Iowa. Frontman Corey Taylor calls the new material "fucking killer." 

"Once again I have to leave my family and hometown to head to the Mecca of Malfeasance, L.A.," Taylor writes on his band's Web site. "I'm really looking forward to the new album. A lot seems to have changed with the band."

But Taylor expects not as much has changed with Slipknot's detractors. "People are going to bag on whatever I do, regardless," he says. "Critics try to destroy the one thing they themselves cannot do."
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Jagger Silenced
AP Reports: British rock 'n' roll band the Rolling Stones suspended a concert in the Spanish tourist resort town of Benidorm after 60-year-old lead  singer Mick Jagger (news) fell ill with laryngitis, organizers said Tuesday. 

The concert set for later in the day was part of  Stones' 'Forty Licks' tour and had been expected to attract some 30,000 spectators at the Foeits Sports Stadium. 

Spain's private news agency Europa Press saidthe concert would be rescheduled for Sept. 19. It was not immediately possible to confirm the date with organizers.
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Donnie Vie Says Enough Z’nuff
As we reported last week, the stuff hit the fan when Enuff Z’nuff’s lead vocalist Donnie Vie was barred from entering the Viper Room in Hollywood where his band was performing that night. 

We have heard from sources close to the band that it wasn’t the current members of Enuff Z’nuff who barred their frontman from getting into the club; they reportedly place the blame at the feet of Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe. 

Donnie eventually got into the club and staged an impromptu reunion with original guitarist Derek Frigo and drummer Vik Foxx. 

Vie, Enuff Z’nuff’s chief songwriter, had taken some time off from the band to work on solo material, while the group continued to tour with lead guitarist John Monaco taking over lead vocalist duties. 

After the drama at the Viper Room, Vie has decided that Enough really is Z’nuff and officially announced his departure from the band. His debut solo album, “Just Enough” will be released later this month in Europe and he is in talks with a couple major labels as well as several independents about releasing the album stateside. Many believe that his solo material has a better chance of reaching a mass audience without the stigma of the Enuff Z’nuff name attached to it. Meanwhile, on August 1st diehard fans that are part of his online club were offered the chance to obtain a digital copy of the album from his website. Vie plans to offer digital singles from the album to the general public via his site following the European release of the disc. 

Word on the street has it that Donnie, Derek and Vik will once again jam together this coming Sunday night at the Cat Club in Hollywood during the weekly antiMUSIC party at Happenin’ Harry’s Hellhole. There are rumors that full blown reunion shows and possible one-off tour are in the works. 

Here is part of Donnie’s statement:

“Well sisters and brothers, without going into a nasty story about some pimpy shit that finally took the cake. The cake was definitely taken. You will not find a trace of that damn cake anywhere. And despite a week ass performance of "Pinocchio does Sunset" I regretfully announce my official departure as lead vocalist/writer for the band, I must say  ENOUGH  Z'NUFF for me. Good luck to the guys, I wish them well. I spent a lot of my life with them, especially Chip. I have great memories, some not so great, and made totally ass kicking music with them.( this part  of making ass kicking music will continue, I promise, just on my own) I have to take this time to focus on my own record, and touring, my other project Ele Smawgg also is going to require a dumptruck of effort to achieve the goals and ideas I have planned for it, and I promise it will be unlike anything  ever  done. And the both projects(Vie/Smawgg) will continue to uphold the quality of  the things I did with EZN  at the very least to those who stuck by our side through the last 14 years and 11 albums.. And for those who have never heard  us or myself  or any of  the music that I’ve written , or co written with chip. YOU WILL!!!..so before I start to cry  (sniff  ... sniff..... wheh!!!!) thanks to all concerned. See ya  soon”

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Fueled DVD
Epic Records Reports: FUEL will release the DVD single featuring ‘Falls On Me’ with special behind the scenes footage, plus 4 classic FUEL videos: ‘Won’t Back Down’ (Daredevil Soundtrack), ‘Hemorrhage,’ ‘Shimmer,’ and ‘Bittersweet’ on August 5th.

Co-produced by Michael Beinhorn (Ozzy Osbourne, Marilyn Manson, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Fuel guitarist, Carl Bell, FUEL’s third album, Natural Selection, will be released on September 23rd. The anthemic 1st single, ‘Falls On Me’ is off to a strong start at radio, as the #1 most added track at all three rock formats (active, modern & mainstream) for the week of July 21st and had the highest chart debut the subsequent week.

Motorhead WWE Theme
Blabbermouth Reports: MOTÖRHEAD recently spent studio time in Germany and Los Angeles recording a theme song for EVOLUTION, the new wrestling team led by WWE superstar Triple H, according to the band's web site. "Triple H has aligned himself with 'the dirtiest players in the game,'  Ric Flair, Randy Orton and Batista . . . in an effort to solidify his new 'evil' character profile," reads a post on the site. The track has already been receiving airplay via the weekly program "Raw" on the TNN network and is tentatively slated to be released later in the year. More information will be made available soon.. - Click Here for the Full Story plus the Dates 

Skynyrd Cancels Tour
Reuters Reports: Gary Rossington, the leader and guitarist with ill-starred southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has suffered a mild seizure several months after undergoing open heart surgery, forcing the group to cancel a tour, spokesmen said on Tuesday. 

Rossington, 51, was released from an Atlanta hospital on Monday after seeking treatment for fatigue, and ordered by doctors to rest at home for  several weeks. The band will return to the road on Aug. 23 when it begins its "Vicious Cycle" tour in Omaha, Nebraska. 

His illness has forced Lynyrd Skynyrd to pull out of its co-headlining tour with former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar (news), who will continue the trek by himself.
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