If Love was Enough: Like many of the newer songs I wrote for this album, this song began with the title. The title 'if love was enough' really captured what I was going through at the time in a relationship. Sometimes the guitar chords come first and others you have a few lyrics on a piece of paper. I knew I had a real song when I wrote the title.

NME has the story: Queens Of The Stone Age were forcibly removed from a California rehab facility last week. Josh Homme's desert rockers' plan to perform a six-song show for in-patients at an unnamed Los Angeles drying out clinic came to an abrupt and chaotic end when the band were cut off before the end of the first song and manhandled out of the building by heavy security, NME.COM has learned.

Punknews.org reports that My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Lero has had to return home from the tour to tend to a family illness. This leaves the band short two members as drummer Bob Bryar recently had to stand aside to allow a wrist injury to heal. Guitar tech Matt Cortez will fill in for lero while he is gone. Cortez has some experience on stage with the band already. He filled in for bassist Mikey Way while he took time off to enjoy life as a newlywed.

A handful of the U.S. dates for the Foo Fighters have come to light. They are thus:
The first six dates for the Foo Fighters 2008 U.S. tour have been announced, they are:

Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood will hit the road together beginning January 31 in a city to be announced. The outing will play 24 dates to be announced; tickets go on sale December 1.

Supporters of the group have criticised Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, for approving J.C. Penney's use of the song in its forthcoming advertising campaign - as the late star would've told the corporate world to "f**k off".

But Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is strongly opposed to the idea and claims it would only ever happen "over my dead body".

The La Bamba band features graduates from Garfield High, and the group stepped into action when they heard the roof of the Los Angeles school's new sports auditorium had been destroyed by fire in May (07).

This three-CD set includes the band's Boo Boo EP and their first two albums, as well as nine bonus tracks, a video and one previously unreleased CD made up of their final recordings.

Last week's number one, the Eagles, fell to number two in this weeks charts with their album, 'Long Road To Ruin.'

"Scream Aim Fire" was produced by Colin Richardson (Machinehead, Funeral For A Friend) who also produced "The Poison," and was recorded at Sonic Ranch near El Paso, TX earlier this year. The eleven new songs are, according to frontman Matthew Tuck, "really melodic heavy metal...catchy, hooky choruses and full-on vocals, with the music being very in-your-face and heavy...it's a lot more uptempo [than 'The Poison'], a lot more aggressive."

Here's a statement from the band: "This guy, a Copenhagen native, showed up and performed a stunning display of brutal power and basically screamed the sh*t out of all the other applicants.