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"Ya, that guy," continued Axl, pointing the guy out to security. "'Oh, what did I do?'" he said mockingly. "The Asian little dips**t. See ya, ya dumb-ass mother**ker!"

"Dec 29th at 9:00pm live Q&A with me on Twitter details to follow. Spread the word."

In a new interview with Sterogum, Corgan explained that, "some people who've known me a long time, people like 20+ years, people in the music business, people who've been around during the making of other albums, they've basically patted me on the back and said 'You've actually done it. You got off Planet Pumpkin onto something else.'

The album is a glimpse into "the songs which inspired the songs" with a tribute to his personal favourites- plus two new McCartney compositions.

The singer/guitarist outlined the band's plans for the new year speaking with his hometown newspaper The Boston Herald, saying that they will tour with Staind in the spring and will mix a live album in January � they will also record a few cover songs that inspired them for the disc.

The December 5 show kicked off the week with special guests including former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, John Marshall (Metal Church), Sean Harris and Brian Tatler (Diamond Head), Biff Byford (Saxon) and Apocalyptica.

Lynch, Pilson and Brown decided to team up again after plans for a fully-fledged Dokken reunion fell through. The band � called Tooth and Nail after a hit Dokken album � is now in the studio working on original songs and remakes of several Dokken classics. Bach sings on a new version of Dokken's "Alone Again," while Brown will sing "When Heaven Comes Down." Pilson also will handle vocal duties.

Brown plays on the remade Dokken tracks, while drums on the new original songs will be performed by Brian Tichy, who was a member of Zakk Wylde's first post-Ozzy band, Pride & Glory, as well as Whitesnake, Foreigner and Lynch's own band, Lynch Mob.

The album is being recorded at Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, California, and the sessions are being produced by Rob Cavallo, who has manned the board for Kid Rock and Green Day releases and was previously in the producer's chair for Shinedown's The Sound of Madness album.

Gabriel is asking fans and past colleagues to offer up any So-era memorabilia, photos and other paraphernalia they might have, for inclusion in the anniversary reissue's booklet or on his website. Gabriel says anything will be considered, from posters and tickets from the So concert tour to photos relating to the album's release or concerts, to even personal diary entries related to the album and its impact on fans' lives.

The e-card, designed by Lauren Keswick and Scott Bluebond and produced by Keswick was distributed today to the cancer support organization's friends, supporters, members, donors and others and is available at www.cancersupport-phila.org.

100% of the proceeds are earmarked for the charities The Racehorse Sanctuary & Rocking Horse Children's Charity and Seraphim 12 Foundation.

The album, Live From The Living Room, features performances taken from a special broadcast in Japan at the end of a whirlwind 11-date tour in January 2011 in support of their reunion album, What If�

According to theDaily Express, bass player Alex James (now a leading U.K. food critic) told radio station XFM: "We're going to play, which is brilliant; it's like putting the Blues Brothers back together."

We Came As Romans will headline the trek with support from Emmure, blessthefall, Woe, Is Me and The Color Morale.

The February tour begins in Illinois and hits Seattle, Las Vegas, Houston and more, ending in Poughkeepsie in early March.

A new museum housing one of the world's largest private collections of Elvis Presley memorabilia, and the largest outside of the US, is now open to the public and offers new insights into his professional and private life with pieces that have never before been shown in public.

Margot & The Nuclear So and So's will perform a New Year's Eve show at Deluxe at Amber Room in Indianapolis, IN.

antiMusic has been thrilled to sponsor Happenin Harry's weekly all-star Haptones jams for half of those twenty years featuring a who's who of rock, metal and hard rock jamming classics from AC/DC, Deep Purple, Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath and more.

Some songs developing slowly, over a long period of time - they kind of creating themselves in your mind� days go by and you�ll be "revisiting" something what used to be a vague idea only to discover that it already grown a bit bigger, a bit more defined.

"Hard Rain�s Coming" came to life in that fashion: I wanted a song which will start up slow and "fragile" and develop into an "all-stops-pulled" anthem and yet with a middle part/verse � connecting the intro and a climax (chorus) � being somehow different, carrying a lazy, laid back vibe without losing a steady pulse. Lyrically I was imagining a feeling of a hesitated longing/searching and a bombastic, overpowering contra punctual punch line.

An intro came first: a harpsichord with its glass-like, lofty sound created a nice contrast to a melody line sung in a deep, airy voice suddenly pushed aside by a heavy pounding rhythm section. Verses became an odd combination of dragged, sleepy and behind the beat vocals over a steady, staccato beat with furious harpsichord arpeggios tying it all together.
An unexpected bonus arrived as the backing singers went with an exaggerated operatic approach in the chorus, creating a larger-than-life sound which � combined with the open and polyphonic sounding band � hit the listener with an impact of epic proportions.

The biggest challenge was the final mixing: it took two full days in the studio to get all these parts to fit together sonically; constantly moving faders to underline the ever-changing dynamics of the track, tweaking reverbs/delays between verses (tight and in-your-face) and choruses (huge and dominating).

By the end of the day it was all worth it: a song became the first single from Royal Hunt�s "Show Me How to Live" album available in US through EMI � check it out.