Alice was too ill to even leave his hotel in Santiago, advising fans via Facebook that he "is very sorry to disappoint the many fans here who have waited so long for this concert. The Doctor is optimistic that he will be well enough for Saturday's show in Buenos Aires. Hopefully, Alice will be able to get back to Chile another time."

"I've been doing this a long time," he told Billboard.com. "I don't know if I want to do this when I'm 67, you know?"

Clinton's rep tells us ... 69-year-old George went to see his doctor for a routine check-up when the decision was made to keep him in the facility so Clinton could receive proper treatment for an infection in one of his legs.

"I haven't got a clue," he told QMI Agency. "If they want to call me, they can call me. I never say never. If it works, fine. If it don't, I'll move on. It ain't the end of the world. I ain't gonna get a box of Kleenex and cry my eyes out for the rest of my life."

While the tour had been billed at Judas Priest's "farewell tour," members are shifting from that absolute: "It's not the end of the band, by any means," Glenn Tipton said, as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net. "It is our last world tour. It takes a big chunk of your life � 18 months, really, of being out there. We've been doing it for nearly 40 years now. It's not to say that it will be our last shows, and we certainly will [be] � and have been � recording, so chances are that there will be a [new] album as well next year. We would never turn down the appropriate date if we were offered it at some point in the future, but it will be our last world tour�"

Kravitz has announced that his ninth studio album, Black and White America, will drop August 30. The funk-flavored album is Kravitz's first on Atlantic Records/Roadrunner Records, and the disc's first single, "Stand," will hit radio June 6. Kravitz produced, wrote and arranged the 16 songs on the release.

Clarke joined GNR in 1991, at the peak of their powers, as a replacement for rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin and toured extensively with the band on their global 'Use Your Illusion' tour. But despite several of the songs from that tour appearing on the final double album, both Clarke and drummer Matt Sorum, who had also joined the band in the midst of their rise a replacement for Steven Adler, were left off the sleeve note credits.

A special two-track promo-only CD single is being made available featuring "The Wicker Man," which was a UK Top Ten hit that originally appeared on the 2000 album "Brave New World," and "The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg," which was the lead track from 2006′s "A Matter Of Life And Death" album.

(Jam!) The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has been forced to call off three summer gigs in his native Britain due to poor ticket sales. Simon Fishwick, general manager of the historic Powderham venue, explains, "It's all to do with poor ticket sales, I'm afraid. "more

(NME) Lenny Kravitz has been cast in new futuristic teen movie The Hunger Games. more

(BW&BK) Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford spoke with MTV about their appearance on American Idol, "Because we've lived so long and done so much stuff in heavy metal and we've seen so many crazy things and heard so many crazy things, when we heard this we went, 'F**k! That's incredible, man. Let's do it, you know? This is insane. That's just amazing,' " He explained of their reaction to getting Idol exposure. "So as it progressed from 'Another Thing Coming' till this point now, when we're on the carpet and we're about to do the show, it's just a dream come true for Priest, for metal and, mostly, for James Durbin." more

(Punknews.org) Two-time Super Bowl champion and Denver Broncos great John Elway has apparently been made aware of the existence of Ft. Collins, CO-based outfit Elway, and his legal team has sent the band a document requesting that they change their name, though it's important to note that the band hasn't yet been sued yet nor served with a cease and desist letter. Elway guitarist/vocalist Tim Browne was kind enough to offer Punknews.org a statement here

(The 1st Five) H2O are set to enter the studio to record an all-covers album. The album titled Don't Forget Your Roots, will pay homage to the bands that have influenced and inspired H2O. more

(BW&BK) Aerosmith members Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer will be guests on In The Studio this week talking about the 35th anniversary of their landmark album, Rocks, with professional radio broadcaster and rock musician interviewer Redbeard. more

The set, titled re:(disc)overed, will drop August 2. The collection is the follow-up to 2009's Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate. While the band set out to record an album of new material, the toll of the road pushed them to do a covers collection instead. "Since we started we've been non-stop � make a record, go on tour, then right into rehearsals and the next record, then back on tour...," guitarist Paul Phillip told Billboard.com. "We were really burned out, and when we started trying to write again it just wasn't time yet. And we had been doing [AC/DC's] 'TNT' and [the Steve Miller Band's] 'The Joker' and had so much fun with those that one thing led to another and we decided to make a covers record. It was just something fun to do, and we had a blast."

In the episode, Clyde and Craig need to find Slash for their boss Eric Cartman so that he can play at the event EA Sports is sponsoring. Clyde calls his parents when he can't find Slash and they explain that Slash is make-believe, that he is actually based on the Dutch legend of the V�nter Slauche.

"We are DONE mixing the new CD," Bach updated fans Thursday via his Facebook page. "The last song we just completed was 'Awake', which a lot of you know. The melody from Nick Sterling in the chorus is so incredible; tender, heart-wrenching, builds into an emotional crescendo that is so beautiful and heavy to me. After much attention to detail from producer Bob Marlette, Nick, and myself, we now have the 'magic mix' of this track that literally makes me want to rip the skin off my chest it sounds so good."

"It's so beautiful and so [expletive] sad at the same time," he said. "As a kid it struck me how many different emotions a single song could evoke, and it changed my view of music forever." Davis also named his favorite album: Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral, which he called "an absolute masterpiece."

Hinds told Rolling Stone that the first disc takes his music in a surf-rock direction, while the second deals in "boozy poetry." The albums aren't out yet, but the musician is already talking about doing more.

The documentary gives fans and audiences an intimate first glimpse into Pearl Jam's journey culled from more than 1,200 hours of rarely and never-before-seen footage, over 24 hours of recent interviews with the band, as well as live footage of their spellbinding concert performances.

Pearl Jam Twenty will enjoy a unique, simultaneous worldwide theatrical release in select cities and venues in September and thereafter will roll out in an accelerated fashion. Abramorama, headed by Richard Abramowitz, who steered the theatrical campaigns for Anvil! The Story of Anvil and the Oscar-nominated Exit Through The Gift Shop, is releasing the independent film in the U.S. with Arts Alliance Media, best known for their deft handling of Iron Maiden's award-winning documentary Flight 666 and, more recently, Foo Fighters Back and Forth, handling the theatrical release overseas.

"About four years ago I just put in an ad on my website: 'Musicians Wanted'... This is the result. Writing the songs for 'Survival & Other Stories' was uplifting for me on many levels, I was working with musicians from around the world Via the Internet, it's a new world, music is a healing energy, I had a tough 2008, through illness, and the Music I've been writing since is a celebration of life on many levels...I hope you get the chance to hear the album..Big Love..Jon." 'Survival & Other Stories' is the first of three albums to be released by Jon Anderson in the next two years.

"The Margaritaville laidback state of mind is inherently social, and THQ has captured the spirit of that lifestyle in this game," said Buffett, according to Billboard.com. "With Margaritaville Online, fans across the globe can party together any time and any place."

This audio comes from one of only three Ozzy shows "known to exist" that was bootlegged during the entire European leg of the Diary of a Madman tour.

Weiland played a cover of "Into Your Arms," originally by The Lemonheads, the Boston-based alt band fronted by Evan Dando; the song originally appeared on 1993's "Come On Feel The Lemonheads."

The season premiere is this Saturday, May 28 at 10pm ET/PT in 2D hi-definition on DIRECTV'S The 101 Network (channel 101) and in 3D on DIRECTV'S n3D powered by Panasonic.

According to Elvisnews.com, it will be a multimedia, interactive experience filled with music, video and artifacts.

One of the key elements explored in the exhibition will be the night Elvis met The Beatles on August 27, 1965, at Presley's house in Bel Air, California.

McCartney's digitized collection features 1 million-plus items, including photographs, video footage from live concerts, rolls of film, videotapes and reels, music recordings, original works of art, as well as memorabilia.

9. "You Really Got Me," Van Halen (The Kinks): Van Halen's cover of this Kinks classic was the first thing that most of the rock world ever heard of VH. The year was 1978 and the song's pairing with "Eruption" on the band's self-titled album of that year was one of the most devastating one-two punches ever delivered by four dudes from Pasadena. Opening with Eddie's legendary "brown sound" (augmented by washes of reverb on the opposite side of the stereo spectrum), the guitar was right in your face, the energy was cranked up to burning point, and David Lee Roth's sassy delivery made fans momentarily forget all about The Kinks' version, much to Dave Davies' later chagrin. The guitar solo has it all: syrupy phaser tones, two-handed tapping, wide bends and a cool toggle-switch stutter effect, all topped off with a killer pick slide. The breakdown after the solo would set the stage for future classics like "Mean Streets" and "Panama," and the closing legato and hint of feedback made you hold your breath just in case there was more coming. � Peter Hodgson

1. "All Along the Watchtower," The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Bob Dylan): The ultimate accomplishment for a cover artist is to take a song and, through his own interpretation and arrangement, make it something unique and truly his own. Perhaps no artist has ever done this on the scale of (and with the sizzle of) Jimi Hendrix's fiery take on Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." To take on Dylan would be too intimidating a prospect for most artists, but Hendrix grabbed the John Wesley Harding track and ran with it, firing off one of the most melodic yet biting solos of his career along the way. The ultimate testament of Hendrix's greatness came on subsequent Dylan tours when he began to cover Hendrix's version. In a later interview, Dylan said: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day." � Michael Wright

That album, Going Out In Style CD (Born & Bred Records/ILG), debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200--the group's highest chart debut to date.

News of the Paul Simon catalog releases arrives as Simon, the quintessential American singer-songwriter-performer, tours the United States in May and Europe this summer with an eight-piece band in support of his recently-released critically-acclaimed new album, So Beautiful Or So What on Hear Music.

Robbie Robertson will perform with The Roots on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Thursday, June 9th. How To Become Clairvoyant, Robertson's latest album, debuted at No. 13* on The Billboard 200 and entered the Top Current Canadian Album Chart at No. 8.

Their full-length debut, It's a Corporate World will be out on Quite Scientific Records on June 7th.