A big part of the reason for C.J. turning the gig down was due to the health of his son. "I was approached about joining Metallica, not once, but twice," Ramone tells The Great Southern Brainfart. "When Jason [Newsted] first left the band [in 2001] they approached me. A while had gone by and they were having a hard time finding someone, so they approached me again. At the time my son had been diagnosed with autism and there was just no way I could leave him."

According to Reuters one of the items mentioned in the plea agreement was a Van Halen "5150" album with forged signatures from the band members that was offered for sale on eBay.

How did the subject come up, you ask? Well, the new KISS album will be called "Monster," and, of course, the Gaga connection stems from the pop singer calling her fans "little monsters."

A TV ad for the Honda Pilot, a midsize crossover SUV, shows a family of 8 cruising along when one of the kids starts singing a drum beat. It's the familiar tempo of the opening drum riff to Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train."

Each album has been exclusively re cut for vinyl from the original master recordings andpressed on 180-gram European virgin vinyl. The collection, which includes a unique lithograph and cover art, comes packaged in a hand numbered collector's box pressing of 1000 copies worldwide. Deftones: The Vinyl Collection, 1995 - 2011 is expected to sell out quickly.

The new album is being recorded in a basement in the Atwater Village area of Los Angeles, CA, the first to be recorded outside of Madison, WI.

The band toured all summer in support of their latest album, Something For The Rest Of Us.

Fresh off a successful European tour with Black Country Communion, and rave reviews of BCC's "2" album, Joe's forthcoming UK solo tour will see him perform material from his current studio album "Dust Bowl" plus songs from his vast catalogue of albums including "A New Day Yesterday", "The Ballad of John Henry", "Sloe Gin" and "Black Rock".

Following news of for UK stops, the Black Sabbath guitarist will appear in New Jersey as part of his book-signing tour to promo his upcoming memoir.

His first new recording in over three years, "Hard Knocks" was produced by Matt Serletic. The recording sessions took place in Serletic's own Emblem studios in Los Angeles involving a host of acclaimed musicians like Ray Parker Jr., Tim Pierce and Joel Shearer on guitar, Josh Freese, Matt Chamberlain and Dorian Crozier on drums, Chris Chaney on bass and Jamie Muhoberac on keyboards. The songs were mixed by Chris Lord-Alge and mastered by Bob Ludwig. Songwriters Kara Dioguardi of recent American Idol fame and Marc Broussard have contributed songs to the collection.

Some of the biggest names in music are included on The Bridge School Benefit Concerts - 25th Anniversary Edition, performing rare, acoustic versions of songs, never heard anywhere else, to benefit The Bridge School, a non-profit, innovative organization educating children with severe speech and physical impairments through the use of augmentative and alternative communication systems and assistive technology. This once-in-a-lifetime collection is sure to become a treasured artifact for generations to come.

"I would like to sign other artists," he said. "The whole thing is an experiment at this point, and everything is going well at this point, so if this record does well, I'd like to sign some other bands, too."

Kill Devil Hill features inny Appice (Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, Dio) bassist Rex Brown (Pantera, Down) Dewey Bragg (Vocals) and Mark Zavon (guitars).

The 63-year-old singer has joined the conservative Nationals party, and is planning to run for one of two seats in the state of New South Wales. Anderson told The Australian newspaper, "At this stage we are just talking about possibilities, that's about as much as I can say, we are talking."

In a new interview with Mojo, McCartney says Harrison had described his All Things Must Pass solo album as 'diarrhoea.' "That was his own affectionate way of describing that he'd had a lot of stuff stored up and it had to come out," McCartney said. "I mean, I don't think I'd describe it like that. But I know what he meant."

McCartney said that with albums typically being only 40 minutes long and with he and Lennon in full inspiration mode, there wasn't much room for Harrison's contributions. "And Ringo had to have a track," he said.

The U.S. leg begins October 10th in Oakland and visits major cities in the U.S. and Canada before wrapping up in New York City on November 1st.

According to the Daily Express, Townshend is especially pleased to be honoring BBC broadcasting legend, John Peel (who died in 2004).

The 6-song EP features outtakes from The King Is Dead recording sessions at Pendarvis Farm including "E. Watson" (with backing vocals from Laura Veirs and Annalisa Tornfelt), the horn-drenched "Sonnet," and a cover of the Grateful Dead's "Row Jimmy", as well as the home demo "I 4 U & U 4 Me."

"Over the entire month of October," posted Leppard, "we will reveal one question per day (except on weekends) by posting video clips of Joe (Elliott, vocals) and Phil (Collen, guitar) filmed at their respective homes, answering questions about the current music climate, their goals, why Joe is always tied up in their videos, the loss of Steve Clark, the band name (yes, even that!) and much more."

Lemmy's not the only rocker that's been endorsing wine. Whitesnake's David Coverdale went on VH-1's That Metal Show earlier in the year and one of the topics covered was his own line of wine.

About a year and a half ago I sent feature film director Lucky Mckee, the demo version of "Distracted" that I recorded way back when I wrote it eight years before. He loved it and wanted to feature the demo in his film upcoming "The Woman". At the time, he was finishing his shooting script and had asked me to be the composer for the film. His idea was to have me come out to Turners Falls, MA and write and record additional songs while the film was being shot in order to get the vibe and pace of the story. This worked out better than imagined. However, as the new songs began to take shape, I realized the demo version of "Distracted" wasn't going to cut it, especially when played over huge speakers in a movie theater. I re-recorded it and I really feel like this more realized version captured the charm and spontaneity of the demo, while absorbing the despair and angst of the characters in "The Woman".

"Distracted" is one of those songs that feel like I wrote it in 15 minutes because it just poured out of me one evening, lyrics and all. This is not always the case, but sometimes things just click. The world view within "Distracted" relates to life in our modern age which is moving very quickly and bombards us with so much information on a daily basis that as soon as we begin to fully understand and make peace with tragic or confusing events in our lives, our attention is being pulled away in a completely different direction by something even more ridiculous. Therefore, we never have time to fully comprehend most world changing events, which inevitably dooms us to repeat our mistakes. "Distracted before we know/We're distracted and so it goes."

The personal side of "Distracted" deals with the idea that we're all good inside but circumstances and events occurring around us tend to warp and distort our tendency toward goodness. There a moments in our lives in which each of us have lied or done varying degrees of harm to others, sometimes without even knowing it. "'Cause the world is so dark, but there's light deep inside you/We all have been hurt and we all have been lied to" I lament how we are all distracted by our own agendas and quest for survival in these fast paced, unforgiving times and have little or no time to reflect on the consequences of our actions. "Now the consequence of actions and incompetence/ show it's worse than we had feared"

Even though I wrote "Distracted" eight years ago, I feel like it is even more relevant today and should be relevant for a long time, seeing how we won't be throwing away our TV sets, cell phones and computers any time soon, and thank god for that.