(antiMusic) Scott Weiland's second solo album, "Happy," will arrive Nov. 18 via his own Softdrive label. The set was co-produced by Weiland and Doug Grean, with Steve Albini also engineering a handful of songs. moreA Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a concert promoter to pay R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo $700,000 stemming from A lawsuit filed earlier this year. Ne-Yo was dropped from R. Kelly's tour last year after two shows. He claimed he was dropped because he had upstaged Kelly. more
Coldplay lead the nominations for this year's Q magazine awards with four nods, it has been announced. The band are up for awards including best album and best act in the world today. Who picks these things?more
The Smashing Pumpkins will release their new single, "G.L.O.W.," via the upcoming "Guitar Hero: World Tour" videogame. The song will be part of a downloadable song pack.
The 2008 Hero Awards, which honors ordinary people who do extraordinary things, will be hosted by Dean Cain and air on My Network TV at 8 PM on September 11th. The Hero Awards banquet and event benefit Feed The Children. The event will feature appearances by close to 100 film and television stars as well as several musical performances. American Idol runner up Bo Bice will perform an acoustic version of "I'm Gone," from his latest album See the Light. www.heroawards.org
In the "you can't handle that on strong acid" department, Porcupine Tree's "Gavin Harrison will be performing a 50 minute solo set at the prestigious Modern Drummer Festival more
Metallica will play an intimate show exclusively for BBC Radio 1 on Sunday, September 14. The show, which will be held at the BBC Radio Theatre, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 1 the following day more
Rhino has secured U.S. rights to the Sex Pistols live DVD "There'll Always Be An England" and will release it Oct. 14, Billboard has learned. "England" features the pioneering punk outfit's original lineup of Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock performing at November 2007 reunion shows more
Morrissey has split with artist management firm ie: music after just three months. An ie: music spokesman confirmed that it had parted company with the ex-Smiths frontman, but declined to give any details. more
Wikipedia is an undeniably helpful resource for researching bands, with data that tends to be updated in near real time. Amazon hopes the same sort of thing will happen on its new SoundUnwound site, which borrows a page from Wikipedia's playbook by allowing users to edit information about any band, label, album or song. more
Black Label Society will soon be heading across the sea for a European tour. More shows are expected to be announced shortly but the initial dates are listed here
Orange Goblin are very proud to announce a new era for the band with the signing to world renowned metal label, Candlelight Records. The band has already started writing new material for a release in 2009. more
A spokesperson for Rush has contacted ClassicRock.com to deny web reports that the band are quitting Atlantic Records for the independent Canadian company Rounder. In fact, "Rush are still contracted to Atlantic for one more album. more
According to Black-sabbath.com, the four Dio-era Black Sabbath albums that constituted the Rules Of Hell box set (released on July 22) are being re-released individually. more
Black Light Burns mainman/ex-Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland has issued the following update: "The new record is about 90% finished. Nick [Annis, BLB guitarist] and I are doing some final guitar tracks tomorrow and then we'll polish the mixes. more
German thrash legends Kreator will release a new studio album, likely to be titled "Hordes Of Chaos", via SPV Records in January - more
