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Jesus To Reunite Guns N' Roses?- Black Label Society Unplugged- Solomon Burke RIP- Slipknot Top Metallica- Kings-Xmas- Roger Waters Changes The Wall- more (Top Story)

10/16/2010
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Jesus To Reunite Guns N' Roses?- Black Label Society Unplugged- Solomon Burke RIP- Slipknot Top Metallica- Kings-Xmas- Roger Waters Changes The Wall- more was a top 10 story this week . Here is the recap: This week's top rock digest stories: A former GNR member has called on the Almighty to convince Axl Rose to reunite the original band. Steven Adler reportedly told the Dalton Daily Citizen: "I put prayers in with Jesus and God all the time. ''Please just go talk to Axl', I say. I love the stuff we did together in my heart and my soul. It needs to be taken out of the shell and put back in the world. Two generations of people have already missed it. I think it's unfair." more

Set Your Goals is currently in the studio tracking their next album. Recording is taking place with Brian McTernan (Strike Anywhere, Darkest Hour) more

Just in time for the holidays, Kings-X band will release "Live Love in London", a 2cd/DVD package featuring some of the most loved songs from the past 30 years. more

Cave In have revealed the details for their upcoming odds and ends collection entitled Anomalies Vol. 1. It's due out December 14, 2010 via Hydra Head Records. The album includes three originals and covers of songs from Bad Brains, The Cure, Codeine and Black Sabbath. more

Rob Zombie is set for a return to the UK stage after a 12-year hiatus. Rob and his band featuring John 5 (guitar), Piggy D (bass) and Joey Jordison (Slipknot; drums) will play a string of six dates this coming February more

The Futureheads' Barry Hyde: 'Working on our a capella album is the hardest thing I've tried to do' Frontman admits that their forthcoming instrument-free LP is a 'challenge' more

Dead Kennedys have announced some scattered dates over the next few months. The band has been on a touring hiatus due to illnesses faced by both bassist Klaus Flouride and drummer D.H. Peligro . For the upcoming dates, D.H. will be touring but Klaus' spot will be filled by Greg Reeves. more

Slipknot's (sic)nesses DVD, which captures the band's June 2009 performance in front of 80,000 maniacal fans at the storied Download Festival in the UK, debuted at #1 on the Billboard DVD chart. The DVD impressively bowed ahead of The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts DVD featuring U2, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Joel, Black Eyed Peas and other hitmakers. more

Orphaned Land's December 9 and December 10 concerts at Reading 3 in Tel Aviv, Israel will be professionally filmed and recorded for an upcoming DVD release. more

Priestess has announced a fall headlining tour in support of their latest release. The dates will feature support from Brooklyn trio Naam. more

Zakk Wylde reveals in an in-depth article at BW&BK that Black Label Society will "take December and January off; well it's not so much going to be off. What we're doing is recording an unplugged version of all the [Order Of The Black] tunes down at The Black Label Bunker when we get off the road. We recorded a couple of songs we were going to use for bonus tracks, but we were really psyched the way they came out so we decided to make it a whole other record, the unblackened versions." more

Early last Sunday morning the legendary King of Rock & Soul, Solomon Burke passed away due to natural causes. According to his family, Solomon had just arrived at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for a sold out show at Paradiso with Dutch band, De Dijk. more

Roger Waters has bowed to pressure from the Anti-Defamation League and 'tweaked' an offensive video which plays on a big screen behind him during his The Wall shows which ADL felt was to be anti-Semitic. more. A report of the original complaint here

Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience which celebrates the life and music of his father - the legendary Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham - kicked off on Friday, October 8 at the Encana Events Centre in Dawson Creek, B.C. Grab the set and guest list here.

In a recent carefully-phrased blog, Sigur R�s points out 11 tv ad spots they claim are "inserting a little too much fromage in their homage". In other words, they're on to their commercial ripoffs. more

Ynetnews are reporting that Guns N' Roses are coming to Israel and the band plans to perform twice more

Attack Attack! has postponed their UK tour, originally set to take place this month, as singer/guitarist Johnny Franck is battling an illness. The tour will now take place in late-January and early-February. more

Silverstein has revealed they have left the Victory Records roster (presumably having fulfilled their four-album contract). Moreover, the group is currently working on a new album more

Red Fang reported that they flipped their van twice on the way home from Seattle. more

Coheed And Cambria have announced a string of live dates for Australia in February / March as part of the Soundwave Festival 2011 tour. more

Lou Reed joined Gorillaz for their New York show Plus host of other collaborators at Madison Square Garden more

Tesla have been confirmed to play a benefit show for the American Diabetes Association on October 24th with Poison frontman Bret Michaels in Los Angeles, CA. more

Bret Michaels stopped by Access Hollywood Live and discussed his final surgery to fix a hole in his heart that was found during his brain bleed trauma � a procedure that Bret is expecting to improve his current quality of life. more

Kings of Leon will appear on Saturday Night Live October 23rd. The episode will be hosted by actress Emma Stone (Easy A) more

Glassjaw have announced a New Year's Day show at the Nokia Theatre / Beat Buy Theatre in Times Square in New York City. more

Crowbar will headline their first tour in over five years later this year. The trek will kick off in late-November and also feature Black Tusk. more

To mark the 30th anniversary of the release of their debut album, Lightning To The Nations, Diamond Head will play the effort in its entirety for the very first time during the Hard Rock Hell IV festival. more

Devildriver has announced that they will be heading across the Atlantic next month for a series of headlining shows in Europe. Joining them on the trek will be 36 Crazyfists. more

It was inevitable. Hollywood Reporter says that the spouses of rock stars will step into the spotlight for a docu-series on E!. The cast features Susan Holmes McKagan, married to former Guns N' Roses current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan; Etty Farrell, whose husband is Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell; Josie Stevens, a model married to Billy Idol's longtime guitarist Steve Stevens; and AJ Celi, who has been in a relationship with guitarist Billy Duffy of the Cult for the past three years. more

In a new interview, Pennywise confirms they have returned to Epitaph Records and Epitaph more

On December 14, Goo Goo Dolls will perform live on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Philm, featuring drummer Dave Lombardo (Slayer), guitarist/vocalist Gerry Nestler (Civil Defiance), and bassist Pancho Tomaselli (War), will support Halford (featuring Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford) on the several U.S. dates more

Nicolas Milanese of Slowmotion Apocalypse, who was hospitalized for seven months battling an acute case of leukemia, has received a bone-marrow transplant and is back at home continuing his recovery more

Enuff Z'nuff are heading across the pond for a pre-Christmas tour which will include seven dates. No support was mentioned but you can grab the dates here

According to UVA Today, the life and memory of Morgan Dana Harrington will be honored with several events at the University of Virginia on Sunday. Harrington was the fan found murdered after going missing from a Metallica concert. more -

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