In his book, "Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business", former record label exec and artist manager Danny Goldberg writes, "Courtney's very presence was a metaphor for the end of one era in the band's life and the beginning of another," adding that Love became Cobain's "mouthpiece" shortly after the two became a couple.

Metallica has just released another song off of their upcoming record, Death Magnetic. The new song; "The Judas Kiss" is the fourth, and final song to be made available before the album is released in its entirety this Friday. The band also announced ticket and special package info for their upcoming tour. Grab the details here

Meanwhile, the New Jersey man who killed his mother and then stabbed an 11-year-old boy to death claiming that he was influenced by a Metallica song about a boy who "lost my way this bloody day" when he committed the crime is asking the court to throw out the 2004 guilty plea that sent him to prison for 50 years. more

Oasis have rescheduled their concert in Ontario, Canada after Noel Gallagher was hurt by a fan on stage on Sunday at the V Festival in Toronto. more

The announcements about this fall's Guitar Hero: World Tour keep on coming. Sting and Tool are getting in on the fun, as Metallica continue to expand their presence in both Guitar Hero and Rock Band 2. more

Head over to VH1.com's The Leak, to hear the new Buckcherry album in its entirety, before it's released. go here to hear

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who, will be among those receiving the Kennedy Center Honors for 2008. more

Gym Class Heroes have slated a series of major television appearances celebrating the release of their much anticipated fourth album, "THE QUILT." First up, Gym Class Heroes will perform live on the Wednesday, September 10th installment of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Later this week, the Geneva, New York-based outfit will appear on an episode of MTV's TRL as well as on Mi TRL on the MTV Tr3s network, followed next week with a spot on BET's Rap City

Scars on Broadway have premiered their new music video for "Word Long Gone" on Yahoo Music. The video was directed by Joel Schumacher (Phantom of the Opera, Falling Down) Check it out over at Yahoo

Due to financial difficulties with one of our sponsors, Bleed The Sky will not be able to appear at several scheduled dates. You can find the list here

Prog rockers Yes (in the wake of Jon Anderson's illness and the subsequent cancellation of this summer's planned U.S. tour) have gone the Journey route and selected a tribute band singer to replace its iconic frontman. more

Apple has announced the details of a sleeker, cheaper iPod nano at a conference in California on Tuesday. The 8-gigabyte version will sell for $149 in the US -- $50 cheaper than the previous model. A 16-gigabyte version with up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video will sell for $199. That's not all, the iPod touch gets a little closer to being an iPhone.. details are here

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have reportedly managed to block the release of the "Let It Be" Beatles documentary. more

Former Guns N' Roses and current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash reportedly makes an appearance in Alice Cooper's recently completed video for the song "Vengeance Is Mine". more

10:15 p.m... Here's the story morning glory. Apparently, the unknown assailant snuck past concert security and Oasis' personal security and rushed Noel from behind.

Right now as the band rips through "Supersonic" his attacker is in the back of a cop car and will likely be charged with trespassing.

Following the success of his red-hot reunion tour with Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland has announced the release of his highly-anticipated sophomore album, Happy In Galoshes out November 18, 2008 via the artist's label Softdrive Records and distributed by New West Records/ RED/ SONY.

The gig itself was "excellent, really enjoyable," the 62-year-old guitarist and singer told The Associated Press.

A Pickering, Ont., man has been charged after Oasis rocker Noel Gallagher was attacked at the Virgin festival on Sunday. Daniel Sullivan, 47, faces one count of assault and has been released from custody on a promise to appear in court more

Magazine, the Manchester post-punk band who originally split in 1981, are set to reform for two live shows in February next year.more

Sodom has announced that their original drummer Chris Dudek (a.k.a. Witchhunter) passed away yesterday. No further details are available at this time. more

Shot entirely on a cell phone camera, Wallpaper are back with their newest up-close-and-personal video. "Txt Me Yr Love" chronicles a typical day in the life of playboy Ricky Reed. Watch him as he strolls the mall, keeps his hygiene on point and gets harassed by a familiar-faced cop. See what kind of DIY hilarity unfolds here. (note to AssCAP: the video is nowhere on our server, go extort money somewhere else while you screw your artists out of free promotion. Hope they think the cents they get from this asinine policy is worth the dollars they lose because of you!)

Sorry we couldn't bring ourselves to post the full PR on this one. Here is the most basic info: "New Kids on the Block: A Behind The Music Special Event" will premiere on September 28 at 8PM. A once great series resurrected for this? If this year's VMAs didn't prove it, this should hammer it home that Viacom has totally lost what little cred they had left.

Upcoming concerts by Death Cab For Cutie, O.A.R. and Melissa Etheridge at the approximately 2,3000-capacity House of Blues in Atlantic City, N.J., will be the first of many to be featured on high-definition cable network HDNET through 2009. more

The final defendants to settle lawsuits over the 2003 Great White nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay survivors and victims' relatives more than $250,000, according to court papers filed Monday. Seven insurance companies and the former owner of The Station nightclub in West Warwick reached the settlement. more

All Shall Perish recently embarked on an unprecedented 10 day tour of the greater Russia area which included four shows in Siberia. The band made history by becoming the very first North American metal band to ever play shows in Siberia which included Irkutsch, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, and Omsk. more

Anthrax bassist Frank Bello's Fender bass has been stolen. A statement on the theft can be read here

Deep Purple broke the record for international artists playing in Israel. Their original September 2008 show sold out so quickly a second was added. Then the third, and now it's four. more. Maybe the puppet show helped?

After The Burial tells Lambgoat, "Due to unfortunate circumstances we've parted ways with Grant Luoma. We're happy to say we've found a replacement vocalist." more

California hardcore band Internal Affairs has announced their break-up. The group has cancelled their previously announced European tour but will likely announce a final show shortly. more

Singer/actor Val Emmich has forgone the typical "let's do a video" route and has instead decided to give fans a video series where he gives more insight into the actual songs. Check those out here

MxPx are jumping on the covers album bandwagon. The band is working on an 80s themed album. "Its not necessarily chart topers from the 80's; well some of them are but not all of them. Should be fun," said drummer Yuri Ruley. more

Vivid Girls Nikki Jayne and Hanna Hilton will host and be among the judges at the Vivid Bad Ass Air Guitar Championship that will rock The Meadowlands on Saturday night, September 13 at 7pm during EXXXOTICA New York, a three day erotic expo (www.exxxoticany.com).

"It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce that Jani Lane will no longer be performing with Warrant. From the beginning of our reunion talks to the last note of our last show together in Houston this past weekend we have had nothing but good intentions of bringing a quality original Warrant show to our fans and friends. We wish Jani nothing but the best and remain friends.

AC/DC has six albums in the Australian Top 50 this week (including one in the top 20) with collective sales that have outstripped the country's No. 1 album, SLIPKNOT's "All Hope Is Gone". more

MTV's PR hacks are full of sh*t! We all should know this but last week they hyped the fact that lipsyncing poptart Britney Spears would open this year's VMAs "setting the tone for a night of can't miss moments." Can't miss moments? Bullsh*t! What viewers got instead was "Thank you so much. Thank you for all the love. I'm here tonight to celebrate a very important birthday, the 25th anniversary of the VMAs. This is the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards and it starts right now." In a way this fits as this year's VMA picks are about as uninspiring as Brit's comments. What's funnier is the mainstream press making a big deal out of this appearance. If you have some minutes to kill and actually care to read more, Reuters has a report

Some 13,000 Andrew Bird fans packed Chicago's Millennium Park Wednesday night, necessitating the closure of the park's Pritzker Pavilion seating bowl as the crowd overflowed onto the concrete steps at the bowl's back section.

The UK release date for "Lou Reed's Berlin" DVD, has been moved from October 6th to the newly confirmed release date of October 27th.

3 Doors Down adds Lancaster rock band Negative Space to their lineup on their September 13th performance at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. They will start the night of rock off at 6:30pm followed by other chart toppers Finger Eleven, Hinder and 3 Doors Down. Negative Space has been touring to promote their recently released album "Storylines."

With his 83rd birthday fast approaching, blues legend B.B. King has just scored the highest-debuting solo album of his career. "One Kind Favor" debuted at No. 37 on the Billboard 200 this week. more

Janet Jackson presented her music-making brothers -- Michael, Tito, Jackie, Marlon, Jermaine and Randy -- with the lifetime achievement BMI Icon award following a musical tribute at the award show celebrating R&B and hip-hop's top hitmakers. While Tito, Jackie, Marlon and Randy reunited to accept the award, Jermaine and Michael didn't attend the Wilshire Theatre ceremony. more

With the August 26 release of Motorizer, Motorhead has broken their own sales records and Billboard top 200 chart debut history, Their first week of sales has placed Mot�rhead in the top 100 overall charts (#82 to be exact), and top 5 on the Indie Charts. more

Mayhem are planning a U.S. tour in early 2009. The trek will reportedly consist of 21 shows and will kick off in the early spring. more

Back When have broken up. The band has issued the following statement: "After six years together, we have decided to call it a night. The four of us are still most definitely friends. No nasty fight. No bad breakup. It was just our time. There will be no last show. more

Pete's buddy, hip-hop artist Tyga, says that the parents-to-be are expecting not one, but two bundles of joy.

Here is part of the Blabbermouth report following by a link to the full interview: "Part of me is proud is because they chose Metallica," Hetfield said about the reports that the band's song "Enter Sandman" was used during the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani � known as the 20th [9/11] hijacker � and that listening to the track brought al-Qahtani to tears "because he thought he was hearing the sound of Satan."

Then Jimmy Page had bad news for those that believe recent rumblings mean that a reunion is just around the corner. Blabbermouth reports: Page has dismissed speculation that his recent jam sessions with bassist John Paul Jones and drummer Jason Bonham would lead to a Zeppelin reunion tour. Speaking at a Toronto film festival press conference where he was promoting the documentary film "It Might Get Loud", Page said, "We're not actually really recording. We played at the O2 (concert in London last year). That was our reunion. It's nothing as monumental as what people are speculating and projecting."

Red Band is a fictional rock band made entirely of muppet-like dolls currently starring in their own rockumentary style television show on Israeli cable.

As usual, these acts have been personally selected by Trent. Here are the latest Nine Inch Nails tour dates:

10.02.08 Buenos Aires, Argentina Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Today's misheard lyric is to Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" and the line "I'm never gonna find you faking." That lyric has been misheard as "I'm never gonna find your bacon." Bonus lyric: The line "Acting like you're someone else gets me frustrated" has been misheard as "Acting like you're someone else gets me prostrated."

The new single, "Indestructible", (out on October 6th) the title track from the album, is a blistering ball of metal goodness. Taken from their US number one album (as well as being No1 in Canada, Australia and New Zealand and as already racked up worldwide sales of 1 million) of the same name, the band set out to make an "all killer, no filler" gutsy metal record and they achieved that in droves.

Val produced and recorded the majority of the album on his own playing multiple instruments but with help from a few guest musicians including Rilo Kiley's Blake Sennett. The album was written around pop music's most enduring theme, love.

The publicist says the music nods to Superchunk, The Clash and 'Reckoning'- era R.E.M.

The current line up is; Electric Wizard, Grand Magus, Taint, Gentleman's Pistols, Diagonal, MOSS, Litmus, Serpencult and Witchsorrow. There is still the possibility of one or two more bands being added.

In addition to four previously announced U.S. shows, the Midnight Juggernauts will play NYC's Le Poisson Rouge on September 13th.

After supporting Devildriver and Ill Nino earlier this year, it's now time to share their cult with the sisters Mercedes and Morgan Lander.

This fall, Flatfoot 56 will add to their consistently non-stop tour schedule with a national trek of dates supporting Street Dogs that kicks off in Jacksonville, FL on September 16. The tour will bring the band's live intensity to major clubs in every city across the nation including stops in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Phoenix and beyond (complete dates and details follow.)

"Treponem Pal" will be available on 22nd September 2008 in Europe and 28th October 2008 in USA (via MVD). New edition is digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc and limited to 2000 copies.

"Flush" is about flushing all of my addictions in life down the toilet and starting out fresh--exactly what I've been doing for the last few years. All the drama that I experienced with getting drunk and doing drugs all the time seemed interesting and amusing to write about. That lifestyle is total insanity and I'm just glad I'm not dead and I was able to write a song like "Flush."