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Band to be musical guest for an entire week on David Letterman. The 5 day residency, from March 2-6, will coincide with the release of the band’s new album, No Line On The Horizon. Does U2 really need any more publicity? Give some new, young bands a chance. Oh wait, all new, young bands suck ass.
Rumors are a-swirling. Supposedly on Wednesday, there was a vendor convention held by Best Buy in Dallas and at this supposed convention Guns manager Andy Gould told the Best Buy employees that the 62 year in the making Chinese Democracy album will be released on November 25 and sold exclusively at Best Buy. Like we said about AC/DC we are getting sick of this exclusive shit, but enough of that for now. The Guns manager then played 3 tracks. He also confirmed that the track “If The World” would be in the new Leonardo Dicaprio and Russell Crowe movie Body Of Lies, it would close out the movie as the credits role. Now take this rumor with a grain of salt, actually make that a keg of salt. Who knows if it’s bullshit or not, but man that Dr. Pepper is gonna taste sweet. They’re saving me .75 cents. Man, what a great world.
Great White has reached a settlement with the families of victims and survivors of the 2003 Station nightclub fire that claimed 100 lives. The band agreed to pay a combined $1,000,000 to the more than 300 defendants. As part of the settlement, the band deny any wrong doing in the February 2003 fire. While band members were never charged with any crimes, Great White manager Daniel Biechele served half of a four-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter. The state of Rhode Island and town of Warwick also settled with defendants last month for $10 million.
A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” on his website was arrested Wednesday and appeared in court, where his bail was set at $10,000. Federal authorities say Cogill posted nine unreleased Guns N’ Roses songs on his site in June. The songs were later removed. In later posts, Cogill wrote that the FBI had questioned him and asked his readers if any of them knew a good attorney. He was represented Wednesday by a federal public defender. RockHeap knows a good lawyer, just call 1-800-your-a-fuckin-dumb-ass.
Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic is scheduled to drop on September 12. We came across the video above of the band performing the first single, “The Day That Never Comes” at the Leeds festival in jolly old England. For more Death Magnetic news and previews, check out the below widget.
Metallica have completed mixing their new album, Death Magnetic, and announced the first leg of their North American tour, which starts October 21st in Glendale, Arizona and ends January 31st in Newark, New Jersey. Check out all the dates after the jump.
To celebrate the Philadelphia Soul winning the Arena Bowl, Bon Jovi is expected to announce a free show. Jon Bon Jovi is one of the co-owners of the team. Expect more people to show up to the concert then the total attendance of the AFL for 2008.
Bon Jovi played to 50,000 screaming fans in New York’s famed Central Park on Monday. The free concert was part of All-Star Week which will conclude Tonight at Yankee Stadium with MLB’s All Star game. In other news the 20,000 fans who paid too see Bon Jovi tonight at Madison Square Garden are super pissed.
This weekend’s Heavy Metal Pow Wow, Rocklahoma, survived some brutal weather. 11 people were injured in weather related accidents, but the show went on. Acts like Tesla, Triumph, Ratt and many others performed in the rain to some very happy, acid jeans wearing, teased hair rejects from the 80’s. Bret Michaels performed the strangest song, covering Skynyrd’s anthem Sweet Home Alabama. Apparently nobody told Bret he was in Oklahoma.