* Iconic rock band RUSH will be dropping a two-disc live album “Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland” as well as “Moving Pictures: Live 2011″ on November 7th. As Peter Griffin said, “Canada sucks!”… just kidding… sorta….

* Drummer Matt Sorum of THE CULT, GNR, & VELVET REVOLVER is selling his bass drums from THE CULT’S “Beyond Good and Evil” tour.

* Kirk Hammett of METALLICA has custom hand-made guitar straps made from high-end Italian leather for sale. You can purchase those from www.kirk-hammett.com

* Speaking of METLLICA, their album poster with LOU REED has been banned from London’s Underground for resembling graffiti too closely.

* I wonder if London’s Underground will ban STEEL PANTHER’S new album cover?

* PEARL JAM, hot on the heels of their new documentary, announced they are halfway done with a new album!

* Looks like NEIL YOUNG’S following in the foot steps of KEITH RICHARDS and SAMMY HAGAR by putting out his own autobiography in the fall of 2012.

* DISTURBED to put out a B-Sides compiolation “The Lost Children” before the year’s up.

* Oh and if anyone care’s, cause everybody huts… sometimes… R.E.M. called it quits this week.

Doors: 2:00
Best Buy Music Gear Stage
Echo Vendetta: 2:15
Hell or Highwater: 2:45
Art of Dying: 3:20
Black Tide: 4:00
Sevendust: 4:45

Rockstar Energy Drink Main Stage
Escape the Fate: 5:20
Miss Uproar Contest: 6:00
Bullet For My Valentine: 6:20
Seether: 7:20
Three Days Grace: 8:20
Avenged Sevenfold: 9:40
Curfew: 11:00 – No joke, it says curfew 11PM!!

Just a couple few pieces to make note of from this weeks Rock news:

*Iggy Pop broke his foot in concert, continued to play, will now be sidelined but intends and looks to be making a strong recovery and all in the Stooges feel like they’ll be rescheduling the rest of the tour for the end of October/early November.

*Anthrax, Testament, and Death Angel announcing this week they are gonna hit the road together in October and November. No stops, yet, planned for KC. Closest will be in Wichita on the 18th of October.

*Word, via a fan-site, is the mixing is complete on the new Van Halen album. Still no date of release or track-listing nor if this info is factual or not.

*Five Finger Death Punch guitarist, Jason Hook, was interviewed this week about the upcoming album “American Capitalist”. He stated it was pretty much an extension of “War is the Answer”. Ergo, if you liked “War” you’ll like “American Capitalist”.

*An Eric Clapton & Wynton Marsalis collaboration will be out on CD and DVD later this month. Filmed in April, where the two paired up for two sold out shows in NYC at the Lincoln Center, their performance was actually shown on the big screen this week and I saw it. It’s pretty amazing and I, for one, can’t wait for it to drop on Tuesday.

*AC/DC wine? Yep. Looks like the fellas are getting into the wine business soon and speaking of AC/DC. Bon Scott area bassist Mark Evans is putting out a tell all book about the Bon-era in November titled “Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside AC/DC.

*Metallica and Lou Reed have confirmed their album will be out on November 1st.

*After nearly splitting up a year ago it seems guitar god Slash and his wife, Perla, are to renew their wedding vows later this month in Ibiza.

*Slipknot/Stone Sour front-man Corey Taylor, again, in the news this week with the statement that he and Duff McKagan have been working on music together. He did also state that there were no hard feelings with him not joining Velvet Revolver.

*As expected Shinedown to re-team with producer Rob Cavallo. Cavallo was producer for Shinedown’s most successful album to date in “The Sound of Madness”. Be on the look out in the new year for the new, as-of-yet, untitled album.

*I know we don’t play him but I’m a huge fan of Tom Waits and felt like this story was worth sharing. Seems his website, tomwaits.com, is encouraging people to come to his site on Tuesday the 23rd where he’ll possibly roll out a new song and/or discuss his new album.

*Metal Bible is now available in English. Initially published in 2005 in Swedish and Dutch it’s finally ready for American eyes… that can’t read Swedish or Dutch. Some of the people featured include; David Ellefson, Brian “Head” Welch and Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain.

*Pretty cool thing going on in NYC September 12 at the Best Buy Theater and it’s the second Metal Masters Clinic. Who’s on board to participate in this? Charlie Benante, Anthrax’s drummer. Frank Bello, Anthrax bassist. Kerry King… it’s fucking Kerry King, if ya ask you better learn! David Ellefson of Megadeth and Mike Portnoy. This is a free clinic but will have limited numbers. If you go, tell me how it is.

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*Jack White and Bob Dylan are probably the two biggest stars to contribute to a brand new collection of recordings of songs by country music legend Hank Williams. “The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams” is slated to be released on October 3rd and will have a Who’s-Who list of artist contributing to never-before-heard songs from the late songwriter. And just who are some of the names in conjuction to Dylan and White? Alan Jackson, Norah Jones, Levon Helm, Sheryl Crow, Merle Haggard and Dylan’s own son Jakob.

*I know neither of the following artist show up on The Rock but we know who they are in Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse. As we all know Winehouse died on July 23rd and it seems that Gaga wants to portray her in biopic.

*Another one of those, “Holy shit! Is that album really 20 years old?!?” If we’re talking about Metallica’s “Black Album” then yes, it is! And to commemorate it a litney of artist have covered the songs and will be available in the September issue of Germany’s Metal Hammer magazine. Some of the artist include; DevilDriver, Sodom, Motorjesus and LEMMY!!

*”God Bless Ozzy” the documentary about rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, and produced/directed by his son Jack, hits theaters on the 24th and 29th on this month. There will be showings in and around KC. Follow this link to see where a showtime will be near you; http://www.fathomevents.com/originals/series/godblessozzy0824_29.aspx

*Looks like RATT to make another return to the world of Rock-n-Roll in 2012. If you recall the resurfaced, initially, last year with “Infestation” which won some critical acclaim. However, they briefly toured then went on indefinate hiatus.

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