Here’s what I’ve got in the studio about Saturday at Sandstone!

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!!

Looking through TMZ this afternoon to see what is going on with the rich and famous and find out that our very own Zakk Wylde is being stalked.

I love Zakk to death and he is truly one of the nicest people I have ever met but he is not a frail, dainty, little flower of a guy.

As far as stalking for me. LiLo yes….Zakk no.

I guess the kid is a neighbor to Zakk and will not leave him alone.

But credit to Zakk for getting the court system involved and not just stomping him into a mush puddle.

My advise to the stalker is go for the jacked up drunk girl not the metal man!
Till next time!
M

Yeah, it is almost time to see the Christmas stuff hitting the shelves.

And you may have to put this on your list!
(Ok, so here is the deal. Jessica is a huge Weiland fan and it has been a running joke for us that he will be putting this CD out. He has been working on it for 3 years and every year I have to make fun of her for it. But maybe this year she will have it in her stocking.)

Here is the info!
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS/ex-VELVET REVOLVER singer Scott Weiland will release a Christmas album, “The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year”, on October 4 via Rhino Records. According to a press release, the CD covers “a variety of stylesincluding big band swing, orchestrated ballads, reggae, bossa nova and more, all delivered with surprising ease by Scott Weiland.”

“The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” track listing:

01. The Christmas Song (3:16)
02. I’ll Be Home For Christmas (3:05)
03. White Christmas (2:23)
04. Silent Night (3:00)
05. It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (2:20)
06. What Child Is This? (3:20)
07. Winter Wonderland (2:15)
08. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (2:35)
09. Happy Christmas And Many More (3:16)
10. O Holy Night (4:11)

“The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” was described by Weiland in an August 2010 interview as “very traditional. You know, strings, upright bass, jazz horns, piano, and guitar. He added, “I’m sort of picking various versions of these songs, because they’ve been covered so many times, but my favorite versions — with a little twist.”

The upcoming album isn’t Weiland’s first foray into holiday music. In December 2009 he released his cover version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” — made famous by Judy Garland in “Meet Me in St. Louis” — as a single. He also performed the song on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” back in 2006.

Not to toot my own horn but I honestly laughed the most during this weeks Weekly Rock Wind Up Vlog. If you haven’t watched it yet, please do and have your friends take a gander at it too.

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.

What do you guys think? Will new A-smith kicks ass or suck gas???

Well it has been a “work in progress” for about two years now.

But it looks like there might be light at the end of the tunnel for the new Van Halen….Sort of….Kind of…Maybe…

Hell, just check this out and do like I do…guess!

The latest rumor to circulate about the upcoming new album from VAN HALEN was that guitarist Eddie Van Halen was unhappy with some of David Lee Roth’s vocals and wanted them re-recorded. According to an unnamed source denied rumors that the record was being shelved completely, but added, “The delay lies within the vocals. That seems to be the main roadblock. Eddie is just not satisfied with the vocals that have been recorded and re-recorded which has caused a lot of frustration with both the Van Halen and Roth camps alike.” The site issued an update a short time later, however, saying that the issues “have been sorted.”

The site also claims that the band’s management is shopping for a record deal, although no one outside the VAN HALEN organization has heard the album.

Although the idea of an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart had reportedly been discussed, the band is now apparently looking for a huge worldwide deal with a single record company.

While a pre-Christmas release date is still the goal, it’s not certain that the album will see the light of day before the end of 2011.

A North American tour in the first three months of 2012 has also been rumored, but as with everything related to VAN HALEN, nothing is confirmed.

STAIND “Staind” – September 13
BUSH “Sea of Memories” – September 13
NIRVANA “Nevermind” Delux Box Sets – September 26
DUFF McKAGEN “It’s So Easy… (And Other Lies)” Autobiography – October 4
TRUST ME, I’M DR. OZZY: ADVICE FROM RnR’S ULTIMATE SURVIVOR – Oct 11
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH “American Capitalist” – October 11
EDDIE VAN HALEN “Eddie Van Halen Coffee Table Book” October 12
PUSCIFER “Conditions of My Parole” – October 18
JANE’S ADDICTION “The Great Escape Artist” – October 18
METALLICA WITH LOU REED “Lulu” – November 1
ACE FREHLEY “No Regrets” Memoir – November 1
MEGADETH “Th1rt3en” – November 1
TONY IOMMI “Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell With Black Sabbath” Memoir Nov 1
SLASH “Live DVD filmed in Stoke-on-Trent” – November 15
NICKELBACK “Here and Now” – November 21
KISS “Kissology – Vol. 4” DVD box set – November
THE VEER UNION “Divide the Blackened Sky”
HALESTORM
METALLICA
SCOTT STAPP “Between Lust and Love (Double Album)”
CHEVELLE – Sometime 2011
KISS – Late 2011
MARILYN MANSON “Born Villain” Late 2011
PETER CRISS Memoir – 2012
GENE SIMMONS & PAUL STANLEY “Nothin’ to Lose” Oral Memoir Summer – 2012
AEROSMITH – 2012
THE OFFSPRING – 2012
SHINEDOWN – 2012
KORN – 2012
SOUNDGARDEN – 2012
SLASH SOLO with MYLES KENNEDY – 2012

November 1st we’ll see the follow up to Megadeth’s 2009 LP “End Game” in “Th1rt3en”. Here’s the tracklising for said album.

‘Sudden Death’
‘Public Enemy No. 1′
‘Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)’
‘We the People’
‘Guns, Drugs & Money’
‘Never Dead’
‘New World Order’
‘Fast Lane’
‘Black Swan’
‘Wrecker’
‘Millennium of the Blind’
‘Deadly Nightshade’
‘13′

“Get Up” featuring Skrillex

Ya damn right!!! Just announced those three will be hitting the road later this year. Dates and cities are below.

Oct. 14 – Orbit Room, Grand Rapids, MI
Oct. 15 – Congress Theatre, Chicago, IL
Oct. 16 – First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
Oct. 18 – The Cotillion, Wichita, KS
Oct. 19 – Summit Music Hall, Denver, CO
Oct. 22 – Nokia LA Live, Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 23 – Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Oct. 24 – House of Blues, San Diego, CA
Oct. 26 – Sunshine Theatre, Albuquerque, NM
Oct. 28 – South Side Music Hall, Dallas, TX
Oct. 29 – Emo’s East, Austin, TX
Oct. 30 – Warehouse Live, Houston, TX
Nov. 01 – House of Blues, Orlando, FL
Nov. 02 – Revolution, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Nov. 04 – House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC
Nov. 05 – Fillmore Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Nov. 06 – The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD
Nov. 08 – Northern Lights, Clifton Park, NY
Nov. 10 – Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA
Nov. 11 – Palladium, Worcester, MA
Nov. 15 – Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY
Nov. 17 – Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
Nov. 19 – Rave, Milwaukee, WI