Beastie Boys New CD Hit High On Music Charts!

(RTTNews) - Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, the eighth studio effort from the Beastie Boys, made its Billboard debut this week. The new album claimed the top spot on several charts. For the week of May 21, the album hit number one on Billboard's Alternative Albums, Rock Albums and Hip-Hop Albums charts.

Additionally, the latest from the rap-rockers landed at number two on the overall Billboard200. 21 by Adele remains at number one on the top 200 for the week.
Despite their recent revival, the Beasties aren't planning on hitting the road anytime soon. In a recent interview, the group noted they have no plans to tour until Adam Yauch is at 100 percent health.
Yauch was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2009, prompting the group to put recording and touring plans on hold.

Pink Floyd reunite in London

Gilmour and Mason guest with Waters on Wall tour – while drummer admits massive re-release programme is race against time

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Together again: Floyd in 2005

The surviving members of Pink Floyd staged an unannounced but not unexpected reunion on stage in London last night.

Mainman David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason made guest appearances during former frontman Roger Waters’ The Wall show at the O2 Arena.

Gilmour’s appearance wasn’t announced – during the song Comfortably Numb a spotlight revealed his presence on the elaborate stage set, and the pair duetted on vocals before Waters left his ex-colleague to play a guitar solo.

Relations have thawed between Waters and Gilmour over the years. In 2010 they shared a stage for a charity event at Gilmour’s suggestion, leading to the counter-invitation to appear at a show of his choice on The Wall tour.

Later in the show Waters told the crowd: “Now we know – tonight was the night David gave me the enormous honour of coming out to play Comfortably Numb.

“When we first played this more than 30 years ago I was a grumpy fellow, disaffected with rock and playing live, as David will attest. But all that has changed.”

Mason then joined them on stage and they performed an acoustic version of Outside The Wall, with the drummer accompanying on tambourine.

The band last gathered for 2005′s Live8 charity show, complete with keyboardist Rick Wright who has since died. It’s not thought likely a fully-fledged reunion will take place, especially since Waters is expected to retire at the end of his current live project.

Meanwhile, Mason has admitted the band’s giant re-release programme is a race against time – because they don’t think people will want to buy physical albums for much longer.

Floyd’s entire back-catalogue has been remastered and will be released in phases starting in September. A best-of CD, re-engineered film footage, unheard music and new artwork will be included in the ongoing campaign. Material will be pitched at three separate levels to attract completists, fans and the general-interest market.

Mason says: “There’s a sense we’re coming to the end of the period where people will buy the physical record with all the packaging and so on.

“It’s really important have a last go at that, because if we do end up just downloading everything it would be a shame if there wasn’t on record all that good artwork and the things that went with it.”

VAN HALEN TO HEADLINE AUSTRALIA’S SOUNDWAVE REVOLUTION MUSIC FESTIVAL

WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011

It’s OFFICIAL – the first confirmed VAN HALEN tourdates for 2011 have been announced! VAN HALEN will headline SOUNDWAVE REVOLUTION,  an annual music festival held in major cities around Australia.

The confirmed festival dates:

Brisbane – September 24
Sydney – September 25
Melbourne – September 30
Adelaide – October 1
Perth – October 3

SOUNDWAVE REVOLUTION Full Line-up for 2011:

ACTS ANNOUNCED TODAY (Announced May 11th at 9pm in Australia, 7am EST in U.S.)
Van Halen (with David Lee Roth)
Hole
Alice Cooper
Machine Head
Danzig
Bad Religion
Altar Bridge
Versa Emerge
Sisters of Mercy
The Pretty Reckless

ACTS PREVIOUSLY CONFIRMED
All Time Low
Dashboard Confessional
Gojira – new
Panic! at the Disco
Hatebreed
Hollywood Undead
Street Dogs
The Used
Reliant K
Face to Face
Attack Attack!
Framing Hanley
Watain
Cro-Mags
Kvelertak
Yellowcard
Unearth
Funeral for a Friend
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows (D.R.U.G.S)
Steel Panther
Thursday
Devin Townsend
Sum 41
Black Veil Brides
Zebrahead
The Dangerous Summer
Set Your Goals
Hellogoodbye
Hellyeah
The Damned Things
In This Moment
Skindred
White Chapel
Every Time I Die
The Acacia Strain
Story of the Year
Terrible Things
The Swellers
Young Guns
Four Year Strong
This Providence
Madina Lake
We Are The Ocean
Make Do and Mend

For more information, visit the festival’s official web site.

Alterbridge tweets:
“We are beyond excited to announce we will be rocking Australia in Sept/Oct on the same stage as Van Halen!”

Scott Ian’s tweets:
@Scott_Ian Soundwave Revolution lineup. Playing with Van Halen. HOLY CRAP!!!

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David Lee Roth’s Hand-Written Fair Warning Lyric Sheets Unveiled

FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011

We have something very special for the last day of “Fair Warning Week”, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Van Halen’s fourth album.

In front of your naked steaming eyes–David Lee Roth’s original hand-written lyric sheets!These contain the original (but not final) lyrics for all four songs contained on “side A” of Van Halen’s Fair Warning album. These are from VHND.com’s archives and have never been seen anywhere before! They’ve been tucked away in a folder since early 1981 and we are very happy to be sharing them with fellow fans.

Note that the working title of “Sinner’s Swing” was “Get Out And Push” and from these papers we are able to decipher a couple lyrics that most fans interpreted incorrectly from the album:

Actual lyrics at 1:01:
“I may burn my fingers, want my iron in that fire” (Not “I’ll eat with my fingers”)

Actual lyrics at 2:19:
“Wearin’ out my welcome, guess I better save my breath” (not “Guess I better say my prayers”)

Can you spot all of the changes that Roth made to the lyrics by the time he recorded the vocals?

More of Roth’s hand-written lyrics from Fair Warning will be featured in a future VHND story.

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VAN HALEN TOUR CONFIRMED!

VAN HALEN IN AUSTRALIA 2011:
5 tour dates have been announced for Van Halen in Australia on their 2011 tour. The band will headline the massive Soundwave Revolution festival, which will tour the 5 major capital cities of Australia (by-passing Tasmania as usual!). The dates are:
Brisbane ­ September 24
Sydney ­ September 25
Melbourne ­ September 30
Adelaide ­ October 1
Perth ­ October 3

For more information, visit the festival's official web site: www.soundwaverevolution.com.

Ticket pre-order dates are:
Tuesday 24 May 9am, Brisbane AEST
Wednesday 25 May 9am, Sydney AEST
Thursday 26 May 9am, Melbourne AEST
Friday 27 May 9am, Adelaide (CST) and Perth (WST)
Through soundwaverevolution.com.

AC/DC'S ANGUS YOUNG TALKS PERFORMING LIVE

Angus: My live switch keeps me Young

AC/DC icon becomes different person when he puts on school uniform, but admits touring takes its toll at his age

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Forever Young: Axeman Angus

Angus Young says it’s relatively easy to keep touring with at the age of 56, although life on the road does take its toll.

AC/DC completed a two-year world trek in June 2010, and are beginning to think about a follow-up to 2008 album Black Ice.

And the guitarist reveals the secret to pulling off his energetic show is his school uniform stage outfit.

Young tells the Toronto Sun: “I’m lucky – I’ve got a switch. I’ve got another persona: I put on the school suit and I become stronger, more powerful. Even my vision becomes better.

“But you do get these things that happen. On that tour I had a leg thing. It wasn’t a hamstring – the doctor said it was something like a tube. But it was affecting me more offstage. Once I went onstage it was fine.”

With the AC/DC’s 40th anniversary in two years time, the guitarist admits life on the road can be taxing. “After the tour I stayed in bed for about a week. But then I took the guitar down in the studio and started hammering away. I did a few jigsaw puzzles too – I got hooked on them.”

The band recently confirmed they’re starting work on a new album, and they’ll follow it up with a tour to rival the scale of their Black Ice show.

“It’s still early, but we’re hoping it comes quick. The only formula for when Malcolm and I write is: there’s no formula. Sometimes you have boxes and boxes of ideas. In our case we have rooms full of them. It’s just a matter of taking the best. And probably because we’re brothers we find it easy to say, ‘That’s good, that’s crap, that’s good,’ and so on.”

And Young warns against dismissing the playing ability of his brother Malcolm, who chooses to stick to rhythm duties in the band: “He’s the engine room, and what he does is unique. There are very few guitarists like Malcolm in the world, who say, ‘I just want to stand here and play a good rhythm.’

“Don’t underestimate him – he can do solos and do them well. In beginning when we used to play bars he and I would swap. Then he just said, ‘I’ll concentrate on the backing and you can do all the colourful stuff.’”

Singer Brian Johnson agrees with Young’s assessment: “There’s no imitating Malcolm. I’ve seen people try to play You Shook Me All Night Long or Highway to Hell, and these are good players – but they do it wrong. I don’t know what it is, and obviously, neither do they.”

Bach Blames Book Lies For Divorce

 Singer Sebastian Bach says made-up stories about sexual encounters have led to the collapse of his 18-year marriage to childhood sweetheart

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Split: Sebastian and Maria

Sebastian Bach says his marriage to childhood sweetheart Maria has collapsed because of lies written about him in books and online.

The former Skid Row singer announced plans to divorce in January after the couple split in April 2010. He said: “We’ve tried to work things out for the sake of our family, but it’s become apparent our differences are irreconcilable.”

Now he says the relationship crumbled after Maria began reading  stories about his sexual encounters from the past – which he insists are untrue.

Bach tells US radio station 94WYSP: “Two things happened to me in my life: rock’n'roll and the internet.

“You go on the road in 1987 and 1988 and there’s no cellphones, no internet – it’s like being back in the 60s. Now people go on the Internet and describe all the stuff, pages and page of craziness that happened back in 87 and 88. Some of it’s true but some of it’s not true.”

Bach singles out a particular publication for contributing to the split by making up a story about backstage antics while he was touring with Guns n’Roses in 2006.

He says: “I’m looking at a book right here called the Last Living Slut, and my name is in, like, six of the chapters. It describes how some chicks were in my dressing room and when Axl came in I broke out my stash of double-headed dildos. It’s complete garbage.”

The truth, says Bach, is more pedestrian: “These skanks are in the room, and they’ve got no panties on, and they’re sitting there with their vajayjays just hanging out.

“We’re laughing, going, ‘Right, this is funny.’ I call in Axl, he starts laughing, and we both walk out of the room and that’s that. All that stuff about me is untrue. It never happened. And that’s just one of the many things.

“But my wife doesn’t like reading this stuff. This stuff breaks up marriages.”

Bach says he’s considered legal action but has been advised it would only make matters worse. “I’m holding my head in my hands and asking my lawyer about suing,” he explains. “But he tells me it’ll only make the book bigger. I’m sure doing this interview doesn’t help.”

The couple married in 1992 after getting together as teenagers. They have three children aged 21, 14 and 3.

Bret Michaels’ Memoirs and New Album Coming Soon

Andrew Vaughan

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05.11.2011

Roses & Thorns, Bret Michaels’ much-anticipated autobiography, is set for a 2012 release.
Blabbermouth.com reports that, in an interview with Rick Andrews of 98.7 Jack FM in Texas, Michaels said: “This is a much-different-written autobiography; I’m not just trying to just get shock value out of people. What it does is it goes through, I call it, the moments and comedy of errors that is my life – the trying times, the good times, the bad times, the sex, drugs and rock and roll; everything that I went through – what led up to it, what happened, what I did about it.”
As for the new album, Get Your Rocks On, due later this year, Michaels has promised a strong rock album.
“This one is primarily straight-up rock songs, which I think people will like,” he said. “I’ve written a lot of good stuff over the last few years that I think are just good rock songs. I feel really strong about it.”

AC/DC To Return To The Stage To Celebrate 40th Anniversary

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(RTTNews) - AC/DC have plans to return to the stage to celebrate their fortieth anniversary, which will be coming up in 2013.

Speaking to the Daily Star, frontman Brian Johnson says, "I'll be celebrating by just being here. We could be dead, so to still be standing on a stage after 40 years is good enough for me."
The rockers have just finished up their "Black Ice" world tour and are now working on the follow-up to their latest album of the same name, says Young.
"Me and Malcolm [Young - guitarist] have begun trying a few things. Then we'll be back on stage again."
The band have also just released their new live DVD, AC/DC: Live At River Plate, which hit shelves on May 9.
by RTT Staff Writer