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At a touring panel yesterday, their management announced that AC/DC are planning on embarking on a massive 18-month world tour starting in October. The trek will be in support of the Aussie hard rockers’ new album, the group’s first since 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip. The will be sold exclusively in the States at Wal-Mart, though it still lacks a definite release date. Expect the first single to be out some time next month.

Bob Dylan fans are in for a treat this fall, in the form of "Tell Tale Signs," a triple-disc rarities collection that will be the eighth volume in the artist's "Bootleg Series." The project arrives Oct. 7 via Columbia.

Dylan's Web site is featuring a free download of "Dreamin' of You," a Daniel Lanois-produced track from the sessions for the 1998 album "Time Out of Mind."

Yep I know he is a rapper and not a rocker but I was very impressed with what this young man is doing. Oh!

According to Stephen Totilo of MTV.The rivalry between music video games is moving to the courts. Japanese game publisher Konami filed suit earlier this week against MTV-owned Harmonix Music Systems, the makers of "Rock Band," for allegedly violating three patents relating to music games.

I did my time, and I want out!
So abusive faith!
It doesn't cut, this soul is not so vibrant.
The reckoning, the sickening.
Back at your subversion.
Pseudo-sacred sick before dawn.
Go to your deserts, go dig your graves!
Then fill your mouth with all the money you will save.
Sinking in, getting smaller again.
I'm done! It has begun, I'm not the only one!

And the rain will kill us all.
Throw ourselves against the wall.
But no-one else can see.
The preservation of the martyr in me.

Psychosocial, Psychosocial, Psychosocial.
Psychosocial, Psychosocial, Psychosocial.

Although rumors continue to buzz, Metallica and the Beatles aren't headed to the "Guitar Hero" franchise just yet, according to Kai and Charles Huang, the sibling founder of game publisher RedOctane.

Speculation abounds that Metallica will be the next band featured in their own version of "Guitar Hero," much like the just-released recent Aerosmith-centric game.

The progress of making Thirteenth Step wasn't solely hampered by Keenan's commitments to Tool, it was also slowed by lineup changes. First, guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen left to tour with Queens of the Stone Age partway through the recording. Initially, he planned to return afterward to finish the Circle disc, but the Queens' touring schedule kept him occupied.

"I think he was afraid for his life," joked bassist Jeordie White. "If he had left them [the way past members had], they might have beat his ass or killed him."

For someone so uncomfortable with exposure, Keenan has made a strange career choice, fronting not just one band but two. Not only does he sing for a Perfect Circle, he's also the voice of the tribal, psychedelic math-metal band Tool. Over the past year, Keenan has discovered that being in two groups can be thoroughly exhausting and more than a bit perplexing.

-- by Jon Wiederhorn

Say you've fallen into the self-destructive pit of alcoholism or drug addiction. You're running out of cash, your friends and loved ones are getting ready to give up on you, and you're having trouble functioning. Getting wasted has become a necessity, like eating or breathing.

Finally, you decide to get some help and check into a 12-step program. You're desperate and fragile, maybe suicidal. You need guidance, support and friendship and you think you've come to the right place. Then, the vultures swoop in.

Gym Class Heroes lead singer Travis McCoy was arrested last night in St. Louis on one charge of third-degree assault. The punk-hop group had just finished the first song of their Warped Tour set, “Peace Sign,” when a black audience member near the front row called the New York-based singer a “fucking ignorant nigger.”