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Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider’s benefit concert for the survivors of the Great White fire tragedy raised $175,000.

Stars that played at the fundraiser included Winger, Stryper, Aaron Lewis of Staind, Boston’s Tom Scholz, and Gretchen Wilson. They played on February 25th at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Rhode Island.

The concert will be broadcast on VH1 on March 23rd. The concert benefits the Station Family Fund, which was set up to help pay the survivor’s medical bills.

One hundred fans were killed in the fire as well as the band’s guitarist Ty Longley.

I think she looks good for her age…don’t you?

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has filed for divorce for the second time.

He submitted papers seeking a legal separation from his wife of 17-years, Pamela in San Diego Superior Court on February 28th. He last filed for divorce in 2006, but soon changed his mind.

He was chatting online with fans on the Gigantour forum on February 20th and said, “I am losing my marriage so I am done touring after this so I can move on with my life. I just have had my heart broken and I live for my two children and you (fans) now.”

He added, “I had to shut the Megadeth eBay store because it was one of my future ex’s friends and she told me I wasn’t a good enough Christian and also sent money to someone that claimed I owed her month. I flipped and that was it. Two days later I was in Finland and heading for divorce.”

The couple have two children, Justis and Electra.

What did you think? Like it, love it, or hate it?

Even though the Van Halen tour may not be canceled, rumors are now surfacing that Eddie Van Halen is back in rehab.

Representatives for the rockers insist the tour is still on, despite announcing Van Halen “is undergoing a battery of comprehensive medical tests to determine a defined diagnosis and recommended medical procedures.”

Now, reports are coming out saying that the guitarist has checked himself into a clinic near San Antonio, Texas, so that he could detox for a week. Apparently, him and his son Wolfgang had a fight.

A show insider says, “It was the big what-if of the tour, whether Eddie could stay sober. Wolf hates it when his dad drinks. He knew Eddie was drunk onstage that night, and was acting cold to him, which set Eddie off. Eddie went berserk and started yanking guitar cables from the pedal boards and throwing cigarettes around onstage. At the end of the concert, Eddie was so mad at Wolf, he punched the amp speaker, knocking it over.”

Wow, that’s just crazy! I hope Eddie can get his crap together already.

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As you may have noticed last week, The Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo recently sat down to record discussions of every song on their Vice Records debut, Lust Lust Lust. The duo touched on the writing, recording, pitfalls, and successes of each of the album’s twelve tracks. Last week, the mini-interviews were premiered throughout the blogosphere on Brooklyn Vegan, My Old Kentucky Blog, The Tripwire, Chromewaves, You Ain’t No Picasso, and The Music Slut. Currently they’re all available on You Tube.

Watch and Share The Raveonettes’ Track-by-Track Discussions of Lust Lust Lust [Vice Records], here.

And if that isn’t enough Sune and Sharin for you, throughout the band’s current tour (dates below), the duo will be sending exclusive video clips and pictures to their fans via iLike and Facebook.

In other news, the Raveonettes recently stopped by the old office space where The Doors laid down LA Woman to record a new Rock Landmark feature for AOL Spinner. Check out the below link for a cover of “Riders on the Storm,” delivered from the same bathroom where Jim Morrison recorded all of the album’s vocals.

Watch and Share The Raveonettes’ AOL Spinner Rock Landmark Video.

Raveonettes Tour Dates:

03-04 LA, CA @ El Rey Theatre TIX

03-05 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent TIX

03-07 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge TIX

03-08 Vancouver, BC, CAN @ The Plaza Niteclub TIX

03-09 Seattle, WA @ Neumos TIX

03-12 – 03-16 Austin, TX @ SXSW

03-17 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry TIX

03-18 Chicago, IL @ Double Door TIX

03-19 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick TIX

03-21 Toroto, ON, CAN @ Opera House TIX

03-22 Montreal, QC, CAN @ Les Saint TIX

03-23 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s TIX

03-24 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club TIX

03-27 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s TIX

03-28 Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar TIX

03-29 Washington, DC @ Black Cat TIX

Get it here!

More Black Crowes news coming up!

I take back what I said about Danny Noriega being this season’s Sanjaya…it’s this guy. He killed the Simple Minds track, Don’t You Forget About Me.

And Randy Jackson said that Johns reminds him of Michael Hutchence? Ummm…that was INXS dummy.

Someone really needs to send this poor kid home. His rendition of the song Tainted Love was just murderous. Poor kid. He’s the Sanjaya of the seventh season.

Harmonix and MTV Games announced that yesterday, they have made available for download, Greatful Dead tunes for Rock Band. The first six of 18 were added yesterday.

Those tracks are:

Gamers looking to channel their inner Dead-Head can download six of the legendary band’s most popular tracks, including “China Cat Sunflower” (from ’69′s Aoxomoxoa), “Casey Jones” (from 1970′s Workingman’s Dead), “Sugar Magnolia” and “Truckin’” (both from 1970′s American Beauty), “Franklin’s Tower” (from ’75′s Blues For Allah) and “I Need A Miracle” (from ’78′s Shakedown Street).

How cool is that?

For more hippie news, head on over to Hippie Sounds and check out what Stacey is up to. Great stuff there :)

I haven’t really been following Rock of Love 2 as much as I should be, but God this broad is retarded.

The bobbleheaded blonde, Daisy, is helping put on a USO show for veterans by “singing” the national anthem.

I guess it would help if she knew the words, right? Doh! And to add insult to injury, there are people there, holding up cue cards with the words on them! Dumb!!

If you haven’t gotten your copy of Ghosts I-IV yet, then at the NIN website, Trent says that the servers are now up and running.

He said, however, if you didn’t get it (because of the servers being down, then get it from Amazon, or just go to the Pirate Bay and pretty much steal it.

Ya gotta love it.

Scott Weiland has been discharged from a rehab center after staying a full 28 days. The singer, who fronts both Velvet Revolver and the reformed Stone Temple Pilots is “doing well”, according to his attorney.

The singer had a long history of drinking and drug related problems, which have gotten him a DUI offense, as well as being caught buying crack. He also faces DUI charges after he was arrested in November.

At least he’s on the right track.

Trent Reznor is awesome. So much that you can head on over and download the first nine tracks to his new instrumental collection, Ghosts I-IV. How cool is that!

For a mere $300, he’ll send you a signed and numbered copy of the album and a bunch of other extras. Limit 2500.

What are you waiting for??!?!??

For $5, you can download all 36 tracks. We’re all over it! Innovative and awesome, as always!

In case you haven’t already heard, blues master Jeff Healey has passed away at the young age of 41.

He was fighting a rare form of cancer that claimed his eyesight when he was only one and lost his battle against the cancer yesterday evening. This comes right before he was set to release his new album, Mess of Blues.

Rest in peace, Jeff, you’re a legend. He is survived by his wife Christie and two children; daughter Rachel, 13 and son Derek, 3.

The Music Channel presents our top ten songs of what we’re listening to now. Mine is a quirky list mixed of old and new. I’m weird, I know. I love older music, thus the Led Zeppelin, but I also dig the newer stuff, so I included Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse.

So, here’s mine:

In a nifty little Imeem playlist….enjoy :)

What are you listening to now?

The band will also debut their new single, Nine Lives Apr. 29 on ABC’s Dancing With The Stars and on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! the next day. Nine Lives was co-written with country superstar Tim McGraw.

The 11 tracks on the album include the titles:
Go
Nine Lives
C’mon C’mon
Love, Tomorrow
Cruise Control
Hallucinate
Only The Good Die Young
Bad Actress
Come Undone
Gotta Let It Go.

Woot, I can hardly wait. However, they can keep Nine Lives if it’s featuring Tim McGraw singing. We’ll have none of that.

This is great. I know it’s old, but check it out anyway.

Here’s the dean of Columbia Business School doing a spoof of The Police’s Every Breath You Take. He’s singing about wanting Alan Greenspan’s job that went instead to New Fed Chair Ben Bernanke.