Ozzy Osbourne's Scream dropped 7 spots to #11 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Sarah McLachlan's Laws Of Illusion fell 3 places to #12. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' Mojo dropped 5 spots to #16. Carole King & James Taylor's Live At The Troubadour fell 4 places to #19. Glee Cast's Glee: The Music: Journey To Regionals dropped 2 spots to #21. Glee Cast's Glee: The Music: Vol. 3: Showstoppers fell a place to #22. Kenny G's Heart And Soul debuted at #33.

Gorillaz's Plastic Beach climbed 12 places to #12 on the U.K. Albums chart. Stevie Wonder's The Definitive Collection debuted at #16. AC/DC's Iron Man 2 soundtrack climbed a spot to #20. Glee Cast's Glee: The Music: Journey To Regionals fell 10 places to #21. Michael Jackson's Number Ones climbed 9 spots to #22. Glee Cast's Glee: The Music Vol. 3: Showstoppers fell 9 places to #23. Billy Joel's Piano Man: The Very Best Of Billy Joel dropped 11 spots to #26. Glee Cast's Glee: The Music: Season One Vol. 1 climbed a place to #37.

Kylie Minogue's "All The Lovers" climbed 3 spots to #3 on the U.K. Singles chart. Not a Glee Cast song in sight...

oHgr will release the new digital single, "Tragek." According to them, the release celebrates their becoming "unchained from the legal ties that bound our ability to self-release the music you have been wondering about." The recording had been in limbo after SPV went into bankruptcy.

The Swans will release, My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, their first album in 13 years on Sept. 21st via Young God Records.

Remember the trailers that preceded the debut release of Nick Cave's Grinderman album? It seems they are at it again as two videos are now out there for Grinderman 2.







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Slash has reportedly recorded his recent performance in Manchester for a live album due out at a future date.

The Hooters have released, 5X5, a new 5-track EP out in Europe. The set includes versions of their songwriting team's original hit compositions for Cyndi Lauper ("Time After Time") and Joan Osbourne ("One Of Us") as well as a the song, "Pissing In The Rhine," sung in German. It can be found here with samples.

Magnum are still hard at work in the studio on, The Visitation, their new album due out in January via Steamhammer/SPV.

Taylor Dayne's new single, "Facing A Miracle," has been released on iTunes. The track is available with several remixes on the Facing A Miracle EP.

KRS One is featured on a new 22-track album called Caddy One Presents Universal Language. The album is available as a free download via a link here.

The Mission U.K.'s Wayne Hussey and All About Eve's Julianne Regan have resumed work on their collaborative album (tentatively titled Old, New, Borrowed, & Blue) which they hope to release later this year. They will be using the name Hussey-Regan for the project and it includes covers of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence," Duran Duran's "Ordinary World," a Mission U.K. song and one by All About Eve as well as some new compositions.

You've been waiting patiently for the Escape Club's next album. The band understand that and have made, "Waiting For The Sun," a track from the album available as a free download via Pledge Music.

Jimmy Barnes will release his 16th solo album, Rage & Ruin, on Aug. 27th. You can hear a sample of his new single, "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead," here.

Come In Tokio have seen their catalogue reissued which includes Thick And Creamy (a collection of live recording sessions at the BBC 1981/1984, Alone In The Dark (outtakes, rehearsals and 4-track home recordings) and Looking Up To The Bottom (a 2010 collection of new and old songs as well as 3 live tracks.)

20 years after her last release, Anna Domino has released a new single, "Blood Makes Noise," a cover of the Suzanne Vega hit. The song is a part of Allergy To Consciousness which is a singles series released on alternative/minimalist independent music label EnT-T.

Sometimes you work and work in the studio and the song never surfaces. Many great songs get lost like that as they didn't match the mood, theme or style of an album. Recently we talked about Blondie and their work on their new studio album. Several covers were recorded and here's one you might not expect.




It seems that they've been playing the song since 2009 during their live dates. Here's what the song sounded like during those shows.

Celine Dion announced in a brief statement that she and her husband Rene Angelil are expecting twin boys.

Melissa Etheridge's former spouse Tammy Lynn Michaels has fought back against the singer's petition for joint custody of their 3 year-old twins. According to Michaels' lawyer, "Melissa has not been treating Tammy or the children as if they were a wife and children, financially or otherwise." The actress' lawyer has said that Etheridge left her with just $4 to her name. Etheridge's lawyer claims, "Melissa is paying all of Tammy's expenses, which totals tens of thousands of dollars per month."

So, if things don't work out for Bret Michaels to be the next American Idol judge, he may be looking at Rock Star. Some rumors have surfaced that he may help relaunch the CBS series Rock Star (previously INXS and Supernova.)

El DeBarge has signed a new recording deal with Geffen for the release of, Second Chance, his first new album since 1994 on Sept. 28th. He debuted the title track as well as a few hits at the 2010 BET Awards.

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Guitarist Tony Iommi has confirmed that the Dio tribute performance will be the last outing for Heaven And Hell.

Duff McKagan's Loaded plan to return to the recording studio next month to work on their next album.

Queensryche guitarist Michael Wilton will release his new album, Wratchet Head, in October preceded by the first single, "Coming For You."

On Tuesday, an Australian judge ordered EMI Songs Australia, Men At Work songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert to turn over 5% of their royalties from their hit "Down Under" to Larrikin Music Publishing after the court previously ruled that a substantial part of the song came from a children's campfire song. An appeal over the original ruling is pending.

Ted Nugent's Happy Defiance Day Everyday song bundle went to #1 on Amazon's MP3 store on Saturday, July 3rd. The 30-track collection was made available for 76 cents in honor of 1776.

Sepultura have signed a new recording deal with Nuclear Blast Records for their next release expected in 2011.

Kingdom Of Evil, the debut album by Angels Of Babylon (comprised of members of Manowar and Megadeth bassist David Ellefson), will get a U.S. release on July 27th. Despite being released earlier this year in Japan and Europe, the album will get 3 previously unreleased tracks.

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has announced that his autobiography, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, will be published on Aug. 3rd. The U.K. edition will have a different cover and title (Mustaine: A Life In Metal.)

According to NME, Nick Cave's novel, The Death Of Bunny Munro, is going to be made into a TV mini-series.

Sheila E. has been nominated for an Emmy award for Outstanding Music Direction for PBS' In Performance At The White House: Fiesta Latina. Randy Newman (for "When I'm Gone" from Monk) and Steve Earle (for "This City" from Treme) are up for Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics. Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin (for Nurse Jackie) are up for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.

George Michael was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of being unfit to drive after police received reports that a car had crashed into a building in north London. Police continue to investigate the incident and Michael has been released on bail with a court date scheduled in August.

Don't expect Prince to release his new album, 20Ten, via iTunes or any other digital download service. He recently told The Daily Mirror, "They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it." He also compared the Internet to MTV. "At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated."

Elton John has teamed with Leon Russell to record the new album The Union -- due out Oct. 19th. The pair worked with John's long-time songwriting partner Bernie Taupin on the tracks that were produced by T Bone Burnett. The collection will also include appearances by Brian Wilson and Neil Young. A tour is expected to follow and possibly another John/Russell album if the 16-track disc is successful. John also has plans to record a solo covers album soon.

The Doobie Brothers have reunited for, World Gone Crazy, their first new album in a decade due out Sept. 28th. The band have re-recorded the song "Nobody" (from their 1971 self-titled debut) which will be the first single. A video has also been filmed for the track.

Congrats to Ringo Starr who celebrated his 70th birthday on July 7th. He performed a concert with his All-Starr Band that night in New York with a very special guest -- Paul McCartney. Yoko Ono, Joe Walsh, Angus Young and Steven Van Zandt were also among those on hand for the festivities.

Man Raze have finished writing about 20 songs for their sophomore effort. They are just working out a time to lay down the tracks. Meanwhile, Man Raze guitarist will rejoin Def Leppard to collaborate on new material for their next album. The band plan to work on the album before they head out on the road next year.

Tony Harnell & The Mercury Train's debut album, Round Trip, will be released on July 27th. The video for the first single, "Northern Lights," recently debuted on YouTube.

House Of Lords, Journey, Winger, Glenn Hughes, Giant, Pride Of Lions and Treat are among the artists featured on Frontiers Records compilation, Power Ballads Vol. 1, due out Aug. 27th.

Accept's new studio album, Blood Of The Nations, will be released on Sept. 14th in North America and Aug. 20th in Europe.

A new single, "Lights Down Low," has surfaced from Kim Wilde's upcoming studio album. The single is due out in Europe on Aug. 13th. A promotional leak of the single (with lyrics) is now up on YouTube.

Andi Sex Gang's new studio album, Bram Stoker's Dracula, heads to stores next week. It's a condensed musical/spoken word recording of the 1897 novel.

New albums heading out next week include: Bret Michaels' Custom Built, Jimmie Vaughan's Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites, Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite, Andi Sex Gang's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dale Bozzio & Missing Persons' Live From The Danger Zone!, Concrete Blonde's Bloodletting, Crowded House's Intriguer, Robbie Dupree's Time And Tide, Ian Gillan's Naked Thunder, Ian Gillan's Toolbox, Merle Haggard's 20 #1 Hits, Halford's Crucible, Ice Cube's Death Certificate, Kreator's Hordes Of Chaos, Mass' War Law, Mass' Swiss Connection, Mass' Metal Fighter, Van Morrison's Blowin Your Mind, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult's Sinister Whisperz Wax Trax Years (1987-1991), Napalm Death's Punishments In Capitals, Stephen Pearcy's Under My Skin, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Adrian Sherwood's The Mighty Upsetter, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Adrian Sherwood's Dub Setter, Quincy Jones's Standards: Great Songs/Great Performances, R.E.M.'s Fables Of The Reconstruction, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66's Play The Hits: Great Songs/Great Performances, Sodom's Lords Of Depravity Part II and Sting's Symphonicities