Robert Plant's Band Of Joy debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Glee: The Music Volume 3: Showstoppers climbed 14 places to #31. Grinderman's Grinderman 2 debuted at #38.

"As She's Walking Away" by the Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson climbed 16 spots to #56 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Robert Plant's Band Of Joy debuted at #3 on the U.K. Albums chart. Phil Collins' Going Back debuted at #4. Grinderman's Grinderman 2 debuted at #14. Tom Jones' Praise & Blame climbed 6 spots to #17. Underworld's Barking debuted at #26. Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite fell 4 places to #28.

Robert Linhart has been charged with graffiti, criminal possession of an ice pick recovered from his car and resisting arrest after stalking Madonna outside her apartment building. A judge has set the 59 year-old retired New York firefighter's bail at $20,000 cash.

Cher will be ending her her headline show at Caesars Palace's Colosseum theater in Las Vegas after about 200 shows on Feb. 5th.

Ray Davies' all-star Kinks covers album, due out Nov. 1st, has been adding more artists. As of now, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Lucinda Williams, Black Francis, Bruce Springsteen and Metallica are among the guest artists.

John Farnham will release his new studio album, Jack, on Oct. 15th. The 11-track set will include 7 new songs and covers from Ray Charles, Percy Sledge and Curtis Mayfield.

Mick Hucknall ("Chains Of Love"), Jools Holland and Ruby Turner ("You Are So Beautiful"), Chris Difford ("What Goes On"), Johnny Marr ("Tendency To Be Free"), Bad Lieutenant ("In The Ghetto") and Ian Brown ("In The Year 2525") have recorded covers of hit songs from 1969 for the charity album, 1969: Key To Change, which benefits the Centrepoint charity. The charity was formed in 1969 and helps homeless youth in the U.K.

The Ray Charles Memorial Library officially opened its doors in South Los Angeles on Thursday night... on what would have been his 80th birthday.

Keith Richards has released an expansion to his 1997 Wingless Angels album this week. Wingless Angels Volumes I & II is a 27 track collection of Richard's reggae-inspired recordings with late Dominoes vocalist Justin Hinds.

Former White Lion frontman Mike Tramp has been working on his new album, 2nd Act, with his band Rock'n'Roll Circuz which is due out next year. During the sessions he recorded a 9-minute tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio. The song, "Hymn To Ronnie," will premiere on Sept. 27th on Eddie Trunk's satellite radio show in the U.S. and Canada and become available as a free download at EddieTrunk.com exclusively for the following week. Tramp will then make it available at MikeTramp.com afterward.

A new book, The Wit & Wisdom Of Ozzy Osbourne, will be published on Oct. 13th in North America via Krause Publications.

Death In June will release their new studio album, Peaceful Snow, as early as next month on CD, 10-inch vinyl and vinyl picture disc.

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot drummer Chad Smith has announced that his other project, Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, will release their sophomore effort, More Meat, on Oct. 19th.

Buddy Guy will release his new studio album, Living Proof, on Oct. 26th. The first single from the album will be "Stay Around A Little Longer" which features B.B. King.

Social Distortion release their Epitaph Records debut, Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes on Nov. 23rd.

Mountain singer-songwriter Leslie West was released from Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey and is now recovering at home. West was in the hospital to treat blood clots and a pseudo aneurysm in his leg.

Congratulations to Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder who married his longtime girlfriend, model Jill McCormick, during a ceremony in Hawaii on Saturday.

Steve Wynn And The Miracle 3 will release their new studio album, Northern Aggression, on Nov. 30th.

Former Whitesnake bassist Marco Mendoza has released his second solo album, Casa Mendoza, via Mascot Records.

Eagle Rock will commemorate the legacy of Ronnie James Dio with the high-definition release of Holy Diver Live on Blu-ray DVD on Oct. 12th. The performance was filmed on Oct. 22nd in 2005 at London's Astoria Theatre.

INXS have been sued in New South Wales Supreme Court by Chardonnay Investments , a Virgin Islands-based company that purchased the rights to collect royalties from the airplay of songs of late frontman Michael Hutchence and the use of his image. The lawsuit, against the bandmembers, their management and lawyer, alleges the royalties haven't been paid in full. The suit also seeks a share of profits dating back to 1997 and asks for a partnership between the members be wound up so the royalties could be divided more equally.

Depeche Mode will release their new live recording, Tour Of The Universe: Live In Barcelona, in 3 formats (super deluxe 4-disc version, deluxe version and Blu-ray DVD) on Nov. 9th in North America.

Styx are streaming their new album, Regeneration, Volume I, on their official Facebook page. The 7-song EP contains 6 newly recorded classics as well as the new song "Difference In The World." The disc is available exclusively at their concert dates for The Grand Illusion/Pieces Of Eight tour.

David Hidalgo (of Los Lobos), Benmont Tench (of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers) and Chad Smith (of Red Hot Chili Peppers) make up part of Kid Rock's studio band for his new album, Born Free, due out in November. Bob Seger will also make a guest appearance on the Rick Rubin-produced set.

Alice In Chains have released a new video for the song, "Lesson Learned," from their latest album, Black Gives Way To Blue. The video, directed by True Blood's Paul Matthaeus, is comprised of over 6,000 still pictures stitched together to create a stop-motion animated video. It's a little more than PG so we won't post it here but you can see it at their link here.

Paul Rodgers recently told the Southwest Times Record that there "will be no further plans for Bad Company beyond dates in Japan. I'm working on new solo material in the studio, and I've got a solo U.K. tour planned later, so I'm just seeing how it goes." Rodgers went on to say, "We aren't putting Bad Company to bed, as they say, but the band definitely is something that will be placed onto the back burner."

Bret Michaels will be heading back into the hospital in January for heart surgery to repair the hole he's had in his heart since birth.

Slash, Paul Stanley and Mark Slaughter will reportedly appear in the feature-length celebration of the electric guitar, Turn It Up. You can view a trailer for the film here.

The Pet Shop Boys plan to release, Ultimate Pet Shop Boys, their new 19-track 'best of' soon. The set includes a new song, "Together," which will be released as a single. A special edition will include a DVD of the duo's performances on BBC TV and recent Glastonbury Festival footage.

According to court records, Heart's Nancy Wilson filed for divorce on Sept. 16th from writer-director Cameron Crowe after over two decades together, citing irreconcilable differences. The two had been separated since 2008 and have twin 10 year-old sons.

Yes, it was probably the worst-kept secret but Fox television has announced that Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez will be joining Randy Jackson as judges on American Idol. One of the lesser-mentioned changes has been a shift away from bringing in mentors and allowing artists to stay within their preferred genre. So you may be hearing less than normal about the show here unless it is something to do with Tyler. Meanwhile, Tyler will release his first solo single, "Love Lies," in Japan on Nov. 24th. The track is the theme song for the live-action film version of the Space Battleship Yamato anime franchise.

Vince Clarke has offered fans the opportunity to make a video for a new instrumental Erasure track called "Symphony." Fans can visit Clarke's site to sign up to download the song and to get for more information. All the best ones put up at YouTube will be listed on their site after Halloween.

Nuevo are just finishing up their work on their new video for the song "Chocolate." They do have a few new videos (for "Namaste" and "Skin") off their debut album, Sunset Rise, if you go searching for them.

Nuevo - Namaste



Nuevo - Skin

Neil Diamond will release his new album, Dreams, on Nov. 2nd. The album collects his renditions of his favorite songs of the rock era.

English singer-songwriter Don Partridge, 68, died of a heart attack on Tuesday. Partridge is best known for his two top 5 hits in 1968 ("Rosie" and "Blue Eyes") and would release his final single, "Grand Slam Boogie," in 1982. After a long absence, he returned in 2004 with The Highwayman album.

Grammy-nominated Los Angeles tenor saxophonist, flautist and clarinetist William Marcel "Buddy" Collette, 89, died on Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering shortness of breath the prior day. Collette worked with many of the jazz greats including Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon and Chico Hamilton and taught many others. During the 1980s, he recorded on albums by LaToya Jackson, The Whispers, Midnight Star, Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich, Freddie Hubbard, Barney Kessel, Zoot Sims and David Axelrod. He released his own album, Flute Talk, in 1988.

Upcoming releases next week include: The Doobie Brothers - World Gone Crazy, Eric Clapton - Clapton, Bad Religion - The Dissent Of Man, Halford - Made Of Metal, Ice Cube - I Am The West, James LaBrie - Static Impulse, Neil Young - Le Noise, OMD - The History Of Modern, Phil Collins - Going Back, The Posies - Blood/Candy, Tired Pony - The Place We Ran From, Ronnie Wood - I Feel Like Playing, Tangerine Dream - Ocean Waves Collection, Tangerine Dream - Silver Siren Collection, Tangerine Dream - Winter In Hiroshima, David Sylvain - Sleepwalkers, Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3: Melt, Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 4: Security, Peter Gabriel - So, Peter Gabriel - Us, Peter Gabriel - Up, Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back, Peter Gabriel - Birdy soundtrack, Peter Gabriel - Passion soundtrack, Pink Floyd - The Wall, Slash - Slash, Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love, Alice Cooper - Theatre Of Death: Live At Hammersmith, Yaz - Reconnected Live, Dwight Yoakam - 21st Century Hits, Peter Gabriel - Shaking The Tree and Soundgarden - Telephantasm: A Retrospective