Through all the trash talk and low expectations in the past two year, Axl Rose finally found a way to release Chinese Democracy and this time it looks like the release date is going to stick.

Guns N’ Roses have just released a new widget which has a countdown to the November 23^rd release date of their long-delayed Chinese Democracy album. The widget also features an audio stream of the title-track new single.

Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy will be sold exclusively at Best Buy on Sunday November 23rd. Widget after the fold.

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Hinder will be releasing their next record “Take It To The Limit” on November 14th, the follow up to Triple-Platinum debut release Extreme Behavior. They are set to play the Jimmy Kimmel Show on November 6th in L.A.. If you’re going to be in the area, you can check out the show for free. Click on the links at the bottom for tickets. Check out Hinder on the Jagermeister tour with Trapt and Rev Theory.

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Led Zeppelin. What can you really say about them that hasn’t already been said a million times. Their history is self explanatory and their legend will live on forever with or without a reunion tour. Without Robert Plant it wouldn’t really be reunion tour, or much of a Led Zeppelin tour at all for that matter.

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Today, Dennis Miller played host to Ted Nugent on his show. Of course Ted was there to be the douche bag that he is and promote is book and spout off about how much of a patriot he is, about shooting and eating animals and about shooting Mexicans crossing in to U.S. borders. The show aired at 11:20 and I didn’t bother to listen. Seriously, do we need to hear anything more from Ted Nugent?

Upon reading a comment from a reader yesterday (Thanks), informing me that Ted dodged the draft during the Viet-Nam war, I looked in to it to find out what he really did. It is said that he stopped performing any personal hygiene weeks before attending his draft physical and even stopped using the bathroom and urinated and defecated in his pants. He claims that this statement was made up for an interview in High Times Magazine. Who the hell makes up draft dodging stories? He also claimed he was attending college and got a year deferment. He then claims he felt guilty for not serving in Viet Nam and made USO trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. Yeah, that makes up for it. Bill Clinton made up for it by being President Of The United States for 8 years and our economy was great, so you going to play a few shows for the REAL Patriots is not really making up for it. In the mean time, your buddy “W” has dug us into a ravine called recession.

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STAR-STUDDED COMPANION VIDEO NOW IN PRODUCTION; “SAVE YOU” GOES ON SALE VIA iTUNES OCTOBER 14^TH

Lava/Atlantic recording group Simple Plan has announced details surrounding their upcoming iTunes Store single, “Save You.”  Net proceeds from each download sale will be distributed to cancer charities around the world, through the Montreal-based band’s own Simple Plan Foundation.  “Save You” – which is also found on Simple Plan’s self-titled third studio album – will be released worldwide via iTunes, available in the U.S. and Canada on October 14^th.

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In Support of their November 11th Never Too Late EP and forthcoming February 16th 2009 release of their Everyday Demons LP, The Answer is heading out on tour as support act for AC/DC. I’ll be posting a review of Never Too Late in the coming week or so. Here’s a little more info on the Ireland band The Answer, who’s singer sounds to me like a cross between Robert Plant and Chris Cornell.

THE ANSWER, a rising rock band from Northern Ireland that made the “Hot List” in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, is the opening act for AC/DC’s Black Ice World Tour. The North American leg of the global itinerary launches today at the Wachovia Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA and wraps January 31 at Nashville, TN’s Sommet Center. Highlights on the road also include shows at NYC’s Madison Square Garden on November 12-13 and The Forum in Los Angeles on December 6 and 8. Rolling Stone noted, “No effing wonder AC/DC tapped these U.K. long-hairs to open on their U.S. tour: The singer howls like Paul Rodgers, the guitarist shreds like Jimmy Page and the lyrics are as awesomely stupid as ballin’ without a rubber.”

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MTV2 have premiered Saving Abel’s new video “18 Days“. The clip was directed by Travis Kopach (Panic At The Disco, Black Tide) and features the band performing on the USS Hornet. The San Francisco based naval carrier won 9 battle stars for her service in WWII.

Saving Abel will be out on tour supporting Buckcherry and Avenged Sevenfold starting on November 4^th. Check out the band’s MySpace profile page for all of the dates.

I don’t know if this was AC/DC’s final 401k plan so to speak, but if it was, they can be assured that they will be retiring happy. Over 780,000 copies of Black Ice have been sold in The United States in it’s first week of release and over 5 million copies have been shipped worldwide. Ad that to the 5 million+ copies of their back catalog being sold and they have sold 10 million records this year alone. That’s just unheard of! How many other bands can say that they did that this year? None!

Quintuple platinum in one week of sales. Most bands these days are happy if they can move 10,000 units in a week and if they sell 100,000 in a year or two they feel pretty good about themselves. But most bands don’t have the history that AC/DC does, even if most of their albums do sound the same. Even the ever-so-popular Metallica have only move just over 500,000 copies of their latest release, Death Magnetic. With 780,000 sold in the U.S. alone, perhaps some of these other bands might consider taking the Wal Mart exclusive route. Some of the other countries that Black Ice also topped the charts in are UK, Germany, Canada, France, Argentina, Japan, Australia, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland.

Black Ice world tour dates through April after the fold…

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Here is the first single and title track from Sammy Hagar’s upcoming November 18th release, Cosmic Universal Fashion on Loud & Proud/ Roadrunner Records. You know Sammy’s history. I shouldn’t have to feed you Sammy’s resume of countless hits and albums sold. If you don’t know the name by now, then you have been in the dark for way too long.

The title track and first single, “Cosmic Universal Fashion,” was written in an online collaboration between Hagar and a young Iraqi band in Baghdad, with the music video produced in the same spirit as the classic Van Halen video for “Right Now.” The album also features a rousing cover of the Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party).”

Sammy also worked with other well known musicians on this album such as ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, fellow Van Halen Alumni Michael Anthony, The Cult’s Billy Duffy, Guns N’ Roses Matt Sorum and Journey’s Neal Schon. On another note, Sammy also has his own brand of Tequila called Cabo Wabo and if you like a good, smooth tequila then you should really give it a try. Video is after the fold…

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I introduced Converse 100 Anniversary Edition Grateful Dead Skull And Roses hi top Chuck Taylors. A cool looking sneaker with both a history and a historic band feature. Converse sent me a complimentary pair of the Grateful Dead All Stars, but neither of the one I featured. I saw this pair on a different website and I really liked them. I had no idea that this was the pair they were going to send to me, but I was pleasantly surprised when they arrived.

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