Alice In Chains Jerry Cantrell was interviewed at the Revolver Golden God Awards on Tuesday evening on “The Black Carpet”. Altitude was there to get it on video and here is Jerry Cantrell along with Willaim DuVall talking about the new album and William joining the band.

Duff McKagen, former Guns N Roses Bassist and current Velvet Revolver bassist has just released his debut album with his new hard rock band Loaded. Sick is the new album and to celebrate it’s release, The Rock Dose in association with Total Assault are giving one lucky winner the chance to win an ESP LTD guitar. All you have to do is visit the link below and fill in the required fields and you’ll be notified by the syndicate site if you’re the lucky winner!

Enter To Win An LTD Guitar From Duff Mckagan’s Loaded

Somehow this completely slipped my mind this week. Yesterday something was telling me there was significance in April 8th and the  I saw on my facebook someone mentioned that Kurt Cobain Died on April 8th, when we know the reality was that he wasn’t discovered until the 8th and they dated his death as the 5th. I wasn’t going to be a snotty rocker and correct them because most people think of the 8th as the day Kurt died, because that’s the day we all found out.

Layne Staley’s death is dated April 5th as well, though his body wasn’t found until April 19th and cause of death was noted as a “Speedball” injection overdose.

Both of these great musicians had drug issues, but I still think Kurt was murdered. Sadly we will probably never know the truth. All we can do is remember them for who and what they were.

Rest in peace Kurt and Layne.

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Repost from MetalMartyr.com.

I’m currently running a contest over on my metal Blog Metal Martyr. You can win the complete Discography from “The Answer and 3 winner will win their newest release Everyday Demons. Here are the details.

The Answer is a cool rock band out of Ireland that recently was on tour opening for the legendary AC/DC. If you’re not familiar with their music it’s kind of like The Black Crowes, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin all rolled in to one. Needless to say they have a great classic rock groove to them.

Here is a chance for one lucky winner to win their complete Discography to include their latest release, Everyday Demons and the unreleased Live At Planet Rock Xmas Party Featuring Paul Rodgers. 3 runner ups will receive the new album Everyday Demons.

How do you win? Since the bands name is “The Answer“, this is going to be a Jeopardy style contest where I will provide an “Answer” and you have to comment in the Jeopardy game show style of a question using the comment section. For example, I might say something simple like “Emo music” as the answer, and you would have to come up with something creative in the form of a question like “What is the musical genre God created to punish metal fans?“. Got it?

Contest is limited to U.S. Residents. I’ll pick the winners on April 30th.

So here is The Answer: “Courtney Love’s Panties.”  Make it interesting, creative and most of all, funny. Remember, form of a question!

To enter you’ll have to go to MetalMartyr.com and enter by leaving your answer, or rather your “Question” in the comment section there.

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This Is Spinal Tap was released 25 years ago and to celebrate the three actors that planned on a huge world tour. Unfortunately that world tour boiled down to a single date in June at Wembley Stadium in London, England. 

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If you missed it the first time around when it kicked off last year, AC/DC will be rolling back through North America again on their 18 month long tour.

Tickets for the Foxborough, East Rutherford, Detroit, Grand Rapids and Tacoma shows go on sale Saturday April 11, 2009.  Tickets for the San Jose concert go on sale Sunday April 12.  Tickets for the San Diego concert go on sale Saturday April 18.  Tickets for the Los Angeles concert go on sale Saturday April 25.  Tickets will be available via Ticketmaster and the band’s website, www.acdc.com

Here are the confirmed dates as of now.

• July 28 Foxborough, MA Gillette Stadium
• July 31 E. Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
• August 16 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
• August 18 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
• August 30 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome
• September 2 San Jose, CA HP Pavillion
• September 4 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
• September 6 San Diego, CA Sports Arena

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KISS played a sold out crowd of 65,000 fans on the evening of April 5th at River plate stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina as part of the annual Quilmes Rock Festival. Here is pro-shot footage of KISS performing their classic Detroit Rock City. For more videos from this concert visit youtube user magnetician’s profile.

Bravewords.com reports that the all-female Bon Jovi tribute band, Blonde Jovi has been threatened with legal action if they don’t change their name and/or logo. You can read a portion of the legal letter sent to Blonde Jovi by Bon Jovi’s legal team at Bravewords.com. Blonde Jovi have changed their name and wrote a blog entry explaining why.

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Here is the new Greenday widget featuring the single “Know Your Enemy” from their upcoming may 15th release, 21st Century Breakdown. You can grab this widget and post in on your Myspace and all the other social networking sites to include your own blog. It will automatically update every now and then and you’ll see new video clips, photos, etc. You can even preorder the Special Edition cd from there.

Motley Crue performed at Uncasville, Connecticut on March 13th. The video footage was taped for Jimmy Kimmel Live and was uploaded by Youtube User Motley Moon.

Motley Crue are set to embark on Crue Fest 2: White Trash Circus with Godsmack, Theory Of A Deaman, Drowning Pool, and Charm City Devils.