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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Here is the new Official video from AC/DC entitled Anything Goes from the Black Ice album. The video was filmed by David Mallet and was shot in France on February 27th.

AC/DC are still on a world tour with Irish rockers The Answer in support.

Irish rockers The Answer will be pulling out of the current AC/DC tour to play a couple of U.S. club dates. Here are the clubs, dates and ticket prices for these dates.

• 4/29/2009
  The Troubadour
  9081 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
  8pm, $15
  Tickets: http://www.troubadour.com/eventdetail.php?id=1178
• 5/2/2009
  Don Hill’s
  511 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
  8pm, $12
  Tickets: http://www.donhills.com/

Their new album, Everyday Demons was released in digital format last week on March 10th. You can download it from iTunes or wait until March 31st for the CD copy to be released.

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Billy Joel, joined by one of his roadies covered AC/DC’s Highway To Hell during a Florida concert last Friday. Billy Joel played the rhythm guitar parts while his roadie sang. Billy Joel is one of those musicians that can just seem to do no wrong. The video footage is kind of rough, but you get the gist of it.

The top 20 ticket sellers of 2008 are in and there are 11 bands/artists that can be considered rock. Even though I would consider Coldplay to be more Pop music than rock, we’ll give it to them here.

The Eagles took #4, selling 90.7 million dollars in tickets. The Eagles released their first studio album since 1979 with The Long Road Out Of Edin which sold over 7 million copies in the U.S. and was sold Exclusively through Walmart and Sam’s Club for the first year of it’s release.

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As if I needed to tell anyone this, AC/DC is among the top album sales of 2008. With 1.92 million album sales in the United States via WalMart Exclusive sale, AC/DC ranks # 5 for the year according to Nielsen Soundscan. This does not include digital sales as the band has opted not to do this. I think if they offered an electronic download of the entire album and not individual tracks, it would still sell well. Regardless I don’t think the absence of digital downloads hurt the sales of Black Ice. Either way AC/DC fans would make their way to get the record from Wal Mart/ Sam’s Club.

World wide AC/DC Black Ice has sold well over 5 million copies of this album, an unheard of number for a rock band these days. I think their retirement fund is pretty much set.

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Rolling Stones Top 100 Singles of 2008 shows just how out of touch this magazine has become with rock music. Of course we all know that Rolling Stone Magazine has been focusing more on Pop culture and Pop Music for a long time, but after seeing their list of the top 100 singles it just proves that this magazine is geared more towards exactly what it states…singles.

With only a handful of actual rock songs, and not even many good ones at that, it shows that it’s a corporate cuddling magazine. They even go on to criticize one of their top tracks. AC/DC’s “Big Jack” is number 53. Not even the best track off of the Black Ice album and not one I’ve heard them play on the radio at all.

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My Rock Dose Top 10 Rock Albums Of 2008 covers mainly established rock acts and not this new wave of modern rock as we know it. I’ll go through each none and tell you why I chose it. Take in to consideration that I only went through bands that I’ve heard this year and not every rock album that has come out. If you expect Nickelback or Hinder to be on this list then you came to the wrong place. So what does this list mean? Nothing really, it’s just MY favorite picks of 2008, so don’t cry if your favorite band didn’t make my cut. Instead give them a shout in the comment section.

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There is a Bon Scott (late singer of AC/DC) Movie in the works by film maker Eddie Martin. Undercover.com.Au reports that Eddie has been working on this for a couple of months and is currently in the research phase.

One of the things that has come out in his research is that despite the numerous books written about AC/DC, he feels no-one has actually nailed the real story yet. “Obviously we have gone through most of them, but talking to Bon’s friends they aren’t happy with the books and feel they have been misrepresented. We want to go much deeper with the movie,” he says.

The movie is untitled as of right now but it seems that Martin wants to make sure he gets the story as true to form as possible. Read more on this at Undercover.com.au.

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The Irish rock band, The Answer had a chance to play on Late Night with David Lettermen last Friday. If you missed it you can see it below as they perform the single Never Too Late from their upcoming Never Too Late Ep. The Answer are currently on a North American tour in support of AC/DC.