Who really wrote the legendary bassline to “Peace Sells” and why is there an AK-47 firing on a song off Megadeth’s new album Endgame? Singer-guitarist Dave Mustaine spills all in a new interview with Rolling Stone. Mustaine talks about the punishing riffs on the band’s latest LP (due September 15th), why he stretched his wings on Risk and whether Metallica had plans to fire Lars Ulrich (as far as he knows, that is), plus weighs ...

Photo:Denholm/Getty Eight years after the first 7 Worlds Collide project, Crowded House’s Neil Finn is bringing back his all-star band — which includes the Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Radiohead’s Phil Selway and Ed O’Brien and new additions Wilco — for a new double-disc collection called The Sun Came Out, due out September 29th. Proceeds from the album will benefit Oxfam. The album was recorded over a three-week stretch in New Zealand around Christmas 2008 with KT ...

Cory Chisel was born and raised in Wisconsin, and his band the Wandering Sons’ hearty folk-rock emanates the might and dust of American grit. So it makes sense a handful of bluesy vets show up on their September 29th debut Death Won’t Send a Letter — My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel as well as the Raconteurs’ Jack Lawrence, Brendon Benson and Patrick Keeler. The latter pair also make appearances in the video for “Born Again,” ...

Photo: Pimentel/WireImage(Clarkson), Lovekin/Getty(Tedder), Warner/WireImage(Beyonce) OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder is speaking out about Kelly Clarkson’s claims that her new single “Already Gone” is built on the same backing track as Beyoncé’s “Halo.” Tedder released a statement acknowledging that he penned both tracks, but arguing they are “entirely different songs conceptually, melodically and lyrically,”MJ’s Big Blog reports. As Rock Daily wrote yesterday, Clarkson lobbied against releasing All I Ever Wanted’s “Already Gone” as a single because of the ...

Photo: COP/FilmMagicInvestigators in the death of Michael Jackson raided the Las Vegas home and offices of Jackson’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray yesterday in search of information pertaining to the roughly 19 aliases Jackson used when dealing with doctors, the Los Angeles Times reports. As Rolling Stone wrote in our look at Jackson’s final days, the most frequent alias Jackson used was that of Omar Arnold, but the L.A. Times writes that according to yesterday’s ...

Who: Those Darlins — guitarist Jessi, bassist Kelley and baritone ukulele player Nikki — met at the Southern Girls Rock and Roll Camp, a summer youth program founded by Kelley in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The trio quickly bonded over their burgeoning love of classic country music and cut their teeth playing standards by the Carter Family and Hank Williams. “We would play with more traditional bands that were trying to do the whole revival thing, [but] ...

Photo: Grant/WireImage The Big News: Michael Jackson once again topped the Comprehensive Albums charts as Number Ones sold another 151,000 copies, almost 50,000 more than the Top 200’s champ, Demi Lovato’s Here We Go Again (read the review here). Those two albums were the only ones to crack 100K as we enter the summer sales doldrums, a release schedule bereft of any big ticket releases until perhaps Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 on September 11th. For Lovato, Here ...

The improbable comeback story of Canadian metallists Anvil continues to get, well, more probable. On the strength of the much-talked-about Sacha Gervasi-directed rock doc Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the group — which is led by original members Lips (vocals/guitars) and Robb Reiner (drums) — will be opening a handful of U.S. stadium dates for AC/DC this summer via a personal invite from Angus Young (the tour blasted off last night — read our opening-night ...

Photo: Kravitz/FilmMagic The improbable comeback story of Canadian metallists Anvil continues to get, well, more probable. On the strength of the much-talked-about Sacha Gervasi-directed rock doc Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the group — which is led by original members Lips (vocals/guitars) and Robb Reiner (drums) — will be opening a handful of U.S. stadium dates for AC/DC this summer via a personal invite from Angus Young (the tour blasted off last night — read ...

If you’re seeing an awesome illustration up top, it means you’ve found one of the nine pieces of Backspacer album art that Pearl Jam are hiding all over the Internet today. Click it to head to Pearl Jam’s official site and add the image to your set of nine snapshots — once you find them all, there is a reward (keep reading …) For Backspacer’s artwork, the band enlisted their friend and political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow. ...