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Guns N’ Roses will play the UK for the first time since their shows at the Milton Keynes Bowl in 1993. Tickets go on sale Friday (March 2). A source close to the band hinted the show will not be part of an extensive UK tour, although an extra date at the Docklands has not been ruled out. The band’s long-awaited new album, ‘Chinese Democracy’, is expected in June to coincide with the shows. The only original members of the band who remain from its previous incarnation are frontman Axl Rose and Dizzy Reed on keyboards. Guns N’Roses’ Confirmed European… Read more »

Ever since it was announced last month that Eminem had been nominated for four Grammy Awards, including the coveted Album of the Year, two questions have hung in the air: Will he attend the show? Will he perform? Well, one of those questions has finally been answered. When the music industry hands out this year’s crop of Grammys on February 21, Eminem says he will be on hand. “It’s hilarious, you know what, and that’s why I’m gonna go,” the rapper recently told MTV Europe with regard to the controversy surrounding his armload of nominations and how it affected his… Read more »

SR-71 is circling the globe for its next tour, which launches with a series of shows in Japan this month. After playing a spring break beach party with MxPx and American Hi-Fi in Jamaica, the band will head back to the U.S. with fellow rockers Dexter Freebish and Diffuser. But the biggest leg of SR-71’s tour will come around when the band joins forces with Bon Jovi, a trek that will send the boys across North America and Europe. Tickets for most U.S Bon Jovi shows go on sale February 24. SR-71 Tour Dates Are As Follows (With Dexter Freebish… Read more »

Chart-topping Arista rap group Outkast has vacated its opening slot on Eminem’s European tour and will return to the U.S., as group member Big Boi prepares for the birth of his child. The Atlanta-based duo was to support Eminem in Brussels; Paris; Manchester, U.K.; and London starting Monday (February 5), then cap the run with a solo performance Feb. 11 at the London Astoria. “We are incredibly pleased for Big Boi and wish him and his girlfriend all the best with the birth of their child,” says an Arista spokesperson, who adds the label is “working to get Outkast back… Read more »

AOL Time Warner Inc., the world’s largest Internet and media company, couldn’t figure out a way for its Warner Music Group unit to buy British rival EMI Group Plc, Co-Chief Operating Officer Richard Parsons said Wednesday. EMI Group has been in talks about a merger with German entertainment giant Bertelsmann AG following the collapse in October of its deal with Warner Music. Warner Music and EMI had abandoned their plan to create the world’s largest music group, bringing together artists like the Beatles and Madonna, after tough negotiations with European authorities. Although the companies had said they might explore alternatives,… Read more »