Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is currently recovering at home after being involved in a bike accident on Saturday (July 17).

According to police reports, the 59-year-old guitarist was riding through Middleborough, Massachusetts on his Ducati Monster 696 bike when he was hit from behind by a 62-year-old woman.

He was taken to hospital, but was released two hours later and is now recovering at home.

At this point it is not clear whether Aerosmith will postpone any shows of their upcoming 18 date US tour which is due to kick off this Friday (July 23).

Contrary to the report in this week’s Kerrang! magazine, Madina Lake bassist    Matthew Leone will now not undergo further brain surgery this week.

Matthew, who is currently recuperating at home, was hospitalised last month after a vicious assault in the band’s hometown of Chicago, which left him with a fractured skull, a broken jaw and a broken nose.

At the time of going to press, his brother Nathan told Kerrang! that Matthew was scheduled to undergo further brain surgery this Friday (July 16). He said Matthew’s doctors were hoping to reattach a portion of his skull 

 which was removed following the attack to help reduce the swelling of his brain. However, Nathan contacted K! last night to say that Matthew will now undergo a series of tests, including a CT scan, so that doctors can ascertain the level of the swelling.

“Brain surgery is terrifying and temperamental, but we’re obviously hoping for the best possible outcome,” Nathan told Kerrang!.

“I’m taking care of him at home, but we’ve got friends and family that come and help look after him, too,” he adds. “It’s scary, to be honest with you. Matthew has to have eyes on him constantly because if he so much as rolls over onto the exposed side of his head, there’s trouble.”

In related news, the fund set up to help with Matthew’s medical bills is now at $16,000. If you would like to donate, log on to www.throughthepain.org

Contrary to this morning’s report that Bret Michaels and his long-term girlfriend Kristi Lynn Gibson are engaged, the Poison frontman says he’s actually just bought her a new ring.

“No, we are not engaged yet, it’s a work in progress,” Bret told the CBS Early Show. “She has a beautiful promise ring – it’s a promise ring, or a friendship ring, with benefits. That’s what we call it.”

The couple have been dating for 16 years and have two daughters, Raine Elizabeth, 10, and Jorja Bleu, 5.

Buckcherry have released their new single, Our World, to help raise funds and awareness for the victims of the BP oil spill.

“Our World was originally written as an anthemic cry out to help right the social, environmental, economic and other wrongs of this world,” said the band in an official statement. “The band reworked the lyrics to represent their commitment to expose the BP disaster and to bring awareness and support to the crisis and its victims. The track was just rewritten and recorded for this unique and unfortunate situation.”

The track is available to buy now from iTunes. The original version of Our World features on the band’s forthcoming album, All Night Long.

Kill Hannah have been hand-selected by Billy Corgan of The
Smashing Pumpkins for a special U.S. run of intimate venues
beginning July 6th in Cleveland. Billy has championed Kill
Hannah for years as “the future of Chicago rock,” and this
is a chance for the Smashing Pumpkin fans to see why.
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Following the catastrophic oil spill which has devastated the Louisiana coastline, Californian nu-metal heroes Korn have announced that they will not fuel any of their vehicles with BP petrol during their U.S. tour.

“We want to send a message to corporations like BP so that they will take more preventative measures in the future,” says vocalist Jonathan Davis. “The more costly their punishment, the more money they will spend to make sure disasters like this don’t happen again. It’s plain and simple capitalism.” 

Avenged Sevenfold have confirmed the tracklisting for their upcoming fifth studio album, Nightmare.

The album, which will hit stores in the UK on July 26, will feature the following:

01 Nightmare
02 Welcome To The Family
03 Danger Line
04 Buried Alive
05 Natural Born Killer
06 So Far Away
07 God Hates Us
08 Victim
09 Tonight The World Dies
10 Fiction
11 Save Me

Check out the album’s cover art below:

Sick Puppies w/ It’s Alive!

August 5, 2010, 7pm, $18adv./$20dos.

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