Weezer singer hurt in bus crash

Glen, New York (CNN) — The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday that left him and another passenger in an upstate New York hospital.

Rivers Cuomo, 40, complained of rib pain and was transferred, along with one other passenger, to St. Mary’s Hospital in Amsterdam, New York.

Cuomo’s wife, daughter, and a fifth passenger on the bus were uninjured. The bus was traveling from Toronto, Ontario, to Boston, Massachusetts, for a show Monday night at the Agganis Arena at Boston University.

IZZY STRADLIN – New Album Available Via iTunes This Month, Two Audio Samples Online

According to Chinese-Democracy.Blogspot.com, former GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Izzy Stradlin will release his new solo album, Smoke, via iTunes later this month. Audio samples of two tracks, ‘Breathing’ and ‘Nothing On Me’, are available below.

Smoke features Stradlin, guitarist Rick Richards (JU JU HOUNDS), bassist J.T. Longoria, guitarist Timo Kaltio and drummer Taz Bentley (ex-REVEREND HORTON HEAT). More details will be revealed soon.

Puddle of Mudd Singer Injured During Radio Interview

Puddle of Mudd’s frontman had a bit of an accident last week. It will keep him away from the press but not from the fans as they release a new effort this week. Here is the official word: “I was kind of hoping it was more serious than it is,” says Wes Scantlin about injuring his right foot’s fifth metatarsal bone while in New York City on Monday. “I was told this type of fracture is seen a lot in athlete’s – I fractured mine simply hopping off a stool after our appearance on the radio show Rockline.”

Zakk Wylde Offers To Temp for Ozzy

Say what you want about Zakk Wylde but he is taking the highroad in his firing by Ozzy Osbourne as this Rock Radio report shows: Zakk Wylde says he’d rejoin Ozzy Osbourne’s band to stand in for new guitarist Gus G any time.

Osbourne fired Wylde during the summer, leading to a series of outbursts where the Black Label Society mainman slammed his former mentor, saying he hadn’t been told about his sacking directly and that Osbourne should “man up and pick up the phone”.

Blaze Bayley attacked in Greece

The Blaze Bayley band were attacked on a street in Greece during their current tour, frontman Bayley has reported.

Two men, whom Bayley says were clearly on drugs, nearly ran down one of the band’s entourage after their show in Agrinio, then followed the tour van and threw a brick through one of its windows,

Blaze Bayley: Promise and Terror

narrowly missing someone inside.

In his tour blog Bayley reports: “Agrinio was crazy – a really intimate packed-out gig with plenty of crazy fans and the odd crowd-surfer.

“After the fantastic gig we stopped on the way back to the hotel at a late-night pie shop. I was talking to support act Fury UK’s manager when two drugged-up youths on a scooter drove towards him.

Tour dates ago-go…

Pendulum: Coming this way in May

Henry Rollins, Glassjaw, Enter Shikari, Underoath and Pendulum have all released tour dates for the first half of 2010.

Rollins will bring another spoken-word tour, called Frequent Flyer, in January, with tickets going on sale this Friday:

Hendrix tops rock riff poll

Hendrix: Number one

Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is the best guitar riff in rock’n’roll history, according to readers of the Music Radar website.

Hundreds of people voted in the poll to make the site’s Riff Week celebrations, and a Top 50 has been compiled. Music Radar says: “Whole careers have been built on killer guitar riffs – but what the hell is a riff anyway? Most definitions are along these lines: ‘A short rhythmic music phrase which may be repeated often during a piece.’

Metallica Add Date

Metallica had this news for fans in Ireland: “We’re jumping ahead to May as we continue to roll out the dates for 2010 a few at a time. It’s been over 20 years, so needless to say, we are looking forward to returning to Belfast on May 11 at the Odyssey.”