So Mr. Freese is releasing a new record. Come to find out he’s also set up a tiered pricing system which will get you extras, and access to him if you tack on an extra $50 or more. The options get more insane the more you spend.

Here’s a taste of what you get for $75,000.

• Signed CD/DVD and digital download
• T-shirt
• Go on tour with Josh for a few days
• Have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story
• Take home any of his drum sets (only one, but you can choose which one)
• Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from Tool’s Lamborghini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while
• Josh will join your band for a month … play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.
• If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4-day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
• Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
• If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks
• Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna

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“Since 1972″ will be out digitally March 24 @ joshfreese.com and a physical CD coming April 14th. Freese sings and plays almost everything on the record. Mr. Fresse has played w/ Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Stained, The Offspring, Sting (what?) and a ton more. He left NIN earlier this year to spend time on this record. 

Austin band The Sword recount part of their tour with Metallica. Read about the private jets, Lars insatiable party vibe and the Grohlercoaster. Do it…

Basically that’s what it boils down to.

Papa Roach let him go about a year ago and since then they’ve been swimming in the cashflow. So now Mr. Buckner wants his cut and to have the band dissolve. It makes sense since his marriage to a daughter of rock royalty didn’t work out. Someone has to pay the bills.

Killing it since he was 8, Ilan replaces Josh Freese for NIN’s 2009 tour. The Lostprophets drummer is 20 years old and played Woodstock in ‘99 when he was only 11. Wow. Go here to see what he’s in for. It’s intense. (scroll to the bottom of the page and play the video). Or watch Ilan light it up below.

Perhaps his hedge fund isn’t pulling it in for him these days or he just wanted to wash over the bad press surrounding the mixing of Metallica’s last record. Whatever the case, Lars parted ways with his Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting, “Untitled (The Boxer)” this week for $13.5 million. Tough times for Lars.

Dave Grohl sits behind the kit contributing his chops to Invaders Must Die, due in March, on a track entitled Run With the Wolves. According to Liam Howlett of Prodigy it is the most, “venemous” track on the record. Dave Grohl spits venom? Nice.

Man Raze is a little bit Def Leppard viaPhil Collen and a little Sex Pistols via Paul Cook. These two got together and created what is billed as, “…a unique clash of 70’s simplicity with 80’s excess”. VH1 Classic is all over it, filming a private show in L.A. which will drop on VH1classics.com later in the year. We honestly don’t know what to think about this. Listen for yourself.

The word from NME is Adam Ficek of Babyshambles (that band w/ Pete Doherty) will release a Christmas single called “Horses” under his solo moniker Roses, Kings, Castles. Is this news worthy? Perhaps by association but all the same it doesn’t hurt to mention it.