• Scott Weiland has asked Stone Temple Pilots to "buy him out" - in the end it's always about the money. Meanwhile STP has announced the release of their EP featuring Chester Bennington on lead vocals.
• Plano is getting a music festival in conjunction with Live Nation. The two day fest is scheduled to take place in May of 2014.
• Long time Nazareth frontman Dan Mcafferty has decided to retire after two on stage collapses due to issues with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, leaving bassist Pet Agnew as the only remaining founding member. 
• There are reports coming out of Korea that several members of a  pop group, including a former girlfriend of Kim Jong-un, have been executed for the selling and distribution of sex tapes, with their families being sent to labor camps for guilt by association. Isn't that what makes you a star over here in the good ol' US of A?
• Enjoy your Labor Day weekend.....