Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is back in rehab in a bid to beat his addiction to painkillers.

The superstar rocker has battled a reliance on prescription drugs following years of injuries sustained on stage, and has entered his second rehabilitation plan in as many years. In a statement confirming the news, Tyler thanks his family and his Aerosmith band mates for their support - banishing reports he quit the group earlier this year.

In the statement, Tyler says, "With more...

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations briefly evacuated three basement levels after a fire alarm went off Thursday morning, forcing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and pop star Stevie Wonder to leave a conference room.

There was no evacuation in the rest of the 39-story U.N. headquarters building and the Security Council continued a meeting uninterrupted.

People were allowed to return to conference rooms on the first

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Courtesy of NME.com - Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has said that singer Steven Tyler has quit the band "as far as I can tell."

Perry's comments follow those of rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford, who last week (November 6) said that Aerosmith are to hold crisis talks about their future after relations with Tyler became strained.

Now Perry has confirmed that Tyler is unlikely to perform with the band again.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Joe Perry is frustrated that Aerosmith has been sidelined due to Steven Tyler's tour injury.

The group had to cancel their summer tour after the frontman suffered injuries when he fell off the stage during a concert in August.

"The tour was building up to be a great tour, and I was pretty (upset), you know," Perry said in an interview on Wednesday.

The guitarist hasn't

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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Billboard) – The Black Eyed Peas led Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for a 12th week on Thursday with "I Gotta Feeling," while the new season of Fox's "Glee" enlivened proceedings.

The Fox musical's cast recording of Rihanna's hit "Take A Bow" was the top debut at No. 46. "Don't Stop Believin'," another song covered by the motley crew of musical misfits, re-entered the chart

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Following hard on the heels of 2008's Lie Down In The Light, Beware is Will Oldham's alter-ego Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's eighth solo album. It is – unsurprisingly – an organic work of great depth and texture. The melody and sense of acute longing that has infused Oldham's work since his earliest days with Palace is very much present and correct. Beware is an intimate album, full of strong emotion and underlying hope.

Oldham

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Boasting a concrete modern rock sound influenced by such bands as Korn, Pantera and Killswitch Engage, as well as a new album, "The Test", produced by Erik Nelson at Eclipse Studios (Mudvayne, V Shaped Mind), the Danville, Illinois group Super Killer Fire are creating a buzz all their own, and seem to be gaining fans by the day.

Sure, they might refer to their hometown as a 'hole,' but it is where they got together as a band.

"It all started out when Jermery (drums)

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