Tommy Lee will miss three more Motley Crue gigs as he waits for his wounded hand to heal - the rockers have recruited another replacement drummer for their upcoming shows.

Lee scorched his hand while playing with sparklers earlier this month and was sidelined for a string of concerts with Sevendust star Morgan Rose stepping in to help.

Rose's last show came at the Crue Fest 2 concert in Mansfield, Massachusetts on Wednesday night but Lee is still suffering - so his more...

DETROIT (Billboard) – Motley Crue's Tommy Lee is not exactly Dr. Feelgood these days. The drummer will be off his kit for several Crue Fest 2 shows after burning his left hand while playing with a set of sparklers.

Sevendust's Morgan Rose "came charging in like a knight in shining armor" to fill in for Lee, according to a note on bassist Nikki Sixx's MySpace site.

Lee, his left thumb and forefinger wrapped

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Motley Crue singer Vince Neil is vying to get his rock band featured on reality TV show American Idol - after meeting the singing competition's former winner Carrie Underwood.

Neil admits he initially dismissed the series as a karaoke competition, but quickly became a fan of the show after meeting the blonde country star.

Underwood's cover of the rockers' hit song Home Sweet Home is now featured as the anthem for this season's departing

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – The members of Atlanta-based Mastodon have a strange story to tell on their new seven-song, 50-minute heavy metal opus, "Crack the Skye." And the best way to hear the whole twisted tale will be live and direct: the band plans to perform the album, due March 24, in its entirety on their upcoming tour.

Hometown fans will get a preview Saturday night (February 28) when the band headlines a free, 40-band

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On March 24th, Capitol Records will release The Decemberists' The Hazards Of Love, the follow-up to the group's 2006 breakthrough, The Crane Wife, which NPR listeners voted their favorite album of the year.

With their fifth full-length album, the Portland-based quintet of Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query and John Moen solidifies its standing as one of the most innovative creative forces in music today. In an age when singles rule and the death of the album

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Homme and Hughes bring their two man, sex-drenched cabaret back with a mix of authentic 60s blues rock, and a generous sprinkling of glam-pomposity.

Having fulfilled his obligations to one musical family, Josh Homme returns to the bosom of the other, changing into his satirical hat on the way. The twoing and froing might have put obstacles in the way of the Eagles' touring potential but his creative double-life evidently provides

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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - Sting drew cheers with an impromptu jam session at the Sundance Film Festival, but his real purpose was to bring attention to a film dealing with the singer's other passion: rainforest preservation.

Joe Berlinger's "Crude" traces 15 years of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Ecuador residents who claim that oil producer Chevron Corp. is liable for contaminating water supplies around the headwaters of the Amazon River.

Sting and wife

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