John Fogerty, who recently wrapped up a series of European dates, will be back on the road in North America this fall, and has already announced they first five stops of the tour. As of now, Fogerty kicks things off on September 10th in Mashantucket, Connecticut, with the last date on the itinerary set for September 15th in Rama, Ontario.

Fogerty recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of his comeback solo album Centerfield. Although the album features such classics as "Rock And Roll Girls," "The Old Man Down The Road," and the recent Baseball Hall of Fame-inducted title track, portions of the album remain a bit too dated for Fogerty's liking: "In a lot of ways it's really interesting, of course there's several really good songs on there, but as the guy that listened to this again recently as we were remastering it, that sort of thing, I tended to notice somebody went crazy with the electronic drums (laughs). And that's kind of what stuck out to me. I had kind of forgotten, let's say the local stylistic choices of the day, y'know, 25 years ago. Some of the things sounded a little foreign to me now."

John Fogerty tour dates (subject to change):
September 10 - Mashantucket, CT - MGM Grand At Foxwoods
September 11 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa
September 12 - Saugerties, NY - HITS-On-The-Hudson
September 14 - Rochester, NY - Auditorium Theatre
September 15 - Rama, ON - Casino Rama Entertainment Centre

Guns N' Roses walked off the stage at the O2 Arena in Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday night (September 1st) just 22 minutes into their set, after keeping fans waiting for well over an hour for the band to begin playing. According to Entertainment.ie, Guns came on at 10:25 p.m. -- more than an hour after the opening act finished playing and leading members of the audience to boo and throw water bottles at the stage. More bottles arrived onstage after the group finally did start their show, leading singer Axl Rose to announce, "One more bottle and we're going home, we're here to have fun and we hope you are too, but one more and we are gone."

Three songs later, another object was hurled onstage. Rose said goodnight, the group stopped the show and left the stage at 10:50 p.m. By 11:10 p.m., the house lights had come on and most of the crowd had left, despite staff members saying that they were trying to get the group to return. Finally, at 11:25 p.m., Guns came back to play to a mostly empty venue, with the remaining audience members still angry.

There have been no official announcements about the matter, nor has the O2 issued any statements regarding refunds.

This latest drama follows last weekend's controversial Guns N' Roses gigs at England's Reading and Leeds Festivals, where the band came onstage late despite warnings from the promoters, and had both sets cut short.

Rose posted a series of messages on Twitter claiming that the band was under the impression that their curfew was to be extended, although promoters had clearly said earlier in the week that Guns had to abide by local curfew regulations.

If you are anywhere near New York City at the end of October, you'll definitely want to make this "lecture." The Associated Press reported that none other than Keith Richards will be giving a talk about his life at the New York Public Library on October 29th in promotion of his upcoming autobiography, called A Life.

The chat will take place at the Celeste Bartos auditorium in the library's main branch on 5th Avenue.

The upcoming 11-disc John Lennon Signature Box set due out on October 5th, will feature 13 previously unreleased home demos recorded by Lennon between 1970 and 1980. The bonus disc featuring the Lennon demos will also include six non-LP singles tracks -- "Power To The People," "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," "Cold Turkey," "Move Over Ms. L," and "Give Peace a Chance."

The Home Tapes disc will feature the following Lennon demos: "Mother," "Love," "God," and "I Found Out" (1970); "Nobody Told Me" (1980); "Honey Don't" (unknown); "One Of The Boys," and "India , India" (1977); "Serve Yourself" (c. 1979/1980); "Isolation" and "Remember" (1970); "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" (1980); and "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama, I Don't Wanna Die (1971)."

We asked Yoko Ono why she decided to once again go all out in celebration of Lennon's birthday -- which this October 9th marks what would've been his 70th: "It was planned by Capitol and EMI -- initially. It's the kind of thing that they've never done before; two boxes and two or three CD's and all of them, really together is presenting the ultimate John Lennon as a Renaissance man in a way."

Fred Seaman, Lennon's personal assistant for the last year of his life, recalled that Lennon thought long and hard on the material which became his final set of songs: "The official recording started in August of 1980, but the idea started in the spring of 1980 when John and I were in Cold Spring Harbor. And then in June of 1980, when we were in Bermuda. That's when John really started recording the demos and Yoko was recording her own demos. And they were on the phone and he was telling her what he was recording and she was telling him what she was recording."

Neil Young's upcoming album Le Noise -- his first collaboration with Grammy Award winning producer Daniel Lanois -- will be released on September 28th. Lanois, who's work with Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, and U2 helped redefine how albums sounded in the '80s and '90s, explained that he pushed the boundaries of Young's new music as well, saying, "Neil was so appreciative of the sonics that we presented to him. He walked in the door and I put an acoustic guitar into his hands -- one that I had been working on to build a new sound. That's the multi-layered acoustic sound that you hear on the songs. . . I wanted him to understand that I've spent years dedicated to the sonics in my home and that I wanted to give him something he'd never heard before."

Lanois, went on to explain: "He picked up that instrument, which had everything - - an acoustic sound, electronica, bass sounds -- and he knew as soon as he played it that we had taken the acoustic guitar to a new level. It's hard to come up with a new sound at the back end of 50 years of rock and roll, but I think we did it."

The track-listing for Neil Young's Le Noise is: "Walk With Me," "Sign Of Love," "Rescue Me," "Love And War," "Angry World," "Hitchhiker," "Peaceful Valley Blvd.," and "Rumblin'."

Le Noise will be released as a standard CD, vinyl, digital download, and as a deluxe CD/DVD. The DVD portion, shot by cinematographer Adam Vollick, features eight black and white films of Young performing each song solo on acoustic and electric guitar live in the studio.