Yesterday, METAL HAMMER brought you an exclusive update from the AIRBOURNE guys. If you missed that, or are outside of the UK, fret not- we have it right here for you now!

BLACK STONE CHERRY are currently on a headline tour of the UK (playing Manchester Academy this evening, dontcha know?!) so we took the opportunity, whilst the band were in London, to have a chat with the guys about their Download performance this year, what they have been up to since then and what it in store for them after the end of this UK run.

If you click on the player below, you can see the interview with Jon (Bass) and Chris (Vocals). Guest appearance- John-Fred Young (drums).

Black Stone Cherry’s current album Folklore & Superstition is out NOW. Pick it up online HERE.

Next up in the Getting To Know You series we sit down with Eric from rock legends KISS. What a great guy he was!!

What were you doing when we interupted you to do this?

I was eating in the other room actually some … chicken quesadilla, with my shoes off, relaxing.

Date of Birth?

May 12th

Where did you go to high school?

I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and I went to High School on the east side of Cleveland. At that time it was in the Seventies and I was lucky to grow up in a cool time of music and culturally, at least in America. It was a typical mid western town but Cleveland’s a real rock n roll city its where the rock n roll fame is at. It was a great place, very open minded- I mean as regards to music (not so much culturally with people), but when it comes to music people just really loved rock n roll there, always have and what we looked forward to was buying records every week or going to a show. I saw so many great concerts in my formative years as a kid so I’m glad I grew up there. It was a great place to grow up, no doubt about it.

What was the first instrument you ever played?

I think I tried playing piano in like the second grade or something for a short time but I gravitated towards drums, even though I love guitar and always have been influenced by mostly guitar based music. I guess I liked hitting things! My mom told me that typical drummer story- that I liked to the hit pots and pans you know when I was a little kid?! She’d pull them out of the cupboard and with the wooden spoons and all that. Once I discovered bands like Led Zeppelin and that in like 1969, that was it, I was hooked!

What was the first band you guys ever played in and what did you guys sound like?

I had a band in sixth grade- I can remember everybody in the band and we called ourselves ‘The Axe’ I have no idea why. We actually had two drummers because another friend of mine also played drums so we ended up taking turns playing. And I do remember playing for the school classroom and in sixth grade- we played Hey Jude by the Beatles and I remember being scared to death!

Favourite food?

Anything Thai

Beverage of choice?

Sparkling water

What’s your biggest peeve on the road?

Just not being able to sleep sometimes- imsomnia

Track of the moment?

Beatles- I’ve been listening to those remastered, reissued Beatles records…

Movie of the moment?

The last one I saw that I really liked was ‘The Watchmen’. That was killer I thought

When you look back on your career thus far, what’s the most prominent moment?

Well in some ways it’s still making them. I still look at it this way- the fact that I’ve been able to make a living as a musician; that in itself to me is the most prominent thing, rather than singling out any particular moment or any band or any person I worked with (because I’ve gotten to play with some great musicians and some cool situations and great people).

The METHODS OF MAYHEM Public Record project is now well underway and a third track is now available on the site for members of the public to submit tracking for.

The track, LOADED, will be available to download until 25th October. Head HERE to download the track and for more information on how YOU can be on the upcoming Methods Of Mayhem record click here.

Tommy Lee and his producer are updating the site DAILY with video updates of progress and talking about the submissions on the site. Below is the latest update. all previous updates can be found HERE.

MADINA LAKE today revealed the video to upcoming single WELCOME TO OBLIVION exclusively on MySpace!

The video, which was shot in LA in September, can be viewed at AT THIS LOCATION.

The band shot some behind the scenes footage at the shoot and if you check out their Kyte player below you will be able to see the guys filming and get the lowdown from Jeezi and Matthew…

The track, which will be available as a digital single on the 15th November, has a dark undercurrent to it’s positive vibes. Click HERE to hear Matthew chat a little about the track.

Our favourite Welshmen have kicked off a series of webisodes today- the ‘KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES In Texas’ updates, shot in the studio during the recording of the bands forthcoming new album! The band have revealed Episode 1- ‘There’s No Seats’ today over at their official site.

Head to KIDSINGLASSHOUSES.COM or here to check it out and see if the lads ever did make it to El Paso.

Episode 2- ‘Even the F**king License Plate Can’t be Arsed’- will load to kidsinglasshouses.com on October 30th…

UK punters can check out the latest update from the AIRBOURNE dudes over at METAL HAMMER right now!

Head over to THIS LOCATION to see a chat with the guys from the studio about taking a break from the recording of the album to head over to Europe and the UK.

This is the second on a series of updates from the studio from the guys. Check back next week for number 3! If you missed the 1st one, head HERE.

The new album from Airbourne is tentativly scheduled for release Feb 2010.

MYSPACE will premier the brand new video from MADINA LAKE on Monday 19th October!

We took some time with bassist Matthew when we were with the band in Manchester recently to chat about the video track Welcome To Oblivion – click on the player below to see a taster of what is to come on Monday and hear all about the single.

The single will be released digitally on the 15th November, and is the third to be taken off the band’s current album ATTICS TO EDEN. Head back to Roadrunner UK next week for our interview with Matthew and drummer Dan about what the band have been up to since they were last here on their UK headline tour in May and what the band have planned for the upcoming months…

PICK UP ATTICS TO EDEN ONLINE HERE.

THE PUBLIC RECORD has kicked off- METHODS OF MAYHEM’S project around their upcoming record which invites YOU the fans to be a part of everything!!

The band have made available 2 tracks so far and are accepting submissions from musicians to be a part of the recording- Talk Me Off the Ledge and Swallow Me- and Tommy has been making daily updates at the website. Check out the latest below.

A new track will be made available on Sunday at Midnight (LA time, 8am UK time Monday morning) and this will be for the track Louder. A weekly recap will be loaded later today…

A couple of weeks ago we had the pleasure of the company of Sharon Den Adel, vocalist with WITHIN TEMPTATION and so we sat down to have a chat with her about the bands forthcoming new album AN ACOUSTIC NIGHT AT THE THEATER, which will hit stores on the 2nd November.

Click on the player below to listen to what Sharon has to say about what the band have been up to since we last saw them and about how the acoustic album came into being…

You can pre-order ‘an Acoustic Night At The Theater’ online HERE and also get a FREE MP3 track.