Music News: Reports on Led Zeppelin, Chris Cornell, Radiohead, Goldfrapp, and more!

Led Zeppelin May Sale World's Most Expensive Concert Tickets

Led Zeppelin is set to break the world record for selling the most expensive concert tickets in history. Jimmy Page has auctioned 3 tickets to Seatwave.com with a starting bid of $10,000 a piece! YOWZERS! However it’s all for a good cause as the proceeds will all be donated to charity. The bidding will begin Tuesday November 13.

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Chris Cornell Is Enjoying Life as a Solo Artist

Ex-Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman, Chris Cornell spoke openly about the joys and freedom of being a solo artists rather than walking on eggshells and dealing with jealously-issues of bandmates. "I don't know how many times I've said no to [appearances] when I've been in bands, because they only wanted me," he says. These days, however, "I get more elder-statesman-of-rock offers than I used to, simply because I'm still around."

Chris also mentions it was easier to part with with Audioslave than it was Soundgarden, likening his split with Soundgarden to breaking up with his “first love”. "It might have been different if it had been something like Soundgarden, where it was, for the lack of a better term, my first love," he says. "With Audioslave, I didn't have that same connection. To fight through it just didn't seem worth it."

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Goldfrapp to Release New Album in 2008

Goldfrapp members Allison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory have confirmed via their Myspace page that the band plans to release their fourth album February 26 titled Seventh Tree. The band warns that the sound of the album will be a shift from their previous work and fans will be surprised.

The duo writes, "It's very different to [2005's] 'Supernature,' so it might come as a bit of a shock to some of you," They add, "We had fun making it and loved doing something that is in complete contrast to the last album, even though sometimes it took a bit of courage to steer as far away as we did on some of the tunes."

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Radiohead Denies Reports of Internet Sales Figures

Radiohead denies reports that most fans paid nothing for the internet download of In Rainbows

In a response to the Comscore report released last week, Radiohead said in a statement that the published data was "wholly inaccurate" and that it "in no way reflected definitive market intelligence or, indeed, the true success of the project."

However, the band does not intend to release full monetary figures of their online distribution at this time.

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Kanye West's Mother Dies

Publicists have confirmed that rapper, Kanye West’s mother,Donda West died Saturday in Los Angeles, CA. Donda worked closely with her son as his manager and also wrote a book about him titled Raising Kanye: Life Lessons From The Mother Of A Hip-Hop Superstar

The cause of death has not yet been released.

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AOL Issues '11 Unsexiest Men' List

Fall Out Boy bassist, Pete Wentz was voted Unsexy by AOL 11 Most Unsexiest Men List … No shit? However, the list was mediocre at best as it features a slew of reasonably attractive men. Negative Pete (8), James Blunt (7) and Howard Stern (5) the list included Simon Cowell (4), Ben Stiller (11), Josh Hartnett (9), Pete Doherty (1) and Ryan Phillippe (WHAT?! Can we say DILF?!)

Guess what AOL? You FAIL!!!

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