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MUDVAYNE LANDS SCREAMING HIT AT ROCK RADIO

Mudvayne's new single, "Scream With Me," got added to 70 rock radio playlists last week, instantly making it the biggest new song on the airwaves. The track is taken from the band's upcoming self-titled album, which singer Chad Gray told us he's excited to see come out next month: "It's a rad record, man. I think it's definitely a Mudvayne record. I think it's a progression, kind of following the same pattern, but it's a little more retro-fitted. I'm not gonna say that we wrote (debut album) LD50 again, we didn't, or (second album) The End Of All Things To Come, but it definitely has a lot of heavy element to it, and I'm really proud of the record."

• Two other tunes from the album, "Beautiful And Strange" and "Heard It All Before," are currently streaming online.
• The new Mudvayne album will be out on December 22nd.
• The CD's cover art and packaging -- including lyrics, credits, inside art and photos -- will be entirely white and only visible with a black light.
• The record will come in four versions: a standard CD, a glow-in-the-dark vinyl edition, a limited edition of 100,000 copies featuring a keychain-sized black light, and a super limited edition of 1,000 copies containing the album on CD, the vinyl version, a 24-inch black light, a black light reactive poster and a black light reactive decal. All four are available for pre-order now.

FLYLEAF DEBUTS IN TOP 10 OF 'BILLBOARD' ALBUM CHART

Flyleaf's second album, Memento Mori, debuted at Number Eight on the Billboard album chart on Wednesday (November 18th), selling 56,000 copies in its first week of release. That's nearly 31 times the amount that the group's self-titled debut sold in its first week back in late 2005, when it moved 1,825 copies before going on to eventually sell more than 1.2 million over the course of the next two years.

Bassist Pat Seals told us that the Texas-based act took a more hands-on approach in the studio this time: "We definitely took a more pro-active, like -- you know, our name's gonna be on this. If something stupid comes out, and it's Flyleaf, then we look like fools, not anyone else, you know. And so we did our best, we hung on with our toenails into what we believed in, and I think it shows definitely a lot more on this record. It feels more like ours than the last one."

• Flyleaf is currently touring in support of Memento Mori and plays on Friday night (November 20th) in Baltimore.
• Other rock debuts on the chart included Switchfoot's Hello Hurricane at Number 13 with 39,000 copies sold, Dashboard Confessional's Alter The Ending at Number 19 with sales of 30,000 copies, and Hollywood Undead's Desperate Measures live CD/DVD at Number 29 with 21,000 copies moved. The week's Number One debut, Bon Jovi's The Circle, sold 163,000 copies.

TOOL FRONTMAN PLANS THREE MORE WINE SIGNINGS

  frontman Maynard James Keenan and his winemaking partner Eric Glomski will do three final bottle signings this year of wines from their Arizona Stronghold Vineyard consortium. The pair will sign at Whole Foods Market outlets in Tucson, Arizona on December 6th, Santa Barbara, California on December 8th and Las Vegas on December 9th. The Tucson signing will last from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., while the other two will go from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

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• These signings will finish up a year in which Keenan and Glomski completed over three dozen signing events at Whole Foods stores throughout the U.S.
• Keenan paired his Caduceus Cellars and Merkin Vineyards with Glomski's Page Springs Cellars to create Arizona Stronghold, and told us the ultimate goal is to create a self-sustaining community in the Sedona region: "What we're trying to do is re-educate people in a way to show them, look, if we can somehow as a culture catch up with where we came from, with small communities, with a cornerstone of a vineyard and a winemaking community, it's almost like that's the catalyst. It's just the cornerstone. And then you start to remember how you can grow your own food and you don't have to panic about any of this stuff."
• A documentary about Keenan and Glomski's quest to bring the wine industry to Arizona's Verde Valley, titled Blood Into Wine: The Arizona Stronghold, is in post-production and set to arrive in theatres in late February 2010.
• Keenan is currently on tour with his side band, Puscifer, which starts a two-night stand in Denver on Friday (November 20th). Tool is tentatively slated to begin work on a new album sometime next year.

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS CANCEL UPCOMING SHOWS TO FINISH ALBUM

Stone Temple Pilots have postponed their previously announced shows in December and January in order to complete work on their first studio album in more than eight years, according to Blabbermouth.net. The shows, which were slated mostly for Canada and the Midwest, will be rescheduled for sometime next year. The new disc will be the band's first since it reunited in 2008 and follows up its last recorded effort, 2001's Shangri-La-Dee-Da.

• Plans for a new STP album were complicated earlier this year by a legal dispute between the band's label, Atlantic Records, singer Scott Weiland and drummer Eric Kretz. Reports have indicated that Weiland and Kretz were looking for a new deal, while the label claimed they were bound to their original contract.
• During STP's hiatus, Weiland recorded two albums with Velvet Revolver and a solo record, while guitarist Dean DeLeo and bassist Robert DeLeo recorded one album with Army Of Anyone.