94XPOSED TUESDAY MARCH 23

Ever since Led Zeppelin reunited for one night in December 2007, it’s been every festival promoter’s dream to somehow coax Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones back out of their hiatus and into a headlining slot. Many have tried, all have failed, including Andy Copping of the U.K.’s Download Festival, who admitted to XFM that he approached the Physical Graffiti band about playing the fest, which takes place June 11-13th in Donington Park. Once again the Legendary rockers have turned the idea down. Even without Zeppelin, the Download Festival has pulled together a great lineup, with AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine and Aerosmith headlining the fest’s three nights, being supported by Stone Temple Pilots, Motörhead and Wolfmother. Plus, with John Paul Jones and Them Crooked Vultures also on the bill, Copping’s dream of having Led Zeppelin on the Download stage at least came a quarter of the way true.

LED ZEPPELIN – RAMBLE ON
DISTURBED – JUST STOP

DISTURBED reissues its debut album, "The Sickness", today in a special 10th anniversary expanded edition. The album was originally released in March 2000 and remains DISTURBED's biggest-selling disc, with four million copies sold. The CD contained the singles "Stupify", "Voices" and "Down With the Sickness", which is the seventh most downloaded track of the last decade. The 10th anniversary package features two previously unreleased bonus tracks and expanded artwork. It's also available on vinyl for the first time ever. The band has also re-launched its web site with a special section, accessible only by a code included with new copies of "The Sickness", that will feature clips of the quartet in the studio recording their upcoming fifth album, due out later this year.

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MGMT posted a full stream of their forthcoming, Congratulations, on their website after the album leaked online. This gives fans a chance to sample the effort almost a full month before it's April 13 release date. They had this to say about the stream: "Hey everybody, the album leaked, and we wanted you to be able to hear it from us. We wanted to offer it as a free download but that didn't make sense to anyone but us." www.whoismgmt.com

MGMT – KIDS
RUSH – TOM SAWYER

To commemorate Rush’s imminent induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame, CBC have posted a 55-minute interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.You can check it out here. The ceremony happens on March 28 at the George Weston Recital Hall, inside the Toronto Centre For The Arts.

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Cpl Darren James Fitzpatrick passed away late Saturday afternoon in Edmonton surrounded by his family, from injuries he received in a bomb blast in Afghanistan on March 6^th. Cpl. Fitzpatrick, of Prince George, B.C., was a 21-year-old Infantryman and a member of the 3^rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based at CFB Edmonton. This was Cpl. Fitzpatrick's first operational tour. He joined the Canadian Forces in 2006 and had been serving in Afghanistan with the Operational Mentor Liaison Team since last October. Cpl. Fitzpatrick was critically wounded by an improvised explosive device during a joint Canadian/Afghan dismounted patrol 25 km West of Kandahar City in Zharey district on March 6. He was treated at the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield and was then moved to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Cpl. Fitzpatrick was evacuated from LRMC to the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton on Friday. Cpl. Darren James Fitzpatrick passed away late Saturday afternoon surrounded by his family. He died with Honor fighting for freedom. Our thoughts are with the Fitzpatrick Family today and the only song that comes to mind in a time like this is one that says goodbye to a Hero. My hero. Our Hero

FOO FIGHTERS - MY HERO