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The new Alice In Chains album, Black Gives Way To Blue, is now streaming in its entirety at a German website, according to Blabbermouth.net. The band's first all-new studio album in 14 years is due out on September 29th and features the recording debut with the group of singer/guitarist William DuVall, who joined the band when it reunited in 2006, four years after the death of original frontman Layne Staley. DuVall spoke with us about taking Alice In Chains into the future while honoring its past: ["You have to do this in a way that takes into account the legacy of everything they did before, and nobody wants to be a part of anything that tarnishes that and doesn't build onto that, you know, doesn't add to what's there -- least of all me. I don't want to, you know, step in and then step on anything.


Saving Abel has begun recording its second album, which is due out sometime in 2010 and will follow up the band's breakthrough 2008 self-titled debut. The group wrote most of the material while on tour earlier this year, and frontman Jared Weeks told us that it was much more of a band process this time around: ["See, the last album was basically like Jason (Null, guitarist) and I's songs, you know, with these guys. But these guys actually come on on this album and we're actually all involved in the writing and the music and everything. It's actually brought the band closer together, you know. We understand each other a little bit better now."]


Blink-182 has pledged $100,000 to the burn centers that treated drummer Travis Barker after he was nearly killed one year ago in a small plane crash that took the lives of four others. Following the band's show in Phoenix, Arizona this past Saturday (September 19th), the band made contributions to the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Georgia and the Grossman Burn Center in California. The group said in a statement that the donations were being made "in recognition of (the centers') tremendous care and aid of Travis Barker through his recovery from the 2008 plane crash."