Fans of Guns n' Roses may have gotten a sneak peak of the band's anticipated Chinese Democracy album this summer when it was posted online by a blogger, but today the band itself has released the title track before the album's November 23rd release. In July, Culver City blogger Kevin Cogill posted nine songs on his website, prompting his arrest by the FBI in August (just this past Monday, he pleaded not guilty in court).......

Local music blogger, Kevin Cogill, 27, at Antiquiet streamed nine unreleased Guns N' Roses songs from the album Chinese Democracy back in June. It was a pretty big deal: fans have been waiting for this album for about 14 years now. That excitement led to so much traffic, his site crashed. Then the FBI got involved (and many media outlets), who he has been in touch with since the whole thing started. But this morning......

OUT TODAY: Barbie - Songs from Fairytopia (Koch) Sophe Lux - Waking the Mystics (Zarathustra) Anaïs Mitchell - Brightness (Righteous Babe) Lucinda Williams - West (Lost Highway) Grace Jones - Inside Story (EMI) Gerald LeVert - In My Songs (Atlantic / Wea) Blue Öyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening [Bonus DVD] (Sony) The Doobie Brothers - Definitive Collection (Rhino) Drats!!! - Welcome to New Granada Duran Duran - Essential Collection [EMI] (EMI) Field Music......

Do you realize that The Replacements' "Let It Be" is 22 years old? Indeed, if "Unsatisfied" was a chick, she could buy you a drink at the swinging party. In 1997 Warner Bros put together a 34-track double disc of Replacements "hits" called "All For Nothing / Nothing For All" but none of their earlier groundbreaking Twin/Tone material was included. Today the skies have parted and the angels are looking down lovingly on us......