The book of Ozzy Osbourne’s popular healthcare advice column from the Sunday Times in London (and reprinted in Rolling Stone) has been given an October release date.

Like the regular newspaper and magazine columns, the book, called Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy – Advice from Rock’s Ultimate Survivor, sees Ozzy share his hard-won wisdom on a wide variety of topics. The book will also offer memoir-style survival stories never before published.

Ozzy’s advice is generally given in the form of an anecdote about misadventures in his younger days, but the columns also have included insight on how he coped when wife Sharon was diagnosed with cancer, and warnings against the risk of cocaine: “[it] puts a lot of stress on that little wotsit that hangs down at the back of your throat – the epiglottis, or the ‘clack,’ as I’ve always called it. In the mid-1970s, I was taking so much coke, I tore my clack in half.”

Trent Reznor is currently working on a miniseries (to air on HBO and the BBC), based on the Nine Inch Nails album, Year Zero. The 2007 concept record presented a dark vision of the year 2022.

Screenwriter Jim Uhls is working on a script for the science-fiction miniseries, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Uhls has previously worked on the screenplays for Fight Club and Jumper.

Reznor’s been heavily involved in the TV/movie world as of late. In addition to Year Zero, he won an Academy Award with Atticus Ross for their score for The Social Network earlier this year. He and Ross also have been working on the score for the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

1.  Sixx A.M. – This is Gonna hurt
2.  Red Light King – Old Man
3.  Beastie Boys – Make some Noise
4.   Foo Fighters – Rope
5.   TV On The Radio – Will Do
6.  Crossfade – Killing Me Inside
7.   Seether – Country Song
8.   30 Seconds to Mars – Night Of The Hunter
9.   Foo Fighters – Walk
10.  Green Day – Peacemaker

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis admits the band have done poor work in the past – but upcoming album I’m With You isn’t in that category.

The band are poised to release their follow-up to 2006′s Stadium Arcadium, featuring new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who replaced John Frusciante when he refused to return after their two-year hiatus.

Work began in November 2009 and the finished album is due out on August 30. The band are planning to tour for an extended period once it’s released. Kiedis tells Rolling Stone: “I know when we write mediocre stuff and when we write good stuff. I can’t wait to go out and play this.”

Slipknot’s Corey Taylor says the band’s upcoming festival shows will help him decide if he can continue after the death of bass player Paul Gray.

According to the Daily Express, Taylor is still unsure whether the band can continue. He said: “There’s a part of me that’s ready and there’s a part of me that’s not.”I have a lot of trepidation about it. I don’t know how to feel. I know a lot of the guys in the band are trying not to show that side, and I can’t.”

While Gray’s bass duties will be handled by the band’s original bassist, Donnie Steele, Taylor is unsure whether Gray can be replaced. “Without Paul Gray, there would have been no Slipknot, and I mean that sincerely… It’s strange for me to think about the future of Slipknot without him.

“This tour coming up is definitely going to be like baby steps… It’s going to be a long time before I feel OK about it. I’m not saying that I’m not open to it. I’m just saying that I’m not there yet, and I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to get there. So we’re just going to have to see what happens. Only time will tell.”

Coldplay will unveil their comeback single on Friday, June 3. “Every Teardrop is a Waterfall” will stream from the band’s official website, with the download going on sale this weekend.

Rumors have been rife about Coldplay’s new songs. Drummer Will Champion recently posted on the band’s site: “We’re about to play a bunch of summer festivals so it’s as good a time as any to put out a new song.” Among the lyrics: “I turn the music up/ I got my records on/ from underneath the rubble” and “Every siren is a symphony/ every tear’s a waterfall.”

Speaking to Q magazine in November 2010, frontman Chris Martin said the follow-up to Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends is inspired by “’70s graffiti art and Germany’s anti-Nazi White Rose movement.” He added that the new album will be “group-y” and “guitar-y,” with a title that “will probably begin with an M.”

Black Label Society mainman Zakk Wylde says he has no time for musicians who attend rehab to deal with their drink or drugs problems.

When he was told to stop using alcohol last year as a result of suffering serious blood clots in his legs, that’s just what he did: he stopped. And he says that’s the approach he expects from his band.

“The complaint department is closed. You don’t go to rehab, you just stop drinking. That’s Black Label rehab: it’s a one-step programme. Shut up and stop drinking,” Wylde tells the Press of Atlantic City. “I don’t have time for ‘I have a heroin problem,’ I don’t fucking care. I don’t care what you did yesterday or six months ago – I got shit to get done.”