Rob Zombie limited-edition guitar/LPs bundle

PopMarket, which we visited earlier for the Dig That Underground Sound! CD, is offering up this package of a limited-edition Rob Zombie-autographed guitar and a pair of vinyl LPs.

The guitar is made by Artist Series Guitar, which also made the Walking Dead Zombie-Burst guitar we featured earlier.

PopMarket plans a limited run of only 50 of these pieces -- each hand-numbered and signed by Zombie. It features a basswood body, ASG Arsenal humbuckers, an inlaid fingerboard and full-body binding. Each guitar will be shipped with a certificate of authenticity.

Shipped separately will be vinyl copies of Zombie's fifth solo album, Venemous Rat Regeneration Vendor, and the two-disc Mondo Sex Head, a collection of EDM remixes of 13 Zombie tracks.

Price for the package: $649.99. Shipping is free.

Looking backward and forward with One Day, L84dnr

Two more bands deserve thanks for helping make Battle #4 a nice success. Gentlemen, we couldn't have done it without you. You were the best, according to ticket buyers and judges.

Thanks to One Day, including guitarist Marino Topal, wherever the heck he wandered off to:



And thanks to L84dnr, who graced us with some Alex Chilton by way of Joe Cocker:

Happy birthday to Randy Shanks

Happy birthday, Shanks -- Mister getting-ready-to-release-a-Divide the Empire-CD-as-well-as-an-Echo Trace-one.

Did you know that Echo Trace has the most views on our Battle of the Bands #2 playlist?

Pogo Funk set for Battle of the Bands Finale

Battle #1 runner-up Pogo Funk has been booked to fill the slot in the Battle of the Bands Finale vacated by Lunar Levitation.

Lunar Levitation was named the winner of Battle #1 in May and had accepted an invitation to play in the Finale. But a band member's scheduling conflict arose a couple of days ago, forcing a cancellation.

Pogo Funk will join Battle #2 co-winners Macrobliss and Les Gruff and the Billy Goat, Battle #3 winner Slick Ice Blues and Battle #4 co-winners L84dnr and One Day in the Finale on Sept. 6.

Battle #4: Thanks to Who Killed Kenny, Alternate Route and Jam Central Station

Special thanks go out to these three cover bands from Saturday's Battle of the Bands #4.

Thanks to Who Killed Kenny, who came to our rescue late in the game to fill an opening:

Huge thanks to Alternate Route, a band put together by drummer Michael Chedester when his scheduled band had to drop out at the last minute: