Hilton lands Tool

Maynard and the boys from Tool have scheduled a tour stop in Ames for Sept. 6th. The melodic metal group is still out in support of the 2001 release, “Lateralus.” Although no opening band has been announced, Tomahawk, a group featuring former Faith No More front man Mike Patton, is currently opening Tool’s summer dates.

Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Iowa State Center ticket office and at all Ticketmaster Centers. Both general admission and reserved seats are $35.

– Trevor Fisher

Corey Taylor reunites old band

Corey Taylor and James Root, vocalist and guitarists for Slipknot, will be performing in Des Moines this month, but not with the rest of the masked crew. Instead, they have decided to reunite Stone Sour, the Des Moines metal band that both were members of before the Slipknot days.

The show will take place Sunday, June 23 at Toad Holler in Des Moines. Down the Sun and Index Case will be opening the all ages show. Doors open at 7 p.m., tickets are $10 and are available through Ticketmaster or at the door.

– Trevor Fisher

The chronicles of a criminal

West Coast hip hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight is ready to tell the truth about himself.

The Death Row Records founder has signed with Acme Literary and Talent and will pitch his memoir to publishers in New York next week, his publicist said.

The memoir, which is still being penned, will chronicle Knight’s rise from a poor Compton football player to the head of one of rap’s most influential and notorious labels. It will include details about his recent four-year prison term for violating probation on assault charges, as well as his relationships with former Death Row artists Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, who was recording a solo album for Tha Row before her death in late April.

– National news gathered by Trevor Fisher from mtvnews.com.