Sevendust [ tickets ] guitarist Clint Lowery has left the band's current tour due to "personal issues."

"Sevendust has made the decision to continue its present tour for its deserving fans and deliver a show one has come to expect from the Sevendust moniker," said a statement on the band's website, which doesn't say who will be filling in on guitar.

A Saturday night (12/18) dinner concert and auction raised more than $100,000 for 3 Doors Down's Better Life Foundation, which the band established this year "to make a positive change in the lives of children in need of food, shelter and medical assistance, and to enhance the lives of children and young adults with special needs," according to a press release.

Besides 3 Doors Down, the event at the Grand Casino Theater in Biloxi, MS, featured performances by Darryl Newton, Shinedown, Tracy Lawrence and members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Blues guitarist Son Seals died in Chicago Monday (12/20) of complications from diabetes. He was 62.

Seals won W.C. Handy Blues Awards in 1985, 1987 and 2001.

The Fountains of Wayne track "All Kinds of Time" is being used in two commercials promoting the National Football League. According to a press release, the band wrote the song with the NFL in mind. One of the spots debuted last week on ABC-TV's "Monday Night Football."

"I always pictured a bunch of slo-mo NFL Films footage in my head when I wrote this song," the band's Adam Schlesinger said. "Too bad the commercials aren't long enough to include a little room for that guy with the low voice to do a little rap in the middle."