This week, Soundgarden announced they will reunite in 2010, Courtney Love discussed Hole's first concerts in 11 years, and Lenny Kravitz talked about his Michael Jackson collabo. Meanwhile, Marilyn Manson proposed to Evan Rachel Wood, and Katy Perry got engaged to Russell Brand.

These stories, plus the week's top news, audio/video, and live reviews, below.

Just one month after on-again-off-again lovers Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood reconciled, the shock rocker proposed to the 22-year-old actress -- and she said "yes"! Her parents must be delighted.

When it comes to love, Marilyn Manson is a complicated man.

"Shock rocker" is becoming an inadequate term for Marilyn Manson, whose romantic roller coaster of divorce (Dita Von Teese) and young girlfriends (Evan Rachel Wood) took center stage on his latest album, the SPIN-praised The High End of Low. We have a more fitting title: "Totally-Sick-And-Twisted Rock."

Here's some of the weirdest news to hit the web this week:

Would it really be a heavy metal festival without a sweaty mass of devil horns, flying fists, and bleary-eyed drunkards lumbering recklessly toward the bathroom?

Friday's first stop of Marilyn Manson and Slayer's Mayhem Festival at Sacramento's Sleep Train Amphitheater had those and more, as a 16-band bill played to some 9,000 fans.