Foo Fighters Streaming New Album Sonic Highways Online

The album, which features the band traveling to different music cities around the country to record one song, features Zac Brown, Joan Jett, Joe Walsh, Ben Gibbard and Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen. Listen on iTunes Radiohere

This week's episode of the band's HBO series chronicled the making of the album had the guys taking a trip down to Austin, TX to record "What Did I Do? / God as My Witness," featuring Gary Clark, Jr. Read more here.

AC/DC Tease Play Ball Video

AC/DC brought in Bob Richards (Shogun, Adrian Smith Band) to handle drum duties for the shoot for "Play Ball" and the album's title track. "They have never come out with any pretense to be anything else than the best rock and roll band in the world," said Mallet.

Due December 2, "Rock Or Bust" is the first AC/DC album in 6 years and first without founding member Malcolm Young, who retired from the group to deal with ongoing health issues related to dementia.

Check out the photos here.

Bruce Springsteen Unplugs For Heroes

Organized by the Bob Woodruff Foundation, the evening at the Theater at Madison Square Garden raises funds for injured service members, veterans and their families.

For his traditional headlining set, Springsteen played five tunes, including "Working On The Highway", "Growin' Up", "If I Should Fall Behind", "Born In The USA" and "Dancing In The Dark."

The 2014 event raised more than $6 million to assist military families, including a substantial sum brought in by Springsteen himself. Watch the video of Springsteen's performance and read more about the event here.

Video From Metallica's BlizzCon Performance Goes Online

The band's 14-song set opened with "Hit The Lights" before running through tracks from their 30-plus year career. The annual BlizzCon features developer panels, exclusive interviews, intense eSports tournaments and the legendary Friday night contests.

Up next, Metallica will be featured among the artists to perform at The Concert For Valor on Tuesday, November 11, a first-of-its-kind event to honor America's veterans and their families.

The live three-hour concert on Veterans Day will include a wide variety of diverse artists including Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Dave Grohl, Rihanna, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx and Carrie Underwood, among others.

Watch the BlizzCon video here.

Def Leppard Singer Previews Paul McCartney Cover

Originally released as a single in 1972, "Hi, Hi, Hi" was banned by the BBC for its sexually suggestive lyrics. Elliott and Def Leppard also cover the 1973 Wings single, "Helen Wheels", on the project.

"The Art Of McCartney" features a variety of artists joining the former Beatle's long time band to perform songs from the bassist's legendary songwriting catalog.

Guests include Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey, Paul Rodgers, Bob Dylan, The Cure, Brian Wilson, KISS and many more. Check out the song clip here.

Brian May Surprised To Be Playing Arenas With Queen Again

The lineup was named Band Of The Year at the Classic Rock Roll Of Honour in Los Angeles last week. Speaking at the gala event, May told Nicky Horne of the Classic Rock Magazine Show:

"I would go to shows and think, 'Well we used to do that - we used to play in arenas and whatever, but that's never going to happen again.' I didn't feel it in a terribly sad way. I just thought, 'We did that, and now we do something different.'

"Suddenly we're in the same arena again, if I can use the metaphor. How incredible that we can still do that and people still want to come and fill those arenas, and we can still rock the hell out of them. It's very uplifting."

Read more here.

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Dreams Of Playing The End Of The World

Mustaine tells Guitar World: "I have a recurring nightmare where I go onstage and pick up my guitar and it's strung upside-down. I have to play left-handed.

"Or - and this is the big kahuna - I dream that I'm playing and the end of the world happens right there." And he says he only took up guitar in the first place because of his sister. "She sucked at piano, so I just did it to drown her out," he explains. "It's the truth. My ex-brother-in-law had a guitar and loaned it to me one day, and I knew that's what I wanted to do."

Read more here.

Classic Rock Release Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey Acceptance Video

As the pair were unable to be at the show to collect the award in person, they videoed their acceptance speech. Only problem? The video did not get shown at the event

TeamRock says: On a night when most things ran to schedule, we're not quite sure what happened. A host neglecting to read his cue card? Perhaps. The video operator failing to press the right button at the right time? Who knows? Either way, we got it wrong, and we'd like to apologise. Watch the video here.

Navarro Surprised By Jane's Addiction Success

Navarro tells Ultimate Guitar: "There might be a pessimist side of me that didn't even believe it would ever really come out. Growing up in LA, I'm very familiar with people who have lots of big plans and not very much outcome. A lot of people talk about the things they're gonna do and then at the end of the day don't deliver. So I was aware of that at that young age and just prepared for us to be one of those groups.

"I don't think anybody really foresaw us becoming anything more than an underground college radio band. I don't think we did and I know I certainly didn't. There was a radio station here KXLU that was a big supporter of alternative scenes back in the day.

"In my head, if we were played on KXLU, we had made the big time. That was it. We had recorded demos together as a band by the time we did that record. Also I was so young and I was just like a young, drunk kid. I don't even know if I was really thinking about it."

Read more here.

Volbeat Not Impressed With Sound Alike Bands

He tells Toddstar: "It's a little bit weird when you turn on the American radio that a lot American bands sound pretty much the same. Very good songwriters and good songs, nothing wrong with it, but they sound a little bit the same.

"I guess the American listeners and even the radio stations can hear it's a European band being inspired by American music. I guess somehow that has a charm.

"Coming from small country like Denmark where I can hear that's definitely some American inspiration here, but it's also somehow something else." Read more here.

Soundgarden Release Cover Of Sly and the Family Stone Classic

Their latest hint of what's to come from the three-disc release is an angsty cover of Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)." Soundgarden's cover was recorded during the taping of their John Peel BBC Session.

On their cover, gone is the funk of the 1969 hit. Instead, Soundgarden lays on the rock with grunge guitars and Chris Cornell's familiar scream. While the baseline remains, it is Cornell's guttural growl that leaves the greatest mark.

Listen here.

Singled Out: The Wild Beyond's Reflex Driver

Reflex Driver began to take it's current shape during the editing and mixing phase. I scrapped the mid-song jam we recorded as a band and began cutting and pasting choice moments from the session warm ups. I overdubbed several million layers of guitar. Kevin Corcoran slathered on the keys until we had two choirs, two orchestras, seven pianists, a pipe organ and some industrial padding all aimed at making this thing sound stupidly overblown. After all, it's a song about masculinity as an illness. I think my favorite thematic element in the arrangement is the vocal harmony lifted from "She's So Heavy." Which is appropriate, I think, given the subject matter.

I tried to make each individual track overblown in its own way before mix down. The kick sound, for example, is made of five elements: the original recordings of Charles Goold playing the drum (recorded at close and far distances), a sampled kick, a triggered sine wave, and the triggered sine wave running through a distortion pedal. The sine-triggered-by-kick is a familiar hip-hop low-end method. It sounded like sh*t on Charles' kick, because of the nuance in his playing. But I did it anyway, because Reflex Drivers only care about themselves. While forcing the sh*tty and synthetic low end through a distortion pedal and into the mix, it occurred to me that Reflex Drivers probably shouldn't produce records. Reflex Drivers are a big problem in general and I didn't want to be a Reflex Driver. I just wanted to go home. But I was already at home. There was no place to go.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album right here!

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