Halfin blogged, "I'm in LA for a couple of days then off to Guadalajara to shoot The Mars Volta, then back to LA for love making, then back to Mexico to shoot Metallica, who are playing three nights in the football stadium, which is now going to be filmed so I have to shoot a DVD cover."

Anthony: Some people want to go through life being bitter and everything. At my age at this point in my career, I want to have fun. You never know how long you've got in this business, so why waste time doing that? It was very disappointing. It started out in 2004 when we did that tour. For whatever reason, the brothers - Eddie in particular - was upset that I was playing with Sammy again. Van Halen wasn't doing anything. And I didn't think I was doing anything to tarnish the band's name, or career or anything. I just wanted to go out and jam a few of these songs - Sammy wanted me to come out and have some fun and the fans wanted to hear it. They were having a great time. So I figured 'Hey, what the heck.'

The video - which comes just days before the launch of Phish's sold-out North American summer tour - is the fifth in a series of innovative event announcements from the band. Phish's first shows in over four years were announced with a time-lapse video of an artist creating a painting that included the band's March 2009 dates at Virginia's Hampton Coliseum. Skywriting, Google Earth-style graphics and the Fenway Park organ were enlisted for announcements regarding the band's 2009 summer tour, generating tremendous chatter amongst Phish fans.

Mark Goldman, the chief investigator for the Lafourche Parish Coroner's office, says Justin Doucet died Saturday morning at Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma.

Originally produced by Bob Ezrin, this multi-platinum effort forever etched the word superstar to Alice Cooper, as this legacy recording has truly stood the test of time.

Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd was originally inspired to become involved with Childhelp when he read A Child Called It, the renowned tale of abuse and neglect by Dave Pelzer, when it was assigned as homework to his daughter. Unable to shake the feelings the book conjured in him, Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson wrote, "A Child Called It" and "Rescue Me" for the band's album Black Butterfly.

The band performs on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, NBC Television in the USA on Friday June 5th.

On September 8, Atco Records, an imprint of Rhino Entertainment, presents the resulting work, Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson BREAK UP, a deeply emotive yet hook-filled song cycle about a tempestuous relationship. The collection will be available at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for $13.98 (CD), $7.99 (digital) and $13.98 (vinyl). A free stream of "Relator" is available now at www.thebreakupalbum.com and for purchase at all digital service providers for $.99 beginning May 26. Prior to the release of BREAK UP, Yorn will release his fourth studio album, Back and Fourth, on Columbia Records June 23.

Apparently some online rat is impersonating Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy. His official Myspace page warns fans, "If your getting messages from Stephen Pearcy "Under My Skin" myspace IT IS NOT from Mr. Pearcy. We have been getting notices that this imposter is sending messages saying he's Mr. Pearcy, which he is NOT!". Mr Pearcy? How un-rock n' roll. more

Limp Bizkit are bringing their 'Unicorns N Rainbows' tour to Mandalay Bay Beach on Friday, July 10th to perform in their first North American concert in eight years as a part of the UFC 100 weekend.more

The Beastie Boys have finished their new album, which they have dubbed "Hot Sauce Committee."more

A former drummer for Billy Joel claims the Grammy Award-winning singer of hits including "Uptown Girl" and "Movin' Out" has stiffed him out of royalties for years.more

God Dethroned will be promoting their album 'Passiondale' (based on World War I) with a whole tour of the Balkans, which will begin a massive World tour.more

Selfish C**t, fronted by Martin Tomlinson, are set to open for reunited Faith No More at their first show (sold out) of the tour -10 June at Brixton Academy in London. We received this bit of hype about the band, "Selfish C**t are probably the most exciting and controversial UK band in 2009. They smashed up Snow Patrol's equipment! Their singer threw horsesh*t at Pete Doherty in front of Buckingham Palace!"

1990s have cancelled their upcoming tour. According to the group, all U.S. and Canadian dates scheduled to begin later this month are a no-go "due to some unforeseen circumstances."more

Glastonbury Goes To 11: Status Quo, Tom Jones, Franz Ferdinand and Spinal Tap are among the diverse acts revealed in the final line-up for this year's Glastonbury Festival. They will join previously announced headliners Blur, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young at the Somerset event. more

Atheist and Obscura will team up for a handful of August shows in Europemore

As from Saturday the 17th of May, Darren Goulding is no longer associated with Aeturnus Dominion. Until a new frontman has been secured, vocal duties will be shared among the current members.more

Obliterhate shuffle: Due to Derrick Ramirez's (Dragonlord / Ex-Testament) unavoidable hectic schedule, Terry Butler (Six Feet Under / Ex-Death / Ex-Massacre) will join the ranks of Obliterhate and has recently laid down all the bass tracks at John and Donald Tardy's (Obituary) Redneck Studios for the upcoming debut album Blessing In Disgust.more

T.I. told fans he would stay optimistic when he heads to prison on a federal weapons conviction. The 28-year-old rapper performed for a packed audience Sunday night in Atlanta's Philips Arena less than two days before he is to begin serving the sentence of a year and a day. more

The Autumn Offering, Threat Signal, The Agonist, and Sybreed will be touring together this summer.dates

Massachusetts hardcore/metal band Ligeia has reportedly broken up. The group was formed in 2003 and had released two albums with Ferret Music prior to parting ways with the label earlier this year.more

Night Of The Vinyl Dead have released My Dying Bride's The Dreadful Hours on edition double vinyl, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. more

Death Threat will release a new EP next month. The effort is titled "Lost At Sea" and will feature three new songs in addition to an Outburst cover.more

Set Your Goals have unveiled the title, track listing and album artwork for their upcoming full-length and debut for their new label, Epitaph. This Will Be the Death of Us and is due out July 21, 2009 and will follow up 2006's Mutiny!. Grab the artwork and tracklisting here

Marilyn Manson's new album 'The High End Of Low', will be in stores tomorrow, Tuesday, May 26th. We had hoped to bring you a review of the effort but his publicist obviously didn't think you were an important enough audience for him to bother with. That being said, you can preview the album for yourself right now on his Myspace.

Scarlet Johansson is continuing her foray into the music world by releasing a second album, which was recorded two years before her atrocious 2008 talking instead of singing debut.more

Former Crisis frontwoman Karyn Crisis is seeking musicians for her new solo band. Drummers, bassists and guitarists in the San Francisco Bay Area who think they are the right people for the project should send links to samples of their playing to [email protected]. more

Venom has announced the addition of drummer Dant� to the group's ranks. more

Trivia question of the day: Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen left the band shortly after the group recorded "Ten," he later went on to form a new group with two members of Blind Melon. What was the name of that band? a) Candlebox b) Temple of the Dog c) Unified Theory d) Hovercraft

This song was inspired by the feeling that I was finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel. And though it felt good to get this song on paper, I felt at the time that it wasn't good enough to make it on a record and set it aside.

Later though, after having a few friends tell me that they thought I should finish it, I made a quick demo of it (just acoustic guitar and vocal) and included it with the other demos I sent to the musicians who would be playing on the record. This is where the song turned a corner. You see with most of the songs on the record I had a very specific idea of what I wanted. But with this one I had none.......... they made it come to life. And when I listen to it now it sounds like a classic record to me. I was fortunate to have some amazing players on the record. Drummer Kenny Aronoff, Bass Player Chris Chaney and guitarists Phil X and Rusty Anderson.