After six years away from the spotlight, Spineshank have returned and are ready to release a new record. Guitarist Mike Sarkisyan recently spoke with Noisecreep about the band' forthcoming album, Anger Denial Acceptance, and what led up to the relaunch of the band. more

Casey Royer of Social Distortion, Adolescents and DI fame, has been jailed for 90 days after being found guilty of being under the influence of heroin. The charge follows an incident in which he allegedly overdosed on drugs while looking after his 12-year-old son. more

Former Warrant vocalist Jani Lane has revealed that he is working on a new EP and plans to release the long-awaited Jabberwocky album later this year. more

Dio Disciples have announced five UK dates following their appearance at the Download Festival on June 11. more

Blaze Bayley says his first full tour as a solo performer with hired backing band will take place in the US at the end of the year. more

Periphery has dropped off their current tour with Fair To Midland as a result of "some very serious personal emergencies." more

Ian Anderson is to do a duet with a difference on Tuesday, April 12. He'll be onstage in Perm, Russia, but his partner for this will actually be orbiting the earth in a space station. Because it's US astronaut Colonel Catherine Coleman more

System Of A Down has revealed that it wants its fans to choose the setlist for a large portion of its upcoming reunion tour dates. The band has also revealed that one winner from each tour city will win a pair of tickets to his/her local show. more

'The Essential Korn' is set to be released on May 10th. Tentative track listing is here

Bob Seger says his new album is "half done" Seger is on tour until late May, but he'll start writing songs again in June for his next album more

MyChildren MyBride guitar player Daniel Alvarado has announced his departure from the band, issuing a statement via a blog. more

Craigslist TV's latest episode features a battle of the tribute bands. AC/DC vs. Sex Pistols. Check it out here

Bill Pitcock IV, best remembered for his many years playing lead for the Dwight Twilley Band as well as on many of Twilley's solo records, passed away on April 8, 2011. Cause of death was not immediately released. more

The Faceless have announced the addition of bassist Evan Brewer (Animosity, Reflux) to the group's ranks. more

P.S. Eliot have put their new album Sadie up on If You Make It as a donation based free download. more

Alter Bridge have confirmed that they will release live recordings from their upcoming tour on USB flash drives. more

Goo Goo Dolls have extended their American tour with dates that will take the band across the U.S. through late August. more

Pete Doherty, best known as a member of Babyshambles and The Libertines, was warned by a judge on Friday that he could face time in prison for repeated drug offences after he pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine. more Perhaps he'll serve time after his 30th arrest...

The Beatles' first recording and publishing contract to be auctioned off Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison signed the document in Hamburg more

Former Firewind, Helloween and Kingdom Come drummer Mark Cross has joined Tank. more

Reader submitted rumor: New York City might be secretly planning a huge Green Day concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park because of an online blog http://www.greendayonthegreatlawn.com/

The Rods are to play five UK shows after playing at the Download Festival on June 11. more

On this day in 1964, The Beatles set a new chart record with 14 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The songs ranged from "Can't Buy Me Love" at #1 to "Love Me Do" at #81.

The IRS filed a document last Monday with the L.A. County Recorder's Office, claiming Ozzy and Sharon owe $718,948.25 for the 2008 tax year, and $1,024,175.03 for 2009.

The infamous movie details Metallica's descent into near-collapse during the recording of what would become their 2003 album St Anger. In one of the most remembered moments, "performance coach" Phil Towle has Ulrich and Mustaine discuss the emotional injury inflicted on the Megadeth man when he was thrown out of Metallica in 1983. Now Ulrich says that was the darkest moment in the thrash musicians' relationship. He tells Revolver: "In 1984 and 85 Dave would come up to play San Francisco a lot and I'd always go find him. We'd drink and do drugs and sit around. We got over our issues really quickly. We had a cool thing going through most of the 80s.

This Sunday, April 10, U2 will officially break the record with their performance at Sao Paolo's Morumbi Stadium. At that point, the 360� tour will have fetched more than $558 million. And it's not over yet, kids.

Speaking to the Artisan News Service, Lee gushed about Gaga's style and expressed a desire to work with her.

Gillan had first turned down the offer to join Sabbath, but his manager later convinced him to have a meeting with guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler. The two Sabs met with Gillan at The Bear public house in Oxford, and Gillan officially joined the band in February 1983.

Host George Lopez, who called Prince his "Puerto Rican brother from another mother," says Prince will perform on his show prior to the residency.

Bosses of the music and movie industries have focused on blaming pirate activity for all negative financial results, and have ignored the fact there's a decline in leisure spending across the world, says the LSE. They conclude that pirates are not to blame for a drop in sales. Instead, people are simply spending less on leisure pursuits because they're faced with higher bills, lower pay rises and less job security.

It was Dylan's first appearance in a country where he's still seen by some as an icon of the anti-war movement through politically-charged peace songs including The Times They Are A Changing and Blowin' in the Wind.

Spitz left the thrash giants in the early 1990s to concentrate on his luxury watch business, but returned for their classic-era reunion with singer Joey Belladonna in 2005 and left again two years later.

By most accounts, "Sweet Child o' Mine" was little more than a song born out of chance, boredom and no small amount of sheer luck. Slash, the creator of the song's signature riff, has even been quoted as having a smidge of loving disdain for the song, relegating that classic riff into little more than a "string skipping" exercise. During a VH-1 special, the Chapeaued Shredder admitted that the riff was joke, a "circus" melody he came up with while warming up with former GN'R drummer, Steven Adler. Co-guitarist Izzy Stradlin soon joined the jam with bassist Duff McKagan, while upstairs Axl Rose heard the boys and started writing lyrics, which he based on his girlfriend at the time, former Whilhelmina model (and daughter of Don Everly of the Everly Brothers) Erin Everly. The song originally had three verses, but producer Mike Clink convinced the band to use only two, while also including Axl's "Where do we go? Where do we go now?" mid-song breakdown.

A source told the Daily Mirror: "Chris is at the top of the list to front the official record. He's a huge star and a British musical icon, with an international profile. We're pulling out all the stops to get hold of him, ideally with the rest of Coldplay involved, too.

I had recently read a movie script where a girl returns to her hometown to see just how much she has changed. It was a basic theme really "struggle to move away, move away, find self, come back home with new perspective".

I was sitting with Daniel Tashian, a great Nashville based song writer and i was telling him about the story. Istarted playing a little figure in D and Daniel jumped all over it turning it into a great easy breezy strumming pattern. Before long, we had the chorus which seemed to combine the script story with our own experiences. For example, "walk with me over water" was an image from the script and the actual line "everywhere is home" just seemed to resonate with both of us at the time.

It was a gorgeous summer day and it felt right to sing.

Beck was scheduled to play songs with each of the top 9 Idol finalists, but his publicist said Jeff cancelled because there wasn't enough rehearsal time.

And he's continuing to pressure his bandmates to make a new record, so they can make use of their life experiences and avoid being labelled a legacy act.

Head Foo Dave Grohl appeared briefly (hope you didn't blink) in two skits, but neither were really noteworthy, even by SNL's low standards these days.

Looking back on the band's 20-year history, Davis pinpoints their 1995 support slot with the thrash giants as a learning experience.

Due on May 3, the 29-track double album features 15 songs that were not included on Sade's 1994 "Best Of" disc, including four new, never-before heard songs � like the Lizzy classic.

Blabbermouth reports that McKagan spoke with VH1 Radio Networks' Dave Basner about the experience. "We were both sort of in the same boat. A couple guys recognizing where each other was at," he said. "It's no fun being that completely and utterly addicted. And then we get off at Sea-Tac Airport and it's like, there's a mass rush of people, and all the sudden because it's like him from a big band and me from a big band and all the sudden everybody just stopped and stared at us. Maybe I just remember it this way but everyone just stopped and we were like, 'Okay� where do we go with this thing?' But I went to baggage claim and that was it."

Speaking on the Polish TV show, Dzien Dobry TVN, Maciwoda said that the group planned to release the album early next year. The Polish-born bassist has toured with the German metal band since 2003.

Green Day/Husker Du - I Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely: Part of the 7" Side by Side Series where an original artist and a cover artist do a track for a 7" exclusive to Record Store Day. Green Day pay homage to Husker Du with their cover of "I Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely."

Evile are currently recording the new album at Parlour Studios in Kettering, England, and are once again working with producer Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir), who produced the band's previous effort, 2009's Infected Nations.

The Stone Sour and Slipknot frontman dedicated the song 'Bother' to his former Slipknot bassist during the show and admitted his ongoing grief at the sudden passing of someone he considered a 'brother.'

And the man behind classic rock performances like Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting says he's amazed the classic four-piece act survived the era intact. Johnstone, bassist Dee Murray, who died in 1992, and drummer Nigel Olsson were the mainstay members of John's band during his first flush of success, when they experimented with a wide range of musical forms. But the guitarist reports they also experimented with a wide range of recreational drugs.

Williams told Cosmopolitan, "I got this because we'd be on tour and I wouldn't shave for weeks. The guys would pull up my pants and write 'Shave Me.' Eventually, I got it tattooed on as a little reminder."

Ike Turner Records "Rocket 88": Determining what constitutes the very first rock and roll song is a dicey proposition, but a strong case can be made for "Rocket 88." Recorded by Ike Turner and his band (with Jackie Brenston on guest vocals) at Sam Phillips' Memphis studio in March 1951, the R&B boogie-rocker was fitted with one of the first instances of fuzz guitar. "Man, I had no idea that that song was going to be what it became," Turner said decades later, in an interview with Gibson.com. The song topped the R&B charts for five weeks that summer.

Jansch, one of Jimmy Page's acoustic influences, will join Neil Young starting April 15 in Durham North Carolina, and finishing on May 7 in Chicago.

The frontman is now the last remaining classic-era member of the band. Although neither he nor bassist Kennemore were founding members, they'd both signed up within the first two years and appeared on the band's earliest releases. They split in 1991 but the pair restarted the project five years later.