Ozzy Osbourne will be honored as a legend at this year's Kerrang! rock awards. The 62-year-old will be given the prize at a ceremony in London on 9 June. more

The management of Evanescence has denied to Blabbermouth.net that guitarist Troy McLawhorn has rejoined the band after leaving Seether last month. more

According to an update on the official Black Label Society MySpace page the band's new unplugged/acoustic album, The Song Remains Not The Same, will now be released on May 10th. Earlier reports indicated it would be released on May 3rd. more

RX Bandits have announced through a posting on their website that they will be disbanding after one final tour this summer, putting a close to their 16 year long career. more

Just a day after their drummer announced his departure from the band, The Famine has announced that they're breaking up. Nick Nowell had the following to say: "As of this past Saturday, The Famine is no more. In my mind, bands break up because Courtney Love kills their singer or because they can't stand each other. Neither of those circumstances is descriptive of our situation. For us, life simply got in the way, as it often does." more

"Wasted Life", a new demo song from Dead Of Night, the band featuring Shadows Fall guitarists Matt Bachand and Jon Donais along with former members of Unearth and Seemless, can be streamed here

Mumford & Sons will perform an exclusive show for Clear Channel's iHeartRadio Live series at the P.C. Richard & Son Theater in New York City on April 13. more

Dave Grohl has revealed the Foo Fighters cut the analogue master tape from new album Wasting Light into a million two-inch pieces, and they're included in copies of the record more

MetalSucks writer Anso DF has published Part 1 of a week-long series that looks back at the life of Type O Negative / Carnivore frontman/bassist Peter Steele. A year has nearly passed since his death, and they reached out to a few of Peter's family, friends, and Type O Negative bandmates, who generously shared their thoughts, remembrances, and regrets. more

Shai Hulud, Naysayer, Endwell, and My Turn To Win will be touring Eastern Canada this summer. more

Corrosion Of Conformity bassist/vocalist Mike Dean says, "We made demos of 11 new songs at our rehearsal space and Woody's [Weatherman, guitar] barn. Some of them were pretty close to the finished idea. I was like the tyrant of pre-production getting everything recorded to see if the ideas held up." more

Dengue Fever been selected to perform at the Ray Davies' Meltdown Festival in London, as well as at the Glastonbury Festival this June.

Limp Bizkit have revealed the dates for its upcoming summer tour of Europe. You can view the full list of announced date here

Lacy Gibson, a gifted Chicago blues guitarist who over a career that spanned six decades came to be known as a musician's musician thanks in part to his flashy jazz-influenced guitar skills, died of a heart attack on April 11, 2011. He was 74. more

Reuters reports that Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham has finished work on his third solo album in six years, a project he expects to release in September and promote with a tour. more

On this day in 1965, The Beatles recorded the song "Help!" during an evening recording session at EMI Studios in London.

On this day in 1967, Nancy and Frank Sinatra were at U.K. #1 on the U.K. singles chart with "Somethin' Stupid," making them the only father-daughter duo to have a chart-topping single.

On this day in 1974, Paul McCartney and Wings' Band on the Run album was at #1 on the U.S. album charts. It was McCartney's third American chart-topping album, which went on to sell over six million copies worldwide.

On this day in 1980, after nearly 4,000 performances, the musical Grease closed on Broadway.

Gray, who would have celebrated his 39th birthday this week, was found dead in an Iowa hotel room last May following an accidental overdose. And his wife Brenna, who was pregnant at the time, says she'd saved him from death once in the past � but couldn't manage it a second time.

The poll was carried out by dating site Tastebuds.fm, which matches people's love lives with their musical preference. Members were asked, "How far would you go on a first date?" and given one, two, or three points for choosing between "Only a chat," "Perhaps a kiss," or "All the way, if there was chemistry." They anonymous results were measured against the current top 20 acts listed on Last.fm.

Former girlfriend Libby Gausden lent the work to London's Idea Generation Gallery when they put together Syd Barrett: Art and Letters, which opened on March 18 and closed on Sunday. But the 12�9 inch painting was missing after the closure.

The movie is a love story told through the music of Pat Benatar, Bon Jovi, Journey, Poison, Twisted Sister and other artists from the 1980s. Cruise will play the role of Stacee Jaxx, the biggest rock star in the world; in the film, he'll sing the Bon Jovi anthem "Wanted Dead or Alive."

"I'm hoping he comes back for the Big Four show in California that's on the 23rd of April," he said. "But, you know... We don't know [yet if that will happen]."

Van Halen, "Eruption": "Eruption," with its blistering licks and innovative techniques, launched a million shredders, but the technique-redefining tapping section includes � by Eddie Van Halen's own admission � a little mistake. Van Halen told Guitar Player, "I took one pass at it and they put it on the record. I didn't even play it right. There's a mistake at the top end of it. To this day whenever I hear it I always think, 'Man, I could've played it better.'" But where is it? It sounds like a mistake can be heard at about 1:01 � listen for a tiny stutter which breaks up the flow of the tapping pattern. However, there are those of us who believe EVH's playing to be utterly infallible and will not accept that he can make mistakes, even by his own admission.

Black Sabbath, "Sweet Leaf": Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" is a heavy, lumbering ode to a particular extracurricular activity the band often engaged in at the time of recording 1971's Master of Reality. The track opens with a tape loop of somebody coughing. Ozzy Osbourne told Rolling Stone in 2004 that the source of the cough was guitarist Tony Iommi. Iommi confirmed, "I was outside recording an acoustic thing, and Ozzy brought me a [not suitable for publication]. I had a puff and nearly choked myself, and they were taping it!"

At the weekend the axeman said the band was ready to go to work � but almost immediately singer Wade Black stated he'd left months ago because the songs weren't good enough, and that Spitz was lying over his involvement.

Drummer Brann Dailor told Noisecreep.com, "We've got a ProTools rig set up and [guitarist] Bill [Kelliher's] been learning how to use that. We're recording bits and pieces and stringing up three or four riffs together and testing them out. It's super-heavy and it sounds killer, so it's doing what it's supposed to do. It's doing what every other Mastodon song has done for us. We really just try to play music that we dig and that's bad-ass. Our approach has always been exactly the same, and we've learned that we need to do it that way. Otherwise, it's just not right."

Warner Music Canada along with EMI Music Canada & Universal Music Canada, have announced the release of a new compilation project, theScore Rocks, in partnership with Score Media Inc.

Thal admits he thinks carefully about the best way to release his own music but he says CD sales have plummeted as technology has advanced.

The producers recognized the need for change, and did something about it: out with Simon Cowell, daytime TV show hosts and anonymous songwriters as judges, and in with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez to add some real music/celebrity cred to the proceedings.

The song, as yet unnamed, will debut at the Starmus Science And Music Festival on the Spanish island of Tenerife to be held June 20-25. They will also record a second song dedicated to cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who was the first man to carry out a space walk. Both songs will be based on "cosmic" sounds, a festival spokesman said.

He explains: "I remember being disappointed in the studio, thinking we really didn't capture the spirit of the song. We thought it was the worst song on the record at the time � but it all came together in the mix.

Shot entirely in HD with 32 cameras, fans will experience the thunderous excitement and intensity of AC/DC "Live At River Plate" on the UK's largest movie screen (roughly the equivalent of 4 double decker buses stacked).

Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott stopped by the station to do the honors of introducing the song's world album premiere. Elliott has a Plant Rock connection: he hosts his own show each Saturday at 6 p.m. (UK time), on which he plays the music that has inspired him over the years.

"The strangest thing about the hiatus is that I actually didn't realize that it was an official thing," singer Tunde Adebimpe told ClashMusic.com. "But we definitely did need to take a break, at least from touring, for everyone's individual sanities."

"I owe everything to Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic," he told NME about his old bandmates, "but needed to find my own territory [with the Foos]."

The event was Sammy's first time singing the anthem at a major sporting event and, while the guys sounded great, you can hear Hagar kind of flub his way through it, missing a few words here and there.

The trek kicks off May 6th at the Highway to Dokkem Open Air show in Leeuwarden,Netherlands at Pop Podium Romein.

Bands such as Fishbone, The Muffs, Ill Repute, Guttermouth, Buck O Nine, Swingin' Utters, Stephen Egerton of the Descendents, Old Man Markley, Manic Hispanic, Cadillac Tramps, Skatalites + Joe Sib's one man show, California Calling and many others will help extend the partying well into the wee hours, making this year's Punk Rock Bowling Tournament & Music Festival the best one yet!

The trek is set to kick off on June 6th at the House of Blues in San Diego, and will run until June 24th where they'll play in St. Petersburg, Fl.

Guitar Hero veterans Paramore join Madina Lake in their downloadable content debut with the four-song Emo Edge Track Pack. "Ignorance," the first single off of Paramore's 2009 record Brand New Eyes and "That's What You Get" the second single from the band's sophomore album Riot! coupled with "Hey Superstar" from Madina Lake's second EP The Dresden Codex and "Across 5 Oceans" from their upcoming record World War III, round out the offering.

The forthcoming movie is being written by Ryan Jaffe (The Rocker) and directed by Jake Scott (Welcome to the Rileys). He's also the son of directing legend Ridley Scott and made a name for himself directing music videos, including R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts," U2's "Staring at the Sun" and Smashing Pumpkins' "Disarm."

Paul will be drawing the attention of teens in NYC and LA to hearing health issues through an after-school event called SOUND RULES! The event, free for teens, will take place at the Director's Guilds in NYC on May 4 and Los Angeles on May 12.

The North American leg of Children Of Bodom's "Ugly World Tour" will kick off in Los Angeles on June 24 and run through July 24 in Montreal where COB will perform alongside KISS, Mot�rhead and more as part of the "Heavy MTL" hard rock festival.

Japanese music and fashion icon Yoshiki, is spearheading the Japan Relief Fundraising Auction (JRFA), a major celebrity auction to benefit the survivors of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The JRFA is in conjunction with Yahoo! Japan, and is the company's first worldwide auction. Yahoo! Japan will have an internationally accessible web page with translations in English, Korean, Chinese, and also, through j-Grab, Russian, Italian and French.

Jimi Hendrix: Arguably the finest guitarist of all time, Jimi Hendrix dazzled on a number of levels � as a performer, a musician and an innovator. Engel explains that Hendrix had a unique approach even to working around his left-handedness: "Jimi Hendrix strung his guitars left-handed; however most people who aren't really closely familiar with his work think that he plays upside down because he uses right-handed guitars for the most part. But he took a right-handed instrument and had them restrung left-handed."

Tony Iommi: Judas Priest's Rob Halford once introduced Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi as "the man who invented the heavy metal riff." With an SG perennially in hand, the English-born guitarist, now 63, overcame not only the hardship of being a left-handed guitarist in a right-handed world, but he also learned to operate a guitar having had the tips of two of his fingers sliced off in an factory accident.

Robbie is currently doing media interviews all around the world, and he stopped by Jools Holland's show to perform the lead single from the record, "He Don't Live Here No More."

Irish loudcore rockers Therapy? will grace the stage pleasing hundreds of fans who voted for them via the festival website.