Poison frontman Bret Michaels has announced the Bret Michaels Super Cruise, due to launch November 10th - 14th in Cozumel, Mexico. Michaels says, "I'll be on board the entire time playing two full concerts. I'll be bartending and most importantly hanging with the fans. Can't guarantee the weather but I can guarantee you'll have the time of your life." more

When asked by a fan on Facebook whether the April 2nd LCD Soundsystem final show at New York's Madison Square Garden would receive an official release, James Murphy answered, "we will!!!!! we filmed it! much nicer than the stream!!!" more

Russell Brand is joining the cast of director Adam Shankman's musical "Rock of Ages," in which he'll play Lonny, who runs an '80s-era rock club. more

Motorhead are to tour Britain again in November, in what's become an annual event. more

Converge are releasing two new shirts designed and for sale with 100% of the profits to go towards Japan Earthquake & Pacific Tsunami relief efforts. more

John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to classic Beatles tune Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds are to be auctioned off in Los Angeles next month more

Cyanide Serenity has recruited Travis Neal (Divine Heresy) as its new singer. Commented the band: "We are incredibly delighted to announce Travis as our new singer. We are hoping this will be the end of constant changing of vocalists" more

ThePRP.com has reported that The Deftones will apparently perform all of their classic 1997 album Around the Fur as well as last year's acclaimed Diamond Eyes at their tour stop in Portland Oregon. more

TV On The Radio will do a Live On Letterman webcast concert from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City on Thursday, April 14 more

Lou Reed's manager won't be prosecuted on a New York City harassment claim stemming from a bizarre squabble with a consultant over money. more

Def Leppard has confirmed June 7th as the North American release date for their first ever live album Mirrorball, which will be available exclusively at Walmart and Sam's Club more

Jam! reports: Looks like Jeff Martin is getting The Tea Party started again. According to various sources, the singer-guitarist will reunite with his Canadian rock power trio to perform at festivals this summer. more

Bassist Tomas "Obeast" Koefoed has decided to part ways with Mnemic: "It's time for changes and towards fans of Mnemic, I'm sad to announce that I have played my last shows with Mnemic in Spain in March. Because of my forever continued dedication to music and metal, it has not been easy to make my decision to leave a great and innovative band like Mnemic after 8 successful years with 4 releases. Personally, I don't feel my ambitions are fulfilled in Mnemic anymore" more

Just days after keyboardist Chris Spicuzza announced his departure from Chimaira, drummer Andols Herrick has done the same. Herrick provided theprp with the following statement: "Since Chris released his statement recently, I suppose it's time that I do so as well since I have been dodging questions and comments for almost as long. I am no longer a member of Chimaira, and actually haven't been since before Christmas." more

The release of the expanded, remastered reissue of Queens Of The Stone Age's classic 1998 debut has been delayed. The album will now be available on May 17th via Rekords Rekords/Domino. more

Foo Fighters set to end Adele's run at the top of UK albums chart Band on course to end Adele's 11 week reign at chart summit more

Ted Nugent has announced Ted Nugent Kamp For Kids 2011. more

Touche Amore will team up with La Dispute and Death Is Not Glamorous for a tour of Europe this summer. more

Exhorder has tapped New Orleans bass player Jorge Caicedo for the upcoming tour with Rigor Mortis. Exhorder was planning initially planning on having one guitar player play bass instead, but many feared the songs would not sound the same more

Orange Goblin will enter The Animal Farm studio in London on Friday, August 12 to begin recording its as-yet-untitled seventh album for a March 2012 release via Candlelight Records. more

Another Breath will disband indefinitely following some final shows in August. Here's the official word: "We plan to host a weekend of final shows in the upstate NY area August 26th - August 28th. We intend to do a show at in our hometown of Fulton, NY (30 min north of Syracuse) on 8/26 and play mostly older songs since this is where the band got its start many years ago." more

On this day in 1963, The Beatles popped in on the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond-on-Thames to check out the then-unsigned Rolling Stones.

On this day in 1969, The Beatles' recording of "The Ballad of John and Yoko" took place with just two members, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Paul played bass, drums and piano with John on guitars and lead vocals. The song was banned from many radio stations as being blasphemous on account of the use of the word, "Christ."

On this day in 1973, Led Zeppelin started a two-week run on the top of the U.K. album chart with Houses of the Holy, also a #1 in the U.S. The young girl, featured on the cover of the album climbing naked up Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, was six-year-old Samantha Gates.

On this day in 1975, The Rolling Stones announced the replacement for departed guitarist Mick Taylor: former Faces guitarist and Jeff Beck Group bassist Ronnie Wood.

McKagan's band, Loaded, will be joined by singer Corey Taylor and guitarist Steve Jones to play Priest's classic, "Electric Eye," according to Blabbermouth.net.

Widely considered the greatest metal bassist of them all, Cliff would ultimately be killed in a freak bus accident on September 27, 1986.

The self-titled release marks a return to the band's original line-up from their 2002 debut Tell All Your Friends: vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist Eddie Reyes and drummer Mark O'Connell have reunited with vocalist/guitarist John Nolan and bass player Shaun Cooper, who departed in 2003.

Titled Searching for Major Tom (it was formerly Seeking Major Tom), the album is due out later this year on Cleopatra Records.

As previously reported, Shatner was thrilled to have Wylde appear on the record, and said, "He's fantastic! I'm energized."

The hard rockers shelved the electronic-leaning recordings they began making with Steve Lillywhite last year and have been working with Nick Rasculinecz on the new recordings.

"We took the best songs we had, added more, and reworked them as a group. They're stronger than before� when it was more one-dimensional," Lee told Spin.com. "My favorite records that came out recently were from Alice in Chains and the Deftones � and [Rasculinecz] produced both. We love working with him � he makes it so fun."

The album's first single "Reap" impacts radio later this month on April 26th but is now available on YouTube with this lyric video here

Joining Durbin for a energetic version of Sammy Hagar's "Heavy Metal" was legendary guitarist Zakk Wylde � ex-Ozzy Osbourne player and leader of Black Label Society.

Universal has officially signed Tom Hanks to produce the upcoming adaptation in partnership with Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool, said Reuters.

Watch their exclusive chat with the Hoppus host at 11pm/10c on Fuse TV! And the Pretty Reckless hit the studio for a live performance!

"Metallica, Anthrax, I still listen to those guys�," King told The Atlantic. "There's a band called The Living Things that I like a lot. Very loud group."

Herrera has broadened his fanbase with the debut of his alt-country band, Tumbledown, and tapped into his 50's/60's melodic rock side project Arthur late last year.

For the first time, the packages for Kinks, Kinda Kinks and The Kink Kontroversy bring together the original LPs with contemporaneous EPs, BBC performances and alternate, mono, demo and single versions, all remastered from the original tapes.

The Essential Korn samples tracks from all six of Korn's studio albums, released on the Los Angeles-based Immortal Records via Epic Records. Immortal was launched in 1994 with Korn's self-titled debut album (including "Blind," "Shoots And Ladders," "Clown," "Faget"). Korn recorded for the label through the end of 2003, when they released Take A Look In The Mirror ("Did My Time," "Right Now," "Y'all Want A Single," "Everything I've Known").

Songwriting is usually a process. It's very rare for me that a song arrives all at once. It's mostly a painstaking operation consisting of a small but intense obsession with a melody, or a song topic, or both- and then a dragged-out process of attempting to twist, turn and manipulate words, syllables, meanings, phases and imagery.

But every so often, there is a song that just lands on your lap. The melody falls from the sky, the lyrics float down right after it, and VIOLA! You've got a song. No pain. No frustration. No twisting and manipulating. It just comes to you and you're done.

My song 'SINNERS' did just that.

I was at a 10-day silent retreat ( ostensibly 'retreating' from drinking, smoking, talking sh*t, eating like sh*t, screwing strangers and partying with my idiot friends.) It was day 5 and the whole song just hit me. Boom.

I wrote the chorus first- then about 5 verses to follow. The most difficult part was, seeing that it was a silent retreat, I wasn't allowed to sing. And because the silent retreat required you not only to abstain from talking, but from writing too, there was no pen or paper anywhere.

I sat and sang all the words in my head to a melody that I hadn't actually heard yet. I had to wait 5 days until I drove home, picked up the guitar and sang the chorus out loud, figured out the chords underneath, and ultimately finished the song.

The most ironic part is that, while on a retreat where I was abstaining from all things unhealthy, I wrote a song about drinking, smoking and screwing.

You can take the musician out of the lifestyle, but you can't take the lifestyle out of the musician.

The Local H dates revolve around the northeast, and the additional shows will take place in Chicago with Oh No Oh My and Denver with The Outfit.

More than 80 shows featuring many artists who have performed at the Blue Note for years will take the city by storm at this year's largest New York jazz festival.

The album is being tracked at Nomad Recording Studio in Carrollton, Texas and mixed by none other than J.T. Longoria (King Diamond, Solitude Aeternus).

The shows will be White Wizzard's first since the return of vocalist Wyatt "The Screaming Demon" Anderson. The tour is set to kick on June 9th at the Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood.

As part of the magazine's 30th birthday celebrations, Ozzy will also play an exclusive, one-off show at London's Hammersmith Apollo on June 21.

Gibson was born in North Carolina and learned to play guitar from his mother. He moved to the Windy City when he was just 13 and played alongside legendary players such as T-Bone Walker, Matt "Guitar" Murphy and Lefty Bates. He also served as a session player and sideman for Ray Charles, Buddy Guy and Willie Dixon.

The event is scheduled to take place at the Craneway Pavilion at 2:00PM on June 25th.

The tour kicks off in Southaven, Mississippi on May 2nd and ends in Mobile, Alabama on May 24th.

Titled simply 35 Years of Stony Plain, the set includes 41 tracks on two CDs, plus a bonus DVD of 11 videos featuring such artists as Jeff Healey, Jay McShann and Johnnie Johnson, Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, Duke Robillard, Corb Lund, Ian Tyson, Downchild and Long John Baldry.