Contactmusic.com are reporting that budding filmmaker Jack Osbourne is set to make a horror movie inspired by and named after his father Ozzy Osbourne's rock band, Black Sabbath. more

Kings Of Leon have confirmed a summer tour that will kick off in late July. Special guest Band of Horses will open all dates on the tour. more

Director Cameron Crowe tells Rolling Stone his upcoming Pearl Jam documentary will debut in September. more

Killing The Dream will be disbanding following a final show in July. Vocalist Elijah Horner had the following to say: "After eight years, Killing The Dream is gonna call it a day. We've seen three continents, 46 states, met a million amazing people and eaten about 3428234 pizzas- all because of this stupid band. I feel SO lucky to have been able to be a part of it. " more

The Strokes have returned to the studio to begin recording new music, just one month after making their chart comeback with Angles. more

Stratovarius leader and current Symfonia guitarist Timo Tolkki has teamed up with fellow ex-Stratovarius members Tuomo Lassila (drums), Anti Ikonen (keyboards) and Jari Kainulainen (former member of Evergrey) to record a new studio album. The CD, which will be released in January 2012, will celebrate Stratovarius' 30-year anniversary and will feature the same lineup as the one that recorded Stratovarius' "Dreamspace" Lp, originally released in 1994. more

All Shall Perish, have announced "This Is Where It Ends" as the title of their fourth full-length which will be released on July 26th (North America) and July 29th (Europe) more

Following the final Broadway performance of the American Idiot musical, Green Day performed a bonus, hour-long concert for theatergoers in attendance more

According to KPSP-TV, more than 20 people were arrested at this past Saturday's (April 23) "Big Four" concert at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, California. more

Like Moths To Flames will hit the road with The Browning, Your Memorial, and Delusions in June for a three-week tour. more

Expire, Minus, Soul Search, and Twitching Tongues will be touring together this summer. more

Tom King, the founder and lead guitarist of the Outsiders, a Cleveland, Ohio rock band that scored a huge hit with 1966′s "Time Won't Let Me," passed away in a nursing home on April 23, 2011. He was 68. more

On this day in 1982, Out on a day's shopping and standing next to his $50,000 Porsche on Hollywood Boulevard, Rod Stewart was mugged by a gunman.

On this day in 1994, Singer Grace Slick pled guilty to pointing a shotgun at police, claiming she was under stress because her home had burned down the previous year. She was later sentenced to 200 hours of community service.

Adler's band plays a selection of original tracks but devotes much of their set to Guns N' Roses classics like "Sweet Child O' Mine." Their most recent single is "Alive," which is inspired by Adler's recovery from drug addiction, as chronicled on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinskey and Bob Forrest. Adler recently returned to the Celebrity Rehab series to tape new episodes, but he assured his fans that his recovery was going well and that he was visiting Dr. Drew for "a tune up."

"She was humming along to their hit 'The Number of the Beast' while carrying out her chores. And after all her hard work backstage she was rewarded with some drinking games."

On the first webisode, the band revealed the seven drummers who auditioned for the band: Aquiles Priester (Angra, Paul Di'Anno), Peter Wildoer (Darkane), Virgil Donati (Planet X, Seven the Hardway), Derek Roddy (Hate Eternal, Nile, Today is the Day), Mike Mangini (Steve Vai, Extreme, Annihilator), Thomas Lang (John Wetton, Robert Fripp, Glenn Hughes) and rumored favorite Marco Minnemann (Kreator, Necrophagist, Ephel Duath, Joe Satriani).

"The myspace show thing is seriously [expletive]. People add us to shows and we can't delete it but shows up on our page. Your site does harm," singer Robin Pecknold wrote on Twitter. "Can someone on the inside PLEASE mercy-kill our myspace page. We aren't opening for Take That. Jesus."

In February the bassist said: "I would like to make it clear, because of mounting speculation and rumours, that there will definitely be no reunion of all four original members of Black Sabbath, whether to record an album or tour."

Ozzy suggests that he and the bassist are not on speaking terms. He tells VH1: "I've spoken to Tony Iommi, I speak to Bill Ward from time to time, but I haven't spoken to Geezer for a while."

Barker's album "Give The Drummer Some" features Slash along with The Transplants on a track called "Saturday Night." (The Transplants is a Barker side band with Tim Armstrong of Rancid and Skinhead Rob.)

Ulrich says when more US dates become concrete, his band are open to alternatives. He tells LA Weekly, "I know Tom was talking about The Four Horsemen � but inviting the other bands to come up and play a Metallica song just doesn't seem right. It would seem a little selfish."

The news shows will take place on Thursday, April 28; Friday, April 29; and Saturday, April 30 at the Los Angeles Forum. The 14 remaining Los Angeles concerts will be announced shortly.

Lollapalooza 2011 will take place on August 5-7, 2011 at Chicago's Grant Park. Here is the official word with the additional lineup info:

Kyuss Lives! features original Kyuss members John Garcia, Nick Oliveri and Brant Bjork along with guitarist Bruno Fevery.

However, the leaked version of the album was the "clean" version and the band wants you to hear the effort in all it's nastiness.. or rather, uncensored and thus issued this message:

"Fans (or opportunists from ebay) track me when I land at any airport, follow me into the bathroom, and hang around my hotel, looking for my John Henry (autograph). It is unfortunate, but I have to draw the line.

Rumours have been rife in recent weeks that Snell has parted company with the band he helped form in 2005. Nothing has been confirmed, although guitarist Jason Hook last week said: "There is something going on, but I'd rather keep my mouth shut so I don't get into trouble."

He says the singer will deliver wisecracks via the band's in-ear monitor system just as one of them is about to embark on a virtuoso performance � and the ploy has caught the axeman out in the past. "Axl has got a great sense of humor. He's a real ball-buster. Sometimes he'll tell jokes into our monitors while we're trying to take a solo. He's f**ked me up a few times."

The famed literary publishers will offer serious money for Morrissey's book, which pleases the singer greatly. According to The Independent newspaper he told BBC Radio 4: "I'd like it to go to Penguin, but only if they published it as a Classic. I can't see why not � a contemporary Penguin Classic. When you consider what really hits print these days and when you look at the autobiographies and how they are sold, most of it is appalling. It's a publishing event, not a literary event."

Frontman Jeff Tweedy told RollingStone.com that the album is in the mixing stages and that the band recorded more than 20 songs, "out of the things I had coming in, which was somewhere in the fifties and sixties. It's a pretty great time for me writing-wise."

Sometimes the words and atmosphere of a song come from places in you that you're not necessarily fully conscious of at the time of writing. Later, associated with real events, they may take on new and/or fuller meanings. 'March Winds' was like that for me.

My Father passed away on the 28th of March at the age of 84. Having done battle with numerous health problems for quite a few years, he surrendered finally to wait out that inevitable eventual call of whatever-waits-next, and I spent a lot of time with him in his last weeks laid up in a hospice.

'March Winds' was the last song I played for him while he was alive. I played it again at his funeral. Though I did not write it for or about him, it will now always have a relationship with him in my mind. I thought initially that perhaps when I got on to writing April's song, it would be about my Father in some way. I even wrote a few lines, but realized that March Winds is that song, even though I didn't set out writing it for or about him. In his final days he struggled through some terrifying visions and spiritual challenges before his mind and body finally broke down completely.

I almost dreaded getting in to writing April's song for fear that it would be doomed to being something awful born from the state of grief, jetlag and emotional weariness I was in. Instead, working on it was more like medicine. It's not necessarily a happy song, but from where I was at, to work on it lifted me. To look around from the vantage point of the dark places I'd been recently, hanging around death's door with my Dad, to arrive back in England and see the long warmer days and everything flowering and this Royal Wedding approaching, I just felt like "no, you can't just go straight from that challenging dark world into a pastel Hallmark card can you? Please April, have a little sympathy and rain a little?" So on a certain level maybe April Showers portrays something of this transition between death/loss and embracing life while you still have the gift of it. It wasn't a difficult song to write. Once I had the basic feel of it taking form, I just kept letting it grow. Until I ran out of time. Which may be a saving grace for me on this project. (As I've said before there's a danger of overcooking songs when I've got unlimited time.)"

The city takes the time to honor its own with the Broad Street Walk of Stars. This year's honoree is legendary drummer Bev Bevan, who was a pivotal member of both The Move and E.L.O. and later served a stint in Black Sabbath during the 1980s.

The presentation ceremony took place before the bands history-making Big Four show at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, on April 23. In attendance at the presentation was Slayer's Jeff Hanneman, who had been absent from his band's recent shows while recovering from surgery on his left arm. Hanneman took the stage for Slayer's two encore songs, after his seat was kept warm for the main set by Exodus guitarist Gary Holt (Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O'Brien had also substituted for Hanneman at recent shows).

38. Rust in Peace, Megadeth (1990): When your name is Dave Mustaine and your r�sum� includes a stint in Metallica during their formative years, you must feel a lot of pressure to crank out thrash classics. All of Megadeth's prior albums bristled with legendary thrash moments but 1990's Rust in Peace took all of that promise and paid off big-time with a cohesive, savage, raw, technically brilliant, vitriolic, angry slab of pure thrash power. The band's current lineup recently celebrated Rust in Peace's 20th anniversary by playing the whole album from start to finish around the world. � Peter Hodgson

Earlier this weekend, the Roy Orbison estate released a rare audio clip of the rock and roll pioneer commemorating what would have been his 75th birthday on April 23.

Time.com reports that Sony initially hired Ohga back in 1953 as a sound/electrical engineering consultant while he was studying music at Tokyo University. He is credited with standardizing the size (12 centimeters) and capacity (75 minutes) of compact discs, which, according to Sony, were created to provide "sufficient recording capacity at 75 minutes to enable listeners to enjoy all of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony without interruption."

Ohga's rise up the ladder at Sony was impressive, holding the position of president until 1995 then chairman until 2003, after which he became a senior adviser. According the Wall Street Journal, Sony's Chief Executive, Howard Stringer, said of Ohga: "It is no exaggeration to attribute Sony's evolution beyond audio and video products into music, movies and game, and subsequent transformation into a global entertainment leader, to Ohga-san's foresight and vision."

McGee started Creation Records in 1983 and played a huge role in the '90s Britpop movement, signing Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Oasis.

"We were going through his Grammys, and so my friend poured some champagne into the Grammy cup and we started drinking out of it. It was like the fountain of youth but the fountain of Grammy. Like, I knew when I tasted out of there, I was going get me one of these, like, 'We gotta work with this guy.'"

The new lineup consists of: Lee Pistolero-Lead Vocals and Guitars, Iggie Pistolero- Lead & good Guitars and Backing Vocals, Jeff Williams- Drums and Kenny K Doll-Bass.

And the former Pantera frontman says a life-threatening moment from his teenage years illustrates his point. He tells MetalSucks: "I'm all for legalising, but it's up to individuals to decide whether it's for them or not. If it f**ks with a person's ability to do their job or hold them back in the fight to become a better person, they need the common-sense to know weed isn't for them

Jean has written and worked with some of the biggest artists of all time, Kiss, Ramones, The Plasmatics and Bruce Springsteen just to name a few.

The story goes that when disc guru Moroder was asked to provide music for the American Gigolo soundtrack he first approached Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac mega-fame but she was unavailable. Number two on Moroder's list was Blondie, then one of the most successful bands on the world, fronted by �ber rock chick Debbie Harry. Moroder gave Harry an unfinished demo of a track called "Man Machine" and invited her to contribute lyrics. In just a few hours Harry had her words and Moroder had his song, "Call Me."