Whitechapel were detained in Germany following an incident at their hotel on 4/20 that included mattresses being thrown out of windows and fire extinguishers and alarms being set off. more

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey will be performing the whole of Tommy, at four upcoming UK shows in July. Daltrey performed the classic Who album at the recent Teenage Cancer Trust concert. more

Def Leppard, Tesla, Poison, Styx, Lynyrd Skynyrd are confirmed for the Legendary Buffalo Chip's 30th annual Party during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally which runs from August 6th-13th. more

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington has designed a snowboard to benefit Music For Relief Japan. Grab details here

Every Day Is Yours To Win, the latest film in R.E.M.'s Collapse Into Now Film Project, is currently streaming on YouTube's homepage for 24 hours. The film features an introduction by Michael Stipe and co-director Jim McKay, who are the guest curators for the day. Check it out here

Cory Muro, the 23-year-old drummer for Punchline, filed a report Tuesday with police alleging that members of Brokencyde assaulted him and a friend on Monday night. more

Molotov Solution, Legend, Betrayal, and The World We Knew will tour the U.S. together this spring on the "Mosh It Up Tour". more

Metal Injection spoke with legendary Star Trek actor William Shatner on the black carpet of the third annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards. He talked about his upcoming covers album, Searching For Major Tom, which features Zakk Wylde on a Shatner cover Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man'. Says Shatner: "I love Black Sabbath, they were great. Zakk turned me on my ear," Check out the chat here

Orlando Bloom based 'Sympathy For Delicious' role on Ian Brown and Oasis Actor inspired by Liam and Noel Gallagher and Stone Roses singer more

HellYeah, the band featuring former members of Pantera & Mudvayne, are slated to release their third album in late 2011. more

Sass Jordan has joined forces with Whitesnake members Brian Tichy and Michael Devin to form S.U.N. (Something Unto Nothing). more

Paradise Lost has announced that their former drummer Jeff Singer will be standing in for current drummer Adrian Erlandsson at a couple of upcoming shows. more

Melechesh have amicably parted ways with bass player Rahm who officially joined the band a year ago. The band cited professional reasons as grounds for this. more

If the record industry wants music subscription services to become mainstream products, it should pay close attention to the factors behind growth at Netflix. In the first quarter of 2011, the online video rental service added 3.6 million subscribers, to finish with 23.6 million. To put it another way, the company's subscriber numbers increased 69% in a single year. With Netflix, consumers have proven they will rent content -- even re-run content -- and stream it from the cloud. Read the full story at Billboard.biz here.

On this day in 1976, customs officers on a train at the Russian/Polish Border detained David Bowie after Nazi books and mementoes were found in his luggage. Bowie claimed that the material was being used for research on a movie project about Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Paul Goebbels.

"We are looking to book something on the East Coast because of the success of this � it should hopefully come together in a week or two," Ulrich told RollingStone.com. "Maybe we'll do somewhere in the Midwest and South, too."

Schonfeld told Justice of the Peace Eric Goodman that Neil had completed all of the requirements of his sentence, which ordered him to serve 15 days of jail time, 15 days of house arrest, pay a $585 fine, attend DUI school and attend a victim-impact panel online.

The prosecutor asked whether Neil had also stayed out of trouble, a question that appeared to be in reference to the recent charges Vince faces as a result of an March 24 confrontation he had involving his former girlfriend, Alicia Jacobs. Neil has been charged with battery domestic violence and disorderly conduct stemming from that incident at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Recorded in Sausalito, California's Studio D, and produced by both Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his longtime collaborator and producer Jerry Harrison (Trouble Is, Live On,10 Days Out, Blues From The Backroads, Live! In Chicago), How I Go signals the band's welcome return to the studio.

Duff added, "It was pretty gut-wrenching to write some of this stuff, just because I hadn't faced any of it until I had to write. I didn't [expletive] around, but I didn't throw anybody under the bus, either. There's some things you just don't break confidences on, even if you're warring with someone."

The Smashing Pumpkins will head into the studio in May to record Oceania--"an album within an album"--as part of their in-progress 44-song work Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, nine songs of which have already been released online for free (with two elaborately packaged EPs available in stores).

The percussionist plays a mysterious man who comes to a small town to rob a bank in the movie, an Irish-Canadian project based on a 2002 French film. In the original, Mullen's role was played by French rocker Johnny Hallyday.

The inspiration behind the "Enter Sandman" riff was � Soundgarden. Hammett's most famous riff might never have occurred had he not been a fan of Soundgarden. In a 2008 interview with Rolling Stone, he explained: "Soundgarden had just put out Louder Than Love. I was trying to capture their attitude toward big, heavy riffs. It was two o'clock in the morning. I put it on tape and didn't think about it. When [drummer] Lars [Ulrich] heard the riff, he said, 'That's really great. But repeat the first part four times.' It was that suggestion that made it even more hooky."

The show starts at 10:00pm and is completely free and open to all ages. Joining Rival Sons will be Purple Melon.

Death Cab for Cutie will hit the road beginning July 27th at Columbus, Ohio's LC Outdoor Amphitheater, followed by major shows across the U.S. and Canada. All shows to feature support from Frightened Rabbit.

State Of Possession was the last song written and recorded for Speak Through The White Noise. In fact, it was recorded and mixed only a few days before the album was sent off for mastering.

The meat of this song is a ballsy, distorted, fuzzy, driving riff which was originally written on bass. The riff didn't sound quite right in the register of a guitar so an Electro-Harmonix POG and a homemade fuzz pedal took it to the right place.

The lyrical process for this song was one of the quicker and more enjoyable ones. It's about people who do the bare minimum at work, don't really believe in the product they're pushing, regurgitate somebody else's information, and hold their heads up high while they still have a job. In other words, most A&R people at labels.

When I completed Speak Through The White Noise I entertained the thought of releasing it through a label. After putting everything I had into writing, playing, singing, recording, and making sure this album was perfect to me, getting a comment like, "You need a song like Cage The Elephant or Neon Trees and then we might have something here" gave me the urge to strangle somebody, slowly. If you wanted those bands YOU should've signed them. Unfortunately, when those bands came across your desk you were probably asking people to write the next Killers or Fall Out Boy song. Forward thinking? Nah, don't bother.

"We're doing these shows to honor our promise to play these cities. We said we'd do it, and we are!," the band says on their website.

Iggy & the Stooges "Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans" is the audio document of the reformed Stooges' (Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Steve Mackay, Mike Watt) Raw Power performance at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival on Friday, September 3, 2010.

"I wasn't music at all. It was comedy," Martin said of the quality that first drew him to the group at their first audition in 1962. But very quickly, he came to see that there was an astonishing musical genius under those haircuts. "I think we recorded well over 200 titles and, of those, probably 60% were great songs," he said admiringly. "I mean not just a pass-by thing, but really great. And I would have given my teeth to have written even one of them."

Crowe said the idea for the film was, "How do we do The Kids Are Alright of Pearl Jam, and sonic blast the best stuff?" Crowe added that the band are "not prone to opening the curtain� and that is the challenge and delight of it."

They will be performing on the outside stage on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live tomorrow, Thursday, April 28.

The trek will also include A Bullet For Pretty Boy, This Or The Apocalypse, and The Crimson Armada.

A statement on her official Twitter page says: "We can confirm that the beautiful Poly Styrene, who has been a true fighter, won her battle on Monday evening to go to higher places."

According to Clashmusic.com, Dave Grohl told Absolute Radio that songwriting sometimes comes easily. "Well I guess, once you feel inspired, it's easy. There's never really any blueprint, you just come up with ideas here and there. It's really hard to try and write, it's easy when it's easy. I never want anything to sound too contrived or forced, it has to really just feel natural. We're a pretty prolific band, you know. If you put us in a room right now we could probably have a song for you in about an hour and a half."

Over the decades, the Mississippi guitar innovator's music has been covered and coveted by a huge range of artists: Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Big Head Todd, Rory Block, Led Zeppelin, Juliana Hatfield, Peter Green and the Rolling Stones among them. And the latest and best reissue package of Johnson's own 41 recorded versions of 29 songs � all he left behind besides a few suits and his Gibson L-1 acoustic guitar � has just been released by Sony's Legacy label. Robert Johnson: The Centennial Collection includes those tracks, superbly mastered, plus two perspective-granting discs of his contemporaries ranging from Sleepy John Estes to the Light Crust Doughboys. It also includes the DVD biography of Johnson and his work; Can't You Hear The Wind Howl?

There's still much speculation about how Johnson became the Delta's undisputed master of guitar. All that's known is he left the region as a fumble fingered youth and came back so cutting that he literally frightened Muddy Waters when Waters encountered him performing on a street corner. All the junk about selling his soul to the Devil aside, it stands to reason that Johnson achieved his status through a mix of innate talent, instruction and practice. And that's still what it takes to play like Robert Johnson. That and some soul.

After defeating bitter rivals Manchester United in England's FA Cup semifinal in mid-April, City are now in the FA Cup final (versus Stoke City) in May. U.K. newspaper The Daily Star says Noel has been asked to write an anthem.

Noel has said Oasis's proudest ever gigs were at Manchester City's old Maine Road stadium in 1996. His Epiphone Supernova signature was finished in a "Manchester City" blue; brother Liam wore a City training top on one of those gigs; Noel was in the crowd at the recent 2011 victory against Manchester United; City fans have often sung Oasis � when the late Alan Ball was City's manager, fans would sing "Wonderwall" ending on "And after all / you're my Alan Ball."

For the shows Justin Vernon will perform with a 9-piece band that includes many musicians who contributed to the forthcoming album 'Bon Iver,' out June 21 on Jagjaguwar.