A huge thanks to everyone who came out to the desert this past weekend . . . we felt the enormous love and support, so we just had to find a way to make one more Big 4 show in the States happen. Enter New York . . . that's right, the Big 4 of Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and 'Tallica will be in the new version of the famed Yankee Stadium on September 14, 2011!

In the latest video episode, Mike Mangini makes the anxious call to Dream Theater HQ to find out if he has got the gig. As he punches in the number he says: "This is awful, just awful, just say it� don't put me through this."

As the call is answered, James LaBrie takes the bull by the horns and puts him out of his misery. "Obviously this is one of the most important decisions of our career. I'm sorry to have made you wait. None the less we have some news for you. We'd like to welcome you to the family."

"I'm willing," Ozzy Osbourne said when asked about a Black Sabbath reunion. "But there are three other guys as well." And one of them � Butler � publicly ruled out a reunion in February. "It goes backwards and forwards. One day this, one day that. I'm up for it. But we'll see. If it's meant to happen, it'll happen." more

Godsmack mainman Sully Erna has shouted down rumours the band are splitting, and says they'll go from strength to strength even if his solo work takes off. more

Corey Taylor says that the upcoming Slipknot shows are way of letting fans share in celebration of Paul Gray more

Nergal reports Behemoth's first band meeting since he recovered from his battle against leukaemia went well more

Deftones frontman Chino Moreno says that, instead of playing albums in full during live shows, he feels obligated to play tracks from as many releases as possible. more

The Black Dahlia Murder will release their new album, "Ritual", in Europe on June 17 and in North America on June 21 via Metal Blade Records. more

U2 are promising to break the rules of the Glastonbury festival in order to make things up to fans who missed out when they were forced to cancel last year's appearance as a result of frontman Bono's back problems. more

Hatesphere has issued the following update about entering the recording studio in June: 'We have booked the Antfarm Studio, Aarhus, Denmark, from June 13th in order to make you a new album! 'Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Sick Of It All) will be guiding us through it, hopefully without getting too many gray hairs!" more

Voivod will release a new live album, "Warriors Of Ice", on June 17 via Indica Records. The CD was recorded on December 12, 2009 during the band's first headlining show in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in ten years. more

Culture Brats just posted an interview with Greg Kihn where he discussed his new compilation CD, the playoff song he just wrote for the San Jose Sharks, Joe Satriani (who was actually a guitarist for Kihn), and indulged them with an in-depth look at the classic "Jeopardy" video. Check it out here

News Corp. is looking for initial bids for MySpace by the end of the week and expects to announce a deal around June more. Hopefully the first thing they do is fire the person who came up with the redesign and return it to "old school" that actually worked.

Kevin Conklin from 93.7 KCLB Rocks Palm Springs interviewed Mark Tremonti from Alter Bridge backstage at the 4/27 show at the Grove of Anaheim. Check it out here

Degradead will release their third album, "A World Destroyer", in North America on June 28 via Metalville Records. more

On this day in 1963, publicist Andrew Loog Oldham and agent Eric Easton signed a management deal with The Rolling Stones after buying the rights to the group's first recordings for �90. Oldham persuaded keyboard player Ian Stewart to drop out of the line-up and become the band's road manager (while continuing to play piano on the Stones' recordings and, occasionally, on stage).

On this day in 1976, after a gig in Memphis, Bruce Springsteen took a cab to Elvis Presley's Graceland home and climbed over the wall. A guard assumed he was another crank fan, stopped him and threw him out. The incident later became one of Springsteen's best-known audience "raps."

Anselmo's bandmate Pepper Keenan appeared to strike the frontman on the head with his instrument while they were playing the song Lifer, which he'd just dedicated to Pantera icon Dimebag Abbott.

The 51-year-old has dropped out of the band's current activities with immediate effect, citing exhaustion and alcohol issues.

The Pearl Jam and Nirvana guys go back a long way with Watt. In 1995, they all toured together � Vedder was with his side project, Hovercraft, and Grohl and Smear had just begun the Foo Fighters.

Nicholls says: "Members of BMTH, Parkway Drive and Architects decided to play footy and I made the mistake of going in the net. The ball came to me and I knocked it away with my hands.

"If you think going out in front of high-def cameras and millions of people I'm not high on adrenaline, you're crazy," he said. "I'm stoned when that curtain drops. I just don't snort the curtain dropping. I don't snort J. Lo either, though I do breathe her in."

Support for the 'West Memphis Three' has been gaining ground after forensic evidence proved there was no connection between Damien Echols, Jason Baldwil and Jessie Misskelley and the deaths of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, USA, in 1993.

A retrial was ordered in November but by the time it begins the trio will have spent another year behind bars. And although the evidence appears to prove their innocence, the defendants will have to cover the costs of re-testing the material.

"Working with Nicole for the NBA Playoffs spot was amazing. She is the real deal," said Bonham. "Not only is she one of the most beautiful people I have ever met, but she has a fantastic and powerful voice. She has a great rock voice and it worked out fantastic for 'Black Dog'. I was so pleased to be able to bring this song to such a huge sporting event."

The Thin Lizzy mainman was working with Lewis on Still Alive but died before its completion.

Lewis garnered two nods for Breakthrough Video of the Year and Collaborative Video of the Year (with George Jones and Charlie Daniels) for "Country Boy." The song and video helped push Lewis' solo album, Town Line, to the top of the country albums chart.

Fiend Without A Face are a rockabilly/porno/metal concoction mixed with a bit of a country, surf guitar and apple sauce on the side. They've been rockin' house parties for nearly two decades, but word on the street is that they're about to go legit thanks to Rocket Science!

Drummer Pete Sandoval is recuperating from a back injury, with Tim Yeung now behind the kit. Over the past five years, Morbid Angel has been conquering stages across the world, and a return to the studio was inevitable.

What Brings Us Down is a definite favorite of mine off of Speak Through The White Noise. The song has a completely individual character with a mood and feel all it's own.

The verses are pretty different because they're in 7/8 time, yet feel very fluid and natural. I've always found it interesting when songwriters come up with melodies and parts in odd time signatures where you don't notice them until you actually count them out. John Lennon did this quite a bit on more than a few Beatles songs. The chorus straightens out into 4/4 time with a big sequenced synth providing the rolling movement.

What is unique about this song from a recording standpoint is where and how it was constructed and completed. The bulk of it was recorded in a single day off at home during a NIN tour. I had purchased a vintage Roland RE-201 Space Echo and was very eager to use it when I got home, so lots of the guitar parts, rhodes parts, and other keyboard achieved their sound through that tape echo unit. Days off in the following two weeks were spent recording and emailing guitar and MIDI synth parts from various hotel rooms. To date, this was the only time I had recorded a song this way. It really makes you appreciate how advanced technology is when you can record something of such quality on a laptop at your own will. All of the backup vocals and harmonies were recorded in one night after a NIN show in NYC.

In an interview with Jo Sch�ftan of Horns Up Rocks! at the third annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards, Flynn said: "We've been in there for three days. Dave McClain's been laying down the drums, killing it, and we're getting going on the journey. In July we're out on the (Rockstar Energy Drink) Mayhem (Festival) tour, and then the record drops in September."

Some of rock's biggest names have contributed Holly songs to the collection including Kid Rock, The Black Keys, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Cee Lo Green Florence and the Machine, Paul McCartney, Lou Reed and Patti Smith.

"The club would be delighted if Tom agreed to re-do Delilah as the song for the FA Cup final," said a club spokesman. "The reaction of our supporters at Wembley for the semi-final�when Delilah was played over the PA system�was first class. It really helped make it feel like a home game."

When David Bromberg, one of America's finest roots musicians, emerged from a recording hiatus of 17 years with the solo, acoustic, traditional folk-blues album Try Me One More Time (Appleseed, 2007), fans and critics were thrilled, and the CD was rewarded with a Grammy nomination.

The band is fresh out of the studio having completed their upcoming yet to be titled record due out later this year.

In addition to a handful of theatres in the midwest, the band headlines their annual Red Rocks Amphitheatre gig on June 11, where Guster will be on hand to open the show.

Coming off the heels of their highly praised U.K. release, The Vaccines will be bringing their guitar anthems to the stage beginning May 17th in Washington, DC supporting the Arctic Monkeys.

The comeback of Kentucky's premiere punk weekend is set to kick off on Friday, May 20th and continue through Sunday, May 22nd.

This is tribute to the three bands that pioneered the punk revolution in the late seventies, and are still influencing new bands to this day, includes cover versions provided by a varied selection of established UK indie and alternative acts from the last twenty years.

"One of my deficiencies is my voice sounds sincere," Simon said. "I've tried to sound ironic. I don't. I can't. Dylan, everything he sings has two meanings. He's telling you the truth and making fun of you at the same time. I sound sincere every time. Rock and roll has a lot to do with image. If that's not your strength, people find fault with the work."

The U.S. tour will kick off with a hometown show on June 3rd at Satellite in Los Angeles, CA, and wrap up on June 18th at the Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn, NY

2. OK Computer, Radiohead (1997): Radiohead are the Pink Floyd of this generation. They're a band that's capable of being wildly experimental and yet extremely accessible (code words for "weird" and "good"). OK Computer, the British band's third album, found the boys in transition from the stadium-sized riffs of The Bends to the bedroom blips of Kid A. It's an incredibly dense album, sonically, that's able to conjure some amazing atmospheres. It reveals different details depending on if you're listening on headphones, in your car or on your living room stereo. Of course, all that would be for nothing if the band didn't write great tunes � from the sweeping, mini-epic "Paranoid Android" to the music box twinkle of "No Surprises." And then, there's the album's overarching theme � Thom Yorke's vision of a society that struggles with becoming less connected emotionally as it gets more connected digitally. Guitar tandem Jonny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien make sure that you don't just hear the unease in Yorke's voice, but feel it in their ominous, even sinister, playing. The end result: one of the best albums of the '90s, and an all-time classic. � Bryan Wawzenek

1. Nevermind, Nirvana (1991): Nirvana's 1991 masterpiece Nevermind changed everything � and the radical 180-degree turn the music industry experienced in the wake of Nevermind's immediate impact happened in a blink of an eye. Before the phalanx of spandex-clad glam bands that had dominated the '80s knew what two-by-four had just smacked them upside their Aquanet-lacquered coifs (that two-by-four being Nevermind's first single "Smells Like Teen Spirit"), it was out with pointy guitars, eyeliner � and some might argue musicianship �� and in with angst, anger and a whole lot of flannel. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind had very low commercial expectations when it was released in September of '91. So meteoric was Nevermind's rise, however, that it dethroned the King of Pop's Dangerous album barely three months after its release. This was the very moment alternative rock became mainstream, and the music industry has never been the same. Easily one of � if not the � most influential albums in the history of recorded music. � Sean Patrick Dooley