(Billboard) Foo Fighters have announced two big venues to their upcoming U.S. tour. Dave Grohl and company will make stops in Washington, D.C.'s Verizon Center and New York City's Madison Square Garden. more

(BMN) Due to a band member illness, Megadeth was forced to cancel last night's (Tuesday, August 9) performance at the Zoo Amphitheatre in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on the Mayhem Festival. more

(BW&BK) Megadeth have officially announced the forthcoming release of their thirteenth album, titled TH1RT3EN. The album will be released November 1st, 2011 via Roadrunner Records in North America. more

(The 1st Five) Young Governor (aka the garage rock side project of F**ked Up and No Warning's Ben Cook) has just released a new cassette tape chronicling their/his first three 7″s EPs as well as a live performance recorded on a boat during the 2011 NXNE festival. more

(LG) Portugal. The Man had their van, trailer, and gear stolen after playing Lollapalooza this past weekend. Among the gear stolen are seven guitars, two bass guitars, a banjo, dozens of pedals, several keyboards, an electric piano, and a Hammond organ more

(BW&BK) Devildriver guitarist Mike Sprietzer has released the following update regarding the recent seizure that landed him in the emergency room: "Hey everybody. Thank you all so much for your concern. It means so much to me. I'm doing okay and I'm back home. I'm not sure why, but I had a seizure in a Rite Aid while I was picking up a few last-minute items for our South American tour." more

(LG) Children Of Bodom will be touring in Australia and Asia in November more

(MU) Karma to Burn will soon be embarking on U.S. tour dates supporting the new album 'V,' which recently drop through Napalm Records more

(LG) The Acacia Strain will headline a U.S. tour this fall. The trek will run in October and November and also feature Terror, Stray From The Path, and Harm's Way. more

(LG) All Else Failed has teamed up with War Torn Records for the release of their new EP, "Wouldn't Wish This On Anyone." more

(PR) Jens Broman, vocalist for Swedish thrash band Darkane, has decided to leave the band. Darkane members have issued the following update via their official website: "Jens is replaced by Lawrence Mackrory who sang on our debut album Rusted Angel (1999) and did a guest appearance on 'Chaos vs. Order' on Expanding Senses (2002)" more

(NME) The inaugural Music to Know festival, set to feature bands including Bright Eyes, Ellie Goulding and Vampire Weekend, has been cancelled. The weekend event was due to begin in New York on Friday, but poor sales meant the first attempt at the East Hampton based festival had to be halted. more

The rock giants were set to play their first shows in three years on the travelling Soundwave Revolution festival in September. But the events have been called off after organiser AJ Maddah said they'd failed to secure an appropriate second headline act.

Lord says via his website: "I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travellers to know that I am fighting cancer, and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure.

Road Recovery is dedicated to helping young people battle addiction and other adversities by harnessing the influence of entertainment industry professionals who have confronted similar crises and now wish to share their experience, knowledge, and resources.

ABC has created the spinoff version of its reality hit Wife Swap, in which the wife/mother of a family switches with another to see what it would be like to live with a different family.

It's another nail in the coffin for those who insist the personal problems between Dave Mustaine and his former Metallica bandmates were insurmountable for decades.

He replaces Frank Carter, who left the band after disagreeing over their musical direction.

The group came up with an interesting concept for their new video for "Up All Night," a concept they call: The Blink-182 Film Festival You Didn't Know You Entered.

Here's the official word with the details: The album, which features members both past and present, spans the band's catalogue of six releases and nearly 10 years.

7 new shows have been added, including stops in Salt Lake City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Pompano Beach, Orlando and Dallas.

The Patriot Ledger reports heavy rainfall Sunday morning spawned feelings of frustration, anxiety and despair for live music organizer Gerry McMorrow, who said the wet weather significantly delayed the performance schedule, forced two acts to cancel and seemingly washed away any hopes of ending the festival on a high note.

The Chilis had struggled to regain momentum in 2009 when guitarist John Frusciante decided not to return after their two-year hiatus.

The dates were planned across Australia starting in late in September, with VH as headliners, joined by several acts including Alice Cooper, Machine Head, Alter Bridge, Danzig, Hellyeah, Bad Religion, and others.

Century is home to over 200 acts including Duff McKagan, Behemoth, Iced Earth, Nightwish, Firewind, Paradise Lost, Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom, Deicide, Opath and Napalm Death. And the label claims sales are dropping fast in every region where Spotify operates.

The Foos closed out the weekend spectacle, which featured three days of music in the Windy City.

Corabi recorded two versions of the M�tley Cr�e hit "Hooligan's Holiday" � a stripped-back acoustic version and a more elaborate but still acoustic-based band arrangement � as well as a version of M�tley Cr�e's "Loveshine" and even a song by Corabi's first band, Angora, which was originally produced by Steve Vai.

And he reiterates there's absolutely no chance of a reunion with founding musicians Graham Oliver and Steve Dawson.

He first started collecting garments from friends and eBay last year, from which he produced his first creation entitled Listen to Heavy Metal While You Sleep. It took him three months to stitch everything together.

"There's never any decisions made, that's the thing about AC/DC. Nobody makes any decisions. That's the wonderful thing about AC/DC, it just happens," he said. "Nobody says, 'Right, let's get in the studio by January.' That's because immediately we have an enemy � time. And that makes you worried and that makes you in a box and you have to think."

The Hollies: Look Through Any Window 1963 � 1975 [MSPR $14.98] features all of the band's beloved hits including rocking performances of "Bus Stop" and "Stop Stop Stop" from 1967 and "Look Through Any Window" and "I Can't Let Go" from 1966. Also included is a great 1968 performance of "Dear Eloise", a 1966 rendition of UK chart-topper "I'm Alive" and newly discovered versions of "Jennifer Eccles" and "Carrie Anne" from the 1968 Spilt Festival in Yugoslavia. Of special note is 10 minutes of footage of the band shot in early 1967 at the Abbey Road Studios recording session for their world-wide hit "On A Carousel." The segment includes astonishing footage of Graham, Allan and Tony recording their lead and backing vocals, heard "naked," without the instrumental track. Also featured in the film are performances by the Hollies from the "post-Graham Nash era," featuring Terry Sylvester, and including the worldwide chart-toppers "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)" and a beautiful version of their last Top 10 hit "The Air That I Breathe". In addition, the film features never-before-seen home movies of the group on tour in the '60s in America, Europe and Japan and backstage at television appearances, providing a rare glimpse of their offstage lives.

The band just released their debut single "Junk Of The Heart (Happy)" which will be followed by their brand new album of the same name on September 13th on Astralwerks/Capitol Records.

The tour will kick off September 25th in Minneapolis, MN at Fine Line Music and hit venues nationwide, concluding in Blacksburg, VA on November 1st at Virginia Tech University.

Malmsteen performed the national anthem at the Florida Marlins home game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday; he was also scheduled to throw out the first pitch, but no video of that has surfaced yet.

Tides and Tales is an immediate, compelling 12-song collection that ranges from effortlessly catchy (the chiming power pop of "The Ghost Of Her"; the fuzzy guitar-laced "House On Fire") to quietly haunting and beautiful (the gentle "Blue Blue Moon"; the lilting "Before I'm Gone"; the heart-rending "Flowers In The Dirt") to propulsive and soaring (the dynamic "Possibilities", the driving "Let's Go").

Banjo player Rod Davis, who was replaced by Paul McCartney soon after the Quarrymen started gigging, agreed with archivists who suggested the group first performed in the LIverpool venue on August 7, 1957.

Frontman Leigh Kakaty is looking forward to the dates: "We couldn't be more excited for the upcoming tour. This is the biggest tour of the band's career and it couldn't come at a better time. The fans are going to get their money's worth, that is for sure! We can't wait to get started on 9/29 in Chattanooga! We would like to thank the entire 3 Doors Down camp for giving us this opportunity."

Hit The Wall started off musically as a real slanky dirty groovin track. In pure Adrenaline Mob style it has that powerful energy & flowin' groove to it provided by none other then the master himself Mr. Portnoy. I had previously tracked the song with a drum machine as I always do & Russ & I went to town with melodies & lyrics, Right away Russell just killed me with this Cornell inspired verse that knocked me off my chair in pure laughter & intense excitement. I always wanted the powerful downbeat style fist pumping chorus & this track was just perfect for it. Lyrically Russ & I just tapped into the feeling of being so damn frustrated with certain aspects of life, you just feel like Hitting The Wall. Whether it be someone driving you nuts, or your job, or anything like such. The chorus vocal melody just goes along perfect with that motif & has the sing along chant & scream it out loud feel! The release is my favorite as Russ & I wanted to bring the track into a grinding metal groove where Russ gets all Halford like on it which just sucks you right in, real down & dirty. Only to kick your ass with the solo that follows soon after. It's one of my favorite solos and encompasses different techniques which I love to tap into in my solos. I had been jamming on a real nasty Sabbath type riff & Russ just said, that's it brother!! All of sudden the whole end of the song came to life. But MP's drumming just takes this track to a completely different atmosphere. Mike brings that reckless abandon of Keith Moon in the intro & post solo breakdown & just kills it through out the groove & rest of the track. Nothing short of incredible and you would expect nothing less! Rounding off this power house of a track is the Thunder provided by Paul Dileo which shakes the low end like storm about to break.