(BBC) Bob Dylan, The Eagles and Tom Petty are among the music stars who are trying to gain control of their copyrights from record labels, according to reports. more

(AP) A Polish court has issued an innocent verdict in the case of a death metal singer who ripped up a Bible during a show and called it "a deceitful book." Adam Darski, who goes by the stage name Nergal and is the lead singer for the death metal band Behemoth, was charged with insulting religious feelings more

(BW&BK) Envision Radio Networks' The Chop Shop is commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with a free two-hour radio tribute that will include Steve Vai and members of Rush, Aerosmith and Living Colour more

(LG) Portugal. The Man has announced that they've recovered a good portion of the gear stolen from them earlier this month in Chicago. more
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(BMN) Def Leppard members Joe Elliott (vocals) and Rick Savage (bass) will be on hand at Book Soup in West Hollywood, California, signing copies of the band's first coffee table book, "Def Leppard - The Definitive Visual History", on Monday, September 5 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. more

(SRX) L.A. Guns, Jackyl, Pat Travers, Blue Oyster Cult, Starz and The Godz are among the acts that are scheduled to perform at the Blast From The Past festival more

(BW&BK) Trivium is the first officially confirmed act for Australia's travelling festival Soundwave Revolution, which is set to run from February 25th-March 5th more

(LG) Chimaira has formally announced their headlining fall tour, which will also include Impending Doom, Rise To Remain, and Revocation. more

(CR) Blackmore's Night, the group centred around guitar great Ritchie Blackmore and vocalist and partner Candice Night, will play a series of UK dates in September/October. more

(LG) Curl Up And Die guitarist Matt Fuchs recently started a band with Geoff Bergman, who has done time in both Curl Up And Die and Poison The Well. Dubbed Coiled Snakes, the group has been working on a demo EP more

(PR) Guitarist/founding member/songwriter Craig Locicero of the Bay Area thrash band Forbidden has issued the following update: "This is the most painful update I have ever had to write... Due to family obligations on the part of our longtime drummer, Mark Hernandez, Forbidden is forced to cancel its tour of Europe and will start to search for an adequate permanent replacement right away." more

(PR) Katatonia has announced several special 20th anniversary North American shows in celebration of two decades more

(BW&BK) Pretty Maids has posted the following update online: "We invite you all to join us for a special evening in one of the best clubs in Europe, the Z7 in Scweiz, on October 1st for the first ever Pretty Maids DVD." more

(The 1st Five) Third Man Records will be releasing a Blue Series single produced by Jack White for Nashville's doomy power pop wunderkinds Jeff The Brotherhood. The A Side is a 6 and 1/2 minute jam called "Whatever I Want" and the B Side is a killer version of a Tiger B. Smith rocker, "Everything I Need". more

(LG) Living With Lions and Broadway Calls will team up for a run of both U.S. and Canadian shows in October. more

His last recorded work was the track Sin with Murr's band, and earlier this week it was announced the single would be made available months earlier than planned because colleagues felt people should hear it.

Yesterday at 10:30 am EDT, Pearl Jam began revealing the track-listing for the Pearl Jam Twenty soundtrack on PJ20.com by giving fans a new clue each half hour that led to a physical, digital or broadcast location where a track name and the site where it was recorded was revealed.

The Misfits return with their first full-length release of all-new, original material in nearly a decade. Rooted in the horror and sci-fi themes their audience craves, The Devil's Rain will be released October 4th on Misfits Records.

The former TKO axeman, currently touring with his solo band, lost his wife Claire to cancer last month, following the death of his father and that of a close friend. Now legal wrangles have left him unable to access his bank accounts, and he faces having his 11-year-old daughter Blaise taken off him by Social Services.

Fans can hear exactly how the trio fermented during the decade on Primus' new album, Green Naugahyde, due September 13. The band, which features Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane, have revealed a new song, "Tragedy's A-Comin'," which you can hear here.

He reveals he's felt it was the end of the road many times before � and it's his default mood when things go wrong.

The band regrouped in 2009 after a two-year hiatus, at which point their axeman told them he'd finished with them. "I've considered pulling the plug a million times � that's nothing new for me," Flea tells Guitar World. "Things get to be a bummer and I start going, 'This is kind of a drag.'

A press release says that the Metal Bible "is a cool special Bible edition that besides [the New Testament] also features plenty of metalheads that share their life stories and talk about what God and the Bible means to them."

Metallica have thrown their considerable metal weight behind the band and covered a pair of Diamond Head tracks while Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has repeatedly spoken of his love for the British five-piece.

The experimental metal outfit were greeted with unprecedented amounts of negativity on the release of their demo single Surrounded by Silence, which was criticised for its difficult-to-follow structure and the members' deliberate "scene" look.

The video has nearly a 90% negative rating after over 600,000 views. Their Wikipedia page is frequently vandalised and almost every post they make on social media sites is greeted with derisive comments. Printable gems include "It's hard to listen and stop myself from laughing," "Call them De-Sign the Skyline" and "It's so bad I think it gave me cancer." They've become known in some circles as "the worst band in the world."

Last month, DT released "On The Backs Of Angels" - the first single from their upcoming album.

To celebrate the legendary studio's history the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will play songs including "Hey Jude," "Time" and "High and Dry," among others, during the program on Saturday (August 20). The second day's event will feature movie themes, including music from Batman, Star Wars and Harry Potter.

Wright spend recorded three albums with the Aussie giants in the 1980s and fondly remembers life on the road with them as well. "Brian is one of the funniest people I've ever met. He can tell you 20 jokes in five minutes and it was great to be in a band with him," He tells BlastZoneOnline. "Unfortunately he wears a cap, or bonnet as they say in Scotland, and on one particular tour he took to not washing it for a while.

Pehrspace? The place, that is so hard to find, at the back of a parking lot, where all these underground bands play? Wow, unbelievable, this place looks like an apartment unit and cannot contain more than 40 people! Did you say intimate? You have intimate! But according to seancarnage.com the Strokes (not a cover band) were announced for Sean Carnage / Kyle Mabson Monday Night Six Year Anniversary Party, pt. 4 on August 22nd. There was even a link directing to a YouTube video of 'Last Nite',� it sounded like the real thing?

"Scott Asheton didn't want to talk at all for the first edition... He rarely does interviews," said Callwood. "However, after his brother passed away and I was writing for this American edition, he talked to me and really opened up. It was a very moving, humbling experience."

This week, SP were joined by Sebastian Bach and Cee Lo Green for some cover songs, including stuff by Bach's former band, Skid Row, as well as Journey's all-time smash "Don't Stop Believin'."

Alongside photos, memorabilia and various artifacts relating to Nirvana and the Nevermind album, the exhibition also will display contributions from fans, which organizers are currently sourcing. The aim is to "highlight the unique relationship the band enjoyed with their U.K. fans," and people are being asked to send photos and descriptions of anything they think would work well in the exhibition to the curators.

Rival Sons will be joining Evanescence for the three-week trek, which kicks off on October 10th in Oakland, California and finishes on the other side of the country in New York City on November 1st.

They will be hitting Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Tucson and bouncing around Texas along their routing wrapping their tour at the famed Emo's in Austin.

The band will perform 5 songs on the outdoor stage including the hit single "Sail," which just broke into the top 5 on the U.S. alternative radio charts and reached #1 on the Canadian Alternative charts, where it's been certified Gold.

The guitarist believes life on the road is all she needs to remain fit and healthy, and recommends loud music as a cure for feeling down. But Ford does still put time and effort into how she looks. She tells Style Goes Strong: "We all do so much for beauty. On stage every crease and crack in your face shows.

The track has been generating a lot of buzz, particularly in Australia where it was recently featured as the "iTunes Single of the Week".

The Road To Or Shalem is the Middle Eastern progressive metal crusaders' DVD debut.

Autopsy have returned after a decade-plus long hiatus to release, Macabre Eternal, earlier this spring on Peaceville Records.