Starfeine reports Hetfield and his family were vacationing in Punta del Este, Uruguay for Christmas when the rocker got annoyed and confronted a few photographers.

James and his son Castor were taking a moped ride in the countryside and were being followed by paparazzi, so he took it upon himself to try and stop them.

The site confirmed that the February 7, 2012 date is indeed the release date for the band's new album, their first with David Lee Roth since 1984.

VHND also reports that the band's 2012 tour itinerary will be announced next week on January 3rd followed on January 10th by the premiere of the first single from the new album along with the video and the initial tickets go on sale for the tour.

"I had a guy the other day who climbed over the gate of our house and started singing Coldplay songs to his friends on the street," Martin said.

Roman Abramovich, the billionaire Russian oligarch known for throwing extravagant parties, has hired the veteran rockers to entertain at the exclusive event, which will be held at Abramovich's estate on the Caribbean island of St Barts. The 45-year-old Abramovich, who owns the Chelsea football club, is spending more than 5 million pounds (approximately $7,850,000) to entertain the 300 guests expected to attend. Those invited have been told to wear "island chic" to the celebration, which will run from 10 pm to 4 am.

Last July, Heart vocalist and longtime friend of the band, Ann Wilson said she had heard some "amazing" new Alice in Chains material and added they were at work on their next album. The reports were later confirmed at one of Alice in Chains only 2011 gigs when guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell ended their set by saying, "Time to head back to the studio and finish that record." Earlier this month Cantrell was asked by ESPN (via Grunge Report) when the new album would be finished, he replied:

The Tennessean reports Frampton has filed suit against Universal Music Group for a half-million dollars in unpaid digital music royalties and for unspecified damages, making him the latest artist to take a label to court on such claims.

Bumped from its initial release date of Nov. 24, 2011 and despite the hundreds of pre-paid advance orders, Rhino Records has decided that it's not a commercially viable project.

In a just-published interview with M � Music & Musicians, the legendary rocker revealed that the disc, which is based on two century-old German plays, also involved a lot of improvisation. "[Working with Metallica] was all instinctual," Reed said. "Nobody thought about anything. It was just a great opportunity to play together. I had a certain sound in my head that I wanted to try to get, and I got it. The way we did this is that if everybody didn't agree, we didn't do it. It wasn't majority rules�it was all together or nothing."

Aerosmith are now sharing some videos of their Japanese trip. Bassist Tom Hamilton plays tour guide through Osaka, Tokyo and Fukouka, wandering the streets to show off some interesting sights.

The second part of The Wake Up Tour is set to feature support from Hawthorne Heights, Madina Lake, and The Young Electric.

Rivers was 88. A multi-instrumentalist, Rivers zeroed in on the tenor saxophone in the mid '40s, and soon became an integral part of the then-thriving Boston jazz scene. During the '60s he played with such seminal artists as Miles Davis, T-Bone Walker and Billie Holiday.

Feedback was amazing and the quartet doubled the crowd every week in each room they played.

"My first electric guitar, it was like from Sears � it was a [Gibson] SG�" he said. "My parents just didn't really seem too supportive of it in the beginning, because they figured it's either gonna sit in the closet and collect dust, or 'he's gonna play it and it's gonna be loud and annoying.' It was kind of a difficult thing to convince them that I was gonna be serious about it, and I wanted this�" He added that, yes, he still has that guitar!

Donegan earlier this year told Gibson.com that classic metal guitarists inspired him to delve into guitar playing in the first place: "I can't really single out any player, but I liked going to concerts and the idea of being in a band where you see the impact four or five guys on stage have over thousands of people. So, that power and the scenario of the lead guitar just pummeling through the speakers were two things that caught my attention. Early on, I got into a lot of the classic metal players: Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath; the guitarists in Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensryche, Pantera. These bands all had great guitar players, so it definitely inspired me to go down that road."

Red Fang are hitting the road in support of their album 'Murder The Mountains' which was recorded The Decemberists' Chris Funk and the album was mixed by three-time Grammy Award winner Vance Powell (White Stripes, The Raconteurs).

The Boston band's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 5, 1998, and stayed there for four weeks. Ironically, the tune wasn't written by anyone in the band; the songwriter was Diane Warren.

The Neologist have collaborated with Samus for their first release, "Shadowchild".