The city of Austin, Texas recently took to the internet, asking internet users to choose the new name for its Solid Waste Services Department. The current leader? "The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts" -- by a huge margin more

Nevermore guitarist Jeff Loomis has contributed a guest solo to the track "Auctioneer Of Souls" from Single Bullet Theory's forthcoming album, "Iv", which will be released later this year via Eclipse Records more

Ozzy Osbourne and Queen's Roger Taylor have both contacted Classic Rock to express their sadness over the death of guitarist Gary Moore this past weekend. Speaking exclusively to CR, Ozzy said: "I knew Gary Moore for what seemed like forever. We'd run into each other many times over the years and we were always able to pick up right where we left off." more

Paul Rodgers has posted the following statement online regarding the passing of legendary guitarist Gary Moore: "Gary was a friend and a truly great man. I respect that he played the game his way... no time for B.S. He was focused and passionate about music and was one of the best. The last time that I jammed with Gary, he came on as my special guest at London's Royal Albert Hall and proceeded to take it to another level... the place imploded! When he played, he was a man on fire." more

Robert Plant will release "Harm's Swift Way", the latest single from his album "Band Of Joy" on February 28 via Decca Records. Plant's version of the track - originally written and performed by the late, great country folker Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997) - features backing vocals from Patty Griffin. more

The Music As A Weapon tour is scheduled to make five Eastern-Canadian stops. The Music As A Weapon features Co-headliners Disturbed and Korn with support from Sevendust and In This Moment. more

Vince Neil has a string of Motley Crue dates to look forward to when he's released from prison later this month more

Iron Maiden, Korn, Cavalera Conspiracy and Mastodon have been confirmed for the Czech Republic edition of the Sonisphere festival, set to take place on Saturday, June 11 on rhe old military airbase at Bozi Dar Airport, Milovice (30 km from Prague). more

The Steve Miller Band will return to the OC Fair in Costa Mesa, California on Thursday, July 21 as part of the Summer Concert Series at the Pacific Amphitheatre.

Augustana will release their self-titled third album for Epic Records on April 26th. The first single from the album, "Steal Your Heart," will go to radio on February 14th. more

CKY has revealed a small batch of tour dates set to take place across the United States. more

Dates continue to surface for the two-week March tour that will feature The Red Chord, Trap Them, and Gaza. more

Shai Hulud will reportedly team up with Ligeia for some European shows this spring. more

Black Tusk will re-issue their debut album Passage Through Purgatory this spring via Relapse Records. more

Agnostic Front frontman Roger Miret will host a LIVE Fan Q & A followed by a live stream of the 2006 DVD Live at CBGB, this Friday, Feb 11th. The chat will start at 12:30 PM PST/ 1:30 PM MTN/ 2:30 PM CNT/ 3:30 PM EST here

After nearly a year of writing and demoing new material, it appears The Living End will be hitting the studio later this month to begin recording their sixth full-length. more

Kreator, Wolf, 1349, Nemhain, Survivors Zero and Def-Con-One have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 12-14, 2011 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, United Kingdom. more

Hate Eternal will headline a European tour this spring with support from Obscura, Beneath The Massacre, and Defiled more

Nothington will be releasing an acoustic 7-inch in May via Red Scare. more

"Van Halen dates are getting locked in," music reporter Nui Te Koha announced Wednesday morning (Feb 9) on Triple M Melbourne's Hot Breakfast. "They'll be here with David Lee Roth. Van Halen representatives were here with The Eagles during The Eagles tour in December."(Ed note: Irving Azoff manages both bands)

The Thursday, March 24 performance will also feature Roger playing early hits, including material from "Live At Leeds."

Each single will get its own CD (running from "Brown Sugar" through "Mixed Emotions" to "Biggest Mistake"), along with rare B-sides, live versions and remixes. The result is 173 different tracks spread out over the set. A whopping 80 of them are currently unavailable. The set comes housed in a pink box that bares the band's famous lips logo and features a 32-page, hardback book with photos, essays and an interview with bassist Bill Wyman.

The song will be available to download for free for 48 hours from www.thestrokes.com , and will arrive at radio on the same day.

So what could this 'major' news be.... We've already reported that Leppard will release their first live album in May, which will contain "three new studio tracks," according to an interview guitarist Phil Collen did at the NAMM Convention in Anaheim last month.

The 1976 set found Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio at their creative peak, backed by the high-octane band of drummer Cozy Powell, bassist Jimmy Bain and keyboardist Tony Carey. The album featured such classic tracks as "Stargazer," "Starstruck" and "Light in the Black." Now, that set has been expanded in a hard rock fan dream package.

Just click on any of these links to watch at 7.30pm Eastern Standard Time (12.30am UK time):

www.BonJovi.com, www.facebook.com/BonJovi, http://ustream.tv/BonJovi, or http://live.newsinc.com/bonjovi/index.htm

[An online tabloid] caught up with Perla at LAX on Monday, returning home from Slash's Super Bowl appearance with the Black Eyed Peas in Dallas on the weekend.

The two rockers have interacted quite a bit the past few years; Zombie and Cooper played the Halloween Hootenanny tour last fall and had previously done a short run together.

Here are the details from Activision: In anticipation of the upcoming March 8 release of Relentless Reckless Forever, Finnish heavy metal gods Children of Bodom will rock fans with three tracks for the Guitar Hero Music Library this month, including early, exclusive access to "Was It Worth It,"the first single off theirforthcoming album.

"I think Steven [Tyler] is one of the great rock vocalists of all time," Meat Loaf tells USA Today. "I have so much respect for him [but] there's just something about me that says, 'I love Steven, but I don't want to see him on American Idol. I just don't."

There's still no official word from the festival. Previously, organizer Michael Eavis said, "There's an American artist that I've been wanting to have for years and yonks and yonks and yonks," according to NME.com. Could he have been talking about the R&B/pop singer? Beyonce was at Glastonbury once before, in 2008, when her husband Jay-Z headlined, but she has never performed there.

This is the band's third secret club show in the past 2 weeks, following surprise gigs at Velvet Jones in Santa Barbara and the Dragonfly club in LA.

According to Undercover.fm, Johnson spoke to Australia's Watcha News and said, "last year we were talking about race series I could do. Australian V8 Supercars came up and I'd love to have a shot in one of them. It's going to be quite a year. My season will start in Florida, where I live, and with a bit of luck it could end up in a V8 supercar Down Under."

"I am in Aerosmith. I am not going anywhere," he wrote. "The band isn't writing any more. It was only for 8 days. If ya need a jolt get my last solo CD."

Somewhat after the fact, I realized that the album's opener, 'It's All About Tonight' had perfectly encapsulated what had become a recurring theme in my writing; the idea that you just don't know what's around the corner and that it's critical to remain open to the possibilities...that 'tonight', one way or another, always has the possibility of being a game-changer. And, oh yeah...this cut proves that the ability to rock hard is not limited to twenty year olds!

30. "Welcome to the Jungle," Guns N' Roses (1987): You know you've scored a killer riff when it becomes a staple at all major sporting events to fire up a crowd. The first song ever co-written by Slash and Axl Rose, "Welcome to the Jungle" was the second single from Guns N' Roses landmark 1987 debut album Appetite for Destruction. In his autobiography, Slash says it was Axl who remembered and reminded him of the classic riff when GN'R were first starting to write songs together. The Chapeaued Shredder originally conjured "Jungle's" riff while shacking up in his mother's basement. � Sean Patrick Dooley

Cavern City Tours, who own the Cavern Club replica (the original was demolished in the '70s) will present a series of special Beatles events, including a show from the Mersey Beatles, a tribute band.

Alice Cooper will be inducted by Rob Zombie (White Zombie), Neil Diamond will be inducted by Paul Simon,

The CD will be released on April 26th on Clutch's label Weathermaker Music.

Additional supporters have also been confirmed, Titus Andronicus, Jenny And Johnny, Farmer Dave Scher, Conduits and Dawes will each be joining the band on select dates.

Carrabba will also play the album in its entirety (followed by an assortment of other Dashboard songs) in Austin, Dallas, Columbus OH, Cincinnati, Nashville, Charlotte and Atlanta.

Restored to pristine mono mixes for the first time since their original 7" vinyl releases, Roy Orbison: The Monument Singles Collection presents The Big O's core classic catalog the way it's meant to sound.

They will take the stage in their home state of Florida for two nights � April 16th at Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise and April 17th at St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa.

The U.S. trek launches March 24 in Chicago and will visit Nashville (3/30), Huntsville, AL (4/5), Tupelo, MS (4/6), Little Rock, AR (4/23), Waterloo, IA (4/26) and Grand Rapids, MI (4/27) along with the previously announced cities

The group will enter guitarist's Michael Keene's studio in March to begin tracking the new effort and they will be documenting the entire process via a series of webisodes, so keep an eye out for the debut episode this March at www.facebook.com/thefaceless.

For those in the progressive rock community P�r Lindh is considered a keyboard wizard � so much so that he was chosen to play keys for the reunion of the legendary Nice (a prestigious position only held by keyboard visionary Keith Emerson) With the release of several highly acclaimed albums, the P�r Lindh Project band has garnered worldwide acclaim. After original lead vocalist Magdalena Hagberg sadly passed away in 2007, and a subsequent hiatus by the band, P�r felt the time was right to record and release his next album and recruited the exquisite vocalist Alan Lewis, former Alaska member, who is the most recent vocalist with American prog legends Starcastle.