Blabbermouth reported early this morning that Disturbed has been forced to bow out of the last four shows on the first leg of the "Music As A Weapon V" tour, canceling appearances in San Antonio , Texas on Wednesday night (February 9); McAllen, Texas on Thursday (February 10); Lubbock, Texas on Saturday (February 12); and Tulsa, Oklahoma on Monday (February 14). more

Red's new album Until We Have Faces debuted in the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart this week. They actually claimed the No. 1 spot of the Hits Double Daily sales chart here

Metallica's Kirk Hammet tells Rolling Stone that Gary Moore's "influence is strong to the point that the opening lick of the guitar solo of 'Master of Puppets' is a variation of a lick that Gary Moore played a lot. I remember the first time hearing his blues album and just getting totally blown away � not only by the playing but by the sound of it too, his tone." more

Culture Brats interviewed David Beadle, the bassist for The Naked And Famous, about the band, music videos, musical influences, conquering America, Nine Inch Nails, Naked & Famous jeans, Andrew W.K., life on the road, and rock star moments. Check it out here

According to Steve Green from the Las Vegas Sun, a Las Vegas company co-owned by Leon Hendrix, brother of rock icon Jimi Hendrix, has scored a legal victory in trademark litigation with the company that licenses Hendrix music and trademarks. more

Due to an overwhelming demand, Bonded By Blood's May 28th show with Sepultura, Nevermore, Hate, Keep Of Kalessin and Neuraxis in Calgary, AB, Canada has been moved to the MacEwan Ballroom. Capable of holding a higher capacity crowd, the MacEwan Ballroom will allow for bigger pits.

Stevie Nicks is to release her first solo album in a decade.Titled In Your Dreams, it was co-produced by Glen Ballard and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. more

Duff Mckagan's Loaded will guest on US syndicated radio show Rockline on Monday, April 18th. more

Europe are set to film the entirety of their London o2 Shepherd's Bush Empire concert on Saturday February 19th. The concert will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in October 2011, and will also include a bonus live CD.

OFF! (featuring Keith Morris of Black Flag notoriety) will be hitting the road with Trash Talk for two weeks in late-March and early-April. more

For Today and For All Eternity will be touring Australia this spring. more

On this day in 1967, The Beatles recorded the orchestral build-up for the middle and end of "A Day in the Life." At The Beatles' request, the orchestra members arrived in full evening dress, along with novelty items. One violinist wore a red clown's nose, while another wore a fake gorilla's paw on his bow hand. Others wore funny hats and other assorted novelties

On this day in 1975, Dave Alexander, the original bassist for The Stooges, died from pneumonia at the age of 28. He was fired from the band in August 1970 after showing up at a gig too drunk to play.

The Marin Independent Journal reports Steven Wiig, 38, is seeking unspecified damages for alleged state and federal labor violations, breach of oral contract and continuing wages, according to the suit in Marin Superior Court. The lawsuit names Ulrich and Team Tours, a Burbank company that issued Wiig's paychecks, as defendants.

The Chicago Tribune and Billboard are reporting that Muse, the Foo Fighters and Eminem will headline the three-day event. "Multiple sources" confirmed the acts, although there has been no word from festival organizers.

Last month, Ozzy's son Jack Osbourne, who financed the film with mother Sharon, was interviewed about the project, then known as "Wreckage Of My Past: The Ozzy Osbourne Story."

"For those of you that enjoyed the new song, 'Last Salmon Man,' that we played New Year's, you'll love the record because every song basically sounds exactly the same as that one," Claypool joked in the post. "In fact, we just kept recording the same song over and over and I would just change a few of the lyrics around."

Due for release on February 22, Bon Scott's "Round And Round" is based around the three-track "Round And Round" single that Scott recorded with Peter Cross of the Mount Lofty Rangers in 1973.

"If anyone lives nearby or if anybody can get there tomorrow night ,Thursday, February 10th at 8 PM, the band need a choir for one of the songs, called 'Back in '79.'"

The Steve Miller Band return with yet another new offering, Let Your Hair Down, which lands in stores April 19 on Miller's Space Cowboy Records in partnership with Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records.

The Plant special will air Sunday, February 20 at 8:00 PM ET (show repeats MON FEB 21 @ 1:30 AM ET).

The set, called Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002, will include new pressings of acclaimed albums Hit to Death in the Future Head, Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. The only album missing from that span: the four-disc Zaireeka (although the band are currently working on releasing that album as a mobile phone app.

"We had always intended to release this as a live record and now it's time to unleash the fury!," says the band.

15. "Enter Sandman," Metallica (1991): Metallica's oh-so-sinister riff in "Enter Sandman," the first single from their self-titled fifth album, is one of their heaviest and most ominous, which is saying a lot from a band who defined heavy and ominous. But what really makes "Enter Sandman" a master-riff is just how catchy it is, which explains how it quickly became one of, if the the, signature song from the kings of thrash metal. The bottom-heavy and propulsive riff grabs you buy the throat at the very beginning and never releases. Sleep with one eye open, indeed. � Sean Patrick Dooley

14. "Purple Haze," The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967): This wonderful, woozy rock and roll song purportedly originated when Jimi Hendrix's manager, Chas Chandler, overheard him playing the riff backstage in 1966 and persuaded him to flesh it out with lyrics. "Purple Haze" appeared the following year on Are You Experienced. "I dream a lot and I put a lot of my dreams down as songs," Hendrix told New Musical Express in 1969. "[Purple Haze] � was all about a dream I had that I was walking under the sea." � Ellen Barnes

She was preceeded in death by her husband John Henry Sr. (Jack) in 1998, son John Henry Jr. in 1980 and Michael (Mick) Bonham in 2000.

Billboard reports that sales of his Aerosmith's Greatest Hits collections have shot up more than 250%, according to Nielsen SoundScan, since Idol's Season 10 premiered on January 19.

This is the band's second No. 1 at the format from Nightmare, which earned A7X its highest-ever debut on the Billboard album chart when it bowed at No. 1. Nightmare also topped Billboard's Rock, Hard Rock, and Digital charts.

At this early stage in the voting, John Petrucci is beating Dimebag Darrell by a huge margin of 33% of the votes to Dime's mere 12%.

"I am not recording new stuff, not just yet," he said. "It'll be out when it's finished, I guess. Well, I've not even started it, so I don't know."

In an interview with the None But My Own blog, Yseult recalls the incident which led to DePrume leaving the band with a new drummer jumping on board immediately.

Perhaps no band embodied glam rock, at least visually, more than Sweet (or The Sweet, depending on which circa 1971 teenybopper you're talking to). With tight jumpsuits, bright and heavy guitars and uncomfortably high harmonies, Sweet were a staple of early '70s music programs. And at the front of the stage was an impossibly blonde singer named Brian Connolly.

"Love of music," said Sambora. "Love of each other, you know, the respect and the opportunity that we have, that we're one of the few bands in the world that have that opportunity... I really don't like to brag, but we're a bunch of good guys, you know, and we love each other."

"This is, song for song, the best thing we've ever done," guitarist Buck told Rolling Stone. "A lot of people say we did our best work in the early '90s. But 15 years later, here we are again."

Both bands will then take part in the 2011 installment of Soundwave, an annual music festival held in major cities around Australia.

Places And Numbers is the solo project of Bobby Darling, guitarist of Gatsbys American Dream, who will be touring in support of his recently released EP, Notes From The Dead Zone, and his debut EP, Waking The Dead.

But the event is more than a giant battle of musicians competing for honors and prizes presented by the Blues Foundation. The IBC, sponsored in part by Gibson, is convocation for players and fans from all over the world. This year's sprawling festival and party featured 220 acts representing blues societies from 40 states and 13 counties who all descended on the city of blues and barbecue from January 31 through February 5 to celebrate a sound that helped define American music. Some of the performers sought to redefine that sound, but most were content to echo the past with performances in the clubs along historic Beale Street, culminating in the theater finals.

Taylor said: "It was my wife who told me the news. It's terrible: 58 is just too early. In Phil [Lynott]'s case it was tragic, and in Gary's case there should have been a lot more years.

That's exactly what happened on November 16, 2010 as a part of the Percussion Marketing Council's (PMC) "Percussion in the Schools" program. The PMC solicited music stores across the county to nominate a school district with an outstanding music department and a strong foundation in arts education.

The announcement actually marks a turning point for the hall of fame, which normally only inducts specific songs. Because of Robertson's body of work � including Band classics like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek" � the group have chosen to honor the songwriter himself.

Conceived and curated by power pop legend Paul Collins (cofounder of THE NERVES, THE BREAKAWAYS and THE BEAT) the fest will bring together some of the finest young guitar-driven power pop, garage rock and punk-pop bands from across the U.S. and Canada.

The tour starts in Aberdeen on 30th April and finishes on May 13th at London's Kings College.

Back in 1958, Gibson started experimenting with cutaway designs for the Gibson Junior, Special and TV models. With sales of the Gibson Les Pauls maturing, the double-cutaway design was introduced in 1961 to give guitarists a different style guitar to the Les Paul. The Les Paul name stayed on the new shape guitars until 1963 when the great man's endorsement deal expired and Gibson called it the SG, or Solid Guitar, which is how it was referred to in the factory. The name was not, sadly, anything to do with Satan's Guitar as has been suggested by some reading too much into cutaway's resemblance to horns.