Linkin Park has been forced to cancel their February 10 show in Washington, DC at the Verizon Center. Lead vocalist Chester Bennington is ill and is under doctor's orders to refrain from performing. more

AFI singer Davey Havok is the latest musician to join the cast of Green Day's American Idiot Broadway musical. Havok will play St. Jimmy for two week more

Nightwish have been preparing a movie. "Imaginarium" is a music fantasy film based on the forthcoming Nightwish album of the same title and its 13 songs. more

A Perfect Circle - the band featuring Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan - will guest on on Last Call With Carson Daly on NBC on Tuesday, February 15th more

Glenn Danzig has entered the studio to begin recording his long-talked-about "covers" album. Five songs have already been laid down, including as-yet-undiclosed tributes to Elvis Presley and Black Sabbath. more

F**k The Facts, and KEN Mode will be touring together this spring in the U.S. and Canada. more

Architects has announced the departure of bass player Ali Dean: "Most of you will already know that Ali was not part of our previous European tour due to commitments he had with his family. Unfortunately, these commitments are going to extend indefinitely and as a result he simply cannot commit the time required to continue playing with us." more

ZZ Top and George Thorogood And The Destroyers are headlining The Rock Legends Cruise, a floating rock festival that will also feature John Kay And Steppenwolf, The Marshall Tucker Band, Dickey Betts & Great Southern, Foghat, Johnny Winter, Molly Hatchet and more

Suburban Home Records has detailed the latest chapter of its Under The Influence covers 7-inch series. The fourteenth release in the series will feature Attica! Attica! covering "The State Lottery," originally by Propagandhi, while Ruiner will offer their take on Oasis's "Morning Glory." more

Pyramaze have parted ways with guitarist Michael Kammeyer and bassist Niels Kvist. more

According to their official website, Anathema are now confirmed as special guests to Dream Theater on two open air amphitheatre shows in Italy this July. more

Lambgoat reports that The Human Abstract has removed guitar player Andrew Tapley from their line-up. Tapley joined the group in 2007 as a replacement for departed guitarist (and band founder) A.J. Minette. However, with Minette rejoining the fold late last year, Tapley seemingly became expendable. more

On this day in 1964, The Beatles made their live concert debut in the U.S. at the Washington Coliseum. Over 350 police surrounded the stage to keep the 8,000-plus screaming fans in control. One police officer found the noise so loud, he stuck a bullet in each ear as earplugs.

KentSterling.com claims he's been told that preliminary talks have already taken place to reconvene the most popular lineup of Guns N' Roses for Super Bowl 46.

When asked by a fan what the most important attribute for the lead singer of a rock band to have, besides their singing voice, McKagan responded: "Any good artist has to have had some kind of rub in their life, something real. Something you have to get out lyrically or you are going to kill yourself or somebody else. Those are the lyrics that inspire. The ability to tap the dark stuff and have it be real. Great lead singers have the ability to tap that. No inhibitions helps as well. Axl [Rose] and Scott [Weiland] are two of the best front men ever."

"We want to record it in two weeks," Hammett told Rolling Stone. We had planned on doing it in March, but we pushed it back to May. I don't want to give too much away, but it's not really 100 percent a Metallica record. It's a recording project, let's put it that way. Without getting too deep into it, it's more a recording project than a bona fide Metallica album. Whether or not we can pull it off in just two weeks remains to be seen."

3. "Whole Lotta Love," Led Zeppelin (1969): Jimmy Page can claim more than a few of the greatest riffs in rock, and Led Zeppelin fans will always debate which one is the best. But none packs more swagger than the riff that drives "Whole Lotta Love." Page played the heavy blues riff on his Sunburst '59 Les Paul Standard, although there's some debate as to where and when the riff originated. Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones said it came out of an in-concert jam for "Dazed and Confused" and other sources attribute it to another concert improvisation, but Page has claimed that it was one of the riffs he wrote during rehearsals for Led Zeppelin II. The song became an instant classic and was performed at every subsequent Zeppelin gig (often as the closer). � Bryan Wawzenek

2. "Smoke on the Water," Deep Purple (1972): They are, quite simply, the holy chords of rock. By guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's standards, "Smoke on the Water" is actually a pretty simplistic riff, considering this is the same mage who summoned "Lazy," "Burn," "Woman from Tokyo," "Man on the Silver Mountain" and a host of other alchemic finger-twisters. But the impact of "Nuh. Nuh. Nuh. Nuh. Nuh. Nuh-uh. (etc., etc.)" is undeniable. Ask any music store clerk, any marching band director or any guitarist worth his salt and they'll all tell you that those driving chords are a core component of the universal language of rock. � Michael Wright

1. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," The Rolling Stones (1965): No other riff has ever captured the essence of rock and roll as succinctly, elegantly and infectiously as the one for "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." With just a handful of notes, Keith Richards crafted a guitar-based mantra upon which rock's rebellious spirit could be perfectly hung. The riff came to Richards in his sleep, and he woke up just long enough to record the part on a portable cassette player. The band later recorded an acoustic version at the Chess facility in Chicago, and then did the definitive version � using a Gibson distortion pedal � at RCA Studios in Hollywood. Remarkably, Richards at first envisioned the riff as a horn line. "The fuzz tone came in handy so I could give a shape to what the horns [would later] do," he writes, in his biography. "But the fuzz tone had never been heard before anywhere, and that's the sound that caught everybody's imagination." Nearly a half-century later, it still does. � Russell Hall

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"We're about to go on the road for 40 nights with M�tley Cr�e this coming June-July in the States," he said.

According to the Associated Press, some parts of Arkansas were hit with nearly two feet of snow on Wednesday, causing authorities to recommend people stay at home, if at all possible.

Bonamassa recently completed work on his new solo album, also titled Dust Bowl, which will be released on March 22.

While Crosby and Nash's legendary vocal harmonies will be the centerpiece of the show, they will be accompanied on the road by an ace-backing band featuring James Raymond (keyboards), Dean Parks (guitar), Kevin McCormick (bass), and Steve DiStanislao (drums).

When the insurance company found the original sheet music for "Like a Good Neighbor" � a song Barry Manilow had written when he was first starting out � Weezer decided it was a great song and they should cover it.

On Friday, March 11, Sammy's new film, "Go There Once, Be There Twice," will screen in Toronto at The TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of CMWeek's Film Festival.

The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards will take place live on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in high definition and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network from 8 � 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).

"Well he's definitely up at the top isn't he?," Elliott said. "In fairness I think that he was probably wrongly accused of being one of these speed merchant guitarists because he could play fast. But the thing about Gary was that he actually came from the blues. Whereas a lot of the '80s guitarists just ripped Eddie Van Halen off."

Gina Hubbard, aged 21, received the honor at a graduation ceremony at the city's Symphony Hall.

Carolina Rebellion is set to take place on Saturday, May 7 at Metrolina Expo in Charlotte, NC and will have three stages of bands.

According to Undercover.fm, the new record is called In Your Dreams and was co-produced by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard.

This song is based on the role society plays in the big picture. The lyrics for most of the song are from the point of view of "The Enforcer." The Enforcer is an idea I had that depicts the views we have on certain groups of people, fashion, humanity, acceptance, what is cool and what is not, how skinny or fat your ass needs to be in order to be loved or paid attention to, what foods and supplements need to be taken in order to obtain the body you think everybody wants, wanting what you think everybody needs and needing what everybody thinks they want. All of these things are projected from the media, TV, magazines, billboards, the net, models, actors, and they cast down judgment about things that really should not matter in life. Once you realize this all of these people, ideas, and things will become a collaborated melting pot of s***. You will begin to see things differently in a new light.

The whole idea of this song is to think better and realize the bulls*** that is being shoved down your throat is not worth your time of day. Thinking and living for yourself in a new light to determine the life you choose is a vital part of what makes us individuals. Hanging onto this idea is valuable. I believe that hanging onto your individualism is essential in order to be happy. Always do what works for you and no one else in order to obtain true happiness. Everything else is just a distraction. Walk like a warrior.

Issuing quarterly in February, May, August and November, Road Trips puts a spotlight on different tours and series of shows and includes rarities from the deepest corners of the vault and many rare and never-before-seen photographs. Each three-disc set is showcased in a beautifully designed booklet that contains an essay about how the music on the discs fits into the Dead's long history.

The means that the band will touring without support and instead performing two separate sets each night. One set will feature upcoming album Surtur Rising in its entirety.

The band will be in the studio from March 6th through the 8th with long time friend and producer Kerry Crafton (Vs. The Earth), recording 2 brand new songs.

BBC News reports that Dravs was named producer of the year for his work on Mumford and Sons' album Sigh No More and Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. Martin presented him with the award at the Music Producers Guild awards at the Cafe de Paris in London.

The tapes used to form this new CD 'Get Together' were found in a storage unit in northern California by some very nice people who just knew that this music was valuable without even hearing the tapes. They figured out how to reach Dino's son, Joli and the rest is history in the making.

In the early 1960s, there had never existed a female rock act that exuded the raw underlying sexuality of The Ronettes. With exotic, multi-racial looks, wicked beehives and enticing slits up the sides of their skirts, The Ronettes meant business. When they beckoned listeners to "Be My Baby," men�and some women...stopped in their tracks.

She has one of the signature voices of her generation. That natural gift has always guided Tracy Nelson's soul; indeed allowed her to both write and seek out the deeper songs regardless of niche or genre. A fierce singer of truth, a fountain of the deepest heartache, she is an ultimate communicator and has regularly destroyed audiences across decades of performing.

The Dears will embark on a worldwide headlining tour March 4th, which will include a stop at this year's SXSW Music Festival.

When Ozzy, his wife Sharon and of their daughters were watching the movie The Notebook, he felt the tears welling up. "I'm sitting on the bed and I'm thinking I can't let me daughter see me cry but it gets your heart," he said. "I'm not really the prince of darkness. I'm a loving, cuddly guy."

Poision Minds was recorded by Garrett Morris at Darkroom Studios and was mastered by Jack Control of Enormous Door Mastering (World Burns To Death, Poison Idea, SSR, Government Warning).