Unearth have announced that it will be rejoined by drummer Derek Kerswill for a one-off show in tribute to former band bassist Chris 'Rover' Rybicki, who passed away at the hands of an alleged drunk driver this past September. more

Arcade Fire stole the show at Britain's answer to the Grammys on Tuesday, grabbing two awards at a revamped event aimed at better reflecting the changing face of the music industry more

Def Leppard, Avenged Sevenfold, Rob Zombie, Tesla and Cinderella are among the confirmed bands for the 18th annual Rock Fest, set to take place July 14-17, 2011 in Cadott, Wisconsin. more

Exodus guitarist Gary Holt will stand in for Jeff Hanneman on Slayer's upcoming tour dates. Hanneman is recovering from necrotising fasciitis and needs skin grafts and recuperation time more

Lambgoat revealed that And Hell Followed With (Earache Records) and guitarist Kyle McIlmurray have parted ways. Though nothing official has been announced, Lambgoat contacted McIlmurray for comment. Read it here

Queens Of The Stone Age are to release a limited edition single. This features the songs How To Handle A Rope (A Lesson In Lariat), from the band's self-titled 1998 debut album, and Avon. more

Death Cab For Cutie have set May 31 as the release date for Codes And Keys, the band's new album for Atlantic Records. more

It appears April Fools' Day has arrived a bit early for some of us, as Evil Weevil Records will not, in fact, be pressing The Offspring LPs for Record Store Day, as we previously and erroneously reported. The label explained the mixup on their blog more

Belphegor, have issued that following statement in regards to their upcoming tour with Deicide: "Due to circumstances beyond the band's control we are being forced to cancel eleven shows, since we were initially not given the green light to enter the country." more

Dream Theater, Volbeat and Loudblast have been confirmed for the French edition of the Sonisphere festival more

For The Fallen Dreams has announced the departure of drummer (and band co-founder) Andrew Tkaczyk, who has amicably left the band. more

In a recent interview with Cleveland.com, The Black Keys revealed some pretty interesting details on their plans for 2011 - including a new album. more

Nomad, the Polish death metal band featuring Behemoth guitarist Patryk Dominik "Seth" Sztyber, will release its new album, "Transmigration Of Consciouness", on March 21 via Witching Hour. more

My Heart To Joy has announced plans to disband after five years together. The group currently has two farewell shows lined up more

Coliseum will be joining Rise Against on its forthcoming European tour. more

Lionheart and Legend will co-headline the "Road To Metalfest Tour." Direct support will be provided by Monsters, The Great Commission, and The Greenery. more

Rise And Fall have announced a few details on their upcoming album and some tour dates in Europe and the U.S. more

Victory Records has announced the addition of progressive metal act The Bunny The Bear to its roster. The band will be releasing its Victory Records debut on June 6th, 2011. You can view the band's latest music video for the track "Aisle" here

Red will appear on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" tonight, Wednesday, February 16.

Underground Movement will be reportedly releasing a split 7" from Irish deathgrinders Abaddon Incarnate and American grind bastards Phobia on February 25, 2011.

Lamb Of God is pleased to announce the digital release of 'Hit the Wall', a track previously featured exclusively on the Iron Man 2 video game. The track is available now for digital download at www.lamb-of-god.com. Only used in the game-play of Iron Man 2, the full version with vocals has never been available until now.

On this day in 1964, The Beatles made their second live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, exactly one week after the first. Before an audience of 3,500 at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, The Beatles performed "She Loves You," "This Boy," "All My Loving," "I Saw Her Standing There," "From Me to You," and "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

The event was already running 90 minutes late by the time the waiting crowd were told to go home. Hundreds of angry gigglers began throwing bottles, breaking windows and setting fire to beer tents.

The singer told Billboard.com that the album, which features production work from Danger Mouse, will be more streamlined.

Both Taylor and Duff have been quoted side stepping the topic (see the full story link below for that) and now another former Guns N' Roses turned Velvet Revolver star put his two cents in.

The music festival will take place June 9-12 in Manchester, Tennessee. Other acts scheduled to play include:

Producer Butch Vig helmed the sessions for the album, which was recorded in Grohl's garage.

Palladia will premiere the indie rock band's exclusive performance on "MTV World Stage: Arcade Fire" this Friday, February 18th at 9 P.M., with an encore at midnight.

Here's the latest posting on Priest's official website: "We are planning on possibly doing a track from every album throughout our careers in the set list, so let us know what your favorites are and maybe we'll pick some of them!!"

"Over the past few months, we've been busy jamming, writing and hanging out together � exploring the creative aspect of being Soundgarden," the band wrote.

Produced by Butch Walker (Weezer, Pink) and John Feldmann (Neon Trees, The Used), "Vices & Virtues" marks Panic! At The Disco's first new release in three years, as well as their debut outing as a duo comprised of singer/multi-instrumentalist Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith.

I remember flying down the highway at 90 miles an hour and first thinking of the white rabbit lyrics. We were driving fast being fueled by a punk style, upbeat, instrumental demo we had recently recorded. We were headed from Memphis, Tennessee to McGehee, a small town deep into the Arkansas landscape. A small cabin, used mostly for hunting dear, was open to be used during the off season months. It was pushed deliberately back into the woods and surrounded by thick trees and large farm lands. It was the perfect place to escape all distraction and begin crafting our new record. We had struggled so badly over the last few years, fighting personal and business trials, and had been so anxious, desperate really, to get a chance to write some new music. One of the main focuses of the new music was going to be honesty and transparency, something we felt was lacking from everyone around us. We started discussing metaphors for the business as we had experienced it, ideas of how to show just how strong deception can be when you want so badly to believe it is true. At first we compared it to hell, being pushed into the fire and coming to a point where you no longer feared the pain of the blaze. We had faced almost every negative turn of events a band could and somehow had come out standing, we were not afraid of anything and weren't going anywhere. We wanted to get that point across.

We lived out at the cabin for a couple months, drinking, writing and blowing things up in the campfire. All a part of the creative process. We had about 50 song ideas and pieces as we headed back to civilization. One of our favorites being our harder fast paced song about the gates of hell. In it, the first verse lyric read " Your magic, white rabbit, has left its writing on the wall, we follow, like Alice, and just keep diving down the hole". A perfect description of the way we had been feeling. The deception continued and once again deeper down the hole we went. We had gone and recorded 14 songs and a month after finishing what we thought was a completed sophomore record, we had business tragedy strike again. We lost the ability to use any of the songs we had just recorded. All that work gone forever into the hands of circumstance and misunderstanding. We were devastated but determined. We rebuilt and started again.

Months later we drove down to meet Skidd Mills in Nashville for a song writing session. The first of our writing sessions scheduled for the second, second record. We played a lot of our new ideas for Skidd, one of them being the song including the white rabbit lyrics. That verse had been tossed aside in the last recordings and was still very much a useable and unrecorded lyric. Skidd loved it, and so did we. The song White Rabbit started to take form. The original purpose of the song had rooted itself so far into all of us at that point, by the end of the first couple nights the structure of the song was there. We wanted the song to have a diminished kind of creepy, haunting, warning like feel to it and really incorporated that idea into the riffs and scale selections. When it was complete,we loved it so much, we chose to record the whole record with Skidd.

The chemistry was obvious and it really stood as an anthem and real jumping off point for the band on the brink of a new horizon.

White Rabbit is the song that bridges that gap between where we were and where we are now. Who we were to the people we have become, both individually and as a band. What is truly ironic is that the song goes hand in hand with the metephor that supports it. White Rabbit was one of the oldest song ideas and it had made the long, bad dream-like journey with us, changing all the while as we had. Staying with us as we fell down the hole, met strange characters, and defeated deceptive con artists and evil adversaries. The song, like us, came out older and wiser on the other end. White Rabbit is a reminder of where we have been and what we a striving for. We believe whole heartedly as we scream triumphantly in the bridge, "I won't be pushed aside, I will be heard".

Kerry Ellis, billed as one of the most thrilling vocal talents on today's West End stage joined forces with founding member of Queen, Brian May, for the album "Anthems", for which May produced and wrote new material. The album charted Top 20 in its first week of release.

With his Rock 'n' Roll Party: Honoring Les Paul coming out on CD, DVD and Blu-ray on February 22, Beck will hit the road with The Imelda May Band, who recorded the aforementioned set with him at a tribute show at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City last June.

Slash introduced Nielsen as "a major f**king influence" and "a mother**ker of a guitar player," admitting he "even played air guitar to [Rick] before I learned how to play" the instrument properly.

The event will take place over Memorial Day Weekend (May 27-30) in downtown Las Vegas.

After a series of shows in 2009 where the singer's performance was called into question, he was forced to cancel a US tour after losing his voice four songs into a show in Denver, Colorado.

The documentary will begin with the band's inception in 1991 and tell the lasting story behind of one of the most important extreme musical exports in Canada's short 143-year history.

The sole bit of new music from Black Francis and Co. was the single "Bam Thwok," a download-only written and sung by bassist Kim Deal. Now, it seems that the group might be heading back into the studio.

TSO bring live music to another level as they combine rock guitars and music with strings and opera, add a dash of poetry, stunning imagery and chuck the whole lot in a blender with smoke, lasers, lights and spell binding pyro.

BBC News reports that the U.K band will play the prestigious festival's main Pyramid Stage on Saturday, June 25.

And their debut album earned massive critical acclaim when they were tagged with 'carrying the whole genre's revival on their shoulders.' And lead guitarist Ol Drake exclusively revealed to RockAAA he still can't help pinching himself and wondering if the band's success is for real with every milestone they achieve.

The band split two years ago but singer Danny Bowes says: "I can't lie � I've missed being in the band more than I thought I would. So when the call came last week I was keen to explore the possibility.

The band stated "We are very excited to be part of EMG / Fontana / Universal. We are looking forward to working with a label and team that see the potential in our music and direction. We look forward to getting back to all our fans and showing them the new and rejuvenated 12 Stones."

Says frontman James Rushent, "I think it's about time we have a f***ing mess. We want to perform music that, if we heard it, we'd go 'oh, who's that?' rather than 'here's another f***ing '60s soul artist.' [The 18 months spent recording the album] was stressful, panicky and hard work. It's the nature of how we work. It's like trying to put a jigsaw together where you don't know what the picture is at the end."

What's the secret of his literally monstrous tone? In 1969 and 1970 Iommi was experimenting to find a signature sound during the making of both Black Sabbath and Paranoid when he hit on the combination of Gibson SGs and Les Pauls teamed with a high-gain amp, specifically Laneys, to set him apart from all the six-stringers blasting through Marshalls and Hiwatts at the time.

The band will release a new self-titled album on April 15th in Europe and May 5th in North America.

Stern Pinball, Inc., the world's only maker of real pinball games, announced today the availability of The Rolling Stones pinball machine. Collectors, casual players and avid fans can all enjoy the timeless hits of The Rolling Stones while playing one of Stern Pinball's arcade masterpieces.

Made up of Ben Murray (guitar/vocals) and Laura Nichol (guitar/vocals), Heartsounds have once again tapped Zach Ohren to helm producing duties with the help of Epitaph founder and Bad Religion member Brett Gurewitz.

Produced by Grammy-winning producer Frank Rogers, the album showcases the incredible talent of this young musical prodigy. Time Jumpin' is the follow up to Joe's 2005 debut cd Birdseed, which was recorded when he was just 14 years old.