Nevermore bassist Jim Sheppard is recovering from surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. more

SnagFilms.com just added the film "Dee Dee Ramone- Hey is Dee Dee Home" to their site. This is the first time the documentary has been available online and you can watch it for free here

Tomasz "Reyash" Rejek has announced: "After over two years of cooperation, I've decided to quit Vader due to personal reasons. I'd like to thank my bandmates for hundreds of gigs played together, I wish you all the best." more

Motorhead's new album The World is Yours has charted at No.94 on the US Billboard 200, selling 7000 copies on its first week of release more

Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher reports the band are gearing up to write the follow-up to Crack the Skye. He says: "We have the concept. Brann Dailor showed me some of the stuff he's working on and I was like, 'Woah, this is crazy sh*t.'" more

Smashface, the new band featuring Lorenzo Antonucci (ex-Sworn Enemy guitarist) on lead vocals and Chris Storey (ex-All Shall Perish) on guitar, will make its live debut this April on a European tour with Full Blown Chaos. more

Fake Figures, featuring current and former members of Atreyu, Hotwire, Scars Of Tomorrow and SSNOVA, will be entering the The Shop studios in Los Angeles on Feb 22nd to begin work on their debut EP. more

The Strokes will headline Madison Square Garden on April 1, to celebrate the release of their new album Angles. more

After doing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, Rammstein have announced nine additional North American tour dates for this May. more

Samael have chosen "Lux Mundi" (which translates in English as "Light of the World") as the title for their upcoming album. more

Two new dates have been added to the 2011 Metalliance Tour featuring Helmet, Crowbar and more. Those dates are: 03/28/11 Merriam, KS @ Aftershock (No Helmet) and 04/04/11 San Diego, CA @ Brick by Brick

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Alexisonfire announced via their Twitter account, "Wrote some new songs today. This sh*t's so heavy it's going to make Dogs Blood look like a ska record!!!" more

Mountain Man has lined up a handful of March and April shows more

Prong has finished demoing 14 new songs for the band's follow-up to 2007's "Power of The Damager", tentatively due before the end of the year. more

According to a posting on her official blog, Nightwish singer Anette Olzon will be hitting the studio in March to begin work on the band's new album, Imaginarium more

RIP Rick Kulwicki. He is best remembered as a guitarist for Denver, Colorado punk band, the Fluid. Kulwicki was 49 when he passed away on February 15, 2011. Cause of death was not immediately released. more

The guitarist had been avoiding making any comment on the gossip, while the Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman simply said: "To be continued."

BW&BK reports that Ulrich said that the band bypassed the Presidio recording on their last studio album and have no desire to "wade through" it for their current project.

Mustaine goes on to say that he feels responsible for keeping apart the bands in the Big Four (who also include Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax). "I think a lot of it was contingent on me, because [in the '80s and '90s] I was going through a lot of personal stuff that really put an unnecessary wall between all of us," he said. "A lot of it has been publicized, a lot of it wasn't. Most of it was the much heralded and worn stories of drugs and alcoholism."

He explains: "It's a sad job, but we keep a list of when we lose people in the industry. This past year we had over 300 people pass, so we had to make a selection."

"I think we'll turn in our album in June or July, honestly, and, I mean, the stuff's awesome," Barker told MTV this week. "It's coming close, to the point where these are completed songs and they're not going to change. These are album versions � I wish I could play everyone the songs now. Like I said, they sound awesome."

Stewart and Nicks will sing together during the shows on their upcoming tour. Nicks may be used to plenty of rehearsals, but not the more "ad hoc" Stewart, who told Rolling Stone, "In the Faces, we never rehearsed. I always like there to be the element of risk in any show. When things go wrong, I love it. We'll have to meet in the middle."

They will join the less rockin' artists like Cee Lo Green, Maxwell, and Ray LaMontagne.

For the ten-date run in April, Rodgers will be joined by Heart guitarist Howard Leese, bassist Lynn Sorenson, and drummer Jason Bonham, who recently completed a set of shows with Black Country Communion band mates Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa

The band have revealed that Hanneman's temporary replacement will be Gary Holt, of the San Francisco-based Exodus. A few years ago, Slayer toured with Exodus, who formed in 1980 and once included Metallica's Kirk Hammett, according to NME.com.

The event is a fundraiser for the non-profit Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, benefiting the newly established Fund for Civility, Respect, and Understanding.

"It's really well-rounded as far as my influences come from, why I love music, and what I grew up listening to," Kravitz said. "It's really raw."

The Sunset Strip sleaze rockers have a notoriously stormy relationship, with their current status unclear after they appeared to implode despite the success and acclaim of 2010 album Infestation. Even if they do regroup, it would appear bassist Bobby Crane won't be invited back.

The trek is set to kick off on April 14th in Seattle and criss cross the continent to conclude on June 13th in San Francisco.

Whatever you want to call it, The Cars are back together and in mid-March will be releasing their first new album in nearly 25 years � called Move Like This.

A previously unknown live recording of a 21-year-old Bob Dylan taped at the Brandeis First Annual Folk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts on May 10, 1963, Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 captures the rollicking wit, deadpan delivery and driving intensity of the young artist's on-stage persona in an assortment of end-of-the-world songs -- none of them commercially available at the time -- performed in front of an appreciative audience two weeks prior to the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (May 27, 1963).

"Every now and then we like to meet up and record a few things," he said. "We just do stuff when we feel like it."

Death Cab for Cutie's new album, "Codes And Keys" is set for release on May 31st.

"Just had the greatest talk with my Producer Bob Marlette," Bach wrote to fans via Facebook on Wednesday.

When The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was released in 1963, the country music legend heard it and became enthralled by Dylan's songwriting. He wrote Bob � a fellow Columbia recording artist � to tell him how much he loved the record. A grateful Dylan wrote back, telling Cash how he had grown up on his music. The pen pals soon would become good friends.

"The whole motivation is adversity," explains Wylde. "Life's a mountain; the Black Label way is we're either going to through it, around it, over it, underneath it or dismantle it."

In a statement on the official website for the event, Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello said: "I originally heard about Slam Dunk from (last year's headliners) New Found Glory.

Here's the description of the package: "This 1978 25th Anniversary Limited Edition Indy Pace Car has been given a whole lot of family love! The original owner is my brother-in-law Ace Frehley, former lead guitarist of KISS. Ace purchased this car new in 1978 in the likeness of his spaceman makeup. Two years later, Ace gave me the car as a gift for my high school graduation. So this car is not only gorgeous, it has a really cool history for any Ace fan or collector.

Boris - Attention Please - LP/CD/digital: Boris are widely known for their ability to breach styles and stretch sonic boundaries of all that is heavy, psychedelic, droning and downright cathartic. But, Attention Please is more like a complete redefining of their potential in several ways. First and foremost, it is the first album on which all vocals are sung by lead guitarist, Wata. While she has previously sung on a couple of songs for singles and her solo outings, the entire 10-song album features her intimate, multifaceted vocal style. Secondly, the songs on Attention Please have a sultry, intoxicating catchiness to them. It's melodic without sounding pop. It's psychedelic without sounding dated. It's heavy without relying on barre chord riffs.

The west coast/southwestern kicks off on March 18th in Green River, Wyoming and wraps on April 2nd in Albuquerque, NM.

The album will be made available digitally, as a single CD and as a limited edition two-disc box set.

Stevenson�of Descendents, All, and Black Flag fame�has also produced albums for bands including Rise Against, NOFX, and Less Than Jake, among other punk rock heavyweights. The as-yet-untitled album is set for a summer 2011 release.

The trek will begin March 9 in Baltimore, Maryland and will include two appearances as part of this year's SXSW music conference in Austin, Texas.

The lead single, "Goodbye - Gate 21," is a new remix and features Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave) on guitar. Look for an accompanying music video in the near future.