Members of the second era of Van Halen - guitarist Eddie Van Halen , drummer Alex Van Halen, singer Sammy Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony -will be guests on In The Studio the week of March 28th, discussing the 25th Anniversary of their classic 5150 album more

Paramore's Hayley Williams has revealed the band are likely to release new material this summer. The music would be the pop-rockers' first new songs since the departure of founder members Josh and Zac Farro last December. more

Fall Out Boy singer Patrick Stump's debut as a solo artist, Soul Punk, has been pushed back to a summer release date. However, Stump will offer a six-song digital EP via iTunes, titled Truant Wave, on February 22. more

The film Kurt Cobain: About A Son will make its television on the Documentary Channel this Sunday, February 20 at 8 p.m. on what would have been the late Nirvana frontman's 44th birthday. more

Between The Buried And Me frontman Thomas Giles (aka Tommy Rogers) will team up with Cave In's Stephen Brodsky and Braveyoung for a few shows this spring. more

Radiohead have sent their Japanese fans into a frenzy after dropping hints about a top secret show in Tokyo in a mysterious message on their Twitter but a publicist for Radiohead has warned Japanese fans not to turn up to a "surprise gig" in Tokyo on Friday because the band won't be there. more

Saxon have cancelled their appearance at Australia's Soundwave festival because they need extra time to complete work on new album Call to Arms. more

Faith No More frontman Mike Patton will play lead character Jackie Estacado again in the sequel to 2007 game The Darkness. more

Keyboardist Shawn Zavodney and guitarist Patrick Kennison, along with former Warrant guitarist Billy Morris will be hitting the road with Warrant's former frontman Jani Lane more

Legendary punkrock outfit Pg. 99 have just confirmed that in honour of Best Friends Day's 10 year anniversary, they will not only be reuniting, but will be performing their 2001 classic Document #8. more

According to Marinij.com, Metallica's James Hetfield, who two years ago stirred controversy by erecting a fence blocking a popular trail that cut across his 600-acre Rocking H 2 Ranch, wants to subdivide the lower part of his Lucas Valley property to provide 34 home sites. more

Orange Goblin has announced a U.S. headlining tour. The spring trek will kick off on May 28 in New York City and will include an appearance at the 2011 edition of Maryland Deathfest. Support on the tour will come from The Gates Of Slumber and Naam. more

Fastway is working on new album with former Little Angels vocalist Toby Jepson more

Andrea Blaugrund Nevins' new documentary The Other F Word is slated to premiere in Austin, TX next month. The film focuses on fatherhood through the lens of punk rockers and features appearances from Joe Escalante (The Vandals), Brett Gurewitz (Epitaph Records, Bad Religion), Tim McIlrath (Rise Against) and a slew of others. Wanna a preview? Go here

Thunder are to release a live album next month. Titled Thunder-Live- Rough & Ready, it will be put out as a double gatefold, four-CD pack. more

August Burns Red, Set Your Goals, Born Of Osiris, and Texas In July will be touring together briefly in late-March and early-April. more

Slipknot, In Flames and Mastodon are among the confirmed bands for the Swedish installment of the Sonisphere festival, set to take place Saturday, July 9, 2011 at Globe Arenas in Stockholm more

Snowy White And The White Flames - featuring ex Thin Lizzy guitarist Snowy White - will be releasing a brand new 14 track studio album 'Realistic' on February 28th. more

Cancer Bats have revealed the dates for its forthcoming headline tour of Europe. The tour, being dubbed as the 'European Bro Down' tour will feature support from Vera Cruz. more

Emery have a new record coming out in 29 March via long time label, Tooth and Nail. The record, We Do What We Want, is the follow up to 2009's excellent �In Shallow Seas We Sail more

Horseback will see the dual release of its Impale Golden Horn and Forbidden Planet albums packaged together as The Gorgon Tongue. This two-disc set will see its release on May 10th via Relapse Records. more

On this day in 1980, During an interview, Rolling Stone Bill Wyman said that he intended to leave the band in 1982 on the group's 20th anniversary. Wyman quit the band in 1993.

The blaze broke out in Shirley's Cave establishment, where he's worked with the likes of Deep Purple, Iron Maiden and Journey. The producer says: "I opened up this morning to thick, acrid smoke and a sideboard aflame. Miraculously there were no guitars lost, no masters affected and the studio is smelly but otherwise okay.

"If you've been following along, you know that the 'Big Four' of Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and 'Tallica already have two shows scheduled in Europe in July... well, the party is expanding," read a post on Metallica.com. "We're here today to tell you about and addition to the European vacation with a show in Gelsenkirchen, Germany at the Veltins Arena on July 2, 2011."

After having to cancel and postpone several shows due to illness of co-lead singer Chester Bennington, Linkin Park will resume its A Thousand Suns world tour at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Saturday February 19th.

According to Music-news.com, Daltrey doesn't think he'll be performing for much longer: "I've probably got two or three years left to do that kind of music and I want to make the most of it, because again I've been given a gift, use it, use it or lose it, so I'm going to do Tommy at the Albert Hall.

"I've made a lot of riffs and some demos," he said. "We have been going back and forth, talking about it. But it's kind of too early to say anything, because we're still on the road. I don't know what the plan is once this tour is done. I'm feeling inspired, so if I get the call to go back in the studio with Ozzy - we just have to wait and see."

The single Bury Me With My Guns On was a very different writing experience compared to any other song Bobaflex has tackled in the past.

The inspiration comes from one of my favorite controversial graphic novels The Preacher where a man re-writes the rules of the universe by shooting the creator and causing hell to freeze over. At the time HBO was discussing turning the novel into an animated series and we really wanted to be apart of that. So one night during a long nonsensical dream I wake up and the song just starts writing itself. I don't even remember most of the lyrics until I read them on the scratch pad the next morning. The HBO series never happened, but the song did.

When I brought the tune to the band the next morning It was already finished and the guys were some how playing the perfect accompaniment that I needed to express the words on the page. Weird...I think so.

Thanks for listening,

Marty McCoy

Instead, they'll watch reality TV and YouTube clips � meaning fans of the show could wind up being the subject of the comeback cartoons' cult commentary.

The tease clip for "Blue Tip" was Posted by The Cars on Facebook back in October.

Producer and sound engineer Richard Chycki worked on the project, and recently wrote about the process on his blog.

The Prince of Darkness regularly finds himself "freaking out" at the smallest things, and says the drug which defined the psychedelic 60s era isn't something he can recommend.

The Houston Press reports ZZ Top have been announced as one of the recipients of the 2011 Texas Medal of Arts.

"We were doing covers way back in the day before we were Stryper," Sweet said. "Over the years we'd always sound check with a cover or two. We started adding [Van Halen's] 'On Fire' to the set in '91. Recently we started adding [Judas Priest's] 'Breaking The Law.' My wife Lisa was backstage one night and said, 'You guys oughta do a covers album. Look at the response you get live.' That's what really got me to thinking and we talked about it as a band. We agreed that now would be the perfect time to do these because the four of us would be able to go in and have some fun, loosen up and show people where our roots lie. Add to that, a lot of people over the years have asked us about doing a covers album. It just felt like the right time and having my wife suggest it confirmed what we had been thinking for years. We went in and did it, so props to her!"

Singer Corey Taylor has been in the rock news lately, as his name was rumored to be among the potential candidates for the open vocalist slot in Velvet Revolver. VR have not made any announcement about their final decision on the issue, but Slash has confirmed that Taylor was the most recent rocker the band honed in on for the gig.

The U2 singer has reacted after news of his support for an apparent South African race-hate song ricocheted around the planet earlier this week.

Originally recorded in 2003, "Cigarettes & Valentines" was the title track from an unreleased album by the band. What should have been the follow-up to 2000's "Warning," was reportedly stolen from the studio and the master tapes were gone.

He will release his first solo album in four years, United Nations of Sound, on March 22 through Razor & Tie.

With Moore's recent and sudden passing, we asked Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson to share some of his memories of the talented guitarist. "Well, we were connected in a number of ways historically," recalled Lifeson, "'cause we worked a lot with Thin Lizzy in the early days, too. But Gary had already left the band at that time, for the first time, but we were well aware of Gary's playing and his influence on the scene, particularly in Britain at the time. And in the early '80s, he came on tour with us. And I think� I want to say we probably did two runs together. And my recollection of him is that he was a very sweet, gentle guy � quick to smile and really a lot of fun to be with, but so absolutely passionate about the instrument and about playing.

"And it's really sad to see somebody like him go at a young age � it really is a young age. You know, he was the type of guy that [you thought] would be around forever and ever, playing like Les Paul, for example. You would always be able to go see Gary play in some little club or something, you know, in downtown New York or London, Soho� Ronnie [Scott's] or something like that. It's really a shame."

So far, Costello and the Imposters have announced 13 dates for their Revolver Tour. Each show will include songs selected by a spin of the wheel, which will feature 40 "hits, rarities and covers," according to a press release.

Stewart has just become a dad for the eighth time after wife Penny Lancaster gave birth to a boy called Aiden on Wednesday. The proud dad already has plenty on his plate for this year including his upcoming tour with Nicks and a long-awaited album with former bandmate Jeff Beck.

The 12-inch vinyl LP showcases 11 tracks from the band's celebrated acoustic performance at the store on Record Store Day 2009.

The unsigned band met BLS mainman Zakk Wylde at the High Voltage Festival last July and passed him a copy of their CD.

Returning on February 18th, musician and producer Hoppus, along with his co-host Amy Schumer will continue to take viewers through everything in the world of music with a fun and humorous twist.

In addition, several non-musicians are being recognized as well for their work in the field, including Vee-Jay Records pioneers Vivian Carter and Jimmy Bracken, noted African American educator John W. Work III, blues historian and revivalist Samuel Charters and producer Bruce Bromberg.

Actually, they weren't called The Replacements yet (the band was called Dog's Breath), but some key pieces were there. Bob on guitar, Tommy on bass and Bob's friend Chris Mars on drums. Mostly, their practice sessions were an excuse to play Aerosmith and Yes covers, drink alcohol and get high. That is, until Paul Westerberg joined the group.

The limited edition wax version will come in 180 gram blood red/black swirl vinyl with the song on one side, a laser etched image on the other and a parchment insert with the detailed Viking Funeral saga as well as a sticker and digital download info all wrapped in a Viking Funeral poster and wax-stamped with the band's logo.

The 'deal' brought forth Johnson's incandescent guitar technique and a run of 10-inch 78 rpm singles for the Vocalion, Oriole, Conqueror and Perfect labels recorded in San Antonio in 1936 and Dallas in 1937.