Metal Injection has posted what are believed to be North American reunion tour dates for System Of A Down for this May. At this point it looks like a short run with only a few dates hitting some major cities in the U.S. and Canada. Hopefully by the time it is official, they will have more dates to announce. For now check out the leaked dates here

Reactivated band Boysetsfire has scheduled three U.S. shows in addition to a tour of Europe. more

You can check out photos of Tim "Ripper" Owens (Yngwie Malmsteen, Beyond Fear, Judas Priest, Iced Earth) February 20, 2011 performance at Kulturhaus in Bucharest, Romania as part of his "Screaming Through The East" tour here

On Friday an article surfaced on Indiestar.tv detailing one person's experience purchasing a computer from Dance Gavin Dance frontman Jonny Craig. This person had responded to an online post from Craig regarding a Macbook for sale. Long story short, the money was sent, yet the computer never arrived. But wait... more people claim the same thing? Read more here

According to Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, their new record will be called (wait for it) Dr Johnny Skinz's Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head. This rather rambling title comes from experiences of a friend of the band while on acid more

Queens Of The Stone Age will embark on a European run of shows during which it will perform its critically-lauded 1998 self-titled debut in its entirety along with some B-sides and rarities. more

Exodus have been forced to cancel their appearance at the Wacken Open Air festival "due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict" more

Metal Injection has deemed February as Black Metal History Month and to celebrate, a slew of articles about one of the most extreme sub-genres of metal have been releases, including their recent article 10 Worst Crimes In Black Metal History, discussing infamous church burnings, murders, abductions and sexual assaults all related to the genre. Check it out here

An alternative version of Tommy Bolin's 1975 album Teaser will be released on March 11. more

According to Alabama Live, the Amphitheater at the Wharf in Orange Beach, Alabama will play host to Def Leppard and Heart on June 19. This appears to be one of the dates for the rumored Def Leppard, Heart and Kansas tour. more

Arcade Fire have announced a new round of spring tour dates. The trek begins in Broomfield, CO on April 9. more

Title Fight, Touche Amore, The Menzingers, and Dead End Path will tour the U.S. together in May and June. more

Death Ray Vision, the new project featuring Shadows Fall frontman Brian Fair, Killswitch Engage bassist Mike D'Antonio and former Overcast/Seemless guitarist Pete Cortese, will enter the studio in mid-March to record four or five songs more

Duran Duran will headline the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on March 7, ahead of their 2011 UK arena tour. more

Neal Morse is to play three headline shows in England and Scotland this June. more

Poison singer Bret Michaels' solo band Evick released a new EP called Reflections today. According to a press release, Michaels' solo band is made up of four of his long time East Coast friends who started out as his opening act on his first solo tour. more

On this day in 1987, Andy Warhol, pop artist and producer died after a gall bladder operation. The founder of the Pop Art movement, produced and managed The Velvet Underground, designed the 1967 Velvet Underground And Nico banana album cover and The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album cover. Find out what else happened on this date in music history here

Among the special releases: a 7" single from Derek and the Dominos that features the unreleased "Got to Get Better in a Little While" with "Layla" on the other side; Hendrix's "Fire" on 7" of red vinyl or on a three-track CD single; AC/DC's "Shoot to Thrill" and "War Machine" on a 7" vinyl single; and full-length vinyl LP versions of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers's self-titled debut and You're Gonna Get It.

Neil killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle Dingley and injured two passengers in another vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol in 1984. He was arrested again last June for DUI and speeding in his home city of Las Vegas.

He was convicted in January after cutting a deal to avoid a trial which could have led to a six-month sentence. Instead he accepted 15 days in prison followed by 15 days of house arrest, and maintained he'd learned his lesson, saying: "I've realised I have to take responsibility. I have to pay for it."

Naming the band The Hell, Skiba announced on twitter: "Just started a new rock band with Atom Willard. Be on the look-out for The Hell people!"

"I think he is going to return to a classic rock band record," Clufetos said. "What he has expressed is that he wants to make it the band playing live in a room so wherever that takes us. Less technology and more amps and drums."

Elliott, who has lived in Dublin for years and recently helped re-mix three classic Thin Lizzy albums, was thrilled with the chance to sing with one of his all-time favorite bands: "I suppose you could say it was inevitable that I'd be asked to join the boys when they came through Dublin, what with all the close ties we have, with my involvement in the recent re-mixes and Vivian and Ricky [Warwick, Thin Lizzy's vocalist for this tour] in the lineup. It was also the last night of their European tour, so it was totally a party atmosphere � you know, sold-out show, hometown gig, [Lynott's mother] Philomena in the Royal Box!

Zombie also slammed the door shut on the possibility of any White Zombie reunion. "I don't see the point. I think as most things people have a memory of something like 'I saw them when I was 14-years-old and it was the greatest thing ever' but if they saw us now they'd probably go 'I wish I hadn't seen that reunion, it was awful," He tells Rock AAA:

"It is better to leave it alone and I haven't talked to anyone from the band except John Tempesta in about 15-years."

White essentially confirmed the idea behind the rumors: Jack confirmed, to Q magazine, he's busy enough with two bands, but may still do something of his own.

Frontiers Records will release the album in the rest of the world on, or close to, May 24. According to Melodicrock.com, Eclipse features 12 tracks, including one instrumental. The material was written over the past 18 months by the core team of guitarist Neal Schon and keyboard player Jonathan Cain with input from singer Arnel Pineda.

First a little background. I did two combat tours in Iraq and a lot of awful things in-between working as part of a special ops/intelligence group. All in all, I would say the horror that I partook of during those years absolutely pales in comparison to the things you heard about on the news. Well, the weight of it all finally got to me and I snapped, finding myself back in the "real world" on a mental health status. That is, until a year later (after I'd already started writing for Lisa Savidge) when they tried to "backdoor draft" me for some more fun in the sun. All of the demons that I thought had been kept at bay with a steady diet of this country's primary legal - and incidentally most powerful - drug, alcohol, came out of the woodwork and I had a complete nervous breakdown.

They stuck me in these awful WWII barracks while they decided if I was fit for duty, and during this time (two weeks or so), I did not sleep, eat, and after about day three, could not stop my hands from shaking enough to perform even the most basic tasks. I felt as though the mind of a crazed and rabid monkey had been implanted into the body of a dying 80 year old man. Thankfully, the doctors there had two brain cells, and figured out that this whole ordeal probably wasn't a good idea and decided that I could go home.

By the time I got back, my symptoms hadn't improved much - I still couldn't sleep (or rest at all) and my hands were still shaking uncontrollably. I was relating this experience to Ellery (while under heavy sedation), who wrote down the bits that would work for a song ("capitalizing on your misery" as he called it). That's where most of the lyrics came from, except for the last one (and title line) which was in reference to a sign I had seen in the barracks. You see, above the door on the top floor (where I had been housed) there was a sign that said "Fire Exiting" - presumably meaning "Fire Exit" - which, when opened, revealed that the stairs had gone and nothing awaited you but a 30 foot vertical drop onto solid concrete. An apt metaphor for the military's treatment of their "damaged goods" if ever there was one.

Later on (when I could play guitar again), I took to the task of building a song that musically conveyed the feeling of losing one's mind. We went for a sparse, semi-instrumental arrangement to play on the way that everything becomes sort of abstract as your grip on the real slides, and built the whole thing around a drum beat that really can't decide if it's 3/4 or 4/4. The final piece came in a bit of production on the jittery rhythm guitar, which I wanted to use to convey a sense of paranoia. For this I used a ring modulator to create the sense that the listener is surrounded from the very beginning - no escape - and then double-tracked/hard panned the rhythm with my foot on the wah pedal, but moving it as little as I could. I think it sounds kind of like being submerged up to the ears in a hostile, staccato, organic mass.

I especially came to like the sheer beauty of the instrumental segments, as things can take on this paradoxical majesty when viewed from the bottom. Also, when it came time to record the vocals I did them leveled right to the clip line of a cheap tube preamp I had lying around so that the words would waver unpredictably between clear calmness and mad raving from moment to moment and capture the sort of twitchy nature I had developed.

People often ask me about my various experiences and what they were like, and I've never really had right words... This song's probably the closest I've ever gotten to being able to describe it.

Just last week Robotanists released their own third full length album, Plans In Progress, produced by Danny Kalb (Beck, Karen O, Feist).

The Hop Farm Festival is in its fourth year and prides itself in being a back-to-basics, music-first festival with no sponsorship and no branding.

Both tracks are from the upcoming "BBC Sessions" project. The picture sleeve is based on the original Harvest art and will be unveiled next week.

The CD was recorded at Sonic Ranch studios in Tornillo, Texas with producer Mark Lewis (Trivium, Chimaira, All That Remains) and was mixed by acclaimed British producer Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Exodus, Machine Head, Nevermore, Arch Enemy)

The Awards celebrate the work of sound and editing in motion pictures and television.

A personal and intimate reworking of Santana and Journey classics as well as Gregg's own compositions through solo voice and piano, 'Five Days' was recorded in the living room of his Central Texas home on the piano given to him by his father in the early days of Santana.

This limited edition set features three long-out-of-print releases from the legendary Napalm Death catalogue, offering 43 tracks across three discs and a total running time of almost 2.5 hours.

Rolling Stone tracked down an assistant to photographer Melodie McDaniel who says he is "pretty sure" the photo was shot specifically for the cover, and that Fiorentino's age makes it unlikely that she's the girl in the shot. Fiorentino would have been around 14 at the time of Siamese Dream, but Rolling Stone points out that the girls in the iconic photo look to be about seven years old.

"That�s his brand. I know that David was really into finding a label, like Frontiers, that was supportive of him, and he decided on them."

"Never," Liam tells The Guardian. "This is not a stopgap until me and Noel come to our senses and start Oasis again. That is well and truly done."

Speaking to Mitch Lafon of Bravewords.com, Cherone said the band built off the musical tension between himself and his brother, guitarist Mark Cherone: "Mark and I have been very close, but musically there's always tension," he said. "The advantage of having your brother [in the band] is that I know him as well as he knows me. He knows my moods and I know his. I'll stay away from him when he's in a bad mood."

In addition, Downie has been announced as part of the prestigious Coachella line-up, playing Sunday, April 17th, the third and final day of the already sold-out desert fest.

The first trek is a US/Canada tour with August Burns Red, Set Your Goals and Born of Osiris

First group to sign on was Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, who are coming a couple days early to ski and hang out in the mountains. The second group was local Denver band Gauntlet Hair. The last group to sign on was The Flaming Lips.

They'll be headlining the Silverlake Lounge on March 22nd with local favorites Terraplane Sun and The Diamond Light.