Joseph "Red Dog" Campbell, the beloved longtime roadie for the Allman Brothers Band, died of cancer on February 21, 2011. He was 68. In the 2000 film Almost Famous, the roadie for the film's fictional band, Stillwater was named Red Dog in honor of Campbell more

Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna reports the band have completed three songs for their next album more

Queen's classic "We Will Rock You" is still the most-played song at sporting events, according to a new survey from BMI, the royalty-distribution service. more

According to a posting on the Everything Jani Lane page, former Warrant singer Jani Lane has canceled all of his previously announced solo tour dates. The message continues, "I do not wish to elaborate, but I do ask for your prayers and thoughts to be with Jani and his family at this time." more No reason was given for the concert cancellations, however some speculate that Jani Lane has started drinking again (based on an anonymous email sent to Metal Sludge) more

Paul McCartney is to write his first original orchestral score for a ballet performance. The former Beatle is collaborating with the New York City Ballet company (NYCB) on Ocean's Kingdom. more

Queensryche singer Geoff Tate says the band are continuing with the tradition of calling their current recording project "Bob" until they come up with a real title. more

The first-annual Welcome To Rockville festival has been announced for Jacksonville, FL, headlined by Godsmack, Seether, Stone Sour, Theory Of A Deadman, Puddle Of Mudd, Skillet, Halestorm, Rev Theory, My Darkest Days more

The Menzingers, Black Square, Bad Rabbits, Mojo Morgan, Blood On The Dance Floor have been added to the Warped Tour. more

Zoroaster will head out on the road at the end of the month without bass player and founding member Brent Anderson. "We've had a lot of personal stuff going on and the future of Brent and Zoroaster is up to him," drummer Dan Scanlan told Creative Loafing more

Jucifer and Sourvein will team up for a brief tour in early-March more

Voivod are to release a live album in the spring. Titled Warriors Of Ice, the experimental Canadian metallers recorded this in Montreal during December 2009 more

Novembers Doom has finished recording its eighth full-length album, "Aphotic", for a May 10 release via The End Records. The CD features special guests on several tracks: Anneke Van Giersbergen (Agua De Annique, The Gathering) and more

Steel Panther have revealed that they are getting closer to finishing the follow-up to 'Feel The Steel'. more

Gama Bomb has scheduled a May tour of the UK. more

On this day in 1963, the first Beatles single, "Please Please Me," was released in the U.S. on the Vee-Jay label.

On this day in 1984, Van Halen's "Jump" started a five-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart. The track was a #7 hit in the U.K.

"It kills me how bland this period is," Kilmister said. "You go backstage these days and you see 20 bottles of Perrier and a bag of nuts. What's wrong with this (expletive) picture? Everything is so healthy today and it's terrible. I don't get it."

In a RockAAA exclusive Wednesday said: "About three-weeks into the tour � no one had ever seen Axl as he comes in right before the show � he came off stage after a three-hour set, comes right into our dressing room with sweat running down him and says 'Sorry I didn't get to say hello to you before now, but I've heard nothing but awesome things about you, my band loves you guys. I'm going to get dressed, come over to my room and we'll party.'

"There was nothing that I heard of on that tour that was anywhere close to an audience complaining. He's Axl Rose, he can be 15 or 30 minutes late. He was talking about that too backstage. He was just like 'Man, I need to get in my zone, get in the vibe you know. I'm late but when I come out I'll play for three hours.'

Thin Lizzy bandmate Scott Gorham has said he wasn't informed about the Brighton funeral, but he'll visit Moore's grave in the near future.

The wound stemming from the 2004 incident actually put the 66-year-old rocker in the hospital late last year.

10. Iron Maiden's Eddie: No heavy metal mascot has achieved greater fame than Iron Maiden's Eddie. Designed in his first incarnation by artist Derek Riggs, the body-less creature has been a perennial fixture in Iron Maiden's live shows, and of course has graced the band's album covers for three decades as well. Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris has an Eddie tattoo on his arm, and the character has even been referenced on the television show South Park.

Now, co-producer Greg Hampton (Alice Cooper, Lita Ford) has assembled an all-star team of artists to pay tribute to the late guitarist with a new album.

Most shows will take place in amphitheaters though a number of arena shows are scheduled. The tour will conclude on September 15 in Auburn, Washington.

The Revolver event bills itself as America's only hard rock and heavy metal awards; the Golden God Award is given to one special honoree a year who embodies the spirit of hard rock and metal, and this year it goes to Alice Cooper.

The band is releasing a self-titled EP on May 11, and will be performing live for the first time at SXSW on March 18.

Dedicating the award to late friend and bandmate Kurt Cobain, Grohl also joked, "You guys realize they gave this one to a drummer, right? This one's for the drummers!"

The BBC reports Paul Biver, from Old Street, had been storing the Fender guitar in his art studio while he built a display case for it, when it was stolen.

Harper will headline a trio of festivals this spring: Bluesfest in Australia, GrassRoots, the New Zealand Blues & Roots All Music Festival, and the Wakarusa Festival in Ozark, AR.

Here is a little background we received about the release: Exene Cervenka is a scene vet, with experience most notably as co-founder of punk band X. She's also acted, written books, done visual art, and performed in a handful of other great bands.

The trek will include appearances at a number of music festivals including the tour closer at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee in June.

This song pretty much sums up the album, hence the title. This was the first song we wrote for the record and pretty much set the tone for the entire album. Plain and simple, "Lost Generation" describes the frustration we feel as musicians.

Music progresses through each decade, but it seems to be in a stagnant phase and has been so for a while now. "Lost Generation" lets us release this angst upon the listener while reminding us what it is like to just make a raw and honest song/record. In the end, we just want to share our music.

The show, which will take place in New York City on March 26, will feature the last surviving original member of the band, Jody Stephens, as well as an all-star lineup of musicians, including R.E.M.'s Mike Mills, Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake, Matthew Sweet, M. Ward, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo and others. The performance will also feature an orchestra.

A planned documentary on the late Irish blues-rock guitar legend has been in the works for some time, and was due for release this year. With Gary's recent passing, the film's release has reportedly been pushed back to sometime later in 2011.

Diamond Mine was born from the admiration of Jon Hopkins for Scottish singer / songwriter King Creosote. Jon picked a selection of his favorite tracks of Kenny's (aka King Creosote's), and had Kenny re-record the vocals before Jon composed his own melodies for each song. The result is at once gentle and epic. Though the subject matter is heavily rooted in the parochial Scottish and English countryside, the themes are universal...all touching on the sweet sadness of life.

The 12-song compilation features a dozen unreleased, rare, and long out-of-print tracks culled from the historic past of a band that truly has done whatever they wanted for 15 years, without compromise.

Opening Friday, February 25, "Stormtroopers in Stilettos: Queen, The Early Years," is a major retrospective exhibition celebrating the formation, and first five albums, of one of the most exciting, glamorous and influential bands in global musical history.

10. "YYZ": From Rush's 1981 Moving Pictures album, "YYZ," which gets its name from the identification code for the Toronto Pearson International Airport (Rush's hometown), is an instrumental piece that lets all three members shine. Lifeson's solo, in particularly, is a wonderfully meandering, almost schizophrenic dance, not unlike the frazzled flight of a bumblebee that's just been sprayed with Raid and is frantically trying, and failing, to maintain altitude until it crashes to the ground.

Havok, is the latest punk rock icon to hit the Broadway stage as he takes on the role of St. Jimmy in "American Idiot".

The Jam were founded by a 14-year-old rock 'n' soul kid named Paul Weller in 1972. In their original incarnation, The Jam consisted of Weller on bass, school friends Steve Brookes and Dave Waller on guitar, and, eventually, a drummer two-and-a-half years Weller's senior named Rick Buckler. Weller's taxi-driving dad, John Weller, managed the group, initially booking them at working men's clubs.

Building on the success of his debut release, New York Town (2009), Gripka is poised to increase his fan base both stateside and abroad.

The Color Spectrum consists of songs inspired by the colors of the spectrum, specifically Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet, with White and Black being included as bookends.