Queens Of The Stone Age will start recording their new album in January. more

A follow up from yesterday, we received word that Fear Factory were forced to postpone their tour until April due to a family emergency.

O Pioneers! have posted an update about their plans for 2010, plans which sadly hint at the end of the band. Thankfully the Texas band still has some wind in their sails, with an upcoming tour featuring Hostage Calm and on a couple dates Tigers Jaw, as well as a split with Andrew Jackson Jihad more

Will Haven is putting the finishing touches to the follow-up to 2007's "The Hierophant". The as-yet-untitled, self-produced effort will mark the return of the band's original vocalist Grady Avenell, who rejoined Will Haven in October 2009 after a two-year break. more

Woe, Is Me has confirmed the departure of lead guitarist Tim Sherrill, who has left Atlanta the group to "do other things musically." more

Drummer David Kinkade (Borknagar) has joined forces with guitarist Marco Martell (Malevolent Creation, Divine Empire) and vocalist Jarret Roberts of Chicago's Kastasyde to form Monarch. more

The Compulsions have scheduled a live performance at legendary rock club Don Hill's. The Compulsions line up will feature founder and front man Rob Carlyle along with Richard Fortus (Guns N' Roses) on guitar, Sami Yaffa (Michael Monroe Band/New York Dolls) on bass and Frank Ferrer (Guns N' Roses) on drums. more

Gatsbys American Dream will apparently be releasing new material very soon via Equal Vision Records. more

The Word Alive (Fearless Records) has announced the amicable departure of bass player Nick Urlacher. Not surprisingly, the group is now looking for a replacement. more

When the Flaming Lips play their fourth annual New Year's Eve Freakout concert in their Oklahoma City hometown on Friday, fans will be barraged with "20 times more balloons and confetti" than at regular shows, lead singer Wayne Coyne said. more

According to Marshall Helmberger from Timberjay.com, a New Year's Eve concert event on Lake Vermilion in Minnesota may be the last chance to see famed vocalist Jani Lane (ex-Warrant) perform with Great White. more

"Concept Of Time are sad to say we have now parted ways with our guitarist Andy Thomson; we wish him all the best in future" more

On this day in 1967, The Beatles scored their 15th U.S. #1 with "Hello Goodbye," Gladys Knight and the Pips were at #2 with "I Heard It Through The Grape Vine" and The Monkees at #3 with "Daydream Believer."

Armenian police forces have begun a concentrated effort to single out alleged "emo kids," according to a report by France24.com. The efforts came about after the recent suicides of two teenagers rumored to be fans of emo music more

From injury to illness, from the boardroom to the bedroom, Bret Michaels made news just about every way you can imagine in 2010, making him FOX411.com's Celebrity Of The Year. more

Blood Of Martyrs has issued a free EP entitled "Even The Dead Long For Spring." Recorded before the present lineup was formed, "Even The Dead Long For Spring" features Blood Of Martyrs mastermind Markus Launsburry on guitar and percussion madman Chris Wozniak (Lair of the Minotaur) on drums. more

Rose Funeral will enter the studio this month to begin tracking their new album. The band has issued the following update: "It's been a while due to the dumbass who hacked our Myspace and said we broke up, but no, we have been busting ass on this upcoming release! more

A special 3-hour tribute to The Big 4 - Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax will be featured on the New Year's Eve (Friday, December 31st) edition of Tony Webster's (Archetype singer) The Metal Command radio show. more

Doomriders have apparently found a replacement for departed drummer JR Conners (Cave In), who left the group this summer. more

Rebellion have parted ways with guitarist Uwe Lulis (ex-Grave Digger), drummer Gerd L�cking and guitarist Simone Wenzel. more

Buzzov-en has announced their third tour installment since reuniting earlier this year. These dates will also feature Cough. more

An all-new 2011 edition of Misfits' 'Land Of The Dead' is available now on clear yellow vinyl while supplies last. more

On this day in 1970, Paul McCartney filed a suit against the rest of The Beatles to dissolve their partnership. Find out what else happened on this date in music history

FOX 8 TV in Cleveland reports a Portage County man claims the rocker's music drove him mad on Christmas Eve.

The remainder of the entries are split between 2010 releases and ones that were put out in '09 (such as Them Crooked Vultures' debut) or '08 (Shinedown's The Sound of Madness). Rock legends such as AC/DC and Jimi Hendrix are represented, as are younger bands like Breaking Benjamin.

Other hard rock favorites missed out on the Top 10, but made the Top 50. Foo Fighters came in at #14 (Greatest Hits), Ozzy Osbourne hit #15 (Scream), Pearl Jam appeared at #19 (Backspacer), Slash's debut showed up at #23 and Iron Maiden came in at #28 (The Final Frontier).

1. Nickelback, Dark Horse
2. Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns
3. AC/DC, Iron Man 2
4. Godsmack, The Oracle
5. Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare

"Everybody seems excited and ready to go," keyboard player Dean Fertita told Billboard.com. "We've got so many ideas started already; I guess we'll see what turns out to be everybody's favorite."

"Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage" was the best-selling rock video of 2010, and #2 overall, behind the newest Beyonce concert film.

Camp Freddy are on hand to help ring in the New Year; the band is made up of Matt Sorum (Velvet Revolver), Billy Morrison (Billy Idol), Donovan Leitch, Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) and Chris Wyse (The Cult).

Charlatans singer Tim Burgess told the Daily Record: "Jon is doing really well, I texted him last night and he said he had got the all-clear and the cancer is gone.

"It's been fantastic," Lane said. "I've been friends with Jack for decades and I told him I'd be happy to fill in for him."

Austin360.com reported that the burglary occurred around 7:30 a.m. Police report that the intruder was a neighbor, and that Maddox's wife had phoned 911 to report a burglary in progress. Austin360 said a law enforcement source said the operator heard a single shot followed by a pause then several more shots. The Austin American-Statesman reports that friends and relatives of both men believe the incident may have been a tragic misunderstanding rather than an attempted burglary.

"Guns N' Roses consistently made headlines throughout 2010, which kept hennemusic readers coming back for updates on the world according to Axl," said Bruce Henne. "Fan interest in classic GNR remains huge, as even the mere hint of a hint of a reunion of the original lineup is enough to send shockwaves around the planet: fan reaction to Duff McKagan playing with Axl in London in October was over the top."

10. Pink Floyd � The Dark Side of the Moon (1973): No album has come closer to coherent perfection � both thematically and musically � as this masterpiece from Pink Floyd. Shaped by Roger Waters' sense of alienation (and "inspired," one suspects, by the fractured psyche of Floyd founder Syd Barrett), the album probed its dark themes with the sort of exquisite craftsmanship normally associated with a classic novel. David Gilmour's searing solos, especially on "Time" and "Money," remain among the most momentous in rock history.

9. Rush � 2112 (1976): Prog-rock and heavy metal were fused more brilliantly than ever on this conceptual effort, which proved to be Rush's breakthrough album. Spanning one full album-side, the 20-minute title track presented a harrowing portrait of a world in which individual expression is crushed at every level. Alex Lifeson's metal riffs gave the music a hard edge that distinguished it from the flighty tendencies of Rush's British prog-rock counterparts. Today, many of the album's themes seem prescient.

Well, word got around to Philip and Dimebag Darrell about what Menza had 'allegedly' stated, thanks to the now deceased Jill Marie Abbott, a close friend of the PANTERA band (and at one time Philip's actual girlfriend) that Nick Menza was "Talking all this sh*t about Pantera". Anselmo and Dimebag immediately went looking for Menza around the venue they were at and eventually cornered him outside near a fence. Anselmo grabbed Menza and said "Why are you talking all this sh*t about me and Dimebag?", and next furiously threw Menza against the chain-linked fence in preparation of a serious "Five Minutes Alone" ass-kicking he was fully prepared to launch into with the now obviously petrified Menza.

London Mayor Boris Johnson might disagree with Mr. Richards, since he's been campaigning for the Stones guitarist to be knighted. He told the Daily Telegraph: "It is a continuing scandal that Keef Richards has not been made, at the very least, a knight bachelor, and the outrage became clear to me this Christmas when � like so many other men of my generation � I was sentenced to Life.

Morrison was officially pardoned earlier this month, but the singer's family and the surviving Doors feel he shouldn't be pardoned for anything. "His performance in Miami that night was certainly provocative, and entirely in the insurrectionary spirit of the Doors' music and message," they said in a statement. "The charges against him were largely an opportunity for grandstanding by ambitious politicians � not to mention an affront to free speech and a massive waste of time and taxpayer dollars. As Ann Woolner of The Albany Times-Union wrote recently, 'Morrison's case bore all the signs of a political prosecution, a rebuke from the cultural right to punish a symbol of Dionysian rebellion.'"

Whatever took place that night ended with the Doors sharing beers and laughter in the dressing room with the Miami police, who acted as security at the venue that evening. No arrests were made." The statement goes on to say that it wasn't until four days later that warrants were issued in Miami for the arrest of Morrison on "trumped-up charges of indecency, public obscenity and general rock 'n' roll revelry."

10. Slash, Slash: Although Slash has been a member of some of the biggest bands in rock, it took until 2010 for the legendary guitarist to step out as a solo musician. His self-titled solo debut paired his thrilling guitar work with some of the most famous voices in music (including Ozzy Osbourne, Fergie and Iggy Pop) and reminded everyone what a true guitar hero can do.

Page was at the event to present "The Innovator" Award to legendary U.K. band Killing Joke, but it was his talk of plans to play concerts in the New Year that overshadowed all rock news in 2010. "The mighty Led Zeppelin casts a huge shadow in the new millennium, and music fans want more," says Bruce Henne. "Everything Zep-related draws a crowd � from Robert Plant to John Paul Jones to Jason Bonham � but the master of mystery remains the elusive Jimmy Page."

"I have been incredibly fortunate in working with and observing so many amazing people, which is always strange and thrilling," Holland said. "We did a track on my new album with Booker T, playing a piano-and-organ duet by Duke Ellington in my little studio in Greenwich. My life is one of looking up from my piano and going, [expletive] me, it's Booker T!' That should be the title of my autobiography."

Harrison and his wife were woken by the sound of breaking glass and, after calling police, were attacked by a man brandishing a six-inch knife. Harrison later told the Oxford Crown Court in a statement: "He stopped in the center of the kitchen and started shouting and screaming. He was hysterical and frightening in his manner.

On what fans might not know about Elvis: "He admired other entertainers and wasn't threatened by their coming to Vegas. Elvis always felt there was room for everyone. Tom Jones, Cher, Nancy Sinatra � he was right there to help."