The Roots' Dice Raw has issued a statement following a car accident in North Philadelphia last Wednesday (Jan. 5). "My car got totaled, my face got all cut up, my ankle and knee are f**ked and I still can't walk" more

According to Startribune.com, Wednesday night's (January 12th) makeup date by Ozzy Osbourne at Minneapolis, Minnesota's Target Center is being billed as an Evening With concert, which means there will not be an opening act more

Whitechapel and drummer Kevin Lane mutually decided to go their own ways and the Internet is already abuzz with rumors as to the reasons behind the split. Kevin offered a statement to answer fans questions as to why the drummer and the band parted ways here

Steel Train will be performing their single "Bullet" on Conan O'Brien tonight, Tuesday January 11th. For a bit or irony, watch them play the song on Letterman here

Helix vocalist Brian Vollmer has revealed that Danko Jones, Sean Kelly and Gerry McGee are among the musicians that have agreed to be interviewed in the band's upcoming reality show. more

GZR, the band featuring bassist Geezer Butler, appear to be back in some sort of action. Six years after the release of their last album, 2005's Ohmwork, GZR are involved in writing new material. more

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has been tapped to compose the music for David Fincher's English language adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." more

Billy Morrison has issued the following update: "The season premier of Showtime's amazing show, Californication, aired on Sunday night, and it's as good as ever. I am honored to say that I can be seen on the show in a guest star role alongside David Duchovny and Rob Lowe on Sunday, February 13th in episode #406, entitled 'Lawyers, Guns And Money'." more

Catalepsy and Ender will soon be touring the East Coast together. more

Dew-Scented, who announed the departure of guitarist Martin Walczak last week, have named Michael Hankel (ex-Erosion, Holy Moses) as the touring rhythm guitarist for their upcoming European tour more

Moonsorrow will release their new album, "Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa", via Spinefarm Records next month more

YOB have posted the following update online, in which it announces its decision to cancel the forthcoming European tour and Roadburn festival appearance: 'We regretfully must announce that YOB cannot appear at the Roadburn festival in April 2011. We are heartbroken to not be in attendance. more

L.A. Guns have announced that bassist Scott Griffin has rejoined the band, taking over for his replacement Kenny Kweens. L.A. Guns vocalist Phil Lewis states, "Hi guys and a Happy New Year to everyone! Just a quick update for ya's. Kenny Kweens has decided to leave the band. We wish the best for Kenny and we really enjoyed having him with us over the last year and a half. We are delighted to have return with us Scotty Griffin!!! We'll hit the road on the 18th with Scott bringing back his RNR Sleaze Swagger to the band. Be sure to catch us out on the road!!" more

Grateful Dead fans attending this year's Sundance Film Festival may want to catch a special performance by founding band member Bob Weir in support of director Jim Kohlberg's rock-and-roll infused "The Music Never Stopped." more

The Wonder Years entered the studio this past weekend to record their upcoming Hopeless Records full-length with producer Steve Evetts (Saves The Day, Lifetime, Every Time I Die). more

Details are scant at the moment, but it looks like A Loss For Words and Such Gold will be releasing a split sometime in 2011 more

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a ruling that reinstated an antitrust lawsuit alleging major record labels conspired to fix prices and terms under which music would be sold over the Internet. more

Pavement is slated to appear on the Jan. 20 episode of the Food Network's pastry-based reality show, "Ace of Cakes." more

Less Than Jake have revealed the details for some upcoming reissues of Losing Streak and Hello Rockview. Both are due out March 1, 2011 and will feature revised artwork and a bonus DVD of live video recorded at various shows in their native Florida. more

Drummer Matt Sorum posted an update to Twitter on Monday: "Did 4 days with an amazing singer and VR and have 9 killer demo tracks. Going to make the decision one way or another this week."

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has slammed big companies for signing low-quality acts, and says that's the reason he doesn't blame people for pirating music.

The hard-working frontman is also promoting and touring his well-received solo country album Town Line, but doesn't want anyone to think his country journey means a mellower Staind.

Times of Grace is his new band with Killswitch guitarist and producer Adam Dutkiewicz, and their debut album The Hymn of a Broken Man is due out next Monday (January 17).

Alex Lifeson: "Originally the plan was to get back into writing and then recording this year but this tour was so successful with the demand for us to carry on and play a little bit longer. So we played with the ideas and as we got closer to the end of the tour we realized we were going to get a lot of push to continue it. And we wanted to, we didn't think we were going to have quite as much fun as we've had with it.

"Wreckage Of My Past" is billed as "an intimate documentary that delves deep into the life of music icon Ozzy Osbourne. A sober Ozzy has reached a point of clarity as he looks back on a lifetime of unparalleled success, misdiagnosed disease, unrelenting fear and a recurring dependency on drugs and alcohol. This is a film about reconciling the past and looking toward the future."

Reznor tells the New York Times "Will I tour again? Certainly. Will Nine Inch Nails play shows again? I'm not saying it's out of the question. But there's no tour planned."

Billed as "Eddie's Famous Axes Collection," miniature guitar maker Axe Heaven presents a collection of three of EVH's most famous guitars.

KISS offered a sneak peek of the gnome designs on their official website this week. The picture as presented on the site presents an artist's rendition of the four band members standing guard over a suburban garden in the dark. A little tweaking via image editing software reveals a little more detail, but not enough to determine whether the Catman and Spaceman figures are based on Peter Criss and Ace Frehley or Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer.

According to Britain's Daily Express, Kylie met up with Bobby Gillespie and Co. after a gig in Australia and approached them about collaborating.

The new live compilation features 18 Pearl Jam tracks captured over the course of the band's 2003-2010 world tours by recording engineer, John Burton.

The festival tour will run through the U.S. from March 17th through April 5th.

P.O.D., Dredg, Brian 'HEAD" Welch along with members of Anthrax, Atreyu, and Papa Roach just some of the artists scheduled to take the stage.

The tour will kick off on January 13th in Little Rock, AR and will include Suburban Legends and Koo Koo Kangaroo.

"The title evolved as a place to house what we'd done," Yan explained. "'Valhalla Dancehall' is this fictitious, imaginary place that we had to make up as a place that could house all these songs. Imagine all these different rooms and different things going on in them all at the same time. We're in the same house, but different rooms. So with the songs, we had a certain structure to fit into this word and atmosphere, but there wasn't really any limit to what could come out or what was possible. Each song kept getting longer and longer."

On serendipity, as stated in his 2007 autobiography Slash: "If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong place at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest."

The "Evening with" format will also feature a rare 30-40 minute acoustic set, as well as an extra set of songs from other albums.

Martin told BBC's Radio 1 that the album, the band's fifth, is "supposed to be about life, the good stuff and the bad stuff. Everything." He also noted that the album is about "two like-minded outsiders who meet in a very difficult environment and therefore have a journey together," and added that it contained "lots of uplifting stuff."

Moran passed away after a decades-long battle with a debilitating disease. Moran worked as a producer and engineer on many high-profile recordings.

Ashba performed the national anthem at the AMA Supercross (an FIM World Championship) at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.

The song that was to become The Jimi Hendrix Experience's second single was reportedly written in late 1966. According to Hendrix's manager, Chas Chandler, Hendrix was playing the riff backstage at a gig and Chandler encouraged him to put lyrics to the music. But there is plenty of debate as to when that happened or what the original lyrics contained. It's been reported that Jimi penned the words while in the dressing room of the Upper Cut Club on Boxing Day in '66. Hendrix later said that the lyrics were shortened later, but Chandler claimed that the words were recorded as written.

The former Almighty singer, Def Leppard guitarist Viv Campbell and ex-Whitesnake bassist Marco Mendoza joined up with Lynott-era members Scott Gorham, Brian Downey and Darren Wharton last year to start work on a 2011 tour. They're on the road now and receiving rave reviews � and Warwick believes Lynott, who died 25 years ago last week, would approve of how they're respecting his legacy.

By Friday, Bach had an invite to appear at the Ducks' Pep Rally in Arizona on Sunday, the day before the big game, as well as tickets to the game itself.

Ozzy will autograph the one-of-a-kind, 10-foot-tall Fiberglass Les Paul at 2 p.m. Pacific time during a ceremony which will also mark the launch of the second leg of Ozzy's U.S. arena tour, which will include special guest Slash � with Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge on vocals � as support.

Speaking to rockpages.gr, Woodroffe said Nirvana had changed everything, and the members of Def Leppard were all listening to a whole new type of music. "They wanted to grow as a band and, of course, they were writing the songs without [producer] Mutt [Lange]," Woodroffe said.

Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher's new band have posted the video for "The Roller."

"I don't think I'm godlike or a genius," he told NME.com. "It's flattering. It's a nice thing to be acknowledged for doing something you love to do, but in truth I don't consider it a body of work because I don't consider it work."

The BBC2 special had just over 3 million viewers tuning in to see such acts as Vampire Weekend, Kylie Minogue, Alison Moyet and others.