Linkin Park's Music for Relief charity and Causecast have teamed up for Download to Donate for Haiti v2.0, a campaign featuring free music to support the ongoing recovery of Haiti. more

Must be nice to make almost 3/4 of a billion bucks from one investment. Just ask Bono. His decision to invest in Facebook.com has paid off. The U2 frontman's share in the social networking site is now worth $728 million. more

After 14 years, eight releases, hundreds of shows, countless miles travelled, and many, many great times? and bottles of whiskey, Hostility has decided to disband. more

Rise Against plans to release a new album, Endgame, on March 15. The lead single, "Help Is On The Way," officially impacts radio on January 25 but will land this Monday, January 17 more

According to Thisisstaffordshire.co.uk, campaigners want the Stoke-on-Trent City Council to recognise the achievements of Mot�rhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister and Slash (Velvet Revolver, ex-Guns N' Roses). more

After numerous rumours over the last few months, an official website (and confirmation) has been made that plans are underway for a 2011 edition of Krazy Fest. A 2004 version of the festival was abruptly cancelled after more than six consecutive years of festivals. more

Deftones have announced a second date for Vancouver, Canada. The band will now be performing on the 18th and 19th of April at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, alongside The Dillinger Escape Plan. more

Neurosis will be reissuing their classic album Souls at Zero this February. more

A year after his death at 29, his label, Shattered Club, has announced a slew of new Jay Reatard releases for 2011. more

Runner Runner is set to hit the road this spring for a nationwide tour with A Rocket To The Moon, Valencia, Anarbor, and Go Radio. The Nationwide trek will kick off on March 15 in Poukeepsie, NY. more

Anthrax frontman Joey Belladonna will again take a break from his gigs with the world-touring metal band to visit the Silver City this summer with his solo band Chief Big Way. more

On this day in 1970, Diana Ross made her last appearance with The Supremes at The Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas.

Daltrey sought out the care of Dr. Steven Zeitels, Director of the Mass General Voice Center and professor at Harvard Medical School. Zeitels had previously treated such high-profile patients as Steven Tyler and Julie Andrews.

"When he came in, said Zeitels, "there were changes that were the typical ones we would see, but then there were other changes on his vocal chords � evidence of pre-cancerous dysplasia. It could have been cancer."

Due on March 22, "Live On I5" will feature tracks taken from the west coast leg of Soundgarden's 1996 tour.

"I don't want to say we fired him, I mean I'm sure he could have fired us, too. I like the idea of doing the album ourselves just 'cause it's more fun and you can get a bit weirder," Bays said. "We're still [expletive] when we need to be [expletive], but for the most part, when a producer says 'Maybe you should try this,' you just give him the benefit of the doubt, or you give her the benefit of the doubt, whereas it was nice to have that extra level of not having to worry about somebody's feelings."

Tune in to Showtime at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT to witness Wylde make his hilarious premium cable acting debut.

At age 62, it's the first BRIT nomination for Plant, who's up for Best British Male Artist. Plant will be competing against Paul Weller, Mark Ronson, Plan B and Tinie Tempah.

We often get musical inspiration from various sources in our band Blackmore's Night. The writing process usually begins where my writing parnter and husband, Ritchie Blackmore, will hear a traditional song, usually from the 12-1500's, and we will take the melody line of a part of that song and add new instrumentation, new arrangements and new musical parts. Then I add new lyrics and a whole new song is created in the process, while retaining the spirit of the original song from hundreds of years ago.

We are very inspired by traditional melodies and have found great sources of inspiration in regional folk melodies as we tour around the world. Our fans know that we love regional folk music and often compile cds for us to listen to the traditional songs of their area when we arrive in their country. One of the songs on our latest cd is called "Darkness" and originally was a traditional melody from the Brittany area of France. We heard it when a German Renaissance band called Des Geyers rediscovered it and reinvented it as an instrumental called "Britonish". When we heard it, we took that melody and played it on recorders and acoustic guitars and slowed it down and it gave it a very haunting feel. Much different than the original version we heard. In writing lyrics I usually listen to the idea of the music that Ritchie has in mind, and then I go into another room and just breathe that melodyline in. I have to really absorb it and feel it, and often the song will tell me what it wants to be about. I find that if you listen to any instrumental melody, it will paint pictures in your head as to what it wants to be about. So I take those pictures painted by the melody and describe them in visual descriptions. Lyrics are my craft so its very important for me to create a storyline that resonates deeply with the listener but that is also reflective of the melody so it all works together and completes the transporting process. Ultimately I want people to be able to escape stresses of the modern day when they listen to our songs.

Darkness was written as the seasons were changing, the summer days were fading into cold autumn nights and as we live right next to a forest I felt as if that were the perfect setting for such an olden melody. The woods always have deep creative meaning, whether it is for poets, painters, or lyricists and this began no differently. But the woods are a very different place during sunlight than during the night time. Our woods are beautiful but very mysterious and with the moon shining overhead and the ancient rocks hidden around certain bends, it holds energies that are very intense, and can be unnerving at night. We often walk through in our cloaks with lanterns in search of owls that we can hear from our home, calling to the darkness. The lyrics of the song brings us to the mysteries of the forest, how while tossing in the modern comforts of our bedroom at night, we still are drawn to the dark, deep, openness of the forest outside and all of her mysteries seem to call us, to entice us from the very arms of sleep. And though many stories run rampant about the woods and what may or may not have happened there...that which only the trees know, we still feel drawn to walk beneath the ever seeing branches and lose ourselves in the magic of the wood.

The final lyric and the chorus alludes to the fact that in reality, it is mankind -which is often an oxymoron- that we need to escape from. There is so much corruption, lies, jealousy, pettiness, greed surrounding us. Nature is an all accepting and incredible place to be, yet man has a constant source of evil running through him. So, in essence, perhaps to return fully to nature and surrender and become one with it is the only truly peaceful place to be. That us what Darkness is about. The dark of peoples souls far outweighs the scariness of the dark, peaceful and calm night time in the wood

The set, which includes a CD plus bonus DVD, features performances captured during the band's 2009-2010 World Tour in support of 21st Century Breakdown.

The hit features the word "faggot" three times because writer Mark Knopfler wanted to demonstrate an example of unacceptable behaviour. When a Canadian station broadcast the uncut version in February last year, one person complained about the word in reference to a homosexual � and this week the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council upheld the complaint.

"It's a completely different direction for Jane's Addiction," Navarro said. "However, it still sounds very much like Jane's Addiction � We probably have more material for this record than we've ever had for any record, which is a pretty great place to be."

During our conversation, Greg revealed the band is in the process of writing new material for what could materialize into either a new full length or an EP of tunes.

Additionally, Greg revealed that he may once again collaborate with Max Cavalera on an entire record, similar to Max's work in Nailbomb. Greg also mentions he may work on new music with his other side projects Spylacopa and Error (which features Atticus Ross).

The Canadian rockers are up for three awards: Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group for "Ready to Star" and Best Alternative Music Album and Album of the Year for The Suburbs.

All previously purchased tickets will be honored. Now kicking-off by default in the band's home town of Savannah GA @ The Jinx, the tour will be Kylesa's first headlining run in support of their new release on Season of Mist, Spiral Shadow.

The two were on hand at the Anaheim Convention Center on Wednesday to kick off the 2011 NAMM Show, a massive music-products convention that runs through Sunday.

Using the original "Appetite For Destruction" master recordings, Slash and Marshall painstakingly worked together to replicate his "AFD" sound.

The US tour will kick off on February 15th in Jacksonville, FL. They will then join Asking Alexandria, Emmure, Miss May I, Evergreen Terrace and Lower Than Atlantis this Spring on a US and Canada tour.

"I played music no matter what," said Guy, as he looked back on his youth. "But I didn't look to make a career out of it, because I didn't think I was good enough. I played the guitar because of the love of music. I didn't see me making a decent living out of playing the guitar. I'm seventy-four-years-old now. Once, when I was fifteen-years-old, you couldn't reach out there and find a guitar player doing well like it is today, where some of these guitar players making millions of dollars. Wasn't no such thing as that."

Of course: America! Malcolm McLaren, taking a leaf out of Beatle manager Brian Epstein's book, had carefully planned a smart and considered assault in the U.S., beginning with a well-researched appearance on the hippest show on U.S. TV, Saturday Night Live. Yet, assorted criminal records caused a Visa delays and Elvis Costello ended up taking the TV exposure and launching himself on a long and profitable American career.

Never Be Content, which introduces an expanded electronic soundscape for the band, was recorded at their home studio in Pennsylvania, as well as Hoboken, NJ, Los Angeles and London.

The outing will kick off on February 18th at the State Theatre in Portland, ME and include a return to New York City's Terminal 5 (2/22).

Blabbermouth reports Pat, 92, was laid to rest on January 11 at St. Mary's Cemetery in Cortland. He served his country during World War II.

The write-up on the car confirms "the exterior is black and the interior is black houndstooth. The three-speed automatic vehicle is fully restored with a fuel injected LS3 and automatic transmission. It comes with four-wheel Baer disc brakes, Vintage Air and heat, Z06 Corvette wheels and show quality black paint."

Rock Music Landmarks of London will help you find dozens of famous places, including Marylebone Station (made famous in A Hard Day's Night), the "death flat" where both Mama Cass and Keith Moon died and St. Martin's College, where the Sex Pistols played their first show.