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

Billboard has good news for folks who don't like dropped calls but want an iPhone (though the EVO has surpassed the Apple devise in many users eyes). Verizon Wireless announced it will begin selling Apple's iPhone, ending rival AT&T's three-year exclusive on the iconic device. Verizon will carry the existing iPhone 4, not some new iPhone model. more

In reference to a promotional clip for American Idol in which Steven Tyler comes close to saying an inappropriate word, Tyler was asked at the Television Critics Association if he will have to go on a five-second delay for the Fox show. "F---, no," he said. more

On January 1st, Glassjaw released an EP called Our Color Green, compiling 5 "new" songs the band has been playing live since during the long wait for a new album since 2002's Worship And Tribute. We cynically figured it would be another year or two before anything more surfaced, but a brand new (truly new) track, called Gold, can be heard here

Glassjaw has also added a few new dates to its forthcoming headline tour of the United States. more

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong feels inspired to write his own musical after enjoying the success of the band's American Idiot show on Broadway. He tells the New York Times, "I think I'd be interested in the future of really getting into writing specifically for a show, that's something I'd really love to do. more

Check out an interview with Alain Johnannes (Them Crooked Vultures, QOTSA, Eleven, Chris Cornell) on the Mark Strigl Podcast. He shares some great stories about Josh Homme, Soundgarden his solo Spark album and touring with John Paul Jones. Listen here

The Who's Roger Daltrey, former Grand Funk Railroad singer and guitarist Mark Farner, AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams, Mountain guitarist Leslie West, Free/Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke, 3 Doors Down and others will come together on Monday night January 17, 2011 in New York for a benefit concert for Farner's 21-year old son Jesse, who was seriously injured in a fall last summer. more

The Wonder Years and Fireworks will co-headline a spring tour with support from Such Gold, Make Do And Mend, and Living With Lions. more

The Strokes' new album set for 'March 22' release Leaked record label memo lists US release date more

Tim 'Ripper' Owens has revealed the dates for his forthcoming headline tour of Europe. The former Judas Priest and Iced Earth vocalist will be hitting seven cities across eastern Europe on his 'Screaming Through The East' trek. more

Drummer Michel "Away" Langevin of Voivod tells myTELUS in a new interview that the band is planning on releasing a live album and a new studio CD in 2011. In addition, the group is scheduled "to tour in Chile, USA, Europe and Russia." more

Fake Problems have launched a contest to give two people free tickets for each and every show in their upcoming tour more

Govt Mule, My Morning Jacket, the Warren Haynes Band, Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Avett Brothers, Bela Fleck and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes are all on board for the 2011 Mountain Jam Music Festival. more

Francis Rossi has been forced to cancel his UK solo tour scheduled to run between February 1 and 8. Rossi requires urgent surgery for a hernia complaint. more

The Measure [SA] are breaking up. Over the course of 7 years, the band has released 18 records, on just as many record labels. The band recently release their final full length Notes on No Idea Records. more

The Kills to release new album 'Blood Pressures'. Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince's fourth effort will be out April 4th in the UK. more

Johan Sohlberg has left Bloodbound in order to "focus on his career and family" and has been replaced by Anders Broman more

Toxic Holocaust has just finished recording new full-length at Dexters Lab in Milford, CT which is expected to be released in late spring. more

On this day in 1974, The Steve Miller Band were at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with "The Joker," the group's first of three #1 hits. It reached #1 on the U.K. chart when it was re-released in 1990.

Dio died of cancer in May last year after a six-month battle against the disease. But Butler says the frontman had stage-four stomach cancer by the time it was discovered � and it was already too late for him.

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."

According to the Dallas Observer, when they called the phone number listed on the ad, the newspaper got the following message:

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.

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).

The Toxic Twins' volatile relationship took the band to the edge of collapse in 2009, with Perry actively inviting singers to replace Tyler after the frontman distanced himself from his colleagues. They settled their differences and went back on the road, but Tyler's decision to become a judge on the American Idol TV gameshow upset Perry once more.

Sorum says of auditioning new singers: "We tried out some fairly unknown guys and some guys that have been out there a little bit. But the guy we're really excited about know is a pretty known guy. I don't want to say anything yet because we're still in the dating phase. We haven't consummated the relationship or made a gentleman's agreement. So I can't let the cat out of the bag until there's an official stamp of approval on the deal."

Out of 1100 employees worldwide 500 will lose their jobs in the coming weeks as Rupert Murdoch's media empire seeks to sell the service off as a slimmed-down going concern.

Frontman Alex Turner and the band are hoping the put out the record in late spring of this year. The album, as yet untitled, will be the Sheffield foursome's follow-up to 2009's Humbug, which was a co-production between Ford and Josh Homme. Ford also worked on the Monkeys' second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, as well as Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future and Florence and the Machine's Lungs.

"Some kid asked me at church to preach Metallica. I sort of said, 'Yeah, sure,' and told him I'd pray about it, which is how we slough people off, and then the next day someone from our church called me with Metallica tickets," Van Sloten said. "So my wife and I went to Metallica and had an experience there, in a very deep communal sense that these people are all sharing a lament and a feeling of injustice about how screwed up the world is. That got my heart into it so I went back and read all the lyrics and as I was reading their lyrics I would have a biblical truth or a scriptural passage come at the same time."

Times of Grace brings back together Jesse Leach (original Killswitch Engage singer) and Adam D. (original and current KsE member, guitars now, drums then). Stream the album here

The three-piece were more intent on preserving their relationship than being honest with each other, making it nearly impossible to develop a creative dynamic in the studio.

Green Day recently released a trailer for the album (watch it below), featuring a 2009 performance of "Know Your Enemy." Billie Joe Armstrong and pals also revealed that Awesome as [Expletive] will come as a two-disc, CD/DVD set. This is the second time Green Day have done this, having released the CD/DVD set Bullet in a Bible in 2005.

After Elton John's critically acclaimed album with Leon Russell, The Union, the pair have recorded a Celebrity Podcast for iTunes.

In anticipation of the performance and upcoming release, Social Distortion are streaming the new record in its entirety beginning today at SocialDistortion.com.

Bright Eyes already had New York's Radio City Music Hall, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and London's Royal Albert Hall in their sights. Now they've added more European stops (Scotland, Germany and Sweden, among them) and more North American dates (including Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada).

The album will include ten brand new songs that Alexander wrote and composed entirely himself.

"I think the attraction with Jimi was just that he had this uninhibited, fluid guitar style that basically screamed," recalled Slash. "It had this over-the-top sound to it that just kind of drew me in. I think all of my favorite guitar players have a sort of manic quality to them."

Subsequently, the band will be touring the states supporting Linkin Park starting January 20th.

"I think it's really important that you never, ever, hate your ex more than you love your children, and I've never hated Ed, so I'm lucky," Valerie told Access Hollywood at the "Hot In Cleveland" Season 2 premiere on Monday night in Los Angeles.

He told the New York Post, "I nearly died at 14. I was a Boy Scout lost on top of a mountain. It was very cold, wet and horrific. My father thought I was dead. First stage of hypothermia is uncontrollable shivers. Then, hallucinations. Then you fall asleep � then you're gone. I had the first two stages."

Of Legends and Impending Doom will be supporting Norma Jean, with Stick To Your Guns joining the package starting March 3rd.

Scott Crouse comments, "So we began tracking our 6th full length album this week!

The Ozzy guitar joins an impressive array of 25 giant Gibsons on Sunset Strip, honoring the rock stars, people and places that have made it such a legendary locale.

"Dear friends, a new year just started, so we figured it was high time for a small, belated gift to you. We are a little proud about presenting a first song from our upcoming album to you, it's a track called 'The Figrin D'an Boogie'. Some of you might have already heard it during our shows in the fall of last year. However, we cannot wait for your feedback now that you can check it out in its full glory and as often as you like. It is definitely a representation of what you can expect from the new album.

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 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.

Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch released a statement on the group's email mailing list, stating that reports of him being cancer-free are "exaggerated". "I'm continuing treatment, staying optimistic and hoping to be cancer free in the near future." more

We Are Defiance (Tragic Hero Records) were involved in a van accident this weekend which left their vocalist briefly hospitalized. The group apparently flipped their van after encountering black ice near Madisonville, KY.more

After reuniting in 2010 in honor of their late drummer Gregory Slay, Remy Zero have released a new song titled "Til' The End," the first new music from the band in over nine years. more

A new batch of dates have been added to the current edition of the 'Music As A Weapon Tour.' The tour featuring co-headliners Disturbed and Korn with support coming from Sevendust and In This Moment will now reach an additional eight cities across the United States. more

The Black Keys made a celebrated stop on Saturday Night Live this weekend, rocking two tracks off their 2010 album Brothers. Enjoy Howlin' For You: more

Amon Amarth will be joined by The Black Dahlia Murder for a spring tour of Europe more

Guns N' Roses bassist Tommy Stinson has announced three solo shows in the U.S. next month more

For what it's worth: Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx's winter romance with Denise Richards is over, according to reports. more

Sick Of It All and Comeback Kid will be touring South America in March more

Autopsy will enter Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in early February with producer Adam Munoz to begin recording their new album, "Macabre Eternal", for a spring release via Peaceville Records. more

Sin IV Ages has parted ways with drummer Kim Gustavsson more

Just because MTV doesn't play music anymore doesn't mean there's not tons of live music on television these days. Find out what's playing this week here

Former Whitechapel drummer Kevin Lane is reportedly doing session work with the Knoxville, Tennessee-based experimental black/death metal band The Looking Glass Self. more

Vomitory have finished the recordings for their eighth studio album entitled Opus Mortis VIII. more

Bloody Sign has decided to split up after 15 years of devotion to death metal. more

Gods And Queens are set to release their new four song EP, via the Sons Of Vesta label this February. more

Mandatory Metal for Monday. Check out today's selection here

On this day in 1956, Elvis Presley made his first recordings for RCA Records at the United Methodist Television, Radio and Film Studios in Nashville. "Heartbreak Hotel" was one of the songs recorded during this session.

On this day in 1981, John Lennon's Double Fantasy album started an eight-week run at #1 on the U.S. chart. "Just Like Starting Over" was at #1 on the U.S. singles chart.

He says the band were made to feel like no more than a backing outfit for Williams. But she's responded by claiming she felt her "face was underneath a boot all the time" because of Farro, who she dated for a while � and she wrote the album on behalf of all bullied women in the world.

The Story of My Life features Snowy White on guitar and was recorded during 1981 sessions which spawned the unsuccessful single Trouble Boys.

The four bands teamed up for a series of seven shows on last year's Sonisphere Festival through Europe, including one stop that made it into movie theaters and on home DVD.

Among those appearing on the album: Slash, Tom Morello, Corey Taylor (of Slipknot and Stone Sour), Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) and rappers RZA, Lil Wayne and Lupe Fiasco. The CD was produced by The Neptunes, DJ Khalil and Barker and is set for a February 22 release.

The record featured a guest appearance from Rammstein singer Till Lindemann, but a sticker on the album cover stated the entire band could be heard.

The album boasted sales of 120,000 last year. Shania Twain's Come on Over ranks second in sales during the era, with Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill holding the third spot.

The Who, Queen, Springsteen, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzy and Soundgarden all make the 'bottom 100′ alongside the Led Zeppelin and George Thorogood ones.

According to the Daily Express, the trio have also reportedly split from Columbia, the label backing the album. The group's official statement says: "We have amicably parted ways with both Rick Rubin and Columbia."

So an entire year of touring on our debut album has come to an end and the approaching date of entering the studio to make our next album has come closer and closer, it's become time for us to decide the kind of album we want to make, for us, as well as for all of you!

Y&T leader Dave Meniketti made the announcement: It is with profound sadness and disbelief that I tell you that my best buddy for 37 years passed away this morning, January 7, 2011 at 1am at Stanford Hospital. Bravely and steadfastly battling the horrible spectacle of lung cancer, at the end he was surrounded by his family members, and the Y&T family up until his final breath.

Items discussed during this interview are his thoughts on metal, and the many rumors surrounding the supposed love/hate relationship he has with metal and its fans. The rumors surrounding being asked to join Iron Maiden.

The soundtrack is from the upcoming Universal Pictures comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James. The film, directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer, opens in theatres across North America on January 14.

Figures released this week by Neilsen Soundscan and Billboard place The Fab Four at the top of both the vinyl album and artist lists.

"He picked up a ping-pong bat backstage and we went at it," said Followill, who was quietly urged to let the prince win.

The tour kicks off on Thursday (January 13th) in Westchester, PA and will wrap on January 21st in Farmingdale, NY.

The enigmatic frontman admits much of the band's back catalogue holds nothing but unhappy memories for him. He also reckons some of them rank among his worst musical efforts.

Under the Great White Northern Lights has also been nominated for two Grammy Awards: "Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package" and "Best Long Form Music Video."

Jamie King has produced albums for bands such as Between The Buried and Me, He Is Legend, For Today, and Alesana. The band will tracking five songs for a current demo to submit.

Joining Evile on the road will be fellow British thrashers Elimination and Mutant.