The Black Keys have cancelled shows in Australia, New Zealand and Europe, including the Big Day Out festival, citing exhaustion as the reason on their website. more

Haste the Day has posted a video trailer online to promote its forthcoming farewell tour. Support on the trek will come from , The Chariot and A Plea For Purging. You can view the full list of dates, cities and venues, as well as the farewell trailer here

Their latest album 'A Thousand Suns' may not even be six months old yet, but Linkin Park is already making plans for their next release which the band says they've already started writing. more

Aussie rock has suffered two losses over the past few days, with the passing of Sherbert guitarist Harvey James and Cold Chisel drummer Steve Prestwich. more

Myke Terry continues recording new music as an independent artist in the wake of his unplanned departure as frontman of Bury Your Dead in late-2010. The band, on hiatus since April of 2010, recently began work on a new album to be released on Mediaskare Records. more

Fair To Midland, Periphery, and Scale The Summit will team up in March and April for a U.S. tour. more

The federal broadcast regulator may be asked this week to overturn a decision by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council that banned the airing of an original 1985 song by Dire Straits. more

underOATH have released a short teaser clip for their winter tour that starts today. The tour, which kicks off in Ft Lauderdale features a one off warm up headlining date before they join the rest of their tourmates on the 20th in Houston. more

As I Lay Dying will headline the California Metalfest V, set to take place March 19 at The Grove in Anaheim, California. more

After much speculation, the Strokes have confirmed that their fifth studio album is slated for a Mar. 22 release. more

Eyehategod has announced a handful of February shows more

Long Distance Calling is poised to release their new, self-titled album, which features a guest appearance from Armored Saint and former Anthrax vocalist John Bush on the song 'Middleville'. more

Holy Grail have revealed the dates for its forthcoming headline tour of the United Kingdom. Support on the trek will come from Revoker and G.U. Medicine. more

Guitarist Moloch of Melechesh will be forced to sit out the first few dates of the band's European tour with Nile, Dew-Scented, Zonaria and Darkrise due to circumstances beyond the group's control. Greg den Hartog will fill in until Moloch is able to rejoin the band on the road. more

Weedeater and Zoroaster will hit the road together late next month for a U.S. tour. more

Archers of Loaf played a surprise set this past weekend at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC. Unannounced, the group opened up for The Love Language and an intrepid audience member captured five songs' worth of video from the set here

Guitarist Stephen Parker has reportedly joined the line-up of death metal outfit Pathology. more

On this day in 1964, The Beatles made their U.S. chart debut when "I Want To Hold Your Hand" entered the chart at #45. It went on to spend seven weeks at the #1 position.

On this day in 1974, former members from Free (Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople (Mick Ralphs) and King Crimson (Boz Burrell) formed Bad Company. The band went on to score a U.S. #1 album with their debut release.

Hammett jammed on "Lateralus," which segued into a portion of Metallica's "Orion," before returning to complete the title track from Tool's 2001 release.

Collen was tracked down at this weekend's NAMM show by Guitar International and offered his own thoughts on the subject. "It's all my [material]. Vivian joined a band that I helped create. He's coming into my house! It's not all the good parts, it's the Def Leppard sound that me and Steve [Clark; the late Def Leppard guitarist] created. We got together with "Mutt" Lange and there was already a sound in place. Also, we play all the hits live, which were written before Viv was in the band."

Melodicrock.com is reporting the band will be joined in the studio by original frontman David Lee Roth for their first new studio album since 1998's Van Halen III. It will be Roth's first new album with Eddie and Alex since 1983's 1984.

The latest news to confound the naysayers is that The Beatles have sold 5 million songs, and a million albums, through iTunes in just 2 months.

While Crosby and Nash's legendary vocal harmonies will be the centerpiece of the show, they will be accompanied on the road by an ace-backing band featuring James Raymond (keyboards), Dean Parks (guitar), Kevin McCormick (bass), and Steve DiStanislao (drums).

White produced and played lead guitar on Jackson's new album, "The Party Ain't Over," set for release January 25.

As for the Idol process and tv "contests" to gain national attention, Tyler said he prefers the old way of paying dues. "Y'know, we [Aerosmith] had to play every state in America in 3 years. By '74, we'd played it three times around.

The tour kicks off on March 30 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at the Bank Atlantic Center; as of this new tour update, it's scheduled to end July 2 in Seattle, WA. (unless more dates are added, of course).

"Again Again" started out as a demo I made in 2007. The verse had twice as many words than what would seem natural (which gave it a talk-singing vibe), the chorus was entirely different, and the song ended in dueling keyboard solos that I thought was killer but the rest of the band -- not so much. We jammed it and worked on it for a while but were eventually frustrated by the lack of direction and disputes about the end. The song was put out of mind until 2009.

While I was working on new songs for 'People Problems,' I decided to approach "Again Again" a little differently. I recorded another demo with just my vocals and an acoustic guitar, and then added a super fuzzed out lead guitar. The quality wasn't very good but it was just the inspiration the song needed, so when we all worked on it together everything gelled and the arrangement fell right into place.

I know it sounds backwards but I like to write the lyrics after the song is arranged and the melody written. In practices, I will mumble my way through a song with unfinished lyrics until I start coming up with certain phrases I like. When I record on our demos I'll make up words to fit the melody I'm coming up with. It usually is pretty terrible but every so often I'll listen back to the demos and hear a line or two I really like, and sometimes it's better than what I've been working on for days! After recording scratch vocals for "Again Again" Daniel asked me if I sang "reaches fingers down my throat" in the chorus - I said "yeah probably," and he replied "that line is awesome! Keep it!" Not only did I keep it, it helped to shape the rest of the lyrics.

12 years earlier in 1979, 11 people were crushed and trampled to death at The Who's concert in Cincinnati. After that horrible tragedy, many venues banned festival style seating. History, however, would repeat itself this night in Salt Lake City as the crowd surged, and those in the front fell down, pushed by the heaving weight of bodies behind them. Three fans, Jimmie Boyd Jr., 14, Curtis White Child, 14, and Elizabeth Glausi, 19, were killed.

Though he declined to say exactly what those plans are, he did say that the group � having reunited with guitarist Graham Coxon in 2009 � were "trying to put something in place."

"On October 27, 2010, I found out I had aggressive cancer. In an instant, everything in my happy-music universe imploded. It was like Jaws was savagely eating me from the inside out. My biopsy showed that I had to make some important decisions... fast. After consulting with numerous doctors, I decided to have radical surgery to try and remove the cancer in its entirety.

The process started, really, with an interview on Entertainment Tonight Canada back in 2009. The story that aired shocked many, as Fortune told of his dismissal from the band, his drug addictions, including cocaine, and his ultimate return to Canada only to find himself living in his car � the same place he was when he signed up for the "Rock Star: INXS" TV series.

The album was recorded with cutting edge producer Flood (Depeche Mode, U2, The Killers) and written in the very un-Scottish environment of Santa Monica, California.

According to NME.com, Meighan will star alongside Stephen Graham, who played a skinhead in the acclaimed Brit movie, This is England, as well as Al Capone in Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire. Celebrity chefMarco Pierre White is also set for a cameo appearance.

The festival will boast the biggest live outdoor line-up of 80s recording artists and performers ever.

The album is the second to be released via Varg Vikernes' imprint Byelobog Productions (via Candlelight for the territory). Fallen features seven new compositions by the controversial Norwegian musician, each adding another storied journey to the celebrated BURZUM legacy.

According to Musicrooms.net, Ronnie neglected to house train his pet dog and the rock and roll pair were evicted.

He told The Sun newspaper: "I'd like to help the Mayor and Prime Minister. I'd like to advise them on the kids out there who are getting a raw deal, you know?

"Gillespie was key to Creation," said McGee. "Without him I wouldn't have had Primal Scream, who really are the flagship Creation band, and he told me about Jesus and Mary Chain and the Fanclub. I found Oasis, My Bloody Valentine and Ride."

The Allman Brothers Band became a major concert draw in the south shortly after forming in March 1969. That same year they released their debut album, The Allman Brothers Band. And while Duane gets most of the glory, it was Dickey who was actually the musical lynchpin in many ways. He was already playing close guitar harmonies, an Allmans' signature, in his own earlier bands, and Dickey hipped Duane to the sonic joys of Gibson Les Pauls and SGs, which were already his staples. He even sold Duane his first, famed cherry '61 Gibson SG.

The latest CD from Michael Stanley Shadowland, his 22nd album, released on ItsAboutMusic.com, features thirteen new Stanley originals as he continues a musical journey that spans over forty years and just keeps getting better!

Blood Runs Black and The Human Abstract will provide support on the outing .

Come 2011 and Jon's hard at work on his follow-up album, Summer Wilderness Program. Times being what they are, Jon's calling upon his friends and fans to help him fund the new album, which he's again co-producing with Chris Walldorf at Walldorf's Sioux Sioux Studio in Charlotte, NC.

A Catholic memorial service for Jill is being held on this coming Thursday (Jan 20) -between 2:00pm � 5:30pm � at Fremont Memorial Chapel located at 3723 Peralta Blvd in Fremont, California.

These songs are recorded and played live on the Pat Duncan show on WFMU in New Jersey at the start of their 1993 U.S. tour.