Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler said on Tuesday the band would start work on its first new studio album in a decade, and promised that his new gig as a judge on "American Idol" would not get in the way. "We've certainly been writing," Tyler, 62, told journalists. "I know (guitarist) Joe (Perry) has got some licks and I've got a bunch of songs that I've written for solo and/or Aerosmith, and next Saturday, we start." more

Arcade Fire, Kings Of Leon and Kanye West have been named as the headliners at this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. more

Pearl Jam is celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. As part of the celebration, they will release a documentary chronicling the band's 20-year career and at the helm of this project is frequent PJ collaborator and fan Cameron Crowe. Over at the AV Club, some minor details have been shared about the documentary more

And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead will debut their new single � "Weight of the Sun" � LIVE on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on February 7th on NBC. The band's new album Tao of the Dead is out on February 8th.

"Help Is On The Way," the first single for Rise Against's sixth album Endgame is available at the band's MySpace page here

The Arcade Fire's film collaboration with director Spike Jonze will get its official debut at the Berlin International Film Festival. The short film, Scenes From The Suburbs, will screen at the festival in mid-February. more

Whitesnake's news album "Forevermore" will be released on Frontiers Records on March 25th in Europe and March 29th in North America. A sample of the track "Love Will Set You Free" can be heard here.

Atheist will hit the road in support of their new album, "Jupiter", the band's first studio CD in 17 years. The first show will take place on Saturday, February 12 at the Cabana Inn in Sarasota, Florida, on the 20th anniversary - to the day - of the loss of the band's original bass player Roger Patterson. The concert will mark the group's debut appearance with new bass player Travis Morgan. more

Eyehategod has announced a handful of February shows. more

Hostage Calm and O Pioneers!!! will kick off a two-week tour this month more

Robert Plant has confirmed a 12-date spring North American tour, which will be the third leg of U.S. touring in support of his latest album, Band Of Joy. more

Arch Enemy have set "Khaos Legions" as the title of their new album, due in May via Century Media Records. The CD is currently being recorded at Sweet Spot Studio in the south of Sweden with engineer Rickard Bengtsson (who produced 2005's "Doomsday Machine"). more

Reunited NWOBHM band Stampede are to release a new album on April 18. more

Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr is offered a "serious" book deal to write his autobiography. more

Katatonia has issued the following update: "20 years of Katatonia going strong calls for a celebration and we'll be doing just that by throwing five very special anniversary gigs in Europe this coming May presented as the 'Last Fair Day Gone Night - An Evening With Katatonia' tour 2011." more

Wilco have announced their second annual Solid Sound Festival, a three-day "celebration of music, comedy, art and community" more

Accept have scheduled some Russian tour dates more

On this day in 1978, Johnny Rotten was fired from The Sex Pistols for "not being weird enough anymore."

The singer will spend two weeks in a Los Angeles prison followed by two weeks of house arrest after being caught over the limit in his Lambourghini at the end of June.

Tyler dropped the Zeppelin bombshell on Howard Stern's show early Tuesday morning, while making the media rounds in NYC to promote American Idol's launch Wednesday night.

The band were forced to refuse offers of a large-scale tour in the USA following their Super Bowl appearance last year after Townshend revealed his long battle against tinnitus wasn't going well.

Kirshner discovered Bobby Darin in the '50s and began Aldon Music with Al Nevins, creating a veritable songwriting factory in the Brill Building in New York City. Kirshner's writers included Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.

The first single will be "Can A Drummer Get Some," featuring The Game, Swizz Beats, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross. "Jump Down," featuring The Cool Kids, and "Carry It," featuring RZA, Raekwon, and Tom Morello, are currently available on iTunes. Watch the video for "Carry It" here.

Rumours have been rife that the project was underway for some time, but Homme has finally confirmed them while explaining it will be a long process.

The brainchild of percussionist and co-founding member of Slipknot, M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan, The Black Dots of Death will release their debut album March 1, 2011 on Sopra Evil / Rocket Science Ventures.

Melissa Etheridge will be taking Billie Joe Armstrong's place as "St. Jimmy" in the show while the Green Day singer is off taking care of other business.

One of the songs will be played live on the upcoming tour and will be making its way online soon. The band comments:

I remember I can up with the opening riff, which is also the chorus, one day while sitting around practicing some time back in 2005. Like most of our songs I just tucked the riff away in my mind and played around with it until something else came to me. Before long I had the verse to go along with the chorus so the song was pretty well structured. I wanted to have an evil part in the middle to break up the song so it would not be boring. After playing with the verse and chorus for a few weeks I came up with the break down riff in the middle and subsequent solo break. George and I worked out a nice dual guitar solo for the second half of the solo break and we were basically done. This song is a little strange as it ends on a verse instead of a chorus. I then brought the song to the band and we massaged it a little further until everyone was happy with the feel.

Once I knew how the drums were structured and had a good idea of the tempo of the song I started writing the lyrics. I usually come up with the theme first then put myself in the role and write the story. I believe I was watching something on TV about human sacrifice and thought it would be a good subject for this song. I did a little research and began writing. I usually sit down with my guitar and play the verse when I am writing the lyrics so I have the proper tempo and beat to match the words. After an afternoon I had the finished product and began memorizing the lyrics for our next rehearsal.

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As we told you last month, Brisk's new campaign features Ozzy Osbourne and Danny Trejo in separate ads.

Filmed in high definition at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City this past spring, this musical celebration of the great Les Paul features selections of his songs and other great rock 'n' roll tracks.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the guitarist said: "Actually, we got asked about that once already but it got turned down. In the current climate of what's going on in entertainment these days, I try to be more optimistic than negative because it's really easy to get negative about it, but I draw the line at Glee."

Here is what Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen had to say about it: The album's first single, entitled "The Ballad of Mona Lisa," will be available at all digital retailers on February 1st.

The clip kicks off with a heavy instrumental introduction which may remind some fans of Dave Grohl's all-star metal project, Probot, before Grohl sings "These are my famous last words" in a classic Grohl growl.

Dates will span coast to coast starting in early March reaching through the middle of April with support from Periphery and Scale The Summit.

Council members from the city of Stoke-on-Trent rejected a petition to honor the two rock heroes who were born in the city.

The festival tour will kick off on March 17th Dallas, TX and will conclude on April 5th in Hollywood, Ca.

The album, to be called Acoustic Gypsy Live, will feature acoustic versions of the band's hits as well as two new songs. Original L.A. Guns guitarist Mick Cripps will join the band on stage for some tracks.

"I had the idea of making individual apps for some of the biggest acts in the world, and thought the best one to start with would be Zeppelin, because of their iconic status," said Neil Cossar, of This Day in Music, in a statement about the app.

Among the app's features: a detailed list of every show Led Zeppelin every played, a Zeppelin quiz with hundreds of questions, critiques of every track the band ever recorded, a career overview of the group, photographs of the band and more.

The hour-long set will include a very special performance and interview before an intimate audience at OPB's studios in the band's hometown of Portland, Oregon, and will be webcast at http://www.npr.org/music/.

The Fabrizio Grossi directed clip finds Pushking vocalist Konstantin "Koha" Shustarev trading verses with Gibbons, while Bettencourt lays down one of his signature guitar solos towards the end of the track. The World As We Love It also includes guest appearances from Paul Stanley (Kiss), Steve Vai, Udo Dirkschneider (Accept), Steve Lukather (Toto), among many others.

It's been an unforgettable 2010 for ACM UCO. The school hosted master classes and exclusive mentoring sessions with top artists, including Jackson Browne, the Mountain Goats and Local Natives.

The entire album can now be heard on the official site of Conan O'Brien and his online network, at http://teamcoco.com/ironandwine.