Motley Crue have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit after the photo from the band's 'Too Fast For Love' album cover was used on merchandise. The band and bosses at tour giant Live Nation are being sued by Ron Toma, who claims he owns the rights to the photograph, which was taken by Michael Pinter in 1981 and shows a close-up of a man wearing a belt and leather trousers. more

Behemoth main man Nergal has exited the hematology division of Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne (UCK) in Gdansk on Monday, January 17th, some 4 weeks after he underwent a bone marrow transplant procedure. more

The new album from Cold War Kids is arriving on January 24, but we've got a few days' jump on the release with a full album stream. Listen to Mine Is Yours here

In a message purported to be from their drummer, Shane, three members have quit The Mongoloids mid-tour. Lambgoat report that they are yet to find confirmation, but the band issued a Twitter update stating, "Sad to say we will be unable to finish out the last few shows on our tour with Hundredth, Casey Jones, and Death Before Dishonor. Please forgive us." more

A Foo Fighters documentary has been announced for release later in 2011. Spitfire Pictures and Academy Award winner James Moll will produce the documentary, which will 'chronicle the entire history of the Foo Fighters more

The annual New Orleans Jazz & Music Heritage Festival announced its 2011 line-up with a diverse slate of headliners that includes Arcade Fire, Sonny Rollins, Kid Rock, Wilco, Willie Nelson, Bon Jovi, Ms. Lauryn Hill, John Mellencamp, the Strokes, Jimmy Buffett, John Legend & the Roots and Robert Plant more

Slipknot/Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor's forthcoming book, "Seven Deadly Sins - Settling The Argument Between Born Bad And Damaged Good", which was originally scheduled for release in March via Da Capo Press, has been pushed back to July so that Corey can do a proper book tour in support of its release. more

Bob Dylan reportedly has signed a six-book deal with Simon & Schuster, according to Crain's New York Business. The deal will include two sequels to his 2004 book, Chronicles: Volume One more

Fates Warning's Jim Matheos and John Arch are currently working together on a new full-length album that will be released in late spring/early summer via Metal Blade Records. The new band, called Arch/Matheos, began tracking the drums on January 12th and will continue to record through mid February with both John Arch and Jim Matheos producing the album. more

Gamma Ray's previously announced North American mini-tour In support of their 10th studio album To The Metal!, begins next week. These will be the only dates the band play in North America all year more

Set Your Goals, MC Lars, Abandon All Ships, Foxy Shazam added to Warped Tour more

iTunes has just added a new live set from The Hold Steady to their webstore. The set was recorded in SoHo and is 8 tracks long more

Torche has confirmed the addition of guitar player Andrew Elstner to their line-up. Elstner has done time in Tilts and Riddle of Steel. more

Foundation has announced the title and release date for their new album. The record is titled When The Smoke Clears and is due out April 19, 2011. more

The Wonder Years, Man Overboard, and Handguns have lined up a brief March tour more

Interpol has announced a series of new tour dates from April 13 in Reno, NV to May 4 in Raleigh, NC. more

In a slow sales week, Cage The Elephant's sophomore release, Thank You Happy Birthday, debuts at #2 with over 38,000 sold. more

Black Anvil has announced a run of North American tour dates with Sweden's Marduk in late-May. The brief tour will kickoff in Montreal, Quebec and also include Aura Noir, Panzerfaust, and HOD. more

The Vines are set to release their fifth album in April, according to Australian radio station Triple J. more

On this day in 1965, American disc-jockey Alan Freed died from uraemia at the age of 42. Freed called himself the "father of rock and roll", and appeared in movies such as Rock Around The Clock and Don't Knock the Rock. His career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry in the early 1960s.

On this day in 1972, on the first date of a UK tour, Pink Floyd premiered their new album Dark Side Of The Moon at The Dome, Brighton, England.

On this day in 2002, George Harrison had the posthumous U.K. #1 single with the re-release of the 1971 former #1 "My Sweet Lord." Harrison's single replaced Aaliyah's '"More Than A Woman," the only time in chart history that one deceased artist had taken over from another at #1.

"I tore a ligament in my left hand last year, playing basketball at Chuck E. Cheese, which is like a pizza place for kids," he said. "I injured my back a few years ago, that's been acting up. The last show in Australia, I bent over to pack my bags and I tore a little bit of my back again."

According to the Daily Express, Tyler said, "We've certainly been writing. I know Joe [Perry]'s got some licks, and I got a bunch of songs that I've written for solo and or Aerosmith. Friday I'm writing with [producer] Marti Frederiksen, and Saturday we're into a writing program with the band."

Homme said that the surgery hit complications and that he was technically dead for a few moments before doctors revived him.

Metallica posted the following to their website: "It's certainly no secret that we have always been hugely inspired and influenced by Motorhead and have had the honor of sharing the stage with Lemmy on several occasions. Well, now you can catch the spirit of Lemmy and Motorhead in a recently released film, 'Lemmy' (full title 'Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of A Bitch'). The film is currently playing at select theaters (visit LemmyMovie.com for locations), and will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download in the U.S. on February 15.

His touring band will continue to feature Patty Griffin, Darrell Scott, Byron House, Marco Giovino and album co-producer Buddy Miller.

The solo tour will be Cornell's first, although it follows up two acoustic concerts that took place about a year ago in Los Angeles.

Ozzy Osbourne was touring America in support of the Diary of a Madman album with his Night of the Living Dead tour. The album title was strangely apt since stage shows had become more and more outrageous. At the end of a gig Ozzy would catapult meat (mostly intestines from a butchers shop) into the crowd. Naturally, Ozzy fans started to get into the spirit of the event and started bringing their own meaty offerings to shows. One fan was turned away from a concert for bringing in a whole Ox's head. On top of that, word was out that at a meeting with his record company in Los Angeles, Ozzy had bitten the head off a dove and fans were now beginning to bring small creatures of their own to gigs.

Showroom Of Compassion, Cake's first record of new material since the release of Pressure Chief seven years ago, comes via the band's own label, Upbeat Records. Not only is this a first for CAKE, who have always made it a point to stay true to their independent roots, but also the first Number One release for Warner's Independent Label Group.

Grateful Dead slipped the shores of America and crossed the pond for its first-ever major European tour in April 1972. The legendary 22-show run spawned Europe '72, a live triple album that remains one of the band's best-selling and most beloved releases. A tour this momentous deserves a boxed set of historic proportions and Dead.net has stamped your passport to relive every note from the European tour with Europe '72: The Complete Recordings�an individually numbered, limited edition collection that includes more than 60 discs with over 70 hours of music featuring every show from what is arguably the Grateful Dead's greatest tour.

Also on the bill: Duran Duran, Animal Collective, Bright Eyes, Mumford & Sons, PJ Harvey, The Black Keys, The National, Lauryn Hill, Cee Lo Green, Robyn, the Chemical Brothers, Erykah Badu and Interpol.

The Black Crowes recently wrapped up their last scheduled U.S. show in San Francisco as part of a six-show sold-out run at the Fillmore December 12-19 � and will embark on their final eight shows in Europe (July 7-18), concluding their 20th anniversary tour in (appropriately) Amsterdam with a two-night engagement at the Paradiso.

"I don't want to make an album every five years," Valensi told Rolling Stone. "I love being in this band, and I want it to be a career thing. It's so worth it � for all of us."

As i recall, we were at Polo�s place watching a movie and drinking some beer. Later that evening, right after the usual scream-battle, we were switching channels. When MTV came up, everyone suddenly froze. I believe the so called artist was called Britney Spears.

Words cannot describe the feeling of burning hatred and disgust we all felt. Polo broke the silence with: Id rather die 20 times in a row, before having to play something like that!! We all agreed, and realized we had to write a song about our feelings towards this kind of "music."

The clich� lines, the groovy beat and the sing along choruses were a must, as we wanted to make fun of all the parts we despised. Though all of a sudden, we found ourselves with the neck-breaking thrash hit, that is Death Before Disco.

The videos show snippets of Ozzy's touring days in Minneapolis and Omaha this past week, including stage setup, pre-show meet n' greets and some live performance.

The Beatles never appeared because the town of Horsham said no! No Beatles in our back yard. Nobody would hire him a hall.

Kicking off March 4th in Sacramento, CA, they will criss-cross the country and wrap up in San Francisco on May 8th.

Although his new release The Naked Flame is his first album under his own name, Ivan Julian has been one of rock's most celebrated players and most in-demand collaborators for more than three decades. The album, Julian's first collection of his own songs in more than 20 years, finds the veteran guitarist/singer/songwriter/producer effortlessly stepping back into the role of frontman/bandleader.

Kaki King will return to her acoustic roots this winter for a national tour that will make stops at renowned venues such as the Moma in New York City, Yoshi's in San Francisco and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

The month long Heroes or Ghosts club tour kicks off in Portland, OR on February 17 ending with a St. Patrick's day show in Chicago on March 17.

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