Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott will be interviewed on the Wednesday, January 26th broadcast of Nights With Alice Cooper. more

The Spill Canvas are taking a break. It's unclear when, or even if, they'll reunite. "The band is on a bit of a hiatus," drummer Joe Beck responded to questions on Facebook from the Argus Leader. more

The Decemberists' new album "The King Is Dead" is on track to debut at No. 1, with perhaps around 70,000 sold by week's ending Sunday, Jan. 23 according to industry sources. more

The reunited classic "Animosity" lineup of Corrosion Of Conformity - Mike Dean (bass, vocals), Woody Weatherman (guitar) and Reed Mullin (drums) - has been "writing new songs and jamming some recently," Weatherman says in a new online posting. "It looks like we're gonna do a few shows this summer as a three-piece and probably record stuff as well." more

Gaslight Anthem singer Brian Fallon has started a new side project, The Horrible Crowes, along with British musician Ian Perkins. more

Decrepit Birth, have been rejoined by original bassist Derek Boyer (also of Suffocation). Boyer, who continue as a full-time member of Suffocation, replaces Joel Horner. more

Bonded By Blood and Lazarus A.D. will co-headline a European tour in March more

Voodoo Johnson have a new singer: Nik Taylor-Stoakes, formerly with Vallenbrosa. more

Former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman has scheduled a string of European solo tour dates more

Anthrax will co-headline the Pulp Summer Slam 11: Resurrection on April 30, 2011 at the Amoranto Stadium in Manila, Philippines. The 15-hour event will be co-headlined by Hellyeah and Death Angel, and will include around 30 other bands. more

Decapitated will be entering RG Studio in Gdansk, Poland on February 9th to begin recording their fifth studio album. more

Vengeful entered the studio last November with producer Chris Donaldson (Cryptopsy, The Last Felony, Neuraxis) to begin recording its third album for an early 2011 release. more

Oh, Manhattan will be touring the Southeast with The Murder And The Harlot. more

Due to his "very busy schedule," bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Pestilence, Obscura) has been forced to leave Mayan, the new band featuring Epica guitarist/songwriter Mark Jansen alongside Jack Driessen (ex-After Forever) and Frank Schiphorst. more

This coming Thursday January 27th will be the first ever "Nashville Pussy's Winter Hoedown". The show takes place at the Masquerade in Atlanta, GA at the Masquerade and features Bigfoot, Stone Mountain Freeway, Six Shot Revival and of course the one and only Nashville Pussy. more

Adamantium, who broke up in 2001, will apparently play two reunion shows this spring (dates and venues have yet to be confirmed). more

On this day in 1962, Brian Epstein signed a management deal with The Beatles. Epstein was to receive 25% of the bands gross earnings; the normal management deal was 10%.

On this day in 1978, workers at EMI's record pressing plant refused to press copies of The Buzzcocks forthcoming release "What Do I Get" because of the title of the B-side, "Oh S***."

On this day in 1979, The Clash released their first single in the U.S., "I Fought The Law," which was written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly's Crickets.

Shanks confirmed the news via Twitter late Thursday night: "here we go kids�..vh," which included a photo of Eddie Van Halen's amp.

Michaels says he, his fianc�e, Kristi Gibson, and their two daughters checked into St. Joseph's on Sunday evening to prepare for the operation to fix an opening between the two sides of the heart, known as patent foramen ovale. The singer says doctors plan to use a scope inserted in his groin area to access and repair his heart.

"[Dad] managed to get me backstage and he threatened to punch Sting," Bonham said. "It was hilarious. Dad stepped on his foot and he [Sting] was very cocky back then. He was the new young frontman and had that punk kind of attitude. Dad was probably a dinosaur to him, even at 32.

Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton updated the band's fan club, AeroForceOne, on the plans.

"We find ourselves with ten days of time where we can go out and work on some new Aerosmith material," says Hamilton, "and that's what we will be doing, commencing immediately, and pushing along the cause for coming up with a new album at some point in the near future."

"Fishing�and fishing," Williams told the Artisan News Service. "I love fishing. Just basically farting around."

The NME reports the letters were sold by the late Beatles' widow, Yoko Ono, for a reported fee of over �500,000 and have been bought by London-based publishing house Orion Books.

Bruce Springsteen duets with the band's frontman Ken Casey on a cover of "Peg O' My Heart," best known perhaps as the theme tune to BBC TV series The Singing Detective.

Sorum recently spoke to VH1 Radio about the project and revealed some of the famous musicians (including a couple of the drummer's Velvet Revolver/Guns N' Roses bandmates) who are contributing to Currie's album, due out in the spring.

"Californication" stars David Duchovny in his Golden Globe-winning role as hedonistic novelist Hank Moody who struggles to raise his teenage daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin), while still carrying a torch for his ex-girlfriend Karen (Natascha McElhone).

This week, Plant announced that more shows had been added across the States in April.

John Barleycorn Must Die is the Traffic album that almost never was, but which is now commonly regarded as their definitive work. By 1970, still only 22, Steve Winwood had already served time at the heart of The Spencer Davis Group, as a founder member of Traffic, and with the supergroup Blind Faith. What started out as Steve Winwood's solo debut, originally to be called Mad Shadows (a title later filched by Mott The Hoople), John Barleycorn Must Die became Traffic's third and most fully realized studio album.

Popularity: Rock is the most popular digital song genre with a 27.0% share, followed by Pop 25.4%, and R&B/Hip-Hop with 21.9%.

The two have shared a mutual admiration society for years, having crossed paths and worked together: Ozzy sang on Slash's 2010 solo record.

A listener of OZ-FM in Newfoundland wrote a complaint to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), the self-regulatory body set up by Canada's private broadcasters; the Council ruled the song - a radio staple since 1985 - violated the code of ethics on several fronts due to the use of the word "faggot."

Due in stores this April; So Beautiful or So What will include 10 tracks and is Simon's first album since 2006's Surprise.

Now comes news that the veteran alternative band will soon release a cell-phone-based version of Zaireeka, their pioneering interactive 1997 work.

The concert was advertised as a two-set affair, but the band breezed right into the second set with barely a pause.

He tells RockAAA: "The loyalty of our fans is the secret. They know when we deliver a record it is going to be a full complete record of great songs all the way through from start to finish.

Formed in Orange County, California in 1979, Agent Orange immediately gained attention thanks to the band's revolutionary, unique mix of punk rock and surf music.

Exact date of this interview is not know, but it would be around mid 1998. I am not even sure this interview was every posted as it occurred just before I stopped work on KISS Otaku and started working on Kissonline.

Liam said, "Listen, me and him will be sweet, man. Our little venture's come to an end but I'll never have a bad word about Oasis, it was [expletive] amazing. It's why I'm adored by millions. But it's over and we're buzzin'. And I hope our kid's buzzin'. I [expletive] do actually. I hope he's gonna make great records. And he probably will."

It's hard to pinpoint the actual inspiration for the song "Jailhouse Rock" (and the movie), though it's not a stretch to look at a movie that came out the previous year, The Girl Can't Help It, which also featured a similarly themed and performed song called "Rock Around the Rockpile." In that performance, the actor Edmond O'Brien plays a villain who alludes an attempt on his life by jumping onstage and launching into song (doesn't everyone do that?), while backed musically by prison-stripe-clad The Ray Anthony Band. O'Brien's performance of "Rock Around the Rockpile" even included similar Elvis-esque lower-body gyrations and hip-swiveling.

1. Despite popular opinion, Lennon wasn't born during a WWII bombing raid: "Something that's in all the Beatles books, except for Fab Four FAQ and one or two others, is that [Lennon] was born in the midst of a Liverpool bombing raid in WWII, and that's not true," says Rodriguez. "He was actually born during a period when there wasn't any heavy bombing going on. People like to make the point that he came into the world in a violent way and that was how he ended as well, but that's not strictly true."

2011 sees Bonded By Blood kicking off the new year with another North American trek, this time supporting Death Angel. The band will then be heading to Europe for its co-headlining tour, before returning to the USA and Canada with the likes of Sepultura and Nevermore.

Macca is teaming up with the British TV show, This Morning, to find a dish that will serve as the latest meal in the food line started by his late wife, Linda McCartney.