Linkin Park will be the musical guests on a February episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by former cast member Dana Carvey. more

R.E.M. manager Bertis Downs says the band is unlikely to tour in support of their new album, Collapse Into Now, which comes out on March 8. more

F**k The Facts have finalized dates for their upcoming "10 year anniversary" shows, including an appearance at this year's Scion Rock Fest. more

Elize Ryd of Amaranthe has been selected to fill the female singer spot on Kamelot's upcoming European and South American tours in April/May. more

Ironic news of the day: Call To Preserve will be disbanding after playing several final shows this year. Formed in 2003, the group has released three albums, including their latest with Facedown Records. more

Frank Turner has been nominated for two (NME awards. He has been nominated for "Best Solo Artist" (up against Florance + The Machine, Kanye West, among others) and... find out here

Oceano frontman Adam Warren says, "the grindcore days of this band are pretty much dead and gone; Contagion is an overall metal album" more

Facedown Fest 2011 will be held at The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA on April 8th and 9th. Night one will be headlined by War of Ages and For Today will headline night two to close out the weekend. more

MSG featuring Michael Schenker (ex-UFO, Scorpions) will join forces with Carmine Appice (Ozzy Osbourne, Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Ted Nugent) for tour dates in South America near the end of February. more

MusInk 2011 has announced that Suicidal Tendencies, CKY and Biohazard have been added to the festival bill. They join previously announced bands such as Hot Water Music, Thrice, The Used and Circa Survive. more

Parlour to Parlour is coming back. Michael Fortes sets the scene for the 2011 return of Popdose's video interview and live performance series Find out what to expect here

Braid have officially announced their plans to reunite. There's not really any clear-cut details on the release other than the fact that J. Robbins will be producing more

Judas Priest, Whitesnake, Kreator, Cavalera Conspiracy, Mastodon, Hammerfall and The Damned Things are among the latest acts confirmed for Sonisphere Switzerland more

Rise Against have announced first UK show in over a year. They will play London's Electric Ballroom in March more. In related news, It looks like Face to Face and Rise Against will be releasing a split sometime in the future. more

L.U.S.T. and Sleaze Roxx have teamed up to bring you "Gimme A Fix", from the band's brand debut album 'First Tattoo'. here

Explosions In The Sky will release their new album in April. Titled "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care," the effort will be available on April 26th (in North America) more

On this day in 1980, Prince made his TV debut on the U.S. show American Bandstand.

On this day in 1986, Allen Collins, guitarist from Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed his car, paralyzing him from the waist down and killing his girlfriend Debra Jean Watts. Collins had survived a plane crash in 1977 that killed two other band members.

All members of the band's original lineup are taking part, including Jones, Don Letts, Greg Roberts, Leo "E-Zee-Kill" Williams and Dan Donovan.

Rarebell explained, "Michael will soon release a solo album with many, many guests. As far as who the guests are, you should ask Michael. I will be one of the guests and so will Pete (Way, bassist from UFO). I know Carmine (Appice) is playing on a few songs. Simon Phillips (who played with The Who) and Chris Slade (AC/DC) will also play on a song. I will be on seven songs. It is all new material that Michael wrote over the last few months. Whatever comes out of this, the future will have to show."

Radaronline reports Michaels will be released from St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center today.

"Rob is obsessed with this project and is doing everything he can to land the part," a source told the Daily Express. "He has already told his business team this is his passion and they agree it could be the film that makes him a legitimate Oscar contender."

The Nine Inch Nails frontman is among the nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards, which were announced today (January 25). Reznor and collaborator Atticus Ross were nominated for their score for The Social Network. Also nominated in the Original Score category: A.R. Rahman for 127 Hours, Hans Zimmer for Inception, Alexandre Desplat for The King's Speech and John Powell for How to Train Your Dragon.

Meighan said the band will be playing mid-sized venues - intimate by their stadium standards these days.

Deluxe: Includes a gatefold 12" LP Picture Disc, with full sized eight page 16 panel booklet featuring exclusive artwork and a limited pressing of 1,000.

Some of metal and rock's greatest vocalists are trying their hand at being Ol' Blue Eyes on a new album. SIN-atra features members of Anthrax, Twisted Sister and Cheap Trick singing some of Frank Sinatra's most legendary hits.

On the day of its release, the Jack White-produced record saw Jackson and White team up for a performance on Conan O'Brien's TBS show.

Angles breaks new ground for the band, which had previously relied on frontman Julian Casablancas to generate ideas for tunes. This time, each of the five members (Casablancas, Fraiture, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., guitarist Nick Valensi and drummer Fabrizio Moretti) brought in ideas, often working without Casablancas until the instrumental track was done.

This deluxe DVD+CD set includes the original 11-song album plus the duo's never-before-commercially-available "Songs Of America" CBS television special from 1969 on DVD.

No spell check will every recognize this word because I made it up. We were looking at some music magazines at the studio and the topic of relevance came up. I made the joke that we weren't relevant but we were on a different road that was parallel to relevance. So, pararelevant was born. The more I think about it though, at least in music circles anyway, relevance is in the eye of the beholder. One man's trash is another man's treasure or so they say. I've been observing that our music represents different things to different people including us. To some, we are the band they used to go see when they were in college and that's our relevance to them. To others, and this would include the five of us, it's a constantly changing and sometimes mutating organism whose relevance is more closely tied to the current moment than the past. I guess, maybe this song is about that balance between those contradicting points of view. I mean, you've got to have both. Your past is certainly a huge part of what you are now but it's certainly not the only thing that defines you. I think that people lose perspective of that sometimes. I think that we have to live in the present while still celebrating the past.

The album hits the street on March 15th, sparking a spring tour to celebrate, beginning at SXSW in Austin.

Recent album-oriented tours include The Cult playing Love, Steely Dan alternating between The Royal Scam, Aja and Gaucho, The Melvins playing Houdini, Testament playing The Legacy, and Judas Priest playing British Steel. Nine Inch Nails played The Downward Spiral at one of their final gigs, and Roger Waters has hit the road to play two Pink Floyd albums in recent years � The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall � both to great acclaim.

And Queens of the Stone Age are about to play a series of concerts in Australia where they will perform their self-titled debut album of 1998 during sideshows for their appearance on the Soundwave festival. The album itself is being re-released in March 2011 with previously unreleased tracks via founder Josh Homme's own Rekords Rekords label.

Tickets went on sale this past Friday to fans who had signed up on the band's website to receive a special pre-sale password.

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax announced the Big 4 Festival on Tuesday morning.

Black Carousel, the follow up to their debut Take Me To Town (which spawned the alt radio hit "It Goes Off"), was produced and recorded in Los Angeles with Rick Parker (BRMC, Von Bondies).

"I'm reading the report about the Dresden bombing," the bass-playing anti-hero told LA Weekly. "It's a good one, the new one. And uh, what else am I reading? I'm reading Winnie-the-Pooh for the first time. It wasn't written for kids, believe me. I mean the TV show, the Disney show, is (expletive) atrocious. It's an abomination. The book is fantastic, it's so sarcastic."

Produced by George Reiff (Chris Robinson, Courtyard Hounds, Ray Wylie Hubbard), new album comes on heels of Austin City Limits (PBS) appearance, festivals and #1 Americana record

The latest webisode features behind-the-scenes footage of Ozzy's January 20 stop in Dallas.

Atheist are hitting the road for a short seven city tour in support of their new album "Jupiter".

Funny thing is, when given the chance to talk about his version some of the great "Peter Green" stories, Green is remarkably down-to-earth, matter-of-fact and he explains how everything, invariably, gets blown up by the press.

Rudess will be available for demonstrations and impromptu performances of his award-winning music creation app for iPad and iPhone, Morphwiz, as well as his new photo and video effects app, SketchWiz.

According to BBC News, the band's momentous 1990 outdoor show will feature prominently in the unnamed movie about a young, unsigned band from the wrong side of the tracks.

As with the '50s Tributes, both guitars take their cues from classic historical models, but add a simplicity in design that strips away all pretensions and gives the player a lighter, less-costly, easier-to-play instrument that still retains the elegance of the original designs.

"After over a year and a half of working on this record and setback after setback we can finally announce that it is coming out on SEASON OF MIST in 2011," affirms guitarist Doug Sabolick. "Taking time away from the road helped us look at the band from an outside perspective, which then helped mold a record that encompasses our collective mood over the past few years in typical ALOL fashion. Musically, the theme of this record is to pummel the listener into submission via ignorant riffs. We are finishing writing and demo-ing as we speak and look forward to working hand in hand with SEASON OF MIST to deliver our vision to the masses."

"We are very proud to officially announce that we have signed with Epitaph Records," says guitarist Shawn Milke.

Run Devil Run, an L.A. based Rock band well known locally for their dynamic live performances, diverse musical talent, and humorous video antics has lent their faces, titles and lyrics as inspiration for a five-book series with the publisher.

Lee will appear on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on January 26th and The Ellen DeGeneres Show on January 28th. Also on the 28th, Lee will be featured on NPR's "World Caf�" program, which will broadcast a performance by and interview with Lee that can be heard on more than 200 stations nationwide.