Jam! reports that Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil, who is due to serve 15 days behind bars next month for a DUI, is being chased by U.S. federal authorities for tax debts amounting to $1,111,221, according to the Detroit News. more

Motorhead are set to release their 20th studio album, 'The World is Yours', February 8th. Written and performed by the band's Lemmy Kilmister, Philip Campbell, and Mikkey Dee in California and Wales, 'The World is Yours' was produced by longtime collaborator Cameron Webb, who also worked on 'Motorizer', 'Kiss Of Death' and 'Inferno'. more

Henrik Ostergaard, lead singer for the band Dirty Looks passed away yesterday morning, Thursday January 27th, 2011. Erie County Coroner Lyle Cook said Ostergaard died of natural causes at 9:18 a.m. while under hospice care. more

A Life Once Lost drummer Justin Graves will be leaving the band following their February shows. more

Alice Cooper was baffled when he was told fellow singer Robert Plant confessed that he may be too old to perform Led Zeppelin songs. "I go out on stage and say 'turn it up,'" Cooper said. "I never get tired of playing my songs." Cooper continued, "They are just standing there. What is so hard? Jimmy Page wants to do it. John Paul Jones wants to do it. And they got [late Zeppelin drummer John] Bonham's son [Jason], who is a killer drummer. All they need is Robert Plant. But what is Robert Plant out there doing? Playing folk music! What is he doing?" more

A Canadian singer is the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in The Beatles. more

An upcoming three-game baseball series between the Florida Marlins and the Seattle Mariners has been relocated to Seattle due to a scheduling conflict with a U2 concert at Miami's Sun Life Stadium. more

Pacific Ridge Records has announced plans for an Alkaline Trio tribute album. So far, the label has secured covers from the likes of Allister, Into It. Over It., The Wonder Years, Ace Enders, Punchline, Jonah Matranga and This Time Next Year more

Slayer's Kerry King on the Big Four: "I'm chomping at the bit to do a full-blown tour" more

Tim Skold (ex Shotgun Messiah, Marilyn Manson and KMFDM) has teamed up with Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby (ex Turbonegro), Anders Odden (ex Celtic Frost, Satyrion, Apoptygma Berzerk), Audun Stengel (ex Apoptygma Berzerk) and David Husvik (ex Extol) to form Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult. more

Touche Amore will enter the studio in February to record their new album, "Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me." Tracking will take place engineer Ed Rose (The Get Up Kids, Coalesce) at his Black Lodge Recording Studio in Eudora, Kansas. more

Napalm Death and Nevermore will make exclusive U.K. festival appearances at this year's edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 12-14, 2011 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, United Kingdom. more

The 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA has already sold out, just a week after tickets for the three-day music event went on sale. more

Five more bands have been added to this year's Warped Tour. The new additions include hellogoodbye, Blacklist Royals, Lionize, Unwritten Law and Yelawolf. more

Uli Jon Roth's ITV Legends show on February 26 has been cancelled. more

Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and Spinnerette singer Brody Dalle are reportedly expecting their second child together. more

According to the Des Moines Register, The Iowa State Fair has confirmed Def Leppard will fill the final remaining slot in its Grandstand entertainment line-up. more

Two clips from Everyday Sunshine: The Story Of Fishbone have appeared online. more

On this day in 1965, The Who made their first appearance on U.K. TV show Ready Steady Go!

On this day in 1968, Jim Morrison of The Doors was arrested and charged with public drunkenness after harassing a security guard at a Las Vegas adult movie theater.

After Slash called Glee "worse than Grease" in Entertainment Weekly, Glee creator Ryan Murphy lashed out at the guitarist via Rolling Stone. "Usually I find that people who make those comments, their careers are over; they're uneducated and quite stupid," Murphy said.

But longtime Aerosmith collaborator Marti Frederiksen insists the group has been very productive during its first few days of writing for a new album at his studio Monrovia, Calif.

A message � "The guys are working together on writing new material � all is going really well" � was posted on the band's website.

Collectively, the deluxe versions of the albums will feature 27 extra tracks. For instance, Queen features five demos, Queen II includes a live version of "White Queen" and a B-side version of "See What a Fool I've Been," and Sheer Heart Attack features BBC session recordings and a live take of "Now I'm Here."

The exact cities and dates will be announced shortly, although a map that flashes in a brief video announcement (below) shows Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, New York and Missouri.

"The great news is that we are going in the studio again in the next month or two," Thayer told BackstageAxxess.com during the recent NAMM convention.

"I often get asked this question," said the Prince of Darkness, who will be playing at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California on February 1.

The artist-curated comp features favorite tracks from the Misra canon hand-chosen by artists from The Lemonheads, Deer Tick, Deerhoof, The Wrens, Wooden Wand, Drive By Truckers, Male Bonding, and more.

In celebration of this, Rodriguez Lopez's eponymous band will perform at this year's Coachella Festival and SXSW Music Festival (Sargent House/Rodriguez Lopez Productions showcase). Headlining tour dates are also in the works for late spring, to be announced soon.

The North American trek will kick off on March 24th in Chicago and will wrap on May 8th in Uncasville, CT.

"This is an idea we've discussed for years," frontman Jeff Tweedy said. "We really like doing things ourselves, so having our own label feels pretty natural to me."

I think that this may have been written during a period of some uncertainty and frustration. I'm not sure that the lyrics have a cohesive theme outside of that. Drinking comes into play. Well, self medicating anyway. There comes a point in any given situation where you just throw your hands up and say "F**K IT!". You can tell yourself over and over again that this isn't working and that things are going to be different but sometimes they just aren't. Sometimes you find yourself running in the same circles over and over again whether you like it or not. People, all people can be irritating. Sometimes you can feel like they are out to get you. I think that comes across in the bridge of this song "You bastards come at me" is the line. Whether they actually are is a matter of perspective and most likely untrue but that doesn't make it (or them) any less difficult to deal with. All that you can do is try and adapt to the situation. The song suggests a pretty unhealthy way of dealing with it. Kind of an "I drink to make you less annoying" sort of philosophy. A pretty dark road to go down very often but I'd be lying if I said I never had.

(Submitted) A Sideman's Journey is an extraordinary album project by renowned German graphic designer, illustrator, musician and producer Klaus Voormann. Recorded with more than 30 musicians, including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yusuf (Cat Stevens), members of Manfred Mann and Dr. John, the album tells the story of how well-known sideman Voormann retraced the footsteps of his musical biography back to where it all began.

It is common for all human beings to experience a traumatizing childhood event. I think when we are kids we have these idealized models of what life should be like and what grown-ups should adhere to. In my case, my own father didn't live up to my idealized "father-figure" model, and I ended up resenting him for the rest of his life.

Born Nicola James Capaldi to Italian immigrants in Evesham, Worcestershire, England in 1944, Jim grew up playing piano and singing with his music teacher father. In his teens, he took up the drums and helped form The Hellions, with Dave Mason and Gordon Jackson on guitars. In 1964, Tanya Day took the band to back her at The Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany. The Spencer Davis Group stayed at the same hotel as The Hellions, which is how future Traffic members Capaldi and Mason befriended Steve Winwood.

The AP reports Charlie Gilmour, 21, shocked many in Britain when he was photographed swinging from the Union Jack attached to the Cenotaph, Britain's most important war memorial, during the Dec. 9 demonstration.

The album will be produced by Textures' guitar player Jochem Jacobs, who was also responsible for the production of Textures' previous albums.

The first release will be the track "Jade" on March 15, followed by the band's as yet untitled American debut set for a late Summer 2011 release.

The trek begins on March 24 in North Carolina and includes a stop at South By Southwest.

Also added were bonus verses and extended track mixes of 13 personal and fan favorites. "The Chocolate Watchband is back on the scene and ready to rock!" says Tim Abbott, guitarist and producer of the album.