Antiquiet has learned exclusively that a collaboration track between Eddie Vedder, Joshua Homme and The Strokes is to be included in a star-studded compilation album to benefit homeless youth. more

(BMN) Chickenfoot's second album will be released on September 27. The CD's first single, "Bigfoot", is scheduled to hit the airwaves sometime in July. more

(BW&BK) Soulfly have announced that metal veteran Tony Campos (Static-X, Prong, Asesino, Ministry, Otep) will be replacing the departed Bobby Burns on bass. more

(Billboard) After spending rhe first few Warped Tour dates on the sidelines due to frontman Andy Biersack's injury, Black Veil Brides will hit the stage Friday (July 1) in Pomona, Calif., and plan to be performing for the duration of the tour. more

(MU) A new live track from A Perfect Circle has made its way online. The new song, titled "By and Down," was performed live by the band during its June 29, 2011 performance in Portland, Oregon. You can check out the song here

(BW&BK) Hellyeah, the band featuring drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott (ex-Pantera, Damageplan), singer Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett (Mudvayne), guitarist Tom Maxwell (NOTHINGFACE) and bassist Bob "Zilla" Kakaha (ex- Damageplan), have finished demoing more new material. Says the band on Twitter: "Hellions!! We have 11 songs demoed musically!" more

Agnostic Front has just announced a special show with Rancid at the Anaheim House of Blues on September 7th.

(The 1st Five) Wilco will release their new album The Whole Love on September 27th via their own label dBpm. In addition the band has also announced a string of tour dates in support of the new album. more

(The 1st Five) Ceremony are set to release a covers EP on August 9th via Bridge Nine Records. The 6-song EP titled Covers, will contain songs recorded during the Rohnert Park sessions. It will be available on vinyl, limited edition CD and cassette more

(Lambgoat) Kataklysm will headline the "Hatefest 2011" tour of Europe this winter. The trek will also feature Triptykon, Marduk, and Milking The Goatmachine (two more acts will apparently be added to the bill). more

(Antiquiet) This is just ridiculous. The Smashing Pumpkins have debuted a new short film for their song Owata, a twelve-minute spectacle that focuses on two underground female wrestlers and a whole lotta numb, empty dialogue & bad acting. more

(BW&BK) According to AOL Music UK, Alice Cooper has announced that he's to bring his Night Of Fear Halloween show to London on an annual basis. more

Dates have been announced for the "Frak The Gods" tour, featuring Periphery, The Human Abstract, Textures, and The Contortionist. Grab em here

Polar Bear Club announce a September 13th, 2011 street date for their third full-length album, Clash Battle Guilt Pride. more

(PNO) Rise Records have signed Hot Water Music. HWM will enter the studio this winter to record a new full length which will be released worldwide on Rise with a spring 2012 release date. more

East Of The Wall have completed the recording process for their upcoming third full-length, The Apologist, which is set for release this October more

On this day in 1963, The Beatles recorded their next single at EMI Studios, London, "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You',"completing the two songs in less than four hours. Released in August this year, "She Loves You" went on to become The Beatles' first million-selling single.

Fear and the Nervous System features guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer (Korn), bassist Billy Gould (Faith No More), singer Steve Krolikowski (Repeater), drummer Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion), guitarist Leopold Ross and keyboardist Zach Baird.

With two weeks to go until the band's scheduled slot at the U.K.'s Sonisphere festival, Dickinson told the BBC: "Obviously we do what we do for two hours, and a lot of our stuff now is semi-theatrical and proggy. Whereas Slipknot is theatrical, but much more 'Rrrraaaaahhhh!' The audience get a really good variation of stuff.

"We're getting about to the end of the writing part," Van Zant said, pointing out the familiar terrain of the new material. "If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us. It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about."

Lynyrd Skynyrd will begin recording the album, which will be the group's follow-up to 2009's God & Guns, this fall.

Produced by Johnny K � known for his work with 3 Doors Down, Disturbed, and Sevendust, not to mention his Grammy Award-nominated collaboration with Staind, 2008's "THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS" � and mixed by the legendary Chris Lord-Alge, "STAIND" stands as Staind's most intense and powerful work to date. The album is heralded by the new song, "Eyes Wide Open," which premieres today at www.staind.com. "Not Again," the first official single from "STAIND," will then impact multi-format rock radio outlets nationwide in mid-July.

When it came to writing the glowing liner comments, Bozza says he'd "been wanting to say that stuff for a long time." "I used to be the kid at Rolling Stone who would always say, 'Why aren't you putting AC/DC in the "Greatest Guitar Players of All-Time" issue?' and all that stuff," he told Ultimate Classic Rock.

"They would say, 'Would you just shut up with the AC/DC,' but I wouldn't," he added. "�So, [with the liner notes and the book] I finally was completely given the chance to make the argument I've been wanting to make for a very long time."

"It's four friends getting together and having a good time," Anthony told Ultimate Classic Rock about the band, which includes his former Van Halen bandmate Sammy Hagar, as well as guitarist Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. "I guess a lot of that has to do with, you know, we've all had our own careers and done really well. So, it's not like we have anything to prove, and we don't need to do it for the money, so we can do it just purely for the enjoyment of making music."

Little Steven's tribute "For Clarence" will air tonight Friday, July 1 at 7:00 pm ET on Underground Garage, channel 21 on Sirius XM Radio.

"I prefer it that way, man!" Wylde told Revolver. "I've always said that vacations are for people who hate their [expletive] job, you know? I'm really not for going to Tahiti and sitting on the beach for a week doing nothing."

"He's a real sweet guy," he said. "He's an eccentric human being. He lives in West Hollywood above a liquor store. There's no lights in the room. And there's sort of these big metal doors and he opens the door and he's in a kimono, a big pink kimono... It's sort of like a lair. No lights, so you have to use your cell phone to guide you around.

Gibson.com's 1. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: OK, so we all know Springsteen is a brilliant artist and a rock and roll songwriter of the highest echelon. But this isn't a list of the Top 50 American Rock Stars � this is a band list. So, in this case, we're talking about Bruuuuuuuce and the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, house-rocking, earth-shaking, legendary E! Street! Band! Bruce wrote amazing songs about America � the promise, the failures, the hard times and the glory days. But it took this most amazing of bar bands (assembled specifically for their performance prowess) to fully demonstrate the all-encompassing power of these songs, these anthems. This was a band that could go 3 hours, 4 hours, 5 hours � and we're talking dynamic shows that could vary from a hushed arrangement of "The River" to the blazing epic "Rosalita," with the fearless frontman sliding all the way across the stage on his knees (even at age 60!) somewhere in between. Recently, E Street has been in mourning � with the loss of organ player Danny Federici a few years ago, and saxophonist Clarence Clemons just a few weeks ago. If the group's marathon shows have taught us anything, it's that the E Street Band doesn't quit unless it's on their terms. We likely haven't heard the last of the greatest American band. � Bryan Wawzenek

Gibson.com Reader's No 1. Van Halen (they were only No 6 on the Gibson list): I wonder if Van Halen clocking in only at #6 (they're #1 in my book) is because of the tumultuous nature of the inter-band relationships, as well and their many iterations over the years � Van Halen, Van Hagar, Van Cherone, Van Roth II (oops� maybe not), Hagar Roth, Van Hagar II, Van Roth III). Regardless, however you slice whoever's singing, Van Halen is one helluva'n American band. For virtually every rock guitarist under the age of, say, 55, most can tell you exactly where they were when they first heard Van Halen � or, more specifically, where they were when they first heard Eddie's brain-crunching instrumental, "Eruption." That one track alone changed the direction of guitar-driven rock forever, and the genre has never been the same (just as I was never the same after witnessing � from the front row in high school � Diamond Dave preening around in buttless-chaps like he owned the joint, which he did.) No wonder Jeff Spicoli hired them with his reward money! � Sean Patrick Dooley

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Odd Soul came together over the course of six months, during which the members of Mutemath locked themselves down at Meany's home studio in New Orleans and didn't emerge until they were ready to play it for others.

Some songs happen like the birthing of a child. Not unlike the bringing of a child into the world, Deadliest Weapon was conceived and brought forth from one of the most painful experiences I've ever had. I'd worn the love of my life down to nothing with my bulls*** and she was done. We'd been through it all at that point and it was unimaginable that she'd ever have the strength or courage to leave me but she had
it and she left...

I tried to win her back, first with humility, sobriety, eventually begging and of course, lots of flowers. She was unmoved. One night, face to face with myself, I realized that no amount of conjured charm or charisma could save the relationship. I walked up and down the stairs of my house, sobbing, dazed with the realization that she was serious this time. As the gravity of the situation continued to bring me to my knees, I heard a melody in my head. Then lyrics started coming. I ran down to the piano and started writing. For a furious 20 minutes the song flowed. Then I dried up. The song stopped pouring out. I tried to pump on my years of hard-boiled songwriting experience but I was drained; there was nothing.

Magically, from somewhere deep, the second verse of Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" appeared on the page. See, very early in our relationship, when I started really falling for her, I bought her a silver, heart shaped pendant for Christmas and had part of the poem, the part which wound up making it into the song, inscribed onto it. She could see what a big deal it was that my road hardened ass had done something vaguely romantic and wore it religiously through all of the bulls*** we survived but made it a point to take it off around the time she'd realized she was over the relationship. Seeing her without the pendant made it obvious where her head was at a couple weeks before the final straw but I was too wrapped up in my own crap to see it.

For me, the song is a testament to the idea of music as noble and relevant: Through music, we can take the intangible, the nebulous and turn it into a living memory, a recurring experience time and time again. Something that, whether it takes up space on a computer or lives on a CD, is embodied. When times are rough and I'm angry because her clothes are hanging all over the dining room, I can always bring a track up on my iPhone, one that I wrote almost 3 years ago today, and remind myself how in love with her I was and still am. I listen to my beautiful child, her song, Deadliest Weapon, and it still brings tears to my eyes...

While working in a California recording studio on a new album, Lightbody's creative side dried up. He told Q magazine: "I couldn't even write my name on a check. It was that bad at the time."

On this, their 17th studio album, George Thorogood and The Destroyers pay tribute to their Chess Records heroes, including many of Thorogood's legendary mentors who helped to launch his career in rock & roll.

Warhol's impression of Blondie singer Harry, made at the height of her post-punk fame, was produced on a pink silkscreen canvas.

They contain no bonus tracks, badges, new artwork or gimmicks. Just three classic albums available in the way they were meant to be heard.

First discovered as a 16-year-old guitar prodigy by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Joanne will perform songs from her debut album 'White Sugar', and the 2010 follow-up 'Diamonds in the Dirt'.

The album follows 2009's Some Kind Of Salvation and is the first release from Kings of Leon's label, Serpents and Snakes, a venture with music publisher, Bug Music, - began coming together upon The Features' return home after a lengthy 2010 tour alongside Manchester Orchestra.

Dot to Dot Management will be bringing the heavy-hearted UK trio to the States this September for the band's first ever US tour.

The track is off the highly acclaimed Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album and the live recording took place on February 23 in 1974 at Bowen Field House in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

The landmark 18-song release marks the first single-CD collection to span Patti's entire body of recorded work. The chronologically arranged tracks move from 1975 (her debut album, Horses, with "Gloria" and "Free Money") through 2007 (Twelve, with her cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit").

Lord Ahriman admits that it surely was not an easy task to find a worthy replacement for Emperor Magus Caligula, who has been doing an amazing job for Dark Funeral during the past 15 years. The Lord says that he has not only been "the vocalist" for the band, but the also a very good friend of his and he always will be!

OK Fans and Onlookers to this new single from my band the Missing Monuments, "The Girl Of The Nite." First off , there has been a question of "WHO" is singing ... YUP that's me! The old Cookie Monster! I felt it was time to redirect vocally and lyricly from super catchy POP with darker lyrical content before it was deemed my FORTE'! Oops too late for that now, I guess!!! The song is sung completely different than a lot of my other stuff! I did it on purpose. I wanted the vocals to reflect the change lyricly I was making with this. HAVING SOME FUN AND JUST A SWEET TIME FOR A GODDAMN CHANGE! I also thought it was important to put this into the spotlight and open the record with it...

The song is about a girl that I'm super great friends with named Tess and a dance that we once shared during a love song on a jukebox at a New Orleans bus-stop drop dive! It was a magical B-side that is forever seered into my thoughts! The song really just wrote itself.

YES this is a SOMEWHAT classic style pop sound! Which I'm SURE will be deemed a bit retro. UNLIKE IF I MADE 1973 METERS RECORD AND RAPPED OVER IT, I would be taking it to the next level???