(hennemusic) Steven Tyler did some rocking of his own while he was in Boston last week. The Aerosmith singer attended Boston Common magazine's summer bash last Wednesday at the House Of Blues, and jumped on stage with the house band to perform a few songs. Read more and watch video here

(Antiquiet) While there haven't been any official announcements regarding The Mars Volta's upcoming LP yet, the band is currently on tour, premiering live versions of their new songs. Check out three new songs here

(CR) Former Scorpions drummer Herman Rarebell is to publish his autobiography in the autumn. To be titled And Speaking Of Scorpions�, it's being described as 'the definitive history of the band' more

HeadCat have confirmed their first ever UK show.The trio � featuring Lemmy, Slim Jim Phantom and Danny B. Harvey � are to play the Relentless Garage in London on Sunday October 16. more

(BW&BK) Bachman & Turner, the core of Canadian rock legends Bachman Turner Overdrive, along with Paul Rodgers will co headline a collection of Canadian dates this upcoming September. more

(MU) One Without tells fans: 'After a few weeks of consideration, Oscar has decided that he wants to focus on playing only session drums with bands and will also be doing that with OW, thus, ending his membership of the band as of today. more

(SRX) Big Zee Music have announced the release of the brand new rarities EP from New York Sleaze Kings, The Erotics, on Monday July 11th. more

(FMQB) Radiohead drummer Phil Selway will release a new solo EP, Running Blind, made up of tracks originally written for his first solo release, last year's Familial. more

(BW&BK) Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy's has issued his new solo single, 'Too Much Is Never Enough', via iTunes. The song is taken from his new album Sucker Punch more

(Lambgoat) Willowtip Records will be reissuing of the debut album from Arsis, A Celebration Of Guilt, on August 9th. The album will be remastered, include two bonus tracks not found on the original pressing, have expanded artwork, and will be packaged within a slipcase. more

(PNO) H2O has enlisted actor Michael Rapaport to announce the track listing for their long awaited covers album, Don't Forget Your Roots. more

(BMN) Godsmack frontman Sully Erna will be the featured guest on tonight's (Wednesday, July 6) edition of the nationally syndicated "Loveline" radio show with hosts Dr. Drew Pinsky and Mike. more

Check out They Might Be Giants cover Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" with the help of a bunch of AV Club staffers and friends here

(BW&BK) Whitesnake is playing Singapore for the first time ever on November 1st playing at historic Fort Canning more

The World's Biggest Floating Heavy Metal Festival 70000tons Of Metal have confirmed Hammerfall for this year's cruise which sets sail Monday, January 23, 2012 aboard the Royal Caribbean "Majesty of the Seas" from Miami, FL more.

On this day in 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at The Woolton Church Parish Fete where The Quarry Men were appearing. As The Quarry Men were setting up for their evening performance, McCartney eager to impress Lennon picked up a guitar and played "Twenty Flight Rock" (Eddie Cochran) and "Be-Bop-A-Lula" (Gene Vincent). Lennon was impressed, and even more so when McCartney showed Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars, something they'd been paying someone else to do for them.

On this day in 1967, Pink Floyd made their first appearance on BBC TV music show Top of the Pops to promote their new single "See Emily Play." A badly damaged home video recording recovered by the British Film Institute of this show was given a public screening in London on 9th January 2010 at an event called Missing Believed Wiped devoted to recovered TV shows. It was the first time any footage was seen of the performance since its original broadcast.

On this day in 1971, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader, Louis Armstrong died. Had many hits including the 1964 U.S. #1 "Hello Dolly!" and the 1968 U.K. #1 "What a Wonderful World' plus "When The Saints Go Marching In." "Ain't Misbehavin'." and "We Have all the Time in the World." He made frequent use of laxatives as a means of controlling his weight, resulting in Armstrong appearing in humorous, advertisements for laxative product Swiss Kriss; the ads bore a picture of him sitting on a toilet, as viewed through a keyhole, with the slogan "Satch says, 'Leave it all behind ya!"

Tremonti appeared recently on Colorado's 94.3 KILO Radio and divulged more details on his visit. "What makes it so great," he told host Ross Ford, "is that they took what they could from all their old demos back in the '80s and pretty much did what they could to create songs out of old ideas. So it sounds like vintage Van Halen. Musically, it sounds in the era. I didn't hear any vocals � David [Lee Roth] was not there. It was just [Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang Van Halen] and the music sounded like very authentic, old-school Van Halen."

McCombs left the group in 2004 after they were dropped by J Records. He went on to join Drowning Pool.

The shock rock icon and movie director recently shot an advert for Woolite detergent, and maintains that anyone who believes it suggests corporate motivation doesn't know what they're talking about.

The Gothenburg show was the second Big 4 gig of their current European swing.

Stinson previously worked with the band on Silver Lining, due to Soul Asylum bassist Karl Mueller's death from cancer. The new album is tentatively titled Rough Air.

Mangini was named as sticksman for the prog metal outfit after Portnoy sensationally quit last year. He asked to rejoin soon afterwards but Mangini had already been given the role. But since then Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci have both said it's likely they'll work together again in the future.

That doesn't concern Mangini, who tells Radio Metal: "I don't feel like it's hanging over my head. The reason why is I like Mike very much. He's a friend and I have new brothers in Dream Theater, and when you love somebody you let them do what they need to to.

"This has been an extremely difficult decision to make as the injury I seem to have sustained is an internal one and so noone can tell me exactly how long it's going to take to mend completely," Le Bon said. "We feel we can't keep moving shows piecemeal as it's just not fair on the fans. I am doing everything I can to work through this and get back on track as soon as possible."

Alice joined Ke$ha Tuesday night for her dance version of his classic, "School's Out."

Cooper - who Ke$ha affectionately refers to as "dad" - stopped by to say hello during her soundcheck Tuesday afternoon, where the two decided to surprise her fans with the classic Alice track as one of her encore songs...with the rock legend himself at the helm.

Joining the bluesman for a performance of "Write Me A Few Of Your Lines" were Dead Weather bandmates Jack White and Alison Mosshart, along with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.

The band performed a new song, believed to be titled "By and Down," at a tour stop in Portland, Oregon, last week. Band founder Billy Howerdel had previously indicated that the band would be road-testing new material, although there is no word on how that material might ultimately make its way into the recorded world. Howerdel told The Pulse of Radio that while he would like to make a new album, he is hesitant to do so while audiences seem disinterested in the album format.

"A Benefit for Cliff II" will take place on Sunday, July 10th at the House of Blues, Hollywood, and will feature performances by both Satriani and Vai, as well as special guests and friends of the duo, including Dweezil Zappa, Orianthi, Brendon Small and Tony MacAlpine, among others.

And Slash likes his horror flicks. "My favorite type of horror movies have always been the ones with layered performances and rich characters," Slash tells Dread Central. "Haley brings a wealth of experience to a character who is already wise beyond his years. I'm really looking forward to working with him."

Slash described Wake the Dead in a previous interview as "basically a modern, young Frankenstein story about a brilliant college student who's discovered how to animate dead tissue � but he's a teenager so he goes overboard."

He says: "It's very different from everything else we've ever put out. I was very surprised when I first heard it. You can't please them all.

The site currently displays a front page featuring a daily-changing Roman numeral (as of July 6, it's VIII) and the adjacent hourglass video shows sand flowing through it, but not filling it up�yet.

As bass player Bryan Beller says in an e-mail update, "It's the only Dethklok show this year. If the whole audience dies somehow, then it will be just like the television show. (Yeah, it's an in-joke, I know. Sue me.) We go on dead last, 11 p.m., after Godsmack, Distubred, and 34,926 other bands. Maybe the audience will be dead before we go on. Either way, we're playing for somewhere around 30,000 people, so we thought it would be a good idea to rehearse this week so we don't suck or get killed ourselves."

The tour will culminate with the band performing at the Sunset Strip Music Festival (Featuring Motley Crue, Bush, among others) in Hollywood, Ca.

Starting in the mid-'90s, Denny Tedesco began assembling footage for a documentary about the musicians, simply titled The Wrecking Crew. He spoke to all still-living members, including his father before he died in 1997. Denny told Music Radar's Joe Bosso that the film has been done since '08 and has screened at film festivals, but hasn't been released due to the music rights needed for the movie.

"It's been a while since we last did T in the Park � 2005," he noted to the Daily Record. "And I think we did it in 2002, as well. The Scots are definitely some of the wildest crowds around, there's no question about that. The dudes are real dudes � it's great. And I love Scotland, it's beautiful."

However 'War of Angels' is an album which may never have seen the light of day, had the band not managed to extricate itself from a pervious record deal.

Front man Leigh Kakaty made Spin.com's top ten festival moments when he ripped up their contract with Universal Republic on stage at Rock on the Range saying: "What I have in my hand is our old record contract. This old record contract is the reason that Pop Evil fans haven't been able to get our album"

It's been released on a new CD titled 'This Is What Frank Zappa Heard - Communication Plus Live at the Red Noodle Waikiki, Hawaii'. This very significant historical document is now available and ready to be shipped to you to complete your collection of the history of The Mothers Of Invention. Frank was actually in the audience this very night, listening to two sets of music performed by Napoleon Murphy Brock and his 5-piece musical ensemble called "Communication Plus".

According to three histories of the Italian carmaker, McCartney was the first owner of the 400GT. The auctioned sportster, built in 1967, was originally orange and was owned by Macca for three years.

The tour officially launched last night in Goshen, IN before wrapping up in the band's home state of Michigan on July 17th.

Bootsy Collins will be appearing in support of recently released critically acclaimed album "Tha Funk Capitol of the World."

The man behind "Mr. Scary" told GuitarWorld.com that the tinkering started when, as a 10-year-old, he remodeled his first electric guitar with a hacksaw, swapping "the terrible pickups with new crappy pickups." He also set about creating his own amps.