(The Metal Den) TMD has obtained what Rock N Roll historians are calling the holy grail for Led Zeppelin fans: a rare studio outtake � recorded during their first month of existence � of the lost classic cut entitled "Baby Come On Home". Check it out here

(Rock News Desk) Former X Japan bassist Taiji Sawada has died following a suicide attempt last week. He was arrested on July 11 for an incident on a flight form Japan to Saipan and could have been taken to the US to answer charges there. He tried to hang himself on July 14 and had been in intensive care since the incident. He was 45. more

Rival Sons have just won mtvU's "Freshman" video competition for their new video for "Pressure & Time," the title track from their new album that's due in stores on July 26. Check out the video here

Antiquiet has a new track, performed by Stone Gossard and Mike McCready of Pearl Jam with Pete Droge, Cole Peterson and Chris Friel here

Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy has teamed with High River Sauces to release two flavors of hot sauce: 'Detonator' Hot Sauce and 'The Kill' BBQ Sauce more

(SRX) Lillian Axe are planning to release the follow-up to 2010's 'Deep Red Shadows' on February 14, 2012. Tentatively titled 'The Days Before Towmorrow', the upcoming CD will be the first to feature new lead vocalist Brian Jones. more

(AA) Tomorrow, The Goo Goo Dolls will release "Live From SoHo," a recording of six songs the band performed live last December at the NYC Apple Store. more

(PNO) Paper and Plastick has announced plans to release a split 7-inch from Street Dogs and Blacklist Royals. It's expected out later this year and will feature two new tracks from each band more

(SRX) NWOBHM pioneers Tygers Of Pan Tang have signed an agreement with Rocksector Records for the worldwide release of their next studio album, with a current working title of 'Ambush', provisionally planned for February/March 2012. more

(PR) Relapse Records will release the brand new solo album from Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, The High Confessions). The new album, titled Artificial Madness, was recorded this past May at Engine Studios in Chicago with producer Sanford Parker. more

(Lambgoat) In League have confirmed that they are traveling to Florida to record their sophomore album this November at The Wade Studio (past artists include A Day to Remember, Burden of a Day and Versa Emerge). more

On this day in 1953, Elvis Presley made his first-ever recordings at the Memphis Recording Service. He recorded two songs, "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin." He paid $4 for the session.

On this day in 1964, The Four Seasons started a two-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Rag Doll," the group's fourth #1. It also hit #2 in the U.K. The song's co-writer, Bob Gaudio, said that he got the inspiration for the song from a young girl in tattered clothes that cleaned his car windows at a stoplight.

On this day in 1966, Bobby Fuller, leader of The Bobby Fuller Four, was found dead in his car outside of his Los Angeles apartment. He was 22. The cause of death was ruled gasoline asphyxiation. Police called it a suicide, but the possibility of foul play has always been mentioned. In 1966 Fuller had a #9 hit in the U.S. with "I Fought the Law," which was written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly's Crickets. "I Fought the Law" was later covered by The Clash.

On this day in 2001, Kiss added another product to their ever-growing merchandising universe: the Kiss Kasket. The coffin featured the faces of all four founding members of the band, the Kiss logo and the words "Kiss Forever." Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was buried in one after he was shot and killed on stage in December 2004. Find out what else happened on this date in music history here

Five people were hurt in the drama, at least one of them seriously, following a freak gust of wind which tore a festival roof canopy apart.

Citing a "serious injury," Testament drummer Paul Bostaph is not involved with the album's recording sessions, but he will meet up with the band for future tours.

During the session he talked fondly of Paul Gray and gave fans an insight into how he perceives the future of Slipknot. He said: "I will say that I am completely open to doing some more touring, but there's a lot of healing [that needs to happen first].

He insists a live show should be just that, and the paying public should be able to buy a ticket in the expectation of seeing and hearing an act playing the entire show live.

The Chili Peppers' also have launched a new Facebook page, where fans will receive updates from the Chili Peppers camp before the release of the album.

Knopfler has been recording his next album, but was happy to interrupt sessions to hit the road with Dylan. Knopfler and Dylan first worked together in 1979 on Dylan's Slow Train Coming album and Knopfler produced Infidels.

"I haven't been this psyched about a record� We just got the masters the other day and it's a great [expletive] time when you're finally finished after eight years," Bello said. "Listening to it I was like, 'Oh, [expletive], man, I really can't wait to play this [expletive]!' Everybody says that, but I really� I think we could play every song on this record if we wanted to."

The two did a routine set to "Master of Puppets" during this weekend's world championships in Shanghai, China.

The Alabama-via-Georgia rockers will release Ugly Buildings, Whores and Politicians: Greatest Hits 1998-2009 on August 2 on New West Records.

As the big tour rolled into Uncasville, Connecticut for a show last Friday at the Mohegan Sun arena, Vince and other members of the Crue tour popped in to the Sun's Wolf's Den to check out a show by '80s rock pals Warrant on Thursday.

The band broke the news last week, saying they'll complete their touring commitments until August 1, after which the two parties will go their separate ways.

When asked if he seriously though the world would come to an end he said: "The 2012 album sounds a lot darker and heavier. We are so close to a huge event. A cataclysmic event on our planet that mankind is going to be in shock over

Gossett has posted the entire 15 song set from the 1979 Seattle show, played in its entirety in an online player here

A boxing demonstration and signing with special guest, renowned boxer "Irish" Micky Ward (The Fighter), will also be featured at the family friendly, all-ages festival.

"I think we all hoped � Jerry [Harrison] and Tina and I � that David [Byrne] would just kind of wake up and think: 'What was I thinking? Talking Heads was a great band, wonderful chemistry, why don't we just take one more lap around the track just for the hell of it?' But I guess in the back of our minds we knew that was not on David's agenda."

He reports: "As I'm getting older it's a lot easier to play with HeadCat. I don't have to hit it quite as hard, and some of the songs are downright singing. But I love Motorhead too � it's my baby."

Rick "Sav" Savage � who, at one point in his teens, was a good enough soccer player to catch the eye of the mighty Sheffield United � chose to pursue a career in music instead of one on the pitch. He loved the guitar and taught himself by playing along to such classic rock fare as Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" and Don McLean's "American Pie." Savage attended the Tapton School with fellow guitarist Pete Willis, himself a huge Jimi Hendrix fan. Along with drummer Tony Kenning and a couple of other friends, they started a band called Atomic Mass and played covers from the big rock bands of the day, groups like Queen, Slade and Deep Purple. It was determined that Willis was the better guitarist, so Sav switched to bass.

In November 1977, Willis met fellow musician Joe Elliott after Joe had missed a bus. He told Joe about Atomic Mass, and he was immediately interested in auditioning for the band. The group was impressed and hired him to be their vocalist. Joe quickly suggested a name change for the band. For a while he'd envisioned being in a band called "Deaf Leopard," and the boys liked the idea. At the time, animal names were somewhat popular, especially with many of the punk bands. It was their initial drummer Kenning who suggested the spelling change to "Def Leppard," and they all agreed. Many have later speculated that the new spelling was also created to mimic the odd spelling of Led Zeppelin.

The tour will feature support from Miss May I, Of Mice & Men, Texas In July, and Close To Home.

To help promote the on-sale date, Lizzy will appear at HMV's flagship London store (150 Oxford Street) on Monday at 6 PM.

In an interview with Britain's Daily Mail newspaper Daltrey says: "I wasn't a goody-goody; I dabbled in the natural. But I was in a band with three alcoholics and someone had to be straight. They were three lunatics.

On getting his very first guitar, as told to Gibson.com in 2009: "On Christmas Eve in '63, Santa stopped by with a Gibson Melody Maker. While the kids from my neighborhood were into The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, I was trying to learn licks from Little Richard, Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed records."

McCartney played a clip of him and his band performing The Beatles classic "Good Day Sunshine" and then said, "Good morning, guys � wake up! And good luck on this, your last mission. Well done!"

"I never thought that much about John, but [Mellencamp] is a huge influence on me," he said. "I'm thinking of a song like 'Paper in Fire,' or even 'Summer of '69,' and� it's a heartland rocker in that vein. It's probably my AC/DC upbringing. I've always loved 4/4 tunes that are four-on-the-floor and just really want to rock."

Guitarist Dom Grimard comments: "His priorities began to differ from ours while on the road until it became clear to us that he was no longer enjoying the touring lifestyle. He will be playing is last gig on a hometown show Montreal at the Foufoune Electrique on Aug 12 2011 with Misery Index."

"On the same note, TLF lineup has change a little bit in the past year and we never really did an update. Our guitarist Felix Roberge has quit the band almost a year ago just after the release of Too Many Humans. He was suffering of tendinitis in his arm that makes him unable to play our songs anymore. He was soon replaced by Max Gelinas of the Quebec City band Unfallen. Also our bassist Seb Painchaud left the band this past February, mainly for the same reason as Vince is leaving us. He was replaced by David Rousseau also from the band Unfallen."

The track comes from Tedeschi Trucks Band recently released debut album, Revelator.

Liam Gallagher (and brother Noel) are both ardent Manchester City fans; other guitar-playing fans include Johnny Marr and The Cult's Billy Duffy.

I used to think that our song 'Only When' wasn't as strong as the rest of the material that I was writing for our record 'The Voice of Nothing'. But as soon as we tracked the whole song we realized that it was very strong, actually. During the mixing process, everyone kept humming it unconsciously after listening to it. 'Only When' proved to be a catchy Opensight song thanks to the main riff and the chorus, and we were so happy with it that we ended placing the song first on the record and choosing it as a 'single'.

Some years ago I was listening to the soundtrack of the Dario Argento film 'Deep Red' and wanted to figure out the chords and catch the particular vibe that the band Goblin gave to the music. The main riff for 'Only When' came from it and I stored it for some time until I came back with ideas for the chorus and the proggy midsection. 'Only When' had a particularly smooth writing process which gives the song a simple feel even if some of the arrangements, chords and time signatures are a bit complex.

The Lyrics deal with isolation, disillusion and the feeling of being incompatible with your own environment. Some phrases are inspired by movies. The line 'Colors are real only when I see them on the screen' is inspired by the movie 'A Clockwork Orange' when the main character Alex states that 'It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen'; and the line 'Able to see when I realize that lights fade too soon' is lifted from a conversation that takes place in the movie 'Peeping Tom', about a serial killer called Mark Lewis who likes to film his victims:

"Mark Lewis: It's no good. The lights fade too soon
Mrs. Stephens: They always do.
Mark Lewis: I... I have to try again.
Mrs. Stephens: What do you think you've spoiled?
Mark Lewis: An opportunity. Now I have to find another one."

For the video we hooked up with the guys from Larissa Moon prod. We used mannequins to create the inert atmosphere (we always wanted to have a video with mannequins as the audience), and used suits and old fashioned instruments for the Reservoir Dogs/Jazz band approach. It was done very carefully. We wanted something different, with a bit of drama and a bit of cinematic quality, which are the aspects we try to evoke with our music. 'Only When' along with its video helps to introduce people to OPENSIGHT. It reveals some of our inclinations and is faithful to what the band is really about.