(FMQB) Prince will be headlining and curating a two-day festival next month in Copenhagen, Denmark. The NPG Music and Art Festival will be feature performances by Prince on both nights of the event more

(PNO) The Stereo will be reuniting for Fueled By Ramen Records's 15th anniversary. The Stereo inspired many of Fueled by Ramen's current roster and will be sharing the stage with acts such as Paramore, The Swellers, Cobra Starship, and many more

On August 31st Linkin Park and Japan's best-selling artist B'z will perform at a small intimate show at a secret venue in Los Angeles to benefit Music for Relief and their work with Save the Children to provide much needed earthquake and tsunami relief in Japan. The only way to get tickets to the event is to raise $500 for the cause by creating a fundraising page here. Tickets are limited, only the first 500 people to reach the fundraising goal will get invited to the show.

(Billboard) Radiohead's "From the Basement" performance will air in America this weekend. The performance, part of their producer Nigel Godrich's TV show, will be on Palladia at 9 p.m. Saturday (July 23) and on MTV2 at 3 a.m. July 30. more

Tune in to CBS Sunday Morning this Sunday, July 24, 2011. Jim Axelrod checks in with members of Journey as they prepare to embark on their "Eclipse" world tour, and gets the update on the last 4 years since CBS Sunday Morning reported on the introduction of Arnel Pineda into the band.

(MU) Hull will be performing a special one-off show this Friday at new Brooklyn hot spot, Saint Vitus. The band will be joined by Generation Of Vipers and Marching Teeth. more

(FMQB) Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams has revealed that the band has written four new songs for their next studio album, although the recent single, "Monster," is not necessarily an indication of things to come. more

Down have confirmed two shows for South America in Argentina and Chile this November. more

(BW&BK) Rise To Remain - fronted by Austin Dickinson, the son of Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson - have posted a full length clip of their new song 'Power Through Fear' online. The track is taken from their debut album City Of Vultures, due to be released on September 5th via EMI. Check it out here

On this day in 1969, The Beatles started work on the John Lennon song "Come Together" at Abbey Road studios in London.

On this day in 1990, Roger Waters' performance of The Wall took place at the Berlin Wall in Potzdamer Platz, Berlin. More than 200,000 people attended and the event was broadcast live throughout the world. Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Sinead O'Connor and others took part.

"I saw those guys just yesterday," she said. "I went over to visit them in the studio where they were working on some new stuff � they sound amazing! How can Jerry [Cantrell] not sound amazing, but I mean, it really does � they're a monster."

Dickinson has some familiarity with the University and vice versa: he earned a degree in history there back in 1979.

Turns out young Bruce was using college as a way to buy time while he pursued his real passion: music. While his parents wanted to see him in the army, Bruce told them that he wanted to get a degree first. "That was what they wanted to hear so that was my cover story," he later explained. "When I got down there, I started immediately finding and playing in bands."

"What was important to us when we put the record together was to make sure that each song filled its own space and was not like another song on the record," he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. "We wrote 70 songs, so it's not even necessarily all the best ones that we put on, but just the ones that occupy their own space."

The bass player went on to say that the Peppers' new single, "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie," in no way expressed the complete picture of what fans can expect from the upcoming album.

The band regrouped July 5 to start working with longtime producer Jack Douglas on the project; Douglas worked on such classic Aerosmith albums as 1974's "Get Your Wings," 1975's "Toys in the Attic," and 1976's "Rocks," as well as 2004's collection of blues standards, "Honkin' on Bobo."

But with a revamped attitude he's realised he needs both aspects of creativity in his life, and believes the "high school mentality" of music is behind him. "I slacked off on music because the band I had at the time had become a miserable situation," Zombie tells the Toronto Sun. "There was too much in-fighting. Too much of that nonsense always takes place and I just couldn't take the high school mentality.

"I had the idea for a long time and I proposed to use it on the Led Zeppelin web site, because I thought it would be an ideal way to portray Led Zeppelin's history," he told rock writer Pete Markowski. "Curiously enough, there are now sites popping up doing this everywhere. So I knew I had a sound idea.

In an interview with SiriusXM this week, Gaga raved about her passion for Black Sabbath, AC/DC and, specifically, Iron Maiden.

The release is a gift to their fans for all of their support over their album release and headlining tour. It features the band's covers of The Smith's "Ask," Joe Jones' "California Sun," Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World" and The Ramones' "Beat on The Brat." Get it here.

If this were the 1970's, the heyday of such keyboard titans as Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Jon Lord, Sherinian would be among that elite circle of players who were superstars back in the day when such talent was not only appreciated, but celebrated in popular music. This is, however, 2011, and in this age, Derek Sherinian is the premiere rock keyboardist of his generation, a member of the supergroup Black Country Communion, a former member of Dream Theater, and a solo artist in his own right.

Cheap Trick returned to the stage at Artpark in Lewiston, NY and played before more than 15,000 fans. While shaken by Sunday's events, which saw 8 people injured in Ottawa � including one of their truck drivers � the Illinois rockers forged on with their seemingly never-ending tour.

Here is the full Truck America lineup: The Hold Steady ** Okkervil River ** The Felice Brothers ** Ra Ra Riot ** Wye Oak ** Vetiver ** Real Estate ** Fruit Bats ** The Low Anthem ** Richard Buckner ** Alberta Cross ** Delicate Steve ** Au Revoir Simone ** Citay ** Bachelorette ** NewVillager ** Ava Luna ** Bird Of Youth ** +/- (Plus Minus) ** Gary Higgins ** Robbers On High Street ** Lady Lamb The Beekeeper ** Pearl & The Beard ** Barn Owl ** Common Prayer ** Atlantic/Pacific ** Takka Takka ** Dinosaur Feathers ** The Black Swans ** U.S. Royalty ** Grandchildren ** Frank Fairfield ** The Phantom Family Halo ** Battle Ave ** The Dreaming Spires ** Hospitality ** The Tall Pines ** Two Dark Birds ** Aunt Martha ** Mia Riddle ** Cat Martino ** D. Charles Speer & The Helix ** The Oxygen Ponies ** Motopony ** The Young Evils ** Colin Rocker ** Suddenland

"I think it's because metal is the working man's bread and butter," he said. "With metal, it's not about how slim you are, how beautiful you are and doesn't have any discriminating qualities like lots of other musical styles do. It's just wonderful music that appeals to everyone, and at its core, it just has that blue-collar, everyman attraction."

Judas Priest certainly have some staying power of their own. They're currently on the road, celebrating 40 years as a band.

One of the most expressive guitarist of his generation, Johnny A. is a believer in the importance of melody and tone.

Presley once told a crowd of conventioneers, "When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. So every dream that I've dreamed has come true a hundred times."

Although this is the group's 11th release overall, it will be their first to be released via the Niji Entertainment Group for North and South America.

The non-profit, volunteer and musician led Headstock takes place at the Newstead and Annesley Country Park, near Nottingham, on September 9- 11th 2011.

The song, about a nasty character from Chicago's south side who gets what's coming to him at the hands of a jealous man, bears a striking resemblance (at least in its story) to one of Croce's earlier hits, "You Don't Mess Around with Jim." Both feature big, tough dudes who eventually find trouble when they run into even bigger, tougher dudes. The main characters in each song were based on a real guy, whom Croce had met during a stint in the army.

The rock star stated in a new documentary, Lemmy: The Movie that he thinks 1,000 "isn't that impressive as I'm 65 and I've never married, so it's not many a year."

"It's a Good Day" started with the chorus and the song quickly found its own message. In my experience, powerful songs do that � the song comes to life and leads the way to what needs to be said. Once the message came along, we knew the melody had to be fresh and light. We wanted it to be uplifting to fit the song's message.

The story line for "It's a Good Day" is something most people � especially kids - can relate to. Who doesn't want to be famous and rich? Meeting important people and people wanting to meet you? The story is about living life never satisfied, always looking for something more. "It's a Good Day" takes the listener through what many people believe will make you happy, but as the song progresses, we can see that what's really important is helping others. Giving someone the hand-up � feeding hungry children and being part of something big. In my mind, that is what's truly important.

This song shows that being a regular guy and helping others can give you the chance to have many good days. Life is a gift that we all receive; we should make it count and be thankful for what we have and the opportunity to help others.