The album has been in the works for more than a couple years. Originally, the band worked with singer Dan Nelson, but those tracks were scrapped when Joey Belladonna returned to the group. As it happens, Worship Music will be the first Anthrax album to feature Belladonna on vocals in two decades.

And Tom will be playing live with fans Wednesday, June 8 at 7 p.m. ET for a question-and-answer session on the fly. Fans will be able to submit questions LIVE to Tom by using the Twitter hashtag #AskTomHamilton.

"I don't want to jinx it," Eddie Vedder tells Rolling Stone from a Los Angeles studio, as the band works on their 10th studio album. "But it's on!"

"I am shut away in my home studio at the moment working to restore the demos of Quadrophenia," Townshend wrote, according to Rolling Stone. "Bob Pridden is doing surround-sound mixes of selected tracks. Jon Astley is remastering the original vinyl mix, and evaluating his own 1996 remix (the one where you can properly hear Roger's astonishing vocals). I am sitting in a pile of notes, desk diaries, photos (I took a lot of my own between 1971-1973 when Quadrophenia emerged), original lyrics and writing liner notes."

As for now, their only date is July 30 at L.A. Rising at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, along with Muse, Rise Against and Lauryn Hill.

Last week, police arrested Vincent (real name Vincent Cusano) on suspicion of beating his wife, Diane, and dragging her through broken glass; TMZ reported that she arrived at the Sheriff's Office "covered in blood."

(Billboard) Kid Rock's latest album, "Born Free," has been out barely seven months, but he's hatching plans for its successor. "We've already started writing for the next record and talking about the feel and where we want to go with it," Rock told Billboard.com more

(Classic Rock) Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover will release a solo album next month. If Life Was Easy is out on July 12 more

(Metal Underground) Opeth has revealed the first batch of dates for its forthcoming headline tour of North America with support on the trek coming from fellow Swedish dark rockers Katatonia. Opeth will be touring in support of its upcoming new album 'Heritage,' which is set to hit store shelves on September 20, 2011 more

(BW&BK) Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal was recently involved in a four-car accident. He issued the following update:
"Medical checkup this morning - don't seem to have any major issues other than a hairy back and a funny speaking voice... [link to Metallica's 'Whiplash']. Yeah, neck injury can do funny things to guitar playing... (hold your ears on Saturday, ahh!!!)." more

(Lambgoat) The Damned Things will team up with Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster for the inaugural "Inked Music Tour." more

(SRX) A new German festival will take place on June 18th 2011 called 'Shout It Out Loud', featuring Cinderella, Bonfire, Pussy Sisster, Crazy Lixx, Kissin' Dynamite, Jaded Heart and more

This Is Hell and Endwell have lined up a handful of July shows. more

(Lambgoat) Miss May I will headline "The Artery Foundation Across The Nation Europe 2011 Tour" with support from Chelsea Grin, Abandon All Ships, and Chunk! No Captain Chunk!. more

On this day in 1967, The Doors' 'Light My Fire" was released in the U.S. It went on to be #1 on the singles chart two months later.

On this day in 1970, The Kinks' Ray Davies was forced to make a 6,000 mile round trip from New York to London to record one word in a song. Davies had to change the word "Coca- Cola" to "Cherry Cola" on the band's forthcoming single "Lola" due to an advertising ban.

On this day in 2002, Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard, Ozzy Osbourne, The Corrs, Will Young, Atomic Kitten and S Club 7 all appeared at The Queen's Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace, London.

"I'm assuming those that are Smashing Pumpkins fans in the crowd wouldn't mind me putting up a tentative tracklisting of the 'Oceania' album?" He then scribbled the list, which you can view below.

The tracks have been issued as part of the alternative rock band's ongoing Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project, which has camp Corgan releasing original songs online in sets and then making them available for download.

In a recent interview, Meat Loaf spoke about his frustrations with rock critics and their reaction to his latest album, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. "Critics tend to want to dismiss me," he said. "And you can tell them; the people that have given this album a good review and the people that have given it a bad � who's heard it and who hadn't.

The story went that bass player Chris Wostenholme would be in charge of songwriting as the band began work on their follow up to their 2009 album, The Resistance.

Produced by Marc Jacob Hudson (Two Tongues, Chiodos) and Saves The Day, Daybreak is the final piece of a three album concept trilogy that started with the 2006 release Sound The Alarm and the 2008 release Under The Boards.

The 15-foot bronze Freddie was on the move this week from London to Liverpool, where the Liverpool Echo reports it has arrived in the city to celebrate the hit Queen and Ben Elton musical, "We Will Rock You," which will run at the city's Empire Theatre in September.

The video is only available from MTV; all others on YouTube are getting shut down as quickly as they've been posted.

"I still love to play," said the legendary drummer. "I go down the front and sing 'Photograph' or whatever, then I get to go back to the drums and play with all these other musicians. It's a win-win situation. I get the chance to be both the entertainer and the musician. Everyone's a star, but I'm the big star. The band gets to play 12 numbers between them and I do 12 numbers."

The song comes off the legendary act's fourth studio album Black Sabbath Vol. 4, released just ten days later on September 25, 1972. Though it has since become a classic, "Tomorrow's Dream", released as the record's single, failed to chart.

"Nirvana often gets credit for being the first 'alternative' band to break through, the band that changed music and led rock out of the hair metal wilderness of the '80s," Morello said, according to Spinner.com. "That's just not true. It was Jane's Addiction: Inspiring, intelligent, furiously rocking and artistically deep as [expletive]."

The band has been in the studio since April recording their yet untitled new record. What promises to be a grittier record than their previous effort "In the Black," front woman Morgan Lander offers her own words.

"Aww shucks... it's always an honor for me to be recognized (especially in such great company!) Thanks Gibson.com," Portnoy posted, along with a link to the story.

The trek includwa stops at Lollapalooza and Bumbershoot Festival, the duo will also take over LA's Wiltern Theater and return to NYC's Terminal 5.

Prince took over the three studios at Sunset Sound while working on the [Parade] album. He used one for Parade, another for his side project The Family, and a third for an album by the Minneapolis band Mazarati, which was being produced by David Rivkin and Revolution bassist Mark Brown. Legend has it that he had cut the first four songs for Parade on the spot, in sequence: that he sat down behind the drums, asked Susan Rogers to roll the tape, and played through all of the drum tracks, using only his handwritten lyrics as guidance, then added the bass, keyboards, guitars, and vocals to each of the songs, one after another.

For most listeners, the highlight of Prince's 1986 album Parade was "Kiss," a song Prince almost didn't record. His cavalier attitude to giving away new songs (see "Manic Monday," reclaimed from Apollonia 6 during the Purple Rain/Apollonia 6 sessions, but unreleased until Prince gave it to The Bangles) made him believe that he could write hit tracks for just about anybody, even if he hadn't masterminded the band's image and sound.
Next door to where Prince was recording Parade, Revolution bassist Mark Brown and engineer Bobby Rivkin were working on a self-titled album by a group known as Mazarati. Brown had started playing with the group on the Minneapolis club scene during a break from touring with The Revolution. Not wanting to end up the same way as Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (who were fired by Prince for moonlighting with another band), he wore a mask on stage and called himself The Shadow. After a while, however, Brown knew that he would have to come clean to Prince or face serious consequences. But when he did, Prince surprised him by deciding to take Mazarati under his wing.

Dates for the trek begin on July 1st in Seattle, WA and will run August 7th with the tour closer in Arcata, CA.

Young The Giant will jump on the tour on the August 30th in Columbus, Ohio, and then wind through the country with Incubus for several weeks, playing amphitheatre venues, wrapping up on October 9th in San Francisco.

Steel Panther is a parody heavy metal band from Los Angeles, known for its profane and humorous lyrics. The group's over-the-top live performances have attracted celebrities and fans alike, and in February 2009 the band succeeded in becoming one of the most popular cover bands in California, winning the contest of "Best Tribute Band in the Universe"." The band's first album, entitled "Feel the Steel," was released in 2009.

The record includes the song "Winner" and the exclusive B-side song "Glam". The run is limited to 1000 individually numbered copies, all of which are on gold-colored vinyl. Hopefully you'll be able to find a turntable to play it on that isn't attached to a scratch-happy DJ!

"Joplin is my home. It is the place where I find comfort and rest. The tornado that hit our community was not only devastating to the city's prosperity, but also the lives of the victims. My greatest hope is that after the cameras leave, we will not be forgotten. I love this city and plan to stand by its side until it is completely restored and livable. We are all encouraged by the help we've received. Thank you everyone." - Christofer Drew/Never Shout Never

Writer/producer David Morris explains, "Instead of producing a full album of material, which takes a great deal of time, I decided to experiment by making the songs available as soon as they're completed. Doing so has allowed a new approach toward producing each song without the distraction of simultaneously producing other songs. Once a song is finished, cover art is developed for that song, then it's on to the next."

The summer trek will intermixing club shows, that include a run of dates opening for the Los Lonely Boys.

The End Records says We're Here Because We're Here perfectly blends alternative, rock, and prog, and marks the 8th studio album from a band with such a natural sense of melody, seething power and lyrics that they enlighten and inspire. They are a band of brothers and sisters; a band of truly unique origin.

They will be performing live at the Warner Bros. Records Summer Sessions on today, Friday, June 3 at 4:30pm ET/1:30pm PT.

Other performers include Fleet Foxes, Boredoms, Low, The Fall, Superchunk, The Olivia Tremor Control, Mike Watt & George Hurley perform the songs of the Minutemen, Robyn Hitchcock performs I Often Dream Of Trains, Group Inerane, Scratch Acid, Young Marble Giants, The Magic Band, The Raincoats performing The Raincoats (debut LP), A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Yann Tiersen, Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise, Half Japanese, Tinariwen, The Apples In Stereo, Colin Stetson and Micachu And The Shapes.

The show runs 8-10 PM EST, and Neil will join the show at 8:30 PM EST. Host Bob Carroll will speak to Turbin about his time with Anthrax, his current band Death Riders and the album they are finishing up.

The cruise is an offshoot of the 3-hour weekly Monsters Of Rock radio program, which focuses solely on '80s metal. Since 1999, Harlan Hendrickson has built his show into a nationally-syndicated program heard across the U.S.

The Neologist is simultaneously recording the first of several IN FLAMES cover albums which they will be titling In Flames We Trust: Volume 1. Thus far they have recorded and released "Jotun", "Jester Script Transfigured", and "Ordinary Story".

The band is taking requests from fans via their Facebook, YouTube, and Homepage on which IN FLAMES songs should be covered on the album. They also released 2 comical music videos for "Jotun" and "Jester Script Transfigured" which can be viewed on their YouTube account.

We never really stop writing in Derelict. Right after the release of our 2009 album, 'Unspoken Words', we were already working on new stuff. In fact, everyone in the band writes music and we currently have songs from myself, our guitar player Max, and our drummer Jordan in the works.

However, mid-2010 we went through a bit of a crisis on tour with some important lineup changes. The remaining core of the band was left pondering our future and trying to envision what to do about moving forward. It was around this time that I started working on the music for 'Perpetuation'. It wasn't entirely intentional, but I think I wanted to remind myself, in one streamlined song, what Derelict meant to me musically. I endeavored to include all of our best characteristics into something that would scream, not only to the fans, but to us, "we're here, we're alive, and we're not going anywhere!"

The song starts with a relatively simple melodic riff, but in true Derelict fashion, it is tremolo-picked, backed by a blast beat, and arranged in an odd time signature (14/4). The verse kicks in right after, and is a sort of ballsy death/thrash riff that utilizes the low end of our 7-string guitars. The chorus is a bit of a hurricane (and really hard to sing over on beat) with Jordan opting to do some insane drum stuff I don't even understand rather than playing it safe. The first bridge is head-banging riff, but if you listen to the guitars closely, it's also really technical. It ends with a harmonized melodic run that foreshadows the end of the song. The intro then comes back, and I decided I wanted to really push my vocals. I hold an ascending high scream, followed by a few staccato words, followed by another held scream, this one lower. The next riff after that is kind of a breakdown. When I first brought it in, Jordan thought it was too simple, and he explained an odd time signature idea he had in 13/8. We included that and it makes the part more of a tech-down than a breakdown, haha. Another verse-chorus-bridge run leads into the outro, which is a giant melodic/blasting/blackened death celebration. It contains a dual sustained scream by Max and I, and another sort of vocal experiment at the end where I pitched my vocals a little bit and let some of the emotion from my "normal" voice peek through. The whole thing is at 220 bpm and is a bit of a workout for everyone.

So that's that, be sure to check out Jordan's drum video for this song on our youtube page: [here] so you can see those parts I described.