The band have just put out their first live album, Mirrorball, and are set to play the UK's Download Festival before continuing across the world. Next year they'll get down to recording new music; but Campbell doesn't know what the result will be.

But the hard-to-find feathers are those used by fly fishermen, and tackle suppliers are running out of stock.

The Prince of Darkness is currently on tour in Europe but he was told about the plight of Californian Kyle Rodas, who's entering the last stages of a battle with a brain tumor.

The band started work on the record three months after drummer Portnoy sensationally quit. They replaced him with Mike Mangini, who appears on the album although he didn't co-write any of the material.

Interestingly, Perry added, "Laying down some new tracks this week. Been listening to fans comments over last couple of yrs putting that in creative blender."

(Rock News Desk) Neil Peart had to do some fast calculations when he was invited to play a drum solo on the Late Show tomorrow night. His on-tour virtuoso section lasts over eight minutes, but the TV directors needed him to crowbar his performance into four minutes. more

(Metal Underground) High quality DVD style footage of System of a Down's June 5, 2011 performance at the Rock Am Ring festival in Nurburg, Germany has been made available for streaming, courtesy of Zildjian. You can view the concert spread across three parts here

(Classic Rock) Judas Priest are to release a 20-CD box set in late August. Titled Singles Cuts, this features all the UK singles the band released for Columbia from 1977 to 1992. There are 52 songs in all. Tracklist here

(Punknews.org) Adeline Records has announced a bunch of new releases from One Man Army. The label is planning to start by reissuing the band's first two full length albums, and 1998's Dead End Stories and 2000's Last Word Spoken. Each will include two bonus tracks and will be available on vinyl along with a digital download. Wait there is more

(Rock News Desk) Rob Zombie has cancelled his two shows in Ireland at the end of the month for "personal reasons" more

(Billboard) Limp Bizkit are back with a new record, "Gold Cobra," that will be released on June 28. The band will be in full force as the album features the band's original line-up more

(Punknews.org) With their mildy controversial Australian tour wrapped, Propagandhi plan to record their new album in September. more

(Metal Underground) Bison b.c. has announced that it has parted ways with drummer Brad McKinnon, who has performed on all three of Bison's full length albums. No explanation was provided for the split but it is said to be on good terms from both parties. more

(Rock News Desk) There may be no love lost between Motley Crue and Poison, but Mick Mars says he's enjoying touring with the New York Dolls, the third act on their summer roster, even though he'd never met them before. more

Take It Back!, Rust Belt Lights, and Boys No Good will be touring together this summer more.

With all the touring, has the band been able to get cracking on a new album? We haven't really started yet; we're thinking about it though [laughs]. There's just a bunch of other things that we're doing right now. We keep telling ourselves that we're going to get 'round to start writing songs but you know, something comes up. Normally it's a show or us having to travel to India to play or something or the other, and then the album gets put on the backburner for a bit. But I think personally, the new album will just happen when it happens.

Let's talk about the Big Four, the run of shows you've been doing with Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth. The four biggest thrash metal bands in the world on the same stage. How did that happen? Actually the idea came from us thinking about how cool it would be if all the old San Francisco thrash metal bands came together in like a festival sort of situation; maybe play a festival in San Francisco. As we started talking about it we realised that the four main metal bands of the '80s � Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth and us � had never played a show that included all four bands together. We decided to see if it was possible, if we could actually do it. As it turned out, the other bands were into it. We played that first show in Europe [16 June, 2010 at the Sonisphere Festival in Warsaw, Poland] and it turned out great.

They were left without a singer when they suspended John Bush in 2005 to reunite with classic era frontman Joey Belladonna for an anniversary tour. It ended in acrimony and Bush refused to return, so they hired Dan Nelson instead. He began recording vocal tracks for the record but was suddenly and sensationally fired in 2009. Bush returned to stand in for a series of shows, but despite fan acclaim decided he didn't want to take the job full-time again.

"It's not exactly the end of the band, it's just the fact that we won't really be doing any more world tours," guitarist Glenn Tipton told Rolling Stone recently.

Lead singer/guitarist Alex Turner and drummer Matt Helders recently spoke to Reuters about the new recordings. When asked if Suck It and See had a more a vintage sound, Turner said: "I suppose you could say that. The recording techniques were a little bit more traditional. We did a lot of live takes, with the four of us playing and we wanted to get a human feel to it."

During an event last week, Kid told reporters that he would only be a part of the event if it went down in his native Detroit. According to our sources, Comedy Central looked into the possibility of holding the event in Motor City, but the financials didn't work.

The song is taken from their forthcoming album "2", released in the UK on Monday June 13th.

HoustonPress.com reports the first bit of music from ZZ Top's long-awaited, long-delayed, semi-mythical forthcoming album has leaked...but not anywhere on Earth.

Sources close to Willie tell us ... Nelson agreed to plead no contest to misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia ... stemming from an incident last year, when cops say they found weed on the singer's tour bus at a border checkpoint.

Lydon tells the Sheffield Star: "I hope I've been misunderstood. I think that happens with anyone in the public eye � you leave yourself open every time you communicate with the media.

"You become the victim of their attitudes and aspirations towards you, and that can be negative. A lot of journalists aren't qualified in the psychology department. Particularly music journalists. You have to deal with a lot of spite.

Volbeat will be touring in support of their latest album Beyond Hell / Above Heaven which has now sold in excess of 300,000 copies worldwide.

After years of drama and speculation following Ronnie Radke's departure from Escape The Fate, the talented frontman lifts himself from the depths of adversity to emerge as one of the most dynamic and talented stars in the music scene today. Joining Radke on his forward climb to claim his position at the top are Jacky Vincent (Lead Guitar), Ryan Seaman (Aiden, I Am Ghost) on drums, bass player Mika Horiuchi and rhythm guitarist Derek Jones.

Just like Iggy and the Stooges did with "Raw Power" last September, Dinosaur Jr. and MVD are offering fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to film and interview their performance of the classic album "Bug" at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. on June 25.

Glover's outfit have just started a tour with a 28-piece orchestra, but it's not their first foray into such waters � they recorded then-keyboardist Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra in 1969.

2. Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Bad Moon Rising" - This classic CCR track is notorious for the misheard lyric "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise." This particularly common mis-hearing is probably due in part to the slapback echo employed on John Fogerty's vocals, which tends to throw the ear off the trail a little bit.

Ghost cult leader "The Ghoul with No Name" (who takes the stage in the form of "a satanic pope") and his anonymous ghouls will launch the three week trek on September 23 in Springfield, VA.

The 2011 festival line up featuring performances by Best Coast, The Morning Benders, Ra Ra Riot, Hello Seahorse!, Zola Jesus, Kisses, Ben L'Oncle Soul, and many more.

This year's dinner will be held Thursday, June 16th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in NYC. Inductees at the 42nd annual event include John Bettis, Garth Brooks, Leon Russell, Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly and Allen Toussaint.

The event it set to begin at 7:00pm PST. Soundcheck Hollywood is located on 8872 Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood, California.

He told the BBC, "It was up for sale but I've got another record I've got to do so we're debating what to do now. It's open for discussion.

This special covers album will be released in November to coincide with a full blown Euro Tour! More Festival appearances TBA

Fall On Your Sword are Will Bates and Philip Mossman - Philip was a founding member of LCD Soundsystem and played the MSG final show extravaganza - James Murphy has said, "Fall On Your Sword are quite possibly the coolest thing on the planet at the moment."

VBMC's light-hearted bonding of his two passions, black metal and vegan cooking, became an internet sensation when it was posted last month. The resulting media frenzy has seen him talking to the TV company about making a series.

Godflesh made their first UK appearance in over ten years at last year's Supersonic Festival in the band's hometown of Birmingham, where the group were one of the headlining acts.

Fig was joined at the start and finish by the CBS Orchestra, but had the spotlight on his skills for the bulk of the performance.

In the past couple years I've been lucky enough to start to wake up. Not a new age wake up but just quite literally, eyes open. There are many versions of being asleep and I've been many of them for most of my life. One part of my waking has been coming to terms with how much I lie to myself still and the epic novels of lies I've self-directed in my past.

This whole song, the plaintiff and the jury are all one, are all me. Of course, if you feel different, then they're not. But in the moment of inception, "I mean to say I meant to stay" was itself a microcosm of a trick that I pulled on myself, on girls, on friends and on my mother as a youngster. Sly, manipulated, seemingly related statements that could mean something, but most of the times were merely a way of buying time to get to the next lie/line. A poetic way out, "a practiced line spoke too many times." The point of view in the song moves back and forth between the jury and the plaintiff. They take on each other's attributes when addressing the other, or they are each other's attributes. They're both annoyed and scared at times, trying to find some truth as well as place for truth. It sounds funny to say it that way, and by funny I mean presumptuous and self-important. I suppose that's also part of the reason it's said in a slightly convoluted way: in order to point out the gravity of the quest, this other heaviness or heavy otherness, I unwittingly - or wittingly - add obstacles that will maybe help show the seeker the true girth of what they find. The convolutedness is also most definitely a by-product of my fear of utter vulnerability. So maybe that's what it's about? Or maybe it's just about girls.