According to the Daily Express, Taylor is still unsure whether the band can continue. He said: "There's a part of me that's ready and there's a part of me that's not."I have a lot of trepidation about it. I don't know how to feel. I know a lot of the guys in the band are trying not to show that side, and I can't."

While Gray's bass duties will be handled by the band's original bassist, Donnie Steele, Taylor is unsure whether Gray can be replaced. "Without Paul Gray, there would have been no Slipknot, and I mean that sincerely... It's strange for me to think about the future of Slipknot without him.

The Dallas Observer's Laura Mann, a self-proclaimed Cr�e-head, enjoyed the show but was critical of the band's performance, saying:

Slash recently told Planet Rock's Nicky Horne that Myles Kennedy will tale care of all vocals on the new record.

Perry is offering up a little Facebook Q&A and fans are invited to submit questions. Check out Joe's official Facebook page here, "like" it, and look for this post:

(Lambgoat) The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza has cancelled the shows that they had scheduled next week with Whitechapel, Ultrageist, and Stray From The Path for an undisclosed reason. more

(BW&BK) ContactMusic.com reports that Ozzy Osbourne is to become an Earth Troll. The former Black Sabbath frontman - dubbed the 'Prince of Darkness' - will make a guest voiceover appearance in an episode of Disney Channel animation series Fish Hooks as the beastly sea creature. more

(MU) Limp Bizkit have posted a new and strange video trailer online to promote its forthcoming comeback album 'Gold Cobra.' The video features Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland interviewing a gold cobra. You can check out the footage here

(Jam!) Phil Varone of Skid Row fame has turned his alleged sex addiction into a money-spinning venture by bedding five girlfriends for a new x-rated movie. more BW&BK had this Phil Varone's Secret Sex Stash takes the viewer inside the raucous sex life of the drummer for Saigon Kick, Skid Row and Prunella Scales. "Granted, it's been pretty easy for me to meet many groupies along the way," says Varone, "but I still feel a charge each time with each new girl. It's a very personal, very explicit experience and never gets old," he added. "This was the first time for me with the incredible five girls in the movie and I loved every minute I had with each of them." more

(Lambgoat) Dark Castle, will release their second full-length "Surrender To All Life Beyond Form" this July as a deluxe gatefold 12" LP via Brutal Panda Records. more

(PNO) The Starting Line have effectively returned to action, at least as a semi-active band. The group had initially reunited for some shows in 2009 and performed at Australia's Soundwave festival in February of this year, but in a statement posted to AbsolutePunk guitarist Matt Watts offered some clarity on the band's future more

(Lambgoat) Scarlett O'Hara, We Are Defiance, Casino Madrid, and Wolves Among Men will hit the road together late this month for a five-week tour. more

Periphery and Tesseract will travel to Australia next month for a few shows more

(Lambgoat) Cannibal Corpse will once again be returning to Latin America! This time, they'll be bringing along label mates The Black Dahlia Murder as well as fellow underground heavyweights Suicide Silence to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela in December. more

Back On Black is reissuing Testament's legendary first four albums - The Legacy, The New Order, Practice What You Preach and Souls Of Black - on June 27th as deluxe limited edition 180 gram vinyl. Details can be found here

(PNO) Joey Cape recently announced on his twitter that due to the illness of a band member Joey Cape's Bad Loud have cancelled all of their upcoming U.S. tour. more

(BW&BK) Dragonforce have announced their only East Coast show for 2011. This intimate show will take place October 21st at New York's Gramercy Theater. more

A cheesy movie is ok but a tribute album with some proceeds going to charity obviously isn't. (AP) Joan Jett and 1970s bandmate Cherie Currie sued Thursday to try to stop the June 28 release of "Take It or Leave It: A Tribute to the Queens of Noise," an intended homage to the Runaways, the punk bank that launched their careers and helped light a path for other brash, hard-edged female rock groups. more

The Sheffield band recently released their fourth album, Suck It And See, and are set to play two shows in their hometown of Sheffield, England this weekend.

"I did this mainly because I was fed up of the way the media was still portraying my dad as this bumbling, messed up character," said Jack Osbourne.

The recently discovered papers feature lyrics and notes, some in crayon, from the mid-'60s and include some of Dylan's most famous songs, including "Subterranean Homesick Blues," "Visions of Johanna" and "Maggie's Farm."

The set will be called Singles Cuts and will feature all of the band's U.K singles released on the Columbia label from 1977 to 1992.

Just click here to watch the webcast on Sunday � the live stream will start at 1 p.m. (EST).

The band are poised to release their follow-up to 2006′s Stadium Arcadium, featuring new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who replaced John Frusciante when he refused to return after their two-year hiatus.

RushIsABand.com reports Time Machine will be distributed by Concord Records, the company that bought Rounder Records last year, and the last 3 Rush live DVDs were put out by Rounder.

Written nearly 20 years ago, McCartney's never-before released song, "Blue Sway," will be available for the first time on the bonus audio disc of the special edition of McCartney II.

The scene appeared in last night's episode of reality show NY Ink, showing Taylor in tears as he talked about his bandmate, who died of an accidental overdose in May 2010. "I miss that laugh. I miss that so much," said the singer before bursting into heartfelt sobs. "I miss him so much. I just want to see him again."

The album, available since last May only in the UK and Europe, entered the UK charts at #94 and the UK Independent Chart at #8. The U.S. deluxe edition release will feature three additional bonus tracks (Mr. Silversmith, Karma to this Rain, Sad Stone Child), as well as feature a specially enhanced package.

Saxon had already written Mists of Avalon when Bruce Dickinson's outfit released their LP containing the track Isle of Avalon. And Byford took a little persuasion not to change his plans.

The piece chronicles 22-year-old Ilan Rubin's journey from being in Lostprophets to joining Nine Inch Nails, all the while recording his second album in various studios, garages and hotel rooms around the world. Rubin wrote, played and sang everything on "Speak Through the White Noise" and the complexity and intensity of that process is highlighted in this incredible short film. Check it out here

The Wildhearts mainman, who plays guitar for the former Hanoi Rocks singer, says one of the reasons for his move is lack of faith in manager Virpi Immonen for his departure � but she also represents his own outfit.

"That's a lot of empty (instrument) cases in the dressing room," laughs Purple guitarist Steve Morse as he talks to the Star-Ledger.

The clip was filmed live at both the Tampere Ice Hall and Pakkahuone Hall in Finland and directed by Jussi Hyttinen for FLC415 (MTV3, The Finnish National Lottery, etc.). Check it out here

"I went to see what's left of Led Zeppelin recently and I really enjoyed that," he said. "But as I'm not interested in Britpop, I'd suggest that those bands don't bother. When it's just a get-together for a big payday and everyone gets their old clothes out, that seems tragic to me."

Joining them on these dates will be I The Mighty (Equal Vision Records). All tour dates are listed below.

Peart delivered an edited version of his solo on the band's current Time Machine tour, much to the delight of the studio audience at the Ed Sullivan Theater. "My regular live drum solo is about eight and a half minutes, so I decided I'd have to do a mental edit, accelerate the changes and minimize the improvisational parts and so on," Neil told MusicRadar. "At the rehearsal, during my first attempt, I had it down to about four minutes and 50 seconds, and the producers were giving me these worrisome looks." Peart's second run-through was more acceptable: "I got it down to about four minutes and two seconds."

Traditionally, most rock bands are dominated by guitars. Not so the case with In Legend, where the mother of all instruments is the "key" component: The piano. With an uncompromising feeling for hard and flowing melodies, the ivories are hammered by Bastian Emig to an unexplored extreme.

Once again, the album is being recorded at guitarist Ryan Butler's Arcane Digital Recording Studios, where he's recorded past efforts from the band, as well as Misery Index, Phobia, The Funeral Pyre and many more.

In anticipation of the EP the band have released a live video of the b-side track "Girl in a Glass Dress" (performed at SIR Studios/Hollywood on 5/13/11), check it out here

The tour launches July 15th at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco, CA, and wraps up August 27th at the Glass House in Pomona, CA.

Sir Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono & Sean Lennon, Olivia & Dhani Harrison, Sir George & Giles Martin, along with Cirque du Soleil President & CEO Daniel Lamarre, LOVE Director Dominic Champagne and Artistic Guide Gilles St-Croix, joined celebrity friends and family at The Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for the 5th Anniversary celebration of The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil. Ringo Starr is currently on tour in Europe and sent a video message that was played at the top of the show for more than 2,000 attendees.

Ringo Starr said, "George Harrison and Guy Laliberte had a chat at a party and it's still rolling on. I feel like it's one of those magic moments. George, who brought the idea to Apple, would have been pleased with the results and I truly think John would have, too. I mean, what's not to like, it's a really cool show."

When Clee and I sat down to write "Shall We Begin" as a band we were facing some challenging transitions within the band and personally. Clee and his wife just recently split up, our original drummer recently left the band, and overall we were just feeling burned out.

Last summer Clee and I spent a lot more time performing acoustic as we continued looking for a new drummer. During our summer shows at The Rusty Rudder in Lake Norman, NC we rediscovered that spark we felt when we first started playing together. The Rudder shows are always a great time because it's a more intimate setting with our fans which are mostly our friends that have been around since the beginning. Even though we were in this kind of melancholy state�the music, the good times at The Rudder were extremely therapeutic.

It was around this time that a bunch of new ideas began to gel. In essence, those hot, summer shows at The Rusty Rudder served as a launching pad for what would eventually become the bulk of material on Brighter Days. Shall We Begin is symbolic of the beginning of a new chapter of Simplified. It kind of turns out to be a party song geared towards crowds and it is becoming a very good live song to perform! It's a "pick me up" tune!