(AA) Paramore's Hayley Williams has revealed that the band will have a new album set for release by the start of next year. During a recent interview with the BBC, the frontwoman said that they're starting the writing process and will hit the studio by late 2011. more

(Classic Rock) Alice Cooper is to play a club show in London later this month. Yep, the man has confirmed a show at the 100 Club on Sunday, June 26. Says Alice: "It's been a while since we played such an intimate venue. But strip away the theatrics and we are a pedal-to-the-metal rock band, born in clubs like the 100 Club." more

(FMQB) The Smoking Gun has posted the Foo Fighters' new tour rider, which includes coloring book pages, drawings of all the Foos, a word hunt for "catering don'ts" more

Before you ask, yes it was a slow news day but you might enjoy this one: (BMN) According to the Tahoe Daily Tribune, a 18-year-old man was arrested early Monday morning after he allegedly threw a flower pot through the glass panel of a front door at a South Lake Tahoe, California home, claiming that he was trying to get inside to see "Ozzy Osbourne." more

(FMQB) On September 27, Atlantic Records will release Vice Verses, the eighth studio record from Switchfoot. Working with producer Neal Avron (Weezer, Linkin Park), the band recorded most of the album in their San Diego, CA home studio. more

(Billboard) Paul McCartney says that he's talked with Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn about collaborating with the group, although the timing hasn't come together yet. more

(Lambgoat) Arch Enemy, Devildriver, Skeletonwitch, and Chthonic will tour North America together in September and early-October. more

(FMQB) Thirty Seconds To Mars had a big night at the U.K.'s 2011 Kerrang! Awards last week, where the band took home two trophies for Best International Band and Best Single for "Hurricane." more

(PNO) Bob Mould released his autobiography See A Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody today. The book was co-written by Mould and Michael Azerrad (Our Band Could Be Your Life) and Mould will be supporting it on the road more

Season Of Mist's Underground Activists division has signed Arckanum for the release of their seventh album more

In an interview with Rock The Walls, television host/motivational speaker/noted partier/occasional musician Andrew W.K. revealed that he's in the process of recording a new album. more

On this day in 1985, Dire Straits started a nine-week run at #1 on the U.S. album chart with, Brothers in Arms

On this day in 1989, Nirvana's debut album Bleach was released in the U.S.

"As far as new music goes, and people say it all the time, 'When are you guys gonna make a new record, dude?' It's like, 'Really, why?' No one buys them anyway anymore. And I'm not sure what the reason is," Lee tells Noisecreep.

"They were settled to the mutual satisfaction of the parties," said attorney Howard King on behalf of Azoff. The resolutions were announced on the day Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rita Miller had scheduled trial of the two cases between the rocker and Azoff.

The couple are making the rounds to promote their alleged reality series, but it's Gene's family jewels that are taking a very public beating. Following a clip from the upcoming new season, Shannon was pretty blunt about how she feels.

Faulkner, formerly a member of Lauren Harris' band, was revealed as KK Downing's replacement after the veteran axeman shocked fans by announcing his retirement. But the 31-year-old wasn't Priest's first choice, says last remaining founding member Ian Hill.

"By now, many of you have heard that our beloved comrade and sax player Clarence Clemons has suffered a serious stroke. While all initial signs are encouraging, Clarence will need much care and support to achieve his potential once again. He has his wonderfully supportive wife, Victoria, excellent doctors and health care professionals, and is surrounded by friends and family.

The guitars aren't the only thing Friedman has shed from his storied past. The guitarist has also left behind any desire to reform with Dave Mustaine and company, even to take part in the 20th anniversary celebration of the band's classic Rust in Peace album.

In an interview with Noisecreep, Hinds said he will team up with The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman, former The Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen and ex-Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Aver.

"Musically it is really something. [producer] Bob Ezrin does not allow you to put a filler on an album. It's got to be a song that stands up on it's own without the album."

Foley, who also performed on the band's upcoming Darkness In The Light full-length, takes the place of former drummer Derek Kerswill, who parted ways with the band last year due to creative differences.

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the movie will be directed by Michael Mayer, the same man who directed the musical. Tom Hank's Playtone company will produce the film, and Armstrong will play St. Jimmy, the drug dealing main character in the story.

Gary Goetzman from Playtone is optimistic that a musical can work on the big screen: "Mamma Mia! proved that if the musical is right, obviously it can go into the stratosphere, as far as box office gross. We're always looking for musicals."

Titled Doctrine, the 11-track long player was recorded and mixed at Woodshed Studio in southern Germany with vocalist/guitarist by Patrick Mameli, Yuma van Eekelen and Victor Bullok (Triptykon, Dark Fortress) and offers up a torrent of thought-provoking lyrics, dissonant chords, complex rhythm patterns and low-tuned riffs.

With parallel careers that have seen them rise through the ranks of the music industry to become critically-acclaimed favorites, Lee and Walker are now currently preparing separate releases that are each expected to be released in fall 2011 on Dangerbird Records.

McCartney realizes he was "not a popular bunny" with his Beatle cohorts at the time of the split. The terse "press statement" questionnaire he delivered containing news of his debut solo album, McCartney, was probably a mistake in retrospect. "It's possible to read all sorts of other things into it, read all sorts of motives of mine into it, which is I think what happened," McCartney said. "For me, it was simply a way to answer some questions I might have been asked if I had done interviews."

Looking back, he just wanted to get his new music released: "I've been accused of not thinking things through enough. I get enthusiastic about something and say I'd like to do it, so let's do it. And that's mainly a good thing, because you get things done. It can occasionally create difficulties because you don't think of the implications. And to me, I hadn't thought of the implications. I was just putting out an album of some stuff that I liked.

NME.com reports that rock music fired the young rapper's rebellious spirit. He told MTV: "'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was the only rock song that [would] come on and you'd be like, 'That one is OK, I can deal with that one.'

One of the great vocal groups of the '50s, The Coasters were one of the first black groups to crossover to mainstream chart success. It was Gardner's voice on their best-known songs like "Yakety Yak," "Poison Ivy" and "Searchin."

There is no other band, past or present like Thin Lizzy. As one of the defining twentieth century rock bands they burst onto the Dublin rock scene in the early seventies. The band saw a succession of critically acclaimed guitarists play, including founder member Eric Bell, the legendary Gary Moore, Scott Gorham, the longest serving and most steady guitar presence in Thin Lizzy, and Brian Robertson who along with Scott Gorham provided Thin Lizzy's twin guitar attack. Others include Midge Ure, Snowy White and John Sykes. These incredible partnerships made Thin Lizzy into one of the most powerful guitar bands in the music industry.

After a while Green pushed for drummer Mick Fleetwood to replace Aynsley Dunbar. John Mayall agreed and The Bluesbreakers became Green, Fleetwood, John McVie and Mayall.

Mayall was a mentor by nature and gave Green studio-time for his birthday gift. Green, delighted, recorded four songs with Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Tracks included a Green vocal on " First Train Home" and a prophetic instrumental, " Fleetwood Mac," so named after the band's rhythm section.

Released in Standard, iTunes Deluxe, and Game Stop configurations, The Transformers: Dark of the Moon albumfeatures music from Linkin Park, including the first single "Iridescent," Taking Back Sunday, Art Of Dying, Theory Of A Deadman, Black Veil Brides, Skillet, Staind and Mastodon (who contribute a cover of ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid"), as well as new music from Paramore and Goo Goo Dolls debuting exclusively on the album.

The main stage festival music line-up will be: Friday, August 5th: Patti Smith, Best Coast, Chairlift, Lissy Trullie, The Postelles, The Static Jacks

Joining forward-thinking metal label Southern Lord's multi-city The Power of The Riff Festival, which sports a lineup including luminaries Pentagram, Winter, Noothgrush, among several others, Pelican will play installments in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in addition to their own headlining dates in San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, and Portland.

When legendary classic rockers Bad Company performed at the historic British venue Wembley Arena in London on a beautiful April 2010 spring night, high-definition cameras captured the whole evening in all its glory.

Another track from the album, "Next Visible Delicious" can be heard exclusively on the band's Facebook page (here) . To hear the song, simply click "like" on the band's page.

Generation Why?, which was recorded with producer Neil Kernon (Judas Priest, Nevermore, Deicide, 3 Inches Of Blood) and is due to be released on August 29th on.

Named after their recent studio album, the nearly eleven minute short offers a playful and close-up look at the UK duo - Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart � during the making of Blood Pressures. Their latest videos, "Last Goodbye", "Pots and Pans" and "Baby Says" find The Kills stripped down with an air of vulnerability - an intimate look at their songwriting process and the dynamic between the pair. Blood Pressures debuted in the Billboard Top 40 and has received some of the most glowing reviews yet in the band's career. Watch the new videos for "Last Goodbye", "Pots and Pans" and "Baby Says" here

Describing himself as a perennial musical misfit he admits he is the "turd in the punch bowl" who refuses to conform to any particular scene or genre. Though he has no plans to ditch his metal-centred writing he does feel "the metal scene is starting to give up on me to a certain extent" after at the first leg of the European touring festival.

The EP features three original tracks: "Voices", "Jesus Freak" and "False", as well as SOMA's rendition of the Simple Minds' classic "Don't You (Forget About Me)". This EP is meant to give listeners a glimpse into what they can expect from the band's upcoming full length release.

Saguaro (1995-2003) gathers peak performances culled from Bluebird's critically-acclaimed 2003 Dim Mak-issued album Hot Blood (mixed by Joe Baressi, with guest appearance by MC5's Wayne Kramer) and reaches all the way to the quintet's 1997 self titled debut, Bluebird.

According to NME.com, Gallagher told Absolute Radio: "We're not the Waltons, you know what I mean? We have our days and we have good days, you know what I mean, like we did in Oasis, but, you know, this is what we're here to do, is make music, and that's what we shall do."

According to the Daily Express, Dhani has become a fan of the instrument. He told Rolling Stone magazine, "Eventually it gets to you and you can't help but love it. It's very disarming."

When the angels fell to earth they fornicated with humans and created the Nephilim. Nephilim is sort of this in-between character and creature where they're not divine and they're not evil, so they really have no where to go and they ban together - the seven of them. But I suppose for our purposes I guess it would be five. So they band together and create a society of marauders in this post-apocalyptic world.

For us it represented the ultimate outcasts and the idea of being the sort of person who is into rock music or on the outskirts or fringes of society. It's about understanding that we are all innately different, but that we can also band together in some way. So I guess in terms of what the song is about, it's mainly an anthem for the outcasts.