(Billboard) Linkin Park is planning to follow last year's "A Thousand Suns" with a fifth album that explores controversial topics. "We've learned how to deal with politics, faith and other things," Chester Bennington said about the album, which the band has been working on for two months. more

(BBC) Drawings by Paul McCartney are withdrawn from sale at auction after a legal challenge over ownership. more

Yesterday we told you about the June 28th release of Bad Company Live at Wembleyon CD, DVD & Blu-ray. Today, we have a preview for you. Check out the band rockin' "Feel Like Making Love" here

Culture Brats have a new interview with Joe "----head" Keithley, legendary frontman for the punk band D.O.A. Joe talks about his recent book, life on the road, how today's bands have it both easier and harder than D.O.A. did when they were first starting out. Check it out here

Antiquiet has a full-album stream of Liam Finn's latest creation and labor of love, FOMO, a week before it comes out on June 21. Listen here

(AA) Creatively titled 'Seven,' Staind will release their seventh studio album reportedly in late September. The first single, "Not Again" is due out later next month. more

(Billboard) Bruce Springsteen has recorded a new Pete Seeger song for a Seeger album that is penciled in for release this holiday season. more

(Classic Rock) Mike Portnoy finally has a name for his new project. It's called Adrenaline Mob and, apart from the former Dream Theater drummer, the line-up also features Symphony X vocalist Russell Allen, guitarists Mike Orlando (Sonic Stomp) and Rich Ward (Fozzy/Stuck Mojo), and bassist Paul DiLeo more

(PNO) A reader sent Punknews.org an account of a recent Against Me! show in Rochester, NY that ended rather strangely after it was alledged that the venue, Water Street Music Hall, was overcharging for tickets at the door. Frontman Tom Gabel was alerted via twitter and took the venue to task, demanding that fans in attendance be refunded the difference both prior to and during the band's set. After Gabel called out the venue's practices while onstage, members of the crowd and security guards ended up in a scuffle, which ended with the house lights coming up, guitars and mic stands being hurled intro the crowd and what sounds like an awful lot of chaos. more

(The 1st Five) The line up and details for this year's FYF Fest have been announced which will feature Descendents, Death From Above 1979, Explosions in the Sky, Broken Social Scene, Cold War Kids, Guided By Voices and more

(BW&BK) Def Leppard's new live album, Mirror Ball, has landed at 16 on the Billboard 200, selling approximately 20,000 copies in the US in it's first week of release. more

(SRX) Former Warrant vocalist Jani Lane is currently writing songs for himself and other artists, and is hoping to put 'something' out later this year. more
On this day in 1962, The Konrads (featuring Dave Jones later to become David Bowie), made their live debut when they played at Bromley Technical School in Kent, England. more

(PNO) Shonen Knife will celebrate thirty years together by paying tribute to their "biggest musical inspira�tions," The Ramones. The pop-punk trio from Japan will be releasing Osaka Ramones on July 19, 2011 . The album will feature 13 Ramones classics more

On this day in 1965, Bob Dylan recorded "Like A Rolling Stone" at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City.

On this day in 1966, The Beatles made a surprise live appearance on the U.K. television program Top of the Pops, performing "Paperback Writer" and "Rain." It became The Beatles' last live musical television appearance, with the sole exception of the June 1967 worldwide transmission of "All You Need Is Love."

A few months ago, our own Kirk Hammett hinted at a new Metallica project that's "not really 100 percent a Metallica record." While Kirk may have jumped the gun a little (and has since been properly punished with a series of push-ups!), we are more than proud to announce that we have just completed recording a full length album that is a collaboration with none other than the legendary Lou Reed.

The plan was for Dylan to be given his honor when he played the Feis festival in London on the weekend of June 18. Unfortunately, the Borough of Haringey turned Dylan down.

Tuesday night's premiere of the first episode of the new season was an ugly affair (pardon the expression), as cameras caught Shannon calling Gene out for his lifestyle after 28 years together. Although Tweed said she's been crying for the past three years, the catalyst was the couple becoming empty nest parents, as daughter Sophie moved out to go to college. It was truly heartbreaking to watch as Gene continued his insane pursuit of making money over being with, and caring for, his family.

With every response, Simmons essentially admits he cares more about himself and money than his family. By all appearances, at least, it appears he's finally telling the truth, revealing what he's been telling the world through years of selfish behavior. That part isn't a surprise.

Monopoly announced Wednesday that the customized AC/DC Monopoly game is going into production next week and will be available in the US this August.

"We learned the hard way about how difficult this stuff is," Bono said on its premier. "We've come through the fire and this, this show is what it needed to be from the beginning. It's really working now. We're really happy with it," added The Edge. However, a full U2 album is now on hold. In 2009, U2 promised a "companion" album to No Line on the Horizon, then a dance-influenced release. But bassist Adam Clayton now says it will be 2012 before there is more genuine U2.

The album was produced by Bob Marlette (Black Sabbath, Shinedown, Atreyu, Filter) and features young guitarist Nick Sterling and drummer Bobby Jarzombek (Halford, Riot, Iced Earth).

In the words of vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy, this new album is the culmination: "In Waves to us� is Trivium. In Waves is the music, the artwork, the videos and the live show; they are all part of an interconnected whole. There's no question about it, in our eyes, that this is the most complete project we've ever done. We think we've finally made the record that we've always strived to make."

A circa 1972/73 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, serial # 133625, it is one of Townshend's earliest LP Deluxes. "I lent the guitar to my brother-in-law and studio colleague, Jon Astley, in about 1975�76... When Jon tried to return it, I decided to give it to him," said Townshend.

Friend Slash Lover sent over word about the soundtrack and will be contributing the single "Where Have I Been All My Life" off their debut EP As American As Ones and Zeros along with new material they are currently writing for inclusion in the soundtrack series to Gates.

The North American leg of Arch Enemy's world tour will kick off in Baltimore on September 8th.

"Action Is My Middle Name," "The Kid's a Looker," and "People Are the Same Everywhere."

A well-traveled and experienced pilot, who flies Maiden around the world in the band's customized Boeing 757 called Ed Force One, Dickinson plays host in a new aviation safety program video for the U.K.'s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

Adler, 46, became the first member of GnR's classic lineup to leave the band when he was fired in 1990 over his inability to record because of his heroin addiction.

Zenith Myth is 27 year-old Mike Edwards from Los Angeles, California. Creatively blocked and unfulfilled, Edwards got divorced and left behind what many would call the "perfect life" (a house in the hills of California, a successful career, a seemingly great marriage), and moved to a small town in upstate NY for some perspective. It was there that Zenith Myth was realized.

According to Blabbermouth, he has been forced to re-consider the subject matter of some songs. "It's what the subject matter's about. I've been struggling with that. For example, 'Anarchy in the U.K.' is a song I really don't like playing because it starts off and says 'I am an Antichrist.' Well, I'm not an antichrist. Not only am I not it, I don't want to be it. I won't even be one of them. And as far as 'The Conjuring' ... it actually has the components of a hex in it and when I wrote the song it was cool and it was vogue to be into black magic and the dark side and stuff like that � so it was really cool to have lines from a hex in it. But looking back now � being a dad, being a responsible person, being a musician who has influenced a lot of lives very positively � I look at it and think, 'I don't know if I would play that live.'"

The band's original lineup--Jesse Malin, Danny Sage, Howie Pyro, Michael Wildwood, and Richard Bacchus--will play together for the first time since the late 90's.

Each of the 12 videos will focus on one song off The Reflection. Within the footage, Keb shares insight from his recording experience, personal stories, lyrical meanings, and much more - including small acoustic bits from almost every track off the record. He talks openly and candidly about his excitement for The Reflection, the journey he's taken to create each song, and what his fans can truly expect from it all.

The Facebook videos will also run in tandem with unique TNT webisodes about the hit television drama series Memphis Beat, for which Keb is the music composer and also performs the theme song. Keb will discuss the show's music, his inspiration in crafting that music, and the episodes themselves, on the day after each show airs.

McCartney was speaking to TheQuietus.com to promote reissues of his first two solo albums, and McCartney revealed: "We [Damon and I] have kind of talked - nothing serious, but I like what they do. It's got near a couple of times but we never had the time."

Wilson will be heading overseas to perform a few festival dates with Jackson Browne -- he will be opening for Jackson and also collaborating onstage as part of his band along with the band Dawes.

The digital version of the album will be released on July 12th with a physical release date of September 13th.

In 2003, brothers Daniel and Jacob Sproul began practicing along with childhood friend Nate Barnes in the basement of their house on Rose Hill Drive in their hometown of Boulder, CO. Since then, the band has released two critically acclaimed albums�2006's self-titled debut and 2008's Moon is the New Earth�and several EPs.

After a fifteen year hiatus from recording together, original Morbid Angel members Trey Azagthoth and David Vincent have returned with Illud Divinum Insanus.

The metal legends recently launched their Epitaph tour, billed as the band's final world trip, although they are working on new music and will play smaller series of dates in the future.

Rob Zombie was named Golden God, as the metal and movie man received his honor from Alice Cooper; earlier this year, it was the other way around, as Zombie inducted Alice into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.

Additionally, the band will headline the L.A. date of this month's Sargent House Presents triple bill of Le Butcherettes, Tera Melos and Adebisi Shank that also hits San Francisco.

Mimicking some of the all-weekend jams put on by San Francisco bands like Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead, Monterey put the music first. Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner told Carmel Magazine that the "eclectic idea... made [Monterey Pop] a great show. That whole weekend was just extraordinary." He continued, "Monterey Pop exuded a really friendly vibe... everyone liked each other and supported each other. So much was going on you could barely contain it all. We were in the middle of this huge rumbling of experiences...full of exciting things. We managed to play our music on acid, and it didn't seem to inflict anything negative."

He told the Daily Record: "When I come back to Glasgow, I live in the hotel full-time. It is a bizarre existence, but the good thing is I don't allow myself to be deceived into living any kind of normal existence. If I went back home and my dog was running around and there was dinner on the table, it would confuse my tiny brain.

"Deathrattle", the first song on my new album, Ace, Jack and King, is one of the most interesting tracks. The lyrics and music are all original, but, if I were to sing the song with just hand claps backing me and add a chorus of male singers with a single mic, it would become indistinguishable from all the great old field hollers and work songs recorded in the early 20th century. The earthy, vital feel of that music is what I try to capture in my own.

At the end of the album, my electric rock version of the same tune is exemplary of a style I have been developing over the years--taking very old sounding blues-based lyrics and melodies and arranging them in contemporary and usually heavy ways...without compromising the authentic feel and soul of the original music that is the inspiration for my own song.

Dickinson has been selected to serve as the festival's artist-in-residence and will collaborate on stage with Grammy Award/W.C. Handy Award-winning contemporary bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart and influential pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph. Dickinson will also interact with festival-goers and read passages from the soon-to-be-published memoirs of his father, Jim Dickinson.