(Antiquiet) Spin sat down with elusive Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan to squeeze a little news from the enigmatic artist, and as a result we now know the new title & release date for the next Puscifer album: Conditions of My Parole, which will be released October 18. more

(BMN) A Perfect Circle guitarist Billy Howerdel says that the band is close to finishing up a new song which it will play on the band's upcoming summer North American tour. As for whether the yet-to-be-titled track will lead to a full album's worth of material, Howerdel says that he doesn't see a full-length record happening. "I like records," he said. "I still like records. I have great memories of having anticipation of hearing a whole album and ingesting it slowly and drinking it all in. To me, I have desires of making a record, but it just doesn't seem like people are interested. It just seems that everyone likes to digest things much quicker and have less patience."more

(The 1st Five) The Early November will be performing a concert at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA on September 10, 2011. This will be the band's first show together in 4 years. more

(The 1st Five) The Deafheaven side project Whirr have signed a deal with Tee Pee Records to distribute and release their upcoming new record. more

(BMN) According to the Nashville Scene, the domestic-abuse case against former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent (real name Vincent John Cusano) has been temporarily "retired." It appears that Vincent has struck a deal with the state of Tennessee, temporarily retiring the case for a year, eventually giving the guitarist an opportunity to "petition the Court to dismiss [the] case and expunge the pertinent records as provided by law," in exchange for undergoing eight hours of anger-management therapy. more

(VH1) Mumford & Sons take the Unplugged stage in "VH1 Unplugged: Mumford & Sons" Friday, June 24 at 11PM ET/PT. This insightful performance will also debut online at Unplugged.VH1.com on Thursday, June 23, at 8PM ET and on Palladia, MTV Networks' high-definition music channel on Saturday, June 25 at 9PM ET/PT. Sneak peek clips from the performance will be available at Unplugged.VH1.com beginning Wednesday, June 15. Watch the band discuss their writing process here

(SRX) Poison are tossing ideas around for new album. "We are going to finish this tour, take a little time off and then, hopefully, we can begin writing and recording new material," says drummer Rikki Rockett more

(The 1st Five) Hopeless Records have signed Enter Shikari. The band recently recorded their new album which will be released sometime later this year. You can currently watch the video for the album's first single, "Quelle Surprise," here

(Lambgoat) Beecher have announced that they will be playing no further shows together and there will be no new material; they are once again calling it a day. more

Toxic Holocaust will embark upon a five-week headlining tour of North America this summer. more

The Country Music Hall of Famer, who has scored more than 80 top 10 hits and sold more than 45 million albums, just recorded his final CD, Ghost on the Canvas, with help from rock luminaries like Jakob Dylan, Billy Corgan, Dick Dale, Chris Isaak and Rick Nielsen.

They won't even have to leave their hometown of San Francisco to do it. "It all started when [guitarist] Kirk [Hammett] mentioned that his next door neighbor had invited us to play at his party in San Francisco and we figured 'why not?'" wrote Metallica to fans. "After all, it has been quite some time since we've played in our hometown, and we haven't exactly been getting out a lot lately. Well, it turns out that Kirk's neighbor, Marc Benioff, is the top dog at a "small" company called Salesforce.com and his shindig actually lasts for four days and hosts over 30,000 people! So much for a little backyard barbeque . . ."

Hoppus posted on Facebook: "I'm very excited. We're getting to the point of the album where we talk about mixers and finishing up the songs."

He said that fans can expect the new album before year's end. "We deliver the album to the label on July 31, so it will be coming out during the tour," he wrote. "The most recent batch of songs are some of the best of the entire record. Very happy it's all coming together."

Bassist Jared Followill told Bang Showbiz: "Oh, we are Spinal Tap, totally, I don't know how they got that film so perfect." Guitarist Matthew Followill added: "You'd think the actors were in a band, maybe they were in a band before, they nailed so perfectly, it was like the beginning years of our band."

"There will be multiple formats," said U2 manager Paul McGuinness. "If you pile a lot of extra material and packaging and design work into a super-duper box set, there are people who will pay quite a lot for it, so you can budget it at a very high level and pump up the value."

"This year's going to be a banner year on a number of levels, but we're throwing our hat in the ring," Gibbons told Houston's Fox 26, shortly before leaving for the band's summer European tour.

The Palm Beach Daily News reports Bruce Springsteen, playing solo, offered a softened, almost tender version of "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," the song that recalls his first meeting with Clemons in an Asbury Park bar on a snowy day.

Although a slow-seller on release, Nevermind has since sold more than 30 million copies, and the editors, writers and readers at Gibson.com recently voted Nevermind the greatest album of the 1990s. Produced by Butch Vig, it was Nirvana's second studio album and the first by the iconic trio of the late Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and (now Foo Fighters mainman) Dave Grohl.

"When something's good and we feel like it's going to be a keeper, we put it up on a board and we have four or five up there right now," he said. "We've had a few breakthroughs and so it's exciting to have those moments again and to reminisce about great moments that we've had together. It's nice, the idea of putting something new out again."

This will be the first time in the festival's 41-year history that a full concert will be broadcasted to television audiences in the U.S.

"This will no doubt be the heaviest show you're going to see this year" states Machine Head frontman and guitarist Robb Flynn. "A lot of the greatest shows of our last touring cycle were in Europe and the U.K., so the prospect of this lineup combined with these crowds has us extremely stoked to get out there and tear it up! New material, great venues, killer fans... we absolutely cannot wait!"

The band said in a statement: "We hope that you are as excited to see us, as we are to see you. We are currently charging our engines with new music, while rehearsing songs from our entire catalog to bring you the You Are Not Alone Tour.

After suffering a degree of upheaval and the replacement of keyboardist Chris Spicuzza and drummer Andols Herrick with Sean Zatorsky and Austin D'Amond respectively, the band remains focussed and determined. Hunter continues: "There is no more doubt. We won the war inside our minds� nothing can stop us now."

I'm Back! Family & Friends is an 11-track celebration of Sly's best-loved hits featuring guest appearances by music legends.

Over the past several months the quintet has toured extensively across the U.S. as well as touched down in Kuwait and Iraq as part of a USO tour. The band also visited and performed a USO show in the middle of the Pacific Ocean aboard the USS Carl Vinson as the vessel returned from Haiti and a three-month deployment at sea.

Performed at a special outdoor concert at Vasilyevsky Spusk of the Red Square in Moscow � with the Kremlin and St. Basil's Basilica as the backdrop, the performance will be featured on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, VH1 Classic and Palladia at 8:55pm ET/PT. In addition, VH1 will feature the performance later that night at 11:30pm ET/PT.

On Sunday afternoon the band posted a message on their Facebook advising fans of where to grab a piece of the Biffy wardrobe: "Anyone around Glasgow's west end�? You might want to check out Oxfam Music, Byres Rd shortly� We cleared out our dressing room wardrobe."

For their sophomore release, We Came As Romans returned to Foundation Recording Studio with their longtime friend and producer, Joey Sturgis [The Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack!].

Chiodos will serve as direct support on the UK dates and will co-headline on the remaining European dates. Super Happy Fun Club will open on the entire tour.

"I don't think death crossed my mind twice," the Allman Brothers Band singer said. "I just thought, 'Hey, I got stuff to do!' There was a long time that I wondered [about my voice]. They did the surgery just right above where you sing from. I was in the clear on that one. About four days after the operation, I started trying to sing. And it came back � It was probably the only place on my body that didn't hurt."

For the soundtrack, Rivers Cuomo and Co. performed their version of "You Might Think" by The Cars (get it?). Below, you can check out the video, which features live and studio footage of Weezer as well as clips of Lightning McQueen and pals from the flick.

Just hours after news broke of Clemons' passing, U2 took to the stage as their 360 World Tour winds down with its final leg of shows in North America.

In an interview with Goldmine magazine she said that Dio particularly enjoyed his time with Black Sabbath: "Musically, Ronnie really enjoyed working with Sabbath, because now he could go darker, he could explore more. Him and Tony [Iommi] had a fantastic relationship writing-wise; and the rest of the band playing-wise. They were musical geniuses, all of them."

The band also includes frontman Russell Allen (Symphony X), guitarist Mike Orlando (Sonic Stomp), bassist Paul DiLeo and guitarist Rich Ward (Mojo/Fozzy).

Formed this year, while Portnoy busied himself with projects involving Steve Morse as well as Beatles tribute band Yellow Matter Custard (with Paul Gilbert), Adrenaline Mob "didn't require overthinking," said the drummer. "It wasn't a master plan to join this band, but once I heard the material, I was in."

Newbury Today reports a River Thames boathouse in Pangbourne, UK with ties to Zeppelin's history is on the market � asking price �1,100,000.

The Browning, who are currently on the road in the US on the "Get Nude & Tattooed" tour, will be heading back out on the road in August for the "Metal, Arise!" tour.

"My Baby Don't" deals with the frustration, anger, and desperation of trying to help someone change, but not knowing how. The song was written the night before the first show we ever played in front of an audience. We threw a party in our backyard and opened up for Austin, Texas indie rock group The Murdocks. I threw up twice before the show and felt like weights were tying me down to the stage from nerves.

Over the years we recorded many demos of the song and it eventually ended up being recorded for our debut full-length. When our producers were going through possible songs with us to record "My Baby Don't" stood out to them. I specifically remember Stan Lynch (of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) saying something along the lines of, "Hmm, this song has some sex to it."

I like to think of "My Baby Don't" as our "Here Comes Your Man" by The Pixies. It has a similar story (and twangy sound) behind it being that Black Francis wrote it when he was young and it ended up being placed on an album. Not to mention The Pixies reffered to the song as "the Tom Petty song."