According to TheChronicleHerald.ca, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada is threatening to deny municipal services for Metallica's July 14 concert on the Garrison Grounds unless promoter Harold MacKay repays approximately CAD $360,000 to the city. more

(Jam!) Groul plays 'Teen Spirit' after 17 years Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl has revealed he and former Nirvana bandmate Krist Novoselic performed their Smells Like Teen Spirit hit for the first time in 17 years during a recent studio get together. more

(FMQB) Up-and-coming rapper Kreayshawn has been tapped to direct the video for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' upcoming single "The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie." more

(BW&BK) Machinery call it quits "We've reached to a point where we asked ourselves is it all worth it, and there are many reasons why we've reached this conclusion. Some of them are too long and boring to even try to explain and some others are beyond our control. However, we will form a new band that doesn't have a label attached to itself, a history or a name yet." more

(Lambgoat) Lazarus A.D. are set to hit the road on the band's first headlining tour with the band taking on local support at each stop. The No Prisoners No Mercy Tour takes the band through NYC, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Baltimore, and more on this 14 date run kicking off in Rochester, NY on July 22. more

(Reuters) An eight-foot statue of rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry was approved on Monday over the opposition of some local residents including one who said the Hall of Fame singer/songwriter should not be honored because he is a "felon and not a friend of women." more

White Wizzard have replaced singer Wyatt Anderson with former Cellador's Mike Germino. The band said in part, "Wyatt Anderson wrote White Wizzard three weeks before the current tour, and said he did not want to tour for personal, health and family reasons." more

(PNO) Mogwai has announced plans to release a new EP entitled Earth Divisions in the fall, comprised of songs written during the band's sessions for their latest full-length more

(Lambgoat) Bleeding Through is currently at work on their next record for Rise Records. Formal tracking will commence later this summer and a winter release is expected. more

(PNO) Brendan Kelly unveiled his plans for a new album on his blog, Bad Sandwich Chronicles. After a lot of whinging about getting older and not behaving like a 21 year old on Spring Break anymore he gets to the meat of it here

(Lambgoat) Skeletonwitch have announced "Forever Abomination" as the title of their new record, slated for a fall 2011 release. more

On this day in 1975, the Eagles started a five-week run at #1 on the U.S. album chart with One Of These Nights.

On this day in 1975, American singer songwriter Tim Buckley completed the last show of a tour in Dallas, Texas, playing to a sold-out crowd of 1,800 people. This was Buckley's last ever show, he died the following day of a heroin and morphine overdose aged 28.

On this day in 1980, Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" became one of the few 'live' recordings to reach the top of Billboard's Hot 100. American disc jockeys preferred it to the studio version on the flip side of the record.

He hadn't appeared on the band's most recent tour and guitarist Pepper Keenan admitted he wasn't sure how to describe Brown's current status. Last week drummer Jimmy Bower said the split was permanent � and now Brown himself has confirmed Down will continue with Crowbar's Patrick Bruders in his place, while he concentrates on new band Kill Devil Hill.

At 2pm on the Sunday, a two minute silence, led from the Saturn Arena stage, will fall over the whole arena and all the stages at Knebworth, so fans can pay tribute to Slipknot's number 2.

Like the regular newspaper and magazine columns, the book, called Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy � Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor, sees Ozzy share his hard-won wisdom on a wide variety of topics. The book will also offer memoir-style survival stories never before published.

Screenwriter Jim Uhls is working on a script for the science-fiction miniseries, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Uhls has previously worked on the screenplays for Fight Club and Jumper.

The new LP, The Hunter, will include the tracks: "Curl Of The Burl," "Dry Bone Valley," "Blasteroids," "The Octopus Has No Friends," "All The Heavy Lifting," and "Stargasm." Complete details to be announced soon.

Directed by Matthew Robison (producer, Silver Jew - director, We Fun: Atlanta, GA Inside/Out) and produced by Henry Owings (Chunklet Magazine), The Jesus Lizard "CLUB" is the exclusive document of the The Jesus Lizard reunited for their first American performance in over a decade.

"Celebrity Ghost Stories" is told completely through first-person narrative by notable actors, musicians and personalities who believe they have experienced the other side. The hit series features descriptive, personal accounts that deliver a compelling, surprising and downright chilling look into the world of the paranormal.

"Pete [Townshend] is having terrible hearing problems at the moment," Daltrey told Rolling Stone. "I've also had a voice scare. There's nobody I'd rather be on stage with than Pete. But equally, I don't want to be on stage with him destroying the last bit of his hearing. That would be completely foolish. He's a composer."

You can check out a video from the DVD of the performance of "Listen To The Music" on YouTube here and you can stream the full album over at AOL here. While listening, here are the details about the release:

In an interview with Glen Shaefer at The Province, Stanley said: "We have the best people working with us. When we first started doing it, it was crude to say the least. There were no licensed pyrotechnicians. You had some guy who liked to blow stuff up and you put him on salary."

Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke, the writing and directing team behind the film, are best known for their music documentaries including Blood Into Wine, The Heart Is A Drum Machine and Moog.

The August tour kicks off on Aug. 3 in Seattle and wraps up on Aug. 27 in Victoria, British Columbia.

On splitting from Panic! At The Disco: I didn't really understand everything that was going on while it was going on. The band was experiencing creative and personal differences even before I joined which made for a complicated working relationship. It was extremely hard for me to walk away from not only my good friends but the passion and hard work I put into the project.

On starting and ending The Young Veins: Ryan and I already had quite a few songs in the works intended for consideration on the next Panic album. Our collaboration was evolving which was especially motivating during and after the split. I really enjoyed the material and was hopeful that our new venture would create a balanced partnership but our differences made that difficult.

34. Pixies: If all the Pixies had done was make great music that was well-received by audiences, they'd already deserve a place on this list. Songs like "Here Comes Your Man," "Monkey Gone to Heaven," "Where is My Mind?," "Cactus" and "Debaser" will forever hold a place in the rock Pantheon. But they deserve further kudos for influencing the quiet verse/loud chorus dynamic of later bands such as Nirvana, who were unashamed of their direct referencing of Pixies song structures. � Peter Hodgson

In addition to previously unreleased tracks, On The Ocean will also feature acoustic versions and a remix of a few songs that will be familiar to Guster fans.

"I've had no contact with him, but he has made some comments which I thought were remarkably� restrained. He's certainly had perfect opportunities to say whatever he wants, negative or otherwise," Morse said. "But I'm really relieved that he hasn't said anything harsh about me. The most he ever said, and I'm paraphrasing, is something like, 'This guy plays very well and does a lot of different things. I'm not sure if he's right for Deep Purple...'"

The Los Angeles Times reports a source as saying that, while unable to speak officially for the filmmakers, they are working on a story about the legendary folkie. The same source said that Joel and Ethan Coen are basing their script on Van Ronk's own memoirs, The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Van Ronk died in 2006.

"We thought audiences were not getting us on record, but they were getting us live," Frampton told Goldmine last year. "So we thought gold, 500,000. It sort of did that the first week. I felt like I was in a jet fighter with the canopy off. It was pretty intense."

The clip was directed by Vincent Comparetto and offers an exotic old world black and white feel of a long lost Fellini spy film.

"We are actually going to have three videos, but one of them is mainly live in concert," says Bach. "So, we shoot two concept videos tomorrow and then run through the third song to intersperse the live footage with studio video footage," adding, "It's gonna be a fun day."

The band's debut full length, "Astrodrama," was produced by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, The Human Abstract).

After a series of UK dates � including a headlining slot at Download � Leppard are now playing the States with Heart on what is a solid double-bill for rock fans.

Both artists are touring in support of the second pressing of their full-length split record, simply entitled IIOI/Koji, available now on No Sleep Records in both vinyl and CD.

The signing will take place at Hastings Books Music & Videos on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, the same day the band's new full-length, Darkness In The Light, is released in North America.

"Tear It Down" was one of the last songs that was brought to the table when we were finishing writing the album. Aaron had been working on it in Tulsa, OK with Brandon and Dillon. On the first day of our pre-production sessions they played the song for Roxx and me and we were immediately blown away. I knew this had the impact, energy and aggression we were looking for in a first track on the album.

The intro to the song had been around for quite a while. It was a piece that Brandon had for a song he'd written that just wasn't as far along as the other songs. We scrapped the song along with quite a few more, but I was in love with the intro bit. We had talked about trying to work it into a song and onto the album and it just so happened to work with "Tear It Down". I feel it gives the drama and anticipation you look for when kicking off an album.

Lyrically, the song is about breaking free from the expectations and standards that can hold a person back from becoming their true selves and reaching their full potential. We waste too much precious time trying to work our way up the social or industrial ladder that we lose sight of who we really are.

Joey Roxx's guitar work on the song is exceptional and really took it the next level. Between Roxx and Brandon Lynn, we were able to get some beast ass guitar tones on this album and this track showcases just about every tone you will find from start to finish.

We wanted to make a more dynamic album and "Tear It Down" is just a glimpse.