A David Bowie documentary from 1975 was unearthed on Vimeo. Titled Cracked Actor, the BBC-produced documentary delves into Bowie's cocaine-addicted state of disarray in 1974, and includes a great deal of rare footage from Bowie's Diamond Dogs tour from the very same year. more

Madball have revealed the dates for their upcoming headline tour of Europe. Support on the trek will come from Born From Pain, Trapped Under Ice, Wisdom In Chains, All For Nothing and Devil In Me. more

Dragonforce have announced that their long search for a new vocalist is finally over. After entries from thousands of hopefuls across the globe, the shredmasters supreme welcome 23-year-old Marc Hudson to the band to fill the boots left by ZP Theart, who parted ways with the band in March of last year. more

Duff Mckagan'sLoaded has been confirmed for this year's edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-11, 2011 in S�lvesborg in southern Sweden. more

Parkway Drive, Bleeding Through, The Wonder Years, and You Me At Six will be touring Australia in May more

American Idol contestant James Durbin boldly covered the Judas Priest classic 'You've Got Another Thing Comin'' last (March 1st) on the tenth season of American Idol. Check out his performance here

Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover's new solo album is finally slated for a June release. The CD is titled If Life Was Easy. more

Obituary, Grave, and Pathology will tour Europe together this spring. more

Vains of Jenna will be playing live at the Whisky A Go Go on April 1st to celebrate their new release 'Reverse Tripped' more

Terror and Stick To Your Guns will be joined by Trapped Under Ice, Close Your Eyes, and Your Demise next month for the "Stick Tight 2011" tour. more

We Came As Romans has revealed the dates for the band's upcoming tour of Europe and the United Kingdom. Support on the trek will come from Miss May I, The Word Alive and This Or The Apocalypse. more

3 Inches Of Blood and Cancer Bats will be embarking on a month-long Canadian trek in May, kicking things off in Brandon, MB on May 4TH and wrapping up in Victoria, BC on May 29TH. more

Last fall, SOAD said they would be reuniting for 2011 shows � their first since going on hiatus in 2006. The band already have a bunch of European festival appearances scheduled for this summer. There's no word on if the band have plans to record a new album anytime soon.

According to Carlyle: "When we played in early January, it'd been over a year since we were on stage together and with our schedules we could only rehearse once the night before. But there's something about the four of us because no matter how long it's been, whenever we get in the same room, the music just comes together instantly."

A full length Compulsions album titled Beat The Devil is also in the works with a very special guest appearance by guitar legend Hubert Sumlin (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf). "There's a lot of new Compulsions fans lately and I'm happy to say they've been really getting into it. For starters, one couple drove 5 hours from New Hampshire through the ice and snow to see us play and a couple girls flew in from Sweden. So we're gonna put out a new record as soon as possible and hopefully keep the momentum going." adds Carlyle.

"We start recording in about a week in Seattle," Chris Cornell tells SPIN. Cornell also confirms that Adam Kasper, who worked on Soundgarden's last album, 1996's "Down on the Upside," will produce.

Though the prog metal group had announced a co-headline gig at the U.K.'s High Voltage festival last December, there has been little further word about when fans might get to see the group live in its post-Mike Portnoy incarnation (and no, a replacement has still not been announced).

The book features "a masterful and comprehensive text by Dave Thompson plus a comprehensive track-by-track analysis by Robert M. Corich," according to a press release. "This unique production also includes four interview DVDs packed with candid film and audio interviews with past and present members. A heartfelt recollection from Philomena Lynott, mother of the late great Phil Lynott, is an unmissable addition."

Still Rain, formed in Fayetteville, N.C. in December 1989, extensively toured the East coast before disbanding in 1996. The album was last sold on CD in 1995. This digital release marks the first time Still Rain's material will be available for download. "We are extremely excited about giving "Bitter Black Water‟ a proper release in the new millennium," Davies said.

"Even years later, the music is still valid and meaningful. I'm thankful for that experience and learned so much from each of my band mates. I hope people enjoy the music from "Bitter Black Water‟ and appreciate it the way we still do," Clint Lowery added.

"Sorry I couldn't make the Sydney festival show," he said. "I am feeling much better and look forward to performing in Melbourne." The Melbourne stop takes place on Friday, March 4.

Duff McKagan, in the UK for the inaugural Birmingham Guitar Show last weekend, teamed up with original GNR drummer Steven Adler and his band, Adler's Appetite, for a couple of songs a Camden's Underworld club.

The pieces include paintings, drawings, sketches and studies, printing plates and poster sets, according to ArtDaily.org. The work of famous rock artists, including Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Jamie Reid, Alton Kelly and Randy Tuten, will be included in the auctions.

The woman you love can drive you crazy. They are unpredictable, stop in you in tracks, make you wish you knew more about them. The best love songs revolve around a lyric that puts flesh on this idea.

I had the lyric, "You are a novel in a sea of magazines" floating around in my head for weeks. Magazines you flip through, you have briefly, then you throw them away. A novel you savor, you relish, you stay up at night thinking about. You might even re-read it and every time you find more complexities and nuances and character details that make you fall more in love with the story. A novel takes time, requires commitment. You don't just read a novel in a day. It surprises you, makes you lose your mind trying to know where the narrative is headed. A romantic love worth holding on to is like a novel, not a magazine. It's Steinbeck's East of Eden versus People magazine October 1989. Who remembers People Magazine October 1989? No one except the celebrity who made the cover. Who remembers East of Eden? Everyone who ever read it!

This feeling doesn't just apply to romance, it applies to every meaningful human interaction. We are all novels, in the process of being authored, by ourselves, by fate, by God, by community, by suffering, by happiness, and all the other experiences that drive our history. I wanted to write a song that has this mysterious joy to it. I wanted big drums, loud guitars, unadulterated shouting, and an ernest heart, that says, "yes, we all matter," especially that girl or boy you keeping thinking about every 15 minutes.

This mystery man has been a part of several well regarded doom acts and has a voice that will fit snugly into HOUR OF 13's recognizable sound.

On Saturday, March 19, the band will headline the Tooth & Nail SXSW showcase in Austin, TX. The lineup will also feature performances from The Almost, Sainthood Reps, Swimming with Dolphins, Young London and Rocky Loves Emily. The show takes place at Bat Bar (218 East 6th Street) and starts at 8pm.

How long have you been working with Six Feet Under? How did the collaboration come about? One day after a Chimaira/SFU show back in '05, Barnes said to me, "Rob man� we gotta do something together� Me, you, and Talley! I want to do some fast s*** again!"

Just him saying that to me was as good as actually doing it. Even if we never even got together to strike a single note, I could be satisfied knowing that Chris f***ing Barnes asked me to play music with him. The Bleeding [Barnes' final album with Cannibal Corpse] is my second favorite album of all time (after �And Justice For All, if anyone is interested), and [Six Feet Under's debut album] Haunted is in my top ten. And so I think for ANY musician out there, having a guy from two of your top ten albums of all time ask you to make music with him is definitely something very special and unique.

The album art was done by legendary surrealist artist Storm Thorgerson, known for his iconic Pink Floyd album covers.

Toadies will also release an exclusive Record Store Day 7" featuring 'No Deliverance' and a cover of LCD Soundsystem's 'Someone Great.' Both of the tracks were recorded live acoustic from last years Dia De Los Toadies.

Live on Livestream, Music City Roots will broadcast this extraordinary prelude to the band's upcoming World Tour, which begins on March 4.

"For a while after my accident, I was just recovering," he said. "No one really thought I would be able to play drums after all the surgeries and everything. That was always on my mind. Once I was in the studio, it was like, 'I can walk now, I can play the drums still. I have to finish [the solo album].'"

To promote Ace Frehley's upcoming post-game concert in Tampa Bay on March 11, the NHL team hung banners around the arena, but there was a big problem: the banner featured an image of current KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer in full Ace makeup, something Ace hasn't worn in many years.

Although John, Paul, George and Ringo had become huge pop stars, the movie didn't have a lavish budget. Shot in black-and-white, A Hard Day's Night was made for the relatively small sum of �200,000 (around $500,000). Both the writer and the director of the film had been selected because The Beatles had been fans of their previous work. Director Richard Lester had made The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers � each of whom the boys loved. Meanwhile, writer Alun Owen had proven he could pen his share of Liverpudlian dialog in his play No Trams to Lime Street.

The apocalyptic visions of songs like "The Four Horsemen," written by original lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, the violence rippling to the surface of "Seek and Destroy" and the hellfire of war depicted in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" were a perfect, bloody-knuckled pairing of lyrics plucked from the heart of human darkness and the angriest tones that could possibly be torn from Gibson Flying Vs, Gibson Explorers and Gibson Les Pauls pumping electric blood through stacks of Marshall amps. Much was made of the group's melodic approach to metallic wailing during Metallica's first decade and initial four albums � especially after six-string wrangler Kirk Hammett replaced Mustaine. And Hammett's and Hetfield's routes to melody were, indeed, worth noting, even if critics and fans exaggerated the strength of their content. Hetfield tended to play short, boldly written melodies that served as musical transitions. Hammett was more of a sprayer, thanks to his astounding chops inspired in part by his one-time instructor Joe Satriani.

When Bob Dylan turns 70 in May, his iconic career will have spanned five decades. Yet, a true portrait of the reclusive "voice of the generation" has eluded Dylan fans. Through exclusive insider interviews, and never-before-seen photos and footage spanning Dylan's 50-year career, Bob Dylan Revealed offers an intimate biography of who Bob Dylan was, and who he is today.

The initial release of five ABKCO Rolling Stones albums on HDtracks are the first of several Stones collections to be made available exclusively from the HDtracks.com online store at www.hdtracks.com. An additional twenty two ABKCO Rolling Stones titles will subsequently be released. This campaign follows in the footsteps of last month's highly successful ABKCO Records/HDtracks release of four classic Sam Cooke albums from ABKCO's catalog in 88.2kHz/24-bit.

Their plans include a slew of March tour dates across North America and an exclusive digital album � a band-picked collection of their favorite fuzzed out psych rock including some previously unreleased versions - entitled La Vie En Jupon.

Faithsedge was started by singer/songwriter Giancarlo Floridia in Huntington Beach, California, in early 2009.

The band was added to the Top Shelf / Count Your Lucky Stars Records Showcase at SXSW. Joining them on the bill will be Defeater, Moving Mountains, Into It. Over It. Empire! Empire! and many more. The free show goes down from 11 AM to 9 pm at 617 Red River Street on Wednesday, March, 16.

Livestream will broadcast this exclusive event as the guys play songs from the new album while taking questions via Facebook and Twitter.

The band recorded two new songs with Rock, "Heartbreaker" and "No Tomorrow," which could to be a prelude for a new album.

No, the monument will not memorialize Vladimir Lenin or Peter the Great. The subject of the piece will, in fact, be The Beatles.