Foo Fighters and Motorhead will hit the road together this spring for a series of US tour dates. So far, only five dates have been announced. They are listed here

Stone Temple Pilots/ex-Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland's long-awaited autobiography, "Not Dead & Not For Sale", will be released on May 17 via the Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner. more

Have a listen to "Longing To Belong," the first single from Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder's forthcoming solo album, due out this June here.

Jon Bon Jovi has taken aim at Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, accusing him of "killing" the music industry with iTunes. He says "Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business." Find out why here

Jane's Addiction, Elvis Costello and Grateful Dead spin-off bands Furthur and Rhythm Devils will headline this year's 16th annual Gathering of the Vibes Festival, which will take place July 21-24 in Bridgeport, CT. more

The original Alice Cooper Band is to release a box set in June. This will contain four CDs from the period 1964-1974, a DVD, a seven inch vinyl single, a bootleg vinyl album more

Oh, Sleeper has lined up a handful of tour dates with Like Moths To Flames and We Are Defiance. more

Polar Bear Club will enter the studio this week to begin tracking their third full-length album. Recording will take place with Brian McTernan (Hot Water Music, Cave In, Bane) and a summer release via Bridge Nine Records is expected. more

Devin Townsend plans to release a new live concert DVD as well as a new boxset. more

Tommy Rogers, lead vocalist, keyboardist and founding member of Between The Buried And Me, has announced special U.S. tour dates in support of his just-released solo album, "Pulse". more

Kvohst, vocalist of Code, has left the band. Code guitarist Aort has posted the following statement online, announcing the departure."With regret, I would like to announce that Kvohst has left Code in order to concentrate on his own music with Hexvessel and vocals with Dodheimsgard. I, of course, wish him all the best for the future and extend my thanks for 10 years of pleasurable and productive work together." more

Foreigner are to release a live DVD/Blu-Ray on April 18. It's to be titled Rockin' At The Ryman, and was filmed at the Ryman Theatre in Nashville during March last year. more

Parkway Drive has revealed the dates for its upcoming headline tour of Europe more

Nemesea has parted ways with drummer Steven Bouma and has replaced him with Frank Van Der Star. more

The Darkness � Justin Hawkins, Dan Hawkins, Frankie Poullain and Ed Graham � will be locked in an East Anglian studio working on tracks that will in time become the band's third album. more

On this day in 1955, Elvis Presley signed a management contract with "Colonel" Tom Parker, who had previously managed country stars Eddy Arnold and Hank Snow, and also the Great Parker Pony Circus with one of the acts being a troupe of dancing chickens.

On this day in 1975, Led Zeppelin topped the U.K. chart with their double album Physical Graffiti, the first LP on the band's own Swan Song label. The album spends six weeks at #1 on the U.S. chart.

No word yet on what tests still need to be done ... but Mike's family ain't waiting around -- we're told they're holding a memorial without Mike's body this Sunday in Seattle for friends and family ... to give them a chance to pay their respects early.

When asked if we'd see Aerosmith and J-Lo perform on the finale, Lythgoe offered an even better, more surprising response. "It will probably be before that, actually," he said.

"God Bless Ozzy Osbourne" � a new documentary about Ozzy's life and times, will debut at the 10th Annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York; the event runs April 20 to May 1.

King's wife Livia Zita says the singer graduated the program with flying colors. "Thanks to the wonderful people at the rehab center, his exercise regimen helped him gain a lot of muscle, and start on the road of building up good endurance," she wrote in an update to fans. "We will start regular exercises now to get the endurance up to nice levels."

"I would like to do some more new Queen material with Brian [May]," the drummer said.

"See, I don't know what is 'heavy metal,'" he said. "I was on That Metal Show yesterday, and they were [discussing] heavy metal drummers... and they didn't have John Bonham. 'Well, he's not metal.' But then they had Bill Ward from Black Sabbath. But if heavy metal is Slipknot, it would probably be Joey [Jordison]; he's killer."

And Justin Hawkins admits their comeback was kickstarted by tabloid rumors which surfaced last year.

The supergroup, featuring guitar hero Joe Bonamassa, Deep Purple/Black Sabbath vocalist Glenn Hughes, Led Zeppelin drum scion Jason Bonham and Dream Theater keyboardist Derek Sherinian, have only played a handful of shows so far � none on U.S. soil.

The band are currently working on a follow-up to their 2010 debut album, Black Country. As with Black Country, the new record will be produced by Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden, The Black Crowes). The group have tentatively slated the release for early summer.

"The stranger it is, the more beautiful it will be," Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes told Billboard.com. "What appeals to us very much about working with David is that we like the way he thinks about things and how he's always gone out on a limb to make things different than anybody else. He works completely outside of the system, and that's what we try to do. I think the combustion between us and David should create something that nobody's ever seen before, something mysterious and magical and surprising."

Codes and Keys will be the band's seventh record, and their first since 2008's Narrow Stairs. Previously, frontman Ben Gibbard has said the album will be less guitar-oriented than some of their other work, and compared the music to Brian Eno albums.

40. "Cemetery Gates," Pantera: The longest song Pantera ever recorded, "Cemetery Gates" stood out on the band's already impressive fifth album, Cowboys from Hell, which was released in 1990. Frontman Phil Anselmo has said the song is about a female friend who committed suicide. "When I wrote the lyrics I did not want them to be too personal, because that can be cheesy," Anselmo said during a live Ustream chat last year. "I also had to make sure that the lyrics would not take away from the song, because that was one of our best songs." � Ellen Barnes

It had previously been reported that Reznor was both scoring and acting in the Timur Bekmambetov-directed film. Reznor posted, on the Nine Inch Nails message board, that he has reconsidered.

The Mars Volta have just completed their sixth album and headlining the Saturn Stage on Saturday night Knebworth will be their only UK show this year. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez said:

But thrash does not begin and end with those four bands. For each one of the Big Four there are dozens more who trod similar ground but never quite made the leap to superstardom. Here are the great thrash bands that came mighty close to dislodging one of the Big Four but didn't quite get over the line.

The island nation is now facing a nuclear alert after the Fukushima Daiichi power plant was rocked by a third explosion which damaged a reactor's containment vessel. A 20km exclusion zone has been established round the area, and people living between 20km 30km from the plant have been ordered to remain indoors and make their homes airtight. Prime Minister Naoto Kan says: "There is a very high risk of more radiation coming out."

The Murderdolls recorded their second album 'Women and Children Last' holed up in a mansion in the Hollywood hills where Barrymore became their next door neighbour for a number of months. And Wednesday 13 reckons it would have been an experience she probably didn't enjoy. He told RockAAA: "We were in this cool house in the hills but it had a studio at the side of it. It had a beautiful view of LA from there and we were isolated up there.

The April 12 multi-format release triggers a 2011 bonanza for the legion of Gallagher fans worldwide. Eagle Rock Entertainment plans a busy year for the restoration, re-release and re-mastering of Gallagher's entire catalog.

'Know Thy Overseer' is one of the band's favorite songs produced by Earl Hudson from legendary hardcore band Bad Brains. EARL received the original version on disc then came back to the rehearsal spot and re-arranged the song. Once the music was re-arranged and ready to be recorded we laid down the tracks here at Griffin Studios here in Atlanta, GA.

Earl showed our drummer some techniques on accents and grooves, also he tried to pump us up to give the tracks more life and energy. 'Know Thy Overseer' is a song that talks about addictions, be it drugs, food, sex or whatever it is they are dealing with. It motivates and informs the individual that this issue is another test that is presented to the individual in life. The individual needs to own up to the mistake and find whatever it is inside of them to become victorious over the situation.

In ancient Egypt, in the ancient mystery school a sign would hand in the entrances of the temples and it would read: 'know thyself'. "Know Thy Overseer" was influenced by this thought process. Quite simply once you realize who you are, you control your own actions and become accountable and responsible.

The Swedish rockers have been forced to postpone all performances between March 14 and 26 which will affect dates across several European countries to allow Grahn's voice to recover from a virus.

The band will be touring throughout 2011 in support of their third album, Simple Math, which will be released May 10th on Columbia Records/Favorite Gentlemen Recordings.

Daryl Hall takes the 40th and latest webisode of Live From Daryl's House to Kauai, Hawaii, where he and old Philly pal Todd Rundgren join together live from Todd's house for a rousing seven-song set that includes Daryl Hall and John Oates' "Beanie G and the Rose Tattoo" and a cover of the Delfonics' 1970 hit, "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time." The newest installment of the Webby award-winning Internet series, which recently made its broadcast debut on WGN in Chicago to impressive ratings, will debut at www.lfdh.com on March 15.

Sublime with Rome will also be streaming live from the studio on Monday, March 21 at 6pm PST/9PM EST. Fans can access the live stream at the band's Facebook page (here) and get insight into the recording process behind one of the most anticipated albums of the year.

The dates will be in support of their forthcoming new album, "Vices & Virtues," which arrives in stores and at all digital retailers on March 22nd.

And he says the band have decided to call their next album Chickenfoot IV � even though it's actually their second release. They've decided not to tour without drummer Chad Smith, but will wait in the hope he becomes available after going out with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

"Steven's been very emphatic in saying that the way his time is arranged on the show leaves room to work on a record. He's been taking great pains to remind everybody of that, so hopefully that's the way it will come out."

He succumbed to the disease earlier today, March 14, according to his Caring Bridge profile.

"I'm excited that the Old Vic Tunnels are becoming a cool new scene for live performance," says Spacey. "The New York Dolls inspired the punk movement, so they are the perfect fit of glam and anarchy to launch our live music series under Waterloo Station. In addition, a new rock band called The Shoestrung will open both shows, who are also worth checking out."

Alice Cooper, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Darlene Love and Tom Waits were the five main performers being honored, along with Leon Russell in the "sideman" category. Alice was inducted by Rob Zombie, who said, "Alice Cooper invented the rock show. Before Alice Cooper, there was no rock show."

"There is one week left before KRASHKARMA leaves on a 2 month tour taking them across the country and over to Europe! "The van is packed and ready for the road! We are looking forward to rocking the new songs for our fans!, says singer Ralf Dietel.