Motley Crue singer Vince Neil and TV presenter girlfriend Alicia Jacobs have split up just as he completes house arrest for his recent drink-driving conviction. She says: "Due to the decisions Vince continues to make, it is necessary that I end our relationship of seven months." more

James Taylor has broken his leg and injured his shoulder during a ski vacation with his family in Utah. more

ZZ Top have announced a US show date with Lynyrd Skynyrd on May 19th at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee, in Bangor, Maine. more

Warning: Limp Bizkit are working on two new albums, singer Fred Durst has revealed. The band had already announced that their fifth album 'Gold Cobra' would come out later on this year. more

Paradise Lost have announced that their forthcoming show in London, at which they will perform their album, 'Draconian Times' in its entirety, will be filmed for a future DVD release. more

Disney Studios has scrapped plans for a 3D remake of The Beatles' 1968 film Yellow Submarine, according to industry paper Hollywood Reporter. more

Exhumed have completed work on their brand new full-length album All Guts, No Glory. The album will also be available on deluxe, saw-blade shaped vinyl and as a limited edition 2-disc set. more

System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian will perform on tonight's (March 17) edition of NBC-TV's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno". more

Grand Magus have cancelled their upcoming tour while drummer Sebastian Sippola is treated for deep-vein thrombosis. more

NME reports that Arcade Fire are set to film a new DVD documenting them performing with local musicians in Haiti. According to fan site Us Kids Know, the DVD will be shot by British photographer Leah Gordon. more

Between The Buried And Me and Animals As Leaders will team up for a tour of Europe in September. more

Piebald have just announced that they're going to release three of their records (When Life hands You Lemons (green vinyl), It If Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curtains For Us All (yellow vinyl) and We Are The Only Friends We Have (blue vinyl)) in one boxset. more

Another slew of dates has been revealed for the upcoming "Stick Tight Tour," featuring Terror, Stick To Your Guns, Trapped Under Ice, Close Your Eyes, and Your Demise. Get em here

On March 29th in Canada and April 19th in the US, Capitol Music is reissuing Decline Of Western Civilization Part II, the soundtrack to the documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles heavy metal scene of the late '80's. more

To support his upcoming album "How to Become Clairvoyant," former member of The Band, Robbie Robertson has enlisted folk rock band Dawes to act as his backing band. more

Dream Theater have announced a new Austrian date in July. The band's current live schedule is here

Arsonists Get All The Girls will headline a spring tour with support from A Plea For Purging, Lionheart, The Contortionist, and Volumes. more

Vader have announced that they have begun recording their new studio album. A message from the group reads as follows: 'We started new recordings in Hertz Studios in Bialystok. We spent the whole afternoon being setting up drum kit, testing new skins and cymbals." more

Devin Townsend has confirmed via Twitter that he will tour the U.S. with Children Of Bodom in June. more

Gojira has revealed that they are roughly halfway through the writing process for their next album. more

Blackmore's Night, the group featuring husband and wife Richie Blackmore (ex-Deep Purple) and Candice Night, have confirmed more live shows in the US on the Autumn Sky Summer Tour 2011. more

On this day in 1964, The Beatles set a new record for advance sales in the U.S. with 2,100,000 copies of their latest single, "Can't Buy Me Love."

2) AC/DC: AC/DC's landmark 1979 album, Highway to Hell, propelled the Australian rockers to the upper echelon of hard-rock bands. Tragically, while working on their follow-up album, frontman Bon Scott lost his life after falling into unconsciousness following a night of heavy driving. The band considered quitting, but decided instead to bring singer Brian Johnson on-board. The resulting album, Back in Black, paid tribute to Scott's memory and became a seminal rock classic.

Niven was hitting back at a recent interview with former Guns bassist Duff McKagan on GNREVOLUTION in which he suggested Niven was 'not the most professional'.

Issues arose when the heckler started pushing and abusing fellow concert-goers leading McKenney to kick the man in the upper chest, knocking him to the side of the stage.

At the conclusion of the band's performance of a new song, Scars Align, McKenney had enough asking the fan: "Do you even like us or are you just trying to f*** with us."

Between the summer of 1966 and early 1967, The Beach Boys recorded, in several sessions, a bounty of songs and drafts for an album, SMiLE, that was intended to follow the band's 1966 masterpiece, Pet Sounds. The sessions were ultimately shelved, and The Beach Boys' SMiLE has never been released. With the full participation of original Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Brian Wilson, Capitol/EMI has collected and compiled the definitive collection, 'The SMiLE Sessions,' for worldwide release this year in multiple physical and digital configurations.

"I wish I could represent for my era but my era's over," said Tyler, speaking before a special Q&A with fans of the show at PaleyFest in Beverly Hills.

The announcement came via Twitter: "Oh, excuse me, 16th song mixed is, 'Ready to Go,' featuring Lil Wayne! I love it," Durst tweeted.

Due May 23, "From Fear To Eternity: The Best Of 1990-2010" is a double-CD set spanning twenty years, coming on the heels of the success of Maiden's 2010 studio album, "The Final Frontier," which hit the number one spot in 28 countries around the world. It also became the band's highest-charting album in the US, where Maiden were recently awarded their first Grammy for Best Metal Performance, for the song "El Dorado."

The Daily Express reports that Slash canceled shows in Tokyo and Yokahama, but chose to fly to Japan for his scheduled gig in Osaka on March 14.

The album was kickstarted with CMT's heavy rotation of Lewis's hard country track, "Country Boy."

The Daily Express reports that last year singer and writer Shane MacGowan said they would soon quit touring after tiring of life on the road. Pogues founding member Spider Stacy also said recently that, "as touring in the future, we won't be coming to America, certainly not for what we would call a long tour like this one."

The Strokes' guitarist Nick Valensi recently checked in about the new album, and described the recording process for Angles as "awful," mainly because vocalist Julian Casablancas was absent from the group's recording sessions, instead taping his vocals remotely at Electric Lady Studios in New York.

The ex Guns n'Roses and Velvet Revolver man parachuted in last year after Avery had spent weeks hinting he was planning to leave. He says the remaining members were in dire need of assistance when Avery finally left.

One design features the figure of a paper crane-like white butterfly above the Linkin Park logo, and the other one has "Not Alone" splattered on the front in red, white and blue. Donations of $10 can be made by texting "MFR" to 85944.

The tour kicks off on May 20th in Reading, PA and will be in support of their forthcoming "Basket Of Eggs" bonus CD, as well as serving as an extended warm up run for their large scale European Festival tour in June.

The list of songs were chosen by readers and the editors, you can check out the full list here.

"The pressure's on, I guess," Satriani told MusicRadar.com. "We're making this record very quickly. Our debut album was also recorded quickly, but as a group we did it in stages. We couldn't do that this time."

The tour will kick off May 12th in Dallas, TX then cross the country before finishing in San Diego on June 17th.

The singer says digital selling has removed the individual experience of choosing, playing and falling in love with albums. He believes that loss is a major contributor to the collapse of the record industry, and the iPod creator should answer for it.

29. "Raining Blood," Slayer: What's more metal than a song about trying to overthrow heaven? The grand finale of Slayer's 1986 classic Reign in Blood, "Raining Blood" matches the violence of its lyrics with an ugly sonic assault. It also includes one of the best-ever metal riffs, with co-writers/guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King harmonizing on that piercing 10-note attack. Then, drummer Dave Lombardo really kicks things into gear, and Slayer leaves behind nothing but a path of destruction. No wonder it's still Hanneman and King's favorite song to play live. � Bryan Wawzenek

22. "Run to the Hills," Iron Maiden: Prior to "Run to the Hills," metal fans probably wouldn't have expected the U.S./Native American conflicts to be such a fertile foundation for a metal classic. But the violence, anger and sadness of that portion of history make for brilliant subject matter for this galloping Iron Maiden track. The lead single of 1982's The Number of the Beast, "Run" was the song that introduced the vocal acrobatics of new lead singer Bruce Dickinson. A new era in metal had begun. � Bryan Wawzenek

He hasn't seen the 2011 edition of Phil Lynott's legacy outfit, but he hopes they manage to record new material � and he says he's glad the Sykes band didn't.

The special will chronicle the 16 year history of the Foo Fighters, from Dave Grohl's early demos as Nirvana's drummer through the band's rise to Grammy-winning, multi-platinum status as one of the world's biggest rock bands.

If By Yes played the second of three March NYC shows (the last is 3/25 at Mercury Lounge) with the core line up of Petra Haden (vocals), Yuka Honda (keyboards), Yuko Araki (drums), Hirotaka "Shimmy" Shimizu (guitar) being supplemented with guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco) and bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle).

"Here's a song that's been rattlin' around in my bag for years and years. My pal, John Kappler, fells it's struck from then mold of the great old road warriors, like Merle Haggard and Waylan Jennings, and thinks we should pass it along to Jeff Bridges, since by some mystical coincidence the song foretold the story of his movie "Crazy Heart". Hell, that'd be great!

The singer seems to be a loner who's had it made over and over, but walked away. There's a recurring three note bass line which descends, but leaves us at the same chord taking us nearly nowhere, almost as a measure of this tired cowpoke. Same thing at the mid-song crescendo where the changes lead to an almost certain modulation which never comes.

Instead the venerable Dick Meis brings in the pedal steel guitar to weep for us and for this worn out rambler, who'd go home if he knew where it was."

Among the 10 collections of hits, signature tunes and fan favorites, released April 5, 2011, are Rock and Roll Hall of Famers B.B. King, Eric Clapton and The Who, each heard with a single disc and a 24-track, two-disc set release.

"America is a target-rich environment for an independent man addicted to logic, truth and The American Way," says Nugent.

Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, Jane's Addiction, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, moe., The Levon Helm Band, John Butler Trio, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dr. John and the Lower 911, Taj Mahal Trio, The Rhythm Devils with Keller Williams, Steve Kimock and Reed Mathis, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Toots & The Maytals, Dark Star Orchestra, Ryan Montbleau Band, David Gans, Assembly of Dust, The McLovins, King for a Day and Bridgeport's own Deep Banana Blackout. The New Mastersounds, Big Gigantic, and others to headline the Late Night Stage.

The custom-made, plexi-glass "Yoshiki Signature Piano by Kawai" with Yoshiki's name engraved on it, was used when the band played their legendary shows at the Tokyo Dome.

The "Alice Cooper: Old School 1964-1974" boxset comes in a commemorative 12 inch square "school desk" box and includes: