Next month, the Foo Fighters will be playing songs from "Wasting Light," the new album they recorded in Dave Grohl's garage, in the garages of eight lucky fans in eight North American cities, according to Billboard. more

Former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy has announced the dates for his upcoming European meet-and-greet tour. more

Ender has parted ways with frontman Joe Benducci. The vocalist has issued the following statement: "As the last few months have passed by i have grown more and more distant from the style of music that we play. To me playing music is more about enjoying what you play and because you love it, not just because this is 'where its at' at that time. There are no hard feelings between any of us, Ender is full of great dudes. I'm going to further my music with a hardcore band and play the music I love to play and listen to." more

Glassjaw has added a New York City date to their previously announced tour. The show will be happening on March 24 more

MTV's classic "120 Minutes" telecast, dormant since 2003, will be returning to the airwaves. more

A coroner has ruled that the death of Electric Light Orchestra founder Michael Edwards was accidental, despite claims it could have been prevented. more

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke eyeing a move into hip-hop by writing duets with MF Doom who has revealed he and Yorke are even considering recording an entire album of collaborative material.. more

Bullet For My Valentine are heading back to the US for a string of dates with Avenged Sevenfold and Canada's Three Days Grace as support. more

Across Tundras will be on the road this spring in support of their forthcoming Neurot Recordings debut. more

Video has surfaced online that features All That Remains vocalist Phil Labonte's recent appearance on CNN television talking about the recent disasters in Japan. All That Remains was performing in Tokyo the night of the recent Earthquake. more

On this day in 1977, The Clash released their debut single, "White Riot," which peaked at #38 on the U.K. charts.

On this day in 1982, driving home from a basketball game in Philadelphia, soul singer Teddy Pendergrass crashed his Rolls Royce and severely injured his spinal cord.

On this day in 2001, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter John Phillips, formerly of The Mamas & the Papas, died at the age of 65 of heart failure.

The first-ever show on U.S. soil will be at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California on Saturday, April 23. The California "Big Four" date follows the successful 2010 European tour of the same name and marks the first time that the four metal giants have ever collectively shared the stage in the USA.

(Rock News Desk) Dave Mustaine has apologized to fans in Russia after Megadeth only managed to play a six-song set in St Petersburg on Wednesday � but he's revealed doctors told him he shouldn't have played at all.

The thrash icon collapsed before the European Carnage tour show with Slayer, and was found to be suffering the effects of a kidney stone. Medical experts wanted to send him to hospital immediately, but Mustaine insisted on playing at least a short show.

In a RockAAA exclusive he said: "Forget it � the Superbowl is an absurd circumstance. It would be better to do a pay per view and play a full set 'Live from Ground Zero' when the World Trade Centre rises up from the ashes.

Reader's No 1). "Hallowed Be Thy Name," Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden are the kings of the end-of-the-album-side, eight-minute epic and � with apologies to "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Fear of the Dark" and a few others � they've never done it better than on this Number of the Beast monster. From the initial bell tolling to the rush of the full-band entrance around the one-minute mark and the enthralling riff that follows, the song never ceases to build. Just as the lyrical character's anticipation and terror escalates on his walk to the gallows, so builds the power of the track. By the end of the song, as Bruce Dickinson belts "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Hallowed Be Thy Name!" the listener is in full-out headbanging frenzy. With winding, weaving, harmonizing twin solos from Adrian Smith and Dave Murray, and thunderous backing from bestial bassist Steve Harris and drummer Clive Burr, the song is, perhaps, the perfect distillation of the unmatchable Iron Maiden formula. � Michael Wright - Read the full Readers Poll list here.

Gibson's No. 1) "Master of Puppets," Metallica: Metallica were already high on the heavy metal watch list with Kill 'em All and Ride the Lightning, but 1986's Master of Puppets was the ultimate statement of intent, as much a call to arms for metalheads everywhere as it was a dire warning of the enslaving power of drug abuse. The song's razor-sharp intro riff sets up the perfect headbanging tempo in the chugging verses, while it's every teenage metal fan's sacred rite of passage to scream out "Master! Master!" at the top of their lungs to this song (preferably at a Metallica concert, but at the very least from a car window). The breakdown and harmony line are balanced by a rare James Hetfield solo (with Hetfield revealing a surprisingly bluesy, haunting and emotional lead style), a return to the harmony, then a blazing Kirk Hammett solo. By the end of the song, it's obvious that metal would never be the same. � Peter Hodgson

"Album number six is in the can," Rennie posted, apparently forgetting to count one of the band's previous albums. "I picked up my copy of the record last night at Henson Studios [in Hollywood]."

Some time ago, RockAAA reported that Tyler and band mate Joe Perry had kissed and made up after stresses surrounding Tyler's American Idol work. Then normally placid Tom Hamilton re-ignited things, followed by claims that Aerosmith would actually APPEAR on the show. Apparently this is news to Idol-hating Perry when he told the Boston Herald: "I don't know anything about it. No one's said a word to me."

The aptly-titled Birthday Celebration � Live in NYC 1997, features tracks from a show staged at Madison Square Garden on January 9, 1997, to commemorate Bowie's 50th birthday (which actually occurred the previous day).

The band � which includes blues-rock virtuoso Joe Bonamassa on guitar, Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath) on bass and vocals, Jason Bonham on drums and Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater) on keyboards � also have planned a summer tour. Their U.S. trek begins June 9 in San Diego before hitting Salt Lake City, St. Louis and Washington, D.C.

The disc features performances culled from a variety of shows staged during the band's 2009-2010 world tour, in support of the 21st Century Breakdown album.

The guitarist tells the New Zealand Herald: "If there was an award given out for patience and compassion I'd have a mantel full of them. But I've been in this band 20 years, and if I allow myself to get bent over and angry, and lost in that bulls*** world of anger, who's the idiot?

Celebrity Fight Night benefits St. Joseph's Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center and Bret is St. Joseph's first patient to ever perform at the annual star-studded gala in honor of featured guest, Muhammad Ali. St. Joseph's recently treated the rocker for a subarachnoid brain hemorrhage and a heart condition.

I know there's been a lot of rhetoric out there regarding upcoming Anthrax shows, Big 4 and otherwise. I've been debating on whether or not to make a public statement about this as it really pertains to my personal life and I generally like to keep that personal. Because this is affecting my band life, I feel like you, my friends, deserve to hear from me personally.

Sparks first surfaced in the '60s and '70s as a soul-jazz guitarist (famously backing Lou Donaldson on the funk-jazz classics "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky," "Hot Dog," "Donkey Walk" and "The Caterpillar.") and later played a key part on the acid jazz movement of the '90s.

"I played a 1959 Gibson, which was loaned to me by the manufacturer because I don't own one myself. The character and tone of it, without distortion, is the something you can't get out of any other guitar," Beck tells MusicRadar. "I don't understand players who get their hands on such a great instrument then crank it up and distort it through a massive amp. If you're going to do that you might as well chuck away the Gibson and play any old thing.

"Tom Petty's Ultimate Buried Treasure!" will air live on Deep Tracks, Sirius channel 16 and XM channel 40, on Thursday, April 14 at 8:00 pm ET.

The band is touring in support of their current album Something For The Rest Of Us.

Barrett formed Pink Floyd in 1965 along with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. He quit the band after three years, becoming famous for his reclusive lifestyle. "He never ever understood celebrity," Breen said. "He never sought it and he didn't want it. It was just a complete mystery to him why people wanted to see him.

The show's theme was built around contestants singing songs from the year they were born; in Durbin's case, that's 1989. James pulled out Bon Jovi's "I'll Be There For You".

Mainman Jon Schaffer says Block has the range, energy and experience for the role, and he was chosen even before the band listened to the dozens of demos which were sent in since Barlow said he was leaving.

Now he's putting those pictures into two books. The first to be released will be called Death of the Polaroid: A Manics Family Album.

Now the Blur frontman is preparing to premiere a new production, the musical Doctor Dee, this summer.

Also joining Mark will be A Day to Remember rocking out hard on the Fuse stage! Tune in this Friday, 3/18, at 11pm/10c on Fuse TV.

All Facebook users who have become a fan of CKY will have access to the 12 songs, and can come back to enjoy them any time they choose until the stream is taken down.

The limited edition colored 7" will be released in the US as a clear purple pressing (limited 2,000) and internationally throughout Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and Australia as a mint green pressing (limited 1,000).

The No Better Than This tour is designed as a uniquely formatted "evening with," and brings Mellencamp's music to theatre-sized venues.