Billy Gibbons says a ZZ Top tribute album featuring the Foo Fighters, Nickelback, Kid Rock and others is set to be announced soon. more

Beady Eye announce the addition of a Philadelphia date on their first North American tour. The band (Liam Gallagher, Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock) will be giving fans in Philadelphia a first live taste of their debut album, Different Gear, Still Speeding at Theater of the Living Arts on June 25th.

Pro-Pain will play their classic debut album, "Foul Taste Of Freedom" (1992), live in its entirety along with many other favorites on their upcoming "Foul Taste Of Freedom Tour 2011" more

Our friends over at The 1st Five report that Ben Weasel has released an apology for his attack on a woman in his audience during a performance at a SXSW event last week. The fan in question reportedly spat ice on Ben in response to what she felt were misogynistic comments he'd made on stage. In response Weasel dove into the crowd and punched the woman in the face before he was pulled off. more. Ben's apology hasn't stopped acts from dropping from Weasel Fest more

Napalm Death have contributed a brand to track called "Legacy Was Yesterday" to Decibel magazine's monthly flexi disc series. The song - the band's first new material since 2009's "Time Waits for No Slave" Lp - was recorded at Rapture Audio with James Walford and mastered by Russ Russell. more

Lambgoat has this update: Vader has announced the departure of drummer Pawel Jaroszewicz "due to family matters," though he will appear on the group's next album. Jaroszewicz will be replaced by English drummer James Stewart (of Divine Chaos). Meanwhile, Vader has also announced the addition of Tomasz "Hal" Halicki to their line-up on bass. Halicki replaces Tomasz "Reyash" Rejek more including statements.

Michael Poulsen of Volbeat reports he's still not out of the woods in terms of health issues which saw the band cancel their first ever UK headline tour. more

For Record Store Day on April 16th, Silverstein will be releasing a new 7-inch with the A-Side debuting their single, "The Artist," and the b-side featuring three covers of notable punk and hardcore outfits more

Jethro Tull will be performing the Aqualung album in its entirety plus a range of their other favorites from the lat 42 years on their upcoming tour in celebration of the album's 40th anniversary. more

Whitesnake have announced the addition of keyboardist/vocalist Brian Ruedy to the band for their upcoming tour. more

Muse have said they are likely to play some songs from their 'Origin Of Symmetry' album for the "last time" at this year's Reading And Leeds Festivals. more

Biohazard have announced they will play the New England Metal And Hardcore Festival more

Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst announced on Twitter that "Gold Cobra," the newest Limp Bizkit album, is "finished." more

Quiet Riot, L.A. Guns (fronted by Phil Lewis) and Warrant have confirmed a string of dates for Australia and New Zealand. more

Cloud Mouth has digitally released their first full-length That Ghost is Always With Me via Hewhocourrupts Inc., with half the proceeds going to Chicago Hopes more

Saga have announced Montreal date and have confirmed a tour this November with Marillion more

Ralph Mooney passed away on March 20 at the age of 82. Mooney was an innovative and influential steel guitar player who played on records by the likes of Buck Owens, Rose Maddox, Wanda Jackson, and Merle Haggard. He later spent the better part of twenty years playing with Waylon Jennings. more

On this day in 1956, While driving to New York for appearances on The Perry Como Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, Carl Perkins was involved in a car crash, receiving four broken ribs and a broken shoulder, putting Perkins in hospital for several months. His brother Jay was killed in the accident.

On this day in 1971, Police arrested all the members of The Allman Brothers Band for heroin and marijuana possession.

During the interview, posted on MTVHive.com, Hagar began discussing dreams that he had about aliens. When the interviewer jokingly asked if the rocker thought he'd been abducted by alien beings, he responded "I think I have."

Although the incident is described as a dream in the book, Hagar said that it actually happened to him. "It was real," Hagar said. "They were plugged into me. It was a download situation ... Or, they uploaded something from my brain, like an experiment."

[This isn't the first time that Sammy has brought up his alien experience; here are some videos from a couple years ago where he talks about it in greater detail.

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"As for the new Dream Theater album, it is going incredibly well and I can't wait for everyone to hear it! We are in the tracking process and working hard as well as just having so much fun.

The drummer is tired of being judged by "nazi bastards" who feel he shouldn't be working with rap stars like Lil Wayne, Drake and Eminem. He tells Complex.com: "It seems like I have more in common, or hit it off better, with rappers than fools in rock music.

The album will include guest spots from Cat Power's Chan Marshall and Frames and Swell Season singer Glen Hansard. It will also feature a ukulele version of the Pearl Jam song "Can't Keep." The first single, "Longing to Belong," is available now via digital retailers.

Bonham will tour the UK with Rodgers in April, the US with the Led Zeppelin Experience in May, and then hit the US with Black Country Communion in June.

They will be kicking off their 2011 tour dates with a headlining performance at Rock on the Range in Columbus, Ohio on May 22.

"We were in Nashville, just before we did the Grammys and the Brits, just holed up in a farm house for seven days just writing," he said. "Just the four of us, and it was the most incredibly fruitful time."

Hagar has completed two stints fronting the band and recently revealed how he tried to quit during his last outing, but was thwarted by contract clauses. Original singer David Lee Roth is working with Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang Van Halen on a new album, but Hagar understands there's a great deal of tension surrounding the project.

"No one has said we will never work [together] again," the drummer said. "I think it is very unlikely we are going to go out on tour. I think Roger's really happy working on his own now ... It's hard to see Dave thinking he'd really like to work full-time with Roger.

In an interview with Mitch Lafon of Bravewords.com, Hughes said he stopped using drugs and alcohol because ultimately it wasn't fun anymore. "I was too tired of being sick and tired," he said. "At some point, every alcoholic and drug addict [in their disease] will have that moment. Some don't get that moment."

Each copy will be numbered in a unique way � by a special Dio hologram sticker.

The singer says: "He wasn't really comfortable hanging with us. We thought it was a good idea � but it ended up that we annoyed him."

A short 'teaser' clip of the track was initially Posted by the band in early December, as The Cars worked on building interest and anticipation for their first album in 24 years.

Michael Monroe will lead a cast of Finnish all-stars in a charity concert on Sunday at Tavastia in Helsinki. The event will also feature Jenni Vartiainen, Paleface, Ismo Alanko, Von Hertzen Brother and Tuomari Nurmio. The gig will be broadcast live online.

Stewart was a founding member of the Rolling Stones who went on to serve as their long-term road manager, this album will be released near the 25th anniversary of his passing. Sales from Boogie 4 Stu will benefit the British Heart Foundation.

The Concert For George 2-disc Blu-ray includes the complete concert on the first disc, with a second disc containing the original theatrical version featuring concert highlights, interviews with the performers, rehearsals, and behind-the-scenes footage.

Laureano, who's played for acts such as 1349, Nile, Dimmu Borgir and more, will be replacing the recently departed, Derrick "Mullet Chad" Nau, who is returning to art school and further pursuing his art career.

I picked up the song Whispering which tells about a girl whose mind gets sick. Human mind, dreams and hard emotions are the main actors on this album. Of course as a lyricist I deal partly my own emotions in the songs, but here in this song I have mixed a true story and a horror
story together.

So this girl feels insecure especially in the night time when it's dark. Her mind starts to play tricks, so she escapes from the reality and recreates her own imaginary world. This is what human mind is able to do when undergoing a trauma. Here in the song I'm not telling she's having a trauma, it's something that the listener can figure oneself. So now the girl is in her own world. This picture is from my dream: "Flowers falling from the clouds, shining snow on the path, I'm sitting under the tree of silence". This tree is whispering something to the girl � Something that makes her smile again, something that has made her the perfect piece of this wonderland. The whispering goes like this: "Go to the woods, walk the snowy path, gather all the red flowers, be aware of the crows! The fear will end by the dawn, when the last tulip falls to the ground, when the snow has turned into dust!" This is some kind of mantra to the girl.

One night she is again with her fears and then it happens. The mantra takes over her. The musical drama has been grown to this point, and then comes the dramatic quiet part: "I will go to the woods, I will end this now, I don't want to be afraid anymore:" This is a fateful scene because after this the girl ends her days. There is a lot of symbolism in this song, especially the tulips that represent blood here. Why are the tulips still in the girls hands in the end of the song which goes: "In the twilight you can see a wavering silhouette of a girl. She has red tulips in her hands, and she is not afraid anymore." Has she become something evil her self? In the background choir there are these lines "Don't follow her, don't even look at her, there will be blood"

In working on the album, Waters decided to create three parts of a song that would become "Another Brick in the Wall." Sharing the basic melody and refrain, the three parts came at different points in the story, all bringing the main character (named Pink) to isolate himself from other people. Originally, all three parts were meant to be relatively brief, with one verse and one chorus each. Parts 1 (about the death of his father) and 3 (about drugs and the end of a relationship) kept to that idea, but Part 2 ended up a little different. The middle composition, dealing with an imaginary children's revolt against abusive schoolmasters, grew in stature during the recording process.

"The Killers. Bloc Party. Franz Ferdinand," the singer said. "The one that sounds the most like Duran Duran is a song by Reverend and The Makers called 'Heavyweight Champion of the World.' I really thought it was us!"

The band's "Eclipse" disc is set for release in the US and Canada on May 24th, exclusively at Walmart, and beginning June 3rd in Europe on Frontiers Records.

Speaking at the South by South West festival in Austin, Texas, the former Boomtown Rat calls on musicians to remember: "Rock'n'roll needs to be against something. It can't just be."

"It was another thing that turned up out of the blue really," Ashcroft told Spinner. "It came out of the director, George Nolfi, hearing "Are You Ready?" and wanting to use it as the outro of the film. Then he suggested we do something together for the start of the film."

Perkins' hard, lively playing was made famous on his cover of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," recorded at Sun Records in 1953. He replaced Otis Spann in Muddy Waters' band in 1969 and helped influence the sound of Waters' later recordings. After Waters died, Perkins formed the Legendary Blues Band with other members of Waters' band, garnering several Grammy nominations.

The CD is also highlighted with long extracts from fully unreleased studio sessions. In February 1988 the trio entered the studio to work on an album, but the project never got off the ground.

Coverdale told Ultimate-Guitar.com's Steve Rosen that the band (who record their parts individually) were recently together to shoot some videos and take part in interviews and photo shoots for Forevermore, Whitesnake's 11th album.

Live dates in NYC (June 22) and Los Angeles (June 26) will bookend an appearance at the Sled Island Music & Arts Festival in Calgary, AB on June 24, where the group will share the stage with The Dandy Warhols, Blonde Redhead, The Buzzcocks and more.

Withered are touring in support of their latest album, "Dualitas," which was released in October of 2010.

Killer Pimp will release "Extended Play" - a limited EP of remixes and reinterpretations from Ceremony's "Rocket Fire" album, due for release on April 19th. Killer Pimp will only sell 500 units of this limited CD EP.

Arya Goggin from Skindred said: " Things are really happening for Skindred at the moment. I truly believe that this is the best alum we have made and we can't wait to get out on the road and play our fans these new songs!