The Decemberists' Jenny Conlee diagnosed with breast cancer. Band say keyboardist has 'caught it early' and 'prognosis is very, very good' more

Metallica have announced they will reissue the album S&M on vinyl on May 5th on their webstore and on May 10th in North America. Just like the previous releases, there will be two packages. Because S&M was originally released as a double CD, the vinyl sets will include a three disc gatefold package for the 33.3 version and a box set with six discs for the 180 gram, 45 rpm deluxe edition. more

"Break", the second demo track from Blackgates � the new band featuring former Anthrax singer Dan Nelson, drummer Paul Bostaph (Testament, ex-Exodus, Slayer, Forbidden), guitarist Jeremy Epp (The Venting Machine) and bassist Uriah Duffy (Whitesnake) � can be streamed using the ReverbNation TuneWidget here

Unearth, Evergreen Terrace, BaneCasey Jones will team up for this year's "Hell On Earth Tour" in Europe in late-August and September. more

Against The Plagues has announced the addition of former Behemoth and Vader bassist Marcin "Novy" Nowak to the band more

Ziggy Marley, Chris Cornell, Jennifer Hudson, Jakob Dylan and Lenny Kravitz will pay tribute to Bob Marley on NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" next week. more

Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin is mixing his first solo album since 1989, a collection of instrumentals that Voiceprint Records will release in September. more

Corey Taylor, frontman of Slipknot and Stone Sour, will be co-hosting the Canadian radio show Louder on Live 105 (Halifax) tonight (May 4th) at 10 PM (EST). There is a web stream available. more details here

Elvenking has posted the following statement online, announcing the departure of drummer Zender. "We had a wonderful journey with Zender in these long 12 years. Thinking about where we started together back in the time and what we have achieved along the path, it really looks incredible. We were a bunch of kids when we started together with nothing but a dream, and now we are here." more

Jon Oliva's Pain say goodbye to guitarist Matt Laporte - "It was a tear-filled event and a beautiful service" more

In celebration of the release of Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal's new solo single, "Invisible", he will take part in an exclusive event with Fan Time Live! on May 18 from 8 p.m. to 9 pm EST. more

Mumakil has recently welcomed new bass player Benjamin Droz into the fold and are currently writing for a new full-length album more

On this day in 1973, Led Zeppelin opened their 1973 North American tour. The group would gross over $3 million from the dates, flying between gigs in "The Starship," a Boeing 720 passenger jet, complete with bar, shower room, TV and video in a 30' lounge and a white fur bedroom.

The drummer was involved with Led Zep's Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones when they started work on a reunion project following the band's one-off London show in 2007. But work was abandoned when singer Robert Plant refused to take part, and the three remaining musicians couldn't settle on a satisfactory replacement.

"Oh yeah, we're playing the last show of the season," the Aerosmith frontman told Rolling Stone.

"Once it was announced last summer in Europe, the whole world was clamoring for the Big Four," said Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian. "So we'll get there. That's the best thing I can say, you know? This is a really big piece of furniture to move around, with all four bands and all the logistics and schedules and all that. So we all want to do it�all 17 guys in these four bands want to continue doing these shows�and I think that's the impetus that will make this happen more, because we all want to do it."

The Kiss main man says long-term fans of the band can expect their follow up to 2009's 'Sonic Boom' to sound like a cross between 'Destroyer' and 'Revenge' and he adds every single song was written entirely by the band themselves.

Drummer Jordison insists the band will continue despite the death of bassist Paul Gray a year ago, and he's already written songs for their next album. But Taylor has remained less sure of the outfit's future.

The song, which features Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger, will be played for the first time on American Idol host Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show on May 9.

The show will be titled Radiohead � The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement and will air July 1. The 55-minute program will feature Thom Yorke and Co. playing their record in a studio setting, along with behind-the-scenes footage. It will mark the first time the band have played the album in public.

The shows featuring regular live vocalist Myles Kennedy are slotted either side of their appearance at London's High Voltage festival.

He'd cooperated with producers since work on Fix: The Ministry Movie began, but says he was entitled to have approval over the final cut, and wasn't given the chance to exercise the right.

Guitarist Vinnie Moore had this to say about the trek, "I am looking forward to the may USA tour. We haven't played any shows since December and I have some pent up energy that needs to be released before I go mental. Also, it's been a while since we played America and I am excited that we will be hitting some of our favorite places like Chicago, NY...etc. I can't wait to see all of our f**kin' awesome fans again."

Last month, RX Bandits announced that their forthcoming tour would be their last. Their brief statement reads:

"Iron Man chronicles the story of both pioneering guitarist Tony Iommi and legendary band Black Sabbath," according to a book description. "Iron Man reveals the man behind the icon, yet still captures Iommi's humor, intelligence and warmth. He speaks honestly and unflinchingly about his rough-and-tumble childhood, the accident that almost ended his career, his failed marriages, personal tragedies, battles with addiction, band mates, famous friends, newfound daughter, and the ups and downs of his life as an artist."

The description claims that "everything associated with hard rock happened to Black Sabbath first." According to Amazon.com, the book is due November 1 in the U.S. and October 13 in the U.K.

He was jailed two years ago over the shooting of actress Lana Clarkson at his home in 2003, and is serving a 19-year-term. His defence lawyers had argued his conviction was based on misconduct and the use of inadmissible evidence.

This year on September 27 marks 25 years that the legendary metal act lost their bassist Cliff Burton due to a tragic bus accident in 1986.

Kill Devil Hill, also featuring Rex Brown of Down and Pantera fame, performed together for the first time on Friday.

The funds come from the band's proceeds from two concerts in March � one on March 22 at New Zealand's Auckland Town Hall and another on March 27 at the Riverstage in Brisbane.

As part of Vevo's Unstaged series, the concert will be shown as a webcast via YouTube, according to The New York Times.

According to the Daily Telegraph, 12 photographs of Jagger in the 1960s went on display in London yesterday.

The band came close to collapse two years ago when a drugged-out Tyler fell off stage in the USA, broke his shoulder and forced the Boston giants to cancel their touring plans. In the aftermath his bandmates tried to replace him.

The album isn't due out until next week, but you can hear the record in its entirety right now at RollingStone.com here. Man in Motion is Haynes' first solo studio release since 1993.

The new edition features the digitally remastered original album, plus 19 previously unreleased demo recordings cut prior to the album's studio sessions. The commemorative release also adds new liner notes by music journalist and author Parke Puterbaugh, with the 2CD package presented in a lift-top box with a poster and four postcards.

Atari Teenage Riot will be touring in support of their 4th album, Is This Hyperreal?, which will be out digitally June 7th.

Produced by Joe Chicarelli (The Strokes, My Morning Jacket), and mixed by Alan Moulder (U2, Foo Fighters), Big Talk sees Vannucci step out from behind the drum kit of one of the biggest bands of the past ten years to show us what he's got. The album's first single, "Getaways" will be available on iTunes May 10th

Dates include Manchester Bridgewater Hall (Friday 11th November), Cambridge Corn Exchange (Saturday 12th November), London Hammersmith Apollo (Sunday 13th November), Birmingham Symphony Hall (Tuesday 15th November) and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (Wednesday 16th November).

Meet Robbie and Stephen Keszey, an unlikely pair of brothers who run one of the most unique family businesses in the country -- working with wild and dangerous animals deep in the swamps of Florida.

The new DVD features over three hours of guitar workshop tutorials in a collection of classic Tom Petty tracks that covers a period of over fifteen years of solo and Heartbreakers music brought to you by top guitar tutor Danny Gill.