The band have now cancelled the six remaining shows of their current US tour in support of 2010 album Audio Secrecy.

French also believes it is the older generation who are keeping rock music alive but he hopes it is just a temporary cycle for the genre. In an interview with Rockoverdose.gr in Greece he said:

Three Days Grace, Seether and Bullet For My Valentine, along with Escape The Fate will also be featured on this year's main stage.

Randy Rhoads is coming to Rock Band. (Metal Underground) Beginning May 31st, Rock Band 3 will offer an eight-pack of songs celebrating the release of the 'Diary of a Madman/Blizzard of Ozz' 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition in the Rock Band 3 more

(BW&BK) The Megadeth Cyber Army will be holding a special online chat with frontman Dave Mustaine this Friday, May 20th at 4:00pm PDT (23:00 GMT). Mustaine will be logging in from Vic's Garage, where he is currently working on the next Megadeth album more

Iwrestledabearonce have announced a change in musical direction. "We were sick of getting lumped in with 'scene' and 'whatever-core' bands, so we decided to embrace our roots and just go straight black metal on the new album," says guitarist Steven Bradley. "I'd say 90% of the new record is straight-up black metal, so we had to change our image to match...Because of course that's just as important, if not more so, than the music."

Die Krupps have been forced to pull out of their upcoming tour with Front Line Assembly due to complications with the band's U.S. work permits - a situation that was completely out of the band's hands, and that they had absolutely no control over. "I am very upset about it states front man Jurgen Engler. "We were really looking forward to finally playing for our U.S. fans again after a long time, before the new studio album comes out. Our Canadian fans can see us this week at the Kinetik festival in Montreal, where we will be co-headlining the first night. Hope to see you all there!'"

(Billboard) Neil Diamond will receive the 2011 Billboard Icon Award at this weekend's Billboard Music Awards. Diamond will also take to the stage and perform. more

(punknews.org) The Haverchucks has released a new, self-titled EP for free download via Limited Pressing. more

(NME) Johnny Marr to release new Healers album in early 2012 Former Smiths and Cribs man planning return to the studio more

(BW&BK) BraveWords.com has released video of a secret gig with Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal from this past April at a private location in New York City. Check out the clip here

(VDOB) Puddle Of Mudd will replace Stone Sour at this weekends 2011 Rock On The Range festival.

(FMQB) Pearl Jam, guitarist Stone Gossard's side project Brad has signed with Dangerbird Management and is currently recording their fifth album in Seattle. more

(Lambgoat) The Black Dahlia Murder, has just released the second single from Ritual, the band's fifth full-length album hitting streets June 21st in North America and June 17/20 in Europe. Hosting the exclusive worldwide premiere of the track Conspiring with the Damned is none other than Lambgoat.com. Check out the track here

(punknews.org) Bomb The Music Industry! has announced the title and track listing of their impending full-length. The record is titled Vacation and is tentatively scheduled for a digital release in July more

(Lambgoat) Will Haven has announced plans to release their next album this fall. Titled "Voir Dire," the effort will hit stores on October 11th via Bieler Bros. Records. more

(BW&BK) Music reporter Nui Te Koha told Triple M Melbourne's Hot Breakfast that M�tley Cr�e and Whitesnake are as good as locked in to tour Australia while one of the members from Poison will complete the triple bill. more

On this day in 1966, The Castiles (with Bruce Springsteen on vocals) made their first recordings at Mr. Music Inc in Brick Town, New Jersey. They cut two Springsteen songs, "Baby I" and "That's What You Get." The songs were cut directly to disc, of which seven or eight test pressings of the studio takes were made.

On this day in 1967, The Beatles were selected to represent the U.K. for the first-ever global-wide satellite broadcast. The group agreed to be shown in the studio recording a song written especially for the occasion, scheduled for June 25. John Lennon wrote "All You Need is Love," which was thought to sum up the 1967 "Summer of Love" and The Beatles' sympathies. With the satellite broadcast being transmitted to many non-English-speaking countries, the BBC asked The Beatles to "keep it simple."

Inspired by the recent news regarding the demise of Osama Bin Laden, Short took a page from the Elton John songbook � "Candle In The Wind" � and turned it into a song about the al-Queda leader.

The Ronnie James Dio "Stand Up And Shout" Cancer Fund, which was founded in memory of the late singer who died in 2010, has raised over $450,000 for cancer research.

According to an interview with the Daily Mail, Diamond was considered for the Robert De Niro role in Taxi Driver. "I wasn't actually offered the role," he said. "But I was considered for it for a whole minute before they signed Robert De Niro. I knew the producer and he must have thought I looked like that type of character � you know, sullen and crazy.

"If we were to say, 'Let's get this record out by the fall,' I think it would put a lot of pressure on us and the quality would at some point suffer," Thayil told Reuters. "And the more we enjoy it, the more our fans should end up enjoying it."

But that will all change when the band's current Time Machine Tour wraps up in a few months.

In September of 1968, well before they became a rock n roll legends, American singer P.J. Proby recruited Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham to perform on his studio album entitled Three Week Hero. Plant handled the harmonica as his other band mates performed on their instruments. This is the debut for this unedited version on Youtube, others posted online have edited out the first minute and a half. For the sake of historical preservation, TMD has chosen to provide the original track just as it was featured on the original release.

"What would Alice's nightmare be 35 years later?" Cooper asked the Vancouver Sun. "Well, there's technology. Alice is a technotard. Disco is still a big enemy of his, so disco would be in there. But I allowed this album to have a great sense of humor, even though there's some very, very dark moments."

"I would welcome another tour, just to get out there," singer Brian Johnson told Absolute Radio. "I mean, if they said, 'Another two years' I might blanch a bit, but I think everybody in the band is fit, well prepared, and they've still got it."

Bonham spoke with Ultimate Guitar.com recently about how he selected songs for the LZE show. "Well, for me, the song choices had to be everything that meant something to me," said Jason. "From my first memory of hearing Zeppelin which was "Your Time is Going to Come." The song is in the show, all my life from the first moment I ever heard that song it stood out to me, since as a child I was terrified of church organists (re the song intro). Other key early memories of Led Zeppelin for me was the black and white TV Danish TV special which included, 'Babe I'm Going to Leave You.' That was a key moment and I always thought 'Lemon Song' was a key moment for me from the early days of Zeppelin.

"Detroit" is the first single off our album "Education." Originally written and demo'd as a slow ballad, the vibe of the original demo just wasn't feeling right. I really can't explain the feeling we had, but while writing, we would just look at each other and know to try a different approach. Ultimately, we would run into the proverbial "brick wall" of songwriting. We believe that when running into this wall on every direction you take with a song, it is best to scrap it and move on. This keeps our minds positive and productive. Our lead singer, Andrew, experimented with faster tempos and time signatures creating different moods and feels, It evolved many times becoming something completely different every time, the only constant component was the chord progression. The lyrics, melody, beat and bass all had changed way too many times.

The demo for Detroit was almost exactly what you hear on the recording. We tracked it in our apartment using Cubase 5 and Native Instuments Elektrik Keys. Because the song had evolved into a bit of a Motown shuffle, we decided to use the sounds of the 60's and 70's, probably the most identifiable is the Wurlitzer 200a electric piano. We used a synthetic plugin for our wurly sound on the demo, but ultimately picked up a used one for the record (from Detroit of all places) We just had drums, bass, keyboard, and a vocal track, we thought it sounded great and even considered releasing the demo on the album. Like most of the songs we demo'd, we had no intention of putting any guitar in. As you might imagine, this lead to some arguments about the role of the guitar in this album. However, once in the studio, we noticed the gaps that it would leave. So our producer, Jim Wirt, probably spent 2 days perfecting the right guitar tone for this song. It turned out to be the simplest: A '59 Les Paul through a vintage Vox AC30. It gave us a tone very similar, I thought, to the guitar in "Let it Be", very fat and ambient, not too heavy, layered and overdriven, sounding more like a horn section than a guitar. Recording sessions for "Detroit" (recorded at Metalworks Studios in Toronto, ON) like other sessions for "Education", were very short. Our creative process was over, the parts were written (minus the guitars), so it was only a matter of laying them down, deciding which parts to use and adding a bit of color and finishing touches courtesy of Jim.

"Detroit" had evolved so much, yet the theme of this song has never changed. It is about the interesting past that the city has experienced, including the Detroit Riots of 1967, the incredible music born out of Motown Records (The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder) and the economic ups and downs that has been a part of its culture for a very long time. It carries a message of hope and is from the perspective of people who are on the outside looking in.

As usual, by the end, it was one of the least favorite songs on the record by the band because it had been creatively re done so many times, yet our fans seem to identify with it the most.

The album was recorded in the group's hometown and produced by Kelly Gray. "It's kind of like an 'Empire' record set 25 years in the future," singer Geoff Tate recently told Paul Anthony of U.K.'s Rock Radio.

Chycki says in his post that "Over the past weeks, I've been in the studio with long-time friend James LaBrie of Dream Theater, recording vocals for the band's new album that is quickly nearing completion. I gotta tell ya, new drummer Mike Mangini is a monster player on the album. I worked with him on LaBrie's solo album Elements of Persuasion in 2005 and he was frightening (in a good way!) in the studio back then."

Here's the details they sent over: Heralded as one of the most beloved solo debuts of all time, McCartney, the smash # 1 album, originally released April of 1970, yielded the timeless tracks "Every Night" and "Junk" along with the immortal classic "Maybe I'm Amazed."

According to The A.V. Club, James says he is "80 percent done" on his solo album, which has a planned release date of early 2012. It will be James' first official solo album, not counting the 2009 EP of George Harrison covers, Tribute To�, released under the moniker Yim Yames.

The honor includes a one-year term. Singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett is the Texas State Musician for 2011, according to a press release. The legislature also named poet laureates, two-dimensional artists and three-dimensional artists for 2011 and 2012.

The lyrics are on a single sheet, and feature the opening lyrics for the track and a rough sketch of four people in a room with windows draped in curtains. The sheet also includes the opening lines to another Beatles tune � "She's Leaving Home."

"Duane is a seminal figure like Charlie Christian or Wes Montgomery � a guy who came along at exactly the point where there was a major change in music, and fell into the center of it," Trucks said.

"For electric slide you've gotta go back to Elmore James, and Duane was really that next step. He had learned the basics and was playing with some of the best R&B musicians in the world in the studio, and at the same time was listening to Miles Davis' [early fusion masterpiece] Bitches Brew and Jimi Hendrix. He had a lot of influences, but Duane was the first guy to take that Elmore sound and crack it wide open in a way that opened the door to his sound for guitar players and for people in general. And when somebody comes along and takes what comes before them and moves it ahead the way Duane did, the bar is set."

"Good Lord, it's quite surreal after all these years," Urban said. "So it will be 20 years next year since I moved here, and I've had the absolute lowest lows of my life and the complete highest of highest of highs, all have happened in Nashville."

This DVD set takes you right from the early years through to more current tracks so you can really learn to play songs from one of the best selling bands in the world.

The rocker sang one his Idol tunes, the Carole King song, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" and then joined the hosts for a chat.

Metal Injection reached out to Rydquist who provided us with his first comments since the news broke:

Currently recording at Rockfield Studios in Wales, the band will play four shows in California before heading to Manchester, TN for their Thursday night slot at the Bonnaroo festival.

The event happened to come at a low point for the season and Miller boldly declared, "We're going to start a winning streak today." The Mavs then won five games in a row. Now they're competing for a spot in the NBA Finals.

Brooks, who had retired to raise his kids in 2000, started playing again in 2009 in Las Vegas.

"Hello Shadowside faithful! Our new record 'Inner Monster Out' will be released early July 2011. Everyone hang in there with us for a bit longer as we make sure the final product is absolutely perfect. We are so excited for you all to hear what we have been working tirelessly on for the past several months, and we are confident it will be worth the wait!

Gwar have awakened from their brief arctic slumber and are ready to devastate Europe this summer. Your mutant overlords are bringing the "Bloody Tour of Horror" overseas with numerous festival dates including appearances at Sweden Rock, The Download Festival (UK), Copenhell (Denmark) Sonisphere (Switzerland), and Graspop Metal Meeting (Belgium).

"It's a mix of live recordings done in the studio, acoustic demos and some out takes in order to cover the musical transition between 'Children of Saturn' and the new studio album due out later this year," explains band leader Michael Moore.

The Dragon Slayers are a duo from southern England in just that position. Last night they played in the semi-final of a national competition with a �100,000 top prize.