Staind have released a new music video for the song "Not Again," the first single from their new self-titled album which is set to hit stores on September 13th. Check out the new Paul Brown directed clip here

Watch the very NSFW six-minute short film Born Villain, directed by Shia LeBeouf, featuring new music from Marilyn Manson here

(The 1st Five) Smashing Pumpkins head honcho Billy Corgan has launched the Smashing Pumpkins Record Club. It's free to join and membership you will get you free demo tracks, archived rarities and more. more

(Alan Cross) Remember that CD warehouse fire during the London riots that still threatens dozens of indie labels with complete financial ruin? The latest theory is that the gangsters raided the place, using the riots as cover and distraction. The evidence? A cutting torch at the gate. more music news

(FMQB) Sting plans to release a special box set entitled Sting: 25 Years on September 27. The four disc set will be released via Cherrytree/A&M Records/Universal Music Group more

The Hold Steady recently stopped by the AV Club to perform their version of Huey Lewis and the News' "The Power of Love." Check it out here

Fit For A King, My Ticket Home, and From Atlantis will tour together this fall. more

(Loudwire) Cannibal Corpse have signed on for the 2012 70000 Tons of Metal cruise, which is being billed at the "World's Biggest Floating Heavy Metal Festival." more

"We're stepping away from the grind of making records and touring for a minute, just to have fun and be creative like we were when we were 15," Benji says.

The 7-inch single includes "Mountain Girl" on the b-side and will be available starting September 13 from Third Man Records. You can listen to a full version of the song at Third Man Records' website.

A verse in the 26-year-old track containing the word "f*ggot" three times drew one single complaint from a listener in February 2009; but that was enough to have it repressed under Canadian rules in January last year.

Britain's Daily Express reports the bassist hinted at goodbyes when taking about their most recent studio album, Postcards from a Young Man to NME: "It's genuinely, for the three of us, one of our favorite records. There's just something, there's a sense of us giving it all we've got, and I think we've got to wave our goodbye a bit."

The tragedy forced the Iowa nine-piece onto a year-long hiatus � but there had been rumblings about discontent in the camp before Gray was found in a Des Moines hotel room after an accidental overdose.

The school-uniform-clad veteran reveals his analysis in an article he's contributed to a coffee table book devoted to the Van Halen mainman. In the publication he says: "AC/DC played on a bill with Van Halen back in 1978 or 1979. I didn't know much about Van Halen then except that I remember seeing film clips of them, especially the one of Eddie playing the solo piece Eruption � and I was very impressed. "I didn't meet Eddie until years later when there was a Monsters of Rock open-air festival in England. I was shocked to hear he liked my playing, because I've never rated myself as a guitarist."

Last night they revealed the alternative take explaining how they'd "enlisted electro-wizard Kraddy to remix Under and Over It, and the result is a dubstep-infused version in sync with the original." But fans of the band, who are known for their passionate support, soon began reacting negatively on Facebook.

Billboard.biz reports the group's departure from Mercury Records means the next full-length studio album, a long-gestating work titled "Clockwork Angels," will be released in 2012 on Roadrunner. The delay - a lead single, "Caravan," was released in June 2010 - was due to the success of their Time Machine Tour, which just wrapped.

At the young age of 26, Orianthi has already experienced what most aspiring musicians only dream of. She's opened for her hero, Steve Vai; backed Carrie Underwood; traded solos with Carlos Santana; shared the stage with the King of Pop (Michael Jackson) and accompanied Alice during his live performance of "School's Out" on the 2010 season finale of American Idol.

Due out October 11, "Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice From Rock's Ultimate Survivor," is based on Ozzy's ongoing, Rolling Stone (U.S.) and Sunday Times (U.K.) columns. The book will include some of the best material from the columns, as well as survival stories not found in Ozzy's memoir ("I Am Ozzy"), his answers to celebrities' medical questions, charts and sidebars, and much more.

A stunning 'Director's Cut' of the landmark 1973 album produced, authorized and overseen by Pete Townshend. Considered by Pete Townshend himself to be the Who album that he is most proud of, 'Quadrophenia' is the last album in the Who back catalogue to be given the deluxe treatment and is perhaps the most deserving. After the 1971 album 'Who's Next', Pete Townshend returned to the 'rock-opera' concept, so dramatically realized through 'Tommy', with another ambitious double-album masterpiece. Based around the story of Jimmy � Quadrophenia tells the tale of a young mod and his struggle to come of age in the mid-1960s. The story also takes its influence from the band's early fans from the original mod era, and its themes of teenage angst and disaffection still resonate strongly today.

Jack's Mannequin's new album, People and Things, is set to be released on October 4th via Sire.

Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson, currently with Guns N' Roses, recently released his second solo album One Man Mutiny. But his lifelong friend is less sure there's a market for new product. Westerberg tells the Village Voice: "I'm always writing and I have plenty of songs, but I think the Glen Campbell record is a bit of a test to see if people still buy records � or go for my stuff."

An exclusive digital release of Velociraptor! will be released on September 20th with the full physical album to follow on September 27th.

The Chillis performed their new album I'm With You in full during a live set broadcast to movie theatres in the US on Tuesday, which is currently being repeated across the world on various dates.

Facebook has something called the f8 Conference, the event that showcases all their new stuff. We've been hearing about some kind of skunkworks project involving music, but while there have been plenty of rumours, it's been all smoke and no fire so far.

The band has released the following statement: "Due to the departure of our bass player, Aaron Douglas, combined with a delay in the studio completion due to Hurricane Irene, we regret to inform everyone that we will have to drop off the upcoming Ingnitour with Ice Nine Kills and An Early Ending.

Produced, edited, and authored by Carlo Oppermann and Ambitious.Films, "Defining The Faith" features a full live set that is composed of three different Terror shows in three distinct settings: a small club, a big hall, and a massive European festival.

The announcement confirms the identity of the mysterious website, AllRiseForTheBlackMass.com. The teaser site has seen a complete update, including a YouTube stream of the brand new track, "Black Mass."

The story, however, begins about three years earlier, on September 25, 1976, when 14-year-old Larry Mullen Jr. posted a note on a school bulletin board saying that he was looking for people who were interested in starting a band. According to the drummer, it was to be called The Larry Mullen Band for about 10 minutes, until a boy named Paul Hewson showed up. With Bono in the band, there was little chance of little Larry being the leader.

Lenny stopped by David Letterman's show on the day of its release to perform "Stand" from the new album.

In 2011, Bonamassa has already released a solo studio album, Dust Bowl, a new Black Country Communion album and a collaboration with Beth Hart. He's also been touring pretty solidly.

The special release show is due to take place at the Holmfirth Picturedrome on October 2nd. Supporting Evile will be fellow British metallers TORANAGA and Grieve.

In support of the release Dead In The Dirt are set to hit the road for most of September, kicking off with a record release show on September 10th with Earth and Mount Eerie.

This full-band version, from the forthcoming Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds album, is tougher than those demos, definitely.

The band's fifth studio album hit stores earlier this year with the album cover for 'Holding Onto Strings' catching the eye due to Mark Kostabi's design. And Stewart says he was desperate to get Kostabi on board after being wowed by the artists work on Guns N' Roses' double 'Use Your Illusion' albums in the early 1990s.

"I didn't want to write the record the same way as the previous ones," says Key about his m.o. on the first new Puppy music since 2008's Mythmaker.

When I perform "Walk Away" live, I set it up by telling the audience that it's "an ode to mass transit". That's not really true. It was actually written one morning when I was still ticked off at what happened the day before, when I drove out to the suburbs (from downtown Vancouver, where I live) to rehearse with a songwriter friend. This particular hour-long drive was like descending into my own private hell. Endless road construction, endless traffic jams, uptight drivers stewing in their cars. Once I eventually got to where I was going, all I could see was row after row of cookie-cutter houses.

To top it off, on the drive back to the city, I got a speeding ticket that cost me $167. I was "speeding", (actually driving quite reasonably, given the conditions) on the only short stretch of highway where there was (miraculously) only light traffic.

So when I sat down to write this song the following morning, I was fueled by frustration and anger. The drive was the catalyst but I expanded the rage outward to include a jaundiced look at our so-called normal life. The lunacy of long commutes, every one locked up in their own little carbon monoxide maker. Soul destroying suburbs, interchangeable with every other suburb across North America. Lives that have no passion. That's what the song is really about.

The main riff came to me quickly, it fit the mood of the song, and I didn't over think it. There's a middle section, a breakdown, that ventures into Captain Beefheart territory. My bass player challenged me to do something different with the song, so I was thinking of him when I wrote this discordant part. The 'traffic jam' section I call it. When it came time to record the vocal, I sang along with this part just for fun, never intending for it to be on the final mix. But when producer Adam Bailie and I heard it back we thought it was hilarious. And besides, it reinforces the group insanity of driving back and forth from home to work and back again, in endless lines of traffic, day after day, without questioning what we're doing to our souls and our planet.