The Van Halen News Desk, who often seem to take on the role as unofficial spokespeople for the band, report that VH completed mixing their new album a little over three weeks ago.

Julian Casablancas, Josh Homme, Glen Hansard, Liam Finn, Dan Peters, Dhani Harrison and Chris Cornell all joined PJ for the main set, whose highlight was the Temple Of The Dog reunion with Cornell as part of the night's encores.

"Sin" will be part of Liberty N' Justice's double CD, "The Cigar Chronicles," due out next year.

Following recent news that the band is set to play Miami on October 29, The Orlando Sentinel reports GNR will perform at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida on October 28.

Eyewitnesses told Fox News how the singer and a companion were boarding the plane when an attendant asked him to wear his sagging trousers higher. He asked the attendant if there weren't "better things to do than worry about that?"

"This delay happened for a multitude of reasons," said David Spero, Richie Furay's manager. "The plan is still to tour next year. There's not a timeline at this point. Buffalo Springfield is at the top of Neil's list of priorities. It's just a matter of finding a time that works for everybody."

(BBC) Red Hot Chili Peppers land their fourth number one on the UK album chart with their latest offering, I'm With You more

(Classic Rock) Laurie McAllister, the last bassist in The Runaways, has died at the age of 53, due to complications brought on from asthma.McAllister joined the band in November 1978, appearing on what turned out to be the band's final tour. more

(p.o.d.) Due to Tropical Storm Lee, Sunday's Rock Allegiance show at The Wharf in Orange Beach, AL has been moved to Thursday September, 8 at 4pm. All tickets previously purchased will be honored.

(Classic Rock) Fastway, featuring guitarist 'Fast' Eddie Clarke, will put out Eat Dog Eat through SPV/Steamhammer on November 14. It's their first studio record since 1990's Bad Bad Girls. more

Robin Staps of The Ocean had this bad news for fans: "Our upcoming U.S. tour just fell apart. We had been confirmed for quite a while for a direct support slot on a good 6-weeks U.S. tour in October and November, and yesterday it was decided that this tour is now being postponed to late November into December. We are not available at that time. Our flights to the U.S. have already been booked for weeks, and we've been left high and dry again� somehow we're just not lucky over there it seems!"

(The 1st Five) Fishbone are set to release new material since 2006′s Still Stuck In Your Throat. The new EP, Crazy Glue, is set to be released on October 11 via the DC-Jam label. more

(superLOUD) Marilyn Manson announced his new album's title, Born Villain, on his official website last week. The 6 minute NSFW "Born Villain" video trailer can be viewed at bornvillain.com. The accompanying album is expected to be released this Fall. more

(MU) Mushroomhead have announced that they will be the featured headline act appearing on the 2011 'Slaughterhouse Roadshow' United States tour. The band will be joined by Psychostick, Motograter, Blue Felix, Ventana and Tenafly Viper to round out the bill. more

(PR) Absu will embark upon an exclusive four-show upper East Coast US live exhibition this November invading Richmond, Brooklyn, Reading and Boston. more

(superLOUD) Butch Walker's new autobiography, Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt, is set to hit stores on October 25th more

(SRX) Snow, featuring original members Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot, Ratt) on guitar, Tony Cavazo (Quiet Riot, Hurricane) on bass and Stephen Quadros on drums (7th Sun, Showtime Networks, Pride Fighting Championships) are set to begin a new chapter in their joint musical history. more

(PNO) In a recent interview with PunkVideosRock, Bert McCracken of The Used revealed that the band has left Warner Bros. and started their own label, Dental Records. Their new album Vulnerable has been tapped for a February release more

Cooper will take the stage of the legendary rock venue, on the Sunset Strip, for the first time since Alice Cooper the band performed there live in 1969 with Led Zeppelin.

After several days of rest at home the need for medical attention became apparent. Dr. Frank Smith of the Cayman orthopedic group has confirmed a pair of fractures in the metatarsals of the singer's left foot. Iggy has been asked to cool it for 6 � 8 weeks.

Di'Anno made his live comeback at the Festa Della Birra Di Fabrica in Rome, Italy on August 27, his first gig since an early release from a UK prison in May.

Hagar fronted the band for hit tracks Bad Motor Scooter and Rock Candy, and sang on the band's first two albums, Montrose and Paper Money. He left in 1974 to pursue a solo career and later joined Van Halen before winding up in supergroup Chickenfoot. But Montrose is hoping the pair can get together once more � although he doesn't believe they'll record any new material.

Paul severed all links with Anselmo after his brother, guitarist Dimebag, was shot dead on stage with new band Damageplan in 2004, a year after Pantera split.

In an unfortunate coincidence an article was published the same week in which the singer bad-mouthed his former bandmates using language which Paul felt was unforgivable in the light of Dimebag's death. The drummer also felt previous statements by the singer could have motivated the man who committed the atrocity.

The Winnipeg Free Press reports that the 67-year-old rocker sent the payment to the Isle of Wight's Angel Radio � which spins tracks from 1900 to 1959 � to help the station repair its transmitter, which was destroyed when it was hit by lightning in July, pushing the station off air for three days.

"It's Sting's first foray into writing for musical theater, so we wanted to start having him meet actors and hear them sing at the earliest possible point," Yorkey said. "I won't say the score is complete, because the score's not complete until God knows when. But he's written a couple dozen, maybe 20, 24, amazing new songs for the show. He's writing great theater music. It's very, very distinctly Sting but it also is theater music. It's not just pop music transposed into the theater."

In addition, a couple more Lulu songs titles have been revealed, according to Ultimate Classic Rock. "Frustration" and "Little Dog" the previously named "Junior Father," "Pumping Blood" and "Mistress Dread." The album's five other songs remain a mystery.

Children from the John Ruskin School in Cumbria, England, performed Child's Play for the first time yesterday in London. The story follows three couples from different social classes living through recent events including the death of Princess Diana and the world financial meltdown.

The band played the intimate Mayan Theater in Los Angeles at an event initially billed as a secret show; to gain access to the rare event, fans needed to raise $500 or more in order to win a pair of tickets.

"Trip The Darkness," the first digital single off Lacuna Coil upcoming album "Dark Adrenaline" will be released in Europe on October 17th.

"I think it took, first of all, reconnecting as friends after not having spoken for about five years. And then it took getting back into the studio as well as getting back out on the road," he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

"It definitely took time for us to kind of put all of these different pieces back together to run the business appropriately," added frontman Tom DeLonge.

The band recently released an album featuring tracks recorded by Skeoch in 2005, just before Tesla kicked him out. That followed the founding member's original departure a decade earlier, also due to addiction issues. Keith tells Noisecreep the band reunited in 2000 for a short run of shows but it led to bigger commitments. "Fast-forward to 2003 and we all agreed that we wanted to make a new studio album," says the singer. "So we wrote and recorded one. Then we went out on a tour with the Scorpions � and things with Tommy started to fall apart."

Here is what he had to say about the track: "As everybody knows, my soul mate and friend Ronnie James Dio sadly passed away last year. It was very clear to me I needed to use one of his songs to pay him tribute. It had to be a song, which was very easily recognizable as one of his tunes and therefore I picked "Holy Diver". Of course the original track isn�t a ballad, so I decided to re-arrange the song completely and we made a Piano version out of it, featuring some Orchestra strings, a Cello and a clean and melodic guitar solo. Johnny gave his very best vocal performance and after the track was finished, there were lots of tears in some eyes..."

"One time I was in the elevator with Dave Mustaine and he was working on a record, and I turned round to him and said, 'So when should I show up in the studio to do some vocals? When are we going to do something together, man?," Belladonna tells EspyRock. "He was asking about the new Anthrax album and I was like, 'Hey, I don't know anything yet, no-one has told me about anything yet.' But he says, 'But you're working on it, or something like that, right?'

The former Skid Row singer explains: "Nobody was responsible for the demise of my marriage except me. Sometimes I say things in interviews because I'm trying to make you laugh, or trying to be funny. But some things aren't funny."

Arista Music is accused of withholding money generated from ringtones, download and app sales based on the King's back-catalogue.

As reported by Rolling Stone, Joel and Ethan Coen's latest project, Inside Llewyn Davis, will be based loosely on the life of Dave Van Ronk, a central figure in the nascent scene that produced Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other legendary singer-songwriters.

The band take their cues from what they describe as the "five basic food groups" of rock'n'roll: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and The Stones, drawing further inspiration from the likes of My Morning Jacket, The Flaming Lips and Arcade Fire.

Behold the Hurricane came about with a riff I had been playing around with for a couple of days on tour, and it sounded like a good idea. We wanted to have a song on the Elsie record that was upbeat enough to catch a listener on the first try and then be really depressing on the lyrical side.

That probably comes from listening to the Smiths as a young man. There's nothing Ian and I like more than a good pop song that's about something awful happening.

I was really proud of that song when we finished it. Lyrically, I felt it was the first song that I had achieved saying something profound and moving with very few words.

At least very few words for my writing.