(SRX) Gene Simmons has moved swiftly to end rumors of a full KISS reunion after he and guitarist Ace Frehley were spotted at lunch together on Monday. more

(Rock News Desk) Evile drummer Ben Carter says they'd love to open for pop star Lady Gaga. He explains: "She's great, and I'm not ashamed to say that. She's more than just a manufactured pop star; she has a true love for metal. The metal purists out there would probably never listen to us again, but music is music, and sometimes you can't afford to be so narrow-minded, especially in the climate of the industry today." more

(Loudwire) Soundgarden disbanded in 1997, only to reunite in early 2010. Soundgarden have since been working on a new album, with frontman Chris Cornell promising fans that it will be unlike anything the band has ever done. more

(Rock News Desk) White Wizzard have announced another lineup change. Jake Dreyer is the latest addition to the Los Angeles-based quintet, replacing Lewis Stephens. more

Reckless Kelly is streaming their new album Good Luck & True Love in its entirety free on AOL Music's "Listening Party" (here) beginning this week. The album was released yesterday on their own No Big Deal Records straddles the lines of rock and country and marks their 11th album.
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(Classic Rock) Whitesnake are to have a box set released on November 7. And they're also playing live at the end of the year. Titled Box O'Snakes: The Sunburst Years 1978-1982, the box has every studio and live album from the period, two previously unreleased BBC concerts and more

(Noisecreep) As I Lay Dying are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year and to help celebrate the milestone, they'll be releasing a new album titled 'Decas.' more

A preview of Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump's new video "This City (ft. Lupe Fiasco)" can be seen here. The full video will premiere September 20th on Vevo and his new solo album, Soul Punk, will be released on October 18th.

(Rock News Desk) A university graduate is writing a thesis on the etiquette of the moshpit. The report is part of masters student Gabby Riches' degree in Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Alberta. more

(Billboard) In case you couldn't get enough of grunge, here's comes 144 performances straight of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Members of F*cked Up, Tokyo Police Club and others are getting together at the Toronto Underground Cinema on October 1 to play through the Nirvana classic over and over again. more

(The 1st Five) This Time Next Year have reported their trailer has been stolen along with all of their merchandise and a substantial amount of gear. more

(Lambgoat) The Bled has announced dates for their farewell tour, which will also include Decoder. Grab them here

(BW&BK) Hatebreed have confirmed a handful of tour dates on the Share The Welt Tour, supporting Five Finger Death Punch and All That Remains. more

(FMQB) Blink-182's newest release Neighborhoods is said to be a combination of the group's previous albums, according to bassist Mark Hoppus. The album drops September 26, and is their first in eight years. more

(PNO) The Misfits have detailed their forthcoming album, The Devil's Rain. It's due out on October 4, 2011 and is their first album of original material in ten years. It reunites the band with Famous Monsters producer Ed Stasium who also recorded The Ramones' Road to Ruin and Too Tough to Die. more

(Classic Rock) There's an all new Kate Bush album on the way. Called 50 Words For Snow, it's release by her own EMI imprint Fish People on November 21. more

(The 1st Five) Hit The Lights have signed an album and publishing deal with Razor & Tie. The band's new album � the first in over four years � will drop early in 2012. more

Molotov Solution have announced the release of their forthcoming album Insurrection for October 25th. more

(Classic Rock) Thunder have announced their Christmas show, and also confirmed dates for a Danny Bowes/Ben Matthews UK tour. more

(AP) Even though they've now been released, the three men known as the 'West Memphis Three' are still getting support from Eddie Vedder and the rest of Pearl Jam. more

Sick Of It All and Shai Hulud will tour Europe next month along with All For Nothing. more

If ever there were a metal supergroup � this one is the ultimate. Featuring only those truly befitting the title "Metal Masters", the group made up of mostly participants of The Big 4 shows took to the stage last night (Sept 12th).

ABC News reports the search for Joshua Robb, who went missing during a night of lightning storms, ended Tuesday afternoon when a search and rescue team found him in the woods near his school after playing recordings of Ozzy Osbourne.

"This is a collection of songs chosen by our friends and respected peers," Priest frontman Rob Halford said, in an interview with Rolling Stone. "We hope all the metal maniacs out there will rock out to the tunes enjoyed by metal legends."

Watch as the zombie-faced Evanescence frontlady runs the grimy city streets in slo-mo (not as cool as it sounds).

As a part of the band's efforts to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, ticket proceeds will be donated to the families of the victims. The benefit is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 15th at 6pm PT / 9pm ET.

The two have been touring together as part of The Big 4 and now that they've shared a stage together, have mended their differences. Dave Mustaine tells Artisan News that their relationship began to turn in the other direction when Hammett offered him the spotlight:

Seger, who has never released a boxed set, says he'll use iTunes to unveil songs from his sizable backlog of unreleased material. "There's just so much of that stuff," he says. "I'd love people to finally hear it."

"The movie has this pretty long [section] where you hear them write that song � and it's goose bumps," said the film's director Davis Guggenheim, in an interview with Rolling Stone following the documentary's premiere last week in Toronto. "The writing of that song really saved the band. They had come out of the height of Joshua Tree as the biggest band in the world. Rattle and Hum was a disaster from their point of view, a lot of bad reviews � they weren't happy with what they had become. They take that bridge section out of "Mysterious Ways" and they go back into the room at Hansa [Studios]. They write a song on the fly in a matter of minutes. "One" is written and the band is saved and we have all that on tape."

In a prepared statement, the band said: "We're continuing to find firsts in 2011 as we are extremely excited to announce that we will be playing in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, next month on October 25 at Yas Island. After 30 years of travel to all corners of the earth, this one is extra special as the show kicks off a week of new territories for us."

Five Finger Death Punch is known for many things, their sense of humor not being one of them. The Sin City hard rockers show that they don't always take themselves so seriously in their new music video. Guitarist Zoltan recently told Artist Direct about why they lightened up on this one:

"There is talk about [doing more songwriting]," the veteran rocker told GQ in a recent interview. "Basically I want to get the Stones back together and give it one more bash. I think they've got it in them. But it's about timing and an awful lot of very careful diplomacy."

According to the Daily Mail, Hamilton's work inspired the likes of Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys. Richard Hamilton's best known, Swingeing London painting, depicted Rolling Stone Mick Jagger in the back of a police car.

Billy Corgan and his new supporting cast in Smashing Pumpkins have been recording almost non-stop since 2009. It all started with the 44 song project 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope' that was intended to be released a song-at-a-time and all for free. Corgan followed through with that project through 12 songs and a year and a half before the idea expanded.

Mastodon's fifth studio effort will hit shelves September 27th and the limited edition will be coupled with what the band has been calling 'The Augmented Reality Experience". Don't worry, until we watched this video � we weren't really sure what that entailed either.

The first in this series of three is entitled Never Forget. This guitar displays the Twin Towers standing prominently in the New York skyline. The second guitar in the series is entitled, Always Honor. It is a tribute from the employees of Gibson to those first responders who gave so much of themselves, including their lives, to protect others. The final guitar in the series is entitled, Forever Free. This guitar has a stunning representation of New York's future skyline, with the Freedom Tower proudly standing tall.

In addition to streaming the full album all week here, the group debuted the video for their second single "Imagineer" which was co written and produced by Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins today on PureVolume.

"Billy surpassed our expectations of what kind of artist and man he is. His influence on 'Imagineer' is undeniable," explains bassist Matthew Leone.

New York City's premier jazz venue got the blues last April when Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton performed together in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two sold-out shows dedicated to vintage blues. The extraordinary collaboration, billed as Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues, paired these musical virtuosos with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as they brought to life a repertoire of songs selected by Clapton and arranged by Marsalis.

Marsalis, Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and nine-time Grammy� Award winner, writes about his collaboration with Clapton, a 19-time Grammy recipient, in the album's liner notes: "...we wanted these concerts to sound like people playing music they know and love, not like a project." To help them achieve that level of devotion, Marsalis and Clapton were joined on stage by Dan Nimmer (piano), Carlos Henriquez (bass), Ali Jackson (drums), Marcus Printup (trumpet), Victor Goines (clarinet), Chris Crenshaw (trombone, vocals), Don Vappie (banjo) and Clapton's longtime keyboardist/sideman Chris Stainton. Marsalis says the group combined the sound of an early blues jump-band with the sound of New Orleans jazz to accommodate the integration of guitar/trumpet lead, a combination that gave the musicians the latitude to play different grooves, from the Delta to the Caribbean and beyond.

Featuring a collection of hits and fan favorites covering every era of Ozzy's solo and Black Sabbath catalog, this album will feature current/former members of Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Kiss, Slaughter, Night Ranger, Ozzy Osbourne Band, Badlands, Alice Cooper Band, The Cult, LA Guns, Warrant, Dokken, Steve Vai band, Spinal Tap, David Lee Roth band, Santana, and a host of others to be announced.

Joining former Rollins Band drummer Jason Mackenroth in Mack's lineup are bassist Michael "MK" Kelly (Magnified) and guitarist Billy O'Malley (Seka, Stripmind, Jocobono). Between albums, Mackenroth moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and joined Blue Man Group's show at the Venetian, where Kelly and O'Malley also serve as band musicians.

Tony Levin - Bass and Chapman Stick (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Liquid Tension Experiment, John Lennon, Pink Floyd; "Tony Levin is one of the world's best bass players, if not the best." � Peter Gabriel)

The trek is set to kick off on September 23 in Springfield, VA and will wrap up on October 14th in Los Angeles.

Henrico County would not issue the proper licenses for the event to run legally despite Slave Pit's intense efforts to placate the authorities.

Look In My Eyes is about an ex band member/friend that I was desperately trying to help find his way in life, but all he was doing was pushing himself to fail. It was actually the last song I wrote for our "Stories" record. There was a lot of frustration built up on my end from various situations that were happening at the time and I think a lot of those frustrations came out during the writing of that song. To be honest I don't remember writing much of the song at all. I knew I had to get one more track done for the record and I couldn't get focused at all. I ended up asking my wife if she could give me a few hours alone at our house(I presume she went shopping), and within an hour the whole song was finished.

The most awkward part is; I hadn't gotten around to firing said band member quite yet, and he had nothing to do with the writing or recording process so he hadn't heard the song yet. He happened to be at my house when the final mix came in and we listened to the whole thing together. As soon as it was over he said "That's about me isn't it?". Needless to say we haven't talked since.