Rock NYC reports: "His mother Linda Bolek refused to ask her friend to see if Lyons could get skybox tickets to see Avril. He became increasingly agitated. He hit her in the head with a champagne bottle, then stabbed her repeatedly afterwards in the back. Then he called his friends and said she threatened him with a knife and struggled back to save himself.

And it's occasionally going to be a super-size trip, including some U.S. stadium shows in cities like New York, Chicago and Boston.

The works of art for the singer's 'The Asia Series' collection went on display at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City on Sept. 20 and quickly came under question as being possibly plagiarized.

(BW&BK) Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler performed at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 24th. Tyler was joined on stage by Jeff Beck and Damon Johnson on guitar, Randy Jackson on bass, Tal Wilkenfeld on bass and Marti Frederiksen on drums. check out video footage here

(SRX) Accept have started work on their next album. The new album is scheduled to be finished and released in the spring of 2012 and will once again be produced by Andy Sneap. more

This Juno goes to 11. The annual Canadian music awards will hand out a trophy for metal / hard music album of the year beginning in 2012, organizers have announced. more

(PNO) The New York Times is reporting that Scion is and has been backing indie and punk bands to help sell their brand and have developed Scion A/V. One of the artists quoted in the piece is historic punk act The Melvins who will be releasing a "mini-album" next year on Scion's dime. more

(Billboard) Feist makes her return since 2007's "The Reminder" with her new record "Metals," and now fans can hear the album in full before its Oct. 4 release date. Listen here.

(BW&BK) Celebrating 40 years of legendary hits, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonic Queen is scheduled for Tuesday, October 18th at at 7:30 PM at London, England's Royal Albert Hall. more

An upcoming biography, This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl, reveals the drummer/guitarist, already fed up of tensions within Nirvana, decided he'd had enough after overhearing Cobain talking about him on a plane. Remembering a band flight from Seattle to Los Angeles in '93, Grohl says: "Kurt was kinda f----d up. And I heard him talking about how s----y a drummer I was."

It will be released five years to the day that the band released its self-titled 5x-platinum debut album.

Chevelle's still-unnamed new album will be the follow up to 2009′s 'Sci-Fi Crimes', and the Chicago-based power trio's fifth full-length studio outing.

Disturbed have decided to take a break from�well, being Disturbed. While the band figures out whether or not they will have a future, we will receive new music in the form of their upcoming B-side album � 'The Lost Children'.

He's just announced he'll recreate two of the band's most popular albums in their entirety during a pair of concerts at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

Korn's upcoming 10th studio album will be quite different from any they've released before. The experiment started as small idea to make an EP with dubstep producers, once Korn realized that the first single from the then-EP was a huge success � they pushed the release date in order to make a full album out of the project.

Two days earlier, Priest fans can interact with the band on Rockline with Bob Coburn, set for Wednesday, October 5 at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET.

Bassist Chip Z'Nuff just announced on Twitter and Facebook that he's out of the band. Here is Chip's Facebook message:

The band features drummer Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, Dio) bassist Rex Brown (Pantera, Down), guitarist Mark Savon and vocalist Dew Bragg.

This year's event is set to take place at the Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, MS on Saturday, November 19th. Here are the official details:

"I don't know their rules or criteria," Bloom told Ultimate Classic Rock, "but there are so many people that deserve to be in there that aren't.

Speaking to Noisecreep, Anthony said: "The minute the word got out about Chickenfoot, everyone called us a supergroup. But the one cool thing about this band is that we were all friends before got it started. It wasn't like we said, "Hey, let's get the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers and Joe Satriani on guitar!" It just didn't happen that way

"Chad jammed with Sammy and I in Cabo San Lucas at Sammy's club, Cabo Wabo Cantina, years before Chickenfoot started. I've jammed with Joe before too. So it wasn't like we went into jam together as strangers.

The Pumpkins, who have been releasing single tracks online as part of their Teargarden By Kaleidyscope project, will put out a full album Oceania, later in 2011. Corgan says how it is received will define the future of his band.

The band is hitting the road in support of their major label debut, "In The Mountain In The Cloud."

The event will feature performances by JuiceheaD and the legendary punk band The Misfits.

The American band are currently touring the UK but it is a tour which would have never happened without three of the four original members of the band being in the right place, at the right time.

The trek kicks off with a show at the Trocadero in Philadelphia on November 15th and including two sold-out nights at Webster Hall in New York City

Brick and mortar release for the album is February 22, 2012. Paradise Lost, produced by singer/songwriter Todd Snider.

The band also enlisted master folk musicians Tim O'Brien, Barry Sless, and Elizabeth Cook to tackle songs about working class, blue-collar issues while maintaining Taxi's signature upbeat, country-, bluegrass-, rock-infused, Americana-without-borders feel.

We Came As Romans will be supported on the trek by Falling in Reverse, Sleeping With Sirens, Attila and For All I Am.

I wanted the guitar distortion on 'Eyes Like Pearls' to sound so menacing that it could chase people down the street. The lyrics were written at the apex of discovery -- finding a monster living inside of a girl I was hanging with and falling in complete primal love with her.

That song is about finding out who someone is, WHY they are the way they are and turning their scars into a reason to celebrate and change my life. Letting her know that I love her BECAUSE of the sh*t she has survived. Letting her know that everyone else is wrong and SHE is right to be who she is.

The song is about a real f**king union, man. More than grass on fire, it is an earthen inferno -destruction as a pathway to creating what we wish the world
could aspire TO.