The band were set to stay on the road until September with original frontman Dave Lee Roth, brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen and Eddie's son Wolfgang promoting new album A Different Kind of Truth. Instead, the tour now appears to end on June 26 in New Orleans.

In 2010 Gilmour invited Waters to play with him at a charity show. He agreed, on the understanding that Gilmour would return the favour during Water's final tour of The Wall. That's what happened in London in May 2011, when Gilmour astonished the crowd by appearing at the top of the stage wall to perform during Comfortably Numb. After that bombshell Mason joined them for the end of the show.

Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler have released the following message: We have decided not to make any detailed comment on Bill's latest statement. There are two sides to every story. We have been working hard at rehearsals making excellent progress after Tony's treatments and we have engaged a substitute drummer for the forthcoming shows. See you at Download.

The Sabbath team have not publicly announced yet who will be joining them on drums; the group's first show is this Saturday in Birmingham.

The songs will be available on iTunes, Amazon.com, and all other digital music retailers June 4th.

Leppard have billed their summer tour as Rock Of Ages, after the band's hit from their 1983 release, "Pyromania," and the upcoming Broadway play-turned-movie starring Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Russell Brand and Julianne Hough.

Joining McCready in Flight To Mars are friends and fellow Seattle-area musicians Tim DiJulio (guitar), Gary Westlake (bass), Mike Musburger (drums) and Paul Passereli (vocals).

The singer doesn't plan to sit still for long, and says he's working towards a surprising collaboration. "Let's say he's a real illuminati of the hip-hop community. If we pull this off it'll be a big shock."

He says: "Rock bands can deliver it live, whereas a lot of pop acts � you watch the Grammys and it's pathetic sometimes. 60-year-old Bruce Springsteen comes out and he rocks. Whatever pop star of the moment comes out and lip-synchs through some pathetic performance, and you're like, 'Really? Is this what it's come down to?'

"I feel like hard rock and heavy metal has been pushed back underground for the last couple of years. But it doesn't seem like that anymore. So that's why I'm kind of excited to make a record again."

Smith has been unable to tour with Chickenfoot since the 2011 release of "Chickenfoot III" due to his recording and touring commitments with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The guitarist will head down under in August for a series of shows to promote his new "Apocalyptic Love" album, which hits stores next week.

The singer said Niven � also known for setting Guns n'Roses and Motley Crue on the road to stardom � took a songwriter's cut for material he helped write, but then subjected band members's cuts to his management commission fee.

The move wouldn't have been illegal � but it's not even true, Russell has since discovered. The singer tells BraveWords: "I recently did an interview and I made a comment about our first manager Alan Niven. In the interview I said something to the effect of: 'When Alan and myself of Mark or Michael wrote songs together he would hake half of the publishing as an outside writer, then he would commission our percentage.'

Wylde be joined by KISS bass player Gene Simmons and singers Sebastian Bach and Vince Neil at the MGM Grand from October 10-14.

It will be released as a five song EP and the digital version will be released with a bonus track, according to the announcement.

The guitar icon is said to have been convinced UFOs exist and beings from other planets walk amongst us. His theories were embedded in some of the music he wrote.

The set features the full-length studio album Revolution with renditions of classic Dokken/Lynch Mob tracks such as "Tooth And Nail," "Breaking The Chains," "Wicked Sensation," and more.

The as-yet untitled follow-up to the band's 2011 album, Pressure & Time, was recorded with Grammy-nominated producer Dave Cobb and Grammy-winning engineer Vance Powell.

Roth spotted a fan throwing garbage on the stage during the group's performance of the Roy Orbison classic, "(Oh) Pretty Woman."

The track comes from the band's new album, Find Your Worth, Come Home, which will be released on May 22nd via Solid State Records.

The video contains rare performance clips and photos from the band's personal archives spanning their 25-year tenure in the metal underground.

"I think perseverance is something to be celebrated," says Rob Thorne, the band's singer/guitarist. "It hasn't been easy for us. It isn't easy for anybody, really, but 25 years is a long time to hang in this business without the support of a record label. I like to think of us as pure, uncut. Or stupid."

We come to you from a small hotel room in Melbourne, Australia where this coming weekend will see us bring a close the first leg of our World tour (we have just toured New Zealand and Australia and the next leg is UK and Europe, then finally USA and Canada).

Its crazy how fast things have moved in the last 2-3 years. From playing flat parties and small bars in Dunedin, to having three sold out shows in London. We couldn't be more excited about our future in music, and our latest single "Forever" is the perfect representation of where we stand right now, and the journey we have been on.

Marlon (synth player) and I (Matiu � lead singer) had planned to get together and share some new demos. After running through the first few (not good enough to remember) we started to question whether or not anything would eventuate, until Marlon played me something. I remember think that this was the worst crap I had ever heard! But somewhere in the mix of this rubbish was a bridge section that immediately made us Feel. Our eyes lit up and we knew we had something.

From there is was a sh*t fight to try and turn this small section in to a song. We tried everything - epic synth lines to heavy rock chords to side chaining and nothing seemed to work. That was until Eli (drummer) suggested we pick up the acoustic guitar and pluck the progression. its weird how people can listen to the same thing but hear something completely different.

From there the lyrics came easily. The music itself made me feel like we had created something that is our own. Something that we can call Six60, so the word 'Forever' came to mind. I started to think about friendships and relationships, but also, our trials and triumphs as a band. Along with that, we wanted make a statement, that we are here to stay and that we are going to do everything in our power to get to where we want to be.