The stop is the first of five concerts McKagan will perform with the group in South America this month. "Our regular bass player, Mr. Tommy Stinson, is doing a show at Coachella with The Replacements, so we had to try to find a new guy," said Axl Rose. "He's hanging in there. [Please give] a hearty welcome to the new guy, Mr. Duff McKagan."

Early in the Buenoes Aires set, Duff handled lead vocals on a pair of covers, imcluding The Misfits' "Attitude" and The Stooges' "Raw Power."

Up next, McKagan play GNR shows in Asuncion, Paraguay on April 9, La Paz, Bolivia on April 12, Recife, Brazil on April 15 and Fortaleza, Brazil on April 17.

The guitarist revealed his health battle in 2012 - but he's gone on to receive successful treatment which, although lasting the rest of his life, appears to have got the disease under control.

Speaking on the band's current North American tour, Ozzy tells the Toronto Sun: "I always think cancer means death. I didn't know anybody who'd ever recovered. My wife recovered from colon cancer and that was the first person I ever knew.

The Star Tribune reports that King only performed a handful of complete songs, with the majority of the evening made up of "meandering musical snippets, long-winded soliloquies" and "a backing band that missed its cues."

Lazaretto is scheduled to hit stores on June 10th with the North American leg of the tour scheduled to kick off on May 29th in Tulsa, OK at Cain's Ballroom.

Kelley Stoltz will be providing support for the week of the tour (May 29th through June 5th) and Benjamin Booker will be joining the trek as the support act on July 20th through July 31st.

The band revealed that they have added additional shows in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia to their On With The Show North American tour.

"I thought the idea for the tribute album was cool until I started talking to everybody," Neil told Billboard at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in his hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday. "Then I thought it was cooler and cooler and cooler!"

Hosted by actor John Barrowman ("Torchwood", "Arrow"), "Sing Your Face Off" will see Bach compete alongside basketball star Landry Fields, comedian Jon Lovitz, singer China Anne McClain ("A.N.T. Farm") and actress Lisa Rinna ("Days of Our Lives").

And frontman Robert Plant appeared to have been joking when last year he hinted: "I'm not the bad guy. You need to see the Capricorns� I've got nothing to do in 2014."

Plant will appear as a solo act at this year's Glastonbury - but Eavis is determined that the singer, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham's son Jason will hit the stage together again.

Drummer Brann Dailor has already described the follow-up to 2011′s The Hunter as "a gorgeous album," adding: "It's a reflection of our past, with a few songs that are a bit out there, and show a new direction."

Confirming the title, Sanders tells Paste Magazine: "After we finished the two-year cycle on our last record, we were kind of gearing up to go back to our rehearsal space.

"We were starting the effort - the time, the blood, the energy, the months of driving, the recording and the long process between recording and release day.

Kicking off at Cinquanta, pal Maynard James Keenan's 50th birthday celebration at The Greek Theatre in L.A., the reunited band will tour the U.S. and Canada through early June.

After a discussion on whether to keep it simple with a reunion show and a mini-tour, band co-founders Greg Edwards and Ken Andrews opted to go one step further and begin the writing and recording process. "We got to thinking that a lot of our fans, became our fans recently and a lot of them are younger and they never saw us play live so we have an opportunity to pick up where we left off, musically," singer Ken Andrews told Radio.com prior to their El Rey show in February.

"The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is fluff, it's a farce," he told Anthony Mason. "We are the bitter pill that they ultimately had to swallow. They don't like us. The only reason they're inducting us is because they began to look foolish at some point, for not having us in."

Stanley also gave his take on Simmons, the man, the myth and his friend. "He's this guy who everybody sees as the brains behind KISS. Really, what he is, is the mouth behind KISS!," Stanley explained. "I always tell people he lives two minutes away [from me] and I can see his ego from here!"

But while he's still close with Simmons-not only do they still lead the band together, but now they're co-owners of a football team, the L.A. KISS-the same isn't true for the other founding members of the group.

"They don't belong in the band, and they don't belong in a position to represent the band," he said of Frehley and Criss. "We were asked by the Hall of Fame to have the original members to put on the makeup and play with us. We're not other bands! We have a uniform that represents who we are. If the original lineup goes up for the sake of nostalgia, for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I run the risk of negatively impacting what I've spent 40 years doing.

According to SPIN, the frontman will help select two acts to perform at the Tennessee fest when it rolls around this June. It's all part of a contest enacted by Billboard and Sonicbids, the latter a platform allowing smaller bands to gain notoriety.

But he's a victim of two opposing medical guidelines - meaning that if he's healthy enough to undergo the operation, he's also healthy enough to be dropped down the transplant queue.

That means more cash is needed to keep him alive until doctors can place him in the ideal situation. So his YouCaring page has raised its target to $250,000, with $181,000 already secured.

The Birmingham Mail reports the show at St Peter & St Paul in Northleach was to raise money for The Children's Society, Christian Aid and Open Door.

Rock journalist Mitch Lafon tweeted images from the presentation, including photos of Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler. The Montreal stop is the third date in Black Sabbath's 3-week Canadian tour that began last week in Halifax, Nova Scotia; the trek wraps April 22 in Edmonton, Alberta and is followed by an April 26 show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.

The L.A. KISS won the home opener 44-34 over the Portland Thunder; the event also featured a pre-game concert by Steel Panther and the national anthem performed guitarist Nita Strauss of the all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens.

The Arena Football League (AFL) team is owned by KISS members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, their manager Doc McGee, and football executive Brett Bouchy.

The veteran vocalist last week released a video for his track Temptation, taken from solo album Give 'Em Hell, launched on April 21 via Frontiers Records.

Also included in a video package is footage of the band in the Tuning Room and their classic, "Fade To Black", from the show, a tune which originally appeared on their second album, 1984's "Ride The Lightning."

Of the record label bidding war around Green Day just before, BJA says: "We didn't know what it meant. We thought it was prank calls. There were a lot of those second- and third-rate Nirvanas and Soundgardens around - we didn't fit that mold. The labels weren't really looking for us."

For Dookie, Green Day recorded - for the first time - in a lavish studio. Armstrong says, "Our first album [1990's 39/Smooth] cost $700 to make. Kerplunk! was like $1200. "Let's record these as fast as we can - because we don't have a choice." This time, I learned how to dial in good sounds, get the best guitar tones. I was able to take a little time doing vocals. I loved that experience."

Starring Russell Crowe, Ray Winstone, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emma Watson, Noah tells its familiar two-by-two tale of global flooding on a blockbusting spectacular scale before Smith weighs in over the credits alongside the Kronos Quartet for a sensitive reading of Mercy Is, co-written with career-long collaborator Lenny Kaye.

Catholic Online announced the news under the headline: 'Noah movie features Christian Artist Patti Smith.' "Maybe they had me confused with someone else," Smith tells Classic Rock, "but I wouldn't deny being Christian. I was raised a Christian, I follow the teachings of Christ. So, you know, I have no problem with that title."