The paper reports that investigators are now offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the suspect(s) in the 20-year-old murder of Dye, who also worked with the Easybeats and celebrated Aussie hard rockers Rose Tattoo.

Dye died in St George Hospital in Sydney on Christmas Day 1993, two days after he was attracted, robbed and left unconscious and the case has remained unsolved but officials have now announced the reward for information that lead to an arrest and conviction.

Commander of the Homicide Squad, Detective Superintendent Mick Willing, had this to say, "There are people out there who know those responsible for Mr Dye's death and we're hoping this reward may prompt them to get in touch with police.

"By all accounts, Crispin Dye was a fun-loving, friendly and decent man, who was robbed of his life far too soon. We are absolutely committed to getting to the bottom of this case and bringing those responsible for an innocent man's violent death to justice, but we won't be able to do it without assistance from the public."

Evanescence have been on hiatus since 2012, and were released from their record contract in March following a legal battle. Lee, who became a mother last month, tells Rolling Stone: "The situation is we're not doing it now. I don't like to make predictions about the future, because I'm honestly open-minded, and I would never want to say I'm done with any of it, because it's a huge part of me.

"I've loved my time with Evanescence, I wouldn't want to just throw it away - but, for the foreseeable future, I don't have any plans to do anything with the band."

Westminster City Council fears that so many people stop to take photos on the Abbey Road landmark that they could be at risk of being hit by traffic. A review has been commissioned after residents in the St Johns Wood area of London reported that the crossing - featured on the Fab Four's 1969 album cover - has become increasingly busy in recent years, with buses double-parking and tourists stopping in forbidden areas.

It reached No.3 on its release in June, and made No.2 in the UK - but the mainman isn't downheartened. Shinoda tells the Pulse Of Radio: "Some friends of mine said, 'Sorry you guys didn't get to No.1 on the chart.' I said, 'I feel like the Billboard chart is for one thing: first-week album sales.

"This is not really a first-week sales kind of album; it's a statement album. It's meant to be taken to the stage, and that's exactly what we're planning to do."

On the bright side, Followill is expected to make a full recovery. Yesterday the band posted an optimistic YouTube clip of Followill in his hospital bed, talking about his recovery. "I'm going to get completely healed up and get out there," he says in the video.

He also apologized to fans for their canceled shows in New York, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and New Hampshire, saying, "Sorry I had to skip out on these few shows but it's all for the better. Thanks for all the well wishes. I'll see you guys on the next show."

That would be when they play Holmdel, N.J., on Aug. 28. However, the band were still scheduled to make their appearance on last night's episode of The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Followill was replaced during the TV taping with The Roots' Questlove.

The guitarist met Guetta in Ibiza recently to share ideas and the pair ended up working on new music together. Gibbons tells Billboard: "I wanted to know how they did certain things, and of course they were badgering me to bring the guitar to the forefront. They said, 'You know, the only thing missing in dance music is a good guitar player.' I said, 'Let's see if we can bring the two together and make it shake.'"

Cooper has announced two Raise the Dead tour dates in Canada in Rama, ON on October 30th at Casino Rama and also on Halloween night in Kitchener, ON at Centre in the Square.

They launched their search for a replacement in October and received hundreds of applications, but bass player Joel Graham tells TeamRock Radio's Metal Hammer Magazine Show they opted for someone local as well as extremely talented.

He also admits they did consider calling it a day when Ol Drake - brother of frontman Matt - left the band. Graham says: "We had to step back and ask what do we do from this point. We thought it would be a shame to stop it right now. We had to find the right guy, that's taken time. I appreciate people have been waiting for news but we've got to spend time with this guy, get on with him, travel with him and he's got big shoes to fill.

And while "irreconcilable differences" have been cited for his departure, the band's singer Ralf Scheepers refuses to be drawn on exactly what those were.

North York Community Council in Toronto yesterday rubber-stamped the change of title from Willowdale Park to the Lee Lifeson Art Park, with the intention of acknowledging the musicians' contributions to culture and the community where they grew up.

The says in a new interview that he makes eye contact with a member of the crowd whenever he needs a boost - and adds that the trick never fails. He tells Hitradio 03:

"I mean, we're all human, and sometimes we feel very communicative and sometimes we don't. But most of the time, if I'm not feeling good and then we get up on stage, I just look at somebody in the eye and just say, 'Hey, I need your help tonight.'

"I mean, I'm not asking them directly, but through the eyes I'm asking them, 'I need your help.' And they give it to me, somehow."

hennemusic reports that the band has announced plans to play three shows on December 5, 6 and 7 at the House Of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Clarke recently released a new video for his 1994 track, "Tijuana Jail", to mark the song's 20th anniversary. The video for the tune, which originally appeared on Clarke's solo debut album, "Pawnshop Guitars", was directed by Rocco Guarino.

Due September 26th, the original event was a tribute concert to honor the late Deep Purple keyboardist's life and work. Lord passed away July 16, 2012 at the age of 71 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

The tribute featured rock legends including Deep Purple members Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Roger Glover, Don Airey and Steve Morse, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, Glenn Hughes, Rick Wakeman, Micky Moody, Joe Brown and Alfie Boe.

They'll play alongside Kerbdog and others at the Ritz in Manchester on November 15 and the Forum in London on November 16. Guitarist Sel Balamir recently said of Mystoria:

"It doesn't aspire to emulate any of its predecessors. It's just about the songs, pure and simple. We've gone back to just trying to write great songs and melodies, and that's where we've decided to stay."

They'll play the Barrowlands Ballroom on December 5, 6, and 7, with each night dedicated to two albums from their catalogue. The first will focus on Blackened Sky and Puzzle, the second will cover Vertigo Of Bliss and Only Revolutions, and the third will highlight Infinity Land and Opposites.

Unveiling the lineup in June, the outfit explained: "It all began in the 70s when someone invented the right kind of acid that could make you fly. Overly-optimistic freaks began flying into outer space in spaceships made of futuristic super-metal - but before long they didn't even need ships. They became the ships, and called themselves Electric Wurms.

"Before they died they sent back to Earth a sonic bible of discoveries and failures. Two groups of determined musicians and weirdo thinkers set forth to decipher its message."

I was always sure that good songs come to me from nowhere. Especially when they are simple. Even if they have any "sources" or "roots" all this sh*t is hidden from me and I don't want to sacrifice even one minute of my life with questions about where it comes from.

It is so on the nose to mention a couple names, to rhyme Lucy and Suzy, Nick and Rick and then to shout: "My name is Dick!!!" But nobody has ever done that. OK, no problem, let it be me.

I was lucky enough to have met two very talented guys, David Walsh (ex. "Exies") and Michael Carey, and we finished writing this piece of craziness together. This song was a hit even when we completed the demo, but when Howard Benson (P.O.D. Rascal Flats, My Chemical romance) played us the final mix we realised we had something very special. When I realised that I immediately decided to write the chorus and bridge in Russian� And it came out even funnier and more stupid than in English� Hopefully somebody will help me with Spanish, French etc� I love the entire World !

The video for Dick was filmed in a former fraternity and it explains everything. To be honest I spent a lot of time suffering from doubts: maybe it's too outrageous. At last I decided to slightly re-edit it and when it was done I decided; no way to have it more neutral. Otherwise we'll lose this spirit of college, party etc.

The only problem for me now is: Dick is so strong that making a new step in my career I'd need my best to show people the other side of my creativity. Hopefully it will happen on my 1st album "Fast Food Kids" and MAX will be stronger than Dick.

He left in 2000 and set up home in Japan three years later. Since then he's gone on to become one of the country's biggest stars, performing with a string of J-pop artists and appearing on TV panel shows.

Friedman tells Wondering Sound: "I found myself touring with Megadeth, and in my hotel room I'd be blasting this Japanese music all the time. What's wrong with this picture? I thought I was doing myself a disservice just playing the same old stuff and not really enjoying it.

McCready's appearance was part of Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Night at the park, with a portion of the tickets sold to benefit the Northwest Chapter of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America.

Crohn's & Colitis are two types of inflammatory bowel disease. McCready himself was diagnosed with Chron's at the age of 21, and has worked to bring awareness and funds to the cause.

The cover is from Frehley's forthcoming album, "Space Invader," which will be released on August 19th in North America (August 29th in Europe), and is Frehley's first new solo album in five years

"The Joker" was the title track to Miller's 1973 album of the same name was a No. 1 US hit for the rocker. Ace's version is the second track issued from his new album, following the lead single, "Gimme A Feelin'".

"I wanted something specifically dark and specifically fun," says the former Guns N' Roses guitarist, "and definitely something that you couldn't play on regular tv."

Due September 16, "World On Fire" sees Slash working with his touring band, Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators, and producer Michael Baskette.

A week after the album's release, Slash will promote the project and mark the Guitar Center's 50th anniversary with a series of three concerts in Hollywood's most legendary clubs.

The follow-up to 2011's Atma is set to be released on September 1 on CD and digital formats, with a vinyl edition on September 15. Mainman Mike Scheidt says the track is one of his favorite moments of the band's career.

He adds: "This part of the album gets dark - but it also has a sense of beauty and resolve. The mood and atmosphere nod equal parts to old and new YOB."

"We're very pleased Classic Rock are presenting the video for our very first single", say the band. "Such exposure makes all the time and effort that we've made writing, gigging and recording our debut album all the more worthwhile. The video for Ain't Got No is something that our long-time fans will be excited to finally see, and hopefully give us a whole load of new friends and fans too."

Black State Highway were formed at Brighton's Institute of Modern Music and feature Latvian singer Liva Steinberga, guitarists Olie Trethewey and Jon Crampton, bass player Gordon Duncan, and drummer Harry Bland. Describing themselves as "heavily influenced by the old school 70s rock bands whom need not be named", they play a launch show for the album this Thursday at the Alley Cat on London's Denmark Street. Support comes from blues rockers Little Brother Eli.

'Expand' doesn't mean 'change', we're a long way from The Gaslight Anthem's EDM phase. But what does the new sound sound like? Quite nice, actually. There are effects pedals, synths, and even harmonies. There's a solemn meditation ("Underneath the Ground") on death that takes its cues from Bon Iver, of all places. The growth is unexpected but feels natural: Get Hurt shows that The Gaslight Anthem have enough confidence in their sound to use it as a foundation to leap from.

We talked with Brian Fallon on the phone about the history of bands changing their sounds, the importance of track listings, and of utmost concern, the state of his mouth.

Radio.com: Thanks for chatting with us. These media days can be long. Brian Fallon:It's not been that long of a day, actually. The worst thing that happened to me was that I went to the dentist today.

What happened? Well, I go a lot. Basically, I have to have my whole mouth restructured. For the last couple years, I've had a lot of issues with my teeth. Normal people have two or three roots in their teeth, mine have six, eight, nine. So the offshoot ones, they've never closed since I was born so they can obstructed. And when they do, it's like, your teeth start rotting from the inside and there's nothing you can do about it, you just gotta get them fixed, or get molds or implants. So today I had a root canal, like root canal number fifteen.

Oh man. It's okay, you get used to it. There are people who go through dialysis, so I have nothing to complain about�.I was thinking though, when we were doing the cover of the record, I was thinking "We should have a picture of my mouth!" because it was a state of total disarray. It was being reconstructed: holes sticking out, teeth missing, it looked really weird. So I was like, "Just take a picture of my x-ray and put that on the cover!" And everyone else was like, "No, that's a really terrible idea." And I thought, that's why I do this, that's why I'm in a band: so I don't make all these decisions by myself.

That's a helpful counter. I'll definitely say that drummer Benny Horowtiz is the best at that. He's like, "You know what, I don't wanna do that, dude. I don't wanna wear a clown suit." "But why? It's so cool, Bob Dylan painted his face! Why can't we do that?" "Because we're not Bob Dylan." "Right. Good point. Let's not do that." So I just want to give a shout out to Benjamin Horowitz right now.

You've mentioned Bon Iver as an inspiration for this album, and you can really hear that in "Underneath the Ground". I appreciate that, actually, because I feel like we didn't create that mark at all, which is cool. He's really great at what he does, sonically. Those are tender things, very delicate. When we went into do it, our other records are, you know, "raah raaah rock n' roll loud!" Those moments are tough for us to know when to put it on the record.

And "Underneath the Ground" is a song about death. Do you think that sound and that subject matter come together naturally? Yeah, I think certain songs like that - they almost tell you what they sound like before you finish it. That one started just on the piano, by itself. It was just that little riff at the beginning. I don't know, it had this weird thing. I was watching this movie where a guy was dead but he could hear people talking about him. And I was like, "Oh, that sucks! Uch. What would people say? He was such a good guy, but not really?" I think that impacts people heavily. You could be really angry at someone their whole life but then they drop dead suddenly, and you're like, time for some second thoughts there.

You researched a lot of older bands - the Stones, U2 - for this album, specifically how they made changes in their career. Can you talk about how you did that? My main thing I do, when I'm looking for any sort of inspiration, rather than listening to a certain record or reading a certain book, I watch documentaries. I love documentaries on bands. What I was looking for was, how do you take something that you built a career on, but now there's a desire to do something different than that, how do you do that without abandoning or changing what you've done in the past, without ruining it all?

So I was watching these bands that were severely developed and made great strides. Like Pink Floyd lost their singer and their primary songwriter, and they got David Gilmour and went through this whole new thing. And The Rolling Stones, they went from a blues/Top 40 band, competing with The Beatles to going to all sorts of stuff, psychedelic, disco, you name it. And U2 - U2 were a big one. I love The Joshua Tree, and I equally love Achtung Baby. They did that really well and I wanted to find out how. So I watched the documentary on Stones in Exile, I watched From the Sky Down for U2, and I was reading the Rolling Stone special on Pink Floyd. Anything I could find on this band and their process, as much as I could.

He tells Arte Concert: "Being on tour is so f***ing boring because you just sit around and wait the whole day. You have crew who are doing soundcheck and set up your gear - they do everything for you.

"But the second the intro starts, it's different. It's like a legal drug. Of course you get bored after a while, but imagine having a regular day job." In the interview, Cans is joined by guitarist Oscar Dronjak who recalls the band's collaboration with the Swedish women's curling team on the video for Hearts On Fire.

When you look back on "Father of Mine," almost 20 years ago, does it feel like you said what you wanted to say? Your songwriting is always unusually open but that one didn't hold back anything it feels like. First of all, when I wrote that song I had no idea it was going to be a single, much less such a huge single. I didn't know that was gonna happen. I never try to pick that because I think that's the devil's work right there, trying to tell what people are gonna like and what they're not gonna like. But when I wrote that song, I needed to get that catharsis. I think most of the best songs in the world come from a selfish place, but they have a universal theme that other people can connect with, and I think that's the case with this song. I think people thought it was a little too expository, a little too personal, and I understand that. But I was actually being nice about my dad. [laughs] I didn't put all of it in there, it got worse than that.

A lot of people have issues like that all the time�they still don't know who they are. That might even be worse, having seen their dad but not being able to break that barrier and get close to him. That would be hard. That's something I fight with my daughters; I'm gone a lot. I try to be present constantly, take time every day when I'm gone and when I'm there. Like I'm keeping them home from school today just because after I'm done with the interviews we're gonna go out and get some breakfast and do some daddy/daughter things just because I've got a date.

There are very few hit songs that are addressed with such complete directness. Eminem comes to mind, particularly the way he swears he wouldn't let his daughter go through what he did. Other rappers too. Yeah, all the stuff you're talking about, it's funny because there's different types of emo. When we were coming up there were bands like Slint and Codeine and they called them emo, and then emo came to mean something else. But as far as just touching into emotions, that goes way back to singer-songwriters, and that's what I grew up with, both hard rock and punk bands, and singer-songwriters. And that's what Everclear's always been, trying to be a blunt between that, because that's my loves and my inspirations and influences.

Did your bandmates feel it was too expository, or the label? Well, my other bandmates have always worked for me, it's always been my band. I didn't even ask what they thought. The label didn't say anything, they thought it was a hit song from the beginning. I think most of the trepidation about it being expository came from me. I didn't think it was too intense to be a song on a record, I didn't think that at all. But I thought that being a single, it might not connect with people, it might put people off. I usually heard from like, guys who were irritated at me because their girlfriends liked me. [laughs] That didn't like the song because they think it's fake or that I made it up or something. I think they had a different agenda.