The original story broke on gossip website, and then several news outlets reached out to police, who confirmed that Weiland was arrested. But later in the day it was discovered that police had booked another individual under Weiland's name.

Weiland was quick to react to the original report, which stated that he was still in police custody. The singer posted a video on Facebook under the heading "Scott Weiland LOCKED UP . . . in the studio TMZ!" which showed him and his band in a recording studio.

Weiland said in the video, "I just got finished reading something very interesting, a nice piece of fiction from TMZ saying that I was in jail and had been for four months." (The report actually stated he was in custody for four weeks, not months.)

He continued, "I've actually been touring, writing and recording my new album." One of his bandmate then points out that they are in the studio and Weiland adds, "yeah, we are. This is the studio we are in right now. A Los Angeles studio.

"So all I have to say to our fans is, whether you find it funny or interesting or whether you're sad, don't worry, don't fret, it's a lie. TMZ, you'll be hearing from my attorneys."

Following the release of Weiland's video, the agency that made the arrest, Beverly Hills Police Department, issued the following statement, "Beverly Hills Police discovered through an FBI Fingerprint Return that the subject arrested was not Scott Weiland.

"There will be another tour and I will be on that," Rudd told the Nine Network while promoting his new solo record, "Head Job." "We will probably all have to be dead before it stops," he added.

Rose famously went on to describe Slash as "a cancer" during a 2009 interview. Now Slash says he is sick of the press trying to stir up conflict between himself and Rose.

British rockers You Me at Six, who topped the UK album chart and the Billboard Heatseaker chart with their latest effort "Cavalier Youth," issued a public offer to the NFL.

The band writes, "Dear NFL: We're sorry to hear that you're in such dire financial straits. While Coldplay and Rihanna mull your offer, we're here to help with a multi-tiered proposal:

"1. For $2 Million: We get to play the upcoming halftime show. 2. For $10 Million, one of us gets to quarterback a set of downs for the team of our choosing. 3. For $40 Million, the Super Bowl will be played with English football rules, where you must use your feet, and an actual ball.

"We look forward to hearing your thoughts once you've had a chance to review. We welcome any of the Super Bowl committee to attend one of our upcoming American concerts. Our tour kicks off September 15th at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA."

The trailer finds Grohl and co. traversing the United States to record in eight different studios for eight different songs, all of which are on the record, Sonic Highways, out this November.

"One of the first, if not the first, guitarists to put his name forward after hearing that Doug Aldrich had left the band, was an exceptionally talented musician whom we had met briefly last year when his band opened for Whitesnake in Arizona," posted Coverdale.

"Everyone was very impressed by him, not only for his ability to play amazing guitar, but, also, his very agreeable personality & he was definitely foremost in our minds when we began to search for Doug's replacement in Whitesnake.

The 37-song collection spans a time period of 42 years, and it's set for launch on September 29 via UMC. The label say: "Genesis and their associated solo projects have accumulated a remarkable series of accomplishments over the years.

They've collectively amassed an incredible 14 chart-topping albums, as well as over two dozen more that reached the top 10. In total, Genesis and the members' related solo projects have sold more than 300 million albums worldwide."

Weezer's new album "Everything Will Be Alright in the End" was originally set to be released on September 30th but will now be released one week later on October 7th.

Weezer did not give a reason for the delay, but noted that it was a "bummer" it had to happen, despite, by their reports, finishing the album on time. To try to make up for the delay, the band revealed that a track from the new album would be given on the original release date to those who had pre-ordered the record. No word on which song that will be.

The band will be releasing their new album, The Singularity (Phase 1 - Neohumanity), on October 14th in North America, October 3rd in Europe and October 13th in the UK, according to Nuclear Blast.

Guitarist Per Nilsson had this to say about the new single, "I thought to myself... am I allowed to fuse death metal with AOR, and go extreme in both directions? I didn't ask for permission, I just went and did it, and I'm pretty excited to hear what people are gonna think about it."

Drummer Henrik Ohlsson adds, "Limits to Infinity" unveils the malevolent plan of the elite, the hidden hand, and their discoveries regarding the secrets of the universe. The lyric elaborates on the decision makers' long-term plan to merge with machines and colonize other planets."

The ceremony takes place at the prestigious Underglobe, beneath Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, on Thursday September 11, and the Prog God Award recognizes the innovators of the past 40 years. Those, without whom, the world of music would be a much poorer place - and no one is more deserving of that accolade than Peter Gabriel. Previous winners are Rick Wakeman and Ian Anderson.

"Black Metal is music made by p*ssies of the lowest order, and we felt it was necessary to investigate this aberrant anti-music behaviour," he wrote. "We feel like the sound and attitude of black metal is a loss of self, life, light and desire in a way where it becomes so negative that a whole new bliss arrives where we become super p*ssy."

The collection will feature all the work originally released between 1977 to 1998 under his own name and with the Blockheads and the Music Students. The 180g vinyl pack is twinned with the CD version, entitled Ian Dury: The Studio Collection.

The website claimed the song was similar to Ruiz's 1989 track Oceano. However, the article's authors insist it was only a joke and that they were taken aback when the story went viral.

The album features Don't Eat The Yellow Snow, a track that would become Zappa's first chart single in the US, while the album itself would peak at number 10 on the Billboard chart - Zappa's highest charting position.

The English punk icons will release their ninth album "The Way" in November. It was recorded in London and backed by a PledgeMusic campaign.

Produced by Dave M Allen - known for his work with Depeche Mode and The Cure - The Way is the follow-up to 2006's Flat-Pack Philosophy.

The nu-metal outfit won the Best Rock Video award in 2001 for Rollin' and the trophy had been on display at Dimant's Backstage Bar & Billiards in Las Vegas until it was stolen last October.

And Dimant, aka DJ Lethal, is still desperate to get his prized possession back. He says: "It still hasn't turned up. It was screwed down and mounted. This was during the first few weeks of opening and we didn't have security cameras set up. There was an afterhours party and we really don't know how it disappeared."

Davison tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal: "You have to go where the creativity takes you. At this stage in the game, they want to ease back into some almost relaxing music. I don't mean to sound like everyone's dull by any means because that's not it at all. The music's probably been interpreted that way.

He says: "We have worked incredibly hard over the last two years on making this album the most spectacular effort we could create. We thank our amazing fans for helping to bring it to life and take it to the next level. We can't wait for you to sink your teeth into it."

The full tour schedule includes previously-announced dates in Germany. Idol recently revealed that he plans to release his first new album in almost a decade this fall.

Kampf says: "Twenty five years after starting Century Media, the excitement to do another version of the label could not be any larger. My undying love for rock has driven the formation of this label, Another Century.

"When someone with this level of exposure dies in this way, it is confusing," Rollins says. "An Oscar-winning actor, well-paid, with a career that most performers could only dream of - how could anyone so well regarded and seemingly fortunate have as much as even a single bad day, much less a life so unendurable that it has to be voluntarily voided?

"I am sure some will strongly disagree with what I'm about to say," he continues, "And I also understand that his personal struggles were quite real. I can't argue with that. But I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves."

Rollins goes on to question how a parent would voluntarily leave their children in the distress of dealing with their own death, and is quick to point out his inability to fully grasp the complications of both addiction and depression. He includes a personal tale of living with someone dealing with depression.

"The hardest part about being around her was you knew there was nothing you could do to help," Rollins says. "I get it, but then again, maybe I don't."

Despite his self-admitted lack of full understanding of the human brain and how someone could take their own life, Rollins has a definite stance with how he reacts to suicide: "When someone negates their existence, they cancel themselves out in my mind."

The track, which originally appeared on "Van Halen II", was initially inspired by Van Halen jamming on an acoustic guitar during a New Year's Eve party at Ted Templeman's house; the producer had Eddie record the tune for the band's second album.

"Spanish Fly" followed the groundbreaking instrumental, "Eruption", from Van Halen's 1978 self-titled debut, the tune which introduced Eddie to music fans around the world.

As part of the viral video campaign that is raising funds for the ALS Association, the band donated $10,000 to the cause. Motley Crue also called out Aerosmith, Def Leppard and KISS to take the plunge onstage and to match their donation.

"WE ACCEPT Motley Crue's ALS Ice Bucket Challenge!," tweeted Paul Stanley of KISS. "Friday Night in Indy. $10,000 and a whole lotta ice water!"

Voclaist/keyboardist Tommy Rogers says: "You can watch us play any of our songs live online, so we wanted to give our fans something a little different - an intimate live performance of us playing in a studio.

And he believes Japan's latest export Babymetal - fronted by three schoolgirls performing a mix of pop and metal - deserve credit for their work.

Friedman tells Rolling Stone: "Babymetal, if you strip off that heavy metal guitar stuff, all you have is your basic fun, quirky, Japanese pop stuff. But the interpretation is super-metal.

"To me, it sounds like Meshuggah with Japanese pop on top of it. So for someone like me who's been playing metal forever, it's really fresh to hear. I mean, I can hear another Pantera song, and it's great, but we've heard it before a billion times."

In the video update, singer Elias Soriano says: "It's going to have something to sing along to. It's going to have something to pit to. It's going to have something you're going to want to jump around to. It's probably going to have something that you're going to want to rip the person's face off next to you."

The band say: "We, the members of MoeTar, could not be prouder of this true labour of love. We love each other. We love music. We love you. We took all that love, put it into a Krups Coffee Grinder/Love Processor, and out came this record."

The trio, comprised of Ben Miller, Doug Dicharry and Scott Leeper, began as organically as their idea to use a washboard - not to mention, an electric spoon - at every show. Miller began attending and later hosting open-mic nights in Joplin, Mo. while working a "cruddy job" in the tech department of Wal-Mart.

"It was pretty tough for me to work at a job like that," the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist told Radio.com over the phone. "My brain started to eat itself. Boredom is a really great motivator. I didn't have anything and that helped the boredom. It made me have to do something."

The Wal-Mart techie by day, performer and host by night eventually met the trumpet playing Dicharry at the open mic night. On the weekends, Miller would play solo shows for dinner crowds at the same restaurant where Dicharry worked as a waiter and where the washboard became a quick way to get people's attention.

"In the middle of the set I'd call out to [Doug] to play washboard with me. He'd leave his tables and come over and pick up the washboard and play a song and went right back to waiting tables," Miller said. "People loved it because they had no idea he was a musical genius and his tips went up hugely."

After opening for ZZ Top last year in Europe - a role they'll reprise in the States this fall - they no longer play for tips at local restaurants. They also might not be the lone wolves they claim to be on their current single, "The Outsider," which Miller wrote after watching an episode of the MSNBC prison show, Lockup.

"The people in there have to become a group for safety. You have to stick with your race and you have to stick with your kind and you give up something for that safety. You give up your autonomy," he explained. "You can't come from your own perspective completely. It has to be colored by what's good for that group."

In a 2001 interview, Newman talked about the absurdity of the Pornographers being billed a "supergroup" when only one of the Canadian band's six members was actually famous. That was fellow redhead and only non-Canadian member, Neko Case, who already had alt-country fans under her spell with her first two solo albums. "They have the posters with our five pictures and our five names, and you look at it and you go, 'Who the f-k are those guys?'" he says. "I know Neko but� Carl Newman?! Who the f-k is that?'"
Thirteen years later, not much has really changed. "Obviously, there's still that element," Newman tells me. "I mean, [Neko's] definitely the most famous person in the band. I know that there are people that like the band and don't know who I am, couldn't pick me out of a police lineup."

When the New Pornographers formed, Newman was identified as the "singer, songwriter, and guitarist." That was back when the band - comprised of Newman, Case, Dan Bejar, John Collins, Kurt Dahle and Blaine Thurier (Newman's niece, Kathryn Calder would officially join the band in 2006) - considered themselves to be a democracy, voting on everything. "As time went on, I thought, 'That's stupid, why would we vote on everything?" Now, most people would identify Newman as the leader of the New Pornographers. Occasionally, even Newman himself.

"The whole idea of a leader is weird," he says. "Sometimes I think, 'Oh no, I'm not the leader. We don't have a leader.' And then sometimes I think, 'Yeah, I'm the leader. And I'm not very good at it, I should be better. I should be a better leader!'

"But, it's not for me to say," Newman continues. "I didn't give myself that title, but I know I am in a slightly elevated position in the band. But, you know, I'm not going to go to my bandmates and go, 'Say it, say I'm the leader!'"

Perhaps the main reason he's become the band's default leader is because, unlike Case and Bejar, the New Pornographers is his full-time gig. "I don't think I could support myself with my solo career," Newman says. His third solo record, 2012's Shut Down The Streets, under the name A.C. Newman, may not have stormed the charts, but the album, inspired by the birth of his first son and the death of his mother, did help set the tone for Brill Bruisers.

This song was originally written in ballad form. Lyrically, it came from a time in my life when I needed change. A lot had happened the past year, band roster-wise and I was becoming more self aware. It had been in my back pocket for a couple years by the time we showed up in East Falls to record the album. We all wanted it on the record but due to it's slow meter we weren't sure how it would fit. The morning of the last day in the studio our producer walked into the control room yelling, "FRESH POTS" meaning the coffee was hot and asked Ross to play straight eighth notes on a piano bench with brushes.

We had to work quickly that day to keep on schedule with the rest of the mixing process, so Bill, the producer, was running a tight ship. His idea for the song took a lot of concentration and exactness that made the atmosphere a little tense at first. Personally, I was wary of letting go of the old and accepting the new. The arrangement was killer and so unique but it was hard to recognize the song as a whole because it was layered so specifically from the drums to the clarinet. An eighth note pattern, then a kick drum, then snare and hi-hat ... the cymbals, bass, piano and so and so on. It wasn't until I got to record the vocal track that it all started making sense to me. The lines were flowing over the drum and bass groove effortlessly and my hips were swinging by the time the chorus came around. And that's a good sign no matter who's singing or at what tempo.