ZZ Top and Jeff Beck Tour Halted Over Dusty Hill Injury

"It's with complete sadness that we have to announce the passing of bassist Tim 'Rawbiz' Williams," the Facebook post read. "Tim played bass for Suicidal Tendencies for almost four years until recently.

"Tim was a monster on bass, running around on stage in the pit, giving his all, even when his body wasn't at its best. We will always remember him and appreciate all the kind words by those that were touched by his bass playing and him personally."

The former Deep Purple guitarist split the band in 1997 after a three-year stint featuring Doogie White on vocals. Turner was a member between 1980 and 1984, taking the mic after Ronnie James Dio and Graham Bonnet.

Asked about the chances of a reunion, Turner tells Rock Overdose: "I'm going to be honest with you right now - yes, possibly. It's very possible. Last year I wouldn't say it, but this year I say it. It's a very big possibility that something might happen. I heard talk of it, and all I can say is I'm not supposed to talk about it.

The band have pulled planned gigs in New Jersey and Pittsburgh this week, but are still scheduled to play the Budweiser Made In America festival in Philadelphia on Sunday.

Followill says via Twitter: "I'm so bummed to have to cancel more shows but I need to be fully recovered before I get back. So sorry to the fans and thanks for understanding."

Dylan will kick off his newest tour with a three-night stop in Seattle from Oct. 17-19 at the Paramount Theatre. He'll conduct similar short residencies at multiple cities across North America, including Los Angeles, Toronto and Chicago.

The tour will close with a four-night run at the Beacon Theatre in New York, Nov. 28-29 and Dec. 1-2. Dylan will release The Basement Tapes Complete on Nov. 4. The six-disc set will include 138 tracks. An additional album, Lost on the River, includes Dylan songs from around the same era covered by an all-star cast including Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford and more.

"We are very excited to be releasing new music for our fans and feel it's some of our strongest material to date," said frontman Chad Kroeger. "During the recording process as we looked toward the next chapter, it became clear that� the entire Republic/Universal team had a shared vision and passion for this project. Their track record of artist development speaks volumes to their success and we are honored to be partners with them."

Nickelback recently released a lyric video for "Edge Of A Revolution", the lead single from "No Fixed Address", the group's first project since 2011's "Here And Now."

Drive was a hit for The Cars in 1985. Sixx AM singer James Michael says: "It took us three records to do a cover song, but I'm so glad that we waited. And I'm so glad we chose to do the one we did."

Bassist Nikki Sixx says they toyed with doing a cover of Elvin Bishop's Fooled Around And Fell In Love before settling on Drive. Sixx adds: "One day I called Michael up and just sang the opening line to Drive, and he said, 'That's a Sixx AM song.' I think it was an opportunity to cover a song that is so defined that you have to be very careful not to wreck it. That song is so loved by so many people, including us, that we really wanted to pay a real tribute to it, and I believe we have."

"Space Invader" is both the rocker's first top 10 and his highest-charting album, surpassing the No. 26 peak of his self-titled 1978 debut, released at the height of KISS mania.

She told MTV earlier this year: "It's going to surprise my fans - it's not what you'd expect. The film is very dark, very introspective. There are a lot of moments where Dave and I just build walls of sound out of blaring cellos, trombones, synthesisers and harp. It's not a soundtrack, it's an atmosphere."

Lee recently revealed Evanescence could be over, saying she had no plans to work with the band. She said: "I've loved my time with Evanescence, I wouldn't want to throw it away - but, for the foreseeable future, I don't have any plans to do anything with the band."

Stow is a huge Queensryche fan and when the band heard about his plight, they visited him in hospital, where he remained for two years following the attack in 2011.

Tate has since been sacked by Queensryche, leading to a long-running battle that means he will no longer be able to use the name once his current tour comes to an end.

But the drummer tells EMP Rock Invasion: "People are selfish. They want what they want; they don't care what you want. People go, 'Oh wow, they can get Zakk to jump up there on stage and it's Pantera again.'

"No it's not. It's not that simple. If Eddie Van Halen was to get shot in the head four times next week, would everybody be going, 'Hey, Zakk, go play for Van Halen - just call it Van Halen.'

Describing the Aussie giants' 15th studio work as "stellar," Rudd tells Triple M: "It was done in 10 days and I've never played better. I hope it's as good as I remember when I came away from the studio. It's pretty damn good."

The set brings together, for the first time, the entirety of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble's official studio and live album catalogue, including the inaugural commercial release of "A Legend In The Making", a highly collectible (formerly) promotional only recording of SRV & DT's incendiary performance at Toronto's El Mocambo club in 1983. In addition, "The Complete Epic Recordings Collection" features two discs compiling rare and hard-to-find archival tracks.

Vaughan was already making a name for himself in Texas with live performances before releasing his debut album, "Texas Flood", in 1983. The record introduced the guitar slinger to the world and opened the gates for a flow of gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums for Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, an unprecedented achievement for any blues act.

And this will not be the first time that Chaisson performs with the band as he had previously filled in for Mancuso at a concert in Arizona in March this year.

Bush last night began her first run of shows since 1979 when she appeared at London's Hammersmith Eventim Apollo. Her 22-date residency continues until October 1.

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, who paid for her first official demo recordings in the late 1970s, was in attendance alongside other celebrities and US indie band Warpaint, who flew in from their tour in Croatia for the night.

'Corpsegrinder' tells Artisan News: "We're always a little bit annoyed when people think that we're writing serious songs for people to read and be crazy. They're just stories. It's a short story with music, a horror film with a metal soundtrack."

The singer says recording the album was a challenge as it was almost impossible to get the entire band together for any length of time. He adds: "The biggest challenge was that all of us were doing so much different stuff throughout the process that we weren't really together much recording it, except for the drums."

He says: "Our part of the record is done. Nothing more to track. Tones are all picked out and decided on. Solos, overdubs, leads, backing vocals and vocals all done.

"So, in a weird way, it's almost as if we're done being creative for two years. Now it's all just doing everything we can to get in front of as many people as we can."

The band will be releasing the follow-up to 2011's Blunt Force Trauma on November 4th in North America and a day earlier elsewhere via Napalm Records.

The band recently revealed Pandemonium is the heaviest album they've ever done. Max Cavalera said: "It's very, very heavy - the heaviest of all three. I was really possessed to get Igor back to his Arise era of drumming, everything fast."

Akerfeldt tells Rocksverige: "The label wanted a promotional track, so they picked Cusp Of Eternity. I guess it's the most straightforward type of song on the record.

"As for Eternal Rains Will Come, I think they put that out because it leaked earlier and we were trying to stop people from putting it up on YouTube." He continues: "If I could choose, we would not give the record out to any journalists or play it to anyone until its release. But I'm obviously in the wrong."

Billboard reports the cover album enters the chart at No. 5 with first-week sales of 31,000, while also opening at No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart.

But on rare occasions, as happened this week (Aug. 27) in Sydney, Australia, those giant tours meet and create something special. The new incarnation of Queen, featuring Adam Lambert in lieu of deceased frontman Freddy Mercury, played the first of two nights in the Australian cities Allphones Arena, and were joined on "Another One Bites the Dust" by none other than the ARTPOP queen herself, Lady Gaga.

Wearing a giant Brian May-like afro wig adorned with appropriate crowns, Lambert easily out-sings the diva, but she provides the song with some flare that the band's re-imagining just couldn't pull off alone.

Lady Gaga's artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball plays Sydney on August 30, and Rolling Stone notes that Gaga and Queen/Lambert have a long history, with Gaga co-writing "Fever" for Lambert's debut solo LP and Queen guitarist Brian May contributing his legendary skills to the single, "Yo� and I."

The veteran bluesman passed away on tour in July aged 70. Before his death Gibbons said: "When Johnny picks up a guitar you never know quite what's going to come at you - but whatever it is, it's going to be good."

Rage is the latest track that has been recorded as part of the Converse Cons EP series, which brings together artists who might not otherwise cross paths musically.

Last month, Dillinger guitarist Ben Weinman launched a new website called Party Smasher Inc which encourages musicians, photographers, illustrators and designers to share ideas and encourage innovation.

Prong frontman Tommy Victor says: "The song and video are distinctively Prong, with a soul-searching and apocalyptic vibe. The single and video will correspond with our US and Canadian tour starting on September 10."

Two versions of Remove, Separate Self will be released digitally on September 12: the album version and a mix by Trivium's Matt Heafy. A 7-inch single will follow on October 24.

Heafy says: Sometimes mixes do it right, but I wanted to take a completely different approach to what people think a remix is in the first place."

Guitarist Nate Garnette - who got to spray singer Chance Garnette with cold water during the shoot - says: "This video was a hell of a lot of fun to shoot and is saturated with fake blood as well as torture.

"My favourite part was getting to hose off a bloody-ass Chance with freezing cold water. I normally would have got beaten up for that, so it was a nice treat."

They say in a statement: "We always knew our fans were some of the most devoted fans on the planet and they proved it by stepping up, being a part of something new and supporting us with our Kickstarter campaign."

As pointed out by Consequence of Sound, White just finished off a pair of shows at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, which Vedder (a Seattle local) attended to see White dedicate "Steady as She Goes" to him. The pair seem to have traded tops for the picture, with Detroit native White rocking a Mariners shirt while famous Seattle resident Vedder sports a Detroit Tigers jersey. White points at Vedder in the pic, while Vedder lets us know he likes surfing with his traditional shaka "hang loose" hand display.

As for why songwriting legend Paul Simon was there, it likely wasn't to root on the Rangers, as that would be foolish for anyone at this point outside of diehard fans and people with the last name Bush. Perhaps the three are considering a new rock super-group? That's a show we'd pay good money to see.

Plant will release his new album, "lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar", on September 5 in Europe, September 8 in the UK and September 9 in North America.

The rocker will perform at the iTunes Festival in London on September 8 before introducing the new music to North America on a 7-date theatre tour that begins in New York on September 25.

You admitted pretty early on that "Closing Time" was about expecting a child. Did a lot of people guess that? No, no, nobody guessed it. That experience was interesting because I thought the double meaning would be really fun for people. I thought people would get that it was about getting thrown out of the bar at the end of the night, but also getting thrown out of the womb at the beginning of your life. And I thought that was a fun pairing of meetings. But nobody got the double meaning because the bar image was so strong that it overpowered the other. So it taught me you can't be too clever.

Do you ever wish you let the mystery simmer longer? No. It's interesting, I think the song has such a huge life of its own that I can tell a dozen different stories about what it means and I don't really think it will really affect how people perceive the song. It's wonderful how that song is bigger than�any of us who were involved in it.

Has anyone given you a really wild interpretation of it? There was a time when I was getting a lot of interpretations in emails from people. One of the popular ones was it was about dying. I always thought that was fascinating because it was the furthest thing from my mind when I wrote it. I have this theory that the listener's interpretation is always better and smarter than the songwriter's interpretation. So it's best to let the listeners have their own interpretation. And I guess the reason I feel free to tell people what "Closing Time" is about is they've had plenty of time to hear it now, they already have their own ideas. I'm not gonna screw it up for them.