Hagar and friends sent a letter to FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Sammy asked the agency to allow Liza Cozad-Lauser to have access to "an experimental treatment involving the use of antineoplastons."

Cozad-Lauser is the wife of Hagar's drummer, David Lauser, and the other signatories on the letter share the heavy metal connection: Van Halen drummer Michael Anthony; bassist Jack Blades of Night Ranger and guitarist Joe Satriani, who has played with a range of bands including Deep Purple.

Last week Smith posted a video video via Funny or Die where he joked about Ferrell's lack of drumming abilities, saying "I've seen your skills. You don't got 'em." This prompted Ferrell to respond via reddit: "Hi, Chad. Will Ferrell here. I saw your video and I graciously accept your invitation to a drum battle. If we can raise $300,000 for Cancer for College I will face off with you in the greatest drum vs. cowbell showdown the world has ever seen. We can do it on stage at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert or in front of a mutually convenient public library. Your call. Also, would you rather fight a hundred duck sized ducks or one horse sized horse?"

Last month the band rolled out plans for a 72-show final tour in North America with overseas dates to follow in 2015. But the rock veterans will not be hitting the road with any new songs with Nikki Sixx casting doubt on the worth of any band in their position making an album in todays climate, citing the difficulty of getting radio play as the main barrier preventing bands reaching an audience.

Nikki Sixx tells Classic Rock in an interview printed in full next issue: "We've written some songs. But this is difficult to say and probably harder to hear: when you spend nine months working on an album, all the work that goes into it and recording it, mixing it, mastering it, then you release it and it falls on deaf ears. Radio is so f***in' formatted, if you don't have a banjo and a beard they're not playing you over here. If you're this kind of band at this stage of your career you can't be played on Active Rock; if you've been around for more than fifteen years you're classic rock, but classic rock radio doesn't play new music. You just think, "F***, man, this sucks."

The originally announced run of U.S. dates were set to conclude on March 11th in San Francisco but the band have added a second night at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and added stops in Fresno, Las Vegas, San Diego, Austin, Houston and Phoenix.

As of today the band is expected to kick off the Western U.S. tour dates on March 4th in Spokane, Wa and wrap up the tour on March 27th in Phoenix, Az.

No word yet if they expect to add even more dates to cover other parts of the country and there is still no official word on the progress of the band's new studio album.

The group did announce that they have moved their previously announced Mexico City show from March 18th to a day later on March 19th. The band advised that tickets purchased for the original date will be valid for the date.

While the band's charismatic frontman, Bono, has claimed that "Invisible" is not the first single from U2′s upcoming 13th studio album (tentatively scheduled for a summer release), the song has received all of the trappings of a single, like this splashy black and white performance video.

"We have another song we're excited about to kick off the album," Bono explained recently. "("Invisible") is just sort of a sneak preview � to remind people we exist," adding that "it's the first one we finished" and that the group will continue working on the full-length "for a couple of months."

Who could forget the absurdity of former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, who started his Echobrain side project in 2000, getting sued by the Dallas band Echo Drain? Yes, those band names rhyme and yes, because of their similarity, representatives from Echo Drain sued Newsted. Unfortunately, Will Sheff of Austin, T.X. folk rock band Okkervil River has found himself in a similar predicament.

"Don Henley made me take down a cover of 'The End of the Innocence' that I'd had on there, which I'd rewritten - Don Henley made me take it down!" Okkervil River's lead singer-songwriter Will Sheff told The Music.

Sheff is referring to Golden Opportunities 3, one of three mixtapes in an ongoing covers series that Okkervil River has released for free download on its website.

The rocker kicks his American shows off April 26 in Fort Myers, Florida at Fort Rock with shows currently scheduled to May 10 in Camden, NJ at Susquehanna Bank Center.

Davies and Donovan will be joined by fellow inductees, Graham Gouldman, Mark James and Jim Weatherly at the 45th Annual Induction and Awards Dinner on June 12th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Davies founded The Kinks with his brother Dave in London in 1964. As the band's lead singer and chief songwriter, Ray wrote a string of 14 top ten international hits starting with "You Really Got Me" and followed by "All Day and All of The Night," "Tired of Waiting For You," "Set Me Free," ''Dedicated Follower of Fashion," "Sunny Afternoon," "Waterloo Sunset," "Lola," "Apeman," "Come Dancing" and many more.

The second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Purple Haze" coupled with "51st Anniversary" is being re-released as it was originally issued in the UK and Europe.

Schon issued the following statement: "Rumours couldn't be further from the truth. Arnel and I are solid� VERY SOLID. We are very much looking forward to getting out there this year and kicking some ass.

"We will be in rehearsal for three weeks prior to the tour and we will be revamping things to keep it fresh. I'm also heading to rehearsal with the original Santana band for a record to be recorded later this year titled Santana 4.

"Journey is solid as we are and planning on touring all through 2015 as well as 2014."

"[We've] been here for about a week now. We've done most of the drum tracks. I think we have one more song left to do for drums. I've done bass on eight of the songs. I did seven in one day, which is a lot, but it's kind of cool to knock 'em out when you're in the groove or in the zone."

Few people know The Allman Brothers better than Alan Paul, who's been covering them for over 25 years. One of America's most influential and legendary bands, the story of The Allman Brothers has never been told in full-until now.

Chronicling the band's journey from its formation in 1969 to today, One Way Out offers exclusive musical insights, riveting tales of violence and betrayal, drug and alcohol use, murder allegations, tragic early deaths, and outrageous road stories-as told by the members themselves.

Written in oral history format with the band's full participation, One Way Out is based on exclusive interviews with over 60 people intimately related to the band-including all surviving members. It features never-before-seen photos, letters and memorabilia as well as a foreword and afterword by founding members Butch Trucks and Jaimoe.

His praise comes hot on the heels of the Grammys at which Grohl labelled Paul McCartney a "groundbreaking visionary". The cover which Grohl played alongside Electric Light Orchestra's Jeff Lynne was performed in front of McCartney, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono who each appeared to thoroughly enjoy the performance.

For anyone who spends time on YouTube, Tyler Ward is probably familiar as well. Ward has a very popular YouTube channel where he uploads both covers and original music, with views in the millions for some songs.

BBC reports the jackets, which also appear on the iconic album cover of the film's soundtrack, are from the private collection of "Help!" director Richard Lester.

The Cult spent 2013 on the road playing the Electric 13 world tour, which coincided with the release of the 2-disc set, "Electric Peace." The collection pairs 1987's "Electric" with the group's abandoned "Peace" album, a project The Cult recorded as the follow-up to 1985's "Love." After recording the full album with producer Steve Brown, the group weren't happy with the final results, which seemed too polished.

Dubbed "14 On Fire," the tour is yet another mini-tour with only 13 stops, following the successful "50 & Counting" tours of 2012, and 2013. Watts spoke to The Australian, where he explained the reason for these short tours, rather than a massive world tour:

"This is short compared to what we've done before - but it needs to be, I think, at our tender age. The thought of doing fifty shows, which was normal at one time for us to sign off on, that's quite daunting. Now we're doing that in little bits."

The new deal is presumably for the follow up to the group's debut studio album, The Killer Angels, but the announcement did not specify that a new album was being planned.

The band features former Sabaton members (Daniel Myhr - keyboard, Oskar Montelius - guitar, Rikard Sund�n - guitar, Daniel Mullback - drums) alongside bassist Stefan "Pizza" Eriksson (Volturyon) and singer Nils Patrik Johansson (Astral Doors, Lion's Share).

The tour follows the duo's one-off electric performance at last year's Summer's End festival. The pair originally only intended to take to the road performing music from their acclaimed 2013 album Ravens & Lullabies in acoustic fashion.

They'll join headliners Iron Maiden, Metallica and The Prodigy for the 40th anniversary of rock festivals at Knebworth Park on July 4-6. Says Frank Turner: "I'm excited to be playing Sonisphere this year, and super excited to be playing the same stage as the first band I ever fell in love with - Iron Maiden. It's definitely going to be my festival highlight for 2014."

Recorded in various locations on the 2012 worldwide tour for Howlin Rain's most recent studio full-length The Russian Wilds, the live album features vintage Howlin Rain originals including Roll On The Rusted Days, Dancers At The End Of Time and Hung Out In The Rain. Among the highlights are a storming rendition of The Russian Wilds' Phantom In The Valley and an 11-minute plus version of Self Made Man.

Live Rain features the line-up of songwriter Ethan Miller (lead vocals/guitars), Earthless' Isaiah Mitchell (guitars/backing vocals), Drunk Horse's Cyrus Comiskey (bass/ backing vocals) and Raj Ojha (drums).

Live Rain was recorded by David Streit, mixed by Tim Green and produced by Ethan Miller. It will be released on April 28 via Agitated Records in UK/EU and on the 29th via Silver Current Records in North America and the rest of the world.

Co-founder Steve Babb told Prog last month that the material focuses on some "very dark ideas," adding: "Narcissus is seen on the cover; fans can expect to hear our thoughts on narcissism. Ozymandias, I Am I and the oddly-titled Misantrog are three tracks that deal with narcissism specifically."

After the band released our first EP 'Ctl Alt Kill' we went through a couple line up changes. We took on a new sleek, sexy drummer, and went down to one guitarist. It didn't take long to gather a feel for one another. We meshed together like a twelve year old boy and random boners or cereal and milk, whatever analogy you prefer.

After a couple shows with the new line up it was time for the real test. How would the band work together in writing new material? Amazingly well, it was like a four way match made in heaven. Everyone collaborated well, there was give and take, and it really set the tone for what would really become a great experience. With the attention span of a three year old we decided to focus on and record two single releases, Shine and Vanish. Shine was a real crowd-pleaser. With its sadistic lyrics, groovy guitar licks, sexy bass solo, and double pedal for days it had a lot to offer, so it was a no brainer to record that one.

To record Shine we went back to Michael Beck of Sound Vision Studios. He is a real pro at what he does and a pleasure to work with. He recorded the first EP, so we knew were going to get some high quality work for a good price. It was our drummer's first time in the studio, so it was a beautiful thing to watch him pop his studio cherry. Our guitarist flew his parts like a machine, and our bassist was left with only a few hours of recording. He plays bass so it didn't matter. All in all recording shine was a great bonding experience for the band. The time we shared working on the song is way more valuable than anything we could ever make off the song itself. You can check out the recording adventures here.

Think of all the horribly corrupted, evil people in this world. Anyone who has ever manipulated you for their personal gain, anyone who has lied to your face, or anyone who has treated you like a piece of sh*t to fill some void in their life. The scum that populates this earth.

Now imagine gathering all those people up. Breaking into their fake houses as they sleep, raiding their fancy corporate office's, and taking them against their will. Dragging them to their new fate as they scream and plead for help. Your conscious tells you to stop. There is an internal struggle as you fight against your own morals. Your conscious is telling you not to stoop to their level, and let them go. You're a good person and you want to let them go, but you remember. You remember the times they acted as your friend just to use you. You remember the pain and suffering you went through as they stepped on you for their own personal gain. You remember the deceit, so you march on.

You finally reach your destination. It is a twenty foot pit with an answer to your problem. The answer is a 400 pound lion with an innate thirst for blood. You made it this far and there is no turning back now. You cut their Achilles tendon to make them weak and vulnerable, but leave their hands untied to give them the slightest sense of hope. Your heart is pounding as you kick them into the pit. You watch as they fade into the darkness. You hear their shrieks and their cries for help, but all you can see is the glare from their eyes as you shine your light into the pit.

That my friends is Shine.