Queen Streaming Unreleased Freddie Mercury Song

"Rock music was born in these towns, and for some reason these places tend to get overlooked much more than they should," says singer Chester Bennington. "We want our fans there to know how much they matter to us."

"The Hunting Party" debuted at No. 3 on the US Billboard 200 earlier this year. The band's sixth album sold 110,000 copies in its opening week for the top 5 showing.

"The Endless River" features material recorded by David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason during sessions for 1994's "The Division Bell", and serves as the band's tribute to Wright, who died from cancer in 2008 at the age of 65.

The album is billed as a four-sided instrumental release with the lead single, "Louder Than Words", featuring new lyrics by Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson.

He bowed out of the 2012 reunion that led to last year's album 13, saying he hadn't been offered a contract he regarded as "signable." Now Ozzy tells Billboard: "I would absolutely love that; we all would. We were all sad he didn't come the last time.

"But I don't deal with the dough and the business side. That's my wife's job. The thing is, when you've got four guys with four different agendas and managers, it gets pretty crazy. I just go, 'You do what you've got to do, Sharon. I'll do what I've got to do.'"

Jordison's shock departure came in January ahead of sessions for the band's fifth album, released last month. His replacement is believed to be Jay Weinberg, son of Bruce Springsteen's drummer Max, although the band don't plan to confirm the identities of him or their new bassist.

Taylor tells The Jasta Show: "I'm not going to talk about Joey's life and people need to realise that. There's legalities, but at the same time, there's respect.

"I'm not going to sit here and dog somebody that I spent 15 years building up something amazing with. And the fans need to understand that. Most of them do; but there's always going to be those people who just want a little more so they can talk sh*t. That's the only reason they want the full story: so they can talk sh*t."

He adds: "The only way I've been able to sum it up is that sometimes you're on the same road and you'll reach a T-section. Sometimes you turn together, sometimes you split. This time we split - and it was just that simple. We just weren't able to work any more, and that's it."

The move sparked outrage among artists including Michael Sweet and Iggy Pop. And while admitting it's a complex issue, Reznor insists the music business has changed. He tells Billboard: "It's something I spent a lot of time thinking about. I think paying for music is a relic of an era gone by - and I'm saying that as somebody who hopes you pay for music.

"I've spent my life trying to make this thing that now everybody now thinks should be free. With U2, there was an incentive to get in front of as many eyes as possible. I can see what was appealing to them about that and they're getting paid for it.

"There's the argument, 'Did that help further devalue music?' Yes, I think it did. When you put your music on, or allow your music to be on YouTube, is that devaluing music? There's a whole generation of kids that listen to music on You Tube. They're not going to pay a dollar for that song - why would you? it's a complex problem."

And there may be a lot more to come from Allman in 2015; in a recent interview, he told Radio.com that he is mulling two new albums. The first would be a follow-up to 2011's Low Country Blues, which was produced by T Bone Burnett and featured mostly blues covers. He also mentioned that he's planning to cut an album called All Compositions By Gregg Allman with Don Was, where he'll re-record some of his favorite songs that he's written through his career.

His backing group includes Allman Brothers Band percussionist Marc Quinones, but the band itself is rather different than the ABB, with just one guitarist (instead of two), one drummer (instead of two) and a three piece horn section.

He sang with the band but bass duties were handled by current bassist Michael Shuman. The Mondo Generator frontman earlier joined QOTSA on stage in April for one song, where he also appeared without his bass. Oliveri said ahead of the Halloween show that he felt awkward without his instrument.

A statement reads: "Jack Bruce's family would like to thank everyone for the kind words and messages from around the world, with friends and fans sharing in their grief.

"Jack's private funeral will be held on Wednesday 5th November at 10am, Golders Green Crematorium, London. He always liked a good audience, so fans are welcome to cheer his arrival at the final 'gig.'"

He tells the Cleveland Scene: "You think these f***ing directors were making War And Peace - they were only three-minute videos. "When I was making the video for Mama, I'm Coming Home, I went to this sky blue room and had to get a side of pork and walk across the room. I thought, 'What the f*** does this mean? This is going to cost $900,000.'

Tremonti says: "I think people's waning interest in Gene Simmons as a person is what's making him say that. I would say that maybe a portion of his career is dead - but the rest of us are still out there and loving it and doing it.

The veteran music man has worked with a host of bands including Zeppelin, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, the Eagles, Eric Clapton and the Small Faces.

And in his upcoming memoir Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits With The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, and The Faces� he also reveals he hasn't come down from the high of hearing Zep in the studio for the first time, saying he was "completely blown away."

He tells Music Radar: "We were putting the Stones' Rock And Roll Circus together around the same time and I took an acetate of the album into a production meeting. I told them, 'This is going to be huge,' but Mick Jagger wasn't interested in hearing it. I dragged George Harrison into Olympic Studios to listen to it. He didn't get it, strangely. I still think that album is their best - it shook everything from the roots.

He tells Loudwire: "The really cool part about it is that we went to do this tour and all four members feel the strongest we ever have and the happiest we ever have - we just can't wait for the next thing to come.

Frequency Unknown was released in 2013 but was criticized for the quality of its mix. Record label Cleopatra Records hired producer Billy Sherwood, of Yes fame, to remix the record but he never got round to completing the task until now.

Released in November 1971, the band's fourth album - which is officially untitled but is generally referred to as "Led Zeppelin IV" - features anthems such as "Stairway To Heaven", "Rock And Roll", "Black Dog" and "When The Levee Breaks". The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1999 and has been certified 23x platinum by the RIAA.

Released in March of 1973, "Houses Of The Holy" features "The Song Remains The Same" and "No Quarter" while showcasing the continuing evolution of the band's signature sound with the reggae-tinged "D'yer Mak'er" and the funk jam "The Crunge". The album has been certified diamond by the RIAA for sales of over 11 million copies.

The pair had hoped he'd live long enough to appear on the track himself. But they've launched it as a tribute to him instead - with all proceeds going to cancer charities.

Wilson explains: "Alec had been passionate about our music, actively helping out with promotion as a leading member of the Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson street teams from the tender age of 17, and setting up a street team for Mariusz in 2010.

The broadcast, which will run throughout December, features Sambora performing solo material plus Bon Jovi hits at New York City's The Iridium, the club where Les Paul famously staged weekly performances until his death in 2009.

"I jammed with him everywhere, from Fat Tuesday's to The Iridium," Sambora told Gibson.com, in a 2012 interview. "His life was a model. He stressed the importance of always keeping busy, of having things to do, and keeping your mind flexible and nimble. Of course he also stressed the importance of continuing to play. The guy played those Monday night shows until he was 93."

Crosby criticised Young for his relationship with actress Daryl Hannah, describing her as "a purely poisonous predator." Young filed for divorce from his wife Pegi earlier this year. In the wake of Crosby's attack, Young said he'd never work with CSNY again.

Nash tells Interrobang: "Whatever Neil wants to say is fine with me. It would be sad to me if the music of Crosby Stills Nash and Young didn't go forward because of an inappropriate statement by David to Neil about his relationship with Daryl Hannah.

Due November 10 (Nov 11 in North America) and available on CD/DVD, Blu Ray and digital download, "Heart & Friends" features a hometown performance by the Seattle band and guests singing holiday classics, personal favorites and some of their own hits.

Sammy Hagar, Richard Marx, Shawn Colvin and Pat Monahan from Train joined Heart for the seasonal concert, which was taped on December 12, 2013 at the Benaroya Symphony Concert Hall in Seattle.

And he's been so touched by the reaction to the release of the career-spanning collection by fans, he's issued a statement on his website thanking them. He says: "Amy and I continue to be grateful for the many kind comments, observations and insights on the entire box set from all of you.

"Realising so many of you have noticed the detail and care that went into every aspect; the story, the music, the photos, the concept and packaging; this means so very much to us and everyone involved. Thanks for your keen eyes and ears and spreading the word for us. Hopefully, more listeners will continue to become aware of this work."

It's a fascinating time capsule of where Cobain was at sonically, because it's so different from the band's album which would follow. On the mixtape, unearthed by Dangerous Minds, Cobain tinkers with noise rock, layering samples from the radio and his home collection of recordings along with sounds and drones. By the time he made it, noise rock - an offshoot of Krautrock - was in full swing in San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., especially.

Cobain's take on it spans 15-plus minutes and includes moments from Jimi Hendrix's speech at the Monterey Pop Festival, Fred Flintstone screaming after his bowling ball, the Jackson Five's "ABC," James Brown's "Hot Pants" and, most surprisingly, William Shatner's cover of "Wild Thing."

Cobain would have painstakingly compiled each sample from its source manually, well before YouTube or Spotify existed, using a four-track cassette recorder.

There is such a thing as too much of a good thing, as Ozzy Osbourne knows all too well. In this 1987 interview, he discusses his daughter Kelly's intense fandom of Bon Jovi: "My daughter's a Bon Jovi freak," he exclaims. "She thinks the sun shines out of his you-know-what."

In 1987, of course, Bon Jovi was one of the biggest stars on the planet, thanks to the prior year's Slippery When Wet, which included monster hits like "Livin' On A Prayer," "You Give Love a Bad Name," "Wanted Dead or Alive" and "Never Say Goodbye." Alas, even those catchy tunes can get tiresome after repeated listening. At least, according to Ozzy.

"She listens to it all day long!" he complained. "I met him the other week and he's a real nice guy. And he's really worked hard for it, and whether you like his music or not, he deserves [his success] because he's a nice guy!"

But still, he points out, "Enough of anything is enough! I can't stand to hear any music too much. Too much music of any sort gives you a headache." Somewhere, the parents of kids who played Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" over and over were smiling.

"Arguably one of the most iconic drum intros in rock, and playing it is a holy grail for a lot of drummers," says Rhythm of the "1984" single. "Alex Van Halen steps out of his guitarist brother Eddie's shadow to shine with a blistering drum solo before kicking into a furious double-bass shuffle in a flurry of kick drum notes."

Rush's 1980 track, "The Spirit Of Radio", lands in second spot, followed by tunes by Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin, Queens Of The Stone Age and more.

The song is featured on Nicks' "24 Karat Gold - Songs From the Vault", a collection of lost and stray songs that the singer has written and recorded through the years, but never made it onto an album.

The selections were all newly-recorded earlier this year in Nashville. Nicks is currently on a North American tour with Fleetwood Mac. The singer will host a Q&A session on her Facebook page on Wednesday, November 5 at 3:45 PM EST.

So it is with much anticipation and a great hope that it is not a joke that news can be shared that Anderson and Mothersbaugh want to make a theme park. (via CoS).

"I hope to soon secure the means to commission the construction of an important and sizable theme park to be conceived and designed entirely by Mark Mothersbaugh," Anderson says in the foreword of Mothersbaugh's new book of visual art, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia.

"'Let It Be' sounds like a hymn, and because it says 'mother Mary,' people assume it's a religious song, but it isn't," explains Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. "'Mother Mary' is Paul's mother Mary - his mother was Mary McCartney - and Paul was 26 when he wrote this. He was 14 when his mother died, so only 12 years earlier that she had died..... [In the song] he's in trouble, he's having a troubled moment, and his mother comes to him and says, 'Don't worry, son, everything will be all right. The answer will come. Let it be, let the answer be.'"

Due November 17 (Nov 18 in North America), "The Art Of McCartney" features a variety of artists joining the former Beatle's long time band to perform songs from the bassist's legendary songwriting catalog.

The December 18 performance at Virginia's Hampton Coliseum was originally broadcast as "The World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Party" on pay-per-view and in closed circuit cinemas, becoming the first pay-per-view music event.

It's the first release from the Stones new From The Vault series, which will be followed on November 17 with "From The Vault - LA Forum - Live In 1975."

It opens with a tarot reader asking, "Is there something you wish to know?" Mainman Robb Flynn replies, "What does the future hold?" and the mystic answers, "Change is coming - a great battle is upon you."

The two-minute clip follows the first installment which appeared last week and clocked in at nearly double the length. Flynn recently admitted the making of their eighth studio work had been more of a challenge than they'd anticipated. It forced them to cancel a US tour, which landed them in trouble with fans of planned support act Children Of Bodom.

But he insisted: "We feel this record is a milestone; we have something truly special here. I feel proud, man - I just feel like we killed it on this thing."

It was shot during the band's Abacab tour in North America, and after its original VHS release it's only previously been available on DVD as a box set.

Eagle Rock say: "As always with Genesis, the show is visually stunning and it captures the band in their transition from their progressive days in the seventies through to the hugely successful pop/rock act they became from the mid-eighties onwards."

The Prog Award-nominated Isreali outfit launched the follow-up to 2012's Utopia in July, vowing to deliver a "heavier, more focused and mature" work. The launch followed a successful crowdfunding campaign.