Roger Waters Reacts To New Pink Floyd Album

Simmons came under fire from other musicians last month after he said that rock had been "murdered" and that it's almost impossible for new bands to make a living in the music industry.

Rob Halford and Dee Snider were among those to reject Simmons' view. Now, Simmons tells Kansas City Live: "Rock and roll is dead. I'm gonna ask you a question, and you decide, okay? From 1958 until 1988, it's 30 years, name hundreds and hundreds of classic rock acts?

"Okay, I've got Elvis Presley, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin on and on and on. Even Motown, Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson.

But Dailor disagrees. He tells Pitchfork: "The last thing that I wanted to do was come on and be defensive, because I don't feel like I should have to defend it. It's a music video and it's really not supposed to be something that gets people this upset because this was really a fun thing that doesn't really mean too much. It's not to be taken so seriously.

"It was just me and Vic live in the studio with no overdubs," says Sammy. "Just two guitars, sometimes one guitar, sometimes just one voice, sometimes two voices."

Hagar previewed the album earlier this year with the release of a rehearsal video for "Halfway To Memphis", a track from his 2006 release, "Livin' It Up!"

Cook County Record reports US. District Judge Robert M. Dow sided with Brad Carlson (stage name Bun E. Carlos) and rejected two motions from the defendants - the other three members of Cheap Trick (lead vocalist Robin Zander, lead guitarist Rick Nielsen and bassist Tom Petersson) and corporate entities associated with it - to dismiss the suit Carlson brought over allegations of breach of contract and trademark infringement.

Carlson claims in his 11-count complaint, which was first filed in 2013 and amended earlier this spring, that the band has sought to lock him out of business decisions and withhold his share of the revenue despite an agreement he argues stipulates otherwise.

Spanning six CDs, 65 songs, liner notes by stalwart Rolling Stone editor David Fricke, two discs of live recordings, mono and stereo mixes of the album and the original pressing, the package celebrates the landmark release in style.

Long-time VU fans will likely be most interested in the previously unreleased album, which was recorded as a means to get out of their record contract with MGM. The album includes 10 previously unreleased mixes of tracks and four that appeared scattered on later releases.

But now he says he was fired during a phone call - and still doesn't know the reasons why. He tells Music Feeds: "I still haven't talked to certain guys in that band, so I really don't know what they were thinking or 100% of the reason why they made the decision they made.

The band's 24-song set featured tracks from their extensive career, beginning with "The Chain" and featuring five tunes that haven't been performed live in more than 16 years: "You Make Loving Fun", "Everywhere", "Over My Head", "Little Lies" and the final encore, "Songbird."

The trek sees the return of keyboardist McVie, creating a reunion of the group's hugely successful mid-1970s lineup, which cranked out hit albums like 1975's self-titled release, 1977's "Rumours" and 1979's "Tusk."

McVie previously joined the group for a one-off reunion last fall during a show at London's 02 Arena. Christine returned to the stage for a performance of the 1977 hit, "Don't Stop", which she wrote and sang on and reached No. 3 on the US singles charts as part of the smash "Rumours" album.

And along with a range of Slipknot-themed sights and sounds, the band are planning on giving the event its very own scent - by burning camel dung in oil drums throughout the festival grounds.

The group's percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan tells Rolling Stone: "We did the camel dung on the first Knotfest. It was awesome, it was beautiful. Fans came into the museum and they had to be hit with camel sh*t - a very distinct smell.

They returned to action earlier this year and just completed their first-ever cruising festival, and they'll return to the UK next month. Lemmy tells Full Metal Jackie: "We'll probably go in in January to start.

Due October 14, the book sold-out of its limited-edition run of 2,500 copies upon its initial release in 2010, becoming the fastest-selling book in Genesis Publications' 40-year history.

Page has chosen photographs representing the most significant moments in his career: from a schoolboy with a rock-a-billy quiff through his extensive work as a session musician; from The Yardbirds through Led Zeppelin, ARMS, The Firm, Outrider, Coverdale & Page and Page & Plant; playing with Roy Harper and The Black Crowes; collaborating with P. Diddy and performing with Leona Lewis at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

According to bassist Adam Clayton, who spoke to Q, the band have already finished the majority of their next album. "I think we've probably got 70 percent of the material that we think will go onto it," he said. "The 30 percent that we're missing I think we'll be able to generate relatively easily. But the amount of energy it will take to refine the perspective of those songs is hard to predict."

As for how it will be released? Considering the alleged title of their follow-up is Songs of Experience, you can likely expect that they will drop the album with some fanfare - and they might even invent another new album release method.

Drummer Lars Ulrich predicted after Metallica's appearance that AC/DC would be next year's top act at Worthy Farm. But Fleetwood Mac are at 4/1 to headline the Pyramid Stage, putting them ahead of AC/DC and Muse, who are also 5/1.

AC/DC, who teased the track Play Ball last weekend to promote Major League Baseball's upcoming playoff games, will release new album Rock Or Bust on December 1 which they recorded without mainman Malcolm Young. He'll not return to the band due to health issues, with nephew Stevie Young stepping in to record and tour with the Aussie giants.

Sweet tells Totally Driven Radio: "Album sales don't equate to followers on Facebook and Twitter. If you have a million followers on Facebook and sell 10,000 copies of an album, something's wrong.

"There are reasons that play into it, obviously, such as people just don't buy music these days, people download, the economy's bad, people don't have the money - it goes on and on. But there's still something deeply puzzling about that."

Slash and the band played at the Troubadour on September 23, The Roxy on September 25, and finally the Whisky A Go Go on September 26. "It was nice to play the Troubadour, but we've been playing in arenas for so long I was like, 'Wow, this is tiny!' I love playing small gigs like that when you get a chance to do it," Slash told LA Magazine the day after the gig.

Since Slash and his cohorts have just released their latest album World On Fire those songs were of course the focus of the show, with songs like "Bent To Fly," "30 Years to Life," and the title track. The setlists for the three shows were fairly similar each night, all containing twenty songs, and all ending with "Paradise City" - a must when you're playing in LA.

The British metal outfit's 11th album has been given the working title Hammer Of The Witches and they say they'll start recording sessions on November 24, after an October tour which starts in Russia.

It will be released on four formats - DVD and 2CD, Blu-ray and 2CD, 2CD and digitally. Frontwoman Sharon Den Adel recently announced the band were lined up to play Bloodstock 2015 - their first appearance at the event in 10 years.

She said: "When we played there for the first time, it was still indoors. The festival has grown so much and I think we've also grown throughout the years. So meeting up after 10 years is really something we're looking forward to. iIt's going to be a cool weekend."

Nesmith's debut novel, The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora appeared in 1998 and saw Nesmith operating in a mystical New Mexico landscape as he span a quasi-autobiographical tale about a spiritual road trip.

CNN welcomed his birth as an author saying the book "serves notice that a compelling literary career may be just beginning. Michael Nesmith, hats off."

The bassist is also the lead singer and guitar player in The Guessing Game. Singer and WWE wrestler Jericho says: "I'm very excited to welcome Jeff into the band.

"His attitude, energy, charisma and playing skills instantly make Fozzy a better band and we are looking forward to a long, prosperous and sexy relationship with him."

McCall says: "Ever since I started Parkway I had friends in the bodyboarding community who were curious. They would see my tattoos and hear my music and try to wrap their heads around it.

He says: "We will be playing a couple of new tracks from our upcoming EP Restoration, which will be released around the time of the tour.

"It's our first full-length UK tour and we're massively excited to be playing to some new people in some new places. We will be sharing the stage with the amazing Leprous and Maschine. Both bands are incredibly talented so we can't wait to see what they have in store."

TeamRock's Metal Hammer had this to say about the album: Having spent the past two years fine tuning their own brand of rapid-fire, snarling hardcore (and turning the volume up in the process), it's a high-octane car chase of carnage.

Clocking in at just 22 minutes it's something fresh and fist-pumping from the Greensboro grinders. If your music collection has a leaning toward the likes of Converge, Nails and even Napalm Death then jam this into your lugholes.

antiMusic: We talked about this in our last interview but for those who don't know about it, tell us about how close you came to being a member of Black Sabbath.

Prophet: Well this is a good story because a lot of bands will say, if you get offered a Monday night show or whatever, they'll say "Oh that show doesn't matter." But one day Franco Gagliano who owns The Mason Jar in Phoenix which was the Whiskey-A-Go-Go of Arizona...it was the most famous metal club ever. It's gone now which is really sad. But everybody played The Mason Jar including members of Black Sabbath.

So Franco calls one day and get Marge on the phone and says, "Can you do me a favour? I had a band pull out on me this coming Monday. Is there any way you guys can come down and play?" And because we love Franco so much...because we didn't play Mondays anymore. It was always Fridays or Saturdays. But we said, "Franco as a favour to you, of course we'll do it."

So we go and there's probably 30 people in the whole place. We were lucky to have that on a Monday, I thought. And we do our show and afterwards I'm sitting with my then-girlfriend and I'm smoking a cigar --- you could smoke in the clubs back then --- and I'm covered in blood and face paint. Marge comes running up to me and says, "Pat, you have to come with me right now. There's a man who wants to talk to you and it's something big."

So I get up and start walking towards the bar. Franco cuts me off and looks at me and says, "Pat, you listen to me. This guy who wants to talk to you. He's real and he's interested in you." And Franco was so excited. So now I'm really like, what the hell is going on? So I walk up to this guy and I don't recognize him. He shakes my hand and says, "Hi, I'm John Baxter. I manage Rob Halford." And I'm just in my mind like woah, Rob Halford? He goes, "You've got a hell of a band there. The problem is, I'm not looking for a band." I said, "Well, what are you looking for?" And he says, "A vocalist." And I'm thinking, well you already have Rob Halford, what the f*ck do you need? You've got THAT guy. He's the guy."

So I say, "Well for what?" And he says, "Black Sabbath." And immediately I could feel all the blood rush out of my legs and I said, "Could you repeat that?" And he goes, "For Black Sabbath." This was around January of 1997. And he says to me, "A lot of people don't know this but Rob actually joined Black Sabbath and they were planning a world tour and they were going to write an album but six months ago, Rob and Tony Iommi had a falling out. So now Tony Iommi has been auditioning guys for about six months. He hates every one of them. Doesn't like any of them. And I came out tonight just to hang out and I looked up there and I can see that you sound a bit like Ozzy and you move a bit like Ozzy. Do you think you could cover Black Sabbath music?"

I say, "Oh yeah. They're one of my favourite bands of all time."

He says, "I think I can get you an audition. Would you be interested in auditioning for Black Sabbath?"

And I say, "Well yeah. Sure. I would be glad to do it." So he says...and this is the truth what this man told me...he said, "I think you're the guy. I believe if you audition with them, they're going to take you because I know what Tony likes and you're the guy. And if you get the gig, then you're going to be doing me a favour too because you're going to put me and Rob in Tony's good graces again because we helped him find a singer."

So he gave me his card and he says call me on Friday. So the next four days I barely slept (laughs) and don't know how much I ate but I was pretty jazzed up. So I called him on the Friday and he immediately said, "Pat, you're not going to believe what just happened. Ozzy has literally just agreed to rejoin Sabbath and they're planning a world tour."

And half of me was jumping up and down going "Ozzy's back in Sabbath. F*ck yeah!!" And the other half of me was doing the 'ol Maxwell Smart thing, 'Missed it by that much.' Now I'm not saying I would have got the gig because I don't know what would have happened but it sure would have been an honour to go in there and play a song with Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler and hopefully Bill Ward. But you know what, just having Rob Halford's manager approach me and think that I was good enough to audition for Sabbath is like someone just handing me a Grammy. I was so honoured by that. I never take any of that stuff lightly, Morley. Every little thing...or big thing...that's come to our band, I never take it lightly because here today, gone later today like David Lee Roth says.

If you've got good things going on, be grateful. And stay a little bit humble. Humility goes a long way in this world. There's nothing worse than someone who's all into themselves. It's one thing when fans call you a legend or the king of metal or whatever, but when the artists start calling themselves that, it's a turn-off. It's important to keep humility because that's what keeps us teachable. When we stop being humble, we stop being teachable because we think we know everything.

So any award or gig we've played.....I mean, I said before that I was a huge Van Halen fan and we actually got to open for Van Halen a few years back. It was when they had Gary Cherone and I wasn't into at all but it was still playing for Eddie, Alex & Michael. They were playing with Monster Magnet and our stage was right near theirs. As our last note was ending, they were just starting it up. I could look over my shoulder and they were right there. What an honour!

I've got to do so many cool things in my life, Morley. Gosh, I could die right now and I've had a very full life in music.

"Most of these songs were written between 1969 and 1987," Nicks said in a press release. "One was written in 1994 and one in 1995. I included them because they seemed to belong to this special group.

"Each song is a lifetime. Each song has a soul. Each song has a purpose. Each song is a love story," she added. "They represent my life behind the scenes, the secrets, the broken hearts, the broken hearted and the survivors. These songs are the memories - the 24 karat gold rings in the blue box. These songs are for you."

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

Guests include Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, The Cure, Brian Wilson, Alice Cooper, Def Leppard, Dr John, Yusuf, Barry Gibb, Jamie Cullum, KISS, Chrissie Hynde, ELO's Jeff Lynne, and many more.

Simmons was speaking with paparazzi as he wandered through the terminal when the incident was caught on tape. KISS will follow in the footsteps of several rockers when they play their first Las Vegas residency this fall.

After reviewing the viability of successful extended Vegas runs by Carlos Santana, Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Rod Stewart and Meat Loaf, among others, "KISS Rocks Vegas" will see the band perform 9 shows at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino between November 5th and 23rd.

He and Fugazi mainman MacKaye are among the stars interviewed for Salad Days, which investigates the Washington DC hardcore punk scene that spawned Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Void, Henry Rollins' State Of Alert and many others. It focuses on the music, people and records that changed the course of music history.

In the trailer, Grohl says: "I have heroes that I would get nervous around. I know Ian and HR are just normal dudes, but those f***ing people changed my life."

"It's a good gateway into the record," singer Gavin Rossdale recently told USA Today. "The record gets a bit wider and probably a little darker. This is just the right way in."

Due October 21,, the band's sixth release was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters, Mastadon) at Studio 606, the Northridge, California-based studio owned by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.

"I thought he would never let me get to sentimental, sonically or lyrically," Rossdale says of Raskulinecz. "I thought he would keep it muscular, live and animalistic, which is what I really wanted."

The band say in a statement: "We seemed to have caused some confusion with us releasing a greatest hits record. So we're here to clarify a few things. We are not breaking up - this is not the end of Billy Talent, it's quite the opposite. It's more of a celebration of the songs we've released over the years for our loyal fans to reminisce over.

"As for the two new songs, we just thought it would be a nice way to show the beginning of our career to where we are now. They are really cool and we hope you dig them."

They add: "We are knee-deep working on songs for our new record and it's going to kick ass. We've no timelines yet, but it's going better than we could have ever imagined."

Sayce says: "This song is definitely one of the heaviest songs, if not the heaviest song on the album. It comes from a very hurt, sad, dark place. It's about being screwed over in the music business."

Born in Wales, Sayce moved to Toronto as a child and reveals seeing Eric Clapton live at the city's Maple Leaf Gardens had a huge influence on him.

He continues: "This groovy version of Crossroads had such an impact on me. It was that musicianship which laid the foundation for me. What Clapton did was very different from what many younger artists do today. It's about spilling your heart out."

Radio.com: There's a lot of conflicting accounts online to what you've said the song's about. If I list them, can you tell me if they're true or false? Brian Vander Ark: Sure, whatever you like.

One Verve Pipe fan site says it was inspired by a conversation you heard at a party? Yeah. How much of that made into the song? What was that about?

Well, it was a combination of a lot of different things. When I'm writing something, usually the initial burst of creativity could come from anywhere. Whether that be at a party or talking in a conversation with someone could be a particular part of that song�it's really just a matter of me carrying a notebook around and writing little things here and there-which is what I do, I still do that today. Whether it makes it into a song or not, it all depends if the song comes together melodically and if I feel like it's valid. I wrote the song back in 1988, whatever I heard that sparked the initial�that particular moment could've been the first few lines. It's hard to tell.

The actual story is that I went out with a girl and my buddy went out with the girl, and we passed her back and forth. And then he got her pregnant and she ended up committing suicide. But she didn't commit suicide, [that was] poetic license to make it sound more dramatic. I mean, little bits and pieces come from everywhere. "She was touching her face" was me watching�I had the television on while I was writing the song and the Divinyls song "I Touch Myself" comes on. She was touching her face, I'll put that in there, that sounds interesting. It's not like I sit down and write a story all in one sitting. The lyrics for that were written in my car driving from job to job, gig to gig, while stringing tennis racquets in a sporting goods store.

Around when did you tell the press that it was about an actual ex-girlfriend's suicide? Or did that not happen? Yeah, I don't know. The person it was written about did not commit suicide, so that was fabricated. So whether I said that or not, I don't know.

Vocalist Andi Kravljaca says: "The Entity is the perfect vehicle for the sound of Aeon Zen. Dripping with eight-string goodness, it sets the stage for Ephemera's story."

The Algorithm's remix of the track appeared as the B-side to last month's single Unite. The follow-up to 2012's Enigma is on sale now. Aeon Zen play at ProgPower Europe on October 4, then at the Barfly in London alongside Voyager and Agent. Further live dates will be announced in due course.

Sixx and new wife, model Courtney Bingham, put the property on the market after buying an expansive mansion in Westlake Village for $4.125 million.

Set on a third-acre corner lot and designed for entertaining, the stone-clad Calabasas house features wood floors, an office with built-ins, a loft, a music room/home theater, four bedrooms and five bathrooms. A waterfall sits in the garden courtyard.

This song began on a beach in Spain and took many forms before we put it in a box for a couple of years. For some reason bill Ryder Jones remembered it from a long time ago and suggested we bring it back to life. So now it lives there on the album, among the book of songs.

Lyrically... Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck is a book that was on our bookshelves at that time, which might have influenced the song. Or maybe not. Take from the song what you will.

We have a rough idea of what it's about but the listener breathes new life and new meaning into the song. It means something different each time we play it. We often much prefer when someone looks into our window and tells us what they've seen.