Guns N' Roses Have Two New Complete Albums Recorded

Zombie believes long-time guitarist John 5 has the right attitude. "He's been in a million bands, from Marilyn Manson to David Lee Roth. He's been in this band for 10 years. He goes, 'I know it's not better anywhere else.'"

That's at odds with what he thinks is an immature attitude from others he's worked with. "Musicians are weird," he reflects. "Musicians have this real talent for doing the absolute dumbest things to their careers that they could possibly do. You give them two choices and they're always going to pick the wrong one. Always. It's just human nature, I guess."

Lombardo's third stint came to an end last year following a contractual argument. That led to Bostaph's return, also for a third term. The original sticksman recently insisted he'd been involved in all the creative work on the kit. But his replacement disagrees, saying the truth is that Slayer's approach to songwriting means that most drummers would wind up writing similar parts for guitarist Kerry King's songs.

"I heard that Dave wrote all the parts. It's funny - I didn't see him anywhere around when I was working on the music," Bostaph tells Andrew Haug. "When Kerry shows you something he's got in his mind what he wants. There's not a lot of room for the drummer to do anything in the music, but you have to know how to colour it.

The band, which also features Guns N' Roses guitarist DJ Ashba, will be embarking on the tour in support of their third studio album, "Modern Vintage," which was released earlier this week.

The tour will feature support from Apocalyptica and is set to kick off on April 8th in San Francisco at The Regency Ballroom and will conclude on April 29th in Silver Springs, MD at The Fillmore.

Sixx, Ashba and singer James Michael will be joined on the tour by drummer Jeff Fabb (In This Moment, Black Label Society, Filter) and the Apocalyptica will be the supporting act.

Nikki Sixx had this to say about the trek, "Fans have been asking for years 'When is Sixx A.M. gonna tour?' and we've finally announced our first headline tour. We can't wait to play these songs live and put on a rock extravaganza for our fans. We're excited to announce that we're bringing along Apocalyptica as special guest because we are fans of their music and think this is going to be an amazing night of music from beginning to end'.

Apocalyptica's Eicca Toppinen says, 'When we heard about this tour, we loved the idea right away! We were on Nikki's radio show before and had a great time. I really liked Sixx A.M.'s first two albums and am very much looking forward to the new record. Going on tour with Sixx A.M. will bring a great night of music to all our fans."

The Motorhead frontman is still recovering from a series of problems that nearly ended his career - and says one of the tests he underwent revealed the fruit was playing havoc with his health.

Lemmy tells Yahoo Music: "I would get these cravings. They found out there's something in blueberries that isn't good for me, so I stopped and got better.

The 28-year-old, best known as guitarist of indie band The Holloways, passed away during a trip to Thailand where he was trying to clean up. Angel has recalled the pair's final phone conversation on the Urban Voodoo Machine website. He reports: "Robb said, 'We've been mates for ten years this month,' I replied, 'And we'll be mates for many more years to come' - not knowing it would be the last time I ever spoke to him.

"He seemed really positive about life. This time he was going to get well and get his life back on track. Several visits to rehab in the UK had not worked, but this time he was determined to get clean and sorted, be able to look after his family and get back into playing music.

"Robb said, 'I'll be back next month, bro, but I think it's too early for me to go on the road with you guys.' I replied, 'Take your time and get well - but if you're up for it we've started work on the next album, and we've got some tracks that needs your killer fiddle on it.' He said, 'That would be great, can't wait.'

The book will will be slightly larger than an LP, with more than 960 pages of Dylan's poetry, and weigh approximately 13 and a half pounds, according to The New York Times. The book will sell for $200, while an extremely limited version, signed by Dylan himself, will retail for $5,000.

Simmons will launch his 6-date book tour in Los Angeles on October 19; he'll also make stops in New York, New Jersey, Arizona and Illinois. Due October 21, the marketing advice book sees the bassist share his thoughts on business after years working to develop the KISS brand.

The brand has sold over 100 million CDs and DVDs worldwide and manages over 3,000 licensed merchandise items. Simmons and KISS are set to 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 5 and 23.

However, it's unclear what the film would entail - if it's something creating utilizing existing Arcade Fire music or if it will feature something brand new from the band.

But Joseph has certainly worked with the rockers on a video posted to the Lux Artists Ltd. website showcasing a live version of the band's "Afterlife" from 2013's Reflektor.

The 3CD Deluxe Edition/digital download features a Jimmy King photograph from 2013, while the 2CD Edition/Digital Download has a 1975 Steve Schapiro picture; the Double Vinyl features a Mick Rock shot of Bowie at his Haddon Hall home in Beckenham in 1972.

"A different image appears on each use," explains Barnbrook. "The linking theme is Bowie looking in the mirror. Something which was a strong enough 'archetype' to provide an immediately identifiable visual link but make it clear this was a collection of songs through the experience of one person's life, not necessarily a specific concept or period of time as albums tend to be."

Due November 17 (Nov. 18 in North America), the collection presents material from the music icon's 50-year career and include new songs alongside unreleased tracks and greatest hits.

"Nothing Has Changed" will be introduced by the lead single, "Sue (or In A Season Of Crime)", which will debut on Guy Garvey's Finest Hour program on BBC Radio 6 Music this Sunday, October 12.

The corporation brought big names together for a cover of the Beach Boys' 1966 track God Only Knows, led by mainman Brian Wilson and also featuring Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Jools Holland and Chrissie Hynde.

Wilson says: "God Only Knows is a very special song, an extremely spiritual song and one of the best I've ever written. All the artists did such a beautiful job. I can't thank them enough."

The track will be released as a charity single for the BBC's annual Children In Need telethon. The Foos' documentary series Sonic Highways - tied in with their album of the same name - launches on BBC Four on October 26. Queen tour the UK with Adam Lambert in January.

The band will appear alongside Sam Smith, Interpol and Zola Jesus on the long-running series when it airs Tuesday October 21 at 10pm and Friday October 24 at 11.05pm.

U2 recently made headlines when they launched "Songs Of Innocence" at an Apple event by releasing the album free to more than a half a billion iTunes customers.

The group experienced some backlash from non-fans and the music industry, with opponents charging the publicity stunt devalues music as a product while possibly making it harder for new acts to earn a living.

1979 was a strange year in music. A shift in sound had coined a new phrase on the radio, "New Wave". Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers had been lumped carelessly into this category but would soon cast it off with their hit album Damn The Torpedoes.

As the Heartbreakers entered the studio for their third time at bat, suddenly and unexpectedly they were thrown a curve ball when their record label sold the Heartbreakers' recording contract to one of the biggest major labels . Tom refused, sparking a David-vs-Goliath legal battle that lasted months, cost over a million dollars, and nearly bankrupted Tom Petty.

Meanwhile, the drama being played out in the courtroom could not derail Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' first Top Ten hit, "Don't Do Me Like That", providing unlimited musical inspiration for the band's timeless rock anthem "Refugee".

Tom describes to InTheStudio host Redbeard how "Refugee" defined the legal battle that threatened his and the band's future and gave them the strength to win the war.

"Refugee is like you had to leave one place and go to another without really wanting to, or to survive you had to go to another place. I think I was probably saying it to myself, in some sense there. I didn't think I had to live that way or cower down and run away. "

They've described the 12-track title as an "expansion and natural evolution" from their 2012 self-titled debut. Alchemy say: "While retaining the strong sonic identity laid down on Burnt Belief, Etymology features the additional input of three marvellous drummers, Vinny Sabatino, Dean McCormick and Jose Duque, to complement and reinforce the programmed electronic rhythms.

"The album is further enhanced by sensitive, deep electric violin performances from Steve Bingham, also known for his evocative work with No-Man."

Frontman Rou Reynolds says: "We pushed ourselves with some of the rawest angriest vocals we've ever done, as well as some of the most dulcet and delicate. It's even more diverse than normal - we've built more confidence and fearlessness to widen our influences.

"Melody and aggression will always be an important side of what we do, but there's also an effort to concentrate on texture too. Alongside the core of guitar, bass, drums and electronics, there's so much new instrumentation and orchestration.

The album covers a variety of musical styles and features an instrumental cover of Led Zeppelin's Fool In The Rain, with a mandolin taking the place of Robert Plant's vocals.

The vinyl version of the album comes with a download code for the digital release - but Wood reveals he would rather people listened to the physical version than the digital download.

He tells Lisa Seals: "We live in a world of digital obsession. One of the things I wanted to do was offer the album in a vinyl format. One side is all electric, the other is all acoustic and I wanted to be able to do a limited run of vinyl. The idea was to say, 'Hey, I made a record.' It's so easy to digitally create music - I just wanted to do it the hard way."

Mainman Wylde says: "Every time you're going to make a new record you can approach it like Salvador Dali, where you've got a blank canvas in front of you.

"You can paint a little bit, sit back and look at it and go, 'Oh man, let's add a little more red over here; let's make this darker over there.' But live - it's a free-for-all. People are bleeding. There's fire going on. You're getting attacked by grizzly bears�"

With plans for a new album underway, the two men left standing had to move fast to save the group and they recruited Marco Aro for his second spell as frontman before adding drummer Adrian Erlandsson and lead guitarist Ola Englund.

Jensen tells EMP Rock Invasion: "We lost three members back in 2012 due to many reasons. But Peter left the band first. We tried to find a new singer with the four remaining pieces. Then Anders left in August and then Per left a week later. So it was only me and Jonas left.

"I think part of the reason they left was that the two latest albums with that lineup weren't so successful. We were professional musicians for 13 years and you need to have money to put food on the table and to pay your rent.

"If you don't get paid, there's gonna be trouble. So I think that was part of it. And then we also felt disappointed, or frustrated, that people didn't understand Unseen."

Disc one features the best of his work with Roadrunner Records while the second disc features music from his time with Metal Blade Records, making it the only compilation to cover his entire career.

King Diamond is also working on a follow-up to his last album, 2007's Give Me Your Soul... Please and says he is feeling better than ever after his 2010 heart surgery.

The album features live recordings and studio tracks, and includes covers of Motorhead's Killers and Cameo's Word Up and it comes just before they head on the road with Motorhead on their three-date UK jaunt

The German seven-piece outfit take elements from rock, metal, blues, punk, pop and country and have released seven previous albums. Their last was 2013's Flames Of Fame.

The show was the third stop of a 7-date theatre tour of North America for the singer as he launches his latest release, "lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar." Plant's Booklyn sets included three songs from the project alongside a host of reworked Led Zeppelin classics.

"lullaby..." recently landed a US Top 10 debut for the singer, as the project entered the Billboard 200 at No. 10 with opening week sales of 29,000 copies.

The event marked the debut of Trixter guitarist Steve Brown in the band's lineup while Vivian Campbell undergoes a stem cell transplant this fall in his ongoing battle with cancer.

Def Leppard performed "Animal", "Let's Get Rocked" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" at Wembley as NFL cheerleaders danced around the field. Up next, the UK rockers will play three casino shows in California at the end of October.

Godin recently stopped by Grantland contributor Brian Koppelman's "The Moment with Brian Koppelman" podcast, where he shared his thoughts on the two iconic artists in the hour-long episode, Dylan framed as an artist for whom the "search has never ended" in terms of taking risks by Koppelman.

"Bob is a working artist, he's not Jim Morrison," Godin said. "Jim Morrison wasn't a professional, Jim Morrison was an amateur hack who a lot of people admired because he was willing to die in front of us, but he was not a professional. If he was a professional, he'd still be around."

Godin was likely talking about Morrison's professional conduct rather than his output though because, on paper, the Doors were slightly more prolific than Bob Dylan during their active years.

"That's a song I wrote as a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan, who I've always been a huge fan of," says Seger. "I remember the last time I saw Stevie: it was at an Eric Clapton concert and he traded solos with Eric on 'Before You Accuse Me', the old blues song - he did it for like 15 minutes - and it was probably my favorite guitar hero moment of all-time. They were playing so good."

"So I went backstage," Seger continued. "I've known Stevie for a while and Eric� told him how much I loved it and then, unfortunately, three weeks later he died in a helicopter crash."

"I really tried to write this song as if I was trying to channel Stevie," he added. "I was trying to write a song he might have written; that's the whole point of it."

The band also manage to throw in snippets of two songs including "Something From Nothing," a gentle rocker previously teased in a previous trailer which has Grohl singing, "Here lies a city on fire / singing along / the arsonist choir / and I here I go."

Available on DVD, Blu-ray and CD, the event featured rock legends including Rick Wakeman, Micky Moody, Joe Brown and Alfie Boe. Lord passed away July 16, 2012 at the age of 71 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

With Purple, Lord co-wrote many of the group's legendary songs, including "Smoke On The Water," and played with many bands and musicians throughout his career.

After stopping by The Tonight Show, Rivers Cuomo and co. brought their classic era sound to Jimmy Kimmel Live. Performing in front of a banner showing the album's yeti artwork, it felt like no time had passed since they released their classic Blue and Green self-titled albums.

Not only did the band wear clothes that look like they came from the back of their closets, circa 1994, they also played a track that could have come from that time, "Ain't Got Nobody."

Weezer will be taking their throwback album and look on the road soon, embarking on a handful of shows where they'll perform Everything Will Be Alright in the End in full.

Surrounding the success lurks something darker. In front of a packed house outside Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, singer Oliver Sykes took the mic and confessed he's been in rehab for a month combating a ketamine addiction. "I was on it for years. My band wanted to kill me, my parents wanted to kill me, my brother wanted to kill me, everyone wanted to take me to hell but they didn't. They stood by me, they supported me through all that s-t and we wrote Sempiternal because of it."

Radio.com caught up with Sykes and the band's newest member, Jordan Fish, backstage before a performance at the historic Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The two were refreshingly opinionated and thought-provoking.

Sykes explained the album's synth-heavy hit song "Can You Feel My Heart" started out as a much darker track. "We always wanted it to be the first track on the album," said Sykes. "We just kept going over and over and over." It wasn't until they added the "skippy vocals," that it started to take shape and stand apart from the rest. "That's when we said this is cool, this is different. We always dug the song and the direction but to get it to be the first song on the album it had to be perfect."

One song that beckoned an explanation was "Antivist," a track in which Sykes demands the listener to question everything, and more importantly, think through heavy topics before choosing a point of view.

"You can't tell people eating meat is wrong and eat it yourself," says Sykes. "You can't have a go at all the massive oil companies and then drive a car. I see people saying Apple is destroying the earth and yet they're tweeting it from their iPhone. We're just living in a mad world where people think they've got the right to say any old s-t without thinking twice."

The Welsh-born Canadian bluesman recently said: "In some ways I went full circle since my parents played Clapton and Dire Straits when I was growing up. I heard nothing but the best then - and that's what I'm trying to do today."

Frontman Josh McMorran says of the album: "From a musical perspective it has been a completely natural progression. We haven't become more melodic or more brutal - we've enhanced all aspects of the sound we had built up on the first album.

"It's a huge step up in technical ability and songwriting prowess without changing the music enough to alienate our current fans. The album is all about beating your demons and making something of the time you have on Earth while battling the ever-lasting struggles and trials that come with being human."

Waiting has a few different inspirations. I started writing it about 6 months after I had released my last album, Little Red Box. I was looking to go in a slightly different direction from where it was at. I was listening to more alternative rock and alt pop music. So musically it has a bit of that influence. I came up with the drums first then added a mixture of jazz rock and pop in the chord voicings. I also used an Arp 2600 synth from the 70s, along with an electric piano. For the bass, I called my ConFunkShun band mate, Eric EQ Young, who is an amazing funk bass player. He seemed to know exactly what I wanted and what the song needed. So he introduced that heavy melodic solid bass part. Of course, I had to add some tasty percussion because I'm a percussionist and it's my goal to re-introduce real percussion to popular music. At least in all of MY music! There's also a hint of country music too. I grew up listening to all this stuff and it just came out while writing this song.

The story of writing the lyrics came from when I used to rent DVDs from my local video store, before it closed sadly. I would rent ones I had never seen before but weren't current. One day I rented August Rush and it inspired the lyrics to Waiting. Just like the movie, Waiting is about someone trying to find their light in the world, their success. In an autobiographical sense, it's about a person who has been trying to make it but for one reason or another hasn't found their stride, mainly because of themselves. It tells a story of someone who has decided to stop letting their inhibitions get in the way of living life to the fullest. That was me several years ago. The first lyric line of the song "There's a burning ember deep down in my soul, it's better late and found than never at all" is a combination of the way I feel and the way the main character in the movie felt. The song in a way tells the story of me searching for my groove in life and finally finding my path, my voice. While I am still growing and learning, I feel like I'm really hitting my stride in my career and that things are really happening because I've found my voice. Anyway, I hope that Waiting inspires the listener to find their voice and not let fear keep them from living their full potential. I hope you enjoy the rest of my "Love Is" album. Thanks so much for asking me to tell this story.