Van Halen Wanted To Release Lost Early Recordings

"I first met Kiko around 8 years ago for a cover shoot for Burrn! Magazine," says Dave Mustaine. "I had no idea who he was, other than the fact he was tremendously talented and that the staff from Burrn! held him in high regard.

"We're floating the idea of playing the whole album," frontman Mick Jagger tells Rolling Stone. "At the very least, we'll play the songs we don't normally play."

A deluxe version of the album hits stores on May 26, which will no doubt figure into the decision. One concern of Jagger's is that the disc contains a preponderance of slow-tempo songs-"Normally we just [perform] one or two ballads," he says-but the band plans to explore the idea in rehearsals nonetheless.

There's no completion date for the follow-up to 2008's Death Magnetic, although drummer Lars Ulrich recently said they were aiming to include some of the material in this year's summer shows.

Trujillo tells Rolling Stone: "We're working on these songs, we are being productive and having fun." Asked whether the music feels like an extension of Death Magnetic, he replies: "I can't say that yet. I can't relate it to any album - I think every Metallica album is unique."

The video itself has DeLonge standing alone in a black leather jacket and cuts to clips of him lashing out and breaking everything he sees in sight at the studio, including a TV, computer, drum kit and lamps with his electric guitar.

AC/DC will launch their 2015 live dates when they headline the 2015 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on Friday April 10 and Friday April 17; the band will then kick off a European tour May 5 in Arnhem, Netherlands.

Now he tells the Herald Sun about his recovery: "It's going as well as can be expected. I will be strapped for another year. The whole finger came off pretty much, so the recovery was never going to be fast."

Co-written by Bowie and Enda Walsh, the production - directed by Ivo van Hove (Hedda Gabler, More Stately Mansions, Obie Awards) - is inspired by the 1963 novel, "The Man Who Fell To Earth" by Walter Tevis, and centers on the character of Thomas Newton, previously portrayed by Bowie in the 1976 sci-fi screen adaptation directed by Nicolas Roeg.

He tells Artists Direct: "With Linkin Park, things are pretty literal. Writing for STP, I get to be a lot more poetic - I get to be a lot more clever with my wording. It makes it fun because I get to be more colorful.

Smith released the following statement to fans via the group's official website: "To our fans�After 10 years of being a part of this unbelievable journey it saddens me to say that I will be leaving Panic. This was not an easy decision to come to, but after a lot of thinking it became clear that this is what's right for me and the band. I love this band with all my heart, and getting to see it grow from 4 kids in my parents garage to what it is now has been incredible. I loved it all. But, at a certain point, I realized that I wasn't able to be there for the band the way I wanted to be, and more importantly, the way they needed me to be.

"I consider myself extremely lucky to have been surrounded by the people I have been all these years. They truly are my best friends. A few years ago, when my addiction grabbed hold, and wouldn't let go, they could have easily kicked me out, and never looked back, but they didn't. Instead, they encouraged me to seek treatment, and gave me the time I needed to get my life back in order. They helped me through those rough times, and now, on the other side, with two years sobriety from prescription medication, and working on a year sobriety from alcohol, I am nothing but grateful for all they have done. It's things like that that always made this band feel more like a family to me than anything else.

"When we were together in the studio or on stage I wasn't with co workers at a job, I felt at home with my brothers. Looking back over the past decade I still have to pinch myself to believe it was all real. I still remember waiting all day to get out of school so we could go write songs, and record demos on a drum machine and a 30 dollar keyboard. I remember being so nervous when Pete came to town to watch us play the only 3 songs we had, and then going to Del Taco where he treated us to a well deserved meal (as any self respecting AnR guy should). I remember pulling all night triple shifts driving around the country in a conversion van with a single axle trailer on our first tour.

"Im going to miss it all. Staying up all night writing songs, and recording them over and over until my hands would bleed. Catching red eye flights to get to a photo shoot or video shoot, and being so delirious on set we never thought we'd stop laughing. Explaining to our manager that I wanted to perform on top of a ten foot tall carousel and have a caged tiger on stage, and being surprised when that didn't seem 'totally reasonable' to everyone else. I'm going to miss the good interviews, the bad interviews, and the interview in Germany when we were asked 'your new album doesn't seem to be as good as your last�why?'. Or being in rural China where I'm almost positive we were served horse, but we ate it anyway so we wouldn't offend the women who spent all day cooking for us, and you know what, it was pretty good. Or the time we were stranded in a Russian airport for 20 hours, and the only thing that kept us sane were the funny pictures or videos of encouragement you would send us. All of those moments that made me want to say, 'I've had enough, this is crazy, I quit!' those are some of my favorite memories now. But what will stick with me the most is showing up in city after city and finding more and more of you who had learned the lyrics to all our songs, or had made home made t-shirts with our faces surrounded in puff paint, or baked us cookies from your grandmas secret recipe and put a single hair in each one (ok, that one was a little creepy�creepy, but delicious). For me, that's what made it all so surreal. Yes, getting to travel around the world with my friends was no doubt some of the best memories of my life, but it was what happened during that hour and a half on stage each night that was truly magic.

Leach tells TeamRock: "They've finished demoing - I'm just getting started myself. It sounds amazing. I'm really stoked." He adds: "Every guy has brought their own style to it and there's some different stuff going on.

"It's like camping. You've got a nice tour bus, so it's glamorous camping, but it's hard travelling all the time. It's a lot of work, and you really have to get used to it. You've really got to love it. If you're a homebody and like being in your own bed every night, seeing your dog and having your favorite food, this is not the job for you."

Now the vocalist reports they the band is back at Mad Hat Studios, Staffordshire, to record the follow-up to 2014's Escape From The Shadow Garden.

Catley says on Facebook: "It's sounding pretty good so far. Tony Clarkin is doing some guitar parts and I'll be doing some singing pretty soon when he's got some lyrics for me. I think it's going to be a really strong, rocking album as usual.

He says in the latest episode of FreqsTV's Ghosts Of The Road series: "It's important for me - not to sound like Bono from U2 - but it's important to see how excited these people are that we came to their country to play, how long they've been waiting and how crazy they go at the show.

"A kid gave me a postcard from the town he was from, it was 330 kilometres from Sofia in Bulgaria and he had to work the next day. He's like, 'You can read it later, it's kind of a cliche but I wanted to give it to you.' I read it the next morning and I'm like, 'This is great.'

"He was just saying how, even though he had to take a train at 12.30am for a few hours and get up early to go to work, being able to go to the show was what was keeping him going. He had been waiting so long to see the band. That means a lot to me. That the music I make can change somebody from across the world's life in a positive way."

He continues: "I'm just as excited to hit the stage tonight as I was when I was 19-years-old doing Judas Priest cover songs. If you don't still have that same good, nervous, butterfly feeling when you're getting ready to play, then you're just going through the motions.

Organizers have revealed most of the lineup and the initial dates for the trek which will also feature Entombed AD, Hate Eternal, Black Crown Initiate and Svart Crown.

And in the third and final part of a documentary series on the making of the album, 'Lags' says more thought has gone into the writing this time. He adds: "We're writing songs now. I feel like throughout Gallows' career there used to be a lot of cut and paste riffs going on.

"On the first album, very little thought went into the songwriting there. I literally just showed the guys the riffs and that was it. We never really thought about which verse fits into which chorus and all that.

The band appeared on the daytime talk show to promote this week's release of "Tokyo Dome Live In Concert", the band's first live album with David Lee Roth.

He teamed up with Stephen Stills and Barry Goldberg for 2013 debut Can't Get Enough after a one-off charity appearance proved fruitful. They'd previously said another studio release would take place.

And in a Facebook Q&A session he accepts there might he a downside to his learning. Asked whether he feels more accomplished as an artist, Phillips says: "Very good question. Definitely more accomplished and have more technique - but worry that some of the formal study may have robbed me of my albeit clumsy originality!"

He believes that he and his former bandmates all carried their teenage experiences at Surrey's Charterhouse School into their music. "We were all quite influenced by the English choral tradition. Tony Banks was influenced by his piano teacher but the rest of us were self-taught at that stage."

The Woking-based quartet say: "Nova is about progression - we mean that in every sense of the word. When compared with Elements, we all believe this is a serious step up. It's bigger, more expansive, and has care and attention lavished on it at every point."

"Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck" director Brett Morgen recently announced the new documentary about the late Nirvana frontman will debut in three US cities in advance of its premiere on cable channel HBO on May 4.

"4/24 Montage of Heck will open in Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York City," tweeted Morgen, who oversaw the project with executive producer - and Cobain's daughter - Frances Bean.

Dr. Moog unveiled the Moog modular synthesizer more than 50 years ago and it had a massive impact on music and instrument design. The Three Fates Project show sees Emerson and his band appear alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra. It features Emerson's Moog solos and is billed as more than just a rock-meets-orchestra performance.

On the topic of the band's impending tour, Jagger said that he would try to diversify the group's setlist and play some surprises like "Sister Morphine, which the band hasn't performed live in almost 10 years.

I started working on "Lost" right when I got back from Nashville. I literally walked in the door, sat down, and started playing the verse chords and melody. I brought what I had to my buddy Sandy Chila, who wrote the song with me, and he said he really loved what I had, but felt it was more of a verse than a chorus. (I had assumed it would be the chorus when I wrote it.)

We started working on different changes, going major at the top of the chorus and singing out some long, emotional notes, but all the lyrics I had were stupid and melodramatic. Stuff like "I miss you," and crap that never leaves the cutting room floor. We took a break, got some coffee, and just started talking.

I was still going through a divorce, and now a post marriage break-up. It's hard to write about those things without sounding like an cliched idiot. And then I thought f*** it. I'm just going to say how I feel. I don't feel sad. I don't feel mad. I don't feel happy or anything like that either. I wasn't numb or tired or restless. I was lost. Plain and simple. So, that's what I sang.