Original Santana Lineup Record 9 New Songs

After a listen or two to the fast pop-punk clips, fans began speculating the tunes were meant for Blink-182 as Alt Press points out. When one of his Instagram followers asked if the songs were meant for Blink-182, DeLonge responded with a clapping hands emoji, basically congratulating him on the correct assumption.

The Angels & Airwaves singer parted ways with his Blink-182 bandmates last week in a very public, yet civil back-and-fourth. Despite DeLonge's open letter to fans stating that he never left the band, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker say otherwise.

In a new interview with Guitar World magazine, Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler reveal that not only was the band's 1970 debut recorded in a single day (February 13, 1970), it was supposed to take two days and they didn't even use the second day!

The petition originally set out to gain 8000 signatures, but has amassed close to 16,000 already. The latest in the successful Mortal Kombat video game series, Mortal Kombat X, is expected to be released in April. And Gwar fans hope Urungus - aka Dave Brockie - will be included as a playable character alongside favorites Scorpion, Sub Zero and Raiden.

PutFansFirst.co.uk has been organised with the help of the House Of Commons' All Party Parliamentary Group For Ticket Abuse, who believe the industry needs urgent legal support to fight against organised online touts and botnets, who buy tickets before fans have a chance then resell them at massively inflated prices.

After a recent amendment to the Consumer Rights Bill were defeated in an MPs' vote, co-chairman Mike Weatherley MP wants everyone from musicians to fans to become proactive in ensuring lawmakers realise how they feel about secondary ticketing.

Weatherley tells TeamRock: "Our creative industries generate more than �36bn and employ 1.5m people. For success to continue it's necessary to ensure that artists and fans get a fair deal.

But Bach insists that was never the case. Responding to a comment by a fan on Twitter, Bach says: Fact: No member of Stryper was ever asked to produce any album by Sebastian Bach. Ever."

Now Flynn tells Full Metal Jackie: "We reached this point where we just couldn't take what was going on, and we laughed. All this frustration had been leading up to it for so long.

Clown tells TeamRock Radio's Metal Hammer Magazine Show: "Paul loved my art. He believed in me all the way back then. He saw something in me. When I have my stuff I laugh and I'm like, 'This is some sick sh*t, he'd love this.' He's always on my mind man, he's always there.

"My mom must have recognised something really early because for whatever reason I grew up on fine art books like Rembrandt and Matisse that were written for kids. They were the photos very big, big sentences, very simple. And I have early childhood memories of staring at this stuff. Also Dr Seuss. Those were the two things in my world.

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The guitarist was recently honored with the Les Paul Award at the 30th annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards in Anaheim, California.

He tells Classic Rock Revisited: "With Retro Rocket all I really did was just strip everything down. I had a '57 Gold Top Les Paul and no effects, and I just played it all one time through. I did a couple of overdubs, but nothing major. I just tried to get that raw kind of feel that bands were doing in the 70s because they had to - there was no other way to record then.

"More and more, I am using less and less of any kinds of effects on guitar. I am even using less guitar picks and I am playing my Fender Telecaster a lot more. I am into finding things on a simple guitar that sound great without having to sex them up to make them sound good."

'Global', which mixes rock, soul and EDM, will be released internationally on April 6th and Rungren has also announced that a 180g-vinyl edition of the album will be released on April 27th.

The band will be kicking off the live dates on March 11th in New Orleans and have also announced additional shows in Monroe (LA), Memphis and Oklahoma City.

Rhino Records say: "Anthology maps his musical journey across 36 years, 16 albums and countless genres. It provides an enlightening showcase for Howe's six-string prowess on songs like Pennants, The Collector, Maiden Voyage - one of many featuring his son Dylan on drums - and King's Ransom from his 2011 album Time. The collection also includes covers of two Bob Dylan songs, several cuts from Motif.

The album was an alternative take on their 2013 record Last Patrol. But rather than remixing the original tracks, the band reworked the entire recording in order to give it a psychedelic "weird 60s vibe."

And Wyndorf says the idea behind the project was to distance himself from the group's metal tag - something they'll continue to do. He tells Smells Like Infinite Sadness: "I keep trying to step away from Monster Magnet's reputation that we're a metal band - which is not the case and has never been. I guess me singing it and still playing loud music is still confusing people.

Bottum reports that bassist Billy Gould is nearing completion on the mixing, and that frontman Mike Patton has "done an amazing job" with his contribution.

Co-founder Allman will be replaced by Justin Shekoski of Saosin for 2015. The Used say: "We are saddened to announced that Quinn will be taking a temporary hiatus from the band for the next year.

And the band say they decided on the name as 2014 was a year of transition for the group following the departure of keyboardist Zoltan Csery after a 10-year spell.

They say in a statement: "2014 was probably one of the most memorable years in the band's life with all the major changes and new adventures: The band member change, working on the new material, recording the new album and signing to a new label. These changes have taught us and given us a lot.

The outfit is the brainchild of drummer Sean Lang and the five-track he recorded with guitarist Dean Lamb and bassist Brent Mackenzie will be released on February 24 thanks to an IndieGoGo crowdfunding drive.

The Vancouver-based band also plan to release EP Aion II later in the year and Lang, who is also a drum instructor, reveals he never initially intended to make his material public.

He says: "I am seriously passionate about drums - even more so about music. Over the past few years I have written hundreds of songs without any real plan to do anything with them.

"I played along to a few of these songs on some of my video lessons, and then requests like, 'When is this coming out?' started pouring in. My stock answer was always, 'It's not - it's just music I wrote for fun.' But after years of the same conversation, I finally got the hint."

The three-disc set presents a remastered version of the original record, a second disc of demos and early versions, plus a DVD featuring a 5.1 Surround Sound mix. Unreleased tracks include the unreleased single version of Silver Song from 1973 and the previously unreleased Only Your Love - both with Phillips' former bandmate Phil Collins on vocals.

And he says his band are prepared to play anything at all from his catalogue - except material from his Strapping Young Lad era. The Canadian last year confirmed the Albert Hall show, which has sold out, ahead of three UK tour dates, saying he'd aim to outdo his 2012 Retinal Circus event at the same venue.

Headliners Camel and Marillion plus Dream Theater and Blue Oyster Cult will all play exclusive UK sets at the festival. The Prog Stage also features Ian Anderson playing the best of Jethro Tull, Pendragon, Riverside, The Pineapple Thief and Messenger. More acts are to be announced in due course.

The show at Benaroya Hall saw Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready play three songs with the Symphony - under the direction of conductor Ludovic Morlot.

Commissioned by the Symphony, the songs included French composer Yann Robin's "Ashes", a piece inspired by Nirvana; "Beyond Much Difference" by Angelique Poteat and inspired by Pearl Jam; and, "Waking The Horizon", a piece conceived by McCready.

The Pearl Jam guitarist and the Symphony were then joined in the second half of the evening by bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Barrett Martin, Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell and Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Matt Cameron for a tribute to Mad Season, the 1990s Seattle supergroup made up of members from Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees.

The Sonic Evolution performance also included covers of two songs by Seattle supergroup Temple Of The Dog, "Call Me A Dog" and "Reach Down."

Mad Season released one album, "Above", in 1995 before going on permanent hiatus the following year due to the conflicting schedules of the group's members; Alice In Chains vocalist Layne Staley later died of a drug overdose in 2002.

Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck director Brett Morgen says he warned Kurt's mother Wendy O'Connor about some of the scenes in the film , including Cobain discussing his drug use and intimate footage of him and his wife Courtney Love.

Morgen tells Rolling Stone: "When I showed Wendy the film for the first time, I told her there were things that no mother should see. And it was very difficult and painful for me to show her some of the stuff in the third act of the film.

"I know that she would prefer that not be in the movie, and I don't blame her. Even seeing him having intimate relations with Courtney - I don't think Kurt would have wanted Wendy to see that.

It was recorded in Colorado last year when he played in front of the biggest audience of his career to date. He began the show by saying: "They always try to write off the blues - well, we've proven tonight that at least 9,000 people like the blues."

Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks will be released on multiple formats on March 24, with Blu-ray and DVD editions featuring over 90 minutes of bonus features, including behind-the-scenes video, photo gallery and more.

And while he understands that it could be a distraction, he won't insist fans keep their mobile phones in their pockets while he's on stage. Roth tells Rockeyez: "It could be annoying but I don't allow myself to be annoyed. Usually when they are standing in front of the guitar, that is all they hear and it sounds ridiculous.

"Sometimes it's actually welcome because sometimes we're on stage and then I think, 'Wow that was really good.' You play a song and it's a really good improv and I think, 'I wish I had recorded that.' And then I see a guy with a cellphone and I say, 'Oh yeah, someone did record it.'

Filth is the follow-up single to the title track. Speaking about the video, the band say: "While the Age Of Sedation video had quite a large, epic scope to fit the theme, we wanted Filth to be more fast-paced and somewhat chaotic.

Peavey has also leveraged its ground-breaking ACT(Audio Cloning Technology) process to capture instrument models of the bass guitars most associated with Ellefson.

To round out the bundle, Ellefson has personally created a bank of presets that recreate the sought-after signature sounds from throughout his career. "When Peavey approached me about introducing bass amp models to ReValver and developing a signature bundle," says Ellefson, "the thing that excited me the most was the opportunity to model my whole rig from the instrument, to the amp, to the cab."

"While I've always been aware of the depth at which Peavey models amplifiers, I think their ACT technology, which they use to model instruments, is pretty amazing."

'Skyline' is the focus of the new EP, Let Go Lightly, and was the obvious choice for the first single. Amongst the other two tracks on the record, it ties together and concludes the theme of deciding between a life of secure conformity and uncertain creativity, and the arguments that can then ensue inside a person's head. This also ties in with the EP artwork and the video, where we wanted to create a mini-story to support this theme, but also help the song stand out without the need of the other two tracks to help explain it.

The video begins by introducing our main character, standing on bridge, clearly struggling internally with something, and outwardly struggling to create and sell his own music. He's living on the edge of poverty and is very quickly confronted by the dangers that come with that life. The second character enters during the middle section of the song; a confident, arrogant businessman, secure in his career and opinions. He refuses the work that our artist has put forward and from then on acts as a point of frustration, appearing obnoxious in his successful position and contrasting with the main character. This drives the artist into a rage and appears to give him the impetus he needs to send him back to the bridge we saw him at to begin with, where instead of meeting his own end, he finds someone familiar already there with similar intentions...

The idea behind this is that you can never tell much about someone from how they look, and that in our experience, it's not always the people that seem obviously downtrodden that are actually miserable. People are complex, and so on a simple level this purely reinforces the whole 'book/cover' motto, although it does also show that at least some of the best artists can face the most difficulty being recognised.