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Barker spoke with the UK music publication NME about what is happening with the band, shared his enthusiasm about working with Skiba and revealed that they have already recorded a number of new songs together.

Barker says, "Matt's killing it. He's fun to play with and write with. We're just getting started but I think we've got like four or five songs right now that I'm really, really happy with. There's a song called 'Punk Rock Clich�' which I love the most right now. It's about friends of ours and their relationships."

Barker also revealed that the new material will be a little different from what people have come to expect from Blink-182. "They sound different but still the same. Obviously, it's Matt Skiba singing so there's hints of Alkaline Trio, or at least Matt's contributions to Alkaline Trio, mixed with my drumming and Mark's voice and stuff. It's really cool and I really love what we've done so far."

While the band is making progress on new music, Barker says that the band is letting the new album come organically. "The goal here is to come up with an album and just write.

And the former Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver guitarist believes his outfit are only getting better. Slash tells SBSun.com: "The stuff for the next record is really great. Instead of peaking early and burning out, we've started at one place and escalated in terms of our creative inspiration.

Collen shared the following background on the new track with WRIF radio (via Blabbermouth), "I had a demo for 'Dangerous' as well, pretty much the whole music of that I had done.

"It was called 'Dangerous Drug' and Joe [Elliott] said, 'Wouldn't it be great if we called it 'Dangerous' and make it this kind of singalong chorus? We literally copied it exactly [for the album version]. I'd redone the guitars. We'd just done a slightly different guitar sound.

Karkos tells Talk Toomey: "Device was extremely successful for the little time it was around. If it just was left to do what it was supposed to do and we gave it the proper time and attention, like we were gonna, that band would have been huge. I have no doubt about that. "The first single went to No.1. Things were great, and we sold a bunch of records. I think that we were at 110,000 records when David pulled the plug.

Tickets for the annual weekend event - which includes a closing night set by Iron Maiden - will go on sale on this Friday, October 23. "Download is my absolute favourite summer festival," says Ozzy Osbourne. "It's always like coming home. See you all there."

Now Minnear reports: "John underwent a biopsy on Wednesday and a tumour on his vocal cords was discovered. Thankfully it has not spread to his throat.

The band's third full-length release will arrive on October 30 via their own label, Puscifer Entertainment. They previously issued a video for lead track Grand Canyon.

After announcing a winter North American tour, frontman Maynard James Keenan said: "As is the modus operandi of Puscifer, there will be a whole new show to accompany the Money Shot release. We've been leaving a few clues here and there as to what it may entail.

The iconic bassist and vocalist died last year aged 71, leaving a legacy that's celebrated in Sunshine Of Your Love: A Life In Music, released via Republic Records.

The label says: "Jack was a colossus with a restless musical spirit. His 50-year career saw him work with a wide range of collaborators across many genres. His virtuosity on the bass guitar set the standard by which other musicians would be judged."

FNM bassist Billy Gould admitted earlier this year that the band had been blown away by the response to their first release in 18 years. He said: "It's a relief. We've always put out things and we don't know what the reaction is going to be.

The band have described their latest work as "our most technical, brutal, catchy - and straight-up fearless." Frontman Sacha Dunable says: "On the past couple of records, we were really exploring some musical aspects that were experimental, melodic, and less of a primal heavy metal assault.

The famed guitarist will join a list of previous winners that includes Slash, Brian May and Steve Lukather when he receives the gong in the Netherlands next month.

Trout, who's fought back from near death ahead of a liver transplant, says: "It's an unbelievable honour. To be acknowledged is especially meaningful to me at this time of my life. It's a milestone I'll never forget."

Nolan says: "I found myself in the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, where a couple of surgeons did what they had to. It was decided it should be local anaesthetic - so that turned out to be a long 70 minutes, which I won't describe right now!

Bowness says: "Originally a No-Man demo called Best Boy Electric, I heard it for the first time in over 20 years when Steven Wilson sent it to me for consideration for the Lost Songs reissue.

The new album will be the final part of a trilogy of albums which began with 2010's Journey's End and continued with 2012's Invicta - and it's due out on April 1, 2016.

The band tell Prog: "Ever since we released Invicta three years ago, the pressure has been high while preparing for the follow up, Dust. It's of upmost importance to us that we exceed the standard expected by our audience.

"We believe that something of great value takes great time and effort to achieve, so we have been working on all cylinders for the last few years on skill development and exploring our ideas.

The band has previously issued Heartstrings Shattering from the follow-up to 2012's Emerald Forest And The Blackbird, which is set to be released via Century Media on November 13th.

Guitarist Juha Raivio says: "Making a triple album in this godforsaken digital and modern day and age - many will say it's madness. I say it is to bring worth, heart and respect back into the music and to the album format where it belongs."

Wilson says: "I've never stopped writing songs so I have accumulated a lot since my last solo album. In June we started recording in Dublin with some amazing musicians from all over Europe. We're happy to say we've come a long way these last couple of months and the album is taking shape."

Mainman Ryan Hurtgen tells Prog: "For me, the album is a concept album because it goes into a discovery of self. The idea of trying to find yourself, trying to love yourself, trying to understand what you're doing on this planet. A lot of existentialism.

The band have also been confirmed as support act for Skindred on their upcoming European tour. Deadly Circus Fire guitarist Save Addadrio had the following to say about the trek:

Kiama's debut album Sign Of IV will be released in January next year via Tigermoth Records and they have released a teaser video featuring the track Cold Black Heart.

Reed tells Prog: "We drew from musical references from the early 70s who were primarily thought of as rock bands - but to me were responsible for some of the greatest prog epics.

The lead single from their fourth album, "A Night At The Opera", was in the middle of a record-breaking 9-week run at Number One in the UK charts when the Christmas Eve show took place at the famed London venue.

The finale of Queen's 26-date fall UK tour was broadcast live on BBC2-TV and BBC Radio 1. "This concert was very special because it was the first time we ever played a whole show completely live on TV � the Christmas Show," says guitarist Brian May. "The quality, after great rescue work and transfer into the digital domain, is amazing. And the energy we had comes across very forcefully."

The DVD and SD Blu-Ray versions feature a documentary, "Looking Back At The Odeon", which includes a previously unseen interview with May and Roger Taylor by Old Grey Whistle Test host Bob Harris about the Hammersmith show.

The only single issued from the group's 1970 album, "Pendulum", the tune peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Fogerty is making the rounds to promote his newly-published memoir, "Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music", which sees the rocker explore his Northern California roots, CCR's success and his retreat from music and public life before returning to chart-topping solo success.

Fogerty also shared stories about his start as a songwriter and CCR's appearance at the 1969 Woodstock festival, where the group followed The Grateful Dead.

The veteran metal band topped Saturday's bill at the 30th anniversary of the iconic music festival, as they were joined by Motley Crue, Korn and Royal Blood, among others.

Metallica's video highlight package also includes the band warming up in the Tuning Room before the show, which marked the group's final scheduled live show of 2015.

On the road playing acoustic dates across North America in support of his fourth solo album, "Higher Truth", Cornell welcomed his daughter to the stage.

"A few years back, my daughter wanted to do a song at school," said Cornell. "She said it's called the Music for Lunch Bunch and she makes it sound like she sits in front of her classmates and they do a song every once in a while. So I went and got a guitar tuned for her in the right key and we went to see her do it and it was actually like an assembly in front of the entire school."

In town to perform at The Knitting Factory, the Swedish group unplugged for their cover of Roky Erickson's "If You Have Ghosts" from their 2013 Dave Grohl-produced EP of the same name, as well as "Jigolo Har Megiddo" from 2013's "Infestissumam."

The producer continues to take a hand in the release of material left behind when Hendrix died in 1970. He was involved in the production of documentary movie Electric Church, which tells the story of the Hendrix's appearance at the Atlanta Pop Festival, just weeks before he passed away.

Kramer tells the BBC: "This was the crossroads for him. The next move would have been incorporating some of the stuff that was on the street. He was aware of everything that was going on - he was a musical sponge."

The story of this song starts with middle school daydreaming. I often look back on how blindly optimistic I was growing up learning to play the guitar, starting a band and writing songs. And I wanted to write a song about that.

It's obviously semi-ironic, and clearly a bit tongue in cheek. Because as the music business changes, the idea of having 5 red Ferraris and A Beverly hills mansion from your music checks has become all but obsolete. But the dream doesn't change. We all want to look out at our audience and see thousands of adoring fans, collect a massive check, then hop on our G4 and head to the next big show.

And the truth is, the longer I spend making songs and touring, I've become much more realistic and appreciative of what we've been able to accomplish. And that means way more than any mid 80's Motley Crue fantasy I might have. But it certainly won't stop me from dreaming.