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Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, The Who Mega-Festival Announced

"I'm excited to be back out on the road and also been working on a new album with a new group of guys," Stapp said in the interview (via Radio.com). "Guys from some pretty well-known rock bands that you guys will know.

"I can't really share the details about it, but there's a lot of good things going on that I can't tell you till later in June when we'll be making the announcement. This other band I'm jamming with is it's own band with its own band name."

He was then asked if the band he was talking about was Stone Temple Pilots, who have been looking for a new singer, and Stapp replied, "I can't say man, I can't say ' I can't confirm or deny."

Rose and the group playing "Thunderstruck" and "Shoot To Thrill" were reportedly captured by fans outside a rehearsal facility. On April 16, AC/DC confirmed Rose would step in to replace Brian Johnson for the band's remaining 2016 shows on the "Rock Or Bust" tour just hours before Angus Young joined Guns N' Roses for a pair of AC/DC classics during their headlining set at Coachella.

Soon after rumors surfaced of the mega-festival, put together by Coachella organizers, The Who frontman Roger Daltrey made comments in an interview that many took for confirmation.

The speculation has it that the mega-festival event will take place at the site of the Coachella festival in Indio, Ca on October 7th, 8th and 9th of this year. But organizers have yet to officially confirm their plans.

It comes as the band sent out cryptic leaflets to fans. The leaflets feature Radiohead's 'bear' logo and the words: "Sing the song of sixpence that goes burn the witch. We know where you live."

According to sources close to the band, more information will be revealed Thursday after the song has been released. The band tweeted "New song Thursday. https://t.co/4RS7AN6dzk- Red Hot ChiliPeppers (@ChiliPeppers) May 02, 2016"

"To be honest, the last couple albums were, in my opinion, phoned in," drummer Travis Barker told Rolling Stone. This time the band worked in Barker's Los Angeles studio in a more focused environment, which Barker said was inspirational.

"We did 28 songs in a month and a half," he said. "It was awesome. The chemistry was great. Everyone was in the studio putting in work, being creative. When you get that momentum going, the possibilities are endless."

The May 7 & 8 concerts will mark the first time in years that Sammy Hagar, guitarist Joe Satriani, bassist Michael Anthony and drummer Chad Smith have regrouped to perform a full show.

The supergroup last toured in 2012 in support of their second album, "Chickenfoot III." In 2014, Hagar revealed Chickenfoot fans shouldn't expect a third album by the band, saying "I don't see any reason to make a new record. Going through the whole experience with a record label, and then going out and doing 150 interviews, a big tour and waking up at 4:00 a.m. to go on Howard Stern all to sell 35,000 CDs�It starts to feel like, 'Hmmmm. Is this pay for play?'"

He and his band - singer Michael O'Mara, drummer Shane Fitzgibbon and bassist Johnny Martin - are performing LA Guns' 1988 self-titled debut album in its entirety on the current tour.

The band's tour bus was involved in a crash with a truck in El Paso, Texas, in November 2015. Both drivers were killed and the band suffered varying degrees of injuries. Johnson endured 26 hours of surgery to repair damage to his feet, legs and hip.

As he and his bandmates continue their recoveries, Johnson admits it will be some time before they can reconvene and work on new music or hit the road. Johnson tells The Jasta Show: "For us as The Ghost Inside it's going to take a while for everybody to get to the point where we can be a band - physically play with each other.

"But we were already writing. Our plan was to record in early 2016. So I'll continue riffing and writing stuff for TGI. Our bass player Jim Riley is possibly gonna be going out on a tour. He broke and ankle and a tooth and it wasn't as terrible as some of the others.

Vocalist Martin Haggarty says: "The three of us are massive fans of Keith's work, none more so than our own keys man Graham Holley. We were terribly saddened by his passing in such tragic circumstances, and decided to take a break from recording our album to pay homage to one of our heroes.

Curiano - a former member of Blackmore's Night, who appeared under the name Sir Robert of Normandy - is currently using the stage title Bob Nouveau.

He tells Deep Purple Italia: "I'd love to go into the studio with this Rainbow. All we need is Ritchie to say, 'Let's go!'" He says of the upcoming shows: "I think all of us feel under pressure, because of the fans' expectations. For me, the pressure makes me work harder and get better results."

The frontman was left as the last man standing when the rest of Emmure left in December. He immediately said he was already working with other musicians and that they were recording the follow-up to sixth album Eternal Enemies.

He was unprepared when the band turned their attention to second record War Is The Answer in 2009, and says he learned from the experience. Hook tells 93.1 The Fox Rocks: "I have a studio at my house and I'm always working on a record even when we're not making a record.

"I remember we were on our second record. We only had months and everyone was sort of sitting around going, 'What you got?' I'm like, 'I don't got. What you got?'

"I remember thinking, 'I don't want to have that happen again.' Good records have to have good songs - the more we have to sift through on day one, the better."

The Swedish outfit recently said of the follow-up to 2012's Dead End Kings: "It's a bleak but adventurous journey through our elements. We haven't held back - we have pushed to get forward and backward in the ever spiralling night of our musical legacy."

Formed in 1981, Soul Asylum have carved out an impressive career, topped with the triple-platinum 'Grave Dancers Union' record in 1992 which was spearheaded by the Grammy-Award winning single 'Runaway Train.'

The follow-up record 'Let Your Dim Light Shine' scored the Minneapolis band another platinum hit but the music landscape has changed considerably since then.

Speaking exclusively to New Rock Times' Eric Mackinnon, Pirner discusses the state of the current music industry: "Seeing the before and after and being able to bear witness to what it once was and what it is now it is really hard for me to imagine how you could explain to an internet 12-year-old what it used to be like," he says.

"However Record Store Day and resurgence in vinyl going on which warms the cockles of my heart. It is so not retro to me. Just people are paying more attention to what they are listening to and I hope it is really good news. Everybody thought no one now could tell the difference between an LP and an MP3. But its not true and it never has been. It is a beautiful thing.

"There is a part of me which feels lucky to have been part of the end of the industry as we know it. It is frustrating now and I'm not much of an internet person but making a good record is more important to me."

He continues: "I would love to get out there to Europe and the UK to tour. Its frustrating to me that the state of the music industry is not accommodating for. We did a lot of gigs and work and had a lot of fun in Europe. we played St Patrick's Day in Ireland where I hung out with Bono. It was crazy.

The 'Strange Little Birds' tour is scheduled to kick off on July 6th at Summerfest in Milwaukee and wrap up August 3 at the Lincoln Center in Washington, DC.

The lineup will hit 55 cities across the continent, with dates running into early October. Several of the early shows on the trek are dates rescheduled by Def Leppard from their winter US tour, which was sidelined recently due to illness.

The group of nine black students were at the centre of the civil rights movement in America when they enrolled in the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957. After they enrolled, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus objected, sparking the Little Rock Crisis.

After meeting the women on Saturday, McCartney tweeted: "Incredible to meet two of the Little Rock Nine - pioneers of the civil rights movement and inspiration for Blackbird."

The 'Friday I'm In Love' legends have now announced two additional shows - in Melbourne and Sydney - after their Splendour In The Grass appearance. They've also promised details of two more shows - in Adelaide and Perth - soon.

They play Splendour In The Grass on July 24, followed by Sydney on July 25 and Melbourne on July 28. A press release said, "the band will explore 37 years of Cure songs, mixing hits, rarities, favorites and as yet unreleased tracks in a brand new stage production".

Dickinson told the crowd at the Christchurch leg of their Book Of Souls World Tour that it was "a but of a fantasy moment" to be given an All Blacks jersey with his name on the back, before he put it on and the band played Blood Brothers.

Dickinson says: "A buddy of mine sent me this shirt with my name on it from Auckland. There's a bunch of guys that play with a funny-shaped ball. They are a bit good.

The Norwegian rock singer's latest studio effort also includes covers of songs from acts including Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Deep Purple as well as Queen, Kate Bush and The Eagles.

"There was always this calling from our fans to revisit the 'Rust In Peace' line-up, which we had all moved on from, including those former members," Ellefson tells Greensboro.com.

"So, we all had a meeting. Had a discussion. We even did a little bit of playing together. And we realized that it would be better to remain friends and leave that legacy sit as the heroic memory that it is in the minds of so many of our fans. It was clear - the past is the past. We're going to let that truly rest in peace, if you will. No pun intended."

But he says Slayer, despite revealing the two bands are friends, wasn't a tour which worked. "We did a tour [in 2011] that was us and Slayer. We're good friends with Slayer, they're all great guys, but for some reason on that tour it really felt like it's our fans, and it's their fans.

"Backstage was great and the vibe was great, there was nothing between the bands, but you could feel it wasn't one solid crowd. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't the perfect match."

"Cutting Out" was written when I my old band The Coastals had just broken up. We had great potential and things were starting to happen for us, but the drummer had a girlfriend in Australia and a constant stream of cash from his mother, so he kept jetting off to another continent whenever we were supposed to go on tour or into the studio. We had been best friends since middle school but after a string of missed opportunities and broken promises, we parted ways.

After that disappointment I moved back into my parent's basement, kind of confused and demoralized. I didn't know what I should do with myself. I was in a daze, trying to figure out a way forward. I kept applying for job after job, without every hearing anything back. I had failed and I was stuck in a rut that I couldn't seem to get out of.

Cutting Out was about finally breaking out of that situation. It's about accepting risk and taking action, because making a bad decision was better than making no decision. Making a mistake was better than remaining stagnant. I took my meager savings, found a slightly less sh*tty job, moved out of my parents basement, and started The Split Seconds.