Today's Top Stories

Ozzy and Slipknot's Corey Taylor Plan Special Announcement

Demand was so high for the classic rock event at the site of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Ca, that organizers have announced that the same lineup will also perform on October 14, 15 and 16.

He was confirmed as stand-in vocalist for the Aussie giants after Johnson was warned he'd suffer permanent hearing loss if he continued to perform. The band experienced negative reactions over the way they dealt with the split, but they've insisted they didn't fire Johnson.

Rose tells NME: "I have not spoken with Brian. We haven't spoken much about Brian. There hasn't been any negative talk with the guys or anything - it's just the time schedule of having to get things together for the shows, while I also had Guns N' Roses commitments, and then breaking the foot.

Slayer's two-month North American tour includes dates across the U.S. and Canada. They'll kick things off in Cleveland on September 9 before wrapping them up in El Paso on October 27. As part of their new tour, the band will continue promoting 2015's Repentless alongside other songs from their 30 year career.

The follow-up to 2011's I'm With You, produced by Danger Mouse, will be released on June 17. It's been headed up with last week's launch of lead track Dark Necessities, and arrives after running into scheduling difficulties caused by bassist Flea breaking his arm.

Kiedis tells KROQ: "We had an unusually difficult experience making this record. We wrote 20 to 30 songs and it was all ready to go. We thought it was happening - then Flea went snowboarding and broke his arm real bad.

"Then we didn't have a producer, and we were sort of lost in space with all these songs. When the dust settled, Danger Mouse emerged and said, 'Let's go make a record.'"

It's been widely reported that Sharon kicked the rocker out of their Los Angeles mansion last week over accusations that he's been having an affair with 45-year-old celebrity hairstylist Michelle Pugh. "At this time, Ozzy is not in the marital home," an Osbourne family spokesperson confirmed to Rolling Stone.

Now, Ozzy has stepped forward to clarify the speculation in some media reports that the split had something to do with the singer's sobriety. "I have been sober for three and a quarter years," Ozzy tells E! News. "I have not touched drugs or alcohol in that time. Any reports that I am not sober are completely inaccurate."

On Monday, Sharon was absent from her gig on the CBS-TV daytime series The Talk. "As we get started, Sharon is not here today," said Julie Chen, one of the show's co-hosts and wife of CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves. "There were many tabloid headlines of her and Ozzy, rumors and speculations that they have split up after nearly 34 years of marriage.

The band will be kicking off the tour leg on July 6th in Portland, Or at Schnitzer Hall and wrapping up the trek on July 25th in New York City at the Beacon Theatre.

Alice in Chains also announced that they will be headlining the Rock Allegiance festival on September 17th in Chester, PA at the Talen Energy Stadium.

"We're taking a big chance playing this," frontman Sammy Hagar told the crowd. "The first day of rehearsal we played it and I put it on my Instagram and I just put the last chorus."

Hagar previously revealed plans to debut the tune sometime this year. "I wrote the lyrics while on an airplane to Cabo," Hagar told Rolling Stone last fall. "It's a dark tune, but it's cool. It's a really raw production and a giant step for the 'Foot."

They tell People magazine: "Together, the family is planning an official memorial service and public event to take place in the near future. Prince and his music influenced so many people that we feel inspired to celebrate his life and legacy in just the right way.

He says: "In late 2004, after cutting some tracks at Catamount Recording with Joel and Shawn, I decided to build a room in my house to record in. I bought my first Pro Tools rig and the first song I wrote on the new rig was 30/30-150. The drum track was programmed using an Alesis SR-16.

The charity was created by rock photographer Kevin Estrada. He recently said: "Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world today, second to drug activity. This is tragically happening to nearly two million girls worldwide every year."

It's 11 years since they released their twin records Mesmerize and Hypnotize. Discussions about a follow-up have been raised on many occasions, but no results have been forthcoming.

Tankian tells Rolling Stone: "We're communicating and trying to see if we can bring our material together. There's definitely a lot of communication going on - a lot of back-and-forth.

The trio played together on 1998 album Celebrity Skin along with guitarist Eric Erlandson - and it was thought a live reunion was on the cards in 2014 when all four rehearsed together.

However, Love quickly reported that tensions within the camp were high and subsequently shot down the idea of playing together, saying: "I don't want to get on the oldies circuit. I don't need to do that for money. I want to put out music that is relevant today.

Mainman Dez Fafara recently said of the group's seventh record: "Trust No One is one of the most poignant records I've ever written lyrically. It's not like Clouds Over California where people have to ask what the song is about. You read and hear these lyrics, and you'll get it right away, and that's what I wanted.

"Whether it's about trust issues, vengeance, positivity, letting go, or whatever the case may be, these lyrics are as honest as they can be, and fans will hear it.

"These are the most honest lyrics I've ever shared with people - and it needed to happen. I'm a very private person in real life, but if these words can help someone open their eyes or heal in any way, I've done my job.

The follow-up to 2014's Phosphorescent Harvest was created after the former Black Crowes frontman's outfit retreated to a California mountainside for inspiration.

Robinson says: "It was an opportunity to see where our expression could take us. For us, when it comes to making records, the looser it gets the better.

Hatebreed describe the song as a take on the 'seven deadly sins'. Frontman Jamie Jasta says: "A lot of people gravitate towards their vices and sins and it dooms them.

Bonamassa will be running ticket giveaways for the intimate show via his website and social media channels in the coming weeks. He says: "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me.

Purple Pyramid Records will release the album on May 13th on CD, gatefold 2LP featuring a stitched-in 20-page booklet and red, blue and green vinyl options.

When Guns N' Roses mainman Axl Rose was announced as AC/DC's new frontman after Brian Johnson was forced to step down for health reasons, reaction was mixed with many questioning if Axl could pull it off.

But last night (Saturday, May 7) Axl, broken foot and all took his place on stage with AC/DC at the Passeio Maritimo de Alg�s in Lisbon, Portugal, for his first show as AC/DC frontman.

The Guardian rate the show as a five-star performance, describing Roses' voice as 'brilliant' and urging fans to check out the show saying: "The triumph lies in the renditions of the songs AC/DC wrote and recorded when Scott was still alive. Whereas the Johnson-era material tended towards boozy bonhomie, Scott was often a malevolently misanthropic writer and singer, concealing a slightly terrifying rage behind apparent good humour.

"Rose, who is familiar with both malevolence and misanthropy, delivers those songs perfectly, giving them fresh menace. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap loses its cartoonish aspect, and becomes the bar-room chatter of a psychopath; he introduces Shot Down in Flames as "the story of my life" and convinces you it's true.

"His voice, too, is brilliant: no matter how high, every note is hit, and sustained. And he keeps it up for two hours."

Guitarist Jim Palmer says: "This album seems like a true reflection of everyone's input, a slice of all of us. It has those typical Speedhorn, pumping rock'n'roll moments, and some much darker ones too.

The New Jersey rocker will play eight shows in the run beginning August 23 with a two-night stand at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey before hitting Chicago, Washington, Virginia Beach, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, wrapping things up at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA on September 14.

Tickets go on sale for the Virginia Beach and Washington D.C. shows May 13 at 10 a.m.; Chicago on sale May 14 at 10 a.m.; East Rutherford, NJ, May 18, 10 a.m.; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Foxborough on May 20 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster.

This past spring, Springsteen performed across the continent in support of last December's release of "The Ties That Bind: The River Collection", a 7-disc collection of material from the sessions for 1980's double album "The River."

Billboard reports the rocker's sixth solo effort debuts at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with opening week sales of 41,000 units, of which 40,000 were in pure album sales.

The group recently released the live DVD Battle Cry, which captures a performance at last year's Wacken Open Air festival in Germany while they were on the road in support of their 17th album Redeemer Of Souls.

The singer reveals his approach to playing festivals, where Judas Priest are just one of many acts on the bill. Halford tells Rock Cellar magazine: "I think when you're on stage like that and you're playing to so many people, you're aware that not everybody's a Priest fan. It's a mixture of metal heads and a good portion of them are there for Priest but there are metal heads in the crowd that may have never seen Priest before in their lives.

He tells FM99 WNOR: "I think what we've realized is that our job is to make people happy. The music's cool and we work really hard on the records, but once all that's done, we're really just out here the whole day at the concert - it's really just one meet-and-greet. It's for them."

Hook continues: "People come to us and they're very excited. You've got two choices - you either enhance their experience or destroy their experience, and I've seen a lot of bands that choose the latter. They don't get it.

Speaking to The Scott Mars Show on Live 105 in Nova Scotia, Poulsen says: "There are a few songs that are flirting a little bit around with the voodoo environment from the 1800s, as with this 'Marie Laveau' song and 'The Loa's Crossroad'.

"But it's not really a theme at all. I would more call it a spiritual album, because the lyrics are very spiritual. They're not religious; we're not religious believers, but we do believe in the spirit world.

The frontman tells Star FM Berlin: "There's no denying that right now, globally, there's a sense of crisis. And I think that speaks to our first single off this record, Rise, which really addresses that.

"We're not a political band by any stretch of the imagination, but we are certainly a very socially conscious band. Things that matter to us on a personal level are happening on a global level.

The second take sees him reactivating the name of the band he formed with Steve Balsamo and Rob Thompson, who released their self-titled album in 2006.

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness plays on the first day of the festival, June 18, and stars Alice Cooper leading an army of possessed vagrants. The film is the second film in Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy", which started with The Thing in 1982 and finished 13 years later with In The Mouth Of Madness. Cooper, who headlines the festival on the same day, contributed the track Prince Of Darkness to the movie and uses his onstage "impaling device" in one scene.

It uses information gathered from smartphones via music and health apps. According to the Boston Globe, the researchers have been tracking songs on apps like Spotify to see how they influence biometric data created through health apps and wearable devices.

Nomad was the completion of a trilogy he began with Cobblestone Street in 2013 and continued with Museum in 2014. Tramp had the following to say about the new clip: