Jack Black may have been schooled in rock, but now he'd like to sing at the Grand Ole Opry with wife Tanya Haden's family, who recently turned him on to bluegrass music. more

Teen country star Taylor Swift led the U.S. pop album chart for a fourth week on Wednesday, while Beyonce rebounded three places to No. 2 with her former chart-topper.more

The Allman Brothers Band will play 10 shows at New York's Beacon Theater in March after scrapping the 2008 edition of its annual residency while frontman Gregg Allman recovered from hepatitis C.more

Prince says he is releasing three albums�likely through an exclusive deal with a major retailer�in 2009, including an electro-pop effort tentatively titled MPLSOUND and Lotus Flower, tracks from which were featured on L.A. indie station 103.1 FM this year.more

Guns N' Denials: The GNR camp claim it was only a fun comment taken out of context� we're talking about the story that Lars from Metallica is somehow holding up the release of the new Guns N' Roses video. details. It seems everyone in the GNR camp is misunderstood these days because guitarist Richard Fortus now claims that he was misquoted in a report that the band planned a two year long world tour. Damn. More details on that here

Wilco will release its first concert DVD, "Ashes of American Flags," chronicling February 2008 visits to Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and Tulsa, Okla.'s Cain Ballroom. The project is due in February or March from Nonesuch, just in advance of the next Wilco studio album, which the band is now recording. more

Due to severe illness The Damned will not be able to complete the North American dates of their world tour. The band was touring in support of their December release So, Who's Paranoid?.more

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of their sophomore album, Paul's Boutique, Beastie Boys have announced plans to reissue the classic disc. The new disc will be digitally remastered for the first time with the hands-on trio in the studio overseeing the process.more

My Darkest Hate, the German death metal band featuring former Primal Fear drummer Klaus Sperling, has parted ways with bassist Andreas Siegl (Black Abyss, ex-Paradox). more

Which band told Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner to "stick it up his ass" and doesn't care about Jann's Crock Hall of Fame and actually turned down Rolling Stone magazine when they offered them the cover? Find out here

Bleed The Sky, Straight Line Stitch, and Flatline will tour together briefly next month.more

Dr Dre's son died after taking an overdose of heroin and morphine, Los Angeles County coroners have revealed.more

Into The Moat has titled their new full-length "The Campaign" and debuted a track from the album online. Metal Blade Records will release the effort on February 17th.more
Jesse Michaels has released some information on his new band - Classics of Love. The band features Michaels on guitar and vocals, Mike Huegenor on guitar, Morgan Herell on bass and Max Feshbach on drums - all three other members are currently in The Hard Girls and have played in Pteradon and Shinobu. Jesse's comments

Every Time I Die has reportedly inked a deal with Epitaph Records. In a July 2008 interview with U.K.'s Rock Sound magazine, Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley stated about the band's label situation, "Our latest album was the last thing we had to deliver for Ferret so we are in limbo. - more

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