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After their new album Diamond Eyes was leaked, the Deftones have moved up the release date of the effort to May 4th from the originally planned May 18th release date according to FMQB

Mr. Joshua Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures has been named this year's Official Ambassador to Record Store Day - and he's got a message for all you boys and girls more

Green Day are facing legal action from an artist alleging the band used one of his creations in a music video without his permission. The "American Idiot" hitmakers used an image of a fang-toothed face during their concerts, as well as a music video and across their website in 2009. more.

Them Crooked Vultures have added a few more dates to their touring itinerary. They will play on April 14 in Los Angeles, followed by a handful of Canadian shows in mid-May. more

Prince looks like a pauper in a list of delinquent taxpayers in Minnesota. Carver County tax records show the musician's PRN Music Corp. owes more than $227,000 for 2009 taxes to the state and other government bodies. That's not all

Ben Harper and Relentless7 have finished recording their follow-up to 2009's White Lies For Dark Times. The new album, dubbed Give Till It's Gone, will be out in the fall. more

Jim Marshall, a photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians, including Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey International Pop Festival and Johnny Cash at San Quentin prison, died on Tuesday night in a hotel in New York. He was 74. more

Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer reportedly revealed in an online fan chat that the band has inked a new deal with Roadrunner Records more

The Goo Goo Dolls and Stone Temple Pilots are two of a handful of bands that announced this week will play during the NCAA Final Four weekend on April 2nd. As part of a three-day free concert, the festival will also include performances by Darius Rucker and Daughtry. more

Megadeth advise fans: Due to overwhelming demand for tickets to the Sold Out Megadeth concert scheduled at Club 101 in El Paso, Texas this Sunday March 28th, the show has been moved to the larger Abraham Chavez Theatre in downtown El Paso more

The Dead Weather has announced a run of spring tour dates, in addition to their sets at Coachella, New Orleans Jazz Festival and Bonnaroo. more

The Owl City video premiere of "Vanilla Twilight" is now live. Check it out here

Tonight during a special live edition of Mars Attacks Radio host Victor M. Ruiz will have the following guests on the show, Joey Z from Life Of Agony/Stereomud/Carnivore, Anthony Esposito from Ace Frehley/Lynch Mob. The show will also feature Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy from Talking Metal. The show will air at 7PM EST / 4PM PST on MarkStriglRadio.com

Down was scheduled to release their movie Diary Of A Mad Band today. Due to recent legal issues the release has been postponed to a later date as these issues get resolved. more

Triumph are to have a CD/DVD titled Greatest Hits Remixed through the Frontiers label on May 17.The CD has 14 tracks remixed by Rich Chyki more

Triple Pantera assault coming in April! Cowboys From Hell, Vulgar Display Of Power and Far Beyond Driven will all be released on 2LP 180 gram vinyl editions on April 17th. more

Broadway to go majorly politically incorrect? Mel Brooks turned 1968's The Producers into a musical in 2001 and recently turned Young Frankenstein into a stage production, which is opening in Toronto this week. Now it looks like Brooks' next major project could be adapting 1974's Blazing Saddles into a musical as well. more

Alkaline Trio have now been added to all dates of this year's Vans Warped Tour. more

The life and music of John Lennon is to be celebrated with a two-month festival in Liverpool. The events will run from 9 October, which would have been Lennon's 70th birthday, to 9 December, the day after the 30th anniversary of when he was fatally shot in New York. more

SPV/Steamhammer will release Iced Earth's Box Of The Wicked on April 26th (Germany April 23rd, North America May 18th), limited to 10,000 copies worldwide. more

Squeeze have announced details a tour of the UK starting with a show at Bournemouth's O2 Academy on November 14 more

Dying Fetus will be touring this spring with support from Arsis, Misery Index, Annotations Of An Autopsy, and Conducting From The Grave more

Finnish metal band Amorphis has announced the second part of the "Forging Europe Tour" more

Once upon a time, rock stars had to do outlandish things to get noticed. David Bowie pretended to be from space and had sex with Iggy Pop. Led Zep were rumoured to stick fish up lady's front bottoms and Fleetwood Mac blew coke up each other's arses when their noses were too hammered and frail. Let's not talk about GG Allin. And now, just to prove that rock really is as dead and dull and Nana Mouskouri's knicker drawer, Damon Albarn has managed to cause small outrage with a single, legally bought in a shop cigarette. more

Las Vegas, NV music store Zia will be hosting an in-store signing with Cattle Decapitation on Saturday April 17th in celebration of Record Store Day more

Solid State Records has officially signed melodic death metal outfit, As They Sleep. more -

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