(The 1st Five) Punk Rock Bowling, the annual punk festival held in Las Vegas every May have just confirmed a string of headliners including a special long awaited reunion show from The Briefs, NOFX, The Adicts, Rancid and Pennywise. more

(The 1st Five) Anarbor announced that guitarist Adam Juwig has left the band. According to Juwig's statement, there is no bad blood and he simply wanted to lead a "normal life" again. more

(Billboard) Over the years, Lisa Marie Presley has become dissatisfied with movies chronicling her father's life, so she just might make a film about the rock 'n' roll icon. The daughter of Elvis Presley said she has been in talks about a movie, though she didn't offer a timetable. more

(Jam!) Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett and Alicia Keys are among the performers who will celebrate the 69-year-old Paul McCartney when he's honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in Los Angeles in February. more

(The 1st Five) Meshuggah have announced dates for a North American tour with Baroness and Decapitated. more

(NME) New Order's Bernard Sumner hints they could record new material 'Hopefully there'll be some recorded music as well,' says guitarist ahead of April tour more

(The 1st Five) L.A. hardcore band Strife will be heading out to Brazil next week to start working on their first new album in 11 years. Why in Brazil? The band is teaming up with ex-Sepultura/current Cavalera Conspiracy drummer Iggor Cavalera who will play and record drums on the new record. more

(SRX) Rudolf Schenker says we will not have heard the last of the Scorpions even after the German headbangers finally complete their farewell tour later this year or in early 2013. "We have a library in our warehouse where we have a lot of old songs, especially from the days where you had only the possibility of putting eight or nine songs on vinyl," the guitarist, who co-founded the band in 1965, tells Billboard.com. "We always recorded 13 or 14 songs, so (the rest) are hanging out somewhere in our warehouse. We also have 800, 900 hours of film material from different festivals, from places like (Moscow's) Red Square, the Amazon, the pyramids, going through Russia in 2002... more

(Classic Rock) There have been 14 more additions to the line-up for this year's Download Festival, which happens at Donington from June 8-10 including Megadeth, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy, Black Label Society, Kyuss Lives!, As I Lay Dying and more

(SRX) Just last week former Dokken guitarist George Lynch revealed that Vains Of Jenna frontman Jesse Forte would be the new Lynch Mob vocalist. The announcement led to Vains Of Jenna calling it quits by saying that they were ending the band after seven years. However it now appears that Lynch and Oni Logan have put aside their differences to teamed up once again. more

(Lambgoat) Paradise Lost and Insomnium will tour the UK together in April. more

(Lambgoat) Ringworm has announced a string of dates to and from, and including this year's South By Southwest music festival in Austin, TX. Joining the band for the run will be Cancer Bats and Primitive Weapons. dates here

(FMQB) The original lineup of Eve 6 has reunited to release their fourth studio album, Speak In Code, on April 24 via Fearless Records. more

(Lambgoat) Cannibal Corpse and Between The Buried And Me will headline the The Summer Slaughter Tour 2012 more

(SRX) Stryper frontman Michael Sweet will be performing his faith-based storytellers solo acoustic show in churches around the world this year. more

(PNO) Warped Tour has confirmed six more additions for the 2012 tour. They are: Ballyhoo!, For Today, The Constellations, Tonight Alive, Bangups, and I Am The Avalanche. more

(Lambgoat) Knut has disbanded for the foreseeable future. The band has offered no details, stating only, "Knut is in indefinite hiatus. Thank you." more
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