The frontman recently told Classic Rock Magazine he was going to work on "Brand Tyler". Now Perry has spoken out too, saying Tyler has finished with the band after their F1 Grand Prix concert in Aby Dhabi last weekend. He tells the Las Vegas Sun: "Steven quit as far as I can tell. I don't know any more than you do about it. I got off the plane and saw online that Steven said he was leaving. I don't know for how long."

Here is part of Consequence of Sound's report, followed by a link to watch a video of the incident: Fresh off a stage collapse that led to the cancellation of several shows, Morrissey made another early exit last night (Nov. 7) after a fan threw a drink at his head.

"Well, I found out from Neil Zlozower, 'cause he was doing a photo shoot with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. He calls up and goes, 'Hey dude, I hear you're not playing with Ozzy anymore.' I go, 'Where'd you hear this?" And he's like, 'I heard it from Gene and Paul.' So I go, 'Well, I guess I'm not playing with Ozzy!'" [laughs]

To celebrate 20 years of Doolittle and the start of the Pixies USA Doolittle Tour, the band is giving away four live tracks from a recent show in Paris. here

A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter on Thursday blocked the sites BlueBeat.com and Basebeat.com and owner Hank Risan from selling copyrighted songs by The Beatles and others. more

Dilana from Rockstar Supernova fame is set to release her album 'InsideOut' on Nov 17. Guests include Adrian Young (No Doubt) on drums and Mick Mars (Motley Crue. Want a taste? Check out the video for "Holiday," here

Cave In's critically acclaimed 12-inch EP, Planets of Old has been announced for a January 26, 2010 on CD+DVD more

As Bold As Lions (formerly known as: This Very Day) will be releasing their first EP on New Line Music Tuesday December 8th worldwide. The EP will ONLY be available digitally unless you see the band live. more

Carmine Appice will make a special appearance at J&R Music and Computer World on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:00PM to celebrate the release of his latest Guitar Zeus album "Conquering Heroes" with a short performance, followed by an autograph signing session.

Glassjaw have been tapped to support Brand New's forthcoming headlining show at London's Wembley Arena. more

Autumns Eyes new album release has been set back to early 2010 due to a broken radius bone in sole member Dan's right arm. more

Sick Of It All is currently recording their next full-length album. The group is at Antfarm Studios in Denmark with producer Tue Madsen (Behemoth, Earth Crisis) tracking the effort more

Guitarist Janick Gers of Iron Maiden revealed to BBC News that the band has already started writing songs for its 15th studio album. more

Flogging Molly have announced dates for what has become their annual spring tour centered around the St. Patrick's Day holiday. The "Green 17 Tour" kicks off on February 9th in Dallas, Texas more

AFI has extended their touring behind the band's latest record, Crash Love, well in 2010. The new dates run until January 31 in Las Vegas. more

"It's with the deepest regret that Echo And The Bunnymen have had to cancel their USA November tour," The band announced in a statement.

Using the $20,000 they got from winning the Polaris Prize, the Canadian band are going to release the single featuring a host of artists.

Here is the announcement: If you live in France or will be visiting this Monday or Tuesday, check out a special preview of Francais Pour Une Nuit, the live DVD filmed in Nimes, France on July 7, 2009.

"It's local promoters taking advantage of the good work this band has been doing," said Powell. Most recently, Martin Turner's German shows have been promoted under the Wishbone Ash moniker, prompting Powell to seek legal recourse. "Myself and the band's business partners�people who have worked for years to keep the band treading the boards and keeping the recorded catalog current�see it as a raiding party," said Powell. "I am now taking legal action in respect of this infringement of my trade mark. It's time to stop this nonsense."

Powell, a guitar legend in his own right, and the only remaining founding member, has recorded and toured exclusively under the Wishbone Ash banner since 1969--more than 40 years. In the last 20 years alone, Wishbone Ash has released 15 CDs (including nine studio releases) and five DVDs. None of these has featured Martin Turner. The band's most recent release, The Power of Eternity, has garnered rave reviews from the music press internationally.

"The Outlaw Jimmy Rose" is about a guy I met while locked up in Huntington County Jail in Indiana. Before I broke out of Indiana in search of fame and fortune, I worked at a factory called Hartson Kennedy in Marion Indiana (in Grant County). Third shift, back breaking work. But factory jobs pay better than anything else so if you can get one, you never turn it down. When the weekends came we'd sometimes pack up our cars and drive 25 minutes to the Salamonie Reservoir in Huntington County and blow through as much Wiedemann beer and SoCo as we possibly could.

For some reason this time around the campgrounds were just slammed. We set up and started drinking, got some food going and just started out having a great time. Got a little buzz on and a couple of us set off to find our friend Josh, which we did, but he was busy defiling some poor girl in a nearby tent so we kept walking and came up on some hippies in a trailer playing hacky sack. I started off toward them, but I'm the only one that didn't notice the police en route to intercept the hippies, and unfortunately me.

So I got cuffed and questioned, I lied about my age and my name which they didn't believe. The others broke out so at this point I was the only one that got caught. They really wanted to know where I was camping, so I led them by the site, hoping that my friends would see that I was cuffed and they could at least hide. But even when I was 10 feet from them, they were too into whatever the hell they were talking about to notice me. I thought for a second I could run away from these fat f**k cops, but they know the deal and were wise to my smart ass so I was screwed. They threatened me and I gave in, walked them to my campsite.

Now I'm in county jail. They decide to put me and my friend in the work release wing, so most days we just sat around playing chess and watching cartoons while the rest of the inmates were at their jobs. My cell mate was named Matt, and he was in there for armed robbery. He was a chef at a decent Ft Wayne restaurant that I went to after I got out, but he was off that day. His thing was hip hop, and he'd rap to me every night. He had tons of rhymes and it was really uncomfortable to try to sleep while some dude is rapping to you but he was actually pretty good. Hope he went somewhere with it.

My friend, however, and the misfortune of being locked up with a kid named Jim Rose who was in there for murder. He was 17 and wiry, full of energy almost like he was doing lines of crystal in his cell every 20 minutes. He had written "ROSEBUD" on the top of the pocket of his orange inmate garb. Like in the song, the deal was that Jimmy didn't actually kill the guy, but they used his gun so he got some kind of accessory rap. He must have had a ----ty lawyer cause he was going to prison for a long ass time. Not that he minded.. He was really psyched and couldn't wait to "own that f**king place". Guess he didn't have HBO.

Jim thought I was alright but didn't like my friend, his cell mate.
After lights out Jim liked to box and my friend just wasn't that kind of guy, so Jim thought he was a pussy. One day Jim approached me and told me that my friend had better take a shower. We weren't in there for very long so I assured him that since we'd be out pretty soon, it wasn't a big deal and went on to my chess game. Jim was adamant, and let me know that he'd f**k him up really good if he didn't take a shower. It seems like small potatoes to me but after my friend took a shower, I took one too. F**k getting shanked in county for some little ---- like that. A shower is easy.

I wasn't in for very long, just a few days. Never heard from Jim again but he certainly left an impression on me. I think what struck me the most about him was that he seemed so uninformed about almost everything, that he was way too violent and had too much to prove, and he was completely insulated having never traveled out of Huntington County Indiana his whole life. All this posturing seemed to expose his fear of the world outside the imaginary county borders, and it made me consider what could have caused that to happen. I didn't want to get too preachy in the song, though, so it's up to the listener to consider if Jim is really an outlaw or just some punk ass that has been manipulated by pop culture to believe that, even though this is one of the safest places in the world to live, he needs to have the "courage" to carry a gun around with him.

The song was originally called The Ballad of Jim Rose because Jon (our bass player) thought his name sounded kinda western.. We worked with that for a while til I came up with The Outlaw Jimmy Rose as a tribute to one of my favorite movies, The Outlaw Josie Wales. The first version that I made has a sample from the film in the second breakdown, right before we go into the end chorus, but we didn't even try to get it cleared because it would have been way too expensive and time consuming. When you see us live, the sample is still in there:

"We'll find em up in Kansas. They're with the Union. We're going up there to set things a right."

It gives me chills every time I hear it. I think there's something in men that makes us want to "set things right", but that energy can turn dark when someone has too much time on their hands, no leadership, no purpose. I'm sure by now Jimmy has found God.