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Early David Bowie Previously-Unreleased Song Goes Online

Since parting ways with Ozzy back in 2009, Wylde has kept in close touch with Ozzy both personally and professionally with guest live slots on guitar. And Wylde tells SiriusXM show 'Dirty Sexy Funny' host Jenny McCarthy he will always be on hand for the Osbournes.

He says: "Well, Ozzy is the godfather of my oldest son, so I mean� And Sharon, I love her like a mother. So, our relationship is bigger than the music. If they called me up and asked me to come over, bring some eggs and milk over to the house and clean the dog run 'cause they had company coming over, I'd do it.

"But if Ozz ever wants to do anything, we'd do it. But Gus [G.], who plays guitar with him now in the solo band, I'm buddies with Gus, and Gus is a phenomenal, shredding, awesome guitar player and awesome dude.

The full show has been uploaded to YouTube and the band posted a link to the video on their Facebook page. Last year, the Grammy-nominated outfit - who formed in 1997 and released seven studio albums before splitting in 2013 - announced their comeback in a cryptic Facebook post.

Bruce tells Metal Wani: "You can sit and complain as much as you want but the fact of the matter is we're flying the flag for metal whether you like us or not.

"The fact that we are maybe a little bit more commercially acceptable and a bit more palatable means we're getting radio play which is just helping open people's eyes to being introduced to more metal bands."

He tells Guitar World: "We're going to meet up next month and go and see what ideas we've got. I'm always coming up with riffs or melodies. We get together to pore over the ideas. Hopefully the ideas are great.

It reads: "As our ship prepares for voyage, we announce that Jim Ward will not be joining us on future journeys. We wish him well and are excited to see you soon."

They were due to play the gig with Vitamin X and Sirius Plan in the city but were forced to move it 90 miles away to Sittard's Poppodium Volt in the Netherlands after explosions across the Belgian capital left at least 31 people dead and scores more injured.

The band say in a statement: "We are very sorry to have had the Brussels show cancelled. Obviously, this was far beyond our control. We hope those of you in Brussels and Belgium are safe and unharmed.

But under the terms of the US Copyright Act of 1976, he will be able to reclaim the rights to some of the songs in 2018 after a mandatory 56-year ownership period has elapsed.

They're currently touring the world in support of latest album The Book Of Souls, which was released last year following a delay caused by frontman Bruce Dickinson's cancer battle.

Harris tells Vorterix (via Blabbermouth): "We still want to make at least one more album, and we want to do some more touring. We're enjoying ourselves at the moment. We're just happy to be here after what happened with Bruce.

The fan ran into the singer in front of the Loews Atlanta Hotel on Friday, and his Instagram photo with Rose has gone viral ahead of the launch of the reunited Guns N' Roses tour next month.

"I was waiting for my friends, and I saw him get out of the car," Guglielmo tells Rock 100.5 Atlanta's Bailey And Southside Show. "And [I saw] the aviator shades and the bandana, so I was, like, 'That kind of looks like Axl from a profile.' And then he turned, and I saw the forearm tattoo, and I'm, like, 'Holy sh**! That's Axl Rose.'

"First I said, 'Oh my God! Axl?'" he explained. "And he just turned toward me and he put his hand out. 'Yeah, man.' And I was, like, 'This is incredible to meet you.' 'Cause I'm in my young forties, and they were the first concert I'd ever seen. I mean, I rode a ten-speed bike to go buy 'Appetite For Destruction' when I was, like, fourteen years old. [I told him all that] and he's, like, 'That's great, man. That's so cool to hear.'"

Caught up in the unexpected moment, Guglielmo prepared to walk away as a thrilled fan when he realized he had an opportunity to document his chance meeting with the rocker.

"And then I turned away. And I was, like, 'Wait a second!'," he thought. "Cause I was a little starstruck. I realized I had my phone in my hand. And I'm, like, 'Axl, I don't mean to bug you, but can I get a picture?' And then his, I guess, friend took the picture, and he took a good one, and I put in on Instagram, and here we are."

The new video was directed by frontman Matt Shultz and photographer Pooneh Ghana, and the fun, grainy film-style video feels very 1960s--aloof and whimsical.

The group have brought in Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck) to handle mixing duties for their 11th album after teaming up with producer Danger Mouse on the recording. "Started mixing the new record today!," tweeted Smith. "@nigelgod at the helm."

Frontman Anthony Kiedis praised Danger Mouse's work on the project last October in an interview with Rolling Stone, saying, "He's very good about coming up with super-modern ideas, but he'll also touch on the acoustic guitar in the control room and strip the song down to its acoustic essentials. Which is a beautiful place to be."

The producer tells Rolling Stone: "Jason is one hell of a bass player. I'm probably one of the only people in the world, including Jason and Toby Wright, the assistant engineer, who heard the bass tracks on �And Justice for All, and they are f***ing brilliant. It was Lars and James who said to turn the bass down. I know that for a fact because I asked them."

Newsted was hired to replace Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident in 1986. He'd previously played with thrash outfit Flotsam and Jetsam on their record, Doomsday For The Deceiver.

Rasmussen admits that, on hindsight, the band feel they did not give the bassist the respect he deserved. He says: "He always more or less was the new kid. I actually had him practice bass when me and Lars would be doing drums. And I'd ask Toby to do some bass sounds with Jason to run it through a few times, and we'd go, 'This is great. This is not great. Do this, do that.' And we'd let them bang it out after we'd left for the night.

"Hello Cuba, we are very excited to be coming to play for you," says Mick Jagger on behalf of the group. "We have performed in many incredible places, but this concert in Havana is going to be a historic event for us.

The power-pop icons will be launching their European tour on March 29th at the Het Depot in Leuven, Belgium and will be concluding the trek on April 23rd at Sala Budokan in Cartagena, Spain.

The band will be releasing their new album "Solid States" on the 29th April 2016 in Europe on British indie Lojinx in various formats including heavyweight vinyl LP, CD and digital.

Fans can get an early taste of what is come with a free download of the album track 'Squirrel vs Snake', which can be streamed and downloaded here.

The Europe singer also admitted he was surprised that 'The Final Countdown' became as big a global smash hit as it did after penning the track while he was still in college.

Speaking to Sleazeroxx.com he explains: "Now, we've sort of been joking about that a little bit because there are so many bands that have said they've done the final tour for twenty years now.

"We've said were never going to say we're doing the final tour. We're going to keep going as long as we feel like it's fun. I doubt if we're ever going to do something like that. But you never know! If we do it, it will be the final tour because we don't believe in saying something and then doing something else. I understand some bands - they think they're going to do their final tour and then they feel like 'Oh no. We can't stop.'

"And there's a lot of fans coming to see you and they change their minds. I mean that's OK too. I don't want to do it to trick people or anything like that. That's ridiculous."

Fallon said of the album: "This is renewing my faith in the whole music thing, reminding me it's still important and still does what it's supposed to do."

Reynolds tells Sound Story: "The most important thing is being honest. People can spot a band when they're not being honest whether it's musically, in a video or on stage. You have to be completely comfortable with what you're making and be in control of it - not be told what to do because it's going to come through.

"The people who like your music like it for a reason. If you're making music that you enjoy, you are probably the biggest fan of your music. If you're not then you're probably not enjoying yourself."

"I finished the lyrics to "Bedless" in Marina Del Rey, pacing around an Airbnb one night at like 3 a.m.," the singer told Alt Press. Fuentes, also rented a secluded home in Santa Barbara, California for a month.

"It was this modern rustic little house," he explained. It was the kind of place meant to walk around naked in. There's a lot of privacy but the house itself had all glass doors and the shower door opened up into the yard. You can take a bath outside in the yard. I wrote the lyrics for 'The Divine Zero' there."

In addition to the Airbnb locations, Fuentes also rented a house in San Diego, spent a week in a Seattle hotel, the highly revered Village recording studios in Los Angeles, and spent nearly two months in isolation in a small mountain cabin 150 miles east of Los Angeles.

Rudess tells Linea Rock: "When I came in, my job was as a composer as much as it was as a keyboardist. But up until recently, many years later, our relationship didn't kind of mature to the point where we could sit down together and do a project like The Astonishing.

"When John conceived of the story, one of the first things he thought of is, 'Wow, it would be really cool if Jordan and I could sit down just together alone, without anybody else there, and just write this music.' And in doing that, it felt like it solidified a relationship that's been maturing through the course of years.

Pritchard says: "The original instrumental to Beautiful People is a personal song about loss, hopelessness and chaos, but ultimately the message is love and hope.

Guitarist Ben Bruce tells Billboard: "The song is about how strenuous and tiring living life on the road could be. Everyone thinks, 'Oh, you're a rock star, you're living the life, you're living the dream, you get to party every day.'

"While it's true that we're living a life that we love and what we dreamed when we were kids, people don't actually take into consideration the fact that we are away from everyone we love, that we do wake up in a different city every day not knowing where we are."

And they'll head to the UK in November and December with Cane Hill for a run of six shows with Bullet For My Valentine, who released latest album Venom last year.

Hughes tells One On One With Mitch Lafon: "I have become calmer and mellow. But I'll say this again, and I don't care what people think of me about why I use the word God, I know that when I had that operation and when I came too and was in recovery, I was in a complete state of calmness.

Biersack said of the album: "Sonically, the goal was to really play with music and a lot of different stuff - to have a lot of odd instrumentation and to have a lot of programmed stuff, keyboards and more classic, almost pop-rock guitar. It's more U2 than Megadeth.

Last year, Barre hit the road in support of latest album Back To Steel - but insisted while Tull's music would always feature in his live sets, he wanted his band to have their own identity.

Singer Colleen Rennison says: "I live and breathe rock'n'roll. It's a disease to want to push the envelope, to be an enemy to yourself at times, to want so much from the world that sometimes you can't even stand to be in it.

Support bands Testament and Carcass were also on hand to help raise awareness of the center's work. Motley Zoo says in a statement: "What's better than puppies and metal? Nothing! We were fortunate to spend Saturday night with Slayer, Testament and Carcass who very much enjoyed hanging out and cuddling our puppies.

Mainman Brian Tatler previously said: "Ras has certainly renewed the energy. I had no interest in doing a record - but after working with Ras on the European tour, that suddenly changed.

The band's frontman Johnny Rotten scrawled graffiti on the walls of the former silversmith's workshop where they rehearsed. His drawings of Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen still exist.

Evennett tells the Independent: "These 17th century townhouses not only exhibit well-preserved architectural detail but helped nurture Soho's influence on the global music industry during the 1960s and 1970s.

Speaking to 'The Five Count' radio show in Mankato, Minnesota, the former lead guitarist for The Runaways recalled breaking into the business and how people perceived and viewed her in her early days.

She remembers: "Some people would give me a bad� You know, 'Girls don't play guitar.' They would give me some cocky attitude. But mostly, my fellow musicians were very supportive.

"Record companies were so-so. They would say, 'Lita, take some of that makeup off,' or, 'Put some pants on,' and I would just say, 'No. That's not who I am. I'm not this Little Goody Two-Shoes; I'm a rock and roll, guitar-slinging chick, and that's who I am. If it doesn't work for you, then maybe I'm on the wrong record label.'"

Banshee say: "Our sound on this EP is more electronically based, leaning towards the synth sounds of Pvris or Bring Me The Horizon with the riffs of Biffy Clyro accompanied by raw female vocals. We would like to think this EP is something that you can move around to.

"We are absolutely delighted to be releasing our new EP with the title track Say My Name as our first single. The EP has been fully written by ourselves and produced by Bruce Rintoul and Romesh Dodangoda with our artwork designed by Daniel Holub.

Filmed under ground in Oslo, the video for Hole was made by Norwegian filmmaker and director Carsten Aniksdal. Susanna says: "We wanted to illustrate the existential topic of the song with dance and movements".

A series of three storms ravaged the northern English region at the end of last year, causing billions of pounds of damage. Main roads throughout the area remain closed, with authorities estimating the economic impact at over �1m per day.

The 18th annual Maryport Blues Festival will take place as usual on the weekend of July 29-31, featuring Royal Southern Brotherhood, The Blues Band, Stevie Nimmo Trio, Red Butler and many others.

Singer and guitarist Mat McNerney tells TeamRock: "Nature prevails. We never die, we just change our form. We're billion year old carbon on a journey through space on an ancient rock.

"As we leave our beloved Finland, heading out into Europe on tour, this video represents our view of the universe and our strong connection to the cycle of life and death. It's an existential question that only the forest can answer.

I'll jump right into the juicy stuff and level with you readers: Neptune came about in the midst of a depression in the summer of 2015. Our previous drummer had just left the band, the singer (Christopher) and I had just moved apartments, and I had a pretty good little heartache going. I can recall remarking to Chris in the kitchen of our new place that this might be the way Cobain felt before he ended his relationship with consciousness; feeling completely spent of musical energy and ideas, feeling like there was nothing left to offer. It was a dark, reflective summer for me.

So I changed my approach to songwriting and simplified things. Or in the words of George Knox's character in Angels in the Outfield, "we're going back to fundamentals!" It pulled me out of my slump, and working together with Steve Remp, our new time-keeper with all his fresh ideas and youthful vigor (whom I affectionately refer to as 'Stove') and Joe (the bassist), we wrote the monster riff and the nasty, progface transition that permeate the song. Joe was all over it and added his ten cents, shaping the concussive exploits of the verses with a Tim Commerford-ish line (RATM for those not in the know) that takes me back to more than one stale-beer-smelling high school basement.

Chris penned lyrics that encapsulated the celestial brutality of the riff and also told a bit of a love story at the same time, which both played at my soft heart a little and makes the song as a whole more relate-able. His melodies call and respond to bass and guitar leads to tell the story and put the reader on Neptune's swirling blues watching this space race he concocted in his maniacal brain. In our practice studio through a haze of smoke and whiskey breath we improvised the middle section together in a decidedly latin flavor in a bit of a nod to the love story, albeit maybe unconsciously. But if you ask me, unconscious is the best way to play anyway.

This song is relentless but considering the conditions it was created in, I would expect no less from this group of musicians. It is best played (and consumed) loudly after a few stiff drinks. Or if you're feeling adventurous, stronger mind benders. You know, for science.