Today's Day in Rock Stories

Foo Fighters' Debut Of Three New Songs Goes Online

During the show, Criss played a mix of classics, his own solo material and various covers. Speaking about his departure from the road, the 71-year-old drummer said that he wanted to say goodbye on his own terms, according to Billboard.

"I want to leave the stage happy," Criss explained. "I got onto the stage not thinking about making a buck. It was just pure: Play drums, have a good time, meet girls, travel and get out of Brooklyn."

Long before it became a trend to record covers albums, Metallica released their first collection of tribute recordings with "The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Revisited" thirty years this August.

In 1998 they went even bigger with the release of "Garage, Inc", followed the next year by their "S&M" album, which was a live performance recorded with The San Francisco Symphony.

Hammett was asked about the idea of the band revisited those types of projects during an interview with 105.7 The Point (via Metal Injection).

It appears that Maynard James Keenan can't get enough of the road as it has been announced that A Perfect Circle will be launching a new North American tour this fall.

Rolling Stone reports guitarist Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant's brother and lead singer Johnny Van Zant, and the estates of other Skynyrd members killed in the crash were among those who filed the lawsuit against Pyle and co-producer Cleopatra Records in Manhattan on June 16.

In the suit, Lynyrd Skynyrd argues that Pyle "is free to exploit his own personal life story" for the film, but the biopic is in danger of violating "a 1988 consent order" that members - Pyle included - agreed to concerning control of the Lynyrd Skynyrd copyright.

This theme follows Marvel's previously released hip-hop variant covers from the last few years. The covers will each pay tribute to a classic rock album that defined and expanded the musical genre:

The group, which features Dave Lombardo (ex-Slayer/Suicidal Tendencies), Justin Pearson (Retox/The Locust), Mike Patton (Faith No More/Tomahawk) and Michael Crain (Retox, Festival of Dead Deer), will be releasing the album on August 4th.

Justin Pearson had this say about the new visual, "The artist who created our album art, Eric Livingston, came up with this video. As far as I'm concerned, It sums up the current social and political climate of today. For a lot of humanity, this world is a mean motherf***ing place.

They will be kicking things off on September 23rd in Wichita, KS at the Orpheum Theater and will conclude the trek on October 22nd with appearance at the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, CA.

The late night television appearance lands on the eve of the band's first North American shows in three years when they kick off a summer trek across the continent starting in Phoenix, AZ on June 23 - see full list of dates below.

The 7-week, 26-date arena run also includes two nights at The Hollywood Bowl this month as Queen debut a brand new state-of-the-art stage production and a set list that they hint will provide some surprises while marking the 40th anniversary of their biggest-selling studio album to date, 1977's "News Of The World."

"The general public knows the hits, so you've got to cater for that," says guitarist Brian May, "but we can chuck in a few things that people really don't expect. We'll do quite a bit more of that this time around. There are so many dimensions to Adam, which of course fits with our music. He can get down and do the rock stuff really dirty, and you have all those dimensions, and we can explore that even more."

The new visual can be streamed here. The band members have each shared their comments about the making of the new clip, which was filmed by Jamie Brown in the high desert in Southern California.

The album faced some controversy and backlash over its move to a more pop direction and Delson admits that there was some risk involved but is thankful to everyone who helped make it a success.

He told Billboard (via ABC), "Obviously, there are always risks involved, so for us, the reward is the music itself, for sure.

The album concept centers on the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and is sung in Portuguese. The band will herald the record's release with two hometown shows in Lisbon, including their annual Halloween party.

Frontman Tyler Joseph told the crowd, "It's not that we don't like Coachella, it's just that we can't stand it." He continued by saying that they would rather perform for the Firefly crowd "any day."

Harry and Stein were wheeled along the parade route in a wicker chair and greeted members of the crowd, many of whom lined up in the rain hours before the parade's 1 pm starting time.

This new 3-disc(2 CD / 1 DVD) digipak Deluxe Edition of the album features a newly re-mastered original stereo mix and a 5.1 Surround sound mix by Simon Heyworth (on an NSTC / Region Free DVD), along with a CD of previously unreleased "Slow Dance Vignettes." It includes a lavishly illustrated booklet that fully restores the original album artwork and features a new essay by Jon Dann.

I remember sitting down on a gorgeous summer day outside our bassist John's cabin deep in the woods to write the lyrics for this song. There was no cell phone reception on the lake, and we had nothing on the schedule but writing, and recording.

I remember feeling a sense of peace in the disconnection from the rest of the world. I had all the time to sit by myself to think, and feel all of the natural, unprovoked things that came to me. This gave me clarity, and inspiration to write the lyrics for "A Little More Us".

I was able to be honest with myself, with my past relationships, and truly find the words to explain how I felt, and what I wanted for myself moving forward. In some way, I think I can contribute the honesty, and the sincerity of this song and it's lyrics to the sun, the quite, and the serenity of Babcock lake.