Aerosmith Plan New Tour Leg

And while the band gears up to release their new album, "Music From Another Dimension," on November 6, there's word that a new batch of tour dates on their way. "Anyday dates for 2nd leg will be announced," tweeted guitarist Joe Perry. "Also one or two new tunes from new Album." more on this story

Dave Matthews Band Plan Special Album Release Show

Dave Matthews Band will be putting on a very special album release concert at the Hollywood Bowl on September 12th, the day after their new album hits stores. Their camp sent over these details:

Every ticket purchased online for the Hollywood Bowl show will receive a digital download of 'Away From The World' (standard album) on the September 11, 2012 release date.

RCA Records will release "Away From The World" in CD, digital and vinyl formats. The new album was recorded with Steve Lillywhite, who produced Dave Matthews Band's first three studio records. more on this story

Ronnie James Dio's Childhood Home On eBay

(hennemusic) A childhood home of the late Ronnie James Dio is now for sale on online auction site eBay.

The 3-bedroom house is located in Cortland, New York, which is south of Syracuse. A street in Cortland – Dio Way – was named after the singer in 1988.

The minimum starting bid is listed as $90,000; the auction ends on August 31. The seller's description is as follows: "This is the house [Ronnie] grew up in, wrote songs in, had parties in, and played in! We bought the house from Ronnie about 3.5 years ago and have enjoyed living there but it is too small for our growing family. I am listing it on eBay in the hopes that a TRUE Dio fan can get this house and enjoy owning a piece or heavy metal history." more on this story

Alexisonfire Announce Global Farewell Tour Dates

Alexisonfire have finally announced the dates for their farewell tour with dates scheduled across the world, but they skip the U.S. for an undisclosed reason.

The tour is set to take place in December and will kick off with a show in London and they will then play dates in Brazil, Australia and a string of dates in their native Canada.

The band announced the dates on their Facebook page with this message: "As promised in 2010 – we're back for a Farewell Tour. We know that this tour doesn't reach all of you, and this list is sure to cause some disappointment, but know that we have done our best to fit what we can into this window of time. December 2012 is the only time that all 5 of us aren't committed to something in our personal or professional lives. An entire month!!!! more on this story

Beatles, Rolling Stones, CCR, Doors and More For PBS Special

(Gibson) Don't have any Saturday night plans yet? Then PBS has a show that may be of interest to you. The network's My Music series is set to present Ed Sullivan's Top Performers, featuring performances from The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Doors, Creedence Clearwater Revival and more beginning this Saturday. The show also will feature live concerts from the Mamas & The Papas, the Turtles, the Fifth Dimension, Tom Jones and the Association.

"This special takes you back to the original moments of the artists and songs when they first broke," said TJ Lubinsky, whose company TJL Productions co-produced the show, in a release. "[With] a focus on the late '60s, this collection of rock and roll classics exemplifies the defining backbeat in the soundtrack of our lives."

A multiple-CD set called Pop, Rock and Soul is also slated to arrive and feature performances from Ed Sullivan's Top Performers. The album set will feature over 100 classic songs, including famous tracks by the Beach Boys, the Lovin' Spoonful, The Who, Van Morrison and more.

As for when to catch Ed Sullivan's Top Performers the show, check your local listings for specific times. more on this story

Mayhem Festival Cruise Plans Sunk

Plans for the maiden voyage of the Mayhem Festival Cruise have been sunk for an undisclosed reason.

The metal cruise was scheduled to take place in December and feature Lamb Of God, Machine Head, Anthrax, Hatebreed, Suicide Silence, Kingdom Of Sorrow, Gojira, Periphery, Born Of Osiris, Battlecross, Otherwise, Girl On Fire, Anti Mortem, and Gyspyhawk plus DJ sets from Jdevil (Jonathan Davis Of Korn) And Dj Starscream (Sid Of Slipknot).

Organizers announced this week: Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control we have been forced to cancel the Mayhem Festival Cruise. more on this story

Slipknot Release More Knotfest Details

Slipknot have released the details for their first-ever Knotfest which is set to take place August 17th and 18th in Council Bluffs, Iowa and Minneapolis, MN.

Knotfest will be headlined by Slipknot and will feature sets from Deftones, Lamb Of God, Machine Head, Serj Tankian, Cannibal Corpse, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Urge, Prong, Gojira and more. Organizers have announced the set times for all acts.

For those that can't make the trek to the Midwest, Slipknot will be offering up a pay-per-view online stream. more on this story

Jack White Explains Backing Bands In New Interview With Duff McKagan

(Gibson) Former Guns N' Roses bass player Duff McKagan already has his own column in the Seattle Weekly, and now, the musician is branching out and interviewing bands for the publication. McKagan's latest interview is with none other than Jack White, who is currently out on the road, promoting his debut solo album, Blunderbuss.

If you catch White's current tour, you'll notice he has two bands with him on the road: one consisting of all female players, and the other one made up of all male musicians. White explained that he purposely wanted to take along an interesting mix of musicians so his shows wouldn't be a "nostalgia trip."

"If it's a White Stripes song, for example, that people are hearing, I don't want to recreate something that a two-piece band did with six people in some really regular, perfunctory way, or a nostalgic way," White told McKagan in Seattle Weekly. "So it's a way for me to shake things up for myself so it stays really alive onstage, not just trying to recreate some moment from 10 years ago."

White also explained that the musicians he has out on the road all contributed to Blunderbuss. "The new songs of mine were done with these new musicians, so that was the lucky part," he said. "I could take all of them with me on the road. It's very expensive, but I'm getting a lot out of it." more on this story

UFO Returning To North America For Fall Tour

UFO will be landing in North American once again this fall to play a series of West Coast and Mid-West tour dates.

The trek is set to kick off on November 15th in Chicago, IL and is currently scheduled to wrap up December 1st in Corona, CA.

UFO will be touring in support of their latest album Seven Deadly which was released earlier this year via Steamhammer/SPV. more on this story

Sirius Black Sabbath Interview Set For Broadcast This Weekend

(hennemusic) Black Sabbath rocked Lollapalooza last weekend. Sabbath were interviewed at Lollapalooza, and SiriusXM satellite radio have confirmed the broadcast times for the session.

The Chicago stop was the third and final 2012 date for the mostly-reunited band, following an intimate homecoming show in Birmingham in May and a headline performance at Download in June.

All three appearances featured original members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, along with Tommy Clufetos (from Ozzy's solo band) handling drum duties in the absence of original player Bill Ward, who continues to sit things out over a contract dispute. Airtimes for the interview.

Journey's Neal Schon Sets New Solo Album Release

Journey guitarist Neal Schon will release his new solo album, The Calling, on October 22nd in the UK and October 23rd in the U.S. Nobel sent us these details:

Produced by and featuring Schon on all guitars and bass, The Calling reunites Schon with former Journey bandmate, Steve Smith, who lends his drum talents to all 12 tracks on the new album.

Schon set up shop at Berkeley's famed Fantasy Studios during a break from Journey's busy touring schedule and recorded the album, completely from scratch, in just four days. After overdubbing multiple guitar and bass parts, Schon recruited two keyboard masters to flesh out the music. Igor Len, an accomplished classical, jazz and film composer who had previously collaborated with Schon, is featured on acoustic piano throughout The Calling album. more on this story

God Forbid and Emmure Members Doing In Store Event Today

God Forbid's Doc Coyle and Matt Wicklund plus Emmure's Jesse Ketive and Mike Muholland will be holding an in-store signing event today at Guitar Center in Portland, Maine.

The appearance is in addition to their appearance tomorrow at the Trespass America Festival's stop in Portland.

Guitar Center is located at 198 Maine Mall Rd and the signing will go from 1:00 pm -2:30 pm

Saving Grace Change Lineup

Saving Grace have had another lineup change, parting ways with Mike Benson who they brought on to play bass in 2010. The group issued these details:

Benson came on board to expand the band to a five piece which saw bassist George White step in on second guitar duties.

Mike has stepped down from Saving Grace after appearing on the band's latest full length 'The King is Coming' and supporting festivals and tour dates across USA, Australia and New Zealand. more on this story

Triumph's Rik Emmett Explains His Live Musical Chairs

T-Mak World caught up with Triumph legend Rik Emmett and his musical cohort Dave Dunlop to discuss a variety of topics including Rik's current tour plans which include three different kinds of shows. In this excerpt, Rik explains what fans can expect from each:

T-Mal: Rik, on your website we see that you have three different shows – "An Acoustic Night Of Triumph", "Rik Emmett Band" and "Rik Emmett & Dave Dunlop". What is the difference between the three shows and what can people expect to hear in each one?

Emmett: The Acoustic Night of Triumph set leans heavily on Triumph catalogue, performed acoustically. The Band shows are electric, in a quartet, with a drums & bass gtr. rhythm section. Emmett & Dunlop is likely to have plenty of material from the Strung-Out Troubadours / Troubs duo where Dave and I have written several albums of songs together. Read the full interview here and read what Rik thinks of the chances of a Triumph reunion.

The Adicts Return With All The Young Droogs Album and Tour

UK punk rockers The Adicts will be celebrating their 35th anniversary by releasing a brand new album and a tour.

The band have set a September 11th release date for All The Young Droogs, their tenth studio album.

The Adicts will touring in North America in early September before heading to Brazil later that month to support the release of the new album. more on this story

Pig Destroyer Releasing First New Album in Over Five Years

Relapse Records have set an October 23rd release date for Pig Destroyer's new album, Book Burner.

The 19 track effort is the Pig Destroyer's fifth-full length and first album in over five years.

The band recently completed the self-recording of Book Burner at guitarist Scott Hull's Visceral Sound Studios. You can check out studio footage here.

My Darkest Days Taking Surrender The Fall On Tour

My Darkest Days have tapped newcomers Surrender The Fall to support them on their upcoming North American tour.

The tour is set to kick off on September 17 in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a WGRD Low Dough Show and will wrap up on October 17th Buffalo, NY.

Prior to this trek Surrender The Fall will be on the road with Nonpoint and will release their debut album, Burn In The Spotlight, on September 18th. more on this story

R.E.M. Plan 25th Anniversary Edition of Document

(Gibson) R.E.M. will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of their fifth studio album, Document, on Sept. 1, and in honor of that centenary, the band will release a two-disc version of the album on Sept. 25.

The upcoming anniversary edition of Document will offer a digitally remastered version of the album, as well as a never before released live concert taped on Sept. 14, 1987, in Utrecht, Holland. The remastered original album will also be released in vinyl format.

Document features such R.E.M. classics as "The One I Love," "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," "Finest Worksong" and more. more on this story

Good Old War Set For Jimmy Kimmel and Dispatch and Needtobreathe Tours

Good Old War are set to perform their song "Better Weather" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on August 14th.

The Kimmel appearance will be followed up by fall tour plans where they will be supporting Dispatch in October and also hitting the road with Needtobreathe in late October through November.

Good Old War continue to tour in support of their third full length album, Come Back As Rain, which debuted at the top of Billboard's Heatseekers chart back in March. more on this story

B Sides

Multi-Cam Footage of Van Halen Goes Online

(hennemusic) Van Halen are currently on a summer break from their "A Different Kind Of Truth" tour but some new multi-cam footage of one of the previous stops has gone online.

On March 30, Van Halen played the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. A fan-shot multi-cam mix of the show was posted, and now the producers have regrouped to complete a new mix of the concert.

The youtube host writes: "A few more cams were added along with some different editing choices (and i fixed some mistakes as well). There are a few more shots of AVH in this edit too!!"

"High quality camera work for most of the show captured from rows 1 and 2 and 17, and audio was recorded separately with a Sony PCM M10 unit with external binaural microphones." Watch it here.

Dream Theater Star Releases SpaceWiz App

(hennemusic) Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess has released his latest iOS app this week entitled SpaceWiz.

"We partnered with developer Tobias Miller to see if an otherworldly dream I had could be made into reality," said Rudess. "He was able to bring it completely to life."

There are over 250 on-board instruments, as well as forty-five presets and access to control external midi instruments. SpaceWiz allows the viewer to interact with and control their environment at the highest level of complexity. more on this story

Transit Release Skipping Stone Video

Transit have released a new music video for an alternative version of their song "Skipping Stone."

The acoustic version of the track was featured the band's Rise Records debut Listen & Forgive. You can watch the video here.

Transit will be joining Taking Back Sunday and Bayside on the Tell All Your Friends 10 Year Anniversary Tour. more on this story