Black Sabbath Cancel Reunion Tour, Ozzy, Slash and Zakk Wylde To Fill In

Instead of a Sabbath tour, frontman Ozzy Osbourne will be hitting the road with an "Ozzy & Friends" show. The singer will be joined by Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, along with former touring mate/guitar great Zakk Wylde and guitar icon Slash. more on this story

Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers Lollapalooza Fake

(Banana 101.5) Perry Farrell is firing back at "an anonymous Lollapalooza insider" that has been leaking the annual music festival's lineup via Twitter. The rumored lineup features Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beyonce, and more.

A Twitter account under the handle @lollaleaks began posting what it claimed would be the lineup for this year's festival earlier this month. Some of the acts "leaked" include headliners Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Beyonce along with KornGarbage, AWOLNATION, the Gaslight Anthem, The Killers, Beck, YACHT, the Big Pink, Wild Flag, Ben Folds Five, and a final performance from Sonic Youth.

Festival creator and Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell has been engaged in a Twitter war with the self proclaimed "insider," calling the leaker a "red tick," "a fraud," and more.

Blink-182 Mini Tour

Blink-182 have put together a mini tour for this May around their co-headline appearance at the Bamboozle Festival 2012 (with Bon Jovi and Foo Fighters).

In addition to Blink-182's Bamboozle performance on Saturday, May 19 at the North Beach boardwalk in Asbury Park, NJ, the band has scheduled major arena shows in upstate New York as well as New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Quebec City .

Hoppus, guitarist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker reunited in 2009 after a tumultuous four-year hiatus. Their new album, Neighborhoods, marks Blink-182's sixth studio effort. more on this story

Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour Dates

The recently reunited Beach Boys have most of the dates for their upcoming 40+ city 50th anniversary tour of North America, and also plan to release a new studio album.

The upcoming tour, the majority of which is booked into outdoor venues, gets underway April 24 in Tucson, AZ, and dates are currently scheduled through mid-July.

The band has recorded new songs for a studio album that will be released later this year. Brian Wilson is producing the set, and Mike Love is the executive producer. more on this story

Megadeth, Slash, Chickenfoot, Creed, Chevelle for Rocklahoma

Rocklahoma 2012's initial lineup has announced and the festival will feature sets from Megadeth, Slash, Chickenfoot, Creed, Chevelle and more.

The three day event will take place over Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27, at the "Catch the Fever" Festival Grounds in Pryor, OK.

The initial Rocklahoma lineup includes: Rob Zombie, Chickenfoot featuring Joe Satriani, Kenny Aronoff (sitting in for Chad Smith), Michael Anthony & Sammy Hagar, Creed, Megadeth, Slash, Queensrÿche, Chevelle, Theory of a Deadman, Jackyl, Puddle Of Mudd, Hellyeah, P.O.D., Volbeat, 10 Years, Cavo, Adelitas Way, Black Stone Cherry, Pop Evil, Red, The Darkness, Art of Dying, Trivium, Aranda, Redlight King, James Durbin, Janus, New Medicine, Rival Sons, Anti Mortem, Gypsy Pistoleros, Wildstreet, Firstryke, Black Tora, Sunset Riot, The Glitter Boys, Fist of Rage, Switchblade Scarlett, Krank and more. Bands will perform on the Main Stage, Second Stage and the Retrospect Records Stage.

Rocklahomais located just 45 minutes northeast of Tulsa, in Pryor, OK and The "Catch the Fever" Festival Grounds. More info here.

Foo Fighters Plan Out Of This World New Album

(Banana 101.5) We're assuming Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl spent some time with Muse recently because now he says that their next album will be recorded in space.

Foo Fighters had a lengthy conversation with MTV on the red carpet at The 54th Annual Grammy Awards, where the Foo Fighters nearly swept all categories they were nominated in. The band took home five Grammys losing only to Adele — who did sweep all her categories — for "Album of the Year." "If we win them all, we'll look like dicks," joked Grohl prior to the telecast.

The interviewer also asked about the rumor — which Grohl started himself in a recent blog post — that Foo Fighters had already begun working on a new album. "We have an idea. It's kind of a really big idea," said Grohl. "[We're going to record it] in space. To tape. An analog moonshot." more on this story

Less Than Jake Release Surprise EP

Less Than Jake unexpectedly released a five-song EP called Season's Greetings From Less Than Jake.

An accompaniment to last summer's Greetings From Less Than Jake, the new EP was produced by Less Than Jake bassist Roger Lima at his studio, The Moathouse, in Gainesville and was mixed by Stephen Egerton of The Descendents, is available only from Less Than Jake's online webstore here and will also be sold at shows.

Last night the band kicked off their northeast run of tour dates with Samiam, Flatfoot 56 and Plow United. Listen to a stream of one of the tracks here.

Slash To Deliver Apocalyptic Love in May

Velvet Revolver/former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash will release his second solo album, Apocalyptic Love, on May 22nd.

The new album features Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators and will be released on Slash's own label Dik Hayd International and distributed through EMI.

Slash is currently in a Los Angeles studio putting the final touches on Apocalyptic Love and earlier this week he announced his headlining U.S. tour will begin May 3 in Baltimore. more on this story

Van Halen Family And Friends Show Footage Goes Online

(hennemusic) Last week, Van Halen continued their tradition of performing a final dress rehearsal concert at the L.A. Forum for family and friends.

The 70-minute set featured classic VH tracks and four songs from the new album, "A Different Kind Of Truth," including "She's The Woman" and the first single, "Tattoo."

New, multi-cam video footage of both of the tracks have been shared online and we have them for you here.

Jay Gordon Resurrects Orgy

Jay Gordon has put together a new Orgy lineup and is hitting the road tomorrow for the first Orgy tour since 2005 and they are working on a comeback album.

The Bad Blood Tour 2012 kicks off this Saturday, February 18 in Point Richmond, CA. The six-week trek will feature support from Faultline, One-Eyed Doll, The Attitude and various local bands.

The trek will include stops in Las Vegas, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee, among many cities, before hitting New York City on Tuesday, March 6 at Irving Plaza. The band will then head south as they make their way back home for a show at The Key Club on the Sunset Strip Wednesday, March 21 before wrapping the tour in Tempe, AZ on Monday, April 2. more on this story

Switchfoot Plan American, Australian Tours, Special Release and More

Switchfoot have a lot of activities coming up this spring including a North American headline tour, leading this year's Soundwave Festival, a special Record Store Day release, a special Evening with Swithfoot and more.

The band will kick off the North American headlining tour on March 22 in Kahului, HI and next week Switchfoot heads to Australia and New Zealand, where they will headline the traveling Soundwave Festival. They'll also be capturing footage for Fading West, the San Diego-based band's upcoming surf film, which will feature numerous other incredible surfing locations Switchfoot has visited on its world tour.

On March 20, "An Evening with Switchfoot at La Jolla Playhouse." Switchfoot and producer Neal Avron (Sara Bareilles, Weezer) will discuss the making of their latest album, Vice Verses (Atlantic Records). The evening will also feature a Q&A and meet-and-greet session. a lot more here

Clutch and Hellyeah Launching Spring Tour

Clutch and Hellyeah are joining forces this Spring for a North American Co-Headlining Tour with both bands will play full headlining sets.

The tour kicks off April 13th in Providence, RI and runs through May 11th in Joliet, IL.

Throughout the tour there will also be dates that feature Clutch only and Hellyeah only as well as radio festivals and shows. more on this story

Twin Atlantic Set American Album Release and Tour

America will soon find out what rock fans in the UK have been raving about as Twin Atlantic will release their debut album, Free, in North American on March 13 via Red Bull Records.

Free was recorded in Santa Monica and produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo And The Bunnymen, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World).

The album was released in the 2011 in the UK and resulted in iTunes UK naming them Best New Rock Artist of the Year. Free was the UK's best selling independent British rock album of 2011, hitting #1 on iTunes Rock albums charts and #4 on Scottish albums. more on this story

Twisted Sister's Dee Snider Talks Celebrity Apprentice

(hennemusic) Season 12 of The Celebrity Apprentice kicks off this Sunday featuring a couple of musicians, including Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider.

The contestants, as usual, will play for charity, and Snider has one that's close to his heart.

"As the national spokesperson for the March Of Dimes Bikers For Babies," says Dee, "I am inspired to get the message out and to help this charity though the Celebrity Apprentice. Two of my four children were born prematurely and, although they were both born healthy, I know firsthand from being in those neo-natal units the problems so many families have with unhealthy babies. The March Of Dimes' work is the reason there are NICU's [Neonatal Intensive Care Units] in pretty much every hospital in America." Check out the video interview here.

Alice Cooper Discusses Plans for Iron Maiden Tour

(hennemusic) Alice Cooper will be joining Iron Maiden for the band's "Maiden England" tour this summer. Alice will team up with Maiden for the first month of shows –from June 21 to July 21 – before Coheed & Cambria step in to open for the UK metal masters.

"Those guys [Maiden] are really good friends of ours," Alice tells Rolling Stone. "When you've been out for five decades on the road, there's a whole section of the audience out there that have heard of Alice Cooper but never saw Alice Cooper. So an Iron Maiden audience is a great opportunity for us to show them what Alice is all about. We do more theatrics now than we did back then."

As for his plans for the Maiden tour, Cooper says "You have to do the hits. The audience would kill you if you don't do 'Eighteen' and 'School's Out.' But then we've got to do stuff from the new album. And then you have to get what I call the underground hits – the real Alice aficionados want to hear those songs. Once in a while you throw a cover in there. We do a pretty mean 'Brown Sugar.'" Following the Maiden tour, Alice has plans of his own.

Sixx:A.M Making Live Return at Golden God Awarrds

Motley Crue mastermind Nikki Sixx's side group Sixx:A.M will perform live for the first time in four years at Revolver's Golden Gods Awards on April 11th.

As each band member has been kept busy with their other careers - Nikki Sixx is also the bassist for Mötley Crüe and a syndicated radio host; Dj Ashba is currently touring with Guns N'Roses; James Michael is a rock producer who is currently working on new records for Papa Roach, Halestorm and others.

The appearance marks the band's first chance to perform in support of their current album, This Is Gonna Hurt.

Breathe Carolina, The Ready Set and Matt Toka Tour

Warner Bros sent over word that their new artist Matt Toka will be touring this spring with Breathe Carolina and The Ready Set.

The tour kicks off on March 21st in Columbia, MO, and wraps up on April 27th in Bloomington, IN.

WBR had this to say about Toka: Inspired by the storytelling of Bob Dylan, Noel Gallagher, and Billie Joe Armstrong, Toka locked himself in his one-room studio apartment to write the songs on his upcoming debut album, which he is currently recording with his idol, producer Rob Cavallo. more on this story

Art Garfunkel 2-Disc Retrospect Coming in April

Art Garfunkel has hand-picked 40 songs for a new career spanning retrospect called The Singer which is being release on April 10th.

The two-CD collection will cover the years from the first Simon & Garfunkel album of 1964 (Wednesday Morning, 3AM) up through 2007's Great American Songbook album (Some Enchanted Evening.

In addition to curating The Singer, Garfunkel provides his own personal track-by-track annotations, which appear in the booklet in his handwritten form. The notes are as unique as Garfunkel himself. He writes of "Cecilia," the S&G hit single from 1970: "'Car!' we called in Queens. Then we stopped the game and stepped aside. I grew up where the brick houses were semi-attached with driveways in between. Punchball was king. Somehow the yelling we did as street kids found its way to 'Cecilia.' We shouted the song over a track we made from a tape loop of rhythmic hand clapping onto our blue jeans." more on this story

Dandy Warhols Releasing New Album This Spring

The End Records will release Dandy Warhols new album This Machine on April 24th.

The album was mixed Tchad Blake who also mixed The Dandy Warhols Odditorium or Warlords of Mars and Come Down. Tchad is well known for his recent work with The Black Keys, Blitzen Trapper and Pearl Jam. The album cover for This Machine was painted by local Portland, Oregon painter Hickory Mertsching.

Stand out track, "Autumn Carnival" was co authored by Courtney Taylor and David J of Love and Rockets. About the album, Courtney says, "We've been told that its our gothiest. I thought it was our grungiest so I'm really hoping its a hit with goths who are...um, really outdoorsy?" more on this story

Van Halen Top Billboard Rock Chart

(hennemusic) Van Halen's "A Different Kind Of Truth," debuts this week at #1 on Billboard's Rock Albums chart.

The first Van Halen album with David Lee Roth in 28 years sold 187,000 copies to be the week's top-selling album across all rock genres, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

Debuting behind the veteran rockers at #2 was "Scars & Stories" by The Fray. more on this story

The Story Of Rock 'n' Roll Comics DVD Coming

MVD have set an April 24th release date for "The Story Of Rock 'n' Roll Comics" on DVD.

This documentary tells the unbelievable story of Todd Loren, San Diego-based owner of Revolutionary Comics, famous for publishing the wildly popular "Rock 'N' Roll Comics" series.

The unauthorized and often controversial comics featured biographies of music groups such as KISS, the Sex Pistols and Metallica. Loved by some (Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Lemmy, Metallica) and threatened by others (Axl Rose, Skid Row, New Kids on the Block), over 300 issues of Rock 'N' Roll comics were printed, embracing all music genres: Rock, Alternative, Hip-Hop, Punk and Pop and they quickly became instant collector's items. In a strange twist, Loren is found murdered in his condo in 1992, making people speculate that he may have the first victim of 'serial' killer Andrew Cunanan, leading to an absorbing mystery that still remains, UNSOLVED today. more on this story

Axe Release Axeology

Earlier this week Deadline Music released Axeology 1979-2001, a 2-CD collection memorializes more than 20 years of the classic hard rock band, Axe.

Formed in Florida in 1979, the original Axe lineup included keyboardist Edgar Riley, guitarists Bobby Barth and Michael Osborne, bassist Mike Turpin, and drummer Teddy Mueller.

The band's self-titled debut on MCA Records quickly earned attention in the rock community, but it wasn't until the third album Offering (on Atco) in 1982 that Axe hit the big time with the anthemic "Rock 'n' Roll Party In The Streets." New bassist Wayne Haner was added to the band for the album and subsequent tours with Motley Crue, The Scorpions, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne and Iron Maiden. Sadly, while supporting a fourth album on tour with KISS, Michael Osborne was killed in a car crash which seriously injured Bobby Barth, and the band soon dissolved. more on this story

Elvis Presley's Model Teeth Up For Grabs

(Gibson) First, John Lennon's tooth went up for auction in a high-profile sale, and now it's Elvis Presley's turn.

According to ABC News, a one-of-a-kind a model of Elvis Presley's teeth together with a crown made for the star by the musician's former Memphis dentist, Henry J. Weiss, will be up for auction beginning February 25. The model – which will be auctioned via Omega Auctions in Stockport, Greater Manchester – is estimated to score a sky-high $15,000 or more.

Weiss, Presley's dentist until 1971, did all of the "Hound Dog" rocker's dental work, including the groundwork of a porcelain crown for his front tooth. As the story goes, Weiss was called upon in February of 1971 when Presley cracked his crown on a microphone while playing a gig at the International Hotel, now known as the Hilton Hotel, in Las Vegas. He affectionately called the crown the "King's Crown." more on this story

Quick Licks Gary Moore Volume 2 DVD Released

Lick Library have released the new Quick Licks Gary Moore Volume 2 DVD. Here are the details they provided:

Professional player and teacher Jamie Humphries presents the easy to follow guitar lessons, which will help you build your repertoire and technique.

The DVD takes you through over 30 Gary Moore style licks from two distinct periods in his career; 80's style hard rock and the blues. The guitar lessons illustrate techniques such as fast alternate picking, scale sequences, tremolo picking and fast pentatonic phrases and lines, a guitar jam track is also included. more on this story

The Day Bob Dylan Walked the Line with Johnny Cash

(Gibson) As mutual admirers of each other's work, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan began covering each other's songs in the mid- to late '60s. Cash appropriated "It Ain't Me, Babe" for 1965's Orange Blossom Special, and Dylan and The Band laid down quite a few versions of Cash tunes during The Basement Tapes sessions, although their versions of "Big River" and "Folsom Prison Blues" didn't end up on the official release.

When their paths crossed, the two would often engage in backstage duets – even though their voices weren't the most perfect of matches. A couple of these moments were caught on film. Their version of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" can be seen in Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home, and their take on "I Still Miss Someone" is featured in Dylan's unreleased Eat the Document.

But the two wouldn't sit down to formally record a duet until this day in 1969. Following his mid-'60s rock records, his motorcycle accident and the rustic roots inspirations of John Wesley Harding, Dylan had come to Nashville to make a full-blown country record in February of '69. Dylan and some A-list session guys had laid down the bulk of the album's tracks over a couple of days in Columbia Studios. Toward the end of the sessions, on February 17, Cash stopped by to say hello, and to take a break from recording his own album.

"I had microphones set up and stools and tapes and everything" producer Bob Johnston later remembered. "They looked at each other... got their guitars and started playing."

Cash and Dylan ended up recording together for the next two days. more on this story

Keith Moody Singled Out Week: Already Home

Keith Moody released his new album, "Dreaming Out Loud" , this week. To celebrate we asked him to tell us about some of the songs from the album. Today he tells us about, "Already Home". Here is the story:

To me this song means you can't find what you really need. What you need is something that's always inside you. The person in the song is going everywhere searching for something (which most people can relate to) only to realize that maybe he is already has it (home). I went through this realization after touring, then returning to Nashville but never feeling completely at home and realized that home is where your heart is…I should have just read those little signs they sell in truck stops I guess.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album right here!