Axl Rose To Give First Live TV Interview In 20 Years

"Appetite For Democracy" will span material from their debut album "Appetite For Destruction" (1987) through their latest record "Chinese Democracy" (2008). more on this story

Led Zeppelin To Attend Celebration Day Premieres

(hennemusic) Led Zeppelin members will be attending two special premiere screenings of their new film, "Celebration Day."

The movie, which documents the band's 2007 concert at London's O2 Arena, will make its U.S. debut at the historic Ziegfeld Theater in New York's theater district on October 9.

Prior to the premiere, founding members John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant will be joined by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham, for a press conference at New York's Museum of Modern Art. more on this story

Government Agencies Plotted To End Rolling Stones Career?

(Classic Rock) An author claims [the British intelligence agency] MI5 [and the FBI] planned to sabotage the Rolling Stones' career, and the infamous Redlands raid was the result of a carefully-orchestrated plot.

Philip Norman says the British secret service forced a drug dealer to infiltrate band circles with the intention of discrediting Mick Jagger and co, so that they'd fall out of fame.

The police raid on Keith Richards' Redlands home in February 1967 failed to secure the end of the Stones, although Jagger and Richards both spent time in jail as a result of the investigation. The plot thickens.

Nightwish Part Ways With Singer

(Classic Rock) Singer Anette Olzon has split with Nightwish in a spirit of "mutual understanding," the band says. The move follows an online rant where she criticised the Finnish band for performing a show without her at the weekend.

She missed the Nightwish show in Denver, Colorado and was temporarily replaced by support band Kamelot's backing singers Elize Ryd and Alissa White-Gluz.

Olzon told fans she'd been admitted to hospital with suspected stress complications, during which doctors discovered a cyst in her liver which would require further treatment. more on this story

Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall and Acaro Tour

Killswitch Engage will be hitting the road next month for their "Alive Or Just Breathing" 10th anniversary tour which will feature support from Shadows Fall and Acaro.

The tour will kick off on November 24 with KsE's headline set at the annual California Metalfest in San Bernardino, CA and will conclude on December 20 in Portland, Maine. Roadrunner sent over these details:

With original frontman Jesse Leach, who left the band shortly after AOJB's release, back in the fold since early 2012, the time was more than perfect for the band to celebrate the album with a tour during which they will play the entire album from start to finish. They will also play other more recent hits. more on this story

The Black Keys Plan New Album

(CBS Local) The Black Keys revealed in an interview with CBS Local that they'll begin work on their eighth album, a follow-up to 2011′s El Camino, early next year.

Drummer Patrick Carney gave us a run-down of the events to come in their world: "We're going to start making a new album in January and we're going to tour a little more in the spring.

"Our plan is the have the new album done by the end of spring or earlier, then hopefully take a few months off to do normal things like go to bed early and wake up early, walk the dog, that kind of stuff. Then we'll probably be back on the road starting next fall." A lot more here.

Dillinger Escape Plan To Begin Recording New Album

Dillinger Escape Plan have tapped Steve Evetts to produce their new album and will be entering the studio next month to begin recording the effort.

Guitarist Ben Weinman had this to say: "This new material is very punk-, very hardcore-influenced. Maybe it's all the amazing bands reuniting from my youth that is inspiring this. Billy [Rymer] and I have just been listening to old hardcore records blasting through my house and then going down to the dungeon and just bashing. Greg [Puciato] also seems to be in a very dark place lyrically. I think it's going to be pretty creepy. If these songs don't put some holes in the wall, I don't know what will."

The band later added on their Facebook page, "This of course is misinformation on Ben's part, as the new album is as of now shaping up to be progressive ambient trance mixed with noise."

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Zappa Roxy DVD To Be Released After Four Decade Wait

(Gibson) It's been a long wait, but it looks like Frank Zappa fans are finally about to get their hands on something they've waited four decades for.

December 8, 9 and 10, 2013, mark the 40th anniversary of Zappa's three performances at the Roxy Theatre on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Those are the gigs which formed the basis of the legendary Roxy & Elsewhere album.

Over the weekend, the Zappa Family Trust announced that they've quite thoroughly identified all parts and participles of the audio and video recordings of this famous run of shows, and will finally deliver a concert film in theatres, DVD and on Blu-Ray some time before December 2013.

In the meantime, in anticipation of the actual movie, the ZFT will release a prequel to the soundtrack more on this story

Gwar Name New Guitarist

Almost a year after Cory Smoot's untimely death, Gwar have named the guitarist who will be replacing him. The group made the announcement in their usual way. Here you go:

It was a little less than a year ago that the world was rocked by the passing of Flattus Maximus, back to the cosmos from whence he came. And since that day fans of GWAR have wondered how the mighty overlords of GWAR would deal with the void it left within the band. GWAR responded the only way they knew how-by soldiering on-and continued to play as a four-piece. But from the very beginning of that phase, the quest began to find the new Scumdog that was in every way as magnificent as his predecessor. Today the members of GWAR are pleased to inform their legions of followers, and even more so their many enemies, that once again the band is whole, with the proclamation that long-lost cousin of Flattus, Pustulus Maximus, has officially joined the band in the position of lead guitarist, and will join with the group on their upcoming "Fate or Chaos" tour.

Pustulus offered his first words to the press with the following, "At this point I have nothing to say to the press, even though I am talking to you. I will let my guitar speak for itself. But let me add that I am blood-sworn to honor the legacy of the great Flattus and indeed the whole Maximus tribe. I didn't come here to f**k around. HAIL FLATTUS!" more on this story

Machine Head Releasing Double Live Album Next Month

Machine Head will be releasing a double live album with a Walmart unfriendly name of Machine F___ing Head Live on November 13.

The album was recorded at various tour stops across the globe last year. It includes songs from the band's catalog, including "Imperium," "Aesthetics of Hate," "Locust" "Ten Ton Hammer," "This Is The End" and of course, "Halo."

"The Head Cases [fans of the band] have been so intense on this tour cycle that we had to start capturing the shows, especially with technology making it so much easier to record," said frontman Robb Flynn. "We culled some of the best nights where the band and crowd were on fire and made a bad ass, nearly tw0-hour, double live album, which is a great documentation of where the band is at 18 years deep." more on this story

Aerosmith To Appear on Radio Screamer This Week

(hennemusic) Aerosmith continue to spread the word about the November 6 release of their new album, "Music From Another Dimension."

This Wednesday, October 3 at 2:00pm PT (5:00om ET), Aerosmith will join Diamond-Dave Castagno for a Radio Screamer interview session.

Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer will all be on hand to discuss the forthcoming Aerosmith album, as well as their long and illustrious career. more on this story

Pearl Jam and The Black Keys Lead Lollapalooza Chile Lineup

(Gibson) The line-up for Lollapalooza Chile 2013 has been announced, and it features some pretty big names.

Leading the charge are Pearl Jam and The Black Keys, along with Deadmau5, Queens of the Stone Age, A Perfect Circle, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, Nas, Two Door Cinema Club, The Temper Trap, Mike Patton's Tomahawk, Hot Chip, Maynard Keenan's Pusifer, Bad Brains, Alabama Shakes and many more. Lollapalooza Chile takes place on April 6 and 7 at Santiago's O'Higgins Park.

In August Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell announced that the festival would debut a branch in Tel Aviv, Israel. The event is scheduled for August 20 to 22, 2013 in Yarkon Park, the largest park in Israel. more on this story

Metallica's Kirk Hammett Looks Back At Master of Puppets

(Classic Rock) Metallica's Kirk Hammett remembers being bored during recording sessions for their classic album Master of Puppets, because it took Lars Ulrich so long to lay down his drum tracks.

The guitarist says he'd sometimes have to hang around for days, playing cards with late bassist Cliff Burton. But despite that, he has fond memories of making the 1986 work, recently voted the greatest heavy metal album of all time.

"That album is my favourite Metallica album. We'd been playing together as a band with that lineup for about three years," Hammett tells Rolling Stone. "We were definitely peaking. Master of Puppets, in my opinion, was the sound of a band really gelling, really learning how to work well together." more on this story

BB King Film To Hit UK Theaters

(Classic Rock) A film about the life of blues legend BB King will open in cinemas across the UK on October 15.

BB King: The Life Of Riley is directed and produced by Jon Brewer, who has been given exclusive access to King's friends, family and colleagues. The movie promises to be a no-holds-barred doc that explores how a black cotton picker from Mississippi turned his life around and battled against the odds (and rampant racism) to become King Of The Blues, performing over 15,000 gigs and selling in excess of 40 million records worldwide to date.

The film is narrated by Morgan Freeman and features contributions from Eric Clapton, Bono, Ringo Starr, Carlos Santana, Bill Wyman, Slash, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Green, Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood, Bruce Willis and many more. More including the trailer.

Doogie Howser And ZZ Top

Classic Rock Revisited spoke with ZZ Top star Billy Gibbons about several songs on their new album, La Futura, as well as why long beards have never taken off as a fashion statement, the time ZZ Time played and recorded after a hurricane and who would play the band in a movie written about them. Here is that last part of the exchange:

Classic Rock Revisited: when they make the ZZ Top movie… A) What will it be rated? B) Who will play each member of the band and C) Will the soundtrack be better than the actual movie?

Billy Gibbons: It will be rated "ZZ," of course or, maybe "ZZ 13." Frank will be played by Neil Patrick Harris, Dusty will be played by Dustin Hoffman (he's already got the name part down) and yours truly, the Reverend Willy G, will be played by either George Clooney or Brad Pitt. I'm sort of kidding about that last one. Would you believe Denzel Washington? No, huh? The album won't be as good as the movie because I don't think "Doogie Howser" is a particularly great drummer, but I could be wrong. more on this story

Ugly Kid Joe Need A Kickstart From Fans

(Classic Rock) Ugly Kid Joe have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the making of a video for new track I'm Alright.

The band say: "Only with your help and generosity can we make this thing happen.

"We have lots of cool merchandise – some very rare and limited – and even a special experience on the set to offer you." more on this story

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Singled Out: Young Buffalo

Jim Barrett from Young Buffalo tells us about "Nature Boy" from their brand new self-titled EP which is hitting stores today. Here is the story:

I was a freshman in college and I was studying abroad in Thessaloniki, Greece. I lived in this apartment on campus, but my roommate and I were pretty much the only students living in the building. the rest were teachers and interns, etc. At the time, I was suffering from panic attacks and having a tough time dealing with being so far removed from the life I had in the States. But, that aside I met some incredible friends and folks influential to my writing.

My roommate Richie and I would, on weekends, climb to the upstairs apartment and smoke lots of weed with an older girl who was interning at our school. And we would eat breakfast and watch movies like Purple Rain, a RHCP documentary, stuff like that. Except, I would normally get so anxious and freaked out (anxiety and weed don't really mix, oddly enough!), that I would run back down to our basement apartment and work on the song that ended up being "Nature Boy," along with other early Young Buffalo demos. It's gone through some different titles, but the lyrics have stayed basically the same for about three years now.

"When you wake up, sleep still in your eyes, your mind's made up everyone guess the surprise if it isn't clear for you"; just your good ol' fashioned wake 'n bake that freaked me the hell out at that point in my life.

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

Talking Metal With Mike Portnoy and Chandler Mogel

Talking Metal hosts Mark Strigl and John "Ostronomy" Ostrosky have released the 2nd episode of their self-produced web series called Talking Metal Pirate Radio on their YouTube page.

This episode features exclusive interview clips with Mike Portnoy and Chandler Mogel.

It also spotlights three of Talking Metal's signature jams featuring Mark and John performing with musicians including John Kevill (Warbringer), Ron Lipnicki (Overkill), Dan Lorenzo (Non-Fiction, Hades), Billy May (KISSNation), and Chandler Mogel (Outloud). Check it out here.

Cradle of Filth Streaming Another New Song Online

Cradle of Filth are giving fans another advance taste of their forthcoming album, 'The Manticore and Other Horrors.'

The band is now streaming the song "Manticore" online. It's the second advance stream the band has offered fans ahead of the October 30th album release.

The new album was recorded in eight weeks at both Springvale and Grindstone studios (where it was also mixed by Scott Atkins) in Suffolk, UK. Listen to the new song here.

Dream Theater's John Petrucci On Wikimetal

John Petrucci from Dream Theater is the featured guest on the latest episode of Wikimetal. They sent over these details:

Among several other topics, John talks about the process they went to choose the new drummer Mike Mangini.

He also shares his recollections of Brazilian drummer Aquiles Priester that also tried the audition, Dream Theater's process of composing songs, the creation of 'A Dramatic Turn Of Events" and much more...

Listen to the full episode here or the English only interview here.