Autopsy results show that Paul Gray of Slipknot died of an accidental overdose of morphine and fentanyl, a synthetic morphine substitute, police said Monday. Gray, 38, was found dead in a suburban Des Moines hotel room on May 25. moreBeach Boys' Mike Love told the Las Vegas Sun that Brian Wilson will reunite with the group to mark the 50th anniversary of their inception. Love still performs under the Beach Boys name alongside another veteran member, Bruce Johnston. more
Soundgarden will have a previously unreleased track featured in the upcoming Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock game, marking the band's first new song in 13 years. The track, titled "Black Rain," will be featured in the game that hits stores on September 21. more
Silverstein's Shane Told tells Chartattack that the band have started working their next album, having already completed the music for 15 to 16 new songs, with six or seven of those tunes also having accompanying vocals. Part of that comes from there being too much material to fit on A Shipwreck In The Sand. "We're going to be ready to go with a new record probably sooner than later and just keep going," Told says more
MGMT stopped by CD101 in Columbus, OH last week to play a few tracks acoustically from their latest release, Congratulations. Check out the link below for performances of "Song for Dan Treacy," "Congratulations," and a cover of The Clean's "Anything Could Happen." here
Peter Hook has announced that he will play Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' album in full at this year's 1234 Festival. more
Alice Cooper joined Slash at the latter's show at the Bataclan in Paris Sunday night to perform 'School's Out'. Check out video here
It would probably make any nerdy musician's day to be able to say, "Oh, yeah, well, Andy Rourke from The Smiths remixed one of my songs!" Tokyo Police Club can now boast that the former Smiths bassist has done just that more
Maruta has announced the addition of drummer Danny Morris to their line-up. Morris replaces Nick Augusto, who left the group last year to join Trivium. more
Reunited Swedish death/thrash act The Crown has scheduled a string of dates in Europe more
Looks like Face to Face have wrapped up work on their first new album in eight years. more
Frightened Rabbit have announced details of an upcoming winter tour of the UK. more
Warrant performed a brand new song entitled "Sex Ain't Love" during a concert in Syracuse, NY on June 17th. Watch it here
Top Fuel Records is set to release a compilation album by Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy. Along with Erik Ferentinos (from Pearcy's solo touring band, Rat Bastards), the compilation album titled "Battering Ramm", with include three new songs. more
Kamelot's new studio album, "Poetry For The Poisoned", will be released in Europe on September 3, 2010 via earMusic. more
Godflesh will be returning to its Birmingham roots to play the band's first U.K. show in over 10 years when they join Swans and Capsule as headliners at the Supersonic Festival more
KISS will bring the Hottest Show On Earth tour to Sault Ste Marie, Ontario's Essar Centre on August 10th. This concert replaces their postponed December 15, 2009 show. more
Screaming Females were forced to scrap their recent tour after endured a busted fuel pump, some cooperative mechanics, some uncooperative mechanics, the rear wheel from hell and a mountain of Subway Sandwiches. more
Frank Sidebottom, whose surreal mix of music and comedy made him an institution, has died after a battle against cancer. more
Poison singer Bret Michaels will perform at the Full Throttle Saloon during the Sturgis motorcycle rally. more
Reel Big Fish have announced plans to release a new, second Best Of album featuring 22 songs. While a greatest hits album was released in 2006. it was done by Jive Records, the ska/punk outfits' previous label and led to the band publicly admonishing the label more
50 Lions, Grave Maker, and Antagonist AD will be touring Europe together later this summer. more
Fozzy has issued the following update: "The (Chris Jericho ) in-store signings due to take place on July 2nd and 3rd in Oklahoma City and Topeka have unfortunately had to be cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. more
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