Duff McKagan and Alice in Chains Radio Show- NOFX, Rancid, Pennywise Bowling- Anarbor Lose Member- Sepultura Strife- Eve6 Reunite- Allstar McCartney Tribute- more

(The 1st Five) Punk Rock Bowling, the annual punk festival held in Las Vegas every May have just confirmed a string of headliners including a special long awaited reunion show from The Briefs, NOFX, The Adicts, Rancid and Pennywise. more

(The 1st Five) Anarbor announced that guitarist Adam Juwig has left the band. According to Juwig's statement, there is no bad blood and he simply wanted to lead a "normal life" again. more

(Billboard) Over the years, Lisa Marie Presley has become dissatisfied with movies chronicling her father's life, so she just might make a film about the rock 'n' roll icon. The daughter of Elvis Presley said she has been in talks about a movie, though she didn't offer a timetable. more

(Jam!) Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett and Alicia Keys are among the performers who will celebrate the 69-year-old Paul McCartney when he's honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in Los Angeles in February. more

(The 1st Five) Meshuggah have announced dates for a North American tour with Baroness and Decapitated. more

(NME) New Order's Bernard Sumner hints they could record new material 'Hopefully there'll be some recorded music as well,' says guitarist ahead of April tour more

(The 1st Five) L.A. hardcore band Strife will be heading out to Brazil next week to start working on their first new album in 11 years. Why in Brazil? The band is teaming up with ex-Sepultura/current Cavalera Conspiracy drummer Iggor Cavalera who will play and record drums on the new record. more

(SRX) Rudolf Schenker says we will not have heard the last of the Scorpions even after the German headbangers finally complete their farewell tour later this year or in early 2013. "We have a library in our warehouse where we have a lot of old songs, especially from the days where you had only the possibility of putting eight or nine songs on vinyl," the guitarist, who co-founded the band in 1965, tells Billboard.com. "We always recorded 13 or 14 songs, so (the rest) are hanging out somewhere in our warehouse. We also have 800, 900 hours of film material from different festivals, from places like (Moscow's) Red Square, the Amazon, the pyramids, going through Russia in 2002... more

(Classic Rock) There have been 14 more additions to the line-up for this year's Download Festival, which happens at Donington from June 8-10 including Megadeth, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy, Black Label Society, Kyuss Lives!, As I Lay Dying and more

(SRX) Just last week former Dokken guitarist George Lynch revealed that Vains Of Jenna frontman Jesse Forte would be the new Lynch Mob vocalist. The announcement led to Vains Of Jenna calling it quits by saying that they were ending the band after seven years. However it now appears that Lynch and Oni Logan have put aside their differences to teamed up once again. more

(Lambgoat) Paradise Lost and Insomnium will tour the UK together in April. more

(Lambgoat) Ringworm has announced a string of dates to and from, and including this year's South By Southwest music festival in Austin, TX. Joining the band for the run will be Cancer Bats and Primitive Weapons. dates here

(FMQB) The original lineup of Eve 6 has reunited to release their fourth studio album, Speak In Code, on April 24 via Fearless Records. more

(Lambgoat) Cannibal Corpse and Between The Buried And Me will headline the The Summer Slaughter Tour 2012 more

(SRX) Stryper frontman Michael Sweet will be performing his faith-based storytellers solo acoustic show in churches around the world this year. more

(PNO) Warped Tour has confirmed six more additions for the 2012 tour. They are: Ballyhoo!, For Today, The Constellations, Tonight Alive, Bangups, and I Am The Avalanche. more

(Lambgoat) Knut has disbanded for the foreseeable future. The band has offered no details, stating only, "Knut is in indefinite hiatus. Thank you." more

Sebastian Bach and Steve Stevens Jam AC/DC, Aerosmith and Hendrix

Bach and the Steve Stevens Band played a mix of tunes in their sets, including plenty of covers and, naturally, some Skid Row and Billy Idol tracks.

The January 27, 28 and 29 gigs went so well they added a fourth show on Monday, and now some video from that evening has surfaced of the guys jamming out some classics by AC/DC, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen and Queen. watch the video here

David Lee Roth Handwritten Lyrics To New Van Halen Song

The bluesy-acoustic romp starts out swampy before launching into full-tilt boogie overdrive; the tune will likely remind VH fans of the band's cover of "Ice Cream Man" from their 1978 debut.

Van Halen's new album is due next Tuesday, February 7; their tour kicks off February 18 in Louisville, Kentucky. Check out a photo of the lyrics here.

The World According to Iggy Pop

On how he developed his passion for music, as told to Clash Music in 2010: In junior high, about the same year I was voted Most Likely to Succeed, I played my first gig on drums. I already loved music and was pretty nuts about doing it around the house all the time, and in the school orchestra. My dad loaned me the money to buy a [drum] kit, and I had a friend who had a guitar and an amplifier. We learned some Sandy Nelson and Ray Charles songs and we played as a two-piece in a talent show. Right away my life changed: people liked me better!

On how he became "Iggy Pop," as told to Esquire in 2007: I had a nickname [Iggy] that I couldn't escape around town, and it was torture. Then my band opened for Blood, Sweat & Tears. I think the entire band got 50 dollars total. Afterwards a huge piece was written about us in the Michigan Daily. In this story, the writer calls me "Iggy." I was like, "Oh, [expletive]. We got all this press, but they're calling me Iggy." What could I do? I knew the value of publicity. So I put a little "Pop" on the end. Took me 30 years to make what I wanted out of the name. more on this story

Anniversary of The Day (Before) The Music Died

Buddy Holly joined the The Winter Dance Party tour, in the winter of '58, for the cash. The Crickets had broken apart; he'd left his record company and was newly married with a baby on the way. To pay the bills, he was touring with a new band of Tommy Allsup on guitar, Waylon Jennings on bass and Carl Brunch on drums.

The headliners were Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (a.k.a. J.P Richardson). It was a tough and relentless tour in a harsh Midwest winter. The tour bus wasn't heated and broke down continually. Holly's drummer even suffered form frostbite at one point. Most of the musicians were ill with colds and flu.

On this day in 1959, Holly, Valens and The Big Bopper played the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Tickets were $1.25.

The evening closed with The Big Bopper doing his mega-hit "Chantilly Lace." And then it was to outside to the bus.

The night was freezing again and Holly; sick of the rickety old bus they were travelling on dipped into his pocket to charter a plane to travel to their next gig in Moorhead, Minnesota. The plane would fly them to Fargo, North Dakota, the nearest airport to Moorhead. He had two open seats on the plane that he offered for $36 each. Dion didn't want to pay. Jennings fancied flying but gave his seat to Richardson, since he was ill. Allsup was supposed to be on the plane hut flipped a coin with Valens for the seat. Valens guessed right and joined the flight.

Holly, pleased to be escaping the bus, was in a joking mood when he engaged in some lighthearted banter with Jennings. "Well, I hope your old bus freezes up again," he said. Jennings returned with, "Well, hell, I hope your old plane crashes."

Little did he know. At around 1 a.m. the chartered plane took off in a blizzard crashing in a cornfield a few miles north of Mason City, Iowa. Holly, Valens, Richardson and the pilot, Roger Peterson, died in the crash. more on this story

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