British rock band Pink Floyd won its court battle with EMI on Thursday with a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single downloads on the Internet from the group's concept albums. Judge Andrew Morritt accepted arguments by the group that EMI was bound by a contract forbidding it from selling records other than as complete albums without written consent. more

Don't hold your breath for a reunion performance by Abba at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony next Monday, reports Billboard. Two of the members of the Swedish pop quartet are skipping the event, and country singer Faith Hill is slated to sing some Abba songs instead. more

Slash (Velvet Revolver, ex-Guns N' Roses) gave CMW delegates what they wanted during his keyote address at Canadian Music Week on Thursday morning in Toronto: Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll ... and Axl Rose. On Axl he said, "You have to attempt to understand him as a human being and where he's coming from," said Slash. "I see things very black and white. That's just me. And that doesn't necessarily mean that that's right. And he sees things in a very colourful kind of way, and I can't really knock it, 'cause that's just him. So I try not to sit there and say derogatory things about his personality, because it's his personality that makes him so f---ing great, and just difficult to deal with." more

Micky Jones, one of the founders of Welsh rockers Man, has died aged 63, reports Classic Rock. Jones, who had been fighting a brain tumour, passed away at a care home in Swansea. more

Scott Reeder of Fu Manchu has joined Social Distortion as their new drummer, replacing the recently departed Atom Willard. more

Linkin Park are suing an insurance company after its officers refused to compensate the rockers for a string of gigs canceled because of frontman Chester Bennington's back injury. The band pulled out of six concerts in 2008 after Bennington hurt his back while putting together a toy for his son. Now the group has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in a bid to recoup the cash more

Death metal legends Pentagram have completed their first studio recording in over 20 years. more

Val Kilmer may play another music great in a biopic about Crimson & Clover hitmaker Tommy James. The actor, who played Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors, is in talks to portray James in a new film based on the singer's autobiography, Me, The Mob And The Music. more

Planet Rock owner Malcolm Bluemel wants to hire outgoing BBC 6 Music DJ Bruce Dickinson � and hopes his loss-making digital station will break even by the end of this year. He has held talks with the Iron Maiden frontman, who will present his last 6 Music show in April after eight years on the BBC digital station. more

This summer, The Offspring and 311 will join forces for Unity Tour 2010, a 19 date run of US amphitheaters. The bands will tour together for the first time ever, along with special guests to be announced soon. Exact dates and on sale info to come

Rush - The Documentary will indeed receive a red carpet premier at the Tribeca Film Festival in Lower Manhattan on Saturday, April 24th and that all three members - singer/bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart - will be on hand. more

Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody has been singing with a dislocated jaw for the past eight years. The frontman revealed that he got the ailment after he fell down a flight of stairs during a night out in Glasgow in 2002 more

Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty was handed a 12-month driving ban and fined 500 pounds ($750) on Thursday after admitting he allowed his manager to use his car without insurance. more

Members of The New York Dolls and Dead Boys have teamed up in a new band called Batusis. Sylvain Sylvain and Cheetah Chrome, the pair in question, will release a four-track EP on May 4. more

Masterplan's new album Time To Be King previously announced release date on April 16th has been pushed to May 21st. more

Kataklysm have completed the song writing process for their new album entitled Heaven's Venom! Currently the album is tentatively scheduled for a Fall of 2010 release via Nuclear Blast Records. more

Paramore will headline this summer's Honda Civic Tour, with Tegan and Sara opening all dates. More opening acts will be announced in the future. more

Vocalist Eric "AK" Knutson of the legendary Flotsam And Jetsam has joined Arizona's The Human Condition. more

Through The Ashes have officially called it a day and disbanded. The various members of the band have stated they will still be continuing on with other musical projects. more

Earth have joined up with label mates Wolves In The Throne Room for a week-and-a-half long West Coast tour this April. more

Killing Joke have announced rescheduled dates for their forthcoming UK shows, as well as the release date of their new album. They'll perform in Edinburgh on October 15 and London on October 16. Their new album 'XIII: Feast Of Fools', will come out on September 6. more

Gate crashers sparked the riot. The Sky News report says that "some 30,000 people had tickets to see the band in the Colombian capital, but hundreds of ticketless fans tried to break through barriers to see their heavy metal heroes." You can read their full report here

Pearl Jam's U.S. tour follows the band's previously announced headlining appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Festival on May 1st.

Filmed with 16 hi-definition cameras over three sold out concerts, Chickenfoot: Get Your Buzz On "Live" offers fans an unforgettable once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience four rock'n'roll legends sharing the stage and blowing the roof off with their explosive musicianship and dynamic onstage chemistry.

While no tour has of yet surfaced, the organizers of the traveling European metal festival Sonisphere ran with the idea and started to put together several dates that featured the Big Four at various stops. On Thursday, Metallica announced the final date that the Big Four will appear together this summer. But who knows, if all goes well maybe this will inspire all four bands to put this dream ticket together for a full blown tour? For now, here is Metallica's announcement:

In addition, the first of several planned in-store/meet-and-greets with Fear Factory on the band's upcoming tour will take place on Tuesday, March 23 at Hastings Entertainment, located at 4315 Wyoming Northeast, in Albuquerque, New Mexico beginning at 6 p.m.

The band also posted a HD video for "Rocket Skates" from their forthcoming album, Diamond Eyes, which hits stores on May 18th.

Here are the new dates, followed by a link to details on how you can Tweet to get a free copy of the new HD video.

New Headline Dates
April 27 � El Paso, TX � Club 101
April 29 � Corpus Christi, TX � Concrete Street
April 30 � Mission, TX � Las Palmas Race Park

New Dates
May 1 - Frisco, TX - KDGE Edgefest @ Pizza Hut Park
June 19 - Scheessel, GER - Hurricane Festival
June 20 - Newhausen ob Eck, GER - Southside Festival

The first 7" (their first recordings in 20 years) sold out in record time and the 2nd in the series will be released on vinyl and digitally on June 15th. They'll also be filming a video for one of the new songs � look for it to arrive later this year. In late summer, Raygun descends on Europe and the UK -- details will be announced shortly.

13 out of 40... our Skipper is getting restless, so we put out to sea again tonight. Our course: Back to the Florida Strait. Where may our next port of call be?

Darkest Hour and Animals As Leaders round out the bill and will lead the group directly into a massive European tour with The Chariot that sees them hitting everywhere from Russia to Ireland. IWABO then makes their grand return to the U.S. this summer as part of the Warped Tour package.

Consisting of Linde (HIM) on guitars, bass and vocals, Burton (HIM) on keyboards and Bolton (Enochian Crescent) on drums, the band has always embraced breaking boundaries and taking new directions, which is exactly what they did on their sophomore release.

For frontman Steve Bays and his Hot Hot Heat bandmates, they knew they had found their new home immediately after their first meeting with the label. "Dangerbird got our vibe right away," explains Bays. "Because of the kind of record we were making, we realized early on that we needed to finish the entire record before looking for a home for it, if they 'got it,' then we could talk. Also, they're also just really cool people and that's huge to us because, at the end of the day, they are essentially inviting us to join their family. We are pretty thrilled."

Victory Records says: Hear the band play an acoustic set and have them sign your copy of the new record, Great Danger. Get a free poster with your purchase of Great Danger on CD, available for only $9.99.

The band will join up with Nebula and Lionize for the first two weeks and head out on their own for most of the remaining dates. (See below for tour itinerary.)

Their sound has been referred to as "funeral grind," as it's "too slow for grindcore, too fast for doom," and have been compared to the likes of Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer, Discordance Axis, EyeHateGod and Napalm Death.

The October tour of the UK began on the 2nd and ended the first week of November. Then in January 2010 the band hit the road again for the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia. Canada's blues prodigy, Jimmy Bowskill, opened for the band on this 6-week tour.