The upcoming record from The Verve 'Forth' will be released a week later than the previously announced date of August 19th. August 26th marks the new release date in the US and Canada, a day earlier in the UK.

Darker My Love are kicking off their dual hometown residencies this week! The guys will debut their new material this Thursday, July 17 at Popscene in San Francisco and will make the voyage south to rock The Echo in LA the very next day. Then back to SF for The Rickshaw Shop next week, and The Echo again the following night. Not only are these four shows FREE but each fan will receive a limited edition 7-inch as well as the opportunity to pre-order the band's sophomore LP for a special, discounted price at these performances.

Every Time I Die is currently seeking a new label home. Speaking to the UK's Rock Sound magazine, the group's vocalist Keith Buckley revealed, "Our latest album was the last thing we had to deliver for Ferret so we are in limbo. We are talking to some labels right now, I think people will be very pleased to know that it looks like we will not be signing with a major. more

Victor Willis, the original lead singer of disco-era band the Village People, was released from a San Diego hospital on Monday after vocal cord surgery and said he could resume singing within months. more

Death Row Records, the legendary West Coast hip-hop label that launched such seminal rappers as Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre to superstardom and made mint at the front of the early '90s gangsta-rap boom, has been auctioned off for a relatively measly $24 million. more

The Rock Against Diabetes auction just got a little better: Port City Amps has added an amazing guitar cabinet to the prize package, and Rock Against Diabetes has also added a one night stay at the Paramount Hotel in Times Square, to use for the day of your guitar lesson. This adds over $1,000.00 to the already stunning package of a Gibson Les Paul BFG in hard case, a 3 hour private lesson with Guns N Roses guitarist Ron Thal (Bumblefoot) in the NYC Gibson showroom and so much more. When buying a limited edition Bumblefoot/Rock Against Diabetes t-shirt, your name will be entered to win this amazing package that is already worth well over $5,000.00. go here

MixMeister announces that MixMeister Scratch, the first DJ program for iPhone and iPod Touch, is available as a free download from the iTunes Store. MixMeister Scratch enables users to scratch anywhere, anytime, regardless of DJ experience or technique. The program is easy-to-use and fun for DJs of all levels.

Elvis Costello and The Imposters, The Roots, and Canada's own Broken Social Scene are among the artists that have been tapped for the inaugural Whistler Music Festival, set to take place July 19 and 20 in Whistler, BC.

Metallica have posted the following statement at their official website: "Death Magnetic," the entire album, available for Guitar Hero too! It's a first in both music and gaming . . . the same day that "Death Magnetic" hits the streets, you'll be able to download every song from the album for Guitar Hero III!

A police spokesperson says the man has "scammed a lot of people" and could be charged with obstruction of justice for giving a false name to cops. Apparently this dude has done this before.

MTV expects to announce on Monday that the sequel to its popular Rock Band game will include "Shackler's Revenge," a track from the Guns N' Roses album that has been in the works for more than a decade, said people familiar with the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because the arrangement has yet to be announced.

BBC Reports: Police say two people have been found dead at a music festival in southern Norway headlined by Alice Cooper. The victims were found in or near a bus at the Norway Rock Festival in Kvinesdal, 270 miles southwest of Oslo. "We do not know exactly how they died, but we assume they suffocated on fumes while they were on the bus," said police spokesperson Asbjorn Enoksen. more

NME Reports: The Irish Garda� are investigating an alleged sexual assault at the Oxegen Festival. It's claimed the incident took place on the opening night (July 11) and follows the arrest of a juvenile in connection with a different alleged sexual assault on Thursday night (10) in the build-up to the festival, reports RTE. more

Tickets for the July 14th show will be honored for the September 8th date, and tickets for the July 15th show will be honored for September 9th. Show times will remain the same. Refunds for each show will be available at the original point of purchase until the new respective dates.

Grohl said, "As much as it kills us to postpone shows, I'm in no shape to deliver the kind of balls-out performances that you guys deserve. We're already looking forward to September when we can make it up to everyone ten times over. It's gonna be great."

Instead, Madonna's video requires Britney Spears to smash up the inside of an elevator while screaming her lungs out like some sort of crazy, red-eyed bitch from hell.

Heavy rain, lightning and winds brought the '80s metal festival to a halt, but advance warning kept injuries to a minimum as thousands of festival-goers sought refuge in nearby tents, outbuildings, VIP areas and trailers. By 8 p.m., rock band Lynch Mob took the main stage for a shortened set as organizers kept an eye on the weather.

Instead, "House Of Cards", directed by James Frost of Zoo Films, was created utilizing two technologies: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar. The Geometric Informatics scanning system employs structured light to capture detailed 3D images at close proximity, and was used to render the performances of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the female lead and several partygoers.

So far, only a pair of dates have been announced: a two-night run at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre on November 8 and 9.

The New Jersey rockers' opened with "Livin' on a Prayer" and belted out songs including "Born to be my Baby," "Lost Highway," and "Runaway."

Pale Divine was a local St. Louis band who later changed their name to The Eyes. The four-piece alternative band independently released Freedom In A Cage, which was produced by David Probst.

First up, forget about Park Place, you want to land on Abbey Road Studios. What in the hell are we talking about? How about a Beatles themed Monopoly board game. According to ABP the game will be available early next month and they also have a lot of exclusive details about it. Very cool indeed, check it out here.

The group has written roughly fourteen songs thus far and will enter the studio in October.

According to the band, "We are hard at work and having a great time!"

Unfortunately tonight's show at the Evolution festival in Italy was canceled. The cancellation was due to extreme rain and bad weather. The main reason for us having to cancel the show was that the rain found it's way on to the stage shutting the monitor mixing desk down and also making it extremely dangerous to perform for the band and the crew.. As we all know, water and electricity and don't mix well together�

If the report is to be believed, the Australian band's songs will be combined with the Mark Wahlberg movie "Rock Star" for a theater production.

The band features Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot), Markus Allen Christopher (M!ss Crazy), Jeff La Bar (Cinderella) and a yet to be announced bass player.

"[I'm] heading to Atlanta next Friday to jam with ATHEIST drummer and my best friend Mr. Steve Flynn, this wil mark the first time we have written together since 1991's 'Unquestionable Presence'.

EPHEL DUATH are proud to announce that BEN WEINMAN will be composing the electronic parts of the song "Bark Loud". WEINMAN comments on his experience working with EPHEL DUATH:

Seeger will headline a Sept. 13 New England Farm Relief Concert in Brattleboro to raise money for a new micro-loan program being developed by The Carrot Project and the organization that operates the town's annual Strolling of the Heifers.

JARS OF CLAY are currently in the studio with producer Ron Aniello (Lifehouse, Guster, Barenaked Ladies) putting the final touches on their upcoming album, due out early next year on the band's own imprint label Gray Matters.

The Album entitled "Songs of Lust and Corrosion" is a compilation of recording done through out the last 6 years with Producer Roman Marisak. For the last month it has blown up such download sites as Itunes, Amazon and emusic.

While main man Tony Dekker has been working on new Swimmers material for the next full length record due out in Spring 2009, this past winter he scored his first film soundtrack for the acclaimed documentary film Song Sung Blue by Greg Kohs.

"Story": This is one of our newest songs that started out in one state and slowly got finished from one city to the next. It's kind of became the trend. We write when we feel we can't keep it in any longer and never just to finish a song so we can say we have another one in the bank. Al was working on the bones of the music but still wasn't sold on the structure of the song.

As a band we set up in Las Cruces, NM and we had some time so we set up at the club and started working through it. After an hour or so of listening to Al quarterback the guys in working the song out, something clicked in my ear and then I went up to Al and shared the melody idea for the verse and he liked it. We got the structure worked out and the song became what it is. I let the emotion of music guide me both melodically and lyrically. We always go into songwriting with open ears. "Story" is all about why we should but usually don't listen to those that have experienced what we are going through.