Here is Frost with today's song "This One's For The Haters": Pretty much self explanatory, no? Haha! We come from a scene where a lot of the time it seems more important to look and act a certain way, than it does to ACTUALLY be able to play your instruments. Pro-tools has made it easy for people of questionable or limited talent to record successfully.

We purposefully wrote a complex, super fast, hard to play song, and then recorded it to tape where there is no faking it. Those hi-hat patterns Blanco is playing would normally be an overdub, because most drummers could never pull that off at that speed. The performance presented here is a completely live take.

According to a lawsuit filed moments ago in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the Sex Pistol singer allegedly beat the crap out of a female assistant after calling her every horrible name in the book after the taping of a television show in 2007.

In the lawsuit, Roxane Davis claims Rotten, real name John Lydon, "cocked back his fist ... and punched her in the face" when the rocker was forced to stay in a room at the Ritz Carlton Hotel that didn't share a door with his other assistant ... a dude named Rambo.

Asked whom he himself would like to jam with, McCready had one person in mind: "I'd love to have Jack White up. I just, I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player and I'd love to see him play up close.

Motorhead have finished recording their new album, Motorize, at the 606 Studios in Los Angeles, California, whose owner is Dave Grohl. The life and career of Lemmy Kilmister is being celebrated in a new documentary, tentatively titled Lemmy and slated for release in 2009. more

China has been flooding our market with crap products, seems only fitting that our neighbors to the North return the favor. We'll let Billboard fill you in: Canadian superstar Avril Lavigne will perform live in "six or seven" Chinese cities this fall as part of her upcoming Asian tour, Nettwerk Productions CEO Terry McBride said today. more

If their publicist had only answered that request for a review copy, Weezer might have had that no 1 spot. =) Idolator has the story: Based on first-day sales, Hits is predicting that Weezer's red self-titled album will move about 150,000 copies in the coming week, a total that's good enough to give Rivers Cuomo and Co. the No. 2 spot on the coming week's album chart. What's the predicted No. 1, you might ask? Why, the posers in Disturbed. more

MTV has been fined �255,000 by watchdog Ofcom for broadcasting offensive language before the watershed. The broadcaster was censured for "persistent" breaches on some of its European channels on programmes that were likely to appeal to children.

Since their label or PR reps haven't bothered to hit us up about a review, figured we'd toss this lil tidbit out. You can stream the new My Morning Jacket album Evil Urges at their MySpace page. Evil Urges is out June 10th on ATO Records. more

Your honor we submit for the jury, exhibit 97, that clearly shows what is really killing the music industry and it's not "illegal downloaders". view the video evidence here

To follow up your honor, the prosecution now submits for the jury, exhibit 98, which shows why the music industry deserves their self inflicted woes. view the evidence here.

Wind-up Records is doing a contest where winners will get a pair of tickets each to see Jeremy Fisher with O.A.R. One lucky winner will also get a merch pack from each artist. Feeling lucky? go here

Check out Cee-Lo and Jack Black performing "Kung Fu Fighting" at the Kung Fu Panda premiere party.

Society 1 will be releasing its' debut album with MDI on June 16. The band will be releasing Live And Raw which will be made available for download via iTunes. "People have told us for years that we sound so different live than on our records" stated frontman Matt Zane. more

Deja vu.. didn't we hear this right before Saint Teflon came out? : A pair of British metal magazines were given the opportunity to preview six songs from the upcoming Metallica album, with both publications giving the initial listening positive remarks. Both Rock Sound and Metal Hammer compared the new material to Master of Puppets. more.

Laura Marling is returning to the US for her headline tour. To get you the mood, check out the barely legal singers' single 'I'm a Fly'? here

Singer Katy Perry will be making her acting debut on the #1 rated daytime drama "The Young And The Restless," which airs on Thursday, June 12. Katy plays herself at a photo shoot, where she poses as the cover girl for the second issue of Restless Style magazine.

Floridian hardcore band Know The Score is currently in search of a second guitar player. Candidates should be able to write, must own professional gear, must have transportation, and must be able to tour for "short stints." more

Lagwagon have announced plans to release a new 7-song EP in time for their upcoming tour with MxPx, TAT and Only Crime. more

Here is the lowdown: Codeblack Entertainment has expanded its lineup of DVD movies today by announcing the release of Snoop Dogg Presents Adventures of tha Blue Carpet Treatment. The film follows an animated Snoop Dogg as he journeys through the streets of Southern California where he is met by a variety of skirmishes, comedic run-ins and situations that only the Doggfather could find himself in. "The movie will give you something to look at because when I was making this record I was real visual about it," says Snoop in regards to the movie and its corresponding soundtrack. "I had a cartoon mind while I was making it, so I just wanted to bring that to the light."

Yes frontman and founding member Jon Anderson was admitted to the hospital last month after suffering a severe asthma attack. He has now been diagnosed with acute respiratory failure and was told by doctors this weekend that he needs to rest and not work for a period of at least six months or suffer further health complications. Upon receiving this news the band has determined that their tour plans need to be put on hold.

"Nude With Boots" is set for a July 8 release via Ipecac Recordings.

Unfortunately, through no fault of ToneFloat the strong Euro is currently making their releases increasingly expensive for people buying in other currencies. The PT Store will be stocking the release from early July, and we will do what we can to make the price a little more appealing.

The autopsy, released June 3, attributed Costello's death to a combination of heroin, ephedrine, amphetamine and Librium, a prescribed anti-anxiety medication. The report also cited recent cocaine use. Costello was to have turned 29 years old on April 15, 2008.

The festival tour will hit five more cities this summer, each one featuring 10 bands on two stages. The Madison festival will be headlined by The Roots, while the Saratoga Springs, NY, festival will be headlined by the French DJ duo Justice. Headliners for San Diego and Phoenix/Tempe are still being confirmed.

They will offer a free digital four-track EP, beginning today via Sarathan Records: The eponymous, abbreviated collection contains the songs - "Spy/Glass House," "Jaundice Giraffe," "Saint" and "Zyghost" - culled from the band's forthcoming album, Second to the Last Frontier, produced by Arcade Fire and Animal Collective audio wizard Scott Colburn, due July 8 on Sarathan.

The Tide and Its Takers also charted in Canada and the UK. The album came in at #66 on Canada's Alternative Albums chart. The Tide and Its Takers landed at #83 on the UK's National album chart, as well as #2 (second only to Linkin Park) on the Rock Chart and #6 on the Indie Albums chart.

After a dozen years, Supergrass (Gaz Coombes-Vocals & Guitar, Mick Quinn-Bass & Vocals, Danny Goffey-Drums & Vocals, Rob Coombes-Keyboard) have rolled back home, and rolled back the years, while marching firmly into the future. "We wanted a record where you got all of Supergrass," says frontman Gaz. "The joy, the intensity, the darkness, the melodies. All of those have always been important to us and still are." Hence Diamond Hoo Ha (release date: June 10th, 2008); an energetic album bristling with hooks to hang your coat off and melodies to lose your shoes to.

Debuting in the Top 40 of the Modern Rock chart at # 38, "We Don't Have To Look Back Now" is the perfect summer rock ballad and is sure to follow in the footsteps of their last two singles "Famous" and "Psycho," both of which were # 1 rock radio tracks. The video for "We Don't Have To Look Back Now" will make its debut on Yahoo June 6th