Guitarist Eddie Van Halen pulled his son out of school in 2007 to tour with the band, as a bassist, when he was just 15 years old. The teenager proved a huge hit and is now a full-time member of the Jump! group. Van Halen wanted to follow the tour with a new studio album, but the band has vowed to wait until Wolfgang has graduated - so he can be a part of it.

For $20,000 Freese will give you a signed drum set. Not only that, but Maynard from Tool, Mark from Devo and Freese will take you miniature golfing. Throw in a drum lesson or a back massage and you're laughing.

The Black Eyed Peas will release their first studio album in four years, "The E.N.D.," on June 9 via Interscope.more

Lily Allen's It's Not Me, It's You enters the U.K. album chart at No. 1 while in the States it claims the No. 1 spot on iTunes' album chart and debuts at No. 5 on The Billboard 200. The album sold over 70,000 copies in the U.S. last week

The reunited original lineup of Jane's Addiction will play its first major show at the eighth Sasquatch! Music Festival, to be held May 23-25 at the Gorge in Quincy, Wash.more

Steven Tyler has managed to stay busy. The Aerosmith singer is reportedly hard at work on his memoir. (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, bid more than $2 million for the rights.) A source close to Tyler says that David Dalton is ghost writing the book. more

Duran Duran, N.E.R.D. and Groove Armada have been confirmed to play at the Lovebox Weekender festival, set to take place at Victoria Park in London on July 18 and 19.more

The (self proclaimed) King of Pop is lightening his load. At an April auction featuring more than 2,000 personal items, Michael Jackson is set to sell off a wealth of collectables and awards he's received over the years as well as a custom limo and Harley. more

Lamb Of God's new album, "Wrath", is available for streaming on its entirety on the band's MySpace page . The CD hits stores next week.

Deep Purple will perform as the headline entertainment act of the fourth annual Dubai Bike Week and Gulf Bike Expo that will take place at Dubai Festival City next month. more

Chevelle has issued the following update: "For the last six months we have been writing and working on our new record, and finally we are at the recording stage. We are out in Nashville working with Brian Virtue in his personal studio."more

Big band and jazz drummer Louie Bellson, a master musician who performed with such greats as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and his late wife, Pearl Bailey, has died. He was 84. more

Satellite Radio firm Sirius XM has avoided a bankruptcy filing, confirming Tuesday morning a deal with John Malone's Liberty Media that will provide it with cash infusions in return for a minority stake in the company.more

The cover artwork for the forthcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica game, which is due out in North America on March 29, can be viewed here

Scott Gross, who came to national attention as the founding guitarist of From Autumn To Ashes (FATA) has announced he will enter a recording studio sometime over the next month to begin production on a yet unnamed new project.more

After a few fill-in vocalists and multiple tryouts, Saints Never Surrender have added Means frontman Dylan Johnstone to their line-up. more

Down's name has been removed from the list of artists who are scheduled to appear at the 2009 edition of the Bonnaroo festival, set to take place June 11-14 in Manchester, Tennessee. more

Chris Laney has left Animal, the band led by former W.A.S.P. guitarist Randy Piper, in order to pursue a solo career. more

The second day of the Pirate Bay trial at Stockholm district court began with a surprise move by prosecutor H�kan Roswall to amend the criminal charges. The charges against the Pirate Bay representatives will now be confined to making copyrighted material available. more

Doomriders are currently at Godcity studios in Massachusetts with engineer Kurt Ballou recording their next Deathwish Inc. release. The group has recorded twelve new songs in addition to several coversmore

Cattle Decapitation and Rose Funeral will hit the road together in April for a three-week tour. Psyopus and Woe Of Tyrants will appear on select dates

The band has been hard at work in frontman Ed Roland's lake house studio for the past few weeks, working on the follow up to 2007's Afterwords. Renowned for their ability to write supremely crafted smash hits, the band is wasting no time in creating a new batch of tunes fit to replicate all of their past successes. Roland says, "We are only 2 weeks in to the recording of our new album and feel more like a band than ever. It's reflected in the music, which we all think is our best material to date."

Ross CAT- While it may be a rarity one of the criticisms of the Eagles music was being over produced and the lack of spontaneity on stage. In the book you talk about the lack of freedom you felt during the bands live performances, tell us about those frustrations as a guitar player not being able to step outside the box?

The British star poses in a range of outfits and with different guitars, but Lemmy isn't happy with one detail - they left off his genitals.

"There was a recent event at one of our shows where someone threw a bottle at me during my speech and I got pretty pissed. The way it happened is, I threw a bottle of water to some fans and didn't realize the very bottle I threw to the fans was thrown back at me.

Jeffery Scott Buckley lived a nomadic life that took him from what he once ungenerously called a "rootless trailer trash" upbringing in Orange County, California, to Hollywood, and then New York City. Spiritual curiosity and musical experimentation combined with his naturally ethereal voice to give him an aura of otherness that seemed to preordain him for stardom.

Country music star George Strait will have the honors on June 6, topping a bill that also will include Reba McEntire, Blake Shelton and Julianne Hough from "Dancing With the Stars."

It's 10:00am. Actor Bill Moseley, director Darren Lynn Bousman, tour manager Spooky Dan, & I, return our rental car, and then hop on a shuttle bus en route to Denver's airport, en route to our 9th stop on REPO Road Tour 3: Jackson, Michigan.

January 22, 2009.: A fellow sitting across from us on the bus takes one look at us, this motley crew of REPO! dudes, and asks a question�the same question that we've been asked in every city of the tour thus far: "Are you guys in a band?" We tell him that we're filmmakers, and about REPO! He seems interested. Bill gives his REPO! DVD (the one that he purchased yesterday) to this stranger, winning what hopefully is another REPO! convert. TESTIFY!