The album will be released in the U.S. through Target, the exclusive mass retail partner, Pearl Jam's own Ten Club and independent retailers, as well as online through digital, and gaming platforms yet to be announced. Internationally, the album will be available beginning on September 21, 2009 via Universal/Island Records. The first single, "The Fixer," will be released at radio on July 20, 2009.

From the legendary folk rock sounds of Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" to the thumping drums of Coldplay's "In My Place"; indie darling Vampire Weekend's memorable "A-Punk" to the Beastie Boys' rock/hip-hop hit "Gratitude," the game features the widest variety of today's rock hits and classic tunes from some of the biggest names in music.

According to Bennington, the songs on Out of Ashes developed as he was writing tracks for the follow-up to Linkin Park's 2007 LP Minutes to Midnight.

According to a posting on Slash's Twitter account, the guitarist's former Guns N' Roses bandmate Steven Adler will play on Slash's forthcoming solo album. Adler is scheduled to lay down his drum track sometime next week.more

George Fullerton, a co creator with Leo Fender of the Fender Stratocaster passed away at the age of 86.more

Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing has opened up a golf course at his home in Shropshire. BBC interviews KK here

Former Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin's previously announced U.S. tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the SABBATH album "Headless Cross" has been cancelled. Martin says, "We are so disappointed." more

Lynyrd Skynyrd considers its new album, "God & Guns" -- due out Sept. 29 to be "a tribute to the past and to the future of this band, too," according to frontman Johnny Van Zantmore

The new digital EP from The Rentals (fronted by ex-Weezer bassist Matt Sharp), titled It's Time To Come Home, is available now - released this week (7.7.09). Check out a preview here

Maxwell's first album in nearly eight years, "BLACKsummers'night," is headed for a big debut next week on the Billboard 200 chartmore

Mark Ronson has announced that he will make an appearance with Duran Duran at the Lovebox Weekender. The producer, who has been working with the '80s band, will join them onstage during their headlining slot at the London festival more

Shudder to Think have announced plans to release their first ever live album. The record is titled Live From Home and is due out September 15, 2009 via Conor Oberst's Team Love label.more

Brand New, who had just announced their album title and release date earlier this week, have now decided upon the title Daisy. The album was originally called and one can head can never die.more

A new box set featuring several of Genesis' live albums as well as previously unreleased tracks is due to be released this autumn. 'Genesis Live 1973-2007' is due out in the US September 29 via Rhino Records. more

Baroness have recently completed work on their second full-length album. The effort will see an October 2009 international release date via Relapse Records. more

Levin's four-year stint with the Raiders, known for its campy Revolutionary War uniforms, thigh-high black riding boots and tri-corner hats, coincided with a string of top 10 hits including "Kicks," "Hungry" and "Good Thing."

The tour dates are in support of The Breeder's recent 4-song EP, Fate To Fatal, which was released this past April as both a digital download via iTunes and a limited-edition 12-inch vinyl EP. The cover art for Fate to Fatal was designed by Chris Glass who also created the logo for President Obama's "American Recovery and Reinvestmant Act," and was personally hand-screened by Kim and Kelley. The limited edition vinyl sold out in a matter of days, prompting the band to have more made, this time with full-colour art (although not hand-screened by the Deal sisters) and available - at least for right now - only at these upcoming shows.

The three Arkansas men, dubbed the West Memphis Three (www.wm3.org), were convicted of the 1993 murders of three elementary school children. Since their trials were chronicled by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky in the HBO documentary, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, a groundswell of support has formed around the Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin�support that includes a wide array of artists such as Metallica, Henry Rollins, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, Winona Ryder, South Park creator Trey Parker, Will Ferrell, Johnny Depp, and Jello Biafra. Supersuckers have been staunch supporters of the West Memphis Three over the years.

Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame plays Jett, with Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Shannon as the band's "Svengali" Kim Fowley.

The idea for Run Rabbit Run came to Stevens after he moved to the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn in 2005. Among his new neighbors were Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National and their sister, Jessica. Sufjan quickly became friends with the Dessner clan, and Bryce suggested that Stevens rearrange Enjoy Your Rabbit for his other neighbors, Rob Moose (violin), Olivier Manchon (violin), Marla Hansen (viola) and Maria Bella Jeffers (cello)�the Osso Quartet�who had recently collaborated with Stevens on his 2005 release, Illinois. The project was fully realized when Sufjan approached Jessica Dessner to contribute artwork to the album based on the original record's Chinese Zodiac illustrations created by artist Matt Morgan.

"Possession" (Jace Everett/Chuck Prophet) When I asked Chuck Prophet in September 2008 if he might want to write and produce on my new record we started shooting mp3's back and forth. Chuck is in San Francisco and I'm in Nashville so it was sloppy tape swap time!

Certainly, that got the juices flowing, but I decided to go out west and sit in a room with the man to see what we would find. I had some finished songs already and a few ideas to bring in to Chuck.

We wrote 5 songs in as many days and I believe "Possession" was day 4. Between the two of us there's enough testosterone and general crankiness to bring on Armageddon, but we really hit a rhythm and this was possibly the most quickly written tune on the record. To be fair, Prophet had really developed the idea pretty far along on his own, with one of the coolest work tapes of all time. He had this chord movement he was obsessed with and the title to go with it. It was initially kind of homage to one of our mutual heroes, Link Wray.

Although it sounds like a dark tune there are exactly zero minor chords in the thing! But the whole step movements (E D C) give it this heavy feel. There was never any question about the guitar tones. Tremoelos, Bigsbys, and Fender amps; add volume.

I did a version myself with a different bass line and some melody tweaks. Chuck loved the bass line and I'm glad it stuck.

The lyric was something we battled out in his cramped little room above a studio in San Francisco. It's a man possessed with being possessed by the long, cool woman in the black dress kinda thing. Throw in some creepy lines; "the earth is rushing through my veins / moonlight on the window pane / lovers crawl across the floor / children waiting to be born" and you've got a love song for people who HATE love songs.

When we recorded it, Brad Jones (another producer on the record and a damn fine engineer/musician) had the idea to put a great big acoustic piano playing this 1950's triplet figure. Juxtaposed with the two heavy guitars (Chuck and Dan Cohen) Chris Raspante developed a mild case of carpal tunnel pounding the keys for hours that day.

The reason I put "Possession" as the first track on the new album is simple; it just felt right. I like a rather dramatic intro for an album and I felt the creepy atmosphere of the recording served "Red Revelations" really well. It's not my favorite song on the album (although I love it), but I think it's the perfect lead track.