Jeff Scott Soto has issued the following statement: "It is with deep regret and remorse I, along with fellow members of Talisman, am announcing our brother, longtime colleague and overall greatest musician we've ever played with, Marcel Jacob, is no longer with us as of today, Tuesday July 21, 2009. Marcel took his own life after many years of personal and health issues he was battling."

"Anthrax is thrilled to announce that they will play the August 1 Sonisphere festival in Knebworth, England, with their good friend John Bush [Anthrax's singer from 1992 to 2005] joining them for a very special one-off performance. The members of Anthrax have confirmed the departure of vocalist Dan Nelson. In light of this development, Anthrax's slot on the U.S. SLIPKNOT dates set for August and September, has also been cancelled. ANTHRAX is already actively considering lead singer candidates, and looks forward to hitting the road before the end of the year."

In a lengthy post on the Weezer website, the group writes, "The bands 7th album, title TBA, is pretty close to a wrap now (after a mild false alarm back in the spring), though there is some work yet remaining to be done. There have also been some other special Weezer studio recordings done recently."

Blink's Mark Hoppus told Rolling Stone that the show production "is just ridiculous. All of our techs have been down there to see the stage set up, and they're e-mailing me, going, 'Oh my God, there are so many speakers, just so many lights.' I haven't seen it myself, but the pictures I've seen look ridiculous. Everything kind of moves and joins and separates to make these huge video screens, so it's pretty complicated."

"Now we're going to knuckle down and finish this album!! Deryck and I will probably start rehearsing once a week pretty soon and Cone will come down every month and we can battle about kick patterns, bass parts and guitar riffs.

Fans in L.A. can experience the whole album set to mind-blowing visuals on July 27 at the Laserium CyberTheater at the historic Vine Theater in Hollywood. Wolfmother also plays August 22nd at KROQ's Epicenter '09 festival at the Fairplex at Pomona in California.

Karen O and company will replace the Beastie Boys, who were originally slated to perform that night.

Gojira are supporting their 2008 Prosthetic Records' release, "The Way of All Flesh."

"This record is the perfect crescendo to a long twenty-plus year career of the band. I think we've found the true essence of what we started to build back in 1985," says Kevn Kinney.

The critically applauded performance featured 36 performers including a band, a wind and brass ensemble, string players, a horn section, projected film footage of the expressway and five hula hoopers. On October 20, Asthmatic Kitty Records will release The BQE (also available via Rough Trade in the UK, P-Vine in Japan, Spunk in Australia).

A Nightmare is something all of us have experienced, a terrifying dream that sometimes lasts forever or a single quick image in which we quickly awaken. They stick with us, haunt us, and keep us awake.

Nightmare is about a person whose life is incomplete. They are living a nightmare and are afraid they'll never wake up from it. They are searching for help from a friend and looking for a way out. Unsure of what to do they continue doing what they have been all along, living in this nightmare. Eventually they find what they are looking for and wake up from the terrifying dream they have been in.

I wrote Nightmare because I felt it was such a relatable topic. I felt someone could listen to the song and after one time realize they aren't alone in whatever it is they are going through. I also wanted to give them hope in that they can overcome whatever is they are going through. Hope is something we all need.

We all have nightmares and we all eventually wake up.