"When we were on tour in 2006/7, the tour manager for Anti-Flag was talking to me, and he asked what my favorite Metallica record was. I said I didn't have one. Not that I liked them all, but I didn't like any. He was like 'what?!' I said I didn't like them, I didn't think they were any good. He got really startled then almost offended. He was literally slamming the bar saying, 'there is no F-ing way you play the music you do, the way you do, and not like Metallica'.

Guitar Hero: Van Halen confirmed. Here is part of the Billboard report: Activision Blizzard is releasing three new music-based games this year: DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero, and also confirmed the existence of Guitar Hero: Van Halen. The company confirmed the development of Guitar Hero: Van Halen to videogame blog Joystiq. It is scheduled for release in the second half of the year.more

Chris Brown's attorney is seeking police records to try to find out who leaked information about the alleged beating of Rihannamore

Cassie is furious after pictures of her posing topless leaked onto the Internet. Personal photos of the R&B beauty hit the web on Wednesday and quickly spread to a number of gossip blogs. more

EMI Music has increased EBITDA to �163 million ($246 million) for the year ending March 2009, an increase of 219.6% on the 2007-2008 EBITDA of �51 million ($77 million). The profit increase at the recorded music division occurred during the first full year of ownership by private equity firm Terra Firmamore

Fab Four or Drab Four?: Lady GaGa has compared the Jonas Brothers to the Beatles. "They were responsible for the birth of the sexual revolution for women," she gushed to Britain's The Daily Star, before adding that the Jonas Brothers are currently the Liverpool legends' equivalent. more. Wow. We won't even touch that.

Seattle native Duff McKagan (Duff Mckagan's Loaded, Velvet Revolver, Guns N' Roses) will make his radio host debut next week with Radio Loaded, a one-hour show on 99.9 KISW The Rock Of Seattle and at Kisw.com. The show will air Tuesday, May 12 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time.more

Ozzy Sellout! Someone who claims to be the "biggest Ozzy fan in New Jersey" is selling their Ozzy Osbourne collection for the low low price of $50,000! This little item caught our eye: the original Crazy Train single on Jet Records in which the Blizzard Of Ozz only has one Z, the seller states, "Not sure, but I read somewhere there was a copyright situation with MGM for the Wizzard Of Oz, and they had to change it." more. "Wizzard of Oz"?

Meanwhile here is some news about the incarnation of Black Sabbath that started after Ozzy left the band: "The Devil You Know", the new album from Heaven & Hell sold 30,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 8 on The Billboard 200 chart.more

Fleet Foxes have just released a brand new seven-inch on Sub Pop. The record features "Mykonos" and their cover of folk standard "False Knight on the Road".. They also have a line of North American dates coming up. Grab those here.

Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya's sister Anamaria has been battling Ovarian Cancer for 13 years and the family has organized a benefit concert to take place on May 29th in Long Beach, California. The event will include sets from John Araya of Thine Eyes Bleed, Cisco Araya, Mister B, The Fallen Stars and more. There is more info available on the event's Myspace page .

American Idol finalist Allison Iraheta has a reason to cry. The flame-haired 17-year-old high school student from Los Angeles, who crooned Janis Joplin's "Cry Baby" for her rock performance this week, was revealed Wednesday to have received the fewest viewer votesmore

Another lesson on "be careful what you name your band": Cripple Bastards has unfortunately had to cancel their US tour, which was supposed to kick off this week in San Francisco, CA due to their drummer's broken hand not being completely healed.more

Another day and another person suing Jacko: Michael Jackson's publicist and general manager has filed a $44-million lawsuit against the pop star claiming he has not paid her for deals she's made.more

Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott issued comments about their Latin America tour and postponed Mexico show at Circo Volador on May 8th. Read it here

Feltham councilors want to install a memorial to rock legend Freddie Mercury in the town centre. The Queen frontman lived in Gladstone Avenue for almost 10 years and, after years of wrangling, councilors have finally agreed to recognize the success of Feltham's most famous export. more

Liferuiner has announced the departure of their vocalist and guitar player.more

The A.K.A.s have entered the studio with Jamie Woolford of The Stereo, Animal Chin and Let Go. The band is recording for the follow up to Everybody Make Some Noise!, with plans for a summer 2009 releasemore

Veteran British rockers UFO have decided not to celebrate their 40th birthday this year because lead singer Phil Mogg doesn't want his band to end up like Status Quo.more

Steel Panther, the '80s metal/hard rock comedy-tribute band formerly known as Metal Skool, made a grand entrance to the KUPD U-Fest this past weekend in Phoenix, Arizona when they jumped from an airplane and parachuted onto the stage. more

Summer was arrested Tuesday after police say he threw drugs from his car during a traffic stop.

"Linkin Park's new song is called 'New Divide' and is the theme song for the upcoming movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The song will premiere on radio worldwide on May 18 and will also be available for download on iTunes that same day! In addition to writing the theme song for the movie, Linkin Park are contributing to the score of the movie. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens in the theaters on June 24.

A bold claim, right? Believe it. Curious to hear for yourself? Of course you are! Well, you can hear six cuts from the CD right now.

Earlier this week, Apple rejected the update, saying it was in violation of a policy that bans "obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind", as previously reported.

One track, Second Best To None, has been recorded by employees at the hotel Andersson owns in Stockholm. It was written for the staff as a treat and has been released as a single in Sweden. "We all had some fun doing this. They can sing," Andersson said.

The tour will kick off in Tucson, AZ and wrap in Las Vegas, NV. With a lineup like this, it's safe to say that what happens in vegas, should not stay in Vegas.

"We can't wait to tour with The Cab. It's going to be cool to be back on the road with some of our best friends, Anarbor and The Summer Set. "- Singer, Brandon Wronski

"We've always tried to improve on what we've done before," says Ken Jordan of The Crystal Method. "We're always trying to challenge ourselves. We don't really like to work with formulas which is why we're exposing fans to this album in a new way on iLike."

Nebula released their first album on Tee Pee in 1998 titled Let It Burn. Let It Burn is being reissued on vinyl later this year and will be released as a limited edition double LP, the first LP containing the original Let It Burn album plus two bonus tracks and a second LP will contain the original demos from the Let It Burn sessions.

"I've had this idea for a little while," explains Gourley, "but what it would take to actually make it happen seemed overwhelming. We had been talking about doing an album package without the plastic, to make the package one, solid piece where all the elements worked together from both an artistic and practical point of view. Every time you folded or unfolded it, everything still lined up to be a picture. Also, we wanted to incorporate a lot of [Gourley's home state] Alaska into the artwork, which is where all the photos of mountains in the artwork were taken."

Destroyers is one of the most influential groups in the entire history of Polish heavy metal. Back in late 80's and early 90's, they were one of the few heroes of the scene, bringing together thousands of metal fans all across Poland.

Following up 2007's colorful Smooth Like Stone on a Beach, the band has recorded some of their most honest songs to date, while keeping in line with their party-all-the-time attitude that made their debut such a hit! Released on the bands own label, SlapDash Records, and recorded in their own studio (The Stoodz) the album is the sound of friendship, late nights, and hours of hard work finally ready for the public's ears.

Frontman Chris Eaton describes the album as capturing the "Rock" part of their band name. Not that Needing will be mistaken for an Eagles of Death Metal or Thin Lizzy release any time soon. Instead, while nodding to acts like Palace/Oldham, Tom Waits, Van Morrison and even Led Zeppelin, the sound is undeniably their own.

For singled out, I thought I would share some insight about the song, "Minimum Rage." Everyone has had a crappy job at some point in their life. Most of those people have also worked in fast food. So, when Josh started writing the lyrics for this one, we started talking about some of the horror stories we have about working in the food industry! Rob worked at KFC, Josh at Whataburger, Jake at Wendys (for a day), Jimmy at Hardees, and I worked at Sonic for a couple years.

One of the best/worst things that ever happened to me was when I had a shift doing the drive-thru one day. This big fat guy came up and ordered some stuff, including a large thing of fries. Now, the policy at Sonic is to put 2 ketchup packets in the bags, so the company isn't wasting money on it. The thought is, if they want more, they will ask...and they do! I gave fat guy his bag of burgers and fries, and he asked for more ketchup. That's fine; I got him about 4 more packets. (That makes 6 total). Then, he asked for MORE, and was a little more pushy about it, so I have him 5 more. (That makes 11 total). While all of this was happening, fat guy was holding up my drive-thru line! By then, I probably had between 4 and 6 cars waiting in line behind him. So, I started preparing the drinks for the cars in line, and the cooks were getting me the bags of food for everyone in line, and it all started piling up. After a couple of minutes of fat guy staring at me, I finally went back to the window and asked what he wanted. "I WANT MORE KETCHUP!" Fine, I got him more ketchup. I got him the biggest handful I could grab, and plopped it in his bag. His response was "You don't gotta be a jerk about it," and he sped away. So he got what he wanted, sort of, plus a finger out the window.

When I shared this story with the guys in my band, I quickly realized that we all had stories like this! So, we sing about what we know. And we know that working fast food sucks.