Dave Grohl And Corey Taylor Lead Teenage Time Killers Album Lineup

Rose last spoke out to condemn a rumor that he'd retired. Now Ashba addresses the current status of the band with the Las Vegas Sun: "I've got his back whenever he needs me.

"Ever since I joined GNR six years ago, it's almost been nonstop touring. But we've kind of talked of more touring, and I'm looking at this more as a hiatus than the end."

The project features Guns N' Roses' Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Disturbed's John Moyer and twins Jon and Vince Votta and as soon as the group was announced Weiland took to his Facebook page to say that he wasn't the band's frontman.

Now he has been asked by About.com in a new interview if he was surprised at the announcement and Weiland responded, "No. Actually I wish I could say I was surprised, but I wasn't surprised. It was a scam from the beginning."

He goes on to tell the site that he "had no idea who" was in the group when he agreed to do the project. He explains, "I had them send me the files and I worked in my studio with my engineer and I wrote the lyrics and the melodies and I sent them back. I didn't even know what their names were."

He also explained why he did the project, "I was paid to do it. But they were an unsigned band and they're still an unsigned band. Hey. They're gonna put it out on the internet and as fate will have it they don't even have a lead singer. I'm not worried about it taking away any thunder from The Wildabouts."

Cooper made the revelations to Billboard ahead of his performance at the grand opening of John Varvatos' new store in Detroit last Thursday (April 16th). "The album's done. It's mixed, ready to go and I'm very, very happy with it," Cooper told Billboard.

"I'm really happy with all the stuff on it. McCartney's on it. Zak (Starkey)'s on it. Dave Grohl is on it, (AC/DC frontman) Brian Johnson -- and in places where you wouldn't expect them to be, that's the cool thing."

Aerosmith's Joe Perry has previously revealed that he, McCartney and Johnny Depp have recorded a cover of the Badfinger hit "Come and Get It" which was written by McCartney.

Johnson joined White to perform the White Stripes' 2002 White Blood Cells track "We're Going to Be Friends," a song that Johnson has covered in the past; back in 2006, the mellow singer-songwriter covered it for his album Sing-A-Longs And Lullabies For The Film Curious George..

But Nikki Sixx was asked about the idea in a new interview with Rolling Stone Australia and he didn't appear to think that it would be a good idea. He said, "I don't know. By the time we get off stage and hang out it will be about 2 o'clock in the morning. Do you want to drive into Hollywood, get there about 4, play at 5am?

"I think I like the send off at the Staples, where we blow the place up, rather than kind of hobbling through a set at the Whisky at 5 o'clock in the morning!

It is Blur's first full-length in 12 years, with the full original band returning along with producer Stephen Street, who helmed their early and arguably best albums.

They'll also be treating the audience to their hits and rarities, starting July 28 in Tempe, Ariz. From there, the band will hit a handful of southern cities before traveling throughout the Midwest to the East Coast and backtracking out west for a final show Sept. 11 in Paso Robles, Calif.

"We are very excited about this tour," frontman Mike Ness said in a statement. "It's not often we get to celebrate anniversaries of records, or play them in their entirety, but this record was a milestone for us and after rehearsing it we realized it was a hell of a set� High energy and good flow. It was a great feeling to play songs that I hadn't played in twenty years, or more. It's inspirational to "revisit" this album; especially during the writing of a new record. All I can say is 'it's gonna be a kick ass show!!!!'"

To accompany the album's launch, DeLonge debuted a video for "Circle-Jerk Pit," an old-fashioned two-minute skate punk song. Directed by Mark Eaton, the black and white video, of which DeLonge does not appear in, follows a group of teens skating an abandoned backyard pool, while drinking and bar-b-queing dogs. They then proceed to do donuts in their car, only to return to the pool for more drunken antics.

Portnoy remains secretive about the project but he did provide some more details in an interview with Loudwire (via Blabbermouth), "I still have to be cryptic, because we haven't come out with a formal announcement. But I've kind of been hinting at what's going on and the people I'm working with."

He also addressed some false information that has surfaced about the project, "There's this misconception that it's my metal project, which it's not. This is something that I am working in equal collaboration with another bass player and another guitar player. It's our project. And if you've done your Twitter detective work, you know who's in it with me. But we're still not ready to come out with an official announcement, but it is gonna be happening really, really soon."

He adds, "It's a great, great metal album that the three of us have written and recorded together, and we're gonna have lots of various other friends and special guests joining us on it."

Included in the set will be John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Imagine (with the two postcards and poster it originally came with), Some Time in New York City (with its original postcard), Mind Games, Walls and Bridges (with fold-over flaps and an eight-page booklet), Rock 'n' Roll, Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey, according to Rolling Stone.

Loureiro joined the group following last fall's departure of Chris Broderick, while Shawn Drover has been replaced by Lamb Of God drummer Chris Adler as a guest player on the follow-up to 2013's "Super Collider."

But the bassist admits there are some stumbling blocks to staging the reunion in 2017. Flautist Thomas and keyboardist Pinder both make guest appearances on Lodge's second solo album 10,000 Light Years Ago, out next month.

Now the Audio Fidelity company, which specialises in limited-edition SACD titles, have revealed their reissue of With A Little Help From My Friends, with a launch date to be confirmed.

Smashing Pumpkins have just announced their first ever acoustic tour as a band, an eight-stop adventure dubbed In Plainsong that will lead straight into the band's previously announced co-headline jaunt with Marilyn Manson.

He fronted the Aussie giants for the first time in June 1980, just four months after the death of Bon Scott, and soon after recording his vocal tracks for the Back In Black album.

MusicNews reports Johnson saying: "The first thing I did, we did two songs, 'Bad Boy Boogie' and the other one," Johnson said in an interview. "I sang the same lyrics to both songs. I was so nervous, I sang the first song and then I sang the second one with the same words.

"I couldn't hear anything. I could see the audience going 'he must be Avant guard. He is singing anything he wants'. I finished it and thought 'oh God what have I done?' Malcolm looked at me and went 'what the f*** was that?"

"Sad to say our fantastic drummer Emily Dolan Davies is leaving for new projects, and so we part ways with fond farewells," says the group. "Emily played a huge part in the recording of our new album 'Last of Our Kind' and makes a final appearance in the video for our single 'Open Fire' which is coming to a screen near you soon � Good luck Emily!"

Davies replaced original drummer Ed Graham after a split last fall; she recorded the band's fourth album and made her live debut with The Darkness at an intimate secret show March 4 on Ireland's Valentia Island as part of a 10-show run across the country to road test their new material.

The Dream Theater frontman will be joined by Heather Findlay, Anneke van Giersbergen and others at the Nieuwe Luxor, Rotterdam, on September 18, 19 and 20.

When asked "what's the closest you've ever come to quitting music?" Akerfeldt responded, "Every day. Not listening to music, but playing... sometimes I don't want to do it any more. It's not that I don't love it, because I do. It's because I love it.

"It sounds weird and it's hard to explain. I have confidence issues and sometimes I feel like I should not be doing this! But also, on the other hand, it's what makes me me. It's a weird feeling to be honest."

Single Guitarists Playing Guitars debuted on the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show this week and is now available for streaming on Spotify. It features special guest appearances from Exodus and Slayer man Gary Holt as well as Testament's James Murphy and Sylosis member Josh Middleton.

Drake says, "I was speaking to Gary Holt and he said he'd like to solo on the album, and it just happened that when he'd said that I'd reached the main 'solo section' in its writing process. Then I thought, 'I might as well go all out.' James got involved and I couldn't believe it; to have two of my idols from growing up on one of MY songs was mind-blowing.

But he wishes he could take his obsession even further. Benante explains: "I love coffee so much, if I could make it a cologne, I would wear it.

I was coming out of a pretty low point of living in NYC when I first wrote "Under The Rug", around 2008. Flat broke and in debt, living in a converted warehouse out in Brooklyn with 5 other people and two dogs. And bedbugs. We had great parties, though.

Five years earlier, I had landed a lead role in a Broadway rock musical (RENT), but it didn't really result in the sort of career momentum I had hoped for. Shot myself in the foot, so to speak. Overly ambitious and under-trained.

I worked at a restaurant, then went back to a day job doing tech support. I decided I needed to be in a band again. So I answered a Craiglist ad, and became the singer of Kill The Camera. We had a good time trying to fit into the late-'00s Alternative Press/Fueled By Ramen emo scene, but we were 10 years older than everyone in the game.

"Under The Rug" started as a hard rock song (which may explain why the dang melody is so high).

It had the feeling of a triumphant comeback anthem - "You can't sweep me under the rug" - but I realized the song also wanted to be about a problem that won't go away. Something or someone keeps cropping up in your life because you haven't dealt with it properly or put it to rest. So I sang from that point of view, where I'm a recurring "issue" in your life. Could be a past lover, or booze, or drugs... anything you've had a love/hate relationship with. "Don't stick your nose where it don't belong" may or may not be about drugs, for example. But hey, choose your own adventure.

Anyway, Kill The Camera fizzled after a couple of years, like many other bands I've been in. (Not entirely my fault, but I do take responsibility.) At some point in 2012, I started singing my own songs with a band again. I had a weekly thing with some great musicians on the Upper West Side, doing classics from the Stones to Jane's Addiction, to Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Bob Marley. All music I love.

We worked up a few originals for one show, and I played "Under The Rug" for the guitarist in that band, the great Dan "Shredabilly" Peters. He suggested a chord change to start the chorus with C# minor, rather than staying on E.

And that's when it became the bluesy classic-rock jam you hear on the Reverberations EP.

I've been out on the road with Once now for a year and a half. Heading into recording the EP in Nashville last fall, John Pahmer and I were sending Garageband files back and forth, and he came up with some great piano, bass, and guitar ideas. My old buddy Jay Barclay (from Miss Fortune, another band of mine that fizzled long ago) added his own signature guitar sounds, and it all came together in the studio.

In case anyone wants to trace the evolution of a song, there are a couple of YouTube videos of Kill The Camera playing "Under The Rug" back in the day... very different. The guitarist of KTC, Brian Owen, was a founding member of Fun Size, a pop-punk band from Richmond VA who recently reunited. Even though the guitar part has totally changed, Brian gets a writing credit on the song - he brought in the chords which inspired the lyrics and melody. Thanks for listening!