Van Halen Confirm New Album and Box Set

Farris was injured on February 24; the band's label - Petrol Records - has confirmed the incident occurred when the guitarist caught his hand in an electric anchor winch.

"Tim has been treated at the Royal North Shore hospital for a week and is now back at home in recovery," says the label. "The accident has caused permanent damage to Tim's left hand and one of his fingers has been severed. He has undergone two extensive operations to reattach his finger. Tim is now at home undergoing further treatment to assist with his recovery."

According to USA Today, Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) was found guilty in a London court of one count of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13.

The 77-year-old Australian, a founding member of Soft Machine, has asked his followers to begin letting him go. He'd previously undergone surgery to address his illness.

Allen says in a statement: "It is now confirmed that the invading cancer has returned to successfully established dominant residency in my neck. The original surgery took much of it out, but the cancer has recreated itself with renewed vigour, while also spreading to my lung.

It's more confirmation that Lynne is taking the project seriously again after a cautious return to the stage in London last year. Following ELO's Hyde Park concert he said:

The Pretty Reckless will be the opening act for the winter leg of the trek which is scheduled to launch on February 14th in Allentown, PA and conclude on March 15th in Vancouver, BC.

The band will take a few days off before kicking off the spring leg of the tour with support from Pop Evil on March 22nd in Nashville and they will finish the leg on April 7th in Tulsa, OK.

Lifehouse will then be joining Nickelback from an extensive summer leg of the tour that will begin on June 19th in Ridgefield, WA and wrap up on August 29th in Atlanta, GA.

The statement reads: "After thinking it over carefully, Peavy and Victor decided to stop working together. This is due to musical and personal changes.

"We have developed in different directions in the last years that we cannot identify with the current band situation any more. In this situation we will also part from drummer Andre Hilgers.

Set to air on February 7, the episode sees the Foos performing tracks from their latest album, "Sonic Highways", with the help of guests Gary Clark, Jr. and Jimmie Vaughan.

Preview footage includes "What Did I Do?/God As My Witness" with Clark, The Fabulous Thunderbirds' "Tuff Enuff" with Vaughan and Clark, and "Congregation."

"They've been writing songs for well over a year," Ruston tells Metal Insider. "I sat in and helped them record the demos and basically made sure everything was heading in the right direction. Once we hit the point to where they felt they were ready to go, around Thanksgiving, we decided it was time to get going."

"We have 18 songs we're working with that made the cut," he continues. "We're going to try to record everything just to see what turns out the best. Out of those 18 songs, we've got 8 that we're working on."

"Though he still enjoys playing drums, Mark has completely lost his appetite for the endless travelling and the many hours of hotel room boredom," revealed frontman Dave Faulkner. "The physical demands of playing the drums as energetically as he does are also exacting a higher toll on his body than ever before. Really, who can blame him for wanting a change?"

Kingsmill joined the Hoodoo Gurus in 1984 following the dismissal of original drummer and founding member James Baker; he first appeared on the band's second album, 1985's "Mars Needs Guitars!"

"None of us want to see him go and, to be honest, we even contemplated breaking up the band rather than try to replace him," Faulkner continued. "Apart from all the personal upheaval that his retirement entails (yeah, we're gonna really miss him!) there will also be a significant change to the band's musical personality. Mark, like James Baker before him, has a unique style of drumming and no-one else will ever be able to replicate it."

"It started with a bass riff I think," recalled singer Brandon Boyd, who stopped by KROQ's Kevin & Bean Show (KROQ is a CBS Radio station) this morning with fellow bandmates Jose Pasillas, Michael Einziger and Chris Kilmore.

"Actually, Brandon was in Bali, in a land far away," explained Einziger. 'He had to leave on this trip so we were like, let's just try to make studio magic while he was gone so we started sending him idea. All four of us were in the studio jamming. That song just came out of us all in the studio improvising. It was like, oh wait, what's that? Oh cool. And it just evolved."

While the song will be available Friday on iTunes, the band will release a four song EP titled, Trust Fall: Side A on March 24. A follow-up will come after that with a release date yet to be announced.

Among those also appearing are Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree), Adam Holzman (Steven Wilson) Kim Mitchell (Max Webster) and Mike Stern (Miles Davis).

Anderson - who appears at the inaugural Ramblin' Man Fair in Kent in July - last year accepted a long-standing invitation to guest with Tiles, after he'd become a fan in 1999. The album was known as Other Arrangements at that stage.

Under the clever name Lintallica, the sock puppets offer up such lyrics as "End of laundry day / Folding me away / Lost in the depths within this dresser / No other stripe in sight / Begin this lonely fight / Mismatched sock with just one purpose."

Even more hilarious is the chorus, which now goes off as, "Get glue that's Krazy / Googly eyes look lazy / Get glue that's Krazy / Yarn hair looks amazing / 'Mazing."

The band started working on the follow-up to 2010's The King Of Limbs in September. They took a break at the end of last year to concentrate on their various solo projects, but return to work next month.

Selway tells Drowned In Sound: "We'll make an assessment of where we are then. But we've been excited about what we've been doing so far - it's been a productive time."

Asked about the nature of the material he says: "There might be a core thing eventually, but we come at it from a number of angles. You don't really know ultimately what's the strongest intention until we've finished."

In the short film, frontman Matthew Davies-Kreye talks about meeting fans, giving interviews to the media and working their touring schedule around family commitments.

And Thomas Golubic, music supervisor behind shows including Breaking Bad, says Dylan and his manager Jeff Rosen are incredibly supportive of film and TV projects.

He tells Variety: "To me there's been literally nothing more simple than clearing a Bob Dylan song. I take his music very seriously. I think he's America's greatest songwriter.

"A lot of times when you have artists who are so iconic you're stuck with a lot of middlemen whose job is to get as much money as possible or to make it feel as important as possible.

He tells The Huffington Post: "Stay with what you're good at. I find that a lot of bands will start out as a great rock 'n' roll band but then the times will change into rap, so they'll try to incorporate that because they think it'll bring in more fans.

"Then it'll change again to boy band stuff, then they'll try to change to that. You can't do that. You're chasing your tail. You've got to just stick to your guns and if rock 'n' roll isn't in right now, who cares?

The band are currently on the road in support of .5: The Gray Chapter, their first release since the death of bassist Paul Gray in 2010. They haven't officially confirmed the names of their new bassist and drummer, and haven't decided whether the pair will become permanent additions.

La Mano Ponerosa is the second new track from the band, following the release of Lava, which was premiered on Tad's website last month. "Originally the main riff was one of the first songs for BOTSC, conceived in 2007 and developed over a period of seven years until this release," says Tad. "Lyrically the subject matter is of the notion that one has been here for thousands of years. This comes with the realisation that there are 'old souls' who may have been here many times and have witnessed glimpses of past lives through a series of d�j� vus.

"Some who have lived as hunter gatherers working soil, some as soldiers on bloody battlefields joining their blades with others flesh, and those who have witnessed their lives as other living beings and animals. This return to 'here', being the last time."

The follow-up to The Raven That Refused To Sing features Guthrie Govan, Adam Holzman, Nick Beggs and Marco Minnemann. The story explores the life of a reclusive artist who reveals she had a sister - but only for six months.

He recorded two albums with the Swedish axeman: 1994's The Seventh Sign and 1995's Magnum Opus. And the vocalist says the guitarist blew his chance to be the best in the world because of the way he treated other people.

Vescera is on a South American tour with former Accept frontman Udo Dirkschneider, ex Iron Maiden man Blaze Bayley and Tim 'Ripper' Owens, formerly of Judas Priest under the Metal Singers banner.

So for the entire album, Generation of Vipers, that we released on February 2nd, it's a concept album that tells the story of Satan through out time. The song "The Recruitment" that we are currently pushing is the third track on the album but second in chronology of the concept story. It's a tad difficult to talk about just one song without addressing how all of the album was developed. Warning I'm about to nerd out here. So we developed the concept idea and then created a storyboard of the entire album flow, rough titles, and decided on how each song should come across. Like, should it be heavy and fast, or slow; erie and doomy.

The Recruitment is the part of the story where, Satan, after realizing he can usurp the Throne of God needs to recruit an army. So with that we wanted to have the song envelop pre-battle angst and anticipation. So Albert, Witt and John set out to come up with the music to hit that chord. When they sent it over to me to put lyrics on it I was blown away. The brutality of the opening riff got me really excited. Then the insane speed the kicks and guitar ran at during the chorus scared the sh*t out of me at first. I wasn't sure what I could come up with at that speed. So I went cut time and shot for epic.

For lyrical inspiration I went to my main sources for the album: Paradise Lost, the Bible, other sources of ancient fiction, and the world's source of partially correct information; Wikipedia.

Like many other advocates of vaccination he blames the anti-vaccination movement, at least in part, on celebrity Jenny McCarthy. "It's her fault! She's the one who started the whole 'You're gonna get autism' thing. So, nice f***in' job, Jenny! But, you know, it's science. It's a real thing. It's like this: polio isn't a problem anymore. You know why? Because of the polio vaccine!"

He continues, "It seems to me that Rand Paul is saying that vaccinations are good things, generally, people should get vaccinated, but it shouldn't be mandatory. As much as I don't think that the government should be in the business of saying 'You have to do this,' when I have kids, I'm gonna vaccinate them.

"Girls, girls, girls, long legs and burgundy lips," the normally reserved Trebek read out loud. "Girls, girls, girls, dancin' down on the Sunset Strip. Girls, girls, girls."

The slight inflections and dramatic emphasis he gave to the words gave him away--Trebek was having fun with this. And the internet is reacting. A video clip of the reading is making the rounds, and it's even earned the attention of Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, who called it "amazing." Watch the clip

Due February 23 (Feb. 24 in North America), the 3-cd set will include a bonus disc of material featuring alternate mixes of songs featured on the group's sixth studio album.

The band recently premiered an unreleased version of the track, "Houses Of The Holy",from the project, which features Led Zeppelin standards "Kashmir", "Trampled Under Foot" and "The Rover."

The original release hit No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 on its way to selling more than 8 million copies in the States alone, while topping the band's native UK album charts and reaching double platinum for sales of 600,00.

Anthrax have once again teamed with producer Jay Ruston for the follow-up to 2011's "Worship Music", which is expected to be released this year. Anthrax are up for a Grammy Award this Sunday in the Best Metal Performance category.

The group's version of Black Sabbath's "Neon Knights" and Tenacious D's remake of Dio's "The Last In Line" - both from the 2014 Ronnie James Dio tribute album "This Is Your Life" - go head-to-head alongside tracks by Motorhead ("Heartbeaker" from "Aftershock"), Slipknot ("The Negative One" from ".5: The Gray Chapter") and Mastodon ("High Road" from "Once More 'Round the Sun").

"I held so much anger in me for so many years until I finally graduated from high school, started partying a lot more and raging on the music," says Hanna. "And that is what Purple is all about. You don't know how many times I've heard 'Hey, you drum pretty good�for a girl'.

"It's that phrase: 'for a girl'. It doesn't make me mad though; it's funny. It just makes me want to be more bad-ass than the boys. Anger can be extremely inspiring that way."

Founders Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada are joined by drummer John Jeffrey, who first appeared on last year's live album. They say Shadow Of The Sun was written during "a rare and uneasy rest period, devoid of the constant adrenaline of performing live and the stimulation of traveling through endless moving landscapes."

The guitarist has left the band twice - first in 2001 then again in 2006 - but returned in 2009 after spending eight months in Manson's band. Borland tells Metal Insider: "When I was in high school I was a big Marilyn Manson fan. And when I was out of Bizkit I got to be the guitar player in Marilyn Manson. That was the last thing I did before I went back to Limp Bizkit.

Dressed in vintage Young attire, Fallon began the tune in a lone spotlight before the real Neil jumped in to exchange verses and looks during the performance.

Young reappeared later in the episode for an interview to promote his new high quality audio music player, PONO. The guitarist closed the show playing "Who's Gonna Stand Up?" - from his latest album, "Storytone" - with The Roots and an expanded band that included a horn section and backup singers.

"Devil in Me" is a song about addictions - whether it is drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex or a love infatuation - you name it. Every person and what the "Devil in Me" symbolizes for him/her. I decided to write it up kinda like a relationship between a man and a woman to give the addiction a life of its own in the song.

I felt it had a cooler storyline by turning the addiction into a living personality describing the addiction almost like a person with schizophrenic behaviour that has to go through a daily struggle of arguments and battles with that "Devil" inside, in order not to fall back into the addiction again and again.

I remember "Devil in Me" coming together very naturally, almost "too" naturally because usually what happens when I write songs is I come with a general idea for a melody and only then dive into writing the actual lyrics for it thus giving the song its soul. In Devil in Me's case, I remember us in the studio, writing the Electronica Drum beat plus the main guitar riff for the verse and chorus and after listening to it a few times, as we are recording it, that chorus melody just popped up in my head WITH the words "you are, you are, you are the devil in me, taking over" and right at the moment, that pretty much defined what the song was about for me. So in this Devil in Me's case, I guess it already had a soul of its own.