Scott Weiland Returning With New Album and Tour

AC/DC have yet to reveal their full North American tour plans in support of their new studio album, "Rock or Bust," which is the veteran band's first album without band cofounder Malcolm Young who retired from the group last year due to his battle with dementia.

The annual music festival is spread over two weekends, April 10-12 and April 17-19, with AC/DC headlining the Friday night slots, Jack White headlining on Saturday and rapper Drake leading the Sunday roster.

The fifth installment of the annual music festival is set to take place on May 2nd and 3rd at the Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the Charlotte, NC area.

Hagar had this to say in the announcement, "Playing with a band like The Circle, we've got a set list made in rock 'n' roll heaven and a band from rock 'n' roll hell. The only missing link is tens of thousands of rocking fans�HELLO CAROLINA!"

Apart from the Circle, the festival will also feature performances from Slipknot, Slayer, Korn, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, Godsmack, Marilyn Manson, Halestorm, Breaking Benjamin, and more.

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor had this to say of their headlining slot, "We are very excited to be headlining Rebellion this year! We're honored to be playing in the company of Cheap Trick, one of my all-time favorites, as well as playing with such good friends like Korn, Halestorm and Slayer!"

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis adds, "Three years ago, we reunited with our brother Head on stage at Carolina Rebellion. Since then, we made a new album and toured the world together. And now we're back to perform our first album in its entirety. Rebellion is going to be a really special show for us."

"We are looking forward to bringing it to you in Las Vegas during our residency at The Joint," said Journey guitarist Neal Schon of the residency. "See you soon!"

The newest one holds a special significance, though, as the recording of Under Amazonian Lights took place in Manaus, Brazil on June 1st, 2005. That just happens to be the day White married his now ex-wife, model/musician Karen Elson.

Words do not ably describe the beauty of the Teatro Amazonas nor the furor riled up by the White Stripes appearance. Not only was there fear that the amplification of the band would cause the plaster in the building to crack and possible fall and injure attendees, but out of custom/fear/lord-knows-what the crowd remained seated until being explicitly asked to stand from the stage by Jack White himself. If that wasn't enough, during the show Jack and Meg ventured outside the venue to play an entirely unamplified version of 'We Are Going to Be Friends" for the assembled multitude of fans unable to purchase tickets and watching the performance via closed-circuit feed. The resultant melee was arguably a riot and was lovingly captured by the film crew documenting that evening's importance. All together what it makes is one of the best true rock and roll moments of the past decade. Heck, Jack White even got married that day.

Due February 24, the follow-up to 2012's "Rebel Soul" was produced by Kid Rock - with the exception of two songs which were co-produced by Dann Huff - and was recorded at his studio in Michigan.

He tells this month's Prog magazine: "It's a true dilemma - there's no right answer. People say to me, 'Are you still excited when you go on tour?' Should I be excited about leaving my family? No, and no one should. It's as simple as that: if you put aside the fantasy of it, it is what it is and has to be done. And that's fine and I pour my entire energy and enthusiasm into it, but of course, I'm of two minds about the whole idea."

Before they had appointed a full-time replacement, Root and Taylor recorded bass on demo tracks, with some of their work surviving in the album's final mix.

Root tells MusicRadar: "I played bass on six, maybe seven tracks. I can't even remember which. I'd have to sit down with the guy who played bass on the other tracks to find out.

"Some of the lines were taken from the demo versions that I recorded in my garage, because they were moody, and had a unique vibe that was too hard to recreate. Goodbye uses the full bass line that Corey recorded for his demo.

"I was prepared to do it if it had to be done, but I didn't want to do it. Both the band members and, according to management, our fans, wanted to see somebody in there.

Previously announced for the event were Beck, The Black Keys, Crosby, Stills & Nash, John Doe, Norah Jones, Tom Jones, Los Lobos, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, and Neil Young.

But in response, Dokken insists Breaking The Chains was a solo project and that he was the only official member of the group at the time. Lynch says: "I did like it when we originally recorded it, but then Don got ahold of it and destroyed it. He basically sent us home from Europe and said, 'OK guys, we're done. I'm just going to stay back and hang out with my girlfriend.'

"What he did was he stayed in the studio when we were gone and had his way with the record, which was pump up all the vocals, take all my guitars out, destroy the mix. It just sounded weak and wimpy. It just killed it.

"It was actually pretty muscular and pretty tough when we were in the studio. It sounded so good. It was the first record I'd ever done, so we were committed to making a statement. Quite honestly, the sound was just unbelievable.

"Then when it was all done, he did what he did to it and he killed it. It's very hard for me to listen to because of that, because I knew what it was and nobody will ever hear that unfortunately."

Former Chimaira sticksman D'Amond says on Facebook that he has now joined Devildriver. He says: "Ladies and gents, introducing the new drummer for Devildriver.

This year, the Napa Valley festival will be bringing No Doubt, Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Imagine Dragons all on one bill as headliners. They'll be supported by the Avett Brothers, Foster the People, Passion Pit, Snoop Dogg, Cage the Elephant, Young the Giant, Gipsy Kings, Capital Cities, Public Enemy, Portugal the Man and more.

The festival will take place at the Napa Valley Expo May 29-31, with tickets starting at $235 for a general admission three-day pass, and going up to $2500 for a three-day platinum pass.

Trujillo says he was careful as a child not to cross his father, and he took those lessons into his musical career. He tells IndiePower: "In my band situations, I was always very careful how not to cross certain members. Because band members can fly off the handle, especially in the situation that some of them were in, whether it was drug issues, drinking, whatever it was.

"There was a lot of stuff going down, and you had to be cool. Because, I mean, someone like Zakk, he would snap. He would kind of switch right in front of your eyes. So you always had to be careful with these people.

Frontman Rou Reynolds adds: "We seem to have reached a stage of such capitalistic fervour, that we believe it acceptable to punish people for ill health. By charging for healthcare we act as if illness is nothing but one's own problem, but what is the purpose and advantage of 'civilisation' if it is not helping the most vulnerable within society?

"The lottery of birth can offer us a wealth of bad luck when it comes to our health and the safety nets are being pulled in as the desire to boost profit overtakes the desire to help people."

From The Very Depths is the follow-up to 2011's Fallen Angels album and features founding member Cronos as well as Rage and Dante. Speaking about the record, Cronos said:

"This album is perfect; all three members are totally over-the-top confident with the new songs and the production. We had a great atmosphere in the studio while we were recording; Dante created pure thunder from his drums, while Rage tears the flesh off your face with his riffs, making everything fall into place so well� it shows the band maturing into an unstoppable force of pure black metal.

February of 1970, not even a year after their debut album Chicago Transit Authority, the band had shortened their name but not their fourteen-legged lineup. As former Bob Dylan sideman and Blood, Sweat and Tears founder Al Kooper told Lamm, Chicago's sound was "�the perfect marriage of brass and rock".

Chicago, born out of their city namesake also known as the "Second City", made the bold Chicago II, a two disc set that would go on to sell a record two million albums and spawn their first Top 5 hit "25 or 6 to 4" and two Top 10 singles "Colour My World" and "Make Me Smile".

Speaking with InTheStudio host Redbeard, keyboardist, singer, songwriter Robert Lamm sheds light on how three lead singers managed to front just one band.

"For most of the time that we were writing songs, we never thought about what key (it's in), is it going to be right for whoever's going to sing it. We would basically write the song and see how far each one of us could go. So part of the idea about sharing lead vocals was necessity." (laughs). - Robert Lamm

Footnote: after over 120,000,000 albums sold, the second biggest selling artist in America (behind only the Beach Boys) is still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The Aerosmith frontman was on hand at the Wailea Mariott to perform a mix of Aerosmith tracks and cover tunes, including songs by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and, a rare version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" with Hawaiian blues guitarist Willie K.

Plant tells The Pulse Of Radio: "I made my business to go out and start again at the age of 32. It's hysterical, really, when you think about it now. But I worked with Robbie Blunt, who was a particularly fine guitarist. And I was graced by my first two solo records Pictures at Eleven and The Principle of Moments.

Now Foster - who also works with Mr So & So - is onboard for 2015 and will play live with the band in April and May and also record their upcoming fifth album.

In a statement, the band say: "Panic Room are preparing to unveil a powerful live show which will celebrate the finest and most-loved music from across all four of the band's award-winning albums.

Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrin Took's My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair�, Prophets, Seers & Sages: Angels Of The Ages and Unicorn have been fully remastered for the reissues.

Timms contacted Prog having read the United Progressive Fraternity feature, and gave us the following response to various comments in relation to him or Unitpoia that vocalist Mark Trueack and drummer Dave Hopgood made. This is his full response...

I hope you don't mind me contacting you, but I saw the article yesterday on UPF (I'm a digital subscriber) and there were quite a few half truths and out and out lies in it. I'd like a chance to respond if I may? I don't want what's happened and what I'm doing (or going to do) to be misrepresented. I apologise upfront if this is a tad long... I'll go through them one by one.

1) 'There were a few communication problems' - Mark. There were NO communication problems. I made it quite clear to Mark on a number of occasions that he needed to apologise to Patsy Delledonne (our manager) for his behaviour towards her (long story) and his passive/aggressive attitude towards us both. He refused, so I let him know quite clearly that I didn't want to work with him anymore. He changed his attitude, but too late... the damage was done.

2) 'Musical Differences' - There were no musical differences. I was thrilled with the music we were creating for the new album, but after his thoughtlessness and stubborn behaviour, I was no longer interested in continuing working with him.

The Swedish band will open for American heavyweights Monster Magnet on the trip, which includes three UK dates in February. The tour gets underway on February 2 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

And for her performance at The Great British Rock & Blues Festival in Skegness on January 23, Malaya will also have the help of special guest guitarist Will Johns of Fresh Cream fame.

The band say: "It's January, the grey wet mist is clinging to your bones, you forgot to set the VHS to record Tomorrow's World and you've run out of teabags yet again - cheer yourself up with this glass half full ditty.

"It was filmed back in November by brilliant Bristol director Matty Groves on Super 8 film. Thanks to Emma for being our enthusiastic swimmer, it was freezing."

Polish artist Zbiegniew Bielak's architectural background is more than apparent in the mindboggling detailed, historically sourced and instantly recognisable artwork that's graced albums by the likes of Watain, Ghost BC, Absu and Vader. Anyone who's seen Watain live recently, will know the power of his work from the band's vast, Necropolis backdrop, and his stunning new Art Calendar is a trove of macabre and arcane wonders.

Of course, Bowie's crooked teeth are a relic of the past, replaced by the time the '90s rolled around with a mouthful of gleaming, snow-white incisors. Some people aren't willing to let Bowie's oral history go gently into that good night, though. Paint and sculptor Jessie Hein has fashioned Bowie's old dentures into a mold, made of acrylics, plaster and paint.