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"In a daytime exclusive, the California rockers will take over Ellen's stage to perform one of their favorite songs as they embark on their Greatest Hits Tour!," reads the listing on the program's website. "They're some of the most talented, wildest and most exciting musicians of all time.

"Nearly all of Van Halen's albums have gone triple platinum, featuring iconic records like 'You Really Got Me,' 'Runnin' With The Devil' and 'Dancing In The Street.' Ellen and her audience will be dancing through the aisles when Van Halen brings the heat to the room!"

The rare TV appearance comes just two days after the March 31 release of the group's first live album with David Lee Roth. Recorded live at the Japanese venue on June 21, 2013, the package features a 25-song set delivering material from the band's original, classic era and 2012's "A Different Kind Of Truth", the group's first studio album with Roth in almost 30 years.

The band's career-spanning 14-song set is available at livemetallica.com. Metallica have previously shared video from the event, including a performance of their 1986 classic, "Master Of Puppets", and fan-filmed video from the show can be viewed here.

As we reported on Monday, the band began hinting at a big announcement via teases posted to their Facebook page with the hashtag #SatisfactionThursday, and a link to the website www.justakissaway.rocks which featured a video with footage of the band touring set to the their classic hit "Miss You" playing in the background. The site also featured the band's lips and tongue logo above the words "Get What You Need" and the #SatisfactionThursday hashtag, as well as a signup box for email alerts.

There was speculation that the band planned to announced the details to their rumored North American tour on Thursday, but instead the band removed the video and posted a contest sign up that said "Here's your chance to utter the immortal words, 'LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE ROLLING STONES!' Grand prize includes a TRIP FOR TWO to an undisclosed location and a COMMEMORATIVE VIDEO shot by the Stones' official videographer."

So it appears they are giving a fan the opportunity to announce the band at a live performance. To add fuel to the tour rumor fire, the small print for the contest includes tour promoters AEG Live, LLC.

As for the tour announcement, WKRN reports that "the nationwide promoter's ticketing is being blamed for the delay" and the mayor of Nashville was forced postponed a planned announcement of a local show on Thursday.

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports Neil has filed a lawsuit against an Oregon woman, Kristy Sinsara, in an effort to have her relinquish control of his social media accounts.

The normally brooding Alkaline Trio singer appeared to be very in-the-moment, smiling and playing off both Hoppus and Barker. And when it came time to sing lead vocals, Skiba delivered DeLonge's lines with relative ease, with a delivery similar enough to DeLonge's to keep the songs from sounding jarringly different yet with enough of his own personality injected to let the audience know he wasn't trying to be DeLonge.

Absent was the funny back-and-forth between the co-frontmen that fans are accustomed. But Hoppus made sure to deliver up a healthy does of potty humor leading sing-alongs for both "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" and, well, the other song that can't be described without being completely censored. You know the one. It's the one written to upset your mom.

"4/24 Montage of Heck will open in Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York City," tweeted Morgen, who oversaw the project with executive producer - and Cobain's daughter - Frances Bean.

Morgen has also announced a series of international cinema debuts, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland (April 9), the UK (April 10), Sweden (April 27), Italy, Australia and New Zealand (April 30).

And although the Foos aren't likely to make an album the same way, there's no reason they can't make another set of TV shows - and drummer Taylor Hawkins could be the leading light.

Mainman Dave Grohl tells Billboard: "There might be a season two - there are a lot of studios." He adds: "Taylor is one to ask about UK studios. He's been to them all, even if they're kebab shops now.

The tribute work is released on May 18, and it's the first Whitesnake album to feature guitarist Joel Hoekstra in place of Doug Aldrich. Coverdale exclusively told Classic Rock how late Purple keyboardist Jon Lord had wanted the Mark III version of the band to reunite, and discussions took place after his death.

Now he says in an EPK video: "A lot of the ideas weren't appealing to me, unfortunately. But I was already doing preparatory work on these songs, hoping Ritchie would be open to bringing them up to date and reappraising some of them."

When he told his wife it was a shame that his work had been wasted, she asked, "Why don't you do it under the Whitesnake banner?"

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's 1975 album Best Years Of Our Lives, guitarist Jim Cregan, drummer Stuart Elliot and keyboard player Duncan Mackay will join Harley on the tour, which kicks off in Manchester on November 2.

Harley says: "The three guys are still my mates. The fun we had back then, when we toured and recorded together, holds fabulous and special memories. I take life on the road a lot more seriously now, though, so they'd better be prepared.

The frontman's time with the band was overshadowed by negative reviews for their first-ever show, in which he appeared to be drunk and under-rehearsed. Lee later laughed off the incident.

Stanley tells News.com.au: "I enjoyed the Hall Of Fame in a twisted way. It was a terrific night but there was no way I was going to play with them. Frankly, I have too much pride in what I do than to create a moment of nostalgia for someone else. To get on stage with Ace and Peter was an interesting, surreal moment - but nothing I wanted to prolong.

"Someone asked me before the Hall Of Fame, 'Couldn't you just play with the original lineup for one night?' I said, 'How about spending a night with your ex wife? What's the point?'"

Weinman has been teasing the project for some time, along with the fact that he was working with Lewis, who has her own band Juliette And The Licks. Now he tells SiriusXM (via Revolver): "It's something we've been working on for a long time. We finished all the music and we're finalising the vocals now.

"Juliette is singing, along with some other guest people. Me and her have become pretty close friends." But he admits he was skeptical when he first heard of Lewis' band. "I was like, 'Oh, another acts that has a vanity project,'" he recalls.

The band features The Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato, Mastodon bassist Troy Sanders, and Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy and ex-Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera.

The band posted the following intro for the video on their Facebook page, "So....a few weeks ago we took a little trip to Australia, and let's just say we got a bit of it on film(by a bit we mean every damn second unless we told the dudes to stop). Didn't want any of you to miss out on our first EVER shows, ya know? So here you go, we'll just leave this right here. If you were there, thanks, if not, we wish you would have been....there will be a next time....somewhere...."

This time, it's not finding a director--Dallas Buyers Club auteur Jean-Marc Vallee is still on board--the snag is instead a lawsuit, The Hollywood Reporter reports.

The film's producers LKL Productions and Silver Reel have filed suit against writer Ron Terry, his affiliate companies and his investment firm Chesterton Capital for breach of option agreement, unfair competition, interference with contract and prospective economic advantage.

LKL and Silver Reel apparently purchased the rights to the project for $117,000 last August but they claim that Terry and his affiliates have still been shopping around the script.

Two new touring members - not named but believed to be drummer Jay Weinberg and bassist Allessandro Venturella - were brought in ahead of the release of .5: The Gray Chapter last year.

Clown tells the BBC: "Don't be surprised if, one day, nobody in the band will be in the band. It'll all just be new people. I'll be 80 and there'll be a whole Slipknot thing moving.

Haake says in the studio video: "Right now we're writing for an album that will hopefully be out in 2016. Sometimes a song idea comes from a guitarist or a bass, sometimes it's from me as a drummer. When it's my song, it starts with me messing around at the kit."

Meshiaak say: "Yes, the Jon Dette joins the guys on what promises to be a blistering must-have album for 2015. The debut will feature nine tracks mixed and mastered by UK's Matt Hyde."

The Alkaline Trio frontman filled in for DeLonge in Los Angeles on Wednesday, and he'll step up again in San Diego on Friday and Orange County on Sunday.

And despite the massive task of learning 25 songs in a short space of time, he says the experience has been fun from the outset. Skiba says on Hoppus' podcast: "You guys made it very easy for me to just have fun with it and make it great. The vibe has been amazing.

It will be released a day earlier in the UK. Produced by Kevin Shirley, the new album sees the Guess Who/BTO rocker teamed with bassist Anna Ruddick and drummer Dale Anne Brendon.

Hackett has previously revealed that he'd learned to play the Iraqi oud while preparing to record, and that Wolflight includes a range of ancient instruments.

In the new promo video, Hackett says: "I was playing it to Nick Magnus and he said, 'I don't recognise what half the instruments are.' I said, 'That's good - that's what we wanted, to go through that reinvention.'

Reith's long history on the Australian music scene includes stints with New Christs, The Celibate Rifles, Tumbleweed and, most recently, punk legends Radio Birdman.

"Nik kept Deniz and Rob from Birdman fully informed about his audition with us," says frontman Dave Faulkner, "and he apparently has their blessing (and we thank them for being so generous of spirit about that). Nik will still be touring Europe with Radio Birdman in June, then he will be ready, willing and able to perform with us.

Paich tells Songfacts: "In 2006, when Falling In Reverse was released, we thought that might actually be our last album. To our pleasant surprise we still owed our record company one more. You don't know until you actually check."

The next problem was to decide its content. "You go, 'Do we just put together a lot of odds and neds that we haven't already recorded?'" says the keyboardist and vocalist.

The late Texas blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan topped the fan ballot for the event with more than 18 million votes - more than 5 million ahead of the next nominee.

The frontman reports that guitarist Tommy Victor and drummer Johnny Kelly have been laying down tracks in Los Angeles with producer Chris Rakeshaw. Its release is planned for late 2015 or early 2016.

Cornell began recording the project in mid-January before heading to Australia last month with Soundgarden to perform as part of the Soundwave Festival series, which wrapped up a few weeks ago.

He tells GetYourRockOut: "If I never wrestle another match again, I'm happy with it. I've done all that I ever wanted to do and more. I still like going back from time to time, because it's fun.

"I've been very smart over the last 10 years in building the Chris Jericho brand, and wrestling is a part of what I do. But it's not by far the biggest thing of what I do.

He tells The Age Of Metal: "Even with the tumultuous break-up, I wouldn't have done anything different. It gave me a chance to do Devildriver - and that's its own beast now.

The song Face Down had been one that survived the creative process as an incomplete song for a couple years. It was about half of a song (the first half) and even that was morphed a good amount into what it eventually became. The basic parts stayed the same, just modified and refined. It began as a couple riffs that we jammed on in practice a few years back. It was one of those things where Jason had a riff, Jon came up with another on the spot, then a couple more and suddenly we had half a song. The problem was that we soon moved out of that practice spot, played a bunch of shows and got off track with the creative process until we had to stop playing shows for a couple months to focus solely on creating new music.

Once we were able to kick back into high gear with the creative process, we decided to try all different forms of writing songs. Through that effort, the vast majority of the material was created for our new album "Death Throes", as well as the EP that preceded it titled "Seasons of Hate". During that time, we finally got back to work on Face Down and decided to make the second half completely different with the goal to make it still work as a cohesive song. We did all we could with the ideas we had in the first half so we broke it off and took a sharp turn to jam-town. That's where the guitar break comes in before the solo section. Jason and Jon trade off a few solos and it goes into a heavy groove until the song fades.

Lyrically, the song is intense and very aggressive. The topic of the song is revenge and there's a lot of raw emotion in it because it is a sensitive topic. More specifically, it's about revenge on a person or persons that did you wrong. Of course there are certain people (that shall remain unidentified) that helped inspire the lyrics. That being said, the lyrics are also meant for the listener to connect in their own personal way. If we take that angle and write about a personal experience, maybe others can relate to having been screwed over and tasting revenge. It's an outlet to release that aggression instead of through the means of actual revenge because there's always consequence and karma swings both ways. Our music video for the song captures this concept perfectly and there's a strong message in it.

What really makes the essence of this song is the strong collaborative effort between all the band members to give it that Southern Front sound and feel, as well as the heavy lyrical theme that is often associated with our music.