Guns N' Roses Member Unsure Of Band's Future

"Stop taking selfies and be AT the concert idiots. #morons #FrontRow #Miami" tweeted Sixx after the concert at the American Airlines Arena. "People have their ear/eye glued to their phones," responded a fan. "No longer interacting with live people in front of them. Self-absorbed society."

The fan's reply prompted Sixx to tweet, "Missing living in the moment at a concert is a crime." Various Motley Crue supporters on Twitter report Sixx was seen spitting on fans in the front row during the Miami show, with one posting a video clip of the bassist's interaction with the offenders.

According to the paper, Richard shared this view of rock, "It sounds like a dull thud to me. For most bands, getting the syncopation is beyond them. It's endless thudding away, with no bounce, no lift, no syncopation."

Two of the biggest names in heavy metal were also singled out by Richards. "Millions are in love with Metallica and Black Sabbath," he said. "I just thought they were great jokes."

But he saved his biggest criticism for hip-hop. "Rap - so many words, so little said," he said with a laugh. "What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there.

Sabbath has been hinting about retiring for some time, but now they have made it official. On Thursday, Black Sabbath announced that they will be launching their farewell tour next year.

The band revealed the initial dates for their final trek including legs in North America as well as in Australia and New Zealand. The band plans to announce additional dates next month.

It appears that the tour will not include original drummer Bill Ward who left the group prior to the release of their reunion album, "13," due to a contract dispute.

As it stands now, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler will kick off the North American farewell tour leg on January 20th in Omaha, NE at the CenturyLink Center and conclude the trek on February 25th in New York City, NY at Madison Square Garden.

The decision to re-prioritize his life, putting Blink-182 on the back-burner was a difficult, and life-changing one. "You know what? It was you guys," DeLonge says with a chuckle referring to a press release given to posted by Radio.com station KROQ in Los Angeles."It was when you guys released a press release that I knew nothing about." The release was penned by the band's publicist at the request of his former Blink bandmates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker.

"Up to that point, I was so stressed on trying to handle everything. In many ways, the decision got made for me. I was thinking, okay cool, now I don't have to stress any more. Because I was juggling all of it and I knew for about five months prior to that, that s-- was going to hit the fan. And it was going to hit the fan when everyone says 'Okay, we're ready to go record, okay, we're ready to go tour, okay, where you at, what are you doing, come on, what are your priorities-what's your priorities?'" DeLonge repeats that last part for emphasis, as if he is about to be crushed under the weight of the question.

"I was stressing because I was in the middle of a whole bunch of contracts with authors and animators and filmmakers and I was getting my company off the ground. I had just hired ten people, we got our space and we were doing construction, we were getting ready to launch a retail store� and then all of a sudden KROQ let out the announcement and I was like, okay, well, s-t, it's gonna make it much easier now."

Billboard reports AC/DC appear at No. 3 on the "Hot Tours" list of top-grossing tours behind Nicki Minaj and Shania Twain with $4 million in ticket sales from a single outdoor performance at the Plaines d'Abraham in Quebec City on August 28.

Trejo, who plays a leading character in a prison riot scene, says: "In prison there's only two kinds of people - predators and prey. Being a Slayer fan, I'm a predator."

In the 272-page book, Barker touches on "rock stardom, fatherhood, death, loss, and redemption, sharing stories shaped by decades' worth of hard-earned insights."

The shock-rock icon has recalled how his doctor warned he only had weeks to live if he didn't stop drinking, after he'd started throwing up blood in 1982.

Until that point he'd been the leader of the Vampires, who met in the Rainbow Bar And Grill in Hollywood and included Keith Moon, John Lennon, Harry Nilsson and others. Most of them had passed away by the time he went to the doctor.

Cooper tells Rolling Stone: "He told me, 'If you want to join your buddies, I'll give you another month. Just keep going how you're going and you'll be with them.'

He'll be joined for by guitarist Phil Manzanera, bassist Guy Pratt, keyboardists Jon Carin and Kevin McAlea, drummer Stevie DiStanislao and backing vocalist Bryan Chambers.

The bassist explains Cheap Trick are on a determined mission to remain prolific in the coming years. "The thing is we're going to keep going," says Petersson. "We want to record a record every year and just keep them coming out, like in the old days when everybody had a record out every six months, us included. We're writing all the time, so what good is it if those (songs) don't come out."

And Majura reports that when she was invited to talk to Lee about the position, she was told to leave her guitar at home. She tells EMP Rock Invasion: "I said, 'Would you like me to audition?' She said, 'No, I know you can play - I've seen plenty of videos of you, so just come over and talk.'"

Money raised from sales will go towards recording the follow-up to last year's To Be Kind. Mainman Michael Gira said earlier this year their next album and tour would be the last with the current lineup featuring bassist Christopher Pravdica, drummer and percussionists Thor Harris and Phil Puleo, and guitarists Christoph Hahn and Norman Westberg.

The new album features the return of vocalist Dan Tompkins, after he was replaced by Ashe O'Hara for 2013's Altered State. The band recently had the following to say about the album:

The Color Before The Sun is set to be released on October 9 via 300 Entertainment and The band released a video for the track You Got Spirit, Kid last month.

The It's A Pleasure To Meet You video was created by David Prindle and pays homage to video games including Pong, Robot Unicorn Attack and old school role-playing games.

Due October 9, Monroe's 10tth studio effort was produced by Chips Kiesbye (Hellacopters, Nomads) in Gothenburg, Sweden and mixed by Petri Majuri in Helsinki, Finland.

Monroe recorded the follow-up to 2013's "Horns And Halos" with his touring band - bassist Sami Yaffa (ex-Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls), guitarist Steve Conte (ex-New York Dolls/Company Of Wolves), guitarist Rich Jones (ex-Black Halos/Amen) and drummer Karl Rockfist (ex-Chelsea Smiles/Danzig).

"I'm extremely excited about our new album, Blackout States," says Monroe. "It has all the ingredients of a perfect rock 'n' roll record - strong melodic songs with great meaningful lyrics that defy all clich�s, delivered with a punky, ballsy attitude by a killer band.

The new album is their first release feature all original material since 2009's 10� Billionaire. Frontman Marq Torien said: "I put my heart and soul into this music.

The band say: "It's safe to say that for a good couple of decades, Arjen continues to be a never-ending source of inspiration - a creative mastermind and a visionary of his own league, a tasty and emotive guitar player, a humble and friendly person.

The new Official Progressive Albums Chart is being launched as a partnership between the Official Charts Company and Prog Magazine - founders of the Progressive Music Awards in association with currencies.co.uk, which take place on September 3, at the Underglobe at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

From 9th September, Prog Magazine will publish the Official Progressive Albums Chart - a Top 30 of the biggest progressive albums over the previous month - in each of its monthly issues.

They'll precede the tour with the launch of a double live album, recorded on the road last year. Entitled The Journey Continues, the 2016 run will see Damian Wilson and co delivering 2014 studio album For The Journey in full, alongside a selection of classics.

Keyboardist Richard West says: "In June we performed the whole of For The Journey for the first time. It was such a good show we thought we'd do it again!"

Two versions of the title are available - a standard five-track EP and a deluxe edition which includes a second disc containing a 60-minute live concert recording.

The follow-up to 2010's 7th Symphony was their first album with former Scars On Broadway singer Franky Perez, after previously working with guest singers.

Today's additions include Black Spiders, Vardis, Screaming Eagles, Stoneghost, The Gloria Story, and in-house band Deathwish. Pontus Snibb will be performing a Blues set.

Frontman Chris Cornell said last month that work on the band's seventh album was under way, and the image posted on their Facebook page confirms as much.

I wrote the song "Monster" with Corey Lowery the first time I went down to his studio in Atlanta. I had heard some of his work and really wanted to write with him, so even though we had never met in person before, I flew down there for 2 days and had 3 completed songs by the time I was on the flight home. It was one of the most fun and productive writing sessions I have ever had. The reward was worth the risk! All 3 songs made it on the album, and I now have a new friend and 'big bro' that I get to keep making songs with for a long time to come.

"Monster", which is now the single off my new album, was the last song we wrote during that trip. While finishing up the songs from the day before, we were talking about my love of hard rock and metal, my personality and my look, how people generally react to that, and my previous experiences in the music world (some good, some not so good), and decided these were things I really wanted to share. It was important to make the music and the lyrics as raw and as real as possible, while embracing who I am as an artist and as a person.

Writing this song helped me overcome a huge cloud of negativity and anxiety from some past experiences that was preventing me from getting out of the temporary rut I was in at the time, and I hope that this song can help others with that as well.

It's also one of my favorite songs to perform because I get to really play into my 'manic' side. It also doesn't hurt that I have such amazing musicians on the album, and the track itself: Billy Sheehan, who produced and played on the record, Ray Luzier, Russ Parrish, Corey Lowery, and Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal, who plays the solo in "Monster", amongst others on the album.