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Organizers streamed acts live throughout the 25th anniversary weekend of the event created by Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. The Chili Peppers delivered an 18-song set of classic tunes and material from their latest release, "The Getaway."

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"If the poster is not an Atlantic employee, then he or she likely obtained the recording from an Atlantic employee, who would have breached his or her contract and/or fiduciary duties to Atlantic by providing the poster access to the recording."

This time, the musicians have covered the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army." According to NME, Rockin' 1,000 recently gathered at Orogel Stadium in Cesena, Italy, to cover The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army."

In addition to the original five shows, the group added second dates in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle as part of their first official tour since forming in 1990.

Tickets for all shows went on sale July 29 and reportedly sold out so quickly that Ticketmaster were forced to respond to fans who questioned the system. "We're sorry," tweeted Ticketmaster. "For high demand events tons of people try purchasing from the limited inventory and tickets go quickly."

The lineup of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, and drummer Matt Cameron - who plays with both bands - are regrouping to perform this fall in support of the 25th anniversary of the release of Temple Of The Dog's first and only album.

White last month announced the project as a way to mark his label's seventh anniversary and third-millionth record pressing. The Icarus craft reached a height of 94,413 feet while playing a gold-plated disc containing late astrophysicist Carl Sagan's A Glorious Dawn recording on repeat.

The balloon burst after 81 minutes of flight and Icarus fell to Earth under a parachute - and it was still playing the record when it was recovered. White said: "Our main goal was to inject imagination and inspiration into the daily discourse of music and vinyl lovers.

The book tour will now include new events in Portland, Seattle and San Francisco as well as additional second events in Chicago and Washington, D.C. after the original dates sold out.

Maynard James Keenan's biography "A Perfect Union of Contrary Things" is set to be released on November 8th and can be preordered online here.

They will be kicking off the series of dates with a release day concert at The Roxy in Los Angeles, followed by a show at The Gramercy in New York City on September 16th.

The band will then travel to Cincinnati, OH for a stop at Bogarts on September 20th and they will wrap up the release tour with a show in New Orleans at the House Of Blues on September 22nd.

They've described The Astonishing, released in January, as "a sonic story that is our most ambitious creative work to date." Keyboardist Jordan Rudess recently reported that, although Dream Theater hadn't decided what to do next, they wouldn't try to emulate the format of their current record.

Rudess said: "I think this is a particular creative adventure for us, to write a concept album very much like a musical or a rock opera. Whatever we decide to do next will be something very different. It's not going to be another concept album. I don't think that would be the best thing to do.

And he's admitted he behaved like an "idiot" by ignoring the symptoms. The Slipknot frontman had broken his neck without knowing it, and dismissed increasing movement problems as a result of getting older.

He finally underwent surgery in June, although he's admitted he went back on the road too soon. Taylor tells Revolver: "I was losing strength on my right side. My balance was screwed. The last two or three years have been weird for me, physically. But you get to a certain point where you think it's just because you're getting older.

"My doctor sent me to a specialist, and he was like, 'We need to do surgery right now.' Me being me, I was like, 'Is there any way we can reschedule this for after the tour?' He's like, 'No.'

Saxophonist Donny McCaslin and his jazz group will release the record on October 14. The album includes covers of Bowie tracks "Warszawa" and "A Small Plot Of Land," among renditions of songs from other acts including Mutemath, Deadmau5 and the Chainsmokers.

McCaslin tells Entertainment Weekly: "Looking at him when I was playing in the studio and the conviction and the passion that he sang with, that's the same way that I play as a saxophone player.

And among the moments captured on camera in the video special is frontman and pilot Bruce Dickinson's maiden Ed Force One flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The vocalist says: "Absolutely brilliant day out so far. Love the aeroplane, love the crew and I think everybody's having a great time. I'm up here and I'm learning a lot - so what's not to like?"

He later admits he'd get emotional when saying goodbye to the craft, and adds: "This aeroplane, painted up like this - it's incredible. It has the nickname the Queen Of The Skies - and she really is. And in this guise, with Iron Maiden down the side of it, it just blows the doors off ever other plane on the planet.

The track is reminiscent of Moore's work with the band, but includes references to social media and photo-sharing app Snapchat, which would suggest it's a new recording rather than a previously unheard song. It could be a leftover demo with new vocals, or simply a one-off collaboration - but neither party has so far commented.

Moore left From First To Last in 2007 to pursue his solo career under the Skrillex banner. He recorded two albums with the band, 2004's Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count and 2006 effort Heroine.

It was confirmed earlier this year that the singer would reunite with the classic lineup of Misfits for the Riot Fest events in Denver and Chicago next month. Danzig hinted that the comeback may lead to further tour plans down the line.

To get the data, he mined website Dark Lyrics, which features a database of 222,623 songs from 7364 rock and metal bands spread over 22,314 albums. He then cross-referenced his findings with the Brown Corpus - a collection of documents published in 1961 covering a range of different genres.

By combining statistics to show the frequency of words used from both sources, Degenerate State came up with a comprehensive list of the "metalness" of each word.

Bello tells Kaaos TV: "I feel very fortunate. I think Anthrax is at the top of its game. I think we're in a good way of writing. We tapped into something really good of how to work with each other writing, and it's really paying off and connecting with people.

"Every time we think we can take a break, we're asked to do another tour - which is great to be wanted because it's a tough business, and we know that."

Don Broco recently released their new single Everybody and they're currently on the road, playing their albums Priorities and Automatic in full on consecutive nights.

On Everybody, frontman Rob Damiani previously said: "It sounds like Don Broco, but at the same time I don't think it sounds like anything we've ever done before.

Wilson tells Musicradar: "I'm just trying to highlight the fact that I'm no different to them, except the fact that my job happens to be - if you call it a job - writing and performing songs.

His latest live commitments come after his Salute To The British Blues Explosion tour, which saw him paying tribute to the work of Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.

Hietala tells Planetmosh: "Every democracy has their president and Tuomas, he's not a dictator or tyrant - everybody has their say.

"Obviously Tuomas writes most of the songs and lyrics but there are four or five songs on the latest album where I got music written, a couple where I got some lines of lyrics written, and then when we get together to rehearse and arrange, everybody has their say.

In their documentary Remain Indoors: The Making Of Select Difficulty, singer Spencer Sotelo says: "I've never been cool with writing art with the mindset of pleasing someone else. That's not true art.

"It comes from your heart and soul and I think that's why people are drawn to it - it comes from within. You're not writing because you want to do something for somebody else. This record is for us - if people dig it, that's just the icing on the cake."

Guitarist Misha Mansoor adds: "I know this will come off as cold and I know that people have misinterpreted what I'm about to say, but I'm not really thinking about the fans. I don't think about what people want and I know no one else in the band is.

"I know the things that make us happy and it's the process of creating those moments where those sparks of an idea you have comes together. so you're like, 'Wow, that is just what i was expecting - or even cooler.' Those are the things we care about.

Wacken Open Air will take place from August 4-6 and will see an estimated 85,000 people in attendance. Founder Thomas Jensen says: "We update our security plan constantly, counting in recent events such as bad weather or the security situation in Germany.