Original Guns N' Roses Members Confirm Coachella Reunion

But operators say in an update: "Due to the overwhelming and supportive response to Lemmy's memorial, we are now using the entire Strip to compensate for overflow.

His former Rollins Band and Mother Superior bandmate Marcus Blake broke the news with the following online message on Sunday, "Today, I lost a great friend, Jason Mackenroth to prostate cancer. He was an incredible drummer and had the most incredible sense of humor you could ever know. I am in shock. I find it hard right now to put into words my love for him and his friendship. We traveled the world together making music, talking about his favorite band, Kiss, and laughing until our guts hurt.

"He was not only an amazing drummer but he was an excellent father and husband. Life is too short. Be like Jason. Make someone you know smile like he made me smile. A simple thing like that means so much. I miss you, Jason.

The new album was recorded at Henson Studios in Los Angeles with acclaimed producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, AC/DC, Chris Cornell, Bruce Springsteen).

Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale played guitar and bass on the album in addition to lead vocals and for the drum tracks he recruited Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails, Bruce Springsteen, A Perfect Circle) and Joey Waronker (Air, Beck, REM) to perform on different tracks on the upcoming album.

Stockdale had this to say about the effort, "Back in the early days, I'd play guitar, bass, and drums and then present the ideas to the band and we'd work on the arrangement together.

"Many years ago I had a friend by the slightly unusual name of Bleu Ocean," recalls the Dream Theater keyboard maestro. "He was a very good drummer; I believe he had been one of the studio drummers for The Monkees, playing with them behind the scenes. Anyway, Bleu got the job of assembling a marching band that would appear on the song Bring The Boys Back Home.

"I was hanging out at Bleu's home one day and he said, 'Come on man, come to the studio and watch the recording of the track. You could even be a part of it'. Well, I wasn't a drummer - by that point I'd have been around 18 years old and had long since decided that keyboards would be my life - but I'd played some very basic snare drum when I was in Third Grade.

"So I went with him to the session. I walked in, someone gave me a drum and some sticks. I'm playing along and having a really good time but as I'm doing so I become aware that Bob Ezrin [producer] is looking at me across the room, eyebrow slightly askew and finally he says: 'I don't think so'.

"Axl Rose was supposed to be here tomorrow," Kimmel said, "but he will not be here tomorrow�for reasons known only to Axl Rose. Or maybe he will be here," he added while laughing, "maybe he's just trying to keep us guessing."

The EP will include 5 studio tracks including two brand new songs, the tracks that were released on their recent vinyl-only split with At The Gates and Napalm Death, and a cover of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine".

Voivod's Michel "Away" Langevin had the following to say about the release, "More songs from out in the woods! In between tours, we are steadily finding our way through recording the next album at RadicArt studio.

The short west coast tour includes the following dates: January 7th in San Diego, CA at Ramona Main Stage, January 8th in Las Vegas, NV at Count's Vamp'd, January 9th in Los Angeles at the Whisky A Go-Go and January 10th in San Francisco, CA at The Regency.

Vocalist Sydney Dolezal had this to say about the trek: "Metal Allegiance is a bunch of amazing musicians in a band together, and you know how that ends.. with amazing music and a kickass show! I'm so excited to have the opportunity to be on the road with these guys!"

Guitarist Alex Snowden adds: "I'm so psyched to have this opportunity to share the stage with such talent. Metal Allegiance really knows how to throw down and we can't wait to be a part of that."

The kick off show will be taking place at the Gramercy Theatre and the tour will be criss-crossing the U.S. and Canada before wrapping up on February 21st at the Pour House in Raleigh, NC.

Warbringer frontman John Kevill had this to say about the tour, "The band sounds f***ing killer right now and I can't wait to get out there and assault the stage. It is worth mentioning that I've seen a number of 'people leaving bands' news pieces recently. Most often they cite the complete impossibly of making a living playing music, and the difficulty of the touring lifestyle.

"Well, I can say from experience that all of that is true. It's tough, there's no denying that. But that isn't what I want to talk about here. What I want to talk about is what has kept me going for the 10+ years and 1000+ concerts I have done with this band I started right after finishing high school. I've seen more of the world than I ever thought was possible, met thousands of people from all walks of life, and from them learned much of the world.

"'Hinterland' is a place both real and imagined, a hidden city symbolic of a new Rome," explains singer Ian Astbury. "Through the eyes of several witnesses, we observe a young woman as she realizes her enlightened self in a dystopian dream world.

The release, which was captured during Costello's 2015 "Detour", will include performances of classic tracks like "Watching The Detectives," "Accidents Will Happen," "A Good Year For The Roses," "Shipbuilding," "Alison," "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down," "Peace Love And Understanding" and more.

According to the Official Charts Company, "Ace Of Spades" has climbed 94 places to Number 9 at the midweek point on the Official Singles Chart update.

The track peaked at Number 15 upon its release in 1980, and last entered the Top 40 22 years ago, hitting Number 23 when it was re-issued in September 1993.

The NWOBHM icons, acknowledged as influences on Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and many others, hadn't recorded anything since 2007's What's In Your Head?

Tatler says: "Ras has certainly renewed the energy. I had no interest in doing a record - but after working with Ras on the European tour, that suddenly changed.

Along with Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, the Bee Gees and several other acts, Stigwood found success as producer of musicals including Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, and movies such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and The Who's Tommy.

He'd started out as a co-owner of Robert Stigwood Associates, a theatrical agency that led to his career as the UK's first independent record producer, alongside colleague Joe Meek.

Vocalist and guitarist Gabe Tachell had this to say about the song, "This is our attempt to mix prog rock with a black n' roll kind of vibe, but more playful than sinister, with a made up story about a man chasing a mermaid... and of course he dies."

Guitarist Ian Schneider had this to say, "We really wanted to take our time with this release and put everything we had into it. After parting ways with our former drummer, we decided that while we searched for a replacement we would make sure that this song was the best it could possibly be.

"'Animal' is the collaborative effort of everyone in this band, and we felt it captured everything we try to portray in our music, ranging from the chorus to the breakdown. "We incorporate a lot of different elements into what we create and we thought this track really showed who we are as a band from every angle."

The guitarist called the project a nod to William Blake and said the recording process was comparable to working on 1993's Zooropa. The Edge noted Zooropa's producer Brian Eno "would love to see us making albums a bit more like that.

After performing earlier in the night, Stapleton came back on stage to help close the show. He joined Kings of Leon towards the tail end of their set to cover Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man."

While KOL's singer Caleb Followill took on vocal duties for the song's first verse, Stapleton oversaw the second, lending the lyrics his trademark howl and growl. The audience couldn't get enough, responding in kind with excited cheers.

The tour will feature electronic sets at half of the shows and rock sets at the others and will kick off on January 13th in Oakland, CA at the Life Changing Ministries.

The package is described as "a veritable feast for all prog fans" with "more than two hours of darkly sublime beauty, interviews with Clive Nolan and Mick Pointer, and more."

The nine-track title will be released on January 8 and it's available for pre-order now. Wakeman offered the following comments about the upcoming release:

He tells Mojo: "Anarchy In The UK came from all the despondencies and discrepancies within the band in the early days. There were some really bad moments and everyone was always on the verge of quitting, except me.

"I felt under serious pressure - and so did others, I think - and was trying to coin phrases and write words that would unite us as a band, as we were so bitterly opposed to each other and Anarchy In The UK was the end result."

Social unrest also played its part in Lydon's writing process though. He adds: "The ideas in that song had been rattling around in my head for years, but I had never had an outlet. Then there I was all of a sudden, a singer in a band.

The footage was filmed at French band's newly built New York studio owned and designed by frontman Joe Duplantier where they are working on the follow-up to 2012's L'Enfant Sauvage.