Guns N' Roses Confirm Reunion Band Lineup

"This Saturday, January 9, family and close friends will observe a service at Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Hollywood, commencing at 3pm PST and ending at 4.30pm," says the band. "With such limited space available on-site, we respectfully ask that you don't attend the cemetery� but we want you ALL to be a part of this, so we are setting up a live feed of the service via the internet on Mot�rhead's official You Tube channel.

"So wherever you are, please get together and watch the service with fellow Motorheadbangers and friends. GO to your favorite bar, or your favorite club, make sure they have access to an internet connection and toast along with us. Or simply invite your pals around and celebrate Lemm's life at home.

Directed by Christian Lamb, the project will premiere in theaters and via Pay-Per-View this spring, with live footage rounded out with interviews and behind the scenes material shot by Jackass creator Jeff Tremaine.

Rockin' 1000 followed up their massive debut with another video on Monday. This time, the band covered Foo Fighters' "Saint Cecilia," off the band's most recent EP by the same name. Rather than perform together, as they did with their last cover, Rockin' 1000 gathered musicians the world over to contribute.

The band took to Instagram to share a photo of Chester Bennington singing into a microphone with the caption "back to work this week." The band is working on the follow up to their 2014 album The Hunting Party.

This November Bennington had resigned from his temporary role as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots with the stated intention of focusing on Linkin Park.

"In the beginning, Flyleaf really centered around my story and vision," says Sturm in the new album announcement. "This new project continues that narrative in a cohesive way."

She wrote some of the material on her own and also worked with husband/guitarist Josh Sturm, Skillet's Korey Cooper and Grammy Award winning writer and producer David Hodges, Lacey.

Drummer Roger Taylor says the band were careful not to release the record as a soundtrack as they wanted it to stand up as a Queen record in its own right. He adds: "I think the idea of a complete soundtrack album puts people off.

"I think they imagine all sorts of orchestral links which don't really do anything, and it's really just background music, which it isn't at all. It's a fully-fledged Queen album."

Bassist John Deacon adds: "We did all the music for the film first and they dubbed it on. When it came to doing the album, we re-arranged a lot of the tracks and made them longer and wrote more lyrics, tried to make them into fully-fledged songs. So they stand up in their own right, without necessarily having to be with the film. You can hear them on the radio and they would sound like songs rather than incidental music."

Frontman Freddie Mercury - who died five years later in 1991, explains how he reworked the album's title track, written by Taylor. Mercury says: "We all have our own ideas of how a song should be. In the case of Roger's track, Magic, he did it in a totally different way which was quite good. But I just felt there was another commercial streak.

"I realised he was going away to LA for a week so I got hold of it and I change it round completely. When he came back I said, 'What do you think?' And he said, 'Oh, I like it.'

The trek will feature support from The Faceless and Good Tiger and is set to kick off on March 4th in Sayreville, NJ at the Starland Ballroom and concluding on April 17th in New York City at Webster Hall.

ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons, a long-time fan, tells the El Paso Times: "He was El Paso and Juarez's gift to the blues. I fondly remember listening to his El Paso Rock when I was a kid. It didn't get more Texas border boogie than that."

But controversy has surrounded the launch as it has reportedly not earned the band's management Velvet Hammer's seal of approval. A statement on the film's website reads:

He fell from a bridge in July last year, aged 32, after appearing to suffer a mental breakdown. The group released Lost In The Static from the follow-up to 2013's Wolves Within in October, saying their goal was to "get back to living a normal life" following Lowe's death.

The U.S. west coast tour will feature two night stands in several cities including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego as well as stand-alone shows in Portland and Eugene.

The short tour will be kicking off on February 5th with the first Seattle show at The Showbox and will conclude on until February 15th in San Diego at The Casbah.

The band will then head to Australia where they will launch their four city tour on March 10th in Sydney at the Manning Bar. They will also visit Brisbane and Melbourne and wrap up the tour at the Golden Plains Festival in Meredith on March 13th.

Space Elevator guitarist David Young says: "I, along with drummer Brian Greene and our bassist Chas Maguire, more or less learned to play our instruments by studying every part in every song on the classic Lizzy album Live And Dangerous, surely still the best best live rock album of all time.

"The Duchess was also hugely inspired and influenced by Phil and in fact his first solo album Solo In Soho is one of her all time favourite albums. We thought this song could be really interesting with a female vocal and we were playing both the slow and fast versions live. When I realised it was 30 years since Phil's passing it seemed the obvious choice to record.

"It's well documented that he struggled with drug addiction and it seemed appropriate to give the profits to an addiction charity."

The group led by the former Rainbow, Alcatrazz and Impellitteri frontman put out the EP My Kingdom Come to promote their sold-out Japan tour last year.

The band had the following to say about the track: "It's been a while since we've covered anything so we figured we'd start off 2016 by thanking you all for the amazing support in 2015."

Peter Frampton's double concert album Frampton Comes Alive! released this week in 1976 was so phenomenally successful, and his resultant fame so widespread, that it is hard to remember a time when he wasn't a household name. Peter's departure from Humble Pie for a solo career was a bold move, but truth be told, after four solo albums without a hit, Frampton was not all that confident that his loyal record label could afford to be patient much longer. Recording some live concerts a few months after the release of his fourth studio album, Frampton in 1974, Peter was buying a little career insurance. If his studio album failed to sell he could always offer up a live stop gap album to release, which is relatively cheap to produce. Little did he know then that the album would be his career-defining, star-making, multi-million worldwide selling masterpiece.

"Show Me the Way", "Baby I Love Your Way", "Lines on My Face" and "Do You Feel Like We Do" dominated the radio airways and the album would spend an entire year on the US album chart, popping into the # 1 slot on four separate occasions.

Former Stuck Mojo bassist Corey Lowery is also involved with the project as co-writer and producer. Train tells Bravewords: "Stand is about overcoming adversity in life and using that adversity to strengthen and elevate you."

A finalist in the Best Metal Performance category at next month's event in Los Angeles, the song goes up against Slipknot's "Custer", Lamb Of God's "512", "Thank You" by Sevendust and "Identity" by August Burns Red.

Ghost are running print ads in various music industry magazines and released a companion video targeted at members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) - the people who vote on the Grammys.

Using the social media hashtag #DontBeSilenced, the print ad reads: "Greetings faithful brothers and sisters. Your reading this voting guide is proof of your commitment. If you are unsure, cast off your doubts now. There is but one choice.

"For the vote you are about to cast is but one small yet essential moment in your spiritual revolution. Shhh... listen. Do you hear it? The terrible silence of the ignorant? The mistrust and anger of the masses?

Hawkwind will also appear at this year's Ramblin' Man Fair at Mote Park, Kent on July 23-24. Their annual Hawkeaster event takes place on March 26-27 at The Gateway, Seaton, Devon.

The label say: "Grammy nominations aside, James has earned an international reputation as an R&B troubadour. This album, however, is something far deeper than just another notch in his belt - it's truly an artist's vision come to fruition."

The music festival is now in its fourth year with this year's event set to ll take place in the heart of the City of Napa at the Napa Valley Expo on May 27th, 28th and 29th.

This year's lineup will also feature performances from The Lumineers, Death Cab for Cutie, Lenny Kravitz, Walk the Moon, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ziggy Marley, Grouplove, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Gogol Bordello, Cold War Kids, Iration, MisterWives, Atlas Genius, Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness, Buddy Guy, Andy Grammer, Houndmouth, The Pharcyde, The Struts, The Joy Formidable, Shovels & Rope, X Ambassadors, The Orwells, Coleman Hell, Ozomatli, JamesTown Revival, The Suffers, Kaleo, Langhorne Slim & The Law, Monophonics, The White Panda, San Fermin, Alina Baraz, Nothing But Thieves, Pimps of Joytime, Particle, The Score, Fantastic Negrito, Mike Stud, Son Little, SOAK, Until The Ribbon Breaks, Black Pistol Fire, New Beat Fund, WATERS, Deap Vally, Jamie N Commons, Greg Holden, White Sea, Bird Dog, Machineheart, Secret Weapons, Rose's Pawn Shop, Ivan & Alyosha, The Moth & The Flame, Moonalice, X Alfonso, Taxes, Happy Fangs, Panic is Perfect, Diego's Umbrella, La Misa Negra, Guardian Ghost, Strangers You Know, HEARTWATCH, Royal Jelly Jive, The HELMETS, Anadel, Bey Paule Band, Grass Child Gypsy, The Deadlies, The Iron Heart, Olivia O'Brien, 92 South, and the Napa Valley Youth Symphony.

Late one night, I was making my way through the Union Square Subway station on my way home when a melody began to appear in my head. And the tune sort of took hold of me to the point where I stopped walking quite as frenetically through the station and began a more relaxed stroll towards the platform of the L train. I quietly hummed the chorus into my phone so I'd be sure to remember it, but I never needed to play back the recording because the vocal line was almost instantly burned into my brain. I had no idea what the song was going to be about, but the melody felt gentle and soothing - like a lullaby.

My daughter was not yet 10 years old but was going through a difficult time at school. She was feeling a bit alone - isolated from the other kids. There was one week that for whatever reason was particularly tough on her. As I was sitting in a coffee shop in the village waiting to pick her up from ballet, I started writing down all the things I wanted to do to help her, to protect her, and to love her. And all the words I'd scribbled down in the coffee shop that morning eventually became the chorus.

Giving Her More was originally conceived as a much more stripped down song - just acoustic guitar and vocals. I was concerned that a more rocked out version of the song would overtake the melody. Jerry (Harrison) and ET (Thorngren) encouraged me to do a few takes with the entire band to see if we could make it happen. As usual, Jerry and ET's suggestion was spot on.

The full band version of the song didn't really come together until my friend Angeline (Saris) tried a new bass line - one that moved a bit more. The new bass idea initially sounded like a cross between "Billy Jean" and "Once in a Lifetime." Honestly, it felt a bit strange at first, but we knew we were onto something. We just needed to simplify the bass a bit. For me, simple is almost better. So after we took out some of the notes Angeline was playing, the song really began to sound like I'd heard it in my head late that night in the middle of the subway platform in Union Square.

As we put together the video for Giving Her More, I thought it was important to take the setting out of NYC. While New York provides the backdrop for almost all the songs on my album, I wanted to emphasize that the themes underlying Giving Her More are more universal. I also liked the idea of illustrating that sometimes in life you need learn how to get out of the way of your own happiness. There's also a number of cool little nuggets in the video that you might not pick up on the first watch. I hope you like it.