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Axl Rose And AC/DC Spotted Leaving Same Rehearsal Studio

Carlos left the touring lineup in 2010, was replaced by Nielsen's son Daxx, and then found himself suing his own group for monies owed before reaching a settlement last year.

The Rockford, IL band will enter the Hall during an April 8 ceremony at New York's Barclays Center alongside Deep Purple, Steve Miller, Chicago and N.W.A.

"He's going to play the inductions because they're inducting the people who made the records way back when, and that's good,'' Nielsen tells the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "He deserves it.''

Guitarist James Iha joined former bandmates Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain for a performance of a few classic songs at the band's show at The Ace Hotel.

And when asked if he thinks the music industry is now too tame, Mustaine tells Fox News Magazine: "Probably yes and no. I think that there's a lot of people out there that are probably overtly harsh in their criticism and it's because they don't want people to know that they don't really know what they're talking about.

"Joe Skyward, aka Joe Bass, left us last night. He had been fighting cancer for the last 2 years. Positive to the end, he went surrounded by friends and family," The Posies wrote on their Facebook page on Sunday.

It's thought that they're recording the follow-up to 2013 House Of Gold & Bones - Part 2 after plans to release a third cover EP were shelved. They previously issued Meanwhile In Burbank� and Straight Outta Burbank.

The shows are in addition to the band's previously announced tour dates and anyone who buys a ticket for the summer tour will receive a free copy of the forthcoming album Gore.

Palmer says: "I will deeply miss Keith and I want you all to know I will carry on flying the ELP banner and playing the great music with my band for many years to come. We have lost a very talented and gifted musician but this great music will continue for a long, long time."

Due April 15, multiple remastered versions of the group's second album and 1983's "Kill 'Em All" will launch a massive catalog reissue campaign by the band.

Ian says: "If you go to any public place anywhere on the planet now, all you do is see hundreds of people staring at their phones. So it's not a music-business problem; this is a humanity problem. I think the internet and technology is just turning us into a very antisocial species where human connection is being lost.

"People don't talk to each other any more - they f***ing text. That's what our world has become. And what's next? What comes next after texting? Because I'm sure technology will advance in the next hundred years and there'll be even less interaction between human beings."

The tour will feature support from Death From Above and Irontom for most of the dates. The trek will be kicking off on June 17th in Louisville, KY at Mercury Ballroom and wrapping up on July 21st at The Woods at Fontanel in Whites Creek, TN.

Iommi performed his band's 1971 classic, "Into The Void", with Canadian singer Lauraleigh Cairns and other players on the tune from Sabbath's third album, "Master Of Reality."

"Rock' n Roll Fantasy Camp really does make your dreams come true!," says Cairns as she posted the footage online. Video of Iommi and a different group running through Sabbath's 1980 track "Neon Nights" has also been featured online by event organizers.

Fan club and VIP package pre-sales for the Radio City date starts March 29 at Noon EDT; an American Express pre-sale begins March 30 at 10 AM EDT, and a Live Nation mobile app pre-sale gets underway March 31 at 10 AM EDT.

The headline tour is scheduled to kick off on May 11th in Nashville at the Cannery Ballroom and the tour will be concluding on June 10th in Boston at the Royale.

The band previously released a promo for their track War, with the group saying it was a sad song about "leaving everyone you know and love behind to face something new."

The Arcade Messiah and KingBathmat man's four-track recording is out on April 3 - and he says he wanted to release something different from his other material.

Bassett says: "I took a small break from recording the latest Arcade Messiah project to put together something completely different - a mellow, small collection of post rock, ambient style songs.

The group said: "This album is as much yours as it is ours. We wouldn't be here doing what we love right now if it weren't for the endless support we've received from our friends and fans across the world over the last two years. We hope you love this record as much we do, and can't wait to play these songs for you the next time we make it to your city."

They'll perform 1996 album The Masquerade Overture in full at headline shows, but not at festivals. Pendragon say: "We have much more limited time at the festivals. Don't miss out - London and Zoetermeer are both looking to be sold out in advance. Verona, Katowice and Wath are now sold out, so if you're hoping to come to one of these shows get your tickets early."

As a result, the band cancelled all live shows this year and recently revealed they'd release a collection of ambient and instrumental music in honor of Grudzinski. And while the group are on hiatus for the remainder of 2016, they'll say they have "individual plans" and will release their long-planned biography later this year.

They say in a statement: "Our biography has been in the making for over two years and it will be published towards the end of this year - we just didn't expect that it would contain an additional chapter and that its character would change.

"We've always been like a family, we have stuck together and always taken care of that bond both on and off the stage. We have also said many times that we have the best fans in the whole world.

Auerbach said of the record: "I just wanted to do my thing and get extra weird. I wanted everything to flow and be cohesive. A lot of the songs bleed one into the other, a lot like the Grateful Dead - my favorite records that they did.

"We're so excited to finally unveil Soul Searcher, the product of over a year's work," the band tell Hammer. "This EP is by far the most honed material Griever have ever released.

One of my favorite scenes in the movie "Fight Club" is when narrator Jack "meets" Tyler Durden on an airplane. Jack explains his concept of the single-serving friend - that anonymous person you chat with while traveling that you know you'll never see ever person again - and Tyler responds, "That's clever. How's that working out for you?"

Jack is puzzled. "What?"

"Being clever."

"Hats Off" is an empty salute to all those dedicated to perpetually showing off how clever they are - including myself. And how easy the Internet has made this! The social mediascape has awakened our inner self-righteous trolls, and they have run rampant to little effect other than making us all look like a bunch of a**holes. The acrimony festering on the Internet is seeping into all parts of life, to all of our chagrin.
But rather than lecturing on the death of discourse, the chorus uses the most pithy of snark - "Hats off to you, mighty dragon slayer" - to admit that I'm part of the problem. This song is akin to me asking myself (pseudo-spoiler?), "How is being so clever working out for you?" Just like Jack, not so great.

As for the music, I have a tendency to dive into the deep end of prog, employing crazy complex riffs, weird time signatures, unsettling key changes, you name it. But occasionally I ask myself, "Can I actually write a straightforward song? You know, one that's interesting, one that's catchy? And most important - something that doesn't sound condescending, as if I'm slumming or trying to reach a broader audience?"

I heard in my head a simple bass line, something like a 50s pop song, but with a more propulsive beat. I shared it with bass player Julie, who Julie-fied the line (brilliantly, if I may say so) by making it more complicated rhythmically yet also groovier. Drummer Nick immediately laid into driving beat that's deceptively intricate. So I let the chorus chords flow right out of me, not giving much thought to whether they resembled some other song (I'm sure they do). "Hats off to you," came naturally to my lips.

Of course, we had to have a little bit of weirdness - it just wouldn't be us otherwise! We needed a transition from the second chorus to the guitar solo and nothing was landing. So randomly we thought, "What if we just do some noise over crazy drums?" Sigh, Justin and I are always up for making noise - it's a shared passion. And speaking of Justin, I quite enjoy trading guitar solos with him in the second half of the song, as self-indulgent as it may be. There's a lot of fun dueling guitars all over "Comfort in the Noise."