Today's Day in Rock Stories

Ozzfest Announcement Teased By Ozzy Osbourne

The list from the financial magazine tracks "the world's top-earning entertainers" and due to blockbuster response of the reunion tour, Guns N' Roses landed at No. 12 on the latest list.

Vedder was interviewed on SiriusXM's new Beatles channel and recalled the incident where McCartney punched him in the face by accident while he telling a story of hitting someone.

The radio network shared a clip from the interview with a photo of Vedder and the quote "I was fortunate enough to be with Paul McCartney in the corner of a hotel bar."

Then came the fateful punch as Vedder explains (via Radio.com), "Paul McCartney just hit me in the face, and it hurt. I think I remember tasting a bit of blood."

Frontman Chad Kroeger had this to say about the song, "As we were working on this song, a very personal one for me, we all instantly connected to it on different levels through our own experiences.

The song comes from the group's forthcoming album "Road Rage", which will be released on August 4th featuring the newly recorded vocal tracks from Durbin.

Band leader Frankie Banali had the following comments about the new track, "Quiet Riot has always recorded songs that have a link with the Quiet Riot 'sound' and at the same time always musically moving forward.

"'Freak Flag' is such a song with a strong connection to our iconic sound from the past, which I think our longtime fans will appreciate and newer fans will embrace."

The shows will be taking place on October 2nd and 3rd at the iconic Royal Albert Hall in London, which also mark the very first time that the U.S. will playing the legendary venue.

The new studio effort will be hitting stores this Friday (June 16th) and mark the band's first album release in over a decade, following up their 2009 record "Carver City".

During a show on Saturday (June 10) in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the band debuted "Run For Cover." Frontman Brandon Flowers revealed last year that the song was intended for Day & Age, but had a chance of making it on the new record.

'It's eight-years-old," he said. 'It started with Stuart Price and it still sort of has his stamp on it - but we're funneling it back through the band eight years later with a different producer.

Following a spring run to launch their seventh record, the Atlanta outfit returns to play the Psycho Vegas Festival in Las Vegas, NV and Denver's High Elevation events before officially launching the month-long trek in Orlando, FL on September 26 with two acts that joined them earlier this year.

The groups previously touring Europe together with their Battle of the Bays trek last year and they will now be launching a leg in the U.S. and Canada this fall which will feature support from Power Trip and Dust Bolt.

The track was the fourth single off the group's self-titled record - commonly known as the "Black" album for its cover - the band's first to top the US charts on its way to sales of 16 million in the States and more than 30 million worldwide.

The Denver date is part of Metallica's current North American tour in support of 2016's "Hardwired�To Self-Destruct", which was launched in Baltimore, MD on May 10.

The trek will hit San Antonio, TX (June 14), Arlington, TX (June 16) and Chicago (June 18) this week. The stadium shows wrap up in Edmonton, AB on August 16 before the group heads to Europe for a fall arena tour.

"Immediately following our run of shows opening the new Royal Arena in Copenhagen last month we promised we would be back to Europe this year... and we will!!," said Metallica in March. "The WorldWired tour hits European arenas starting in September and doesn't stop until May of 2018! Kicking off on September 4th in Amsterdam (following the rescheduled Copenhagen show on September 2nd) we'll be covering all corners of the continent from Lisbon to Helsinki, Oslo to Budapest and beyond.

The group had the following to say about their upcoming album, "The constant emotional expenditure that an artist must do in order to always be creating and the ups and downs of a career in music tends to lead to substance abuse and suicides.

The name of the festival can be confusing to some. In the case of this festival, "self-help" is not a reference to fans helping themselves for some addiction or other reason, rather, it's about bands helping bands. Upon recognizing their "scene" was shrinking, A Day To Remember reached out to other young hard rock bands and asked them to join the lineup of their all-ages festival. They figured the total was greater than the sum of its parts.

Alternative Press reports Jack Samson of Zodiac will play the role of Charlie Wilkens, while Lizze Broadway of Bones and Chicago PD will assume the part of Alli.

The new run of dates kick off on September 21 at New York City's Central Park Summerstage. The band will be joined by The Shelters on the road, along with Grouplove at Red Rocks, Dr. Dog in Nashville and The Lone Bellow in New York.

"Won't Last This Way" was my attempt at having a political view as a NON political person. All I heard and saw was people fighting about what side they believe in, whether it be Facebook, CNN or the radio. I found it all to be maddening and childish and thought to myself , "well everyone's asking me what side I'm on so why not write about it". The thing is I don't have a side and they are all evil as far as I'm concerned.

Sal Marra our guitarist came in with this great edgy riff and I thought what a great riff to write my views to. "Follow the right road, follow the right way and you won't be rewarded" is the opening line of the song. It's just how I feel about our politicians right now. I based the song off of my dislike of how they act and those who follow blindly.

That's about the most I've ever been political and don't really plan on writing about that again. The guys came up with the sick runs in the song that inspired me to throw in some raspier type vocals. This ended up being my favorite track on the CD.