Van Halen featuring David Lee Roth are planning a new studio album.
Roth has recorded a few songs for the greatest hits album in the 90s but has not recorded an album with the band since 1984’s ‘1984’.
Roth and Van Halen announced the plans at the press conference for their forthcoming tour earlier this week.
Although they talked about a new record, no-one was prepared to estimate a release.
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LOS ANGELES, CA — August 13, 2007 Beginning this September , in what promises to be the most exciting live tour this year , Van Halen will embark on a national concert tour throughout the U.S. and canada with its original lead singer David Lee Roth for the first time in 22 years.
Considered by fans and media alike as one of the most highly anticipated tours in rock and roll history, Roth, guitar
Pearl Jam and hundreds of angry fans have spoken out against the apparent censoring of the band's performance at Lollapalooza last weekend by AT&T on its webcast of the event.
The telecommunications giant, which sponsored Lollapalooza, muted singer Eddie Vedder's lyrics: "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush find yourself another home," which he sang to the tune of Pink...
The debut album from Puscifer, the side-project for Tool / A Perfect Circle vocalist Maynard Keenan, will be released on 30 October.
In a statement on the band’s website, Keenan wrote, “It’s official. The voices in my head have deliberated long enough … The title? ‘V is for Vagina’. of course. What else would it be? ‘C is for Chinese Democracy’ was taken.”
Keenan has previously indicated that Pu
Stephen Gregory Bier Jr., known to fans as Madonna Wayne Gacy, is suing his former employer. According to MTV, Bier claims that Manson was using the band’s money to fund his excessive lifestyle. The suit alleges Manson used the group’s funds to buy, among other things, Nazi paraphernalia, African masks made from human skin, and the full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl...
Sources say a Hollywood press conference in one week will announce a 50-date american arena tour by Van Halen to begin in early October. The tour will feature founding Van Halen members David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen, with Eddie’s son Wolfgang on bass....
Yesterday, KORN turned New York’s times square into a cornfield (haha) for a press conference tied to the release of their twelfth album, then played a free show at South Street Seaport.
Australian rock legends AC/DC, one of the few big-name bands that, to date, hadn’t released its back catalog in digital form, has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless that will bring the group’s albums to users of the mobile company’s V CAST Music service. The company will offer full-album downloads—as opposed to single-track sales—of all 18 of the group’s albums via an exclusive agreement that run
Kiss singer/guitarist suffered a sudden heart ailment prior to the band’s Friday show at Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, Calif., necessitating the group play without him as a trio for the first time in its 30-plus-year career...
Ryan Adams is sober. And giving an interview
The Donnas have revealed details about their new album and label, first tipped by Billboard last month. The group has set a September 18th release date for “Bitchin’,” which will be issued by its own Purple Feather label through Red Eye. It’s the Donnas’ first release since parting with Atlantic after two albums....
Social Distortion’s new “Greatest Hits” was meant to offer listeners not only a look back, but a peak at the enduring Southern California punk band’s next record, says singer Mike Ness.
The eleventrack collection, closes with the new song, “Far Behind,” an anthemic, hard-driving sing-along.
“We were in between studio albums, we’re writing, and we thought it was a good time to pause and take a re
Recording artist Everlast, has written and recorded the theme song for TNT's new drama series, "Saving Grace"
Follow the link to hear the song!
Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan announces his new side project and claims “heavy rock is sinking”.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the enigmatic wine enthusiast and singer for cult prog-metal heroes Tool say that his new project Puscifer (to rhyme with the fallen angel) is his attempt to “make music to inspire people.” Strange, since Tool has one of the most dedicated followings of any current band
RealRhapsodyCheap Trick are set to perform The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely hearts club Band’ in Los angeles from start to finish in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the landmark album.
The performance will take place at the Hollywood Bowl on August 10 and 11.
The American rockers will be accompanied by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra as well as Aimee Mann, Joan Osborne and other special g
After watching 428,000 free tickets disappear in a matter of days last month, Ozzfest organizers have unbound a extra allotment of freebies into circulation...
Check out the Happy Tree Friends animated version of the Fall Out Boy video "Carpal Tunnel of Love"!
Be forewarned that it's super cute but super sick...
In the wake of the new "Absolute Garbage" collection, the members of Garbage are eyeballing mid-2008 to begin making their fifth album.
"We're talking about it," drummer Butch Vig tells Billboard.com, adding that he expects the group to group to head in a markedly different stylistic direction than on its four previous releases.
"If we want to continue making records," Vig explains, "we don't...
The former manager of a Paris nightclub has claimed that Doors frontman Jim Morrison died in a toilet stall at the club from a heroin overdose.
This challenges the testimony of girlfriend Pamela Courson that Morrison died from heart failure while taking a bath.
In the book 'The End: Jim Morrison', Sam Bernett claims two drug dealers found Morrison's body in the toilet stall of Paris' Rock and Ro
Iggy Pop will voice a role in an upcoming animated film.
The Stooges frontman is set to play a politically active uncle in 'Persepolis', an animated political drama about a young girl struggling with life in Iran after the fall of the Shah in 1979.
Pop will be joined by actors Sean Penn, Catherine Deneuve and Gena Rowlands, reports the Hollywood Reporter.
The film, which is the North American v
The Pogues guitarist Philip Chevron has been diagnosed with "locally advanced" throat cancer, according to the band's website.
Chevron, who wrote the emigration-themed track 'Thousands Are Sailing' will not be present for the band's summer and fall shows this year.
The following message was posted on pogues.com:
"At the beginning of June Philip was unexpectedly diagnosed with a strand of "local
Hard rockers Avenged Sevenfold hit the Billboard Top 30 with their 2005 major-label debut, “City of Evil,” and they’re presently shacked up in a Burbank, Calif., studio trying to top it. The as-yet-untitled effort is expected in October.
This time around, a greater concern was placed on creating a melody rather than ultra-heavy music that lashes out all over the place...
Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns apologises for a joke about smoking a joint with Bono and Peter Garrett.
During an interview for Triple J, Johns was asked about his relationship with Bono, who appears in 'Young Modern's thank you list. He relayed a story that Bono had invited Johns, his wife Natalie Imbruglia and former Midnight Oil frontman and current Australian politician Peter Garrett to hi
Foo Fighters have revealed details of their sixth album, which has the working title, ‘Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace’.
The whispers of a Van Halen reunion tour with original singer David Lee Roth at lead vocals are picking up yet again, with the group reportedly in the process of mapping a fall arena run.
Billboard reports that arenas in several major markets are holding dates open for the potential Van Halen shows, and Melodicrock.com claims that the band is currently expected to hit the road in September...
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has confirmed that the group has completed the backing tracks for their ninth studio album.
During an interview at a festival in Belgium, the drummer confirmed that Metallica are getting ready to release the follow-up to 2003’s ‘St Anger’ in February 2008.
A former national laboratory worker has admitted that she used government computers to access the e-mail account of Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington and hacked into a cell phone company's Web site to obtain his phone number.
Six albums into his career, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson continues to remain the bane of parents and religious groups with his controversial brand of electronic-tinged industrial rock. Marilyn Manson has been denied entry into a cathedral in Cologne.
The Goth-Singer blames his lipstick for ecclesiastical trouble...
KISS will follow up its successful 2006 DVD box set, "Kissology: Volume One, 1974-1977," on Aug. 14 with a second volume chronicling 1978-1991 via VH1 Classic Records.
"Volume Two" will be comprised of three DVDs and a fourth disc that will vary by retailer. The first disc will feature a news special on the band from 1978 and an infamous 1979 interview with Tom Snyder, with other...
Emo-rockers The Used have been forced to cancel their US summer tour due to illness.
Doctors have told vocalist Bert McCracken that he needs surgery to remove a node on his vocal chord. He's been told he needs to rest his voice for five weeks, or risk permanent damage.
The band's summer schedule included performances at the touring Warped Festival.
A statement from bandmate Quinn Allman read, "
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