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Shinedown are gearing up to release their fourth album this spring. Frontman Brent Smith and producer Rob Cavallo are almost done mixing the project, and the first single, "Bully," will be out on January 3rd. Shinedown will be heading to Europe in February for their first shows in more than a year...

Metallica brought out another all-star roster of guests Wednesday night at the second of their 30th anniversary shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Kid Rock sang on their cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page." Lou Reed joined them for two songs from Lulu as well as The Velvet Underground's "White Light, White Heat" Ex-bassist Jason Newsted played on "Creeping Death&qu

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its Class of 2012, and the inductees include Guns n' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Beastie Boys. The inductees were chosen by more than 500 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation...

Sixx A.M.'s new EP 7 is streaming now through Sunday at AOL Music. The EP features reworkings of seven songs from their first two albums. Singer-guitarist James Michael calls the tracks on 7 "stripped down, pulled apart and reconstructed from a different perspective...

The Grammys love the Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl and his crew picked up six nominations last night, including Album of the Year and Best Rock Album for Wasting Light, Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song for "Walk," Best Hard Rock Performance for "White Limo," and Best Long Form Music Video for Back and Forth...

Mötley Crüe are the latest act to sign on for a residency in Las Vegas. They'll officially announce plans for a month-long stint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Thursday night during CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. They'll reportedly play three to four shows each week during the run, which will start in February...

Tommy Lee’s planned Syfy Channel show, “Culture Shock with Tommy Lee,” billed as an investigative travel program, appears to have been canned. Tommy says “it just didn’t work out”. Mudvayne fans, don't assume that the band has split up just because singer Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbet have spent most of the past three years working only on Hellyeah...

When Metallica perform The Black Album in its entirety at the Download Festival in England next summer, it'll be the first time they've ever played the tracks "Don't Tread on Me" and "The Struggle Within" live. Drummer Lars Ulrich tells Kerrang that Metallica will have to do a couple of rehearsals to get the full album down...

"The Sound of Winter" by Bush has been chosen as the official theme song for the Winter Dew Tour, a skiing and snowboarding competition that runs over three upcoming weekends. The song will open and close each telecast, which will air on NBC the weekends of December 15th, January 19th and February 9th...

Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro are among the rockers who'll join host Henry Rollins at a benefit concert for the charity Drop in the Bucket at the Avalon in L.A. on November 30th. Drop in the Bucket raises money to build water wells and sanitation systems at large rural schools in sub-Saharan Africa...

Red Hot Chili Peppers have posted their new music video for "Monarchy of Roses" on their website. The Mark Klasfeld-directed clip is inspired by and uses the work of punk rock artist Raymond Pettibon. Pettibon is the brother of Black Flag guitarist and SST Records founder Greg Ginn and is best known for his album covers, handbills and poster art for that band and the label...

Last Saturday's private charity show by Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl had a special unseen guest. It happened to be in the backyard adjacent to Adam Sandler's L.A.-area home, where he was hosting a third birthday party for his daughter Sunny...