Billboard reports that the classic '93 - '96 lineup of Guided By Voices is reuniting for Matador Records' 21st birthday party in Las Vegas, NV. According to Billboard sources, additional dates in other cities will be announced soon. moreFall Out Boy's Pete Wentz appears to be rearing his guylinered head once again in the form of a new act called The Black Cards according to ChartAttack here
Bret Michaels is still suffering side effects from his April 21 brain hemorrhage and warning stroke. "While Bret may be out on the road and performing, he is still not 100 percent," Janna Elias, V.P. of Michaels Entertainment said Tuesday. "He still has pain from the chemical meningitis, short term memory loss and gets fatigued quicker than normal." more
A deluxe reissue of Bruce Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge Of Town is on the way this fall. E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt recently revealed in a U.K. radio interview that they are currently doing some work on outtakes and rarities from that era. more
John Mayer returned to a stand-up comedy club in New York last Thursday night - four years after his first outing as a funnyman there fell flat. more
SleazeRoxx reports that when Motley Crue singer Vince Neil was arrested Sunday night on drunken driving charges, he was promoting a memoir in which he claimed to have stopped abusing drugs and alcohol. more
Scorpions' farewell tour has been hit by illness - singer Klaus Meine is suffering a chest cold and has been told he can't perform until Thursday, July 1. The diagnosis has prompted the "Rock You Like a Hurricane" hitmakers to cancel a performance in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, June 30. more
Former KISS guitarist Vincent John Cusano, a.k.a. "Vinnie Vincent," lost his 6th Circuit appeal of an order barring him from seeking bankruptcy protection from paying more than $81,000 to his former band mates, whom he unsuccessfully sued for royalties in 1997. more
U2's Bono and bosses at his private-equity business Elevation Partners have thrown another $120 million into Facebook, according to this report. bringing their total investment in the site to $210 million.
Prince will be giving away his new album "20Ten" with newspapers in Europe. The "Purple Rain" singer, who released his 2007 album "Planet Earth" as a free CD with Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper, has teamed up with a handful of European publications to expand the idea in July - to coincide with planned concerts on the continent. more
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is set to open up about the heated feuds with his bandmates, which prompted him to briefly quit the group last year (09), in a new book. He tells the Associated Press, "I'm doing a book called Does the Noise in My Head Bother You, and I will be speaking about what it's like to be married to four other guys, and what I've had to put up with." more
Motorhead have announced that Michael Monroe will be their special guest on their upcoming 35th Anniversary tour in November this year more
Cheap Trick will be extending the run of Sgt. Pepper Live at the Paris Las Vegas Theater in Las Vegas, NV. more
Tony Bennett is unimpressed with Rod Stewart's efforts at covering pop standards - insisting the former Faces frontman sings like a girl. more
Ozzy Osbourne has reportedly chosen unsigned band The Black Spiders to open for him at the iTunes festival. more
Some people collect stamps, some people collect butterflies – I collect rock stars," photographer Robert Knight muses in Rock Prophecies, a documentary about how he managed, through luck, perseverance and the uncanny ability to discover talent well before the rest of the planet, to be in the right place at the right time – again and again and again. more -
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