1  Neon Trees  “Animals”

2  Crash Kings  “You Got Me”

3  Korn  “Oildale”

4  The Constellations  “Felicia”

5  New Politics  “Yeah Yeah Yeah”

6  Alice In Chains  “Lesson Learned”

7  Rush  “Caravan”

8  Papa Roach  “Kick In The Teeth”

9  Slash ft. Ozzy Osbourne  “Crucify the Dead”

10  Jackyl  “She’s Not A Drug”

Forget those earlier reports with Joe Perry’s doubt about a new Aerosmith album, Rock Radio reports that Steven Tyler’s return to Aerosmith means that fans can expect a new album soon.

Tyler himself feels that playing live “rekindles the fire for song writing” and that new material is “coming down the pike.”

Perry and Tyler have already started the process and the guitarist adds: “The bottom line is we haven’t done our best record yet, and we feel like first of all we owe it to ourselves, and second of all we owe it to our fans.”

1  Vampire Weekend  “Giving up the Gun”

2  Slash ft Fergie  ” Beautiful Dangerous”

3  Rush  “Caravan”

4  12 Stones  “We are One”

5  Against Me!  “Teenage Anarchist”

6  Green Day  “Last of the American Girls”

7  New Politics  “Yeah Yeah Yeah”

8  Cage the Elephant  “In One Ear”

9  Framing Hanley  “You Stupid Girl”

10  Trevor Hall  “Volume”

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne wants to donate his body to science, insisting it’s a “medical miracle” he’s still alive after years of partying hard.

The Black Sabbath star is baffled he has managed to survive to the age of 61 and is convinced doctors and scientists would benefit from dissecting and studying his body after he dies.

He says, “By all accounts, I’m a medical miracle. When I die, I should donate my body to the Natural History Museum. It’s all very well going on a bender for a couple of days but mine went on for 40 years. At one point, I was knocking back four bottles of cognac a day, blacking out, coming to again and carrying on.”

The Dreamer hit-maker has struggled with an addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs, and was hospitalized with severe injuries after he was involved in a quad bike accident in 2003.

However, he admits he has always had concerns about his health: “I happen to be the world’s worst hypochondriac. I will catch a disease off the telly (TV). Being ill is like a hobby. I’ve even started to diagnose my own diseases, thanks to Google.”

1  Devo  “Fresh”

2  New Politics “Yeah Yeah Yeah”

3  Stone Temple Pilots  “Between the Lines”

4  Against Me!   “Teenage Anarchist”

5  LCD Soundsystem  “Drunk Girls”

6  Cage the Elephant “In one Ear”

7  Seasons After  “Cry Little Sister”

8  Flyleaf  “Chasm”

9  Vampire Weekend  “Cousins”

10  Travis McCoy  “Billionaire”

While The Killers take a break from recording new tunes, frontman Brandon Flowers is prepping his first solo album, Flamingo, set for an autumn release.

He recently sat down to talk about the process, and revealed he’s not only doing a duet with one of our faves, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, but also collaborating with producers Stuart Price – who’s worked with Madonna and Kylie Minogue – Daniel Lanois (who’s worked with Bob Dylan and U2) and Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young).

Flowers says:
“It’s a pretty good line-up, I think. Stuart and Daniel have been working together, and I’ve done another three tracks with Brendan on his own. Jenny’s helped me out on a couple of songs, and we also get to duet on the record, on a song called Hard Enough, which turned out great. She’s always popped into my mind whenever I think about getting a female vocalist involved because she’s a fellow child of Las Vegas, too. It’s all very rooted right here in Las Vegas dirt.”
Wow! He has quite the variety of musical aesthetics working at once!
We can only imagine what the final product is going to sound like!
We’ve got a good feeling about this one, folks.

Ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has sounded off on Axl Rose’s allegations that his former manager Irving Azoff, who heads Front Line Management, plotted to “sabotage” the singer’s “new” version of the hard rock band.

Earlier this week, Rose filed a $5 million dollar countersuit against Azoff, claiming the industry honcho was “devising a secret plan to set up Rose and the band for failure so that Rose would have no choice but to reunite with the original Guns N’ Roses’ members,” a move the dreadlocked singer staunchly opposes.

Rose’s suit also fires back at Azoff for allegedly abandoning his manager duties on the eve of a major tour, and for filing a lawsuit in March seeking $1.8 million in commissions from the band’s run of tour dates through Asia, Canada, and South America in support of their 2008 comeback album Chinese Democracy.

But Slash doesn’t buy it. “I don’t know where Axl is coming from”

Slash firmly supports Azoff.

“I know where Irving is coming from — he’s looking for commissions for a tour that he booked,” the top-hat-sporting rocker added. “[It's a] pretty reasonable kind of thing. Axl’s countersuing, so I’m not sure exactly what the merit is that he’s countersuing, exactly.”

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Rose claims that Irving — whose Front Line Management was recently acquired by Ticketmaster — has gained too much power in the music industry, which he uses to punish artists and harm their careers if they don’t follow his orders. Adding to Rose’s anger: Azoff filed his suit against William Bailey, the singer’s real name — something that “carries significant emotional damage from Rose’s childhood.”

What do you think of the lawsuits? Team Axl … or Team Slash and Azoff? Tell us in the comment section below!

Axl Rose has waged war against former Guns N’ Roses manager Irving Azoff, accusing him of attempting to sabotage the rocker’s career after he refused to reunite with the band’s original members.

Azoff, the CEO of management firm Front Line, originally filed suit against Rose in March, claiming the singer reneged on an oral agreement giving him 15 percent of his earnings from a big money concert tour – a deal said to be worth $2 million.

But Rose has fired back at Azoff, accusing the music mogul of failing to properly promote the band’s 2008 album “Chinese Democracy” in an alleged bid to force him to reform the original Guns N’ Roses line-up.

In legal papers filed in a Los Angeles court on Monday, the frontman also takes aim at his one-time manager for allegedly lying about a possible joint tour with fellow rock legends Van Halen and mishandling Guns N’ Roses’ tour dates, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The lawsuit states, “Upon realizing that he couldn’t bully Rose and accomplish his scheme, Azoff resigned and abandoned Guns N’ Roses on the eve of a major tour, filing suit for commissions he didn’t earn and had no right to receive.”

Rose is demanding more than $5 million in damages for breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and breach of contract.

The Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez Lopez and former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante have released a 29-minute proggy and  sonic instrumental album together as part of a charity  for the Keep Music In Schools program.

The  ‘pay what you want’ scheme allows fans to download it for free but are encouraged to pay what they can as all profits are being donated to Keep Music In Schools charity program.

The album titled ‘Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante’ was “recorded many years ago” according to the duo, although most of the tracks have remained unreleased until now.

By giving away music, Frusciante is apparently making good on his “musical lesson” to RZA, while the better known half of the Mars Volta continues to blaze his spaced out path to progressive rock immortality.
Download it here ‘Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante’

Check out Slash’s new video for his single “By The Sword” featuring Wolfmother’s lead singer Andrew Stockdale

After playing the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, OH on May 23, Limp Bizkit will start “Rollin’” on a full U.S. tour in July and August. The Gold Cobra Tour begins in Holmdel, NJ on July 3. Other stops include Cleveland on July 5; Cincinnati on July 7; Charlotte on July 8 and Biloxi on July 10. Snoop Dogg will join the trek starting July 11 in Atlanta, and the two acts will tour together through August 15 in Auburn, WA. Limp Bizkit will then head to Europe for more than 40 headlining shows, according to Pollstar.

The original lineup of Limp Bizkit – Fred Durst, Wes Borland, Sam Rivers, John Otto and DJ Lethal – will unleash a new album, dubbed Gold Cobra, later this year. The band already has leaked a new song called “Why Try,” which is posted for streaming on LimpBizkit.com. Gold Cobra will be the Bizkit’s first new studio album with the original lineup since 2000’s Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, and it is rumored to feature guest appearances by a host of Hip-Hop artists, including Raekwon and Paul Wall.

Meanwhile, Fred Durst recently posted on Twitter, “We will be performing on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show on May 10. We have no idea what we’re gonna play. They want an older song. Hmmmm.”

You can also hear “Why Try” below:

The rumors are true!

Following a cryptic countdown on the Killers’ website that began earlier this week, comes the news that frontman Brandon Flowers is planning to release his debut solo album, entitled Flamingo

Thursday the Las Vegas quartet’s website revealed a “Brandon Flowers” logo and this simple message: “THE NEW SOLO ALBUM — FLAMINGO — COMING SOON.”

In December, Flowers’ publicist told SPIN that Flowers had no intention of going solo, but after finishing their tour behind their most recent album, Day & Age, and dealing with the recent death of his mother, the frontman seems to have changed his tune.

However, the Killers’ aren’t over by any means. Back in January guitarist Dave Keuning admitted the band’s gigs in Australia would likely be their last for a while, but when asked if the hiatus was permanent, Keuning replied, “not as far as I know.”

In response to rumors that the band members were sick of each other, they posted an official statement on their website: “The Killers would also like to take this opportunity to assure their fans that any concerns about the future of the band are unfounded… there are no plans for an indefinite hiatus.”

The Killers also extended their record deal with Universal Publishing, which also covers solo projects, Billboard reports. Killers’ drummer Ronnie Vannucci has also joined supergroup Mt. Desolation alongside members of Keane, Mumford & Sons, and the Long Winters.

Excited for a Flowers solo record?

Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor and his new bride, ex-West Indian Girl singer Mariqueen Maandig, have procreated — in the form of a new musical project called How to Destroy Angels.

Details are sparse on the new project, but an email from NIN’s publicist says the group will release a “self-titled, six-track EP this summer.” How to Destroy Angels also have Twitter, MySpace,Facebook,YouTube, and Vimeo pages, plus a new website, which offers the only other clues about the band: an image of a girl that’s presumably Maandig and a video teaser of a pair of woman’s hands (again, presumably Maandig’s) playing evil industrial sounds on a vintage MS-20 keyboard — a keyboard that she confessed her love for vi Twitter back in February.

Not so coincidentally, on Feb. 1. Reznor Tweeted another little hint: “1st official day of work in the studio,” he wrote, commemorating his return to music after NIN’s final live show in September, without specifying what, exactly, he was working on. Well, now we know.

And the news echoes his statements from December 2009, when he wrote, “2010 has a number of things planned including new material from Nine Inch Nails and something else that isn’t Nine Inch Nails. I am in a state of rediscovery and reinvention that feels unfamiliar, unsure and exactly what I need.”

A movie based on the life of Ozzy Osbourne is to go into production imminently. Sharon Osbourne said of these plans: “There’s about to be a big announcement. It’s been picked up and it’s going into production. We’re going to make a press announcement hopefully within the next two weeks. There’s no cast yet, but we have a producer and we have lots of money and we’re all starting.”

Any ideas who you think should play Ozzy? Leave your suggestions below.

Billy Corgan has launched a Twitter tirade against Courtney Love, who’s now known as Courtney Michelle. She in turn, has for once been very restrained in response.Corgan began it all by announcing: “My face is my face, my heart is my heart, my money is my money. Oh, and my songs are MY songs (alluding to the fact that he allegedly wrote songs for the just-released Hole album Nobody’s Daughter). If you can’t write your own songs maybe you should just be happy that you fooled someone into doing your work for you. Maybe you should go (somewhere) nice [and] live off your husband’s money, (you) know, the money he made for writing all those great songs”.

Not satisfied, he carried on by taking a swipe at the fact that Courtney recently lost custody of her daughter, Frances Bean: “The world is aware of your lack of responsibility, as seen in the (government) taking away your parental rights. Only you could abandon such a beautiful, incredible child who is smarter than (you), cooler than (you), and better than (you). Oops, did I say too much?”

So far, all Courtney has said is: “All I am is nice about you so if you wanna be mean, be mean”.

We wait the next round of insults.