Linkin Park offers 100's of songs for download (click for more) Over 100 professional recordings of LP Archives: Official Tour Bootlegs are now available for download exclusively for members of LP Underground, Linkin Park's official fan club.  CLICK HERE for more info. - linkinpark.com The Foo Fighters Return to the Studio (click for more) With a workload as heavy as his music, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Them Crooked Vultures drummer/Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was ready to take a break. Speaking to BBC 6 Music, Grohl confirmed that time has been set aside at the end of the summer for Foo Fighters to enter the studio and start work on their seventh album, their first since 2007's 'Echoes, Silence And Grace.' - spinner.com Everything you wanted to know about Gorillaz (click for more) Metacritic did a great overview of the Gorillaz new album, Plastic Beach!  If you wondering about who's on the album, what the animated band has been up to, or where to hear more music you might like, check it out! My Chemical Romance durmmer leaves band (click for more) My Chemical Romance has officially parted ways with drummer, Bob Bryar. The New Jersey band’s fourth album was scheduled for a Spring release, but with the remaining members now headed back into the studio, the album will more likely come out in Fall 2010. - thesilvertongueonline.com Surprise: Billy Corgan thinks he's the best, ever (click for more) "Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do." --Billy Corgan VIA spinner.com Gorillaz Refused Katy Perry Collaboration (click for more) Gorillaz refused to work with Katy Perry because she is dating Russell Brand. The animated group - created by Blur star Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett - were apparently approached by the 'I Kissed A Girl' singer who asked to collaborate with them on a song for their new album 'Plastic Beach'. But they turned her down because of her engagement to the British funnyman. Bassist Murdoc Niccals said: "Katy Perry - she's been after a guest spot for ages and I tried to turn her down. "No, I couldn't work with the woman while she's got Russell Brand all over her." - contactmusic.com MTV doesn't care about Generation X (click for more) Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks, speaking during a keynote interview at the Billboard Music & Money Symposium, said MTV integrates music in different ways via big events and by using music within shows. It also spends more than $100 million in music each year in the form of promotions and the like. He was recently quoted as saying the channel was pushing out members of Generation X. Asked jokingly by his Billboard interviewer why he hates that audience, Toffler quipped: "Because you're cynical." - yahoo.com Jack Johnson Goes "Under The Sea" (click for more) Speaking to MTV News, Johnson says the title of the album is "a reference to a father leading his son to the sea, with the water representing the subconscious. So it's about trying to go beneath the surface and understand yourself. I have three kids ... so the album is about that. It's both me as a son of my own father and me looking down at my kids. I'm 34, right at this transition of still feeling like a child sometimes, but other times feeling like a father, and finding the father in myself. It's all about those things." - fmqb.com OK Go releases crazy new video (click for video) Following OK Go's management's decision to stop allowing embedding of YouTube videos, and OK Go's open letter complaining about the situation, the band just released a new video (fully embeddable) and AMAZING.  Check it out! Stone Temple Pilots announce tour dates (click for more) Stone Temple Pilots have announced a string of new U.S. tour dates starting with a March 18th performance at the Austin Music Hall for SXSW. The group will launch a full scale North American tour in support of their new self-titled album this summer. The album drops on May 25th. CLICK HERE FOR THE DATES - tunelab.com Evanescence going techno? (click for more) Speaking to Rolling Stone, Amy Lee said the new material is inspired by electronic-based bands like Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Portishead and MGMT. "There’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t sound like Evanescence, but the heart of the band is still there. This is a really, really, rhythmically driven record. So there’s tons of drum-programming fused with live drums; drums we’re renting a day at a time, like Japanese taiko drums," Lee said. - fmqb.com Foo Fighters drummer readies new album (click for more) Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has announced the release date for Red Light Fever, the second release from his side project, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders. The new album boasts an impressive guest list, including Elliot Easton of the Cars, Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen and Dave Grohl. According to Hawkins, it will be a true representation of his musical roots. - rttnews.com Brian Eno's working on new Coldplay album (click for more) Brian Eno has confirmed that he is working with Coldplay again as they gear up to start recording their fifth album. Earlier this month frontman Chris Martin said he wanted to get the band's next album out by Christmas, and Eno has confirmed he will be involved again. The former Roxy Music man produced the band's last album, 2008's 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends', and told BBC 6 Music that he would again force the band's frontman to work separately from his bandmates as he did on that record. - nme.com U2 'highest US music earners in 2009' (click for more) U2 have earned the most money in the US for a music act in 2009, according to a report. According to Billboard, the 'Beautiful Day' band made $109m (£71m) from touring, record sales and other royalties - nearly twice more than the next biggest earner. - digitalspy.co.uk Ex-Alice in Chains bassist talks Cobain (click for more) Ex-Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr later claims Kurt Cobain and Staley helped introduce him to heroin. Saying he was only 20 when Alice in Chains formed, Starr admits he was a casual drug user then, but Staley traveled on his own bus “because he was using heroin.” “The day they kicked me out … Cobain shoot me up, because we were playing with Nirvana and the Chili Peppers. Layne shot me up first, couple of times, then Kurt shot me up, and then Layne shot me up the same night I died for 11 minutes.” - rollingstone.com Pearl Jam Set for 'Saturday Night Live' (click for more) Pearl Jam have announced they will rock 'Saturday Night Live' on March 13, performing songs from its latest album, 'Backspacer.' While a host has yet to be announced -- Betty White, perhaps? -- the appearance will mark the first time the band has been musical guests of 'SNL' since it appeared alongside Lindsay Lohan back in 2006. - spinner.com Kurt Cobain: What He'd Look Like Today (click for more) Kurt Cobain would have been 43 years old this weekend and an even harder concept to imagine, is what he’d look like today, as a man on the cusp of his mid-40’s. Well, thanks to the internet…we imagine no longer. CLICK HERE for pics... 94wysp.com Liam Gallagher hurls award at crowd (click for more) Liam Gallagher outraged the BRIT Awards overnight, throwing his trophy in the crowd and snubbing his brother. Liam appeared onstage briefly to collect the trophy, and thanked the band's line up - apart from his brother Noel, the band's main songwriter and second vocalist. Referring to one of the group's hits, Liam said: "I'd like to thank Bonehead, Guigsy, Alan White.... the best bands in the f**king world live forever." He then threw his microphone and the award into the audience and walked offstage. - 3news.co.nz Stefani Talks No Doubt's Studio Progress (click for more) Speaking on No Doubt's current status, Stefani noted that while her bandmates had worked on some material while she was on her solo tours, now "things are kind of starting over, you know what I mean? We might revisit some of that stuff, but it’s the same old chase. It doesn’t matter how we get there — we want to get there, we will, and we’re having fun doing it." - fmqb.com Watch The White Stripes perform live (click for video) The White Stripes have made live footage from thei 10th anniversary show available to watch on NME.COM right now. The clip shows the duo run through 'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground' at the performance in Nova Scotia in 2007. It forms part of their forthcoming live DVD 'The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights', which is released on March 16.  CLICK FOR VIDEO Franz Ferdinand begin writing 'different' 4th album (click for more) Franz Ferdinand have started writing new material for their fourth album, frontman Alex Kapranos has confirmed. The Scottish singer/guitarist told BBC 6music that he and guitarist Nick McCarthy had been working on new songs at McCarthy's house for the follow-up to last year's 'Tonight... Franz Ferdinand' effort. "I've been round at Nick's and we've been writing some things, and trying to do things in a different way again," he explained. "You'll hear it before too long." - nme.com Sublime Settles Litigation, Changes Name (click for more) The remaining members of Sublime have reached an agreement with the estate of late frontman Bradley Nowell and will tour under the new name Sublime with Rome. Administrators of Nowell's estate filed an injunction against former Sublime members Eric Wilson and Floyd "Bud" Gaugh when they tried to reform for a show last November, claiming that the show violated ownership rights of the Sublime name. - rttnews.com New Strokes LP 'due out in September' (click for more) The Strokes have revealed that they are hoping to release their much-anticipated fourth album in September. The group confirmed that they are currently working on the follow-up to 2006's First Impressions Of Earth in New York. "We've been recording a bunch - basic tracks are done. Now we're just running around like kids in a candy shop," drummer Fab Moretti told Radio 1. "Coming back in and writing music was kind of like riding a bicycle." - digitalspy.com Did the Air Force steal a White Stripes song? (click for video) The White Stripes say the Air Force Reserve used one of their songs without permission in a Super Bowl ad, and that they are insulted their song was used to encourage recruitment during a war they don't support. The two-member band, which is originally from Detroit, said the ad made unauthorized use of their song "Fell in Love With a Girl." "The White Stripes support this nation's military. ... We simply don't want to be a cog in the wheel of the current conflict," the band said in a statement posted to its Web site. - huffingtonpost.com MGMT Reveal 'Congratulations' Tracklisting (click for more) A countdown to the release of the new MGMT album, Congratulations, has begun on the band’s official website. The album was recorded over the summer of 2009 with Sonic Boom (also known by his real name, Pete Kember) from Spacemen 3 in the producer’s chair, and will allegedly bear no singles prior to its release. CLICK HERE fot the listing. - prefixmag.com Fall Out Boy fall apart (click for more) Through a series of Twitter postings and various interviews, it appears that Fall Out Boy have made their self-imposed hiatus more permanent. On Monday night, bassist/songwriter Pete Wentz told fans via Twitter that, "A hiatus is forever until you get lonely or old. I don't plan on either." Later, he wrote, "I can't imagine playing in FOB again. Something would have to change in my head or my heart... not my wallet." - fmqb.com Them Crooked Vultures to release 2nd album (click for more) Fans of the Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age had better start cultivating some patience. Dave Grohl and Josh Homme are having such a good time with supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, it doesn’t seem they’ll be stepping back in front of their old gigs any time soon. Jones says he’s enjoying the chemistry and a shared work ethic with the seasoned Grohl and Homme. “We’ll do a second album this year,” he confirmed. “By the end of summer, something like that.” Shirley Manson hints at new Garbage album (click for more) Shirley Manson has hinted that her band Garbage are to release new material soon, with the singer implying that the band have been in the studio together recently. Manson dropped the hint in a message to fans posted on her Facebook page after the Grammy awards. "Guess who I just spent a week in the studio with?" Manson wrote, before adding, "Would you be pleased if I said one of them was called Steve and one of them was called Duke and another was a Grammy-winning producer?" Cobain's daughter to sing with Weird Al & My Chem (click for more) Frances Bean Cobain sings as part of a "gang" on Dresden Dolls side-projectKurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean is to make her singing debut on a track also featuring My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way, Andrew WK, and Weird Al Yankovic. Seventeen-year-old Cobain sings on "My Space," which will appear on the eponymous debut album by Evelyn Evelyn, who are made up of Dresden Dolls frontwoman Amanda Palmer and Seattle musician Jason Webley.  - music.yahoo.com Jared Leto faces bomb threat (click for more) Jared Leto and his band just came face to face with an explosive threat -- a man who panicked a crowd with a mysterious box. Fans at a West Hollywood appearance by Jared's band, 30 Seconds to Mars, tell TMZ the man rushed the door of the building with a package in his hands. Witnesses say the man called out Jared by name, and then said something about having explosives. We're told a member of the band and security tackled the man until police came and arrested him. - tmz.com