Karen Bliss

“On the way to our first day on Carnival of Madness yesterday!!! Are you ready to rock??!!!!!!” reads the cutline under a photo (seen below) screamed in all CAPS on Papa Roach’s Facebook page.

Motley Crue’s second Las Vegas residency at the Hard Rock Hotel venue the Joint will be a little different than last time out with “a lot of cool stuff,” frontman Vince Neil said in an interview with Vegas.com.

Korn has just released a head-spinning new lyric video for 'Never Never,' the first single off their forthcoming album, ‘The Paradigm Shift.’ The disc features the return of original member Brian “Head” Welch who left in 2005 when he got sober and found Christianity.

Canadian rock band Billy Talent are celebrating a couple of milestones in Canada. The childhood friends, who normally headline arenas in Canada, are performing a handful of smaller shows to celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band and 10th anniversary of the release of their multi-platinum debut album, ‘Billy Talent.’

Nikki Sixx is continuing to offer his used basses for sale after every scheduled Motley Crue show. He started doing this earlier his year on Canadian and U.S. tour and will now do it for the Las Vegas residency in September. The “buy now” price is $4995.

Chris Cornell is mellowing out for the last part of 2013 after his killer shows with Soundgarden. The singer has announced an extensive North American acoustic tour this fall, dubbed the Second Songbook Tour. His first Songbook Tour was in 2011.

30 Second to Mars never fail to impress with what they can do within the confines of a music video. Remember the epic ‘This is War,’ now clocking in at 30 million views? The California rockers did something so simple for the video for their new song ‘Do or Die,’ out Sept. 9, from their current album ‘Love Lust Faith + Dreams,’ but it turned out be impactful, touching and uniting.

Kentucky rock act Cage the Elephant will title their next album ‘Melophobia,’ named after the fear of music.  A snippet of the first single, ‘Come a Little Closer,’ can be heard on their YouTube channel. The full version will premiere Aug. 8 and be for sale digitally Aug. 13.

Nine Inch Nails headlined the opening night of Lollapalooza in Chicago Friday (Aug. 2), a month and a day before the industrial rock band releases its new album, ‘Hesitation Marks,’ on Columbia Records. Trent Reznor’s ever-evolving NIN lineup opened the 100-minute concert (seen above) with the new track, ‘Copy of A,’ and hit fans with another new one, ‘Came Back Haunted,’ for the third song as wel

Students from Brennan Rock & Roll Academy in Sioux Falls, S.D. received a visit over the weekend from some true rock ‘n’ roll teachers, the members of KISS. The school was established to give children from the Boys & Girls Club music education that focuses on rock ‘n’ roll instruments.