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Fall Out Boy , Blink 182, AFI , and Public Enemy are among the diverse acts on the bill for Chicago's Riot Fest 2013, a three-day music festival and carnival in Humboldt Park on September 13-15. Among the 50-plus punk, hard rock, emo, rap and pop acts on the lineup , which are most worth seeing? Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Blondie have been going ... (more)

L.A. rockers Buckcherry will visit West Des Moines' Val Air Ballroom on Saturday, May 25.

South Bucks-based bands and singers will perform in Frogmoor from 12pm. Madness tribute band One Step Behind and stars of hit BBC show The Voice, Matt and Sueleen will headline the nine-hour event, which will also feature music and drama workshops for children and a host of stalls.

After spending many years on the back burner, incentive travel is rising again. "Incentives, in general, are starting to make a comeback," says Jim Rye, founder and president of RYMARK International, an Orlando, FL-based meeting and event solutions company.

Times are tough at the moment and money is short so the prospect of three rock giants Journey, Whitesnake and Thunder on one bill is enough to tempt open even the tightest of wallets.

Sammy Hagar will head out on his own for a short tour late this summer. As you may expect from the choice to call the trek the "Four Decades of Rock" tour, Hagar will be performing songs from all points of his extensive career.

When you hear the band name , 3 Minutes To Live , you wonder , where are they Live at? This heavy and hard hitting band out of Nashville , is using the internet in a way , that radio play and popularity are now the buzz for 3 Minutes To Live .

Deep Purple's new studio project Now What?! features an overt tribute to Jon Lord in the touching, waltz-timed "Above and Beyond." But it's not the only moment that reminds Ian Paice of the band's late founding keyboardist.

MA tley CrA1 4e, including bassist Nikki Sixx, lead singer Vince Neil and guitarist Mick Mars, performs at the New York State Fair grandstand in 2009.

Ozzy Osbourne has remained sober since announcing to fans last month that he had consumed alcohol and taken prescription drugs for an extended period of time.

THE BOTTOMLESS CAULDRON of metal is bubbling over with female-fronted, '70s-worshipping bands these days.

Summer is typically the busiest time of the year for music fans. All the indoor venues are still booking shows, and the outdoor venues are up and running, too.

A school for creative arts aimed at children as young as four is to be set up by staff at SIR PAUL McCARTNEY's education academy.

This is an excerpt from the July 2013 issue of Guitar World magazine. For the rest of this story, plus features on Joe Satriani, Ghost B.C., Mick Jones of Foreigner, Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flats, plus transcriptions of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and Jason Becker's "Perpetual Burn," check out the issue at the Guitar World Online Store.

As double-bills go, packaging together the celestial grooves of Journey and devil's-horn grind of Whitesnake makes a certain amount of sense.

Scantily-clad female dancers; a generous helping of F-bombs, strobe lights and fog; lots of black leather; and a half-naked woman strapped to the back of Tommy Lee while he and his drum set looped around a giant steel circle.

Every so often we get an album that stands the test of time. Hailing from Sydney, Australia, bringing more than their fair share of accolades in just three years of indie service is the Monks of Mellonwah.

Artizan are a band who have released Ancestral Energy. This is very melodic heavy rock which straddles the line between metal and hard rock.

Dancer and the Moon is the upcoming 8th studio album from Blackmore's Night. The album features the revered Ritchie Blackmore on guitars, mandolin, bass, renaissance drums, and tambourine while the elegant Candice Night does all the vocals and plays the penny whistle.

SEVEN black faces stare intently into the lens, their shared gaze unwavering. Each wears a red headband that holds back their blonde, brunette or greying hair.