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Two decades after releasing their second album, Ignition, the Offspring are ready to release something very different from what they did back then.

Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” is the first song ever to hit the number one spot on the alternative chart, the Hot 100, and the Dance Club Songs charts.

Is Scott Weiland rejoining Velvet Revolver? Depends who you ask.

Soundgarden’s as-yet-untitled new album may be out pretty soon. Seriously.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and 70-year-old singer/musician Lou Reed almost came to blows during recording sessions for the poorly received Lulu album.

There may be A new album on the way from Mad Season, the Seattle supergroup that consisted of Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, blues bassist John Baker, and Alice in Chains vocalist Layne Staley.

If you watched the broadcast of the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, you might have noticed the absence of Dave Navarro, who was the guitarist with the Chili Peppers for five years and played on 1995′s One Hot Minute, and Jack Sherman, who replaced founding Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak between ’83 and ’85 and is featured on their self-titled debut album.

Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch died from cancer on May 4th, 2012, and even someone who’d never heard of the band would know just how loved MCA was based on the outpouring of appreciation that has been coming from fans.

Matt Sorum, who drummed for the band from 1990 to 1997, says that he’s had talks with “a couple of really big people” about writing a screenplay for a film that will tell the GN’R story.

Linkin Park’s forthcoming album will have some sounds that might remind listeners of Hybrid Theory or Meteora, but that doesn’t mean that the band has taken a step backwards.