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Ratt's Stephen Pearcy will be making a special in-store appearance in support of his band new Top Fuel Verde Sauce.

Stephen just released the sauce through High River Sauces in collaboration with Chris Santos from the Chef of the Food Network's highest rated Show "Chopped".

To celebrate the release of the Top Fuel Verde Sauce Stephen will be doing a tasting and signing at Hot Licks Hot Sauce Store in San Diego, CA on May 26th at 2 PM PST. more on this story

Tool, Dave Matthews Band and Puscifer lead the lineup for the River's Edge Music Festival which will take place at Harriet Island, Saint Paul, Mn on June 23rd and 24th. Here is the lineup:

Saturday, June 23: Tool • Sublime With Rome • Brand New • Motion City Soundtrack • Coheed And Cambria • Datsik • Scissor Sisters • Blaqstarr • Kinky • Whigs • Gardens & Villa • An Horse • Quietdrive • Yawn • The Rope .

Sunday, June 24: Dave Matthews Band • The Flaming Lips • Puscifer • Polica • Awolnation • Diplo • Mutemath • Delta Spirit • K. Flay • Am & Shawn Lee • Mexican Institute Of Sound • Civil Twilight • Hey Rosetta! • Kids These Days • Yuna. 

 On this day in 2010, Ronnie James Dio died from stomach cancer. The 67-year-old metal singer had fronted many bands, including Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio. Gibson looks back: Among the very last songs Ronnie James Dio ever recorded was "Metal Will Never Die," an ode to the fist-pumping power and glory that Dio, himself, personified. It's been just one short year since his untimely death, on this day in 2010, and those words echo as loudly today, if not louder, than when the diminutive metal god with the golden voice first delivered them. Dio's death, though not surprising to the legion of metal fans who knew he had been ill for quite some time, galvanized the heavy metal community in an unprecedented way.

Born Ronald James Padavona in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1942, Dio's ascension from trumpet and French horn player, which were his first musical instruments, to heavy metal god is the story of perseverance, passion for rock 'n' roll and undeniable talent.

Dio's musical career began in 1957 with a band called The Vegas Kings, which later changed to Ronnie and the Rumblers, then Ronnie and the Redcaps, then in 1961, Ronnie Dio and the Prophets. In 1967, Dio and Prophets guitarist Nick Pantas formed the Electric Elves, which shortened its name two years later to Elf. The band's success eventually landed them an opening slot for Deep Purple, which exposed Dio's remarkable voice to Deep Purple's guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, who later recruited Dio and other members of Elf for his new band Rainbow.

After three studio albums and a live album, Dio left Rainbow, and in 1979 he replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath. Dio's first album with Sabbath, the platinum-selling Heaven and Hell, was the shot in the arm Sabbath's flagging career needed. Next up was the album Mob Rules, followed by the live disc Live Evil. Disagreements during the mixing of Live Evil prompted Dio to leave the band and strike out on his own.

In 1982, Dio and former Black Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice formed Dio. They recruited 19-year old Irish sensation Vivian Campbell on guitar, as well as bassist Jimmy Bain. Dio's debut album, Holy Diver, remains of metal's landmark albums. Over the years and through numerous personnel changes – Dio would remain the only constant member of the band – the band released 10 albums. more on this story

Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires (Birmingham, Ala., rock group)     "There Is a Bomb in Gilead"  
Chappo (Brooklyn indie-rock band)     "Moonwater" (the track "Come Home" was featured in an iPod Touch commercial)
Cherri Bomb (Los Angeles rock quartet)     "This Is The End of Control" 
Cornershop     "Urban Turban"  
The Cribs,     "In the Belly of the Brazen Bull" 
Bill Evans ("Banjo for Dummies" author)     "In Good Company" (guests: Infamous Stringdusters, Tim O'Brien, Joy Kills Sorrow, David Grier, Stuart Duncan, Rob Ickes, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Laurie Lewis)
Florida Georgia Line (country duo)     "It'z Just What We Do" (five-song EP)
Killer Mike     "R.A.P. Music" (guests: Bun B, T.I., Trouble, Scar, El-P, Emily Panic)
Adam Lambert     "Trespassing" (collaborators: Pharrell Williams, Dr. Luke, Claude Kelly, Benny Blanco, Bonnie McKee, Nile Rodgers, Sam Sparro, Bruno Mars, Nikka Costa, BC Jean)
Meiko     "The Bright Side" 
Willie Nelson     "Heroes" (new songs and re-imagined classics; guests: Merle Haggard, Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Joe Shaver, Sheryl Crow, Jamey Johnson, Lukas Nelson & Micah Nelson)
NRBQ     "We Travel the Spaceways" 
PHILM (Los Angeles power trio: Slayer's Dave Lombardo, War's Pancho Tomaselli and Gerry Nestler of Civil Defiance)     "Harmonic"  
Lisa Marie Presley     "Storm & Grace" (producer: T Bone Burnett)
Rye Rye (19-year-old rapper, protégé of M.I.A.)     "Go! Pop! Bang!" 
Santana     "Shape Shifter" (instrumental album; only one song features vocals from Santana's lead vocalists, Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay)
Ryan Shaw     "Real Love" (includes a cover of The Beatles' "Yesterday"; guests: Al Kooper, Robert Randolph, the Soul Survivors)
Tenacious D     "Rize of the Fenix" (their first album since 2006)
Various artists     "Glee: The Music, Season Three — The Graduation Album" 
Various artists     "Occupy This Album" (featuring Crosby & Nash, Devo, Jackson Browne, Tom Morello, Debbie Harry)
Various artists     "What to Expect When You're Expecting" (soundtrack to the ensemble-cast romantic comedy, which opens May 18)
Reggie Watts (musician-comedian)     "A Live at Central Park [CD/DVD]" 


ALSO:

Aerosmith     "ICON" (best-of)      
Erasure     "Essential" (16 songs)      
Godsmack     "Live & Inspired" (two CDs, recorded in 2010 at Detroit's Fox Theatre)
Tom Jones     "The Decca Years" (15 tracks)      
Pantera     "Vulgar Display of Power (Deluxe Edition) [CD/DVD]" (1992 album; with an unreleased video of the band's Monsters of Rock show in Reggio Emilia, Italy, on Sept. 12, 1992)
Bonnie Pointer     "If the Price Is Right: Expanded Edition" (1984 album; remastered, with nine bonus tracks)      
Traffic     "Traffic [180 Gram Vinyl]" (1968 album; remastered)      
The Tubes,     "Outside Inside" (1983 album; remastered, with three bonus tracks)
Ian Whitcomb     "Songs Without Words" (two-CD anthology of his ragtime-influenced instrumental compositions)
Hank Williams Jr.     "ICON" (best-of)  

MUSIC on DVD:

Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band     "One of My Kind [DVD] 
Diana Ross     "Diana Ross: Live in Central Park [DVD]" (1983 concert)
Various artists     "No Room For Rockstars: The Vans Warped Tour [DVD/CD]" (documentary shot during the 2010 tou

Black Sabbath dropped details for a repackaged best-of compilation. "Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath" drops June 5th.

The set features an identical tracklisting to 2009's "Greatest Hits".

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Slash is giving fans a behind the scenes look at his recent video shoot for "You're A Lie," the lead single from his May 22 release, "Apocalyptic Love."

The clip was filmed in early April at Lot 28 at Universal Studios in California with director Anthony Leonardi III.

"We're actually on the original soundstage that Phantom Of The Opera was filmed on," says Slash.

The full video is due for release next week. Check out the behind the scenes clip here.

Some people aren't thrilled by the new cover of Time magazine, which shows a woman breast-feeding her 3-year-old son.

The 26-year-old mom from Los Angeles still breast-feeds her 3-year-old boy and her 5-year-old adopted son.  The woman's mom breastfed her until she was six.

Actress Alyssa Milano thinks the cover "is exploitive and extreme."

Time's managing editor says there is a chance that stores cover up the magazine or don't carry it all together. 

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 ZZ Top has partnered up with Jeremiah Weed to bring fans a glimpse of the band's first new single in nine years.

The Texas band is seen playing "I Got To Get Paid" in the new campaign for the Connecticut-based Jeremiah Weed Distilling Company.

The commercial has the look, sound and feel of a vintage 1980s ZZ Top video, complete with flashing lights and plenty of girls dancing around. Check it out here.

From the company who brought you Bacon Soda comes Buffalo Wing Soda.
 
The company (Lester's Fixins)  also offers a "Sweet Corn" flavored soda, Pumpkin Pie soda, coffee sodas, and even a PB&J-flavored soda:

You can order it online.

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Wolfgang Van Halen may be only 21, but he calls a lot of the shots in his dad’s band.

A rare interview with the bassist reveals how he’s responsible for a wide range of decisions including rehearsal sessions and live set lists.

Wolfgang started working with father Eddie in 2005, a year before he became the official replacement for original Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony.

Despite the furore from fans after the band attempted to wipe Anthony from their history – even featuring Wolfgang in a video game playing tracks recorded before he was born – guitar icon Eddie has stated they wouldn’t be together today if it wasn’t for his son.

In a light-hearted interview Wolfgang tells Esquire: “I guess it really didn’t hit me until the first night of the tour in 2007. It just felt so normal because we had already been rehearsing for two years.

“We started four months before I was 16. But we rehearsed for, like, a year and a half, two years – it takes a really long time to get shit done. We’ve pretty much been rehearsing every single day, excluding Sundays.”

Eddie adds: “Sometimes we go, ‘You wanna play or not?’”

His son counters: “Dad always goes, ‘Do I have to?’ And I say, ‘Yes.’”

Wolfgang is determined to keep the entire live experience as interesting as possible for his bandmates. He says: “We’ve been doing this new thing to mix it up: every single show we’ve played has been different.

“I kind of come up with the set lists. When we’ve got a song that we haven’t done, it’s like, we should probably run through this before the show and figure out the count of it. Because Dad, for some reason, counts in odds. He’ll land on three instead of four. I have to look at him sometimes.

“He still, to this day, does not know the lyrics to Beautiful Girls – he has it written down on his pedal board. On the last tour I used to have to mouth lyrics.”

And the young bassist is hopeful the band won’t wait too long to record a follow-up to A Different Kind of Truth. “We have a lot of ideas that we wrote that never made it,” he says. “And there’s so much material Dad wrote a long time ago that has never seen the light of day.”