Meat Loaf has announced a new UK tour to take place this winter.

Called the Hang Cool Tour, the dates will kick off in Cardiff at the end of November.

Meat Loaf plays:

Cardiff CIA (November 29)

Bournemouth BIC (December 

Former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant has said that he feels disconnected from heavy rock after a Them Crooked Vultures show.

Speaking to The Independent, Plant said his ears 'bled for two days' after watching his former bandmate John Paul Jones' new band Them Crooked Vultures at the Royal Albert Hall.

' feel so far away from heavy rock now,' he explained. 't's quite odd, how mine and John's paths seem to have crossed over ' we've sort of gone into each others' worlds a bit."

Chickenfoot is four songs and "seven pieces of new music" into its second album, according to frontman Sammy Hagar. But he acknowledges there's some concern about keeping that not-so-old gang of theirs together.

The challenge is drummer Chad Smith and his regular gig with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who are currently writing for the follow-up to 2006's "Stadium Arcadium." "Once they start recording, Chad's never going to be able to get a break," Hagar tells Billboard.com. "If he does, he'll get a couple weeks here, a couple days there, which is not really enough to devote to Chickenfoot. And when they're done with [the album] they're gonna go on the road for a year and a half. So we either have to get a new drummer or wait for Chad...which is unfair to Chickenfoot. It's too good a band."

Jack 'Son Of Ozzy' Osbourne is directing the music video to his father's song 'Life Won't Wait'.

The clip, according to Jack, is 'very reflective. It features a lot of flashbacks, which are dad's, and they take you from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the present day.'

According to Ozzy, the song is a 'simple song' that is saying 'whatever you've gotta do, get it done, because when you look at the big picture, life is over in no time at all.'

On Wednesday night, the eve of U2's first ever show in the Russian capitol of Moscow, Russian police detained activists from Amnesty International who were gathering signatures and handing out leaflets.

Amnesty weren't the only organisation kicked out of the venue, U2's own charity, the ONE campaign which raises awareness on AIDS were also shut down.

't is sad that in Russia - which is considered a civilised country - the collection of petition signatures so worries the authorities,' head of Amnesty International's Moscow office Sergei Nikitin said to AFP. 'You get the impression that the authorities are afraid of their own citizens.'

' don't know if Bono knows about what happened to us,' he said, noting that Bono was one of the organisations chief campaigners.

Earlier this month Don Henley settled his lawsuit against U.S. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore, a California Republican, for the politician's unauthorized use of "The Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" in YouTube campaign videos. DeVore apologized, paid an undisclosed sum and said in a statement: "The court’s ruling in this case...

Bob Dylan is set to release "The Witmark Demos," the ninth volume of his "Bootleg Series," Oct. 19 on Columbia Records. Recorded between 1962 and 1964, the 47-track collection includes early takes on classic songs "Blowin' in the Wind," "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'."

Fifteen songs were recorded exclusively for "The Bootleg Series Volume 9 - The Witmark Demos," including "Guess I'm Doing Fine," "Long Ago, Far Away" and "Ballad For a Friend." The collection, Dylan's first entry in the "Bootleg Series" since 2008, will also feature a deluxe booklet with rare photographs as well as liner notes courtesy of musical historian Colin Escott.

Along with "Witmark," Columbia/Legacy will release "Bob Dylan - The Original Mono Recordings," a box set of Dylan's first eight albums reproduced from their first-generation mono mixes, on Oct. 19. The set newly reproduces Dylan's albums, from his 1962 self-titled debut to 1967's "John Wesley Harding," from their first-generation mono mixes.

Russia's rock-music-loving president hosted U2 frontman Bono at his resplendent residence near the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday, and praised him for writing music "that unites generations."

Dmitry Medvedev, a well-known fan of the classic rock acts Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, complimented the 50-year-old singer, six years his senior, for highlighting problems in Africa, such as poverty and the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Kings Of Leon closed the V Festival in Stafford tonight (August 22), with frontman Caleb Followill declaring the headline slot one of his "favourite shows ever".

The band drew the biggest crowd of the weekend to the Main Stage as they brought the two-day bash to a close, showcasing three new songs – 'Mary', 'Radioactive' and 'Southbound' – from their forthcoming debut 'Come Around Sundown'.

They also mixed up the set from their Chelmsford show last night (August 21) throwing in 'Charmer' and 'Slow Night So Long' alongside crowd favourites 'On Call', 'The Bucket' and 'Notion'.

One of Phil Spector's sons has praised a documentary that depicts the convicted homicidal music producer as a sociopath and a narcissist.

The film, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector," is based on a three and a half hour interview conducted for the BBC before the music icon's first trial for murdering a struggling actress at his mansion in 2003.

A witty Spector regales director Vikram Jayanti with the stories behind his biggest productions, such as the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" and Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep Mountain High."

Complete versions of 21 songs that Spector produced are often played over courtroom footage, sometimes with chilling effect such as when John Lennon's "Woman is the Nigger of the World" accompanies testimony relating to his victim, Lana Clarkson.