Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony says he's looking forward to hearing his old bandmates new album. The rockers will release their new album A Different Kind of Truth on February 7 and it includes songs that Anthony helped write dating as far back as the 1970's. While speaking with Planet Rock, Anthony said he has no intention of trying to score a writing credit on the album: "I don't want to do anything. I just let it be," Anthony said.

Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony says he's looking forward to hearing his old bandmates new album. The rockers will release their new album A Different Kind of Truth on February 7 and it includes songs that Anthony helped write dating as far back as the 1970's.

While speaking with Planet Rock, Anthony said he has no intention of trying to score a writing credit on the album:

"I don't want to do anything. I just let it be," Anthony said. "And, hey, it'll be nice to hear some of those old songs again that I haven't played in a long time."

Newly returned vocalist David Lee Roth also recently spoke on the band's use of old demos telling the Los Angeles Times:

"It's material that Eddie and I generated, literally, in 1975, 1976 and 1977. Usually fellas in our weight division will kind of gamely - or ironically, wink, wink - try to hail back to it [but] keep a safe, mature distance from it."

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Jack White has dropped the single "Love Interruption" and announced his first solo album. The single is available for digital sale on iTunes and will be released in a special vinyl edition (with the B-side "Machine Gun Silhouette") on February 7. White also revealed that his first solo album, Blunderbuss, will be released on April 23. "I've put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name," said White.

Jack White has dropped the single "Love Interruption" and announced his first solo album.

The single is available for digital sale on iTunes and will be released in a special vinyl edition (with the B-side "Machine Gun Silhouette") on February 7.

White also revealed that his first solo album, Blunderbuss, will be released on April 23. Making his announcement nearly a year after revealing the breakup of his band The White Stripes, White said of the album: "I've put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas."

He added that he "couldn't have released [this album] until now."

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Rockers Shinedown will headline a series of dates as part of the second annual Avalanche tour, and will be bringing a whole slew of up-and-comers along for the ride. Adelita's Way, New Medicine and Art of Dying will accompany the headliners on the tour starting in late March on the West Coast. The trek will take all of the groups to the Atlantic Ocean in time for an April 25 gig in Baltimore, Maryland.

Rockers Shinedown will headline a series of dates as part of the second annual Avalanche tour, and will be bringing a whole slew of up-and-comers along for the ride.

Adelita's Way, New Medicine and Art of Dying will accompany the headliners on the tour starting in late March on the West Coast. The trek will take all of the groups to the Atlantic Ocean in time for an April 25 gig in Baltimore, Maryland.

The tour is being presented by Zippo, produced by Synergy Global Entertainment and will commemorate the release of Shinedown's upcoming offering Amaryllis. That disc is expected to drop on March 27.

Tickets for the North American dates will be made available on www.AvalancheTour.com.

The 2012 Avalanche Tour:

MARCH 27 // Anaheim, CA -- The Grove

28 // San Francisco, CA -- The Regency Ballroom

30 // Reno, NV -- Grand Sierra Theatre

31 // Boise, ID -- Knitting Factory

APRIL

2 // Denver, CO -- Ogden Theatre

5 // Houston, TX -- House of Blues

6 // Dallas, TX -- House of Blues

7 // Corpus Christi, TX -- Concrete Street Amphitheatre

9 // Springfield, MO -- Shrine Mosque

10 // Indianapolis, IN -- Egyptian Room

12 // Detroit, MI -- The Fillmore

13 // Milwaukee, WI -- The Rave

14 // Grand Rapids, MI -- Orbit Room

16 // Niagara Falls, NY -- Rapids Theater

17 // Pittsburgh, PA -- Stage AE

18 // Providence, RI -- Lupo's

20 // New York, NY -- Best Buy Theater

21 // Atlantic City, NJ -- House of Blues

22 // Scranton, PA -- Cultural Center

24 // Richmond, VA -- The National

25 // Baltimore, MD -- Ram's Head

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Anthrax's Scott Ian was hospitalized and forced to temporarily step aside from the band's tour at the same time drummer Charlie Benante left the tour. Ian contracted a viral infection on January 25 and was hospitalized near his Los Angeles home, where doctors ran a battery of tests, rehydrated him, and ordered him not to fly for at least 24 hours. Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano explained: "We didn't want to cancel any of the concerts."

Anthrax's Scott Ian was hospitalized and forced to temporarily step aside from the band's tour at the same time drummer Charlie Benante left the tour.

Ian contracted a viral infection on January 25 and was hospitalized near his Los Angeles home, where doctors ran a battery of tests, rehydrated him, and ordered him not to fly for at least 24 hours.

Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano explained: "We didn't want to cancel any of the concerts, we didn't want to let anyone down, so we decided to figure out a way to keep the show on the road."

During his absence for the band's Kansas City and Indianapolis shows, he was replaced by guitarists from Testament and Death Angel, and he returned to the tour last Saturday in Fort Wayne.

Ian's departure coincided with Benante leaving the tour to be near his terminally-ill mother in New York.

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Legendary frontman Axl Rose will take the current incarnation of Guns N' Roses back on the road, bringing the boys to a half-dozen tour stops in the U.S. this month. The Gunners will start off the trek with three nights in New York City, playing smaller-sized venues in Manhattan before heading west for a gig in Chicago. Next the band will play Silver Spring, Maryland outside of D.C. and wrap things up at Atlantic City, N.J.'s House of Blues.

Legendary frontman Axl Rose will take the current incarnation of Guns N' Roses back on the road, bringing the boys to a half-dozen tour stops in the U.S. this month.

The Gunners will start off the trek with three nights in New York City, playing smaller-sized venues in Manhattan before heading west for a gig in Chicago. Next the band will play Silver Spring, Maryland outside of D.C. and wrap things up at Atlantic City, N.J.'s House of Blues.

After the jaunt, the group will embark on a small tour of Europe, but not before an April induction ceremony in Cleveland. It's there that Axl and the gang will formally by entered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Guns N' Roses 2012 U.S. tour dates:

2/10 Roseland Ballroom, New York

2/12 Terminal 5, New York

2/15 The Ritz (Webster Hall), New York

2/19 House of Blues, Chicago

2/23 The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD

2/24 House of Blues, Atlantic City, NJ

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