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Nine Inch Nails will return to the stage in 2013, with shows booked for this summer and a full-scale U.S. arena tour planned for this fall, NIN mastermind Trent Reznor has announced. The veteran industrial act is "reinventing itself from scratch," according to a statement from Reznor, with a lineup that includes Jane's Addiction's Eric Avery, King Crimson's Adrian Belew and Telefon Tel Aviv's, plus previous NIN collaborators Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin.

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Metallica started 2013 in a big way by revealing that they would be staging their second annual Orion Music + More Festival in Detroit on June 8 and 9. Now, the band has unveiled the bands that will join them at the two-day extravaganza. Among the acts sharing the stage with Metallica will be Red Hot Chili Peppers, Deftones, Rise Against and more.

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After taking a little break Friday night, we are back with another great CockFight! Tonight, we have the Charm City Devils going for win number 4 against Art of Dying! Who wins it is all up to you...check out both tunes and get your votes in after the jump.

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The Darkness are known for their boundless energy and bringing their all to their live shows, but frontman Justin Hawkins' enthusiasm got the better of him at a recent show in Stockholm, Sweden when he took a tumble into the crowd.

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You can't put a price of fun, as the old saying goes. However, in a new interview, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith believes he knows how much money he spent on cocaine in his wilder and crazier youth.

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The man of many bands, guitarist Mark Tremonti, will be the special guest on this weekend's Loudwire Radio show with host Mike 'Sandman' Sanders. The rocker took the time to discuss his solo band, Creed and Alter Bridge.

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So much for that Foo Fighters hiatus announced in October 2012! According to frontman Dave Grohl, work on a new Foo Fighters album is set to begin this week.

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The Charm City Devils took down Mad Season to retain their CockFight Championship last night. So, tonight they take on the 'new' Drowning Pool (they once again have a  new singer, Jasen Moreno, who came in to replace Ryan McCombs after he went back to SOiL in 2011).

Does DP still rock balls? Does CCD keep up their winning ways?  There are a lot of questions and the answers are all up to you...get your votes in for who you want to win after the jump.

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Growing up in one of rock's preeminent musical families with a classical composer's first name, Wolfgang Van Halen was probably destined to be a musician before he was big enough to pick up a bass -- but as he pointed out during a recent interview, he says that was still able to find his own path.

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Last night, the Charm City Devils took over the CockFight Crown. So, tonight they defend their title for the first time against 90s Supergroup Mad Season (with Mark Lanegan from Screaming Trees taking over vocal duties for Layne Staley). Who wins it is all up to you. Get your votes in after the jump!

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Ugh, come on people. Kurt Cobain is trending pretty hard on Twitter today, since it's his birthday, but we doubt the authenticity of some of these "fans." Here are some dumb, dumb tweets dedicated to Cobain on his birthday. (We left out the twenty gazillion tweets of the quote "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are," because it's depressing how people aren't picking up on the irony.)

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