Squillion selling US rockers Shinedown will play three headline shows following their appearance at this year's Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival.Dates are as follows:June16 London, Electric Ballroom17 Leeds, Cockpit18 Portsmouth, Wedgewood RoomsTickets are on sale now from www.aloud.com.

Hollywood rock legends Steel Panther have taken time out of their busy schedule of "banging chicks, doing drugs and not working" to appear on the ever-expanding Download 2009 bill."We're going to rock some serious balls and serious vaginas at Download," says frontman Michael Starr. "We understand bitches are called 'birds' in England. Our drumme...

Kerrang! cover stars The Answer are among the latest wave of artists who have been added to the ever-expanding Download 2009 bill.Currently touring around the UK with legends AC/DC, the Irish crew are excited to rock out for the summer festival audience."We're really looking forward to playing at Download again this year," says frontman Cormac N...

NIGHTWISH, SHINEDOWN and STAIND have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Greenfield Festival, set to take place June 12-14 in Interlaken, Switzerland.The festival billing is shaping up as follows:SLIPKNOTFAITH NO MORENIGHTWISHKORNDISTURBEDS...

Rob Cavallo, the man behind My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade and Green Day's American Idiot, has signed on to produce Paramore's as-yet-untitled third studio album.Cavallo, who has also worked with Less Than Jake, Shinedown, Avril Lavigne, as well as socialite Paris Hilton on her 2006 self-titled debut album, produced the band's tracks Dec...