-The Bamboozle Roadshow lineup and tour dates have been announced! It is a traveling musical circus, with unique lineups and rotating sets for each show of its tour, and it's coming to Merriweather Post Pavilion (Columbia, MD) on Friday, May 21. Featuring: All Time Low & Boys Like Girls w/ Cartel • Forever the Sickest Kids • Good Charlotte • Hanson • Cady Groves • Great Big Planes • Mercy Mercedes • The Downtown Fiction • The Ready Set • Vita Chambers

-Metallica Boycott - Metallica is going to Isreal for the first time in ten years, but the cheapest tickets are going for 600 shekel ($159), which is just not cool, so a lot of people are boycotting the show.

-Pickleback – a pickle now has more fans on facebook than Nickelback. I find this very disturbing. I'm not a huge Nickelback fan, but I don't understand why so many people dislike the band. Some of their songs are pretty good, and their album Dark Horse, which came out last year, is #1 on the Billboard charts... The pickle group also spelled Nickelback wrong...

-Year of the Black Rainbow – Coheed and Cambria have posted the cover art for the graphic novel that will accompany the deluxe hardcover edition of their upcoming album, Year Of The Black Rainbow. It looks pretty cool. It's dropping on April 13th, so make sure you check that out.

Current Billboard Top Ten Hard Rock Albums:
1. Dark Horse – Nickelback
2. Hillbilly Deluxe 2 – Rob Zombie
3. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
4. The Sound of Madness – Shinedown
5. Dear Agony – Breaking Benjamin
6. Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Chapters 1-13 – HIM
7. Life Starts Now – Three Days Grace
8. Greatest Hits – The Who (I'm sorry, but The Who is not hard rock, I don't know what they are doing on this list...)
9. Black Gives Way to Blue – Alice In Chains
10. War Is The Answer – Five Finger Death Punch

And that's it for this week in rock! Make sure to check back next week for some more awesomeness.