If you want to get your hands on some Nickelback t-shirts head down to the Virgin Radio website to enter the competiton they are running. Click here for the competition.

Virgin Radio DJ Ben Jones is in the process of making a tribute to 'Rockstar', if you want to be featured in it click here for more info.

Canadian metallers 3 INCHES OF BLOOD are extremely disappointed to announce that they have been forced to cancel a number of shows, after drummer Alexei Rodriguez broke his elbow over the weekend.

As well as the Minehead ‘Hard Rock Hell’ festival, the shows affected are Swindon, Brighton, Barcelona, and Madrid. Refunds will be available at the point of purchase.

The band are currently rehearsing with a stand-in, to enable them to still play their London show tomorrow (November 12) at the Barfly.

The Atreyu and Still Remains tour starts this week, Marc from Atreyu has posted a short video message for European fans. Check it out here

Also watch this space for their new video 'Doomsday'.

Any burning questions for Atreyu? Think they're trying to revive a party metal scene now that metalcore is dead? Alex Varkatzas prentends to be a big hard man pumping iron, but he's actually an eyeliner-wearing, glam rock jessie right? Send your questions to shutit@futurenet.co.uk

Virgin Radio will be airing an interview with Chad Kroeger on Ben Jones' 'Most Wanted' show between 7pm and 10pm this coming monday.

THE CULT have announced a couple of additions to their batch of UK shows in February 2008.

Chris Glancy at TotalRock radio will be talking guitars with John Petrucci this sunday betwen 5pm and 7pm.

Dream Theater's remaining UK tour dates are:

Fri 9th Nov – Newport Centre
Sat 10th Nov – Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Sun 11th Nov – Blackburn King George’s Hall

Black Stone Cherry's 3 tack live session on the XFM Rock Show will be broadcast this sunday between 10pm and 1am.

The band will also be taking over Total Rock from 11am today.

Remember you can still get copies of their Astoria live bootleg from Concertlive. Only a 1000 copies were made, get yours here

Virgin Radio presenter Ben Jones is making his own tribute to Nickelback’s celeb-studded music video for their latest hit 'Rockstar' and he wants you to be in it. Playboy Bunny ears or multi-platinum record sales not needed…

Record your own short clip of you or your friends miming along – you can do it using a camera phone or any other means you have to hand. Then all you need to do is attach the file to an email and send it through to Ben by clicking here, just make sure the file is no bigger than 10mb.

For more info head down to the Virgin Radio website. Click here

Digital single is out now. Get your copy here
CD single with 2 live tracks