Fancy hearing some new music from the likes of MEGADETH and LYNYRD SKYNYRD?? And the opportunity to win a Dave Mustaine guitar??

Then check out the list of club nights below! Roadrunner and PLANET ROCK RADIO have teamed up to give you a rock-tastick night out at the following clubs and the chance to get your mits on that guitar!

19 Sept, Saturday – Bogiez, Cardiff
22 Sept, Tuesday – The Walnut Tree, Farleigh, Maidstone
22 Sept, Tuesday – The Barge and Barrel, Tipton
23 Sept, Wednesday – Discord, Bath
24 Sept, Thursday – The Barfly, Cardiff
24 Sept, Thursday – The Ferry, Glasgow
25 Sept, Friday – The Winking Man, Upper Hulme, Staffordshire
25 Sept, Friday – Crauford Arms, Wolverton, Milton Keynes
25 Sept, Friday – The Rig, Nottingham
25 Sept, Friday – Ringside, Hull
25 Sept, Friday – Caroline of Brunswick, Brighton
26 Sept, Saturday – Reservoir Rocks, Sheffield
26 Sept, Saturday – Code, Hull
26 Sept, Saturday – Retribution, Leicester
26 Sept, Saturday – 02 Academy, Birmingham
26 Sept, Saturday – Cathouse, Glasgow
26 Sept, Saturday – Eddies, Birmingham
26 Sept, Saturday – Krazyhouse, Liverpool
26 Sept, Saturday – Jilly’s Rockworld, Manchester
26 Sept, Saturday – St Moritz, London
26 Sept, Saturday – Wulfren Hall, Wolverhampton
26 Sept, Saturday – St Moritz, London
26 Sept, Saturday -Hellfire Club, Newcastle
27 Sept, Sunday – Cathouse, Glasgow
30 Sept, Wednesday – Rock Haven, Lincoln

Ever had one of those bar hopping nights when you seem to be on the eternal hunt for the best place to hang? The best party? The best night ever?? That’s Fantasy Bar! JULIETTE LEWIS knows that tale. Check out the track and the video in the player below.

The track is from her brand new album Terra Incognita, which hit stores this week.

This week PORCUPINE TREE released their long-awatied new album THE INCIDENT and so ALTSOUNDS have loaded their exclusive chat with main man Steven Wilson onto the site.

In this video, Steven talks about the album in great detail, including the writing and recording process behind the record.

You can check out the video interview in full at THIS LOCATION.

The album is available as a standard edition and a liminted deluxe special edition. You can get full details and order online at THIS LOCATION. Also there are the bands full list of upcoming UK tour dates and the opportunity to win a trip to London to see the band play next month!

BLACK STONE CHERRY have checked in from the road in the states to say hey to their UK fans and remind us they will be hitting UK shores in just a few weeks!! Check out the player bwloe for their video message!

And if that isn’t enough, we can now confirm the 3rd support act for the tour that Ben could not name in the video at the time of recording! Label mates THE PARLOR MOB will be opening the shows, with Duff McKagan’s Loaded in direct support.

The Parlor Mob could not be more excited to return to the UK and doing what they do best. “We all love to put on a show and entertain,” enthuses guitarist Dave Rosen. “At no point are we just going through the motions! We don’t concentrate on making things sound like the record… it’s free form for us. We consider ourselves a live band. People are going to get all of our energy!“

Tickets are on sale now and can be picked up online at www.livenation.co.uk. Full dates are as follows:

Sat 10th Oct – Birmingham O2 Academy
Sun 11th Oct – Belfast Spring and Airbrake
Mon 12th Oct – Dublin Academy
Wed 14th Oct – Portsmouth Guildhall
Thu 15th Oct – London Hammersmith Apollo
Fri 16th Oct – Leeds O2 Academy
Sat 17th Oct – Glasgow Barrowlands
Mon 19th Oct – Newcastle O2 Academy
Tue 20th Oct – Manchester Apollo
Wed 21st Oct – Bristol O2 Academy
Fri 23rd Oct – Norwich UEA
Sat 24th Oct – Oxford Academy

Next month the juicy aural treat that is CONGREGATION OF THE DAMNED by ATREYU will hit stores and in this, part two of our interview with Travis and Marc, we try and get a little more info out of the lads as to what we can expect from the album sonically, and what the guys will be up to in the coming months.

If that gets your juices flowing, you will be happy to hear that you can check out some music HERE.

It’s here folks! Check it out! We continue our chat with MEGADETH main man Dave about the brand new album ENDGAME, which hit stores this week.

The album has been getting cracking reviews including the following, for example:

“…classic Megadeth, right down to its juddering thrash framework and Dave and Chris’s sabre-like guitar slashes. “ 9/10 Metal Hammer

“’Endgame’ may well prove to be the finest album of Mustaine’s career…’ 9.5/10 Terrorizer

Click on the player below to check out the video interview. Miss part one? CLICK HERE to see that snippet. You can order the album online HERE.

DREAM THEATER have released a digital EP of the track WITHER this week. The track is taken from the current, critically acclaimed album BLACK COUDS & SILVER LININGS, which is also in stores now.

The tracklising of the EP is as follows:

1.Wither (album version)
2.Wither (piano version)
3.Wither (JP vocal demo)
4.Best Of Times (MP vocal demo)

Pick it up NOW on iTunes.

The band are coming in to tour the UK next month on the Progressive Nation Tour 2009, with label mates OPETH as direct support.

Dates are as follows and tickets are on sale now:

Fri 9th Oct – Manchester Apollo
Sat 10th Oct – London Wembley Arena
Sun 11th Oct – Glasgow SECC

Pick up the album Black Clouds & Silver Linings AT THIS LOCATION.

WITHIN TEMPTATION have confirmed they will release a live acoustic album on NOVEMBER 2nd. Titled AN ACOUSTIC NIGHT AT THE THEATRE, the album will show an entirely different but still captivating side of the band: one that can be simplified and stripped down.

In November 2008, Within Temptation branched out and embarked on a sold-out intimate theatre tour with seated audiences. This gave them the opportunity to rearrange several classics from their extensive catalogue to particularly suit an acoustic performance. The recording on this album is from the show at the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips in Eindhoven, Holland on November 30.

Robert Westerholt (guitar) explains, “I was fascinated by the idea of giving our audience a much more individual experience by focussing on the essence of our songs and reducing the show to a minimum. At the same time the acoustic arrangements and sounds let you hear different influences in our music – for example, some Celtic elements which I think come out best when played acoustically.”

Sharon den Adel adds, “To show this other side of Within Temptation has been a dream of mine for quite some time. It was great to see that not only our existing fans but also people seeing us for the first time enjoyed it so much.”

Two special guests are included here. Keith Caputo (Life Of Agony) joins in on prior single What Have You Done and The Gathering’s Anneke van Giersbergen makes a powerful duo with Sharon on a soaring Somewhere.

The album also contains the brand new song Utopia, written during the rehearsals for the theatre tour. A duet with UK singer-songwriter Chris Jones (whom Sharon met while working with world-famous DJ Armin van Buuren on his track In And Out Of Love), Utopia will also be available as a digital single prior to the album release. The band are set to film a video shortly with director Oscar Verpoort.

ATREYU have revealed another track from their upcoming album CONGREGATION OF THE DAMNED on their OFFICIAL MYSPACE. Head there now to check out the track ‘Storm To Pass’.

Below you can check out the track they posted on Sunday night, the awesome ‘Stop! Before It’s Too Late And We’ve Destroyed It All…’.

CONGREAGATION OF THE DAMNED will hit UK stores on the 26th October.

Head on over to MYSPACE UK now and see an exclusive interview with SLIPKNOT’S Corey Taylor!

In the interview, Corey chats about the band getting together and recording their self titled debut album, and what the journey has been like for the band since then. Unmasked and candid, this is Corey Taylor as we know and love him.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE INTERVIEW.

The band released a 10th Anniversary edition od the album, the standard edition of which is out now. Also available from September 28 is a limited edition deluxe box set. Find details and online purchase links of both editions HERE.