The Foo Fighters have cancelled the rest of their tour following the terror attacks in Paris.

You would think that U2 has accomplished everything that a band could hope for at this stage of their career, but apparently not. The realm of video games has eluded them until now. U2’s songs will be featured in the upcoming Rock Band 4.

Mitchelstown was unusually quiet on the August Bank Holiday weekend 10 years ago, as the town’s annual summer festival took an enforced hiatus amid an uncertain future.

Rock Band 4’s set list is slowly being revealed with Harmonix announcing another 11 tracks that will feature in the game.

Johnny Depp has formed a supergroup with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.

Rock band Queens of the Stone Age shared a fan's true dedication today - as Dubliner Eoin got his entire arm tattooed to reflect one of the band's music videos.

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Elton John wants to make electronic music, and says he still feels like he's only starting out.

Dave Grohl, Nine Inch Nails and Queens Of The Stone Age will perform at the Grammys.

Arctic Monkeys lead the nominations for this year's NME Awards.

Arctic Monkeys lead the field for this year’s NME Awards with eight nominations.

Queens of the Stone Age are planning on recording another album this year.

KURT COBAIN:

ONE of the strangest sights at the recent Electric Picnic festival was the mass exodus from the main stage ten minutes into the swoonful noise-rock of My Bloody Valentine.

Justin Timberlake, Jessie J and Queens of the Stone Age are among the headline acts for this year’s iTunes Festival.

Josh Homme thinks the Arctic Monkeys are "fantastic".

With the Electric Picnic line-up announced later today – 12.15pm to be precise – some interesting rumoured line-ups have been doing the rounds.

Dave Grohl will debut a new supergroup later this month.

Glastonbury Festival supremo Michael Eavis has been told the death of a senior member of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Tory constituency is “a suicide situation”.

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Glastonbury festival has today announced its full festival line up, confirming U2, Coldplay and Beyonce Knowles as this year’s headliners.

A MASKED musician who plays gravity-defying solos has beaten stars such as Phil Collins and Dave Grohl to be named the greatest drummer of the past 25 years.

It may have threatened to be a mud-bath, but thousands of music fans turned out for the start of Reading Festival in England.

Jack White claims his Dead Weather bandmates challenge him more than any other musicians.

Jimmy Page is going to tour again in 2010 – with or without his Led Zeppelin bandmates.

The Strokes' debut album 'Is This It' has been judged as the greatest album of the decade.

Bassist John Paul Jones is “happy” that Led Zeppelin did not reform permanently.

Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones are working on an album together.

SPEAKING to the press in late 2007, Bono hinted U2’s next album might well be the most experimental of their career.

R&B queen Alicia Keys has set up one of the oddest collaborations in music history by revealing she wants to work with the White Stripes.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is to become a dad for the first time after news that his TV producer wife is expecting a child this spring.

Traffic chaos is forecast in the Co Kildare region today as 70,000 people descend for the two-day Oxegen music festival.

A BITTER row broke out last night after Tube drivers refused to carry out security inspections on London Underground trains.

Tickets for the Oxegen music festival - headlined by Foo Fighters - have sold out, a record six weeks before the event.

Tickets for Ireland 's only annual multi-stage music festival weekend went on sale this morning.

Promoters MCD confirmed award-winning band Green Day would lead the line-up on day one of the Oxegen July weekend event with American rockers Foo Fighters rounding off 48 hours of excess at Punchestown.

The biggest stars in pop were today gearing up for the MTV Music Awards.

Traffic disruption is expected today as the Red Hot Chili Peppers head this year’s concert at Slane Castle in Co Meath.

ONE big mob oh yeah, oh yeah. The Chili Peppers’ lyrics from the song of the same name sum up the Slane experience.

ALL roads lead to Slane this weekend as the Red Hot Chilli Peppers get set to rock 80,000 fans.