Rockers Alien Ant Farm have reformed. The band, best known for its 2001 cover of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal," had split following the release of 2006 album Up In The Attic.

...During July, co-founder and original Pink Floyd guitarist/singer Syd Barrett, who had spent the better part of the last 35 years as a hermit, died at age 60 from diabetic complications... Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo pretty much confirms rumors that the band is done, "unless," he says, "it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one."

Neither a deadly tour bus crash that nearly paralyzed its lead singer or the vagaries of the music business can stop one of the most popular and critically acclaimed alt-metal bands of the decade. The story of perseverance that is Alien Ant Farm continues with the platinum-selling group's much-anticipated third major label album, Up In The Attic (New Door/UMe), set for release on July 18, 2006.