Rock's new vixen, Dilana, who placed second on the CBS reality competition Rock Star Supernova, has announced that she will be hitting the road with the super-group she nearly fronted. Dilana will open for Supernova on all dates of the group's winter tour which begins January 16 in Hollywood, FL at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino and concludes February 27 in Long Beach, CA at the Long Beach Arena (full schedule below).

Now is the time to reflect back upon the stunning achievements of one Gilby Clarke, singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer. Spitfire Records will do just that with Clarke's January 30, self-titled release. The album includes 14 tracks from his muscular solo catalog, two from his days in the criminally-ignored Colonel Parker with ex-Stray Cat Slim Jim Phantom, and one re-recording of "Black" with Rock Star: Super Nova runner-up Dilana Smith.

...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."

Former Metallica star Jason Newsted has been forced to pull out of supergroup Rock Star Supernova two months before their first show after suffering a major shoulder injury. The rocker reportedly tore his left bicep and rotator cuff while trying to catch a bass that had fallen off an amplifier.