Video game players and music fans alike can now get closer to Band Hero's in-game playable character Taylor Swift than ever before, as they can perform as the music icon to her fan-favorite

Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game company, and MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks, along with marketing and distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc., today revealed at the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit the song set list for Rock Band 2, the next evolution of the groundbreaking Rock Band music platform.

Rocker Dave Mustaine is refusing to scrap a re-recording of a Megadeth song he wrote in 1994, despite a killer recently naming it as one of his all-time favorite tracks. Kimveer Gill chose A Tout Le Monde as a personal favorite tune in an online posting shortly before he embarked on a shooting spree at Dawson College in Montreal, Canada last September, which left one person dead and 19 injured.

Pantera have been named the Best Band Ever in a new magazine poll. The heavy rockers beat Metallica and Korn to land the title in music publication Revolver. Slayer and Black Sabbath also made the top five list.

...In April, Billy Corgan announced that Smashing Pumpkins will reunite and begin recording a new album... Rihanna released her sophomore disc, Unfaithful, featuring the single S.O.S., which includes a sample of Soft Cell's Tainted Love... and Cee-Lo and DangerMouse's collaboration, Gnarls Barkley took the U.S. by storm, as their hit single Crazy stormed the charts and took off as one of 2006's most popular tunes.

Bullet for My Valentine took home best single for "Tears Don't Fall" at last nights 13th annual Kerrang! Awards. The awards ceremony, held in London, UK, was billed as a "twisted carnival" and featured a series of burlesque performances, with presenter Stuart Cable - Kerrang! radio host and former Stereophonics drummer - in the role of ringmaster.

Ozzy Osbourne is to return to the Ozzfest stage this summer for his first solo shows in three years - but he'll only play 10 dates. The rocker, who will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame on Monday, will not hit the road with his former band Black Sabbath and instead will play a hits set at Ozzfest.

Fresh off the major success of his latest feature film, "The Devil's Rejects," Rob Zombie is returning this spring to his first passion - music - playing it live and loud. Zombie has finished recording his third solo studio CD, "Educated Horses" (Geffen Records).

Lacuna Coil are set to release their latest full-length effort, Karmacode, on April 4th via Century Media Records. Says vocalist Cristina Scabbia, 'I imagine it's easy for everyone to understand how truly exited we are for the world to hear the new material. It'll give everyone the chance to hear the growth that the band has experienced over the past couple of years.