Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and producer Don Was talked about the upcoming expanded reissue of the Rolling Stones' 1972 watershed release, Exile On Main Street. The reissue will feature four outtakes from the original sessions -- including one called "Following The River" which Jagger recently wrote lyrics to and recorded the song's first set of vocals.

Released in time for all the new Runaways fans the upcoming biopic will be earning next week, is the new collection Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Greatest Hits.

Out now is the new Jimi Hendrix vault collection Valleys Of Neptune which features previously unreleased tracks recorded by the guitarist between October 1968 and 1970. The 12-song, 60-minute set also features covers of Elmore James' blues classic "Bleeding Heart," Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love," as well as such Hendrix originals as "Ships Passing Through The Night," "Lullaby For The Summer" and the original undubbed Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of "Hear My Train A Comin'."

Foo Fighters will begin recording their seventh studio album in September, frontman Dave Grohl told RollingStone.com at the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles on Friday night (March 5th). Grohl said, "Me and (Foos drummer) Taylor (Hawkins) have already started demoing songs," adding, "I think this could be our heaviest album yet."

Rest easy everybody -- Keith Richards is not on the wagon. Richards talked to Rolling Stone and when pressed about the recent rumor that he'd gone on the wagon in support of the now-dry Ron Wood, Richards said: "Listen, the rumors of my sobriety are greatly exaggerated. And we'll leave it at that."

This year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will feature performances by Ronnie Spector, Eric Burdon, Peter Wolf, Faith Hill, Chris Isaak, Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5, Train's Pat Monahan and Fefe Dobson.

The Doobie Brothers have announced 26-city tour which kicks off on March 19th in Thackerville, Oklahoma and winds down on October 2nd in Gretna, Louisiana. Fronting the band are co-founding guitarists Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons.

Nearly a year after parting ways with Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, Paul Rodgers says that he's amenable to teaming up with the pair for special occasions. After a five-year-run, Rodgers announced in May that Paul Rodgers + Queen had called it quits.

The Grateful Dead has just issued its latest vault release, called Road Trips: Volume 3, Number 2. The collection features the band's set from November 15th, 1971 at Austin, Texas' Municipal Auditorium Municipal Auditorium. Also available, while supplies last, is a bonus disc featuring selections from the band's performance from November 14th, in Fort Worth at Texas Christian University.

A website called The Metal Den has posted a copy online of the earliest Metallica demo tape. According to the site, the recording, dated March 1982, is a very rough "work in progress" version of the song "Hit The Lights," which later became the opening track of Metallica's 1983 debut album, Kill 'Em All. The demo version features founding members James Hetfield on vocals and Lars Ulrich on drums, along with Dave Mustaine on guitar and Ron McGovney on bass.