UFO have announced dates for an upcoming US visit. The legendary UK rock band will play a string of dates on the West Coast between November and December as follows:

Nov. 15 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
Nov. 16 – Milwaukee, WI – Shank Hall
Nov. 17 – St. Charles, IL – Arcada Theater
Nov. 18 – St. Charles, IL – Arcada Theater
Nov. 20 – Orangevale, CA – Boardwalk
Nov. 21 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Nov. 23 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
Nov. 24 – Agoura Hills, CA – Canyon Club
Nov. 25 – San Diego, CA – Brick by Brick
Nov. 28 – San Juan Capistrano, CA – The Coach House
Nov. 29 – West Hollywood, CA – Key Club
Nov. 30 – Las Vegas, NV – Boulder Station Casino
Dec. 01 – Corona, CA – Marquee 15

The band’s twentieth studio album ‘Seven Deadly’ was released in February 2012.

The debut EP by Dutch power pop band Sunday Sun is one of the best releases of 2012.

And now, fans in The Netherlands are being given an opportunity to catch the band in a live setting. Sunday Sun have announced the following live dates for the remainder of 2012:

October:
12th – Ekko, Utrect
13th – Mezz, Breda

November:
3rd – Supermarkt, Den Haag
8th – Patronaat, Haarlem
15th – 013, Tilburg
25th – Gigant, Appeldoorn

December:
15th – Mereleyn, Nijmegen

Read a review of the first Sunday Sun EP here. [Link also includes full audio stream]

Tom Waits has released a new video for the track ‘Hell Broke Luce’, which can be viewed below.

The track is taken from his seventeenth studio record ‘Bad As Me’, released in October 2011. The record features performances by Flea, Les Claypool and long-time collaborator Marc Ribot.

Well received by fans and critics, the albun hit the top ten in the US, UK, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Norway and Germany. It scored Waits a #1 album in Norway.

Metallica, Stone Sour and A Perfect Circle have been confirmed to appear on the bill at next years Soundwave Festival in Australia.

The three bands join Linkin Park, Danko Jones, Garbage, Paramore, Vision of Disorder and US punks The Lawrence Arms on what is already shaping up to be an impressive bill.

2012’s event featured appearances by System of a Down, Slipknot, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Trivium, Devin Townsend, Unwritten Law and the reformed Coal Chamber.

So far, those confirmed for the 2013 Soundwave Festival are as follows:

A PERFECT CIRCLE
ANTHRAX
BLINK-182
CANCER BATS
CHUNK NO CAPTAIN CHUNK
DANKO JONES
DEAF HAVANA
DRAGONFORCE
DUFF MCKAGAN’S LOADED
FLOGGING MOLLY
FOZZY
GARBAGE
KINGDOM OF SORROW
KYUSS LIVES!
LINKIN PARK
MADBALL
MEMPHIS MAY FIRE
METALLICA
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
OF MICE AND MEN
PARAMORE
PIERCE THE VEIL
RED FANG
SIX FEET UNDER
SLEEPING WITH SIRENS
STONE SOUR
SUM 41
THE BLACKOUT
THE LAWRENCE ARMS
THE OFFSPRING
THE WONDER YEARS
TOMAHAWK
VISION OF DISORDER

The Mayhem Cruise, which was due to sail from Miami to the Bahamas between December 7th-12th has been officially cancelled.

The cruise was to have featured headline sets by Lamb of God, Machine Head, Anthrax, Suicide Silence, Hatebreed and Kingdom of Sorrow. According to the organizers, the cruise was cancelled due to “circumstances beyond [our] control”.

Fans can get a full refund to their credit/debit cards from the point of purchase. Organizers have also said that ticket holders will be entitled to a free lifetime pass to the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Summer tour.

Lamb of God’s frontman Randy Blythe is now back in the US after posting a $400,000 bail. He will return to the Czech Republic at a later date, should the ongoing manslaughter case require him to do so.

Anthrax, meanwhile, are working on a selection of cover tunes, which may (or may not) appear on a deluxe edition of ‘Worship Music‘ at a later date.