Canada’s favorite progressive rock trio Rush have just announced the full schedule of dates for their 2002 North American tour to support their first new studio album in over 5 years. Titled "Vapor Trails" Rush’s seventeenth studio album was produced by Rush along with engineer Paul Northfield (Marilyn Manson, Hole) and will be in stores on Tuesday May 14. All of the Canadian trio’s 22 albums have been certified RIAA gold-or-better, with worldwide sales of over 35 million.

Van Halen reunion tour rumors have been circulating for years, but former Van Halen front men David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar have decided to ignore them and launch their own co-headlining tour. The tour kicks off Wednesday May 29, 2002 in Cleveland, OH and wraps up in Gorge, WA on June 29, 2002. Tickets go on sale April 20 for the Cleveland, Detroit (May 31) and Indianapolis (June 2) shows. Future on-sale concert dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

The votes are in and Rob Zombie will be replacing the space left empty by Rage Against the Machine due to former Soundgarden frontman leaving Rage V2.0 this past March. Zombie was originally scheduled to bring a more “stripped down” set to the Ozzfest side stage, but maintains that he has no plans to change his set for the main stage. Zombie recently told the Los Angeles Times about his plans for the new live show "As much as I love the big show and all the production, it becomes this huge thing of its own. Sometimes the show is so huge everything else gets lost...I haven't done anything like [this] in 12 years or something."

Former Soundgarden frontman, Chris Cornell is rumored to already be out of the not yet titled band featuring the remaining members of rap-rockers, Rage Against The Machine. Epic Records is refusing to comment right now on Cornell leaving the band but widespread radio reports in LA seem pretty definite that Cornell will not return to the band.

For the seventh year in a row, Ozzfest will be coming to a town near you (32 of them to be exact) to rock the kids and wake the neighbors. The Ozz man will perform along with his ultra-tight band consisting of guitarist Zakk Wylde, bassist Robert Trujillo of Suicidial Tendencies fame, and former Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin.