2012 is proving to be yet another ambitious year for Heart. The sisters, Ann and Nancy Wilson, are currently working on a band biography, a career-spanning box set, and a string of live dates. Unfortunately getting inducted into the Rock Hall will have to wait for another year. Despite making the shortlist for the 2012 class along with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Donna Summer, and others, the Wilson sisters just missed the final cut. Heart's latest album, 2010's Red Velvet Car, peaked at Number 10 on the Billboard 200 -- marking the band's highest charting collection since 1990's Brigade peaked at Number Three. I've loved Heart from the very beginning and am happy they continue to churn out good, new music. What's YOUR favorite Heart tune? Here's one of my top picks...

Caving into popular demand -- presumably from Adam Lambert fans -- Queen will team up with the former American Idol contestant on July 7th at The Sonisphere at Knebworth Park in Stevenage, England. The site was the final venue that Queen and Freddie Mercury ever performed together on August 9th, 1986. Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor teamed up with Lambert at the 2011 MTV Europe Awards show, which sparked worldwide Internet chatter about the band employing Lambert as their new frontman. Would you pay to see Queen with Adam Lambert? Here's some vintage Queen while you deliberate...

A Rhode Island filmmaker is creating a documentary about the Great White nightclub fire that killed 100 people in 2003. David Bettencourt is compiling stories about the people who were there and the families of those who died. The fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island, began when Great White's pyrotechnics ignited cheap soundproofing foam. Bettencourt says people who have never discussed that night are now willing to talk about what happened, and he's shocked by their stories. He's hoping to premiere the film next year to mark the fire's 10th anniversary. I'll never forget hearing about this tragedy. It really hit home for me as I have played numerous nightclubs over the years where this could have happened. I look forward to seeing this doc next year and continue to pray for the families that lost loved ones that day. Here's a clip about a benefit show held five years after the fire...some good comments from Twisted Sister's Dee Snyder.

Van Halen’s new album, A Different Kind of Truth, has hit #2 on the Billboard album chart. The first album with singer David Lee Roth since 1984’s 1984 sold 187,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week of release. The reunited Van Halen didn’t manage to topple Adele’s rule of the album chart, but it is an impressive comeback for a band that some thought would never work together again.

Van Halen will kick off a North American tour on Saturday, February 18, in Louisville, Kentucky. That tour makes its way to Bridgestone Arena April 27th!!

More interestingly, frontman David Lee Roth has finally explained the “no brown M&Ms” tour rider stipulation that Van Halen demanded in their glory years.

Van Halen’s 1980s’ rider demands have often been described as the worst example of rock excess, the demands of divas. But, the group has always said the “M&M provision” was included to make sure that promoters had actually read the band’s lengthy rider. If brown M&M's were in the backstage bowls, Van Halen surmised that more important aspects of a performance – lighting, staging, security, ticketing – may not have been attended to by the show’s promoter.

Here's Diamond Dave explaining the legend...

Guns N' Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed has told Billboard that all five original members of the band will be present when the group is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on April 14th. Singer Axl Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler will all be inducted into the Hall, along with later members Reed, drummer Matt Sorum and guitarist Gilby Clarke. With more than 20 years of service, Reed is the longest-standing member of the current Guns lineup after sole original holdout Axl Rose. Well, isn't this a train wreck just waiting to happen?!?! Axl will actually need to show up on time and I'm not sure that is possible. Here's a vid clip from GNR's better days...