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After a couple months of rumors, Metallica have confirmed that they’ll play some shows with Megadeth, featuring their former guitarist Dave Mustaine, for the first time ever next summer. The bill, which also features Slayer and Anthrax, will be part of the Sonisphere shows in Warsaw, Poland and Prague, Czech Republic on June 16th and 19th. No U-S dates have been mentioned, but a post on Metallica.com says, “With a few more of the festival dates still in the works, you can be sure these shows won’t be the only ones.”

Argent will reunite for the first time since 1975 for the High Voltage Festival in London on July 24th and 25th.

Scott Weiland says the eagerly awaited new Stone Temple Pilots album is almost complete. He tells Spinner.com, “There will probably be 11 songs on the record and we have nine completed already. Then you have to have B-sides for Japan, the U-K and the rest of Europe, so we’ll probably record 14 songs total.” No word yet on a title or release date for the disc.

Singer Kelly Hansen, who replaced Lou Gramm in Foreigner, doesn’t believe Aerosmith should try to replace Steven Tyler. Hansen tells Classic Rock magazine, “Tyler is one of those people who have cemented their role as the absolute focus of a band. There’s Tyler, there’s Mick Jagger, there’s Robert Plant. There’s not many of them, but they’re all branded entities now… Without Tyler, Aerosmith will be a different group. Perhaps it’ll be better to call it a different name.”

Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones agrees, but says anything can happen. “I don’t think it would be too hard to find another Aerosmith singer, but it would be very difficult to replace Tyler’s charisma. Although having said that, we did it with the album I did with Van Halen.” Jones produced Van Halen’s 51-50, their first with Sammy Hagar.

The remaining members of Aerosmith will be getting together soon to discuss what their next move will be.

U-2‘s 360 Degrees tour tops Billboard‘s list of the Top 25 Tours of 2009. They played 44 shows before three-million people, raking in a gross of 311-million dollars. Madonna was at number-two, followed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at three. Other classic rock acts to crack the Top 10 were A-C/D-C at four and Elton John and Billy Joel‘s Face-to-Face tour at eight. Paul McCartney rounded out the list at number-25.

Next summer will be a dream come true for soft rock fans, as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac will hit the road together. We’ve confirmed that plans are under way for the two groups to do one-off shows in football and baseball stadiums, and multiple nights in arenas. If this happens, it will be the first time since July 1976 in Foxboro, Massachusetts that the two bands shared a stage. Stevie Nicks and Don Henley played a few shows together in 2005, the same year a tour between the two groups was first proposed.

If this tour comes together, Stevie Nicks will be sharing the stage with four ex-boyfriends — Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Don Henley and Joe Walsh.

Pink Floyd‘s Roger Waters is contemplating taking The Wall on the road late next year. Speaking to David Frost on his Frost Over the World show last week, Waters said he’s “crunching all the numbers at the moment.” He’s also working on a stage version of the piece, as well as a film of his Dark Side of the Moon tour and a new website.

Pink Floyd recorded The Wall in 1979, did a limited number of shows behind it in 1980, and made a movie in 1982, and Waters re-created it at the Berlin Wall in 1990.

Abba, Genesis, The Hollies, punk icons The Stooges and reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it was announced this morning. Notably absent from the list of new inductees are KISS, the mega-successful rock juggernaut that was nominated for the first time this year, as well as The Red Hot Chili Peppers and L-L Cool J.

In addition to the performer inductees, the Hall will enshrine songwriters Jesse Stone (“Shake, Rattle and Roll”), Mort Shuman (“This Magic Moment”), Otis Blackwell (“Great Balls of Fire”) and two iconic songwriting duos: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. The Hall’s 25th annual induction ceremony will be held on March 15th at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.