Guardian Music — Metal legend honoured at service in Los Angeles, featuring performances from Deep Purple and Queensryche membersMore than 1,500 fans banged their heads for Ronnie James Dio on Sunday, honouring the metal legend who died on 16 May. Deep Purple's Glenn... more info

Pitchfork — As that headline suggests, technically impressive hip-hop band the Roots have enlisted members of technically impressive indie rock band Dirty Projectors to add some final touches to their forthcoming album, How I Got Over. Or at least that's what an... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — Deep Purple kept to the promise of delivering the hits at the band's Genting show. more info

MTV.com News — Drummer salutes late Dio/ Black Sabbath/ Rainbow singer in long, heartfelt post on Metallica's website.By MTV News staff Ronnie James Dio Photo: Paul Natkin/WireImage When an artist has a career as long and legendary as that of heavy metal ... more info

Guardian Music — The Rainbow and Black Sabbath singer, who has died aged 67, occupies an exalted position in the great throne room of metalFor someone who always seemed to be just off to the side of the biggest stages rock music can provide, the late Ronnie James Dio... more info

MTV.com News — Former bandmates in Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio remember singer, who died Sunday. By MTV News staff Photo: Steve Thorne/ Getty Images In the hours after legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio's death on Sunday, the Blabbermouth websit... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Heavy metal veteran Ronnie James Dio dies, aged 67 Ronnie James Dio, the pint-sized heavy metal singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath, died on Sunday, five months after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, his wife said. He was 67. The... more info

MTV.com News — Legendary metal singer succumbed to cancer on Sunday.By Ryan J. Downey Ronnie James Dio Photo: Sanctuary Records Ronnie James Dio, one of heavy metal's all-time greatest singers and a five-decade rock veteran, died early Sunday morning, acc... more info

Star Online, Malaysia — ON the subject of playing Smoke On The Water on stage for over 40 years now, (easily one of the greatest rock riffs in history!) Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan was once quoted as saying, “I get a tickle in my tummy around midd... more info

Guardian Music — Not even the threat of eternal damnation was enough to make me ditch Gene Simmons and his friendsMy first encounter with an American Christian evangelist began to turn sour when he urged me to throw away all my heavy rock albums. It was around 25 yea... more info