Get your leather pants and best rock caterwaul ready, because Jason Newsted will be attending an open-call audition today here in San Francisco:

"Rock Star: The Series" Casting
March 21st
Rockit Room
406 Clement St
San Francisco, CA 94118
10am - 4pm

The second season is set to start this summer, and is run like a rock n' roll American Idol with one singer being eliminated each week. Once the winner is selected, they will be stuffed into a just-add-singer master plan that includes an album co-written and produced by Butch Walker (The Marvelous 3) and a world tour starting in early 2007.

Dave Navarro and Brooke Burke will return as hosts and the new season will also feature some format twists with a different music celebrity or rock legend each week. Said Navarro (in the press release; we didn't actually interview him), "Friends of mine, like Slash, Macy Gray, Moby and Rob Zombie, will join us and throw in their two cents about who should stay and who should go." We can't think of a better judge of rock n' roll vocalists than Moby.