[Updated: 5:21 P.M.]
NEWS:
- MARK HOPPUS Promises “Weird” BLINK-182 Album
“[I’m] gonna do all I can to have an album in 2010,” the bassist/singer adds. [MTV
- Grammy Faves PARAMORE Announce Tour
Hayley Williams and Co. will hit the road with Brand New Eyes this spring. [SPIN]
- MY MORNING JACKET to Tour with PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
Nine-date trek through the southern U.S. opens April 20 in Birmingham, AL. [Jam Base]
- THERMALS, CRIBS to Release Split Single
Both bands package new tracks on Record Store Day 7″. [Pitchfork]
- MICHAEL JACKSON‘s Doctor CONRAD MURRAY Could Be Charged Next Week
Los Angeles DA reportedly considering charging him with involuntary manslaughter. [TMZ]
- JAMES MERCER: New SHINS Record Next Year
The singer-guitarist, currently working with Danger Mouse as Broken Bells, offers his update. [SPIN]
- SIA Announces Spring Tour
Ex-Zero 7 singer launches “The We Meaning You Tour” April 10 in Vancouver, BC. [MOG]
- METALLICA Fans Riot in Chile
At the band’s first concert there in a decade, 2,000 ticketless fans rush the gates, and 120 were arrested. [SPIN]
- ANIMAL COLLECTIVE‘s PANDA BEAR Announces New Album
Noah Lennox’s fourth solo album Tomboy is set for release in September. [Paw-Tracks]
- PETE DOHERTY Questioned About LIBERTINES Filmmaker’s Death
Police ask if the rocker supplied drugs to Robin Whitehead, who was found dead of an overdose on Monday. [NME]
- PHISH Release Historic Concert Audio to Help Haiti
Get a recording of the band’s gig at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, VT, on November 19, 1992, [Spinner]
- LIAM GALLAGHER‘s New Album “Out By July”
Singer teams with two ex-Oasis bandmates, plans to hit studio in April, hopes he won’t “balls it up.” [SPIN]
- JAKOB DYLAN Taps NEKO CASE, T BONE BURNETT for New Album
Women and Country drops April 6. [Billboard]
- NEW FOUND GLORY‘s Gilbert Healthy After Cancer Scare
Plus: The guitarist’s girlfriend, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, gives thanks on Twitter. [SPIN]
- PIXIES Frontman FRANK BLACK Gets Sexual on March Solo Album
“In my heart the vagina is almost everything,” he says of NonStopErotik. [Pitchfork]
- LIL WAYNE, EMINEM, BARKER to Perform at Grammys
Plus: Slash to join T-Pain and Jamie Foxx onstage at Sunday’s big awards show. Click for details. [SPIN]
MP3s & VIDEOS:
- LISTEN: Previously Unreleased JIMI HENDRIX Song
“Valleys of Neptune” drops this spring as part of an album of previously unreleased Hendix recordings. [Spinner]
- WATCH: PATRICK STUMP Records Solo Album
Fall Out Boy frontman teases upcoming release with video clip from the studio. [SPIN]
- LISTEN: THE KNIFE‘s Darwin-Inspired Album
Swede duo leak Tomorrow, in a Year, written for an opera about the influential English naturalist. [SPIN]
- WATCH: BECK and CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Live
Boho rocker and French pop singer perform “Heaven Can Wait” on KCRW. [YouTube]
- WATCH: Hot Florida Rockers SURFER BLOOD‘s New Video
The boys go jogging in their underwear and beat up a crippled old man in “Swim” clip. [SPIN]