News Ticker: Arcade Fire, Phish, D'Angelo, The Dramatics' Ron Banks

• Arcade Fire have booked their first 2010 live date: a spot headlining Dublin's Oxegen Festival, NME reports. Jay-Z, Muse, Broken Social Scene, Vampire Weekend and the Black Eyed Peas are also confirmed for the event, which takes place July 8-11th.

• Phish are jumping into the lucrative 3-D game with an upcoming movie that'll have fans strapping on paper glasses. A new Website Phish3Dmovie has launched, but the band isn't offering up any concrete details yet. Rumor has it the movie will feature footage from last year's Festival 8.

• D'Angelo has been arrested for solicitation, the New York Post reports. The R&B singer reportedly offered an undercover policewoman $40 for oral sex in New York's West Village at 2:30 a.m. Saturday night and was arrested. In a statement released today, D'Angelo's publicist says the singer will plead not guilty and reports he is "is in good health and extremely excited about his forthcoming new album."

• The Dramatics' Ron Banks has died at age 58 of a heart attack, Reuters reports. Banks was a founding member of the soul vocal group who are best known for their 1971 hit "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get."

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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