- Sometimes you’re allowed to tour even if you have nothing to promote. That’s Pearl Jam’s thinking. The band told Billboard that even though they have no current plans to work on their follow-up to last year’s self-titled release, they couldn’t pass on what guitarist Mike McCready called some “pretty cool offers” to play live this summer. The band will play a bunch of European summer festivals and will headline Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 5th.
- Jenny Lewis has been honored by the Los Angeles City Council as a “pioneer woman.” The award, which is given out each year to one woman from each of L.A.’s 15 council districts for “outstanding community service and accomplishments in the areas of education, equal rights, professional opportunities, arts, sciences…” and so on basically means that even the government thinks Jenny Lewis is the coolest.
- Panic! at the Disco need to become more high concept like Britney needs another wig, but the band apparently feel differently. Word is that they are hard at work on a concept album for their follow-up to the obscenely successful A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. So what’s the concept? Apparently the band writes: “It’s kind of a love story. It’s a timeless age of romantic, poetic fantasies.”
- China’s version of American Idol, which achieved huge success with “Super Girls Voice” last year, is ramping up for a new male-idol-seeking installment called “Boys Happy Voice.” But this time around, no one gets to be weird. “No weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste,” the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said. “Happy Boys Voice” should limit itself to “healthy and ethically inspiring” songs, and should “maintain a happy atmosphere.” Creepy.
- Former Kiss guitarist Mark St John — who replaced Vinnie Vincent in 1984 before being forced to quit the band for health reasons about a year later — died this morning of a brain hemorrhage. He was 51.
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