- So … apparently New Order broke up but forgot to tell anyone. During a radio interview New Order bassist Peter Hook let it slip that the work he’s doing with Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party isn’t just a side project. “I spoke to Perry, and he’d heard about New Order splitting up and he asked me to play bass,” Hook casually said before elaborating. “Well yeah, me and Bernard (Sumner) aren’t working together.” Nooooooo!
- Maroon 5 want to sweat in small spaces with their die-hard fans. The band plans to do a short club tour, beginning May 30th in Boston and concluding at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on June 11th, to practice playing the band’s new album It Won’t Be Soon Before Long. “We love getting back to our roots on this tour,” Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine said. “We love the sweaty intimacy of playing in a tightly packed room; you can literally taste the energy.” Gross.
- According to Iggy Pop, Kurt Cobain once called him looking to collaborate. When Iggy tried to call him back Cobain apparently made himself super hard to contact. “He called me up once at two in the morning. But this was when I was old enough to start going to bed at 9.30. When I’m not gigging I’m sensible so I didn’t take his call,” Pop said. “It was cool because it was a great musician at this peak and he’s going ‘Iggy this is Kurt Cobain, let’s get in the studio man.’ So he leaves me a number for the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. Then every time I would call it was like, ‘Mr Cobain is under the bed,’ or ‘We haven’t heard from Mr Cobain in three days’.”
- In bizarre rocker+film = weird news, Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 is having a documentary made about himself. Initially the project was meant to serve as a private (if elaborate) home video but after two years of filming they decided to turn it into an actual film titled How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love the Biz. Meanwhile Fred Durst’s film The Education of Charlie Banks won some kind of “Made In NY” award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Go figure.
- We knew Sanjaya could never really leave us. American Idol’s top 10 finalists will tour together this summer, beginning July 6 in Sunrise, Florida. Check the dates after the jump.
- Check out these cool White Stripes b-sides.
Here are the American Idols Live tour dates:
July 6: Sunrise, Fla. (BankAtlantic Center)
July 7: Tampa, Fla. (St. Pete Times Forum)
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July 8: Jacksonville, Fla. (Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena)
July 1: Greenville, S.C. (Bi Lo Center)
July 11: Nashville (Nashville Arena)
July 12: Birmingham, Ala. (Birmingham Jefferson Arena)
July 13: North Little Rock, Ark. (Alltel Arena)
July 15: Houston (Toyota Center)
July 16: San Antonio (AT&T Center)
July 18: Glendale, Ariz. (Jobing.com Arena)
July 19: San Diego, Calif. (San Diego Sports Arena)
July 20: Fresno, Calif. (Save Mart Center)
July 22: Anaheim, Calif. (Honda Center)
July 23: Los Angeles (Staples Center)
July 24: San Jose, Calif. (HP Pavilion at San Jose)
July 25: Sacramento, Calif. (ARCO Arena)
July 27: Portland, Ore. (Rose Garden Arena)
July 28: Tacoma, Wash. (Tacoma Dome)
July 30: Nampa, Idaho (Idaho Center)
July 31: Salt Lake City (EnergySolutions Arena)
Aug. 3: Omaha, Neb. (Qwest Center Omaha)
Aug. 4: St. Paul, Minn. (Xcel Energy Center)
Aug. 5: Milwaukee (Bradley Center)
Aug. 7: Roset, Ill. (Allstate Arena)
Aug. 8: Moline, Ill. (Mark of the Quad Cities)
Aug. 9: St. Louis (Scottrade Center)
Aug. 11: Columbus, Ohio (Schottenstein Center)
Aug. 12: Auburn Hills, Mich. (Palace of Auburn Hills)
Aug. 13: Cleveland (Wolstein Center at CSU)
Aug. 14: Toronto (Air Canada Centre)
Aug. 22: Pittsburgh (Mellon Arena)
Aug. 23: Rochester, N.Y. (Blue Cross Arena)
Aug. 24: Uniondale, N.Y. (Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum)
Aug. 27: Hartford, Conn. (Hartford Civic Center Coliseum)
Aug. 28: East Rutherford, N.J. (Continental Airlines Arena)
Aug. 30: Albany, N.Y. (Times-Union Center)
Sept. 4: Portland, Maine (Cumberland Co. Civic Center)
Sept. 5: Worcester, Mass. (DCU Center)
Sept. 7: Philadelphia (The Wachovia Center)
Sept. 8: Atlantic City, N.J. (Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall)
Sept. 9: Washington, D.C. (Verizon Center)
Sept. 11: Greensboro, N.C. (Greensboro Coliseum)
Sept. 12: Duluth, Ga. (The Arena at Gwinnett Center)
Sept. 13: Memphis (FedExForum)
Sept. 15: Huntington, W.V. (Big Sandy Superstore Arena)
Sept. 16: Charlottesville, Va. (John Paul Jones Arena)
Sept. 18: Hampton, Va. (Hampton Coliseum)
Sept. 19: Baltimore (1st Mariner Arena)
Sept. 20: Bridgeport, Conn. (Arena at Harbor Yard)
Sept. 22: Manchester, N.H. (Verizon Wireless Arena)
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