
- Robert Smith has confirmed the Cure’s 13th studio album will be a double CD, saying “Rather than cut it down, at the stage we’re at with the band, I’m making this record because I want to enjoy the process and be proud of the finished result.” The still-untitled release is scheduled to arrive in October, and Smith predicts he’ll mix the double-CD — which he plans to sell at the price of a single disc — and the band’s label will also release a single-disc version.
- Panic! at the Disco have been added to Sunday’s Virgin Festival lineup. The quartet will also reportedly be recording their own version of *NSYNC’s “Space Cowboy” with Gym Class Heroes’ Travis McCoy for an upcoming ’90s pop covers album.
- Lauryn Hill outraged fans at a U.K. gig last night by showing up two hours late — after some devotees had given up and gone home, and just a half-hour before the venue was scheduled to close — and allegedly appearing intoxicated onstage.
- Construction will begin this year on a statue dedicated to the Beatles in Hamburg, Germany, to commemorate the place where the band launched its international career.
- KISS’ Gene Simmons seems to be following Ted Nugent’s lead as he reflects on the “drugs” part of sex, drugs and rock & roll: “Getting high was considered the lowest of the low. And then, of course, Hollywood made it socially acceptable,” Simmons told AOL. “And rock stars, of course, who were qualified to do nothing except shine your shoes, took it even further and made it into a kind of lifestyle.”
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