• Beard aficionados ZZ Top are “in the studio, preparing a new series of sessions of new material,” says guitarist Billy Gibbons. The band’s last album, Mescalero, came out in 2003. ZZ Top hopes to finish the album by the summer. Gibbons will also appear on an upcoming episode of FOX’s TV show Bones.

• Gnarls Barkley, Devendra Banhart, Feist, Deerhoof and others will appear at this year’s KCRW World Festival at LA’s Hollywood Bowl starting June 22nd.
• Fifty rare songs from the Supremes will be released on the double-disc Let the Music Play: Supreme Rarities 1960-1969, out April 29th. The set also features covers of Rolling Stones and Beatles songs.

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