• Starting this month, The Cure will release a new single each month until the September release of their 13th studio album.
• Beyoncé is at work in a New York recording studio with producers Chris “Tricky” Stewart (who worked on Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body”) and Kuk Harrell.
• Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger has been sentenced to a $600 fine and a year-long suspension of his drivers’ license for a 2006 DUI in British Columbia.
• Mark Ronson is reworking classic Duran Duran songs for a one off July 2nd concert in Paris, where Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon will also sing during a set by Ronson and his band.

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