[Updated: 6:03 P.M.]
NEWS:
- LIAM GALLAGHER‘s New Album “Out By July”
Singer teams with two ex-Oasis bandmates, plans to hit studio in April, hopes he won’t “balls it up.” [SPIN]
- JAKOB DYLAN Taps NEKO CASE, T BONE BURNETT for New Album
Women and Country drops April 6. [Billboard]
- NEW FOUND GLORY‘s Gilbert Healthy After Cancer Scare
Plus: The guitarist’s girlfriend, Paramore’s Hayley Williams, gives thanks on Twitter. [SPIN]
- T-PAIN Gets Cartoon on ADULT SWIM
“Freaknik: The Musical” will feature the voices of Andy Samberg, Lil Wayne, and Kelis. [ABC News]
- PIXIES Frontman FRANK BLACK Gets Sexual on March Solo Album
“In my heart the vagina is almost everything,” he says of NonStopErotik. [Pitchfork]
- LIL WAYNE, EMINEM, BARKER to Perform at Grammys
Plus: Slash to join T-Pain and Jamie Foxx onstage at Sunday’s big awards show. Click for details. [SPIN]
- MONOTONIX Singer Breaks His Leg During Concert
15 minutes into the band’s West Palm Beach, FL, concert, frontman Ami Shalev calls for a paramedic. [Miami New Times]
- PEARL JAM Donate $200,000 to Haiti Relief
Funds from bandmembers and the group’s Vitalogy Foundation will help five aid groups. [Pearl Jam]
- GRAMMY Preview: Who’ll Win?
If only we ran the Grammys…. Score along at home with our semi-educated guesses! [SPIN]
- NO DOUBT Tweet About Progress on New Album
“Tony and Gwen are rocking the synth,” writes guitarist Tom Dumont. “Our little studio is warm and candlelit, above the glowing city.” [Twitter]
- PETE DOHERTY Fined for Possessing 13 Bags of Heroin in Court
“Either this was sheer stupidity or a ploy to get more publicity,” said a London judge. [NME]
- ‘HOPE FOR HAITI NOW’, SPOON Top Album Chart
Austin, TX, band’s Merge Records set Transference delivers their highest charting album and best sales week ever. [Billboard]
- BEACH HOUSE Wow at Album Release Show
Kate Winslet and Vampire Weekend, Dirty Projectors members watch Baltimore band play Teen Dream in Brooklyn. [SPIN]
- METALLICA Fan’s Remains Found in Virginia
Police are “fairly certain” that a skeleton found on a farm 10 miles from the concert venue is Morgan Harrington’s. [SPIN]
- GRIZZLY BEAR Soundtrack PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Film
Brooklyn band score Jack Goes Boating, Hoffman’s directorial debut. [Twenty Four Bit]
- KATY PERRY: ‘I’ll Ditch My Career to Judge ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ Full-Time’
“I didn’t really make anybody cry, but I did tell the truth to some kids that might have needed to hear it.” [MTV]
- JOAN JETT on ‘RUNAWAYS’ Movie: ‘Authentic’
In a Sundance interview, the rocker raves about Kristin Stewart and Dakota Fanning’s work in the upcoming biopic. [Cinema Blend]
- Q&A: LAMB OF GOD‘s Chris Adler
The drummer for the Grammy-nominated metal monsters talks award shows, touring with Metallica, and what’s next for the band. [SPIN]
MP3s & VIDEOS:
- WATCH: PATRICK STUMP Records Solo Album
Fall Out Boy frontman teases upcoming release with video clip from the studio. [SPIN]
- LISTEN: THE KNIFE‘s Darwin-Inspired Album
Swede duo leak Tomorrow, in a Year, written for an opera about the influential English naturalist. [SPIN]
- WATCH: BECK and CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Live
Boho rocker and French pop singer perform “Heaven Can Wait” on KCRW. [YouTube]
- WATCH: Hot Florida Rockers SURFER BLOOD‘s New Video
The boys go jogging in their underwear and beat up a crippled old man in “Swim” clip. [SPIN]
- DOWNLOAD: Free YEASAYER MP3: ‘Feel the Bass In Your Balls’
Download “O.N.E.,” yet another free track from the Brooklyn band’s excellent Odd Blood, out Feb. 9. [SPIN]
- WATCH: BROKEN BELLS‘ New Video
Danger Mouse and Shins frontman James Mercer walk a desert highway and chase a kid in “The High Road” clip. [MySpace]
- WATCH: SILVERSUN PICKUPS ‘Panic’ on Kimmel
Check out video of the L.A. rockers storming through their radio hit, “Panic Switch.” [SPIN]