- Perry Farrell thought he’d scored Soundgarden’s first-ever reunion gig for Lollapalooza, but the grunge vets will actually take the stage tonight at Seattle’s Showbox for a secret show, Billboard reports.
- Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” continued its strong run on the Hot 100, taking Number One for the fifth straight week, according to Billboard. B.o.B.’s “Nothin’ On You” scored second place.
- Tool have begun work on their fifth album, TwentyFourBit reports via the band’s newsletter to fans, which promises they’re working up “intros, progressions, agitatos, con sordinos, crescendos, diatonics, inversions, resolutions, transitions, variations, obbligatos, consonance, and endings.”
- T.I. has confirmed his new album, titled King Uncaged, will hit stores August 24th. For much more on the Atlanta rapper’s return, grab our new issue, on sale now.
- Ozzy Osbourne debuted “Let Me Hear You Scream,” the first single off his June 15th disc Scream, on last night’s episode of CSI: NY. The rocker plans to announce his 18-month tour shortly, and promises news about Ozzfest will arrive next week.
- Snoop Dogg, MGMT, Willie Nelson and the Flaming Lips have been added to the Glastonbury lineup. The BBC reports that the fest, which runs from June 23rd through 27th, is already sold out.
- While Lil Wayne blogs from jail, the video for “I’m Single” from his acclaimed No Ceilings mixtape will be released to the masses. MTV2 will debut the clip on Sunday, MTV News reports.
- Special edition releases of the all-AC/DC soundtrack for Iron Man 2 will hit stores Monday. The Collectors Edition includes a limited-edition reprint of the 1968 comic “The Invincible Iron Man” and a cartoon drawn by Angus Young, as well as a 50-minute DVD packed with AC/DC footage and an early look at the movie.
- Big Boi tells the BBC info on OutKast’s upcoming music is “top secret” but allows “something is brewing.” Andre 3000 produces a “crazy, bananas” track on his colleague’s solo disc, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty.
- Satellite radio company Sirius XM added 171,000 new listeners in the first quarter of 2010, according to the Hollywood Reporter, bringing its grand total to 18.9 million subscribers.
- Cali rapper Game is returning on June 15th with R.E.D. Album, a new disc featuring production by Dr. Dre and Pharrell Williams. Justin Timberlake guests on second single “Ain’t No Doubt About It.”
- Band of Horses have unveiled a new video for “Laredo,” off their May 18th album Infinite Arms. Watch it after the jump.
- The 53rd Annual Grammys will air live on CBS from Los Angeles’ Staples Center on February 13, 2011. Albums and songs released between September 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010 will be eligible for awards.
- A Los Angeles judge has ordered Nas to pay spousal support to ex-wife Kelis. TMZ reports the MC will pay Kelis $10,000 a month until he catches up on the $299,015.50 he owes her in back child and spousal support payments.
- Hank Williams received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize yesterday for “his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity,” CNN reports.
- Supergrass have called it quits. The Independent reports the Britpop band is splitting up after 17 years over “musical differences.”
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- Beck’s Record Club has been slowly unveiling its covers of INXS’ 1987 album Kick. To find out how Liars, St. Vincent and Os Mutantes’ Sergio Dias helped him reinterpret the hit “New Sensation,” watch the clip on his official site.
- Shyne is scheduled to drop his first post-prison track today. MTV News reports “Messiah” is a EZ Elpee-produced song where Def Jam’s newest artist rhymes, “Snitches take a nap with the fishes and the rats/ Buried in the dirt where the witnesses is at.”
- Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong stopped by HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher to talk the band’s evolving sound, American Idiot on Broadway and eyeliner. Watch his segment on YouTube.
- Robyn is scheduled to release three news tracks — “Dance Hall Queen,” “Fembot” and “None of Dem” via Amazon on April 13th.
