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Also over the weekend, Gaga tweeted a picture of the cover art for her new album, Born This Way. The album cover features the Pop star's head and arms photoshopped onto a motorcycle, creating a part-man, part-machine Gaga monster. The special edition of Born This Way will just feature Gaga's headshot as its cover. Gaga also tweeted that Born This Way will have 14 tracks, while the special edition will contain 17 songs and five bonus remixes.
Is Rage Against The Machine headlining a massive concert in Los Angeles this summer? Over the weekend, the official Coachella Facebook page announced "SAVE THE DATE. Saturday, July 30 in Los Angeles. Rage Against The Machine, Muse, Rise Against & More. Stay tuned for details" No other information has been revealed yet. Rage hasn't played a concert in the U.S. since a benefit gig in L.A. last summer.
According to the Los Angeles Times, "Walk" from the new Foo Fightersalbum Wasting Light will be prominently featured in the upcoming Thormovie. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige told the paper that the song will appear in a scene in the film, and again over the end credits. In other Foo news, Wasting Light debuted at #1 on the U.K. sales chart, knocking Adele's 21out of the top slot after 11 straight weeks. Wasting Light is expected to debut atop the U.S. Soundscanchart later this week.
Blink-182 has postponed their entire tour of U.K. and Ireland, including a number of festival dates. The majority of the dates have been rescheduled for the summer of 2012. In a statement on the trio's official website, they say, "When we booked the tour last year, we were confident that we would have the new album out before the Summer. Turns out we were mistaken as the album is taking longer than we thought and won't be out till later this year. We hoped we would have some new songs to play rather than do another 'greatest hits tour' which you all saw last Summer. As much as we know our fans would be cool with that, we feel that we owe you guys something new when you spend your money to come see us. Frankly, it's what needs to continue for us to remain vital. The three of us are working very hard to do what we set out to do when were formed...get a new blink-182 album recorded."
Katy Perry has expanded her North American "California Dreams" tour, with another leg of dates in September. Janelle Monae will open all eight shows, which begin September 7 in San Antonio and wind up in Tulsa on September 17. The "California Dreams" tour kicks off in Atlanta on June 7.
Jack White was honored with the first-ever Music City Ambassador Award on Saturday from the City of Nashville. The award was bestowed on White for giving the city global recognition over the last 12 months through both his music career and his Third Man Records label and store. "Today's award recognizes an individual who carries Nashville's diverse musical message worldwide," Mayor Karl Dean said in the award presentation. "Jack White's individual talent and unique creative spirit bridges gaps between genres and generations and I couldn't be more pleased to thank him for his work on behalf of the music industry and its hometown." White accepted the award by saying, "Every day we're excited to be in a city that truly fosters local music and businesses and new ideas. I don't know another town whose mayor is on the board of its music council."
Kings Of Leon have buried the hatchet with Glee creator Ryan Murphy, following their ongoing spat in the press over the band declining to have their music used on the hit Fox show. Murphy recently apologized to the Kings in an interview, and singer Caleb Followill told Rolling Stoneover the weekend, "I'm glad he said something. We don't hold grudges." Drummer Nathan Followilladded, "I'll just be glad when I can check my Google alerts and don't have to read anything about us and Glee. That'll be a wonderful feeling."
KISS is in the studio working on a new album and the band has already laid down basic tracks for five new songs. Gene Simmons has been posting some updates via Twitter, and he wrote on April 14, "Went into the studio today for day 1 of the new studio album. We've got some rockin' stuff." He followed that with a few other updates that read, "In studio. Lead guitars under way on new stuff. Killer," as well as "KISS 18 hole mini golf course in Las Vegas. It's coming."
