The White Stripes have set June 19 as the release date for Icky Thump, the duo's sixth album and their first under Warner Bros. Records. Additionally, the cover art for Icky Thump has been unveiled and can be seen to the right:
Incubus have been forced to postpone more dates, due to an injury to guitarist Mike Einziger.
The band has announced it will reschedule seven shows in May, as well as its two-night stand in Los Angeles on June 1 and 2. Incubus has also confirmed a series of European festival dates in the summer, along with new South and Central American gigs in October.
R.
E.M. fans are being warned not to purchase potentially stolen tickets to one of the band's upcoming summer concerts in Ireland.
Irish police are investigating the theft of 122 tickets for R.E.M.
's sold out show on June 30, which disappeared en route to the box office. The standing-room tickets have been cancelled and labelled invalid by the concert promoters. R.
E.M.'s entire five-night residency in Dublin is sold out.
Episode five of Linkin Park's LPTV is now available online, featuring footage shot in October 2003 on their tour of Australia and Asia.
Velvet Revolver have joined the lineup for the 2007 U.S.
Virgin Festival, which will take place just outside Baltimore on August 4 and 5. The Police, The Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys have already been announced as headliners. Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne and hubby Deryck Whibley will settle down in a $9.
5 million Bel-Air mansion, according to the Los Angeles Times. The house reportedly has eight bedrooms and 10 and a 1/2 bathrooms, an elevator, sauna and 10-car garage. Meanwhile, Lavigne will release her third album, The Best Damn Thing, next week.
Common has set July 10 as the release date for his next album, Finding Forever. The CD features production from Kanye West, will.i.
am, the late J Dilla and Devo Springsteen, while Bilal and Dwele sing background vocals on a few tracks. The first single, "The People," is produced by West. "I want to leave a mark on this earth," the Chicago rapper told Billboard.
com. "By making music and saying what I have to say in my music is one of the ways I will exist forever." Brian McKnight will hit the road for a U.
S. tour supporting his current album, Ten. The tour begins on April 25 in San Diego and is scheduled to wrap on June 3 in Tulsa.
Opening for McKnight will be R B crooner Joe and R B songstress Sunshine Anderson.
Tom Morello, as The Nightwatchman, has announced a residency at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles throughout April. Morello is slated to be joined by Alanis Morrisette, Jerry Cantrell, Nuno Bettencourt, David Draiman from Disturbed, B Real and Sen Dog of Cypress Hill and many others.
The Nightwatchman will also hit the road opening for Ben Harper in June. Black Light Burns, the new band from former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland, has been tapped to open for Chevelle on their upcoming U.S.
tour. The trek begins on May 7 and a full itinerary will be announced soon. Black Light Burns' debut album, Cruel Melody, is slated for release on June 5.
In addition to their new album, The Else, due on July 10, They Might Be Giants are working on their next children's project. John Linnell tells Billboard that Here Comes The 123's, a sequel to the 2005 CD and DVD Here Comes The ABC's, is on the way in August. "The attitude we took to the 'ABCs' project is the same we took with this one, which is about numbers -- kids are going to learn this stuff anyway," Linnell said.
"But it's this vehicle for entertaining kids, which is all we really know how to do. We don't have educator skills so much. But the last one was a big success.
It was a very satisfying experience hearing back from parents.
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