The Counting Crows will tour this summer alongside Live and Collective Soul performing for a number of performances in minor league baseball stadiums. Third Eye Blind will join the lineup of shows. We can't make this up. The nostalgic bill will begin on July 22 in Wilmington, DE and end on September 2 in Fargo, ND. These ...read more

Pop mainstay Madonna has penned a new track specifically for the LiveEarth festival entitled "Hey You." The song won't premiere at the festival, but rather will be made available first as an MP3 download at MSN.com on May 16. Fans will be able to download the special track for free, but since this song was written specifically for the LiveEarth ...read more

Following a performance in Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 13, the 78-year-old rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley suffered a stroke. He is currently being cared for at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, where it has been reported that Diddley has suffered damage to the left side of his brain that has affected his ability to ...read more

Rollingstone.com reports that a mysterious website address, www.albumsix.com, may be hinting at a new Weezer album in the works. The L.A.-based power-pop group announced a hiatus following the release of their fifth album Make Believe, and many fans assumed the group had broken up for good. However, the albumsix.com site redirects to the ...read more

Despite a tumultuous break-up, Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus, now in the band +44, will still perform songs from the blink-182 catalogue. Hoppus wrote on the band's MySpace blog, "For the past year-and-a-half we have been saying how +44 will never play blink-182 songs. In interviews, when people ask about it, we say it won't happen, we ...read more

Interpol's upcoming Our Love to Admire is still a couple of months away from a release, but the New York mope-rockers are already gearing up for a four month tour that begins in just a couple of days. Starting with the KROQ Weenie Roast festival in Irvine, California on May 19, Interpol will then travel to Germany and Scandinavia for a ...read more

Just two years after the critically acclaimed studio album Feels, the experimental pop foursome Animal Collective returns with Strawberry Jam, their first release on the Domino label. An unspecified release date is scheduled for later this year in September. As previously reported, the band is also currently in the midst of a ...read more

Amazon.com plans to become the latest company to compete with iTunes by offering paid music downloads as part of its massive online store. The Internet retail giant announced today that it will begin selling millions of songs as digital downloads later this year, and that all the songs will be free of copy protection technology—meaning that ...read more