What's Hot

Getty Images
.

Jack White’s Third Man Records has recently undergone an overhaul and in typical rock ‘n’ roll fashion the musician/producer has enlisted the help of The Shins and The Kills to help re-open the record store and label. The two bands will headline in-house concerts that will be recorded and released for White’s “Live At Third Man” series.
.

.

Do you love Fleetwood Mac? Do you wish bands would cover their songs more often? If you answered “yes” to both questions then we have some good news for you. Numerous artists, including The Kills, Beck and MGMT, have contributed cover tracks to a new Fleetwood Mac tribute album.
.

.
-Adele has postponed four upcoming tour dates due to coming down with a case of laryngitis.
.
-The racecar sponsored by Justin Timberlake’s William Rast clothing line won the Indy 500 in Indianapolis, Indiana on Sunday.
.
-Actress Lauren London recently revealed that she was briefly engaged to Lil Wayne.
.
-Blackenedwhite, a new album from Hodgy Beats & Left Brain of Odd Future, collectively known as MellowHype, will be released this summer on July 12. [Press release]
.
-The Kooks have announced their new album Junk of the Heart will be released on September 12, 2011.
.
-3OH!3 have announced new summer tour dates. Check them out here.
.
-Rapper/producer /songwriter Kevin Rudolf has revealed he is working on new music for Rihanna, Leona Lewis, and Lil Wayne.
.
-Kylie Minogue is set to release two new EPs on June 7 to celebrate the success of her Aphrodite Live North American Tour. [Press release]
.
-Portland, Oregon’s MusicfestNW has announced its initial lineup for 2011. The festival, scheduled for Sept. 7-11, will feature bands such as Band of Horses, Explosions in the Sky, Iron & Wine, The Kills, Archers of Loaf, Butthole Surfers and more.
.
-Tom Morello’s alter-ego, the Nightwatchman, is releasing his third studio LP, World Wide Rebel Songs, on August 30,2011.
.
-North Carolina electronic music festival Moogfest 2011, taking place on October 28-30, will feature The Flaming Lips, Passion Pit, Chromeo, Crystal Castles, Battles and more.

.

–Metallica says they will go into the studio to work on new material as soon as March or April. Drummer Lars Ulrich says the group is getting along well and wants to make new music.

.

–Usher and Slash will be joining the Black Eyed Peas onstage at the Super Bowl halftime show this weekend.

.

–Everyone wants a piece of Bruno Mars these days. Next up: Ne-Yo. The singer revealed that he and Mars are discussing a collaboration.

.

–Pearl Jam will re-release their classic albums Vs. and Vitalogy. The expanded deluxe albums will be out March 29.

.

–Forever the Sickest Kids have revealed the tracklisting for their upcoming self-titled album. Check it out here.

.

–In a recent interview, Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel says the band will release new music some time this year, either in the form of an EP or a 7-inch.

.

–Juelz Santana, who was arrested yesterday, was released from jail today on $125,000 bail. No word on how his charges will play out yet.

.

–Jamie Hince, guitarist for the Kills, is now engaged to supermodel Kate Moss. The couple has been dating since 2007.

.

–MTV has announced that animated series Beavis and Butthead will return with all new episodes later this year.

.

–James Blake’s anticipated debut album will be out on February 8 in digital format. The U.K. musician signed with Universal Republic this week.

.

The Kills have a new album Blood Pressures coming out on April 5, and from the sound of things, it may be a bit different than the duo’s previous releases. Jamie Hince, guitarist/producer for the group, recently spoke with SPIN.com about the forthcoming record.

.

The record was recorded at the Key Club Studios in Michigan with engineers Bill Skibbe and Jessica Ruffins, who also worked on the band’s last album Midnight Boom. The trick, though, was finding time to make an album since Hince’s bandmate Alison Mosshart has been so busy with her other band—the Dead Weather. In the end, the two would end up writing separately for the disc. “At the start, I was a bit sad about that,” Hince told SPIN.com. “But as time went on, it was less of a compromise. It freed me up to try a lot of things. Alison would come back from Dead Weather tours with songs she had written in a hotel room on acoustic guitar.”

.

Mosshart’s work with the Dead Weather was also a bonus for the Kills, according to Hince. “She was fronting a four-piece rock band with amps stacked to the ceiling, and she’s singing over those guys playing loud,” he said. “It gave her a completely new and different confidence… and opened her up to feeling like she could see an idea turned into something quite enormous.”

.