Music News & Notes

My Morning Jacket EP

In celebration of Record Store Day on April 18th, My Morning Jacket is set to release their live EP Celebración De La Ciudad Natal exclusively to independent retailers. The seven-song disc was recorded at two of MMJ’s favorite locales in their native Louisville, Kentucky: The Waterfront Park venue and Ear-X-Tacy record store.

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New Radiohead Tour/Music

Radiohead are in talks for a summer tour and hitting the studio again.

“We are working on new material. We’ll be doing some more recording. It’s business as usual,” guitarist Ed O’ Brien told the BBC. “We’ve sort of finished the bulk of In Rainbows touring. We will be doing a little bit of touring in the summer, watch this space!”

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Late Night Music Battle

Last week, it was five straight nights of U2 on David Letterman. Now, Jay Leno has taken up the battle by booking Prince for three straight nights from March 25 to 27 to promote his two new albums, LOtUSFLOW3R and MPLSoUND. He'll then be back on May 28for Leno's final late night show.

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Bret Michaels Autobio

Bret Michaels is scheduled to release his autobiography, "Roses and Thorns: The Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy to My Reality," in June via Simon & Schuster.

Michaels told Billboard, "It will give people the untold story. It gives you the sex, the drugs, the rock 'n' roll, but it also gives you the diabetes. It gives you every aspect of my life and what I'm going through. I think it's pretty frank."