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While Billy Joel takes the next few months off, Elton John soldiers on with a new round of April dates. Plus, Diana Ross announces her “More Today Than Yesterday” greatest-hits tour and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony reveal a fresh trek in support of their upcoming reunion album Uni5: The World’s Enemy. Full details for all three artists below.

Elton John
Apr. 9 – Lubbock, TX @ United Spirit Center
Apr. 10 – Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center
Apr. 15 – Hoffman Estates, IL @ Sears Centre Arena
Apr. 16 – Des Moines, IA @ Wells Fargo Arena
Apr. 17 – Green Bay, WI @ Resch Center
Apr. 24 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
Apr. 25 – Toledo, OH @ Lucas County Arena
Apr. 30 – Reading, PA @ Sovereign Center
May 1 – Youngstown, OH @ Covelli Center

Diana Ross
May 15 – Boston, MA @ Citi Performing Arts Center
May 16 – Mashantucket, CT @ Foxwoods
May 18 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Theatre
May 19 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
May 21 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Caesars Atlantic City
May 25 – Bethesda, MD @ Music Center at Strathmore
May 27 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
May 28 – Cleveland, OH @ State Theatre
May 29 – Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
May 31 – Toronto, ON @ Roy Thomson Hall
June 2 – Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre
June 4 – Atlanta, GA @ Chastain Park Amphitheatre
June 5 – Memphis, TN @ Live At The Garden
June 6 – St. Louis, MO @ Fox Theatre
June 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ NOKIA Theatre
June 11 – San Diego, CA @ Humphrey’s
June 12 – Saratoga, CA @ The Mountain Winery

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Mar. 24 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Mar. 25 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles
Mar. 26 – Sauget, IL @ Pop’s
Mar. 27 – Chicago, IL @ Congress
Mar. 28 – Cleveland, OH @ HOB
Mar. 29 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
Mar. 31 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls
Apr. 1 – Columbus, OH @ Newport
Apr. 2 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
Apr. 3 – Lancaster, PA @ The Chameleon
Apr. 5 – Boston, MA @ Middle East
Apr. 6 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
Apr. 7 – State College, PA @ Mezzanine
Apr. 8 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
Apr. 9 – Wilmington NC @ The Rox
Apr. 10 – Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
Apr. 11 – Charleston, SC @ The Music Farm
Apr. 13 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
Apr. 14 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Apr. 15 – Orlando, FL @ Firestone
Apr. 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Gibson Amphitheatre
Apr. 20 – New Orleans, LA @ HOB
Apr. 21 – Dallas, TX @ HOB
Apr. 22 – Houston, TX @ HOB
Apr. 23 – San Antonio, TX @ Scoutbar
Apr. 24 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
Apr. 26 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
Apr. 27 – Colombia, MO @ The Blue Note
Apr. 28 – Council Bluffs, IA @ Harrah’s
Apr. 29 – Kansas City, KS @ Harrah’s
Apr. 30 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
May 1 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
May 2 – Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theatre
May 3 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre

Before Vancouver twosome Japandroids broke through with their fuzzed-out 2009 LP Post-Nothing, they released two five-song EPs in the form of 2007's All Lies and 2008's Lullaby Death Jams. And now those early releases are being compiled into No Singles, due out May 11 on CD, 180 gram vinyl, and MP3 courtesy of Polyvinyl.

In other Japandroids news, their 2010 7" singles series kicks off April 13. And they're touring from here to eternity over the next couple months.

Check out the No Singles tracklist, as well as leadoff track "Darkness on the Edge of Gastown", below:

MP3:> Japandroids: "Darkness on the Edge of Gastown"

No Singles:

01 Darkness on the Edge of Gastown
02 No Allegiance to the Queen
03 Sexual Aerosol
04 Lovers/Strangers
05 Lucifer's Symphony
06 Couture Suicide
07 Avant Sleepwalk
08 Coma Complacency
09 To Hell With Good Intentions
10 Press Corps

Last year, the original lineup of the pioneering emo band Sunny Day Real Estate reunited for a tour, making a bunch of my friends from college very, very happy. At the time, it wasn't clear whether the band would remain together after the tour. But now, those same college friends are about to get even happier, because Billboard is reporting that Sunny Day are working on a new album.

This will be the first album from the original Sunny Day lineup since 1995's LP2. That same year, the band broke up for the first time. When they reconstituted themselves in 1997, bassist Nate Mendel, who'd become a Foo Fighter, did not rejoin. Now, Mendel's back. According to Billboard, the band played one new song on their reunion tour last year, but that song might not be on the album.

Sunny Day Real Estate have a few spring dates lined up, including Coachella.

Ever since Conan O'Brien was unceremoniously kicked off "The Tonight Show" stage, there's been a certain missing feeling going around-- a feeling Jay Leno's fast-food-fart of a return to the show did little to quell. But Team Coco can rejoice as the big-haired comedian is plotting a North American tour described as "a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence" on its official site.

Amazingly, the endeavor is called "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour." (Conan's $32.5 million payout from NBC included a stipulation that he can't appear on TV until September 1, according to The New York Times.)

The show will reportedly feature sidekick Andy Richter and members of the "Tonight Show" band. And, considering Conan's guitar skills and his ties with artists like the White Stripes (who performed on his last "Late Show") and Beck (who performed on his last "Tonight Show"), we could be in for some very special musical moments along with the requisite lulz. Not to mention the fact that he's playing Bonnaroo-- who knows what could go down there.

Dates below:

Conan O'Brien:

04-12 Eugene, OR - Hult Ceter for the Performing Arts
04-13 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
04-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
04-16 Spokane, WA - INB Performing Arts Center
04-17 Enoch, Alberta - River Cree Resort & Casino
04-18 Seattle, WA - Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
04-19 Seattle, WA - Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
04-22 San Francisco, CA - Nob Hill Masonic Center
04-23 San Francisco, CA - Nob Hill Masonic Center
04-24 Universal City, CA - Gibson Amphitheater
04-25 Universal City, CA - Gibson Amphitheater
04-29 San Diego, CA - San Diego Civic Theatre
04-30 Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theatre
05-01 Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl Concert Theatre - Palms Casino
05-04 Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Resort & Casino - Grand Theatre
05-05 San Jose, CA - San Jose State University Events Center
05-06 Sacramento, CA - Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
05-09 Boulder, CO - Mackey Auditorium
05-13 Dallas, TX - McFarlin Memorial Auditorium - SMU Campus
05-14 Austin, TX - Austin Music Hall
05-15 Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
05-16 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theatre
05-18 Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theatre
05-19 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
05-20 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
05-22 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
05-30 Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Spa & Resort - Event Center
06-01 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
06-02 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
06-04 Boston, MA - Wang Theater
06-05 Boston, MA - Wang Theater
06-06 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
06-07 Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre
06-08 Washington, DC - Constitution Hall
06-11 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
06-14 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre

Band of Horses make soaring, earthy guitar anthems and have roots in Seattle. So do Pearl Jam. Band of Horses will open a bunch of dates for the grunge megastars in May. A good look for both bands! That BoH frontman Ben Bridwell has a voice that recalls Eddie Vedder's beloved Neil Young is just the icing on the cake.

The Pearl Jam tour will start a couple of weeks before Infinite Arms, the third Band of Horses album, drops via Brown Records/Fat Possum/Columbia. Before they jump on the Pearl Jam tour, BoH will play a bunch of shows on both sides of the Atlantic, including SXSW dates and shows with Widespread Panic, She & Him, and Snow Patrol. We've got their dates below.

Band of Horses:

03-15 Boulder, CO - Fox Theater
03-16 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
03-18 Austin, TX - Stubbs BBQ
03-19 Austin, TX - Central Presbyterian Church
04-08 Paris, France - La Fleche D'or
04-09 Brussels, Belgium - Orangerie
04-10 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Motel Mozaique
04-12 London, England - Koko
04-14 Cologne, Germany - Kulturkirche
04-16 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
04-17 Gothenburg, Sweden - Tradgarn
04-18 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
04-23 Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheater *
04-24 Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheater *
04-27 Gainesville, FL - University of Florida's Rion Ballroom
04-28 Miami, FL - The Fillmore
04-29 Orlando, FL - House of Blues
05-01 New Orleans, LA - Jazzfest
05-02 Memphis, TN - Beale Street Music Festival
05-03 Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center ^
05-04 St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center ^
05-06 Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena ^
05-07 Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center ^
05-09 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena ^
05-10 Buffalo, NY - HSBC Arena ^
05-13 Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live ^
05-15 Hartford, CT - XL Center ^
05-17 Boston, MA - TD Garden ^
05-21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden ^
05-30 Bend, OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater %
05-31 George, WA - Sasquatch
06-05 Bangor, Ireland - Ward Park &
06-09 London, England - Roundhouse
06-12 Glasgow, Scotland - Bellahouston Park &
06-19 Toronto, Ontario - Olympic Island
09-25 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre

* with Widespread Panic
^ with Pearl Jam
% with She & Him
& with Snow Patrol

"Olympians", the new single from British noise-bleep kingpins Fuck Buttons will be released on 12" vinyl and digital download April 12 via ATP. It features a couple of big remixes, from Suicide frontman Alan Vega and from J. Spaceman, otherwise known an Spiritualized leader Jason Pierce. That's the J. Spaceman remix above.

Also above: The single's Magic Eye cover art, designed by Fuck Buttons themselves. If you're one of those lucky people actually able to see the 3D images in those things, stare away.

Photo: Dyson/WireImage

Missed Pearl Jam live during the band’s run of Backspacer tour dates last year? Eddie Vedder and company are giving you another chance to see their legendary live show in action with a month-long slate of U.S. shows that kick off in May. The trek launches at New Orleans’ Jazz Festival on May 1st and moves its way northeast, culminating with two shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden on May 20th and 21st.

Pearl Jam in posters: an illustrated guide to the band’s tour art.

Band of Horses have been enlisted to serve as Pearl Jam’s opening act on the trek, with the Black Keys subbing in for the May 20th MSG show. Tickets go on sale to Pearl Jam’s Ten Club members on March 15th, with a public on-sale to follow on March 19th. As evidenced by last year’s tour and the group’s legendary Halloween night show in Philadelphia, Pearl Jam mix up their set lists every night and the 2009 jaunt yielded live performances of nearly every song in the PJ catalog, so don’t miss them this time around. For more info, check out Pearl Jam’s official site.

And if you’re bummed out that Pearl Jam isn’t visiting your half of the U.S., at least you can watch them perform on Saturday Night Live this weekend.

Pearl Jam
May 1 – New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz Festival
May 3 – Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center
May 4 – St. Louis, MO @ Scottrade Center
May 6 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena
May 7 – Noblesville, IN @ Verizon Wireless Music Center
May 9 – Cleveland, OH @ Quicken Loans Arena
May 10 – Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena
May 13 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
May 15 – Hartford, CT @ XL Center
May 17 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
May 18 – TBD @ TBD
May 20 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
May 21 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden

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Two years ago American Idol celebrated the music of the Fab Four, and next week the show’s Top 12 will pick up that rockin’ tradition by belting out songs by “the Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World,” the Rolling Stones. Host Ryan Seacrest made the announcement of next week’s musical theme on a radio promotion taped during last night’s episode, Entertainment Weeky reports. As it’s still too early on in the competition for celebrity mentors, it’s highly unlikely Mick Jagger or Keith Richards will participate, though Richards mentoring the kids on partying and excess for an hour would likely be more entertaining than the performances themselves.

We won’t know which contestants are singing what Stones classics until next week, but we’re already placing bets on what we expect to hear. On the ladies’ side, we anticipate “Satisfaction,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Time is on My Side,” “Gimme Shelter” (if a contestant is brazen enough to handle both Mick and the female leads) and, thanks to Susan Boyle, “Wild Horses.” For the men, we’re thinking “Brown Sugar,” “Miss You,” Sympathy for the Devil,” “Angie,” “Honky Tonk Woman” and “Waiting on a Friend.” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” seems destined for the group performance, and let’s just add that any contestant who mines Goats Head Soup gets our automatic vote.

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Photo: Bedder/WireImage (Mayer), Mayer/WireImage(Corgan)
After reading John Mayer’s controversial recent interviews, Billy Corgan is convinced Mayer is trying to self-destruct. “He’s trying to destroy his career,” Corgan told Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt in an interview outtake from RS‘ revealing new Corgan feature in the new issue, on sale now. “Rather than take a year off or change his musical direction… some part of it is irritating his soul to the point where he’s trying to blow it up. Certainly a talented guy, but empathetically, standing on the sidelines, it’s hard to watch someone literally burn their career to the ground — speaking as somebody who’s done it.”

Corgan also responded to Mayer’s comments on their mutual friend Jessica Simpson (”sexual napalm,” Mayer called her). “As far as it pertains to her. I think for any person who has celebrity to sort of drop rocks at somebody else’s feet like that — there’s things you should really just keep your mouths shut on. There’s things that should just be left alone.”

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Forget the cartoon characters. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's animated misfits have always been mainly interesting as a concept, and on much of the third Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, it feels like Albarn and co. are ditching the idea of writing pop songs a cartoon band might front anyway. The one-time Blur frontman has transcended some of the post-modern artifice of this project, and created the group's most affecting and uniquely inviting album. Joke's over, Gorillaz are real.

For a band known for switching gears from track to track and album to album, Sisterworld is the most thoroughly Liars-sounding record so far. It has the rhythmic insistence of Drum's Not Dead, the sleepwalking chants of They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, and the straightforward songwriting of Liars, often sounding like a streamlined update on the latter. The narrowed range brings increased depth, and it's intriguing to hear Liars focus on detail and texture rather than stylistic schizophrenia. It turns out refinement suits them as nicely as reinvention.

Working with producers including Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer, vocalist Gonjasufi has created a fascinating slab of hallucinogenic head-nod music. Unlike the digital bleeps and squelches of SoCal contemporaries FlyLo and Nosaj Thing, however, Gaslamp Killer and Gonjasufi draw from their hip-hop background to create an LP that could as easily fit on the Stones Throw roster as well as it does IDM-centric Warp. The beats knock, but for every moment of b-boy-friendly atmosphere, there's another moment-- or a simultaneous one-- that makes like 21st century acid rock.

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The full-length follow-up to Ys is no less ambitious, but this 3xLP set also has some of the most inviting and accessible songs of Newsom's career. While songs here evoke moments of Ys and Milk-Eyed and Newsom's harp is still the dominant musical focus, it's striking how much Have One on Me feels like its own thing. Not a progression, exactly, more of a deepening. The highlights are spread out evenly, and Newsom couldn't have sequenced the record any better. The best songs here feel more like conversations rather than artworks to be hung on the wall and admired from several paces away. Newsom seems to sing from somewhere deep inside of them, and her earthy presence has a way of drawing you in, bringing you closer to her music than you've been before.

The German producer Hendrik Weber's follow-up to This Bliss is big and dense with the kind of detail that rewards close attention. Weber is unlike most minimal techno producers in that he doesn't look to locate one groove and ride it for the course of a track. His songs open up, unfurl, and regularly change course. With Black Noise he develops this to incorporate a wide range of sounds-- field recordings, atonal noise, and stray percussion all populate the album. Each track is its own micro sound world with enough rich detail to draw you back for deeper investigation.

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