Starting today you can buy tickets to this year’s Lollapalooza festival. This year’s headliners have been announced (full lineup due April 21st) and feature Depeche Mode, the Killers, Beastie Boys, Jane’s Addiction, Tool, and Kings of Leon at the 3-day festival August 7-9 in Chicago’s Grant Park. http://lollapalooza.com

Tuesday, March 31: Fall Out Boy on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Thursday, April 2: The Fray on the Late Show with David Letterman
Thursday, April 2: Taylor Swift on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Via their publicist … Auditions will be held Friday, April 10 in Los Angeles for drummers who are looking to play with THE SMASHING PUMPKINS. They should send their background info, photos and performance web links via email only to:  pumpkinsdrummer at gmail.com

Gavin DeGraw Free
Death Cab For Cutie The Open Door EP [Digital only]
Peter Bjorn & John Living Thing
Prince LOtUSFLOW3R/MPLSoUND [Target exclusive]
Keith Urban Defying Gravity
Gomez A New Tide
Diana Krall Quiet Nights
Leonard Cohen Live In London

Green Day and Tony Award winning director Michael Mayer (”Spring Awakening”) have teamed up to create a stage musical of Green Day’s album “American Idiot”. The musical will premeire at Berkeley Rep on September 4th. Tuckets to select shows are on sale now at www.berkeleyrep.org.

Myspace’s latest karaoke contest features Thriving Ivory … you could win an in studio jam session with the band. Go to myspace.com for details ….

DCFC gave the music blog Stereogum.com the chance to stream all the tracks from their new The Open Door EP (one was released each day this week). Check out all the tracks now at Stereogum.com.

The Open Door EP will be available digitally on 3/31 and pre-order now at iTunes.

The Killers have announced the 4/14 release of a special “Spaceman” EP. The four track EP includes a cover of the emo band Bright Eyes track “Four Winds”.

Here’s the tracklist:
01 “Spaceman” (Album Version)
02 “Four Winds”
03 “Tidal Wave” (Bonus Track)
04 “Spaceman” (Closed Captioned)

On the Tom Morello Justice Tour stop last night in Seattle there was a performance by reunited Soundgarden members … Tom Morello, Ben Shepherd, Matt Cameron, and Kim Thayil took the stage - missing frontman Chris Cornell. His vocals were taken over by Tad Doyle of the band TAD. Check out the video of their rendition of “Spoonman” below (watch out there is some 18 and over language in the video!)…

Find out more about the Justice Tour at axisofjustice.org