• 2008 Summer Tour Guide
• Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd Party in New York
• Pearl Jam, Metallica Prep for Bonnaroo
• How Bands Make Money Without CD Sales
• New Kids on the Block Return to Stage
• On Tour: Ashlee Simpson, The Raconteurs
• Ben Gibbard on Postal Service
• News Ticker: Lou Reed, Courtney Love
• R. Kelly Jurors Selected; Trial Starts Tuesday
• News Ticker: Shania Twain, Matt Sorum

Top stories from the last three days:

• Dylan, Raconteurs, Roots Top New Fest
• Metallica Play Benefit; James Hetfield Q&A
• Eagles Album-by-Album Guide
• Secrets Behind the Surprise NIN Album
• On the Tour Bus With Tegan & Sara
• Archuleta and Cook to Face Off on Idol
• Video: Death Cab for Cutie Tour Rehearsal
• “Thriller” Added to Congressional Registry
• Ticket Prices Could Hurt Concert Business
• Jason Castro Talks Stress of “Idol”
• Breaking Artist: Cut Copy
• Charts: Neil Diamond Hits Number One
• Video: Tokio Hotel Talk Fans, Makeup
• Video Premiere: Manu Chao’s “Politik Kills”
• Video: Rock Pioneer Wanda Jackson
• Foo Fighters Promise “Catering Jihad” on Rider
• Moldy Peaches Rework Song for Atlantis Ad
• Madonna Planning School in Malawi
• The New Issue: The Eagles
• Ozzy, Metallica Top One Day Ozzfest
• Video: Jason Mraz Interview & Performance
• New Music Report: Death Cab for Cutie
• Video: Duffy Reveals Secrets of “Rockferry”
• Hear Scarlett Johansson Album & Read Review

Scroll down for full news stories, commentary and much more in Rock Daily.

• The Eagles nested on the cover of the new Rolling Stone. Thus, we gathered photos from the band’s thirty-five year career, penned a guide to all their classic albums and posted an excerpt from the cover story. The Eagles also flew onto the fourth installment of Guitar Hero. And you know who probably digs the Eagles? Jason Castro.
• We put on our business suits, as the Nine Inch Nails’ manager talked about the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, we examined how high price tickets might hurt the concert biz and analyzed how smart bands make money while CDs don’t sell.
• If there was a concert this week, we were there: Our cameras caught Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd at MSG, watched Death Cab For Cutie rock Providence, encountered the B-52’s at a small club in San Francisco, gothed out at the Cure’s tour-opening show in Virginia and witnessed Dizzee Rascal teach Maths & English in NYC. We were also present at the triumphant return of New Kids on the Block.
• Metallica mania swept over us, as the band launched “Mission: Metallica,” played a small benefit show in Los Angeles (where James Hetfield revealed new details about the new album), announced they would headline the one-day Ozzfest and Lars Ulrich told us about what the group had in store for Bonnaroo. We even dedicated a Rock List to them.

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The temperature is rising and the axles on the tour bus are being greased, so it must mean it’s time for summer tour season. Luckily, Rolling Stone has everything you need to know about big-ticket treks by Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Jack Johnson, Bruce Springsteen and dozens of others. Click below for the lowdown on all the biggest and most anticipated shows and festivals.

• The 2008 Rolling Stone Summer Tour Guide

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Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty had a real meeting of the minds (and the tongues) in London during a week full of surreality, including people dressing up as astronauts, taking off their clothes and duetting with Steven Tyler. Click below for these images plus the rest of the week in photos.

• Random Notes: Amy Winehouse & Pete Doherty, Metallica, Madonna and the Week in Rock

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Here at Rock Daily, we’re getting excited about the new Metallica album. “Mission: Metallica” just launched, the band is playing live gigs again and James Hetfield says it’ll sound like Master of Puppets. To honor the legendary headbangers, for this week’s Rock List we’re asking our readers to tell us their favorite Metallica songs and on Monday, we’ll tabulate the picks and reveal your list. So before you go loading, reloading or riding the lightning, check out our favorites:

“One”
“Wherever I May Roam”
“Fuel”
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”

Ashlee Simpson may be taking her honeymoon at theaters across America, the Raconteurs extend their tour with a lot more warning than they gave for Consolers of the Lonely and Breaking Artist Crystal Castles make another go-round in the states in June. The complete set of dates is after the jump.
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Nothing goes better with Irish songs than a couple rounds of Irish Whiskey. Last night at Branch Bar in midtown New York, Rolling Stone threw a killer party and stocked it with dozens of bottles of Bushmills Irish Whiskey and cases of Smithwick’s beer. One of Eire’s finest acts, Bell X1, heated things up with killer set of Coldplay-style jams. And after the band wrapped up their set with the funky rocker “Flame” — which singer Paul Noonan categorized as “celtic disco” — his bandmates came out to surprise him with a birthday cake. Sweet!

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• This Saturday night, Lou Reed will launch his satellite radio show Lou Reed’s New York Shuffle. According to Reed, the Sirius show will feature “audio from all parts of the world that covers the whole musical spectrum.”
• Courtney Love has abandoned Nobody’s Daughter, the album she was working on with Linda Perry and Billy Corgan, and will instead start over.
• The Dave Matthews Band is a “long way” from completing their new album, but violinist Boyd Tinsley says they hope to finish it after DMB’s tour ends in September.
• Santogold, Pharrell Williams and the Strokes‘ Julian Casablancas have come together to work on a new song for Converse shoes.

Last night at Madison Square Garden, Kid Rock brought his Rock and Roll Revival Tour north of the Mason-Dixon for a crowd-pleasing review that included guests Peter Wolf, Reverend Run and Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were playing the Garden for the first time in their forty year career. Click below for photos and stories from last night’s gig.

• Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Wolf Lead Rock and Roll Revival Tour at Madison Square Garden

Last month, the New Kids on the Block caused fan mayhem when they resurfaced on the Today show on a windy and rainy New York morning, and similarly dreary conditions awaited the estimated 4,000 who crowded into the show’s plaza early today for the five singers’ first performance together in 15 years. Surrounded by a hysterical throng of fans toting mementos of their adolescent obsession (old tour jackets, photographs, umbrellas and caps), the group played a short medley of their hits from the late Eighties and early Nineties — “Step by Step,” “Hangin’ Tough,” “Please Don’t Go Girl” and “You’ve Got It (The Right Stuff)” — their new single “Summertime” and a song recalling the good old days, “Tonight.”

“It’s a little bit like Al Roker in a hurricane,” joked Donnie Wahlberg, referring to the band’s somewhat awkward attempt at dancing on the wet, slippery stage. Sporting his signature half-cocked baseball cap, Wahlberg went on to say that it wasn’t he who reunited the band, but “the brotherhood … and the friendship” that remained through the years. “If the fans didn’t want it, it wouldn’t have happened.”

The turnout, despite the soggy weather, is one of the largest in Today show history, approaching the massive numbers of fans who flocked to Bruce Springsteen’s performance last September (more…)

As Death Cab For Cutie celebrate the release of their second major-label LP, Narrow Stairs, this week, frontman Ben Gibbard cautions fans of his other project, Postal Service, not to hold their breath for a new album from the glitchy electro-pop duo anytime soon. Though beatmaker Jimmy Tamborello recently sent him five new demos to work on, Gibbard says that between Narrow Stairs and Tamborello’s various projects — DNTEL, Figurine — the pair hasn’t had time to focus on making the follow-up to 2003’s Give Up. “The second Postal Service album is threatening to become the Chinese Democracy of indie rock,” Gibbard tells Rolling Stone. “It will come out eventually, or maybe it won’t.”

Tom Waits, Live in Akron, Ohio [Live]
This summer, Tom Waits will perform in 13 cities, including Knoxville and Mobile. These live MP3s from a show in Akron two years ago should satiate the spurned until Waits’ next outing, when he will tour the third ring of Saturn, the 400 block of 52nd Street in Leonard, North Dakota and the year 1956.

Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir, “Know How Theme” [Young MC Remix]
This sizzling, kinetic remix from Baltimore producers LaCrate and Samir is enough to revitalize Young MC’s whole career. He had flow! Who knew?

Raekwon feat. Ghostface, “Necro” [Advance Track]
Could someone please release Only Built 4 Cuban Links 2? Please? Can we send in some kind of hostage-negotiating team to Aftermath to bargain with Dr. Dre? Because if the rest of it sounds anything like this, it’s going to be the hip-hop record of the year — we’re just afraid that year is going to be 2067. (more…)

With record sales at an all-time low, most bands have had to use evolved thinking in order to stay profitable in today’s music business climate. Groups like Paramore, the White Stripes and Spoon have all tapped into various means of doing business. Click below for the full report.

• Rock’s New Economy: Making Money When CDs Don’t Sell

All twelve jurors and the four alternates in R. Kelly’s child-pornography case have been selected. The jury’s age demographic spans from young to middle age adults and features some interesting back-stories. Take, for example, Juror Sixty-nine, a white male in his thirties who says, “child porn is as low as it gets.” There’s also Juror Forty-eight, a white male in his twenties who was arrested for underage drinking and possession of marijuana, thinks people with money can afford better lawyers and followed the case against Michael Vick. Juror Six, a black female in her forties, lives in the same area of Chicago as Kelly but “does not know much about him.” In fact, most jurors on the case had heard of Kelly, but they weren’t that familiar with his music, as one juror said the only song he knew was “I Believe I Can Fly.” The trial was set to begin Monday, but Juror Twenty-one, a college senior, has a final on Monday, which pushed the proceedings to Tuesday.

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• Shania Twain and her husband of fourteen years, producer Robert “Mutt” Lange, have split. Lange produced every Twain album since 1995, including Come On Over, the highest-selling album of the SoundScan era.
• While his band Velvet Revolver looks for a new singer, drummer Matt Sorum launched a new clothing boutique in L.A. dubbed Sorum Noce.
• Following in the footsteps of fellow Idols Clay Aiken and Fantasia, former people’s champion Taylor Hicks will hit the Broadway stage by appearing in Grease from June to September.
• Rapper DMX pleaded not guilty to charges of felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty stemming from an arrest last week following.

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