MGMT and Weezer will be co-headlining New Jersey’s Bamboozle Festival at the Meadowland’s Sports Complex on May 1 and May 2. Tickets are on sale now … My Morning Jacket’s Jim James (or Yim Yames, depending who you ask) and his cousin/collaborator Johnny Quaid are creating a new online label, Removador Recordings And Solutions, which will allow James and Quaid to share some of the musicians they admire with the world … Iggy Pop has joined the lineup for the 20th Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert, alongside Philip Glass (the concert’s artistic director), Regina Spektor, Patti Smith, Jesse Smith, Gogol Bordello and more. The show will take place February 26 at Carnegie Hall … Country/rock legend Willie Nelson has signed to Rounder Records, which will issue his new album, Country Music, on April 13 … The White Stripes (pictured) are releasing their first-ever live album and documentary, Under Great White Northern Lights (Third Man), on March 16. The footage is taken from the duo’s 2007 tour across Canada in a quest to perform in all of the nation’s provinces and territories … Team B, a spinoff of Beirut and Arcade Fire, is releasing a free EP, available on the band’s website. It’s called The Lost Son and features lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke … Plastic Beach is the new album from Gorillaz (out March 9 via Virgin Records), featuring first single “Stylo” (which boasts appearances by Mos Def and Bobby Womack). The band will also appear at Coachella with an April 18 headlining slot … American Laundromat Records has collected lullabies and non-lullabies covered by various indie artists—such as Sigur Rós, Stars, Dean & Britta, Telekinesis and Say Hi—and put them on an album called Sing Me To Sleep, available May 18. The proceeds for the album will benefit The Valerie Fund, which provides support for the comprehensive health care of children with cancer and blood disorders … On March 9, Jason Collett’s fourth full-length album, Rat A Tat Tat (Arts & Crafts), will be released. An EP of six songs recorded during album sessions, To Wit To Woo, will be available digitally and on Collett’s spring Bonfire Ball Tour. Download “Little Tiger” … The Spring Skaward Tour is a celebration of the career milestones of the English Beat (commemorating the 30th anniversary of its debut) and Fishbone (which released its first singles 25 years ago). The tour, supported by Louisiana band Outlaw Nation, will start mid-February … The Plimsouls are coming out with a previously unreleased 18-song live album, which was recorded at the Whisky A Go Go on Oct. 31, 1981. Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal (Alive) is out February 23. Download “Zero Hour” … After a bit of a hiatus, Man Or Astro-Man? will re-form and “host a variety of benefits and charities,” also playing several shows at SXSW. Download “Junk Satellite” … Speaking of hiatuses, Public Image Ltd played its first shows in 17 years in December, and it has just been announced that the band will take the stage at Coachella on April 16 … Yet another band is returning with new material: The BoDeans have signed with 429 Records and will release Mr. Sad Clown on April 6, just weeks after they appear at SXSW with Cheap Trick … Waaga Records, an offshoot imprint of Lefse Records, is celebrating its inception by offering free downloads of 15 new songs on its website.
—Emily Costantino
