WRRV Music News

Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish are among the acts set to make their way to Manchester, Tennessee, this summer for the eleventh edition of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The Chili Peppers, have never played Bonnaroo, Radiohead headlined back in 2006. The full lineup is available now at Bonnaroo.com, and tickets go on sale this Saturday. The four-day festival gets under way June 7th.

The original Guns N' Roses lineup will be at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction later this year. That is all that has been confirmed, that they will be together in the same room. No word yet, if they will actually play together on stage. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is set to take place April 14th in Cleveland.

Bjork has just added one more show that will cap her current New York City residency. The March 5 concert at the Roseland Ballroom will be one of her 10 New York performances that began last week at the New York Hall of Science, where she has two shows remaining – tomorrow and Saturday night. Her five-night run at the Roseland Ballroom will get underway on February 22.

Mumford and Sons' Grammy lead singer, Marcus Mumford telling us that the band hopes to have the follow-up to their debut album "Sigh No More" out sometime this year. Mumford and Son's walked away empty handed after this weekend's Grammy Awards. They were up for four awards for their single "The Cave."

The Foo Fighters walked away with five Grammy Awards last night, including Best Rock Album for Wasting Light, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance for "Walk," Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for "White Limo" and Best Long Form Music Video for Foo Fighters: Back and Forth. Bon Iver surprised many by winning the Best New Artist award and capped the night by taking home the Best Alternative Music Album category for Bon Iver. To absolutely no one's surprise, the night belonged to UK songstress Adele, who swept all six categories she was nominated in, including Album of the Year (21) and Record and Song of the Year for "Rolling in the Deep." The night included performances by the Foo Fighters ("Walk"), Coldplay ("Princess of China" featuring Rihanna and "Paradise"), Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, who opened the ceremony with his new song "We Take Care of Our Own" and Paul McCartney who closed the night with the classic Beatles medley "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End" with a little help from Springsteen and Dave Grohl, among others. The event also contained many mentions of and a tribute to the late Whitney Houston, who died on Saturday at the age of 48. The cause of death is still unknown.

The members of Slipknot are still grieving the loss of bassist Paul Gray but they will be headlining the 2012 Rockstar Mayhem Festival, which gets underway on June 30 in San Bernardino, CA. But the band continues to insist the band has no immediate plans to record a new album.

Franz Ferdinand are reportedly working on their next all-new studio album, but in the meantime they will release two new remix EPs next month. Both EPs consist of remixes of tracks from their 2011 special Record Store Day release Covers EP. Both EPs will be available on March 19.

The guys in Metallica are planning a big festival in New Jersey. The band announced on its official site yesterday they'd be headlining their own Orion Music + More Festival this summer along with more than 20 other bands. The two-day event is scheduled to start June 23rd at Bader Field in Atlantic City, with Metallica set to close the show both nights. Other bands already set to appear include s Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, the Gaslight Anthem and Cage the Elephant. Tickets go on sale this Saturday.

Our Lady Peace, will release their eighth studio album, Curve, on April 3. The group will also be launching its Urban Grind tour on March 29; the 13-stop trek also bring them to will include a stop April 5^th at Bowery Ballroom in the city before wrapping up April 20 in Seattle.

And good news for Tenacious D fans, after an almost six-year-long hiatus. Jack Black and Kyle Gass recently announced plans to release the comedy-rock duo's third album, "Rize of the Fenix," which will be in stores this May.

METALLICA TEASES TUESDAY ANNOUNCEMENT

PR Reps for Metallica sent out an email over the weekend with the simple subject line "Save the Date," The only who, what, when and where that was shared was the following: Who: Metallica. What: Save the date. When: Tuesday, February 7 at 2pm. Where: Metallica.com. A brief teaser video was also released on YouTube.

Seether Fans To Release New 'Remix EP'

After holding a remix contest, Seether was so impressed with the entries that they decided to compile and release them as an EP, titled the Remix EP. The contest originally called for people to remix the single "Tonight" from the group's album Holding On To Strings Better Left To Fray, though remixes of other songs off of the album will appear on the upcoming EP, set to be released on February 7.

Shinedown is set to release their fourth studio album, Amaryllis, on March 27^th, and the band also announcing they will headline the second annual Avalanche tour, with Adelita's Way, New Medicine and Art of Dying. That tour will kick off in late March and make stops in NYC on April 20^th and Atlantic City on April 21^st. Tickets for those shows go on sale tomorrow.

ROCK ON THE RANGE 2012 LINEUP REVEALED

The line up for the sixth annual Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, OH was announced yesterday. A few of the bands that will play throughout the three-day event May 18-20 include Incubus, Rob Zombie, Shinedown, Chevelle, Theory of a Deadman, among many, many others. Tickets go on sale, February 10.

THE BLACK KEYS TO BE HANDED KEYS TO MTV THIS MONDAY

The Black Keys will take over MTV this Monday night, February 6, when they premiere their new video for "Gold on the Ceiling" during a special show. Right after the video airs, the band's will sit down for a 30-minute interview that will stream on MTV.com.

The original members of Southern California pop-punk trio Eve 6 are back together and gearing up to release their fourth studio album Speak In Code on April 24.

Velvet Revolver hoping that last month's one-off onstage reunion with singer Scott Weiland could lead to a full-blown reunion are cautioned not to hold their breath, according to drummer Matt Sorum. In a recent interview, Matt said, "It was cool. We hadn't played together in a long time. It was like riding a bike." But he quickly added that there has been zero discussion about making the reunion permanent because guitarist Slash is booked solid for the next year to promote his next solo album.