· The Pixies, Nirvana, The Stooges, PJ Harvey, and now…Scott Weiland. Steve Albini, we hope there a 12,000-word essay coming to explain this one.

· Heidi Montag turned down an invite to the White House Correspondents Dinner! More incredibly: they asked?? Or wait, they didn’t…?

· Mick Jones is writing a politically-inspired song for his next solo album called “Don’t tase me, bro!” Not quite “Guns of Brixton.”

· Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields will release their live performance of The Coral Sea, Patti’s homage to the late Robert Mapplethorpe.