Music Notes: Arctic Monkeys extend American tour, Pixies to bring Doolittle stateside

- The Arctic Monkeys have decided to extend their American tour, adding 16 dates in September and October. [SPIN]

- As previously reported, the Pixies plan on doing a Doolittle tour in Europe to celebrate the album's twentieth anniversary. Now it looks like the band also intends to bring this tour over to North America — New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Chicago and "maybe Montreal" are among the cities that will probably be part of the tour. [Pitchfork]

- Despite being sick enough to have to go to the hospital, Graham Coxon joined his Blur bandmates last night to headline the final night of Scotland's T in the Park festival. [NME]

- Grizzly Bear have mapped out some US tour dates. They'll play a gig on Aug. 30 in Brooklyn, NY before kicking off the rest of the tour on Sept. 26 in Ann Arbor, MI. [NME]

- Watch the video for The Dead Weather's "Treat Me Like Your Mother" below:

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Music Notes: Beck interviews Tom Waits, Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval returns

- Beck interviewed Tom Waits. Check it here. The interview is a part of a new section on Beck's site. The section, titled Irrelevant Topics, will continue to feature more interviews (or "conversations") between Beck and other artists. [Beck.com]

- Hope Sandoval, previously of Mazzy Star, is back after an eight-year absence. Her second album with The Warm Inventions (a band she formed in 2001 with My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig) will be out Sept. 15. The album is titled Through The Devil Softly. You can listen to/download the first single, "Blanchard," here. It's a pretty lovely, haunting tune. So if you're a fan in any capacity, check it out. [SPIN]

- Pandora lives on! Internet radio companies and major record labels have reached a royalty agreement that will allow web radio sites like Pandora to survive from a financial standpoint. [Rolling Stone]

- The Beastie Boys' 1994 album, Ill Communication, will be reissued July 14 by Capitol Records. [Pitchfork]

- Dead Man's Bones, a collaboration featuring actors Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields, will come out with their self-titled debut album on Oct. 6. [Pitchfork]

- Stream The Dead Weather's upcoming album (due July 14) here. [Fader]

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Music Notes: Pixies play surprise show, American Idiot: The Musical

- Pixies played a surprise show, which featured a 13-song set, in London last night. [NME]

- September 4 will mark the day that American Idiot, a musical-theatre adaptation of the Green Day album (of the same name), will premiere. [Rolling Stone]

- Mariah Carey will release Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (yes, you read that right) on August 25. [Billboard]

- A new White Stripes film will focus on the duo's 2007 Canadian tour. The tour was held all over the country, in all types of venues (including concert halls and fishing boats). [Pitchfork]

- And in more Jack White-related news, The Dead Weather will make their US television debut this week on The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien. [NME]

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Music Notes: David Gahan's cancerous tumor removed, Sigur Ros record next album

- The whole Depeche Mode mystery seems to have been solved. After originally being hospitalized for gastroenteritis a couple of weeks ago, resulting in the cancellation of numerous tour dates, David Gahan has undergone surgery to have a cancerous tumor removed from his bladder. Doctors have ordered the singer to rest until June 8, which is when the band will resume their world tour in Leipzig, Germany. [BBC]

- Sigur Ros have been busy in the studio, working on a follow-up to last year's Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust. The band members have described the currently untitled album as a mellower, more ambient record than Med Sud... Sigur Ros seem to be aiming for a 2010 release date. [NME]

- Dr. Dre will debut some music from his album Detox in a Dr. Pepper commercial that will begin airing June 1. The album itself is expected to come out late in 2009. [Billboard]

- A little shout out to my college town — New Brunswick, New Jersey's Screaming Females opening for The Dead Weather (Jack White's latest project) in July. [TheDeadWeather.com]

- Vivian Girls will release their sophomore album, Everything Goes Wrong, September 8. [Pitchfork]

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Music Notes: John Lennon - the NYC years, Modest Mouse single to drop

- A new John Lennon exhibit will be open to the general public tomorrow at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in Manhattan. The exhibit, "John Lennon: The New York City Years," was curated by Yoko Ono and Jim Henke (from the Rock Hall). [Rolling Stone]

- A New Jersey-based entertainment company, with plans to have a reunited Jackson Family perform together in July 2010, is trying to block Michael Jackson's plans to perform in London this summer. [Reuters via Yahoo! News]

- A new Modest Mouse single featuring two songs, "Satellite Skin" and "Guilty Cocker Spaniels," will be released May 26. The songs will also be on sale via iTunes. [Pitchfork]

- Dead Weather, Jack White's latest band, will go on tour in North America this summer. The tour is meant to support their upcoming debut album Horehound (due July 14). The tour will begin on June 11 in Louisville, KY, and will come to an end October 4 at the Austin City Limits Festival in Texas. [SPIN]

- Fever Ray will tour North America in the fall. [NME]

- More girl power: Blondie and Pat Benatar will co-headline a tour, featuring The Donnas as special guests. [NME]

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