Music Notes: Green Day and Pink added to VMA lineup, Big Boi heading to Def Jam

- Green Day and Pink have been added to the lineup for this year's MTV Video Music Awards. The show will be held Sept. 13 at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. [SPIN]

- Big Boi (of Outkast) has left Jive Records and plans on signing with Def Jam. Pitchfork speculates that we might actually see some his solo work get released if all goes well. [Pitchfork]

- Listen to part two of 7 Worlds Collide, the project helmed by Crowded House frontman Neil Finn, via MySpace. Finn is rejoined by former collaborators like Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway, and new collaborators like Wilco's Jeff Tweedy. [Stereogum]

- Pixies frontman Frank Black (Black Francis) will play a series of West Coast solo dates this summer, prior to the Pixies' twentieth anniversary Doolittle tour. [NME]

- Panic at the Disco's remaining members have announced new members: ex-The Cab guitarist Ian Crawford and Brobecks bassist Dallon Weekes. [Prefix Mag]

- Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke recently said he doesn't know what the future holds in store for his band. "It's weird, we're out of contract now so... we might take a year off, we might take three years off.... we might never make a record again or we might head straight back in and do a record. We'll see how we feel come the end of this touring cycle," he said. For now, the band is set to release one more single in August. [NME]

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Music Notes: Pixies announce US tour dates, PJ Harvey debuts new songs at solo gig

- The Pixies have announced their US Doolittle tour dates, which will take place during the month of November. The tour will kick off in Los Angeles before heading to cities like Seattle and Chicago. There will be a three-night run in New York City before the last two dates in Boston and Washington, DC. [Brooklyn Vegan]

- PJ Harvey unveiled new songs at her only solo UK gig of the year. Watch video of two tracks, "The Last Living Rose" and "Let England Shake,"here. [NME]

- Mos Def is going to play a ton of North American dates in August and September — three of these dates (in California) will feature Erykah Badu. [Pitchfork]

- Federal authorities raided the home of Dr. Conrad Murray — Michael Jackson's doctor — today seeking documents as part of a manslaughter investigation into the singer's death. They did not have an arrest warrant for Murray, who did happen to be at home when they arrived. There are no official details on what the warrants specified. [Billboard]

- It seems more and more likely that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play all of 1975's Born to Run in Chicago's United Center on Sept. 20. [Rolling Stone]

- Former Panic at the Disco members have revealed their new band — The Young Veins. [NME]

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Music Notes: Panic at the Disco split, Katherine Jackson will not oversee MJ's estate

- Panic at the Disco will be losing two members — guitarist Ryan Rothman and bassist Jon Walker are leaving to pursue their own project together. Remaining members Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith plan to continue under the band name, and will play their 12 tour dates as openers for Blink 182 later this summer. [SPIN]

- A judge has ruled that Katherine Jackson will not oversee her son Michael Jackson's estate. Attorney John Branca and music executive and friend John McClain will take over. The two of them will be in charge of the estate until Aug. 3, when another hearing is supposed to take place. [NME]

- Download a free track from Riceboy Sleeps, the collaboration between Sigur Ros frontman Jónsi Birgisson and his boyfriend Alex Somers. Sign up here. [JonsiandAlex.com]

- Bad Lieutenant, the band that formed now that New Order are no more, will release their debut album Oct. 5. The album is called Never Cry Another Tear. Its first single "Sink or Swim" will be out Sept. 21 (you can watch an acoustic performance of the song here). To clarify some information about the new band: while Blur's Alex James and New Order drummer Stephen Morris do play on the album, they're not "official" members. Morris will play live with the band — James will not. [Pitchfork]

- Aerosmith's Steven Tyler is suffering from an unspecified injury, which has caused the band to postpone their last three shows. [Rolling Stone]

- The Foo Fighers debuted a brand new track, "Wheels," while performing for President Barack Obama and military heroes at the White House on July 4. [NME]

- Fiona Apple will release her first "new" tracks in three years by contributing two new recordings to The Best Is Yet To Come, a compilation that is meant to honor Cy Coleman. Coleman was a composer whose music was largely popularized by Frank Sinatra. Apple's tracks include "Why Try To Change Me Now" and "I Walk A Little Faster." [SPIN]

- More nice things being said about Blur in Hyde Park last week. [Rolling Stone]

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