Lindsay Lohan in the April issue of <I>Cosmopolitan</I>
Photo: Cliff Watts for Cosmopolitan

A dark-haired Lindsay Lohan graces the April cover of Cosmopolitan, and within its pages the singer/actress gets personal about family problems, body-image issues and guys. Lohan talks about her first onscreen love scene — with Elijah Wood in the upcoming "Bobby" — and says she hopes she'll have time for a real boyfriend when she's done shooting "Chapter 27" in New York. (Successful candidates need to be confident, loyal and have a good sense of humor, "because I come with a lot of baggage.") The 19-year-old, who says sleeping around doesn't appeal to her, admits she's harboring her fair share of crushes. And in a multiple-choice questionnaire, she skips over Orlando Bloom, Jude Law and Brad Pitt to write in votes for favorite heartthrobs Johnny Depp and scruffy indie-rocker Devendra Banhart. ...

California authorities have granted Michael Jackson a 24-hour extension to settle an unpaid-wages dispute at his Neverland Valley Ranch. A spokesperson for the California Department of Industrial Relations said the singer's representatives have been in touch with the office and they are "trying to get the money together" to pay the more than $500,000 in fines Jackson was ordered to shell out by Tuesday (March 14). Authorities shut down Neverland March 9, alleging that Jackson failed to pay his employees and maintain workers'-compensation insurance. Jackson owes $69,000 for allowing his insurance policy to lapse two months ago, as well as $306,000 in back wages and $100,000 in fines. If he does not pay up by the end of Wednesday, department spokesperson Renee Bacchini said her office will file a civil action in court seeking the funds and the singer could face contempt charges. A spokesperson for Jackson did not return calls for comment. ...

Banking on the massive appeal of "American Idol," the TV Guide Channel is launching a live pre-show called "Idol Tonight" that will take viewers behind the scenes of each week's competition until this season's winner is announced in May. The one-hour show premieres Tuesday at 7 p.m. and will be hosted by former-"Idol"-finalist-turned-entertainment-correspondent Kimberly Caldwell. ... Yellowcard, Simple Plan and "X-Men" Iceman Shawn Ashmore are just some of the celebrity gamers who have customized Xbox 360 faceplates for charity. Starting Friday fans will be able to bid on the faceplates over at eBay.ca/XboxCelebrityFaces, with all proceeds going to the Children's Miracle Network of Canada. ... Sorry ladies: Jack Black is reportedly off the market. The Tenacious D frontman and "Nacho Libre" actor eloped with his girlfriend, musician Tanya Haden, according to People magazine. The pair met at a private high school in Santa Monica, California, but only began dating recently. "They love each other very much. We're thrilled," the bride's father, noted jazz saxophonist Charlie Haden, told the mag of his daughter's recent nuptials. Black's publicist would neither confirm nor deny the story. ...

The Dave Matthews Band will perform two nights at Boston's historic home of the Red Sox, Fenway Park, as part of their summer tour. Sheryl Crow will open up both gigs, scheduled for July 7 and 8. ... On Tuesday morning Superior Court Judge Francis J. Darigan Jr. set a trial date for one of the two owners of the Station — the Warwick, Rhode Island, nightclub where 100 people died in a 2003 blaze during a Great White concert. According to The Associated Press, Michael Derderian's case will begin July 31 in Rhode Island's Kent County. Derderian and his brother, Jeffrey, are facing 200 counts of involuntary manslaughter — two for each of the 100 lives lost in the fire, which was sparked when Great White's pyrotechnics ignited flammable soundproofing foam inside the venue. Jeffrey Derderian will be tried following the conclusion of his brother's trial. ... British rockers Hard-Fi are crashing the U.S. in style. To celebrate the Stateside release of their debut album, Stars of CCTV, the band will play a free show at Tower Records in Sherman Oaks, California, Tuesday at 7 p.m. for fans who buy the LP that same day. The gig marks the beginning of the quartet's North American headlining tour, which will include four more back-to-back in-store appearances in San Francisco, San Diego, Portland and Seattle. ...

Seventeen years after their last tour, the members of pioneering new-wave band the Cars — well, a couple of them anyway — are gearing up for a major U.S. summer tour with fellow new wavers Blondie. The New Cars, featuring original members Elliot Easton (guitar) and Greg Hawkes (keyboards), will be joined on the Road Rage Tour 2006 by singer/guitarist Todd Rundgren and his old Utopia bandmate, bassist Kasim Sulton, as well as former Tubes drummer Prairie Prince. Each online ticket purchase for the tour will come with a free download of a disc with five songs each from the New Cars and Blondie. The tour kicks off May 12 at the Grand Casino Tunica Event Center in Robinsonville, Mississippi, and is slated to wrap July 1 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York. ...

OK Go frontman Damian Kulash was booked on resisting-arrest charges by police in Orlando, Florida, after ignoring an officer's orders to head inside the local House of Blues where the band was performing. Instead Kulash insisted on loitering outside with several of the group's fans. According to the band's Web site, Kulash was "locked up for about nine hours, during which time he ate corn flakes and made friends with a couple of guys." He was released Tuesday morning — which means OK Go's gig Tuesday night in Jacksonville, Florida, will go on as scheduled. ... Also in trouble is Less Than Jake frontman Chris Demakes, who was arrested last week while the Gainesville, Florida, ska band was filming a video in Los Angeles for the track "Overrated" — the first single off In With the Out Crowd, due May 23. According to a label spokesperson, the band was in the Topanga Plaza shopping mall, performing for people chowing down in the food court. Security guards asked the band to hit the bricks, and when that took a little too long Demakes was hauled off by police for trespassing.

03.13.2006

Master P and younger brother Silkk the Shocker have struck a plea deal with prosecutors, resolving the felony gun charges stemming from their arrests more than a year ago at the University of California at Los Angeles, according to Reuters. On Monday (March 13) they were each sentenced to 40 hours of community service and ordered to pay a $700 fine as part of the deal. P (real name Percy Miller) pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of carrying a loaded and unregistered weapon while Silkk (real name Vyshonne Miller) pleaded guilty to a felony charge of carrying an unregistered and loaded firearm. Silkk was also sentenced to three years of supervised probation. ...

Maybe Natalie Portman really is as straight-laced as she seems. In the April issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands Tuesday, the 24-year-old "V for Vendetta" star admits she prefers reading to partying, Converse to Manolos and a style that's classily demure to scantily clad — but that doesn't stop the starlet from letting loose once in a while. "Granted, I'm not super scandalous, but I've had drunken nights out, you know?" Portman admitted to the mag. She also reveals she still remains very close with her folks, who haven't hesitated to speak their minds on her roles. "[During 'The Professional'] my dad had stipulations on how many drags on a cigarette I could take, how many times I could curse," she recalled of her 1994 breakthrough role. "I wasn't actually allowed to inhale. My dad would have people standing behind me, blowing the smoke out." ...

Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne appeared Friday on "The Howard Stern Show" to discuss Black Sabbath's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sharon also addressed the egging incident targeting Iron Maiden that took place back during the band's final performance on last summer's Ozzfest. Sharon admitted that she orchestrated the fiasco, paying "200 Hispanic kids" to carry out the attack. She also commented that Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson's performance was diminished because of the "eggshells in his mouth." ... Phil Anselmo, former Pantera frontman and current Superjoint Ritual singer, joined the reunited Alice in Chains Friday night for the taping of VH1 Classic's "Decades Rock Live!" tribute to Heart. At the concert, which took place at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Anselmo actually took the microphone for two Alice tracks, "Them Bones" and "Would?" ...

Tool's forthcoming 10,000 Days will hit stores May 2. The LP will feature 11 tracks, including "Vicarious," "Lipan Conjuring" and "Viginti Tres." ... Those adorable faux new-wave moppets Devo 2.0 will take their show on the road later this month to support their debut CD/DVD, which will be released Tuesday. The tweens, who play their own instruments, will perform their peppy covers of Devo songs during an 11-date tour of U.S. junior high and high schools that kicks off March 27 in Boston. The tour — which will hit schools in New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Minneapolis — will help raise support and awareness of music education in schools. ...

Nine Inch Nails will release a single for "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" April 4. The track, taken from the Nails' latest disc, With Teeth, will be accompanied by remixes, including a Sam Fog and Carlos D (Interpol) take on the title track, two reworkings of "The Hand That Feeds" (one provided by Death From Above 1979) and a couple of new interpretations of the song "Only." ... Due that same day is Thrice's Red Sky EP, which will feature four live tracks and two previously unreleased B-sides: "Flags of Dawn" and "Weight of Glory." ... One more April 4 treat for good measure: the Goo Goo Dolls' ninth studio album, Let Love In. The record will include the hit single "Better Days," but according to singer Johnny Rzeznik, that's the only ballad on the disc. ...

Sonic Youth may be without fifth member Jim O'Rourke for their newest outing, but the band is apparently still buff — their newest album will be titled Rather Ripped. Due June 13 and produced by the band, SY's 20th effort was recorded at Sear Sound in New York, where they tracked Sister and Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. Songs on Rather Ripped include "Pink Steam," "Incinerate," "Rapture" and "The Neutral." A summer tour is being planned, as is a stop at this summer's Lollapalooza. ... Offspring singer Dexter Holland is set to run the Los Angeles Marathon on March 19 to raise money for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal clinic that handles cases where post-conviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence. "All I want to do is beat Oprah," the singer said in a statement. Oprah's previous marathon time is 4 hours, 29 minutes and 30 seconds. ...

Adema have found a frontman in Bobby Reeves, formerly of Los Angeles rockers Level. According to an online post from bassist Dave DeRoo, Reeves possesses "the attitude, the voice and the vocal range to bust out anything from our catalog, and we've never sounded better." He replaces Luke Caraccioli, who left the band last fall. ... Emo rockers Emanuel were involved in a car accident in San Antonio, Texas, over the weekend. No one in the band was seriously injured, but the group's van, trailer and equipment weren't as fortunate. With their mode of transportation and instruments mangled, Emanuel have been forced to drop off their current tour with 30 Seconds to Mars and Aiden. The trek was scheduled to run through the end of the month.

• Lindsay Lohan In The April 2006 Issue Of 'Cosmopolitan'

• Lindsay Lohan
• Michael Jackson
• Yellowcard
• Jack Black
• Nine Inch Nails

E-40's <I>My Ghetto Report Card</I>
Photo: Warner Bros/ Wea

Move Over, Crunk: E-40 claims to have inserted "It's all good" and "fo' shizzle" into the hip-hop lexicon, and this week he's trying to incorporate the hyphy movement into the mainstream with My Ghetto Report Card. He's called all hands on deck for the effort, including Mike Jones, Juelz Santana, Too Short, UGK, T-Pain and Oakland, California's best-named artist, Keak Da Sneak. Lil Jon was apparently too busy behind the decks to spit out any verses on tracks like "They Might Be Taping," "Do Ya Head Like This" or the curious two-part skit "GetTheF---On.com."

Score Another One for the Underdogs: Re-releasing albums with a bonus DVD shortly after their original release is all the rage — but Fall Out Boy aren't ones to conform. Instead they're revisiting their Grammy-nominated From Under the Cork Tree with just one disc, a limited-edition item specifically designed for their Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour. They've managed to squeeze extra cuts on the new version, endowing them with their hi-larious titular prowess: "Snitches and Talkers Get Snitches and Walkers," "The Music or the Misery" and "My Heart Is the Worst Kind of Weapon." There's also remixes of "Sugar, We're Goin Down" (by lead singer Patrick Stump) and "Dance, Dance."

Old-School Boogie: DMC is shooting for high scans this week with his long-awaited solo debut, Checks Thugs and Rock N Roll — more scans, that is, then the disappointing number Run-DMC counterpart the Rev Run tallied with his own solo debut, Distortion, late last year. A limited run comes with a bonus DVD — and, of course, those peculiar guest spots by Kid Rock, Sarah McLachlan, Jam Master Jay and members of Korn, Buckcherry and Aerosmith.

Meanwhile, Boogie Down Productions — who treaded the path beaten by Run-DMC — are also recalled this week with Blast Master Tapes: The Best of the B-Boy Sessions. There's a heap of unreleased songs from 1985-'87 sprinkled over the course of the two discs, including the very fermented "D-Nice Rocks the House" and an alternate version of "Criminal Minded."

Hard Up for Bonus Tracks?: You'd have to think all the way back to last summer to recall Hard-Fi's Stars of CCTV making a splash in the U.K. (and subsequently getting some lovin' from the Brit Awards), but now the neo-ska band's debut disc is finally hitting U.S. shores. So what extra treats await all you holdouts? None, unfortunately: Free of bonus content, the U.S. version has the same 11 tracks that appeared on the U.K. one, including "Middle Eastern Holiday," "Tied Up Too Tight" and "Feltham Is Singing Out."

Party on, Dave: Don't want to sit through a movie to hear your favorite hip-hop artists perform? Well, that's what soundtracks are for. The one for "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" has a dozen delectable delights, including the Roots' eye-popping pair-up with Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap, Mos Def's "Universal Magnetic" and "Umi Says," and more Erykah Badu performances than you can shake a stick at.

Kids' Stuff: The "Kidz Bop" clan pummeled the competition with its little fists a couple of weeks ago, and now there's a second wave of pint-size threats this week led by Devo 2.0. Ranging in age from 10 to 13 years old, Nicole, Nathan, Kane, Jackie and Michael put a pre-pubescent polish on Devo classics like "Whip It" and "Cyclops" — even though, according to their profiles, they're more into the Mars Volta and Chopin. If you still don't believe this project, feast your eyes on the accompanying DVD, which has performance material by the teensy troupe, plus footage of original Devo members and some computer-animation elements.

Over on the other side of the playground, Nickelodeon Kids' Choice, Vol. 2 lets the original artists do the talking, and this time around that means Gwen Stefani, Ciara, Weezer and Franz Ferdinand. Extra special is Simple Plan's live performance of "Shut Up" from the 2005 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

Slightly older kids — namely those 45 years and above — will jump for joy upon seeing, for the first time in the U.S., the soundtrack to the movie version of hallucinogenic children's show "H.R. Pufnstuf." There's more tracers, er, traces of Sid and Marty Krofft this week with the reissue of "The Bugaloos" soundtrack, which was a show about a bunch of rock musicians with wings who live in a magical forest and are hunted by Benita Bizarre, who wants to deprive them of all their happiness. Now that's what you call a bad trip.

Lest Ye Forget: Sonic Youth have hundreds of records to their name, but even loyal fans are probably lacking the original EP the band put out way back in October 1981. Well, they're in luck this week: Not only is Geffen re-tailoring the five-song set with eight additional tracks (mostly live stuff from that year), they're also tossing two more related titles back into stores after being out of print for more than a decade. The Whitey Album, a Madonna tribute of sorts by Ciccone Youth — the SY-ers, plus the Minutemen's Mike Watt and Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis — is back, as is SY guitarist Thurston Moore's 1995 solo affair, Psychic Hearts.

And in other play-it-again news, Now ReIgnition Records is giving Black on Black: A Tribute to Black Flag another push. Initial Records originally slipped out the disc in mid-2003, but the label went bust shortly thereafter. BF and metalcore fans alike should take note, because there are six bonus covers by Bleeding Through, Most Precious Blood, the Black Dahlia Murder and others appended on the re-release.

Song Titles of the Week:

"Auntie Toothache" and "What a F---ing Lovely Day!" from Stephin Merritt's Showtunes

Other Notables:

Nicolai Dunger's Here's My Song: You Can Have It ... I Don't Want It Anymore/ Yours 4-Ever: Gotten over that title yet? Good. Dunger — a seasoned Swedish singer/songwriter who's collaborated with Will Oldman, Calexico and others — has found new friends in Mercury Rev, with whom he partnered for his new LP. He co-produced and recorded the album with the New Yorkers, letting them handle most guitar duties, although the album isn't officially a joint release between the two camps. Don't miss the slick slide guitar on "Country Lane."

NOFX's Never Trust a Hippy: Twenty-two years into their career, NOFX have finally accomplished their mission. "Thing is, NOFX will be going to hell for this EP," the band says on its Web site. The six-song menu includes a song to that end, "I'm Going to Hell for This One," plus "Everything in Moderation (Especially Moderation)," "Golden Boys," "You're Wrong" and two slices that will resurface on the band's incoming Wolves in Wolves' Clothing LP: "Seeing Double at the Triple Rock" and "The Marxist Brothers."

Miss Kittin's Radio Caroline: French neo-electro whiz Miss Kittin pays homage to pirate station Radio Caroline with a mix CD featuring 15 artists you've never heard of. They include Jesper Dahlbäck, Der Zyklus and Andreas Fragel. Hopefully this disc's as animated as her Web site (MissKittin.com).

New Releases:

• Ambulance LTD - New English EP (TVT)
• Axxis - Paradise in Flames (Locomotive)
• Big City Rock - Big City Rock (Atlantic)
• Border Crossing - Ominous (Recall)
• Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise - What About That: New Year's Eve in Bloomington (two-CD live album; Kufala)
• Bonnie Bramlett and Mr. Groove Band - Roots, Blues & Jazz (Zoho)
• Devo 2.0 - Devo 2.0 (digipak with DVD; Disney)
  Read: "Are They Not Kids? Yes, They Are — And They're Giving Devo A Disney Makeover"
• DMC - Checks Thugs and Rock N Roll (limited edition comes with DVD; Asylum)
  Read: "DMC Hoping 67-Year-Old White Guys Dig His New Record"
• Nicolai Dunger - Here's My Song: You Can Have It ... I Don't Want It Anymore/ Yours 4-Ever (Zoë/ Rounder)
• E-40 - My Ghetto Report Card (Warner Bros.)
  Buy Now: My Ghetto Report Card (Warner Bros.)
• Donald Fagen - Morph the Cat (deluxe edition with DVD also available; Reprise)
• Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano - Beloved Music (Family Vineyard)
• Flee the Seen - Doubt Becomes the New Addiction (Facedown)
• Jimmy Gaudreau - In Good Company (CMH)
• Jackie Greene - American Myth (Verve Forecast)
• Grace Griffith - My Life (Blix Street)
• Grand National - Kicking the National Habit (limited edition; Recall)
• Guillemots - From the Cliffs (EP; Fantastic Plastic)
• Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV (Atlantic)
  Read: "Hard-Fi Don't Need Clash Comparisons To Know They're Cool"

Buy Now: Stars of CCTV (Atlantic)
• Etta James - All the Way (RCA)
• Lanterna - Desert Ocean (Jemez Mountain)
• Las Rubias Del Norte - Panamericana (Barbès)
• Miss Kittin - Radio Caroline (Mental Groove)
• Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker (Lost Highway)
• NOFX - Never Trust a Hippy (EP; Fat Wreck Chords)
• Pure Inc - A New Day's Dawn (Locomotive)
• Duke Robillard - Guitar Groove-a-Rama (Stony Plain Music)
• Joe Satriani - Super Colossal (Epic)
• The Saw Doctors - The Cure (Shamtown/ Ryko)
• Sepultura - Dante XXI (SPV)
• Seven Glory - Over the Rooftops (7spin Music)
• Jules Shear - Dreams Don't Count (Mad Dragon)
• SheDaisy - Fortuneteller's Melody (Lyric Street)
• Slick Ballinger - Mississippi Soul (Oh Boy)
• Soledad Brothers - The Hardest Walk (Alive)
• Garrison Starr - The Sound of You & Me (Vanguard)
• Thomas Stronen - Parish (ECM)
• Warren Zanes - People That I'm Wrong For (Dualtone)
• Various artists - Nickelodeon Kids' Choice, Vol. 2 (Nick)
• Various artists - Pickin' on the Dixie Chicks: A Bluegrass Tribute (CMH)
• Various artists - Pickin' on Keane: A Bluegrass Tribute (CMH)
• Various artists - "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" soundtrack (Geffen)
• Various artists - "The Shaggy Dog" soundtrack (Disney)
• Various artists - "She's the Man" soundtrack (Lakeshore)

Notable Reissues And Archival Material:

• Bill Anderson - The Definitive Collection (Hip-O/ MCA Nashville)
• Benise - Nights of Fire! (Rosanegra)
• Black Sabbath - Greatest Hits 1970-1978 (Rhino)
• Boogie Down Productions - Blast Master Tapes: The Best of the B-Boy Sessions (two CDs; Traffic Entertainment)
• Bobby Brown - The Definitive Collection (Hip-O/ Geffen)
• Cameo - The Definitive Collection (Hip-O/ Mercury)
• The Chesterf!elds - Electric Guitars in Their Hearts: The Best of the Chesterf!elds (Cherry Red)
• Ciccone Youth - Whitey Album (Geffen)
• Dr. John - Right Place, Right Time: Live at Tipitina's - Mardi Gras '89 (The Music Force)
• Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree: Limited Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour Edition (Island)
  Read: "Fall Out Boy Promise An 'Event' Video For 'Sixteen Candles' "

Buy Now: From Under the Cork Tree: Limited Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour Edition (Island)
• Rick James - The Definitive Collection (Hip-O/ Motown)
• Charlie Louvin - Echoes of the Louvin Brothers (Varèse)
• Hugh Masekela - Hugh Masekela Presents: The Chisa Years 1965-1975 Rare and Unreleased (BBE)
• Stephin Merritt - Showtunes (Nonesuch)
• Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts (Geffen)
• Vinnie Moore - Vinnie Moore Collection: The Shrapnel Years (Shrapnel)
• Willie Nelson and Roy Clark - An Introduction to Willie Nelson & Roy Clark - The Liberty & Capitol Masters (Fuel)
• The Pretenders - Pirate Radio: 1979-2005 (box set with four CDs and a DVD; Rhino)
• Prince - Ultimate (two CDs; Rhino)
• John Rich - Underneath the Same Moon (BNA/ Legacy)
• Otis Rush - Fuel Presents: An Introduction to Otis Rush (Fuel)
• Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth (EP; Geffen)
• Various artists - Black on Black: Tribut to Black Flag (Law of Inertia)
• Various artists - Punk 101: The Best of the Punk Years (Cleopatra)
• Various artists - "Bugaloos" soundtrack (Él)
• Various artists - "Heartworn Highways" soundtrack (Shout! Factory)
• Various artists - "H.R. Pufnstuf" soundtrack (Él)

DVDs:

• Benise - "Nights of Fire!" (Rosanegra)
• Conspiracy - "Live" (Cleopatra)
• Chick Corea - "Rendezvous in New York: New Trio" and "Rendezvous in New York: Chick Corea & Gonzalo Rubalcaba Duet" and "Rendezvous in New York: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs Trio" (Image Entertainment)
• Danielle Dax - "Bad Miss M: Danielle Dax Live" (Cherry Red)
• Jazz Crusaders - "New Morning: The Paris Concert" (Music Video Distributors)
• Lovedolls Superstar - "Fully Realized" (Eclectic)
• Poison - "Seven Days Live" (Music Video Distributors)
• Mike Stern - "New Morning: The Paris Concert" (Music Video Distributors)
• Tankard - "Fat, Ugly and Still (A)Live" (Locomotive)
• Type O Negative - "Symphony for the Devil" (SPV)
• Townes Van Zandt - "Be Here to Love Me" (Palm Pictures)
• Various artists - "ATL Underground Live" (Carlos Glover)
• Various artists - "The Butterfly Ball" (Music Video Distributors)
• Various artists - "Funk You Very Much" (Music Video Distributors)

Coming Attractions:

March 21:

• Teddy Geiger - Underage Thinking (Columbia)
• My Chemical Romance - Life on the Murder Scene (with DVD; Reprise)
  Read: "My Chemical Romance's 'Murder' DVD Just Got Bigger"
• Prince - 3121 (Universal)

March 28:

• Ghostface Killah - Fishscale (Def Jam)
  Read: "Ghostface Killah Spins Tales From The 'Hood On Fishscale"
  Buy Now: Fishscale (Def Jam)
• T.I. - King (limited-edition re-release with bonus DVD; Atlantic)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (Interscope)

Read: "Are The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Anxious About Bones? No No No"
Buy Now: Show Your Bones (Interscope)

April 4:

• Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.)
  Read: "Flaming Lips Go To War Against Britney, Gwen On New LP"

Buy Now: At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.)
• Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary)
• Pink - I'm Not Dead (La Face)
  Read: "Pink Pens An Open Letter To President Bush On New Album"

• E-40
• Fall Out Boy
• Hard-Fi
• Nicolai Dunger
• Darryl "DMC" McDaniels

Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos
Photo: John Stanton/Getty Images

As in years past, the lineup for this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival features an eclectic mix of artists. Depeche Mode and Tool will serve as Coachella's co-headliners, and more than 80 acts will hit the stage during the 2006 installment of the two-day rock jubilee, which is set to take over Empire Polo Field in the small desert town of Indio, California on April 29 and 30. Tickets for the festival go on sale Saturday at noon (PST).

Depeche Mode, who will close the first night on the main stage, were officially named one of Coachella's headlining acts late last week. But back in December, frontman David Gahan let it slip backstage at KROQ-FM's Almost Acoustic Christmas that the band would be co-headlining the concert (see "Depeche Mode To Co-Headline 2006 Coachella Festival"). The act's presence on the roster preserves Coachella's ritual of booking 1980s icons and pioneers. The Cure, New Order, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, Kraftwerk, Gang of Four, and a reunited Pixies have appeared on the bill in recent years.

Franz Ferdinand, Daft Punk, Sigur Rós, Common and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley will also top the first evening's bill. Others scheduled to perform that day include the Eagles of Death Metal, My Morning Jacket, Atmosphere, Carl Cox, Cat Power, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Ladytron, Tosca, Animal Collective, Devendra Banhart, She Wants Revenge, Lady Sovereign, Deerhoof, Editors, the Zutons, Colette, Imogen Heap, Wolf Mother, Living Things and You Hear It First artists Hard-Fi and the Like.

Tool's headlining set is scheduled to cap off the weekend as the finale to Sunday night's show. The band, which rocked the crowd during the inaugural Coachella back in 1999, has not performed live in the United States since 2002, when it toured with Mike Patton's Tomahawk. At present, the Maynard James Keenan-fronted group is mixing its forthcoming album — Tool's first since 2001's Lateralus. Photos taken during the recording of the LP, which were posted on guitarist Adam Jones' online blog, showed that Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, Melvins guitarist King Buzzo and Isis frontman Aaron Turner had stopped into the studio during the sessions. It's not yet known whether the guests will appear on the album, which will arrive in stores in late April or early May.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bloc Party, DJ Paul Oakenfold and Scissor Sisters will warm up the Coachella crowd for Keenan's band. Others taking the stage on April 30 include Hasidic dancehall rapper Matisyahu, James Blunt, Sleater-Kinney, TV on the Radio, Mogwai, Coheed and Cambria, Gnarls Barkley (featuring Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo), Coldcut, Digable Planets, Little Louie Vega, Wolf Parade, the Go! Team, the Dears, the Magic Numbers, the Subways, and Minus the Bear.

Additional bands set to play the two-day festival will be announced Tuesday night (January 31).

For the past few weeks, Coachella's bill was rumored to include a Smashing Pumpkins reunion (see "Billy Corgan Says He Wants To Re-Form Smashing Pumpkins"). But a spokesperson for frontman Billy Corgan's record label shot that speculation down during a recent interview with a California radio station. Melissa Auf Der Maur, formerly of Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, scoffed at the supposed Coachella booking during a recent interview with MTV News.

"I think [that would be] a little too soon," said Auf Der Maur, who worked with Corgan several months ago on a track that will appear on her forthcoming, as-yet-untitled sophomore solo disc. "I think that it's cool that there's interest and rumors running around, but ... that's definitely a hoax."

This story was originally published at 8:42 AM EST on 01.31.2006

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