Expect a very post-grunge album from David Cook

American Idol winner David Cook tells LiveDaily he's been working with Ed Roland from Collective Soul, Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace and Zac Maloy of Nixons fame.
The album (due this fall) will be produced by Rob Cavallo, who has done a lot of work with Green Day, the Goo Goo Dolls, and L7, among others.
If the American Idol winner were to put out an album that sounded like the KROQ playlist in 1995, would that be a good thing or a bad thing? I mean, for me it would be a good thing, but what about the music industry as a whole?

New Smashing Pumpkins single on video game

Fresh off doing a free show in Orlando, the Smashing Pumpkins have announced that Billy Corgan will be a character in the next iteration of Guitar Hero, and that a new single, "G.L.O.W," will be made available through the game. Which is cool, I guess.

Oasis attacked!

Some lunkhead tried to have a go at the Gallagher brothers in Toronto last night. See video here.

Update: the guy managed to shove Noel into some monitors, causing bruising severe enough that tonight's show in London (Ontario) is cancelled. They're making it up December 15, which means we should all expect a bigger North American tour in November/December.

More '90s acts hit the road

None of these really warrant their own post, but there are a glut of '90s acts hitting the road this fall. Some of those recently announced:

* Bad Religion, touring across Canada from Sept. 14 to Oct. 1.

* Everlast, touring the U.S. Sept. 12 to Oct. 29. Did you know he scores the TNT show Saving Grace now? Since it's set in Oklahoma City, they really should have gotten Wayne Coyne, or perhaps Zac Maloy.

* Nine Inch Nails, extending their mammoth summer tour into the fall with a ton of new dates, Oct. 18 through Dec. 13 in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

* Ben Folds, touring all over the US solo after his one-off reunion with the Five, Sept. 24 to Nov. 14.

* Weezer, touring the US (with two dates in Canada), Sept. 23 to Oct. 25.

* Matthew Sweet, doing a very short US run in support of his 10th album, Oct. 20-30. He is coming to Atlanta, though... I just may go.

* And playing the same venue in Atlanta the night before... the Squirrel Nut Zippers! They're doing a short southeastern run Oct. 23-30.

Other Barenaked Lady singer in plane crash shocker

Seriously, the Barenaked Ladies may be cursed. After singer Steven Page was busted for cocaine this summer, other singer / occasional rapper Ed Robertson's plane crashed near Bancroft, Ontario this week. Thankfully, he is OK.

Here's "Alternative Girlfriend:"


Nice Fu Manchu on Page!

This week in reunions... the return of Ben Folds Five!

* The big news this week is that Ben Folds Five are getting back together! But it's just for one show, Sept. 18 in Chapel Hill, N.C., and if you wanted to hear "Song for the Dumped," tough: they're only playing their final album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, in its entirety. I once saw Folds perform "Army" with a college marching band. That was pretty awesome. Anyway, if you can't make it to Chapel Hill, the whole thing is going to be broadcast online sometime in October.

* This week's candidate for the Velvet Revolver job is... Lenny Kravitz! At least so says a British tabloid. Idolator's got the truthiness quotient of this story to be less than 40 percent, so...

* And... Lenny denies it.

* Weirdly enough, the non-Gwen Stefani members of No Doubt are reuniting to back up Scott Weiland on his new solo album, which comes out in November. Despite numerous reports of shambling shenanigans on the STP reunion tour, Weiland plans his own solo tour to promote the new album, and Dean DeLeo says STP is working on a new album as well.

News bites: Filter, Darius Rucker, more

Sorry for the lack of updates, but it has been slooooowww around here. Not much news to report. Here's what has trickled in:

* Filter's comeback album Anthems for the Damned tanked pretty hard (peak of #60 on the Billboard 200, their lowest chart placement ever, and no songs on the Modern Rock charts), but they're doing a headlining tour this fall and releasing a live album and a remix album.

* Darius Rucker's country single has made the Top 10 on the country charts. We previously discussed the '90s-going-country phenomenon here.

* Meanwhile, Perry Farrell is modeling clothes now.