This week in break-ups: Beady Eye! Live!

* Ed Kowalczyk is spending the month of March touring solo around the US. Part of the dates are his regular Open Wings Broken Strings dates, featuring solo acoustic stuff. For this run, the guy from Tonic and the girl from Sixpence None the Richer will be opening up.

* Oasis-minus-Noel-Gallagher are calling themselves Beady Eye, and their first album comes out at the end of the month. The first single, "The Roller," did not chart as well as expected when it came out in Britain earlier this year.
Listen for yourself:


* In case you hadn't heard, the White Stripes (who just barely qualify for this blog, their first album having been released on a tiny indie in June 1999), broke up. Look for Jack White in about 40 other bands.

* Staind's Aaron Lewis has a solo album coming out soon. It's supposedly a country record. Now let us never speak of this again.