The scoop on some Cure reissues, and Pete Wentz’s hair after the jump…but first:

The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and Talking Heads’ David Byrne will feature in an upcoming conversation series about legendary psychologist Carl Jung.

Talking about Jung’s recently unearthed ‘Red Book’, both musicians will be paired with a psychoanalyst and will take to the stage as part of series being run at Rubin Museum of Arts in New York City. (more…)

David Byrne has issued a stark response to rumours about reforming Talking Heads.

The band, who split in 1991, have only played together once since then – taking to the stage in 2002 to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Speaking to Metro, Byrne said he has little desire to reunite the band properly.

“I’m not keen and it’s unlikely to happen,” he said. “I don’t need the money badly enough.”

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Green Day have announced the release date of their highly anticipated forthcoming studio album.

’21st Century Breakdown’ is due to be released worldwide on May 15.

As previously reported, the band’s first studio album since 2004′s ‘American Idiot’ is divided into three acts: ‘Heroes and Cons’; ‘Charlatans and Saints’; and ‘Horseshoes and Handgrenades’, and “follows a young couple, Christian and Gloria, through the mess and promise of the century so far”.

Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong also declared that the album was fuelled by his distrust of politicians.

The album’s first single will be ‘Know Your Enemy’, which is set to be released in April.

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Filter realized before going to visit troops in the Middle East it wouldn’t be all fun and games, but not like this.

The band scheduled five shows for U-S soldiers in Iraq and Kuwait, but two were cancelled because of a sandstorm.

They were signing autographs at Camp Kirkuk in Iraq when the base came under mortar fire.

No one was hurt and the band even posted footage of their experience on YouTube.
Filter’s former bass player, Frank Cavanaugh, is currently an Army sergeant deployed in the Middle East.

Filter will release a greatest hits package called “The Very Best Things (1995-2008)” next week.

So Fatboy Slim has been threatening to change his name for awhile. It’s not yet clear if his new project – Brighton Port Authority – is his new name or just his new band, or what. But either way, the man had a decade to think about what to call himself and this is what he came up with.

And the video below, for Toe Jam, is what he came up with musically.

Warning: This is pretty NSFW. I got some strange looks while I was posting it. Black bars or no, that’s a lot of boobies.

David Byrne of Talking Heads handles the vocals, with Dizzie Rascal on the raps. And again I say, he had a decade … and this is what he chose.

Is it just me, or is this weak?