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Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters Assist Mick Jagger on 'SNL,' Kurt Cobain Becomes Mickey Mouse & More -- News Roundup

May 11th 2012 3:00PM


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Mick Jagger has wrangled the worlds craziest backing band for his "SNL" appearance. The Rolling Stones singer will appear with Arcade Fire and Foo Fighters helping him out on Saturday night, because why book one band when you can book three? [Vulture]

Kurt Cobain gets Mickey Moused! And now we get to look forward to a whole generation of kids explain that they were introduced to Nirvana by Disney. [Stereogum]

Thom Yorke finally realized that he's an alien, and his music exists mostly in a different universe from our own. We still love it though. [NME]

Alanis Morissette has a new song! Alanis Morissette has a new song! Alanis Morissette has a new song! [Billboard]

Sorry Zuckerberg, but David Bowie totally beat you to the whole social network thing. The year was 1998, the internet was still young, and David Bowie was still pretty weird. [The Daily Swarm]

Freddie Mercury will be performing as an optical illusion, which according to Queen's Brian May is not at all a hologram but instead something entirely different. We'll believe it when we see it. Or we won't believe it when we don't see it? [Spin]

Rooney's Robert Schwartzman premieres his "Second Chances" video, starring Weezer's Brian Bell and Robert's bro, Jason Schwartzman. [Huffington Post]

Also, watch Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros get down on Letterman. The dude can do a pretty mean Funky Chicken!

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