Music News & Notes

Green Day Tour

Green Day have enlisted Franz Ferdinand and the Kaiser Chiefs as the opening acts for the second half of their U.S. summer tour; openers for the first half are still being sorted out according to Pitchfork. The Kaisers will join Green Day from July 27th at New York’s Madison Square Garden to August 7th in New Orleans, with Franz taking over between Houston’s August 8th date and the tour’s finale, August 25th in Los Angeles.

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KISS Dolls Available

For the Kiss fan who has everything, there are some new action figures coming this August. You can check out unpainted models of the toys at Kiss Online; all four figures — Starchild, Catman, Spaceman, and the Demon — will be released in a limited-edition collectible window box, depicting the band onstage.

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Shins Back In Action

Indie-pop group the Shins have been on an extended break for more than a year, but with a 16-date tour that kicked off on May 2nd in Bellingham, Washington, and approximately 30 songs written for a new album, the group is getting back to work — though they’re not exactly the same group.

Talkative keyboardist Marty Crandall and drummer Jesse Sandoval have left the band (on good terms, according to frontman James Mercer). They’ve been replaced by the Fruit Bats’ Ron Lewis and Joe Plummer, who plays drums in the San Diego indie-rock group Black Heart Procession as well as Modest Mouse.

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