The Beach Boys are reuniting at The Grammys Awards for their first live performance in more than two decades.

From a Grammys press release, issued today:

Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks, who have not performed together live in more than two decades, will reunite on the Grammy stage and join with current Grammy nominees Foster The People and Maroon 5 for a special performance. Current nominees The Civil Wars, two-time Grammy winner Diana Krall, funk artist Maceo Parker, and six-time Grammy winner Joe Walsh have also been added to the stellar lineup for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.

Back in December The Beach Boys announced that they would reunite to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a new album and a tour.

The Grammy Awards will be broadcast live Sunday night on CBS. Click here for the full list of this year’s nominees.

Top Songs:

1. “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” Kelly Clarkson
2. “Set Fire to the Rain” ADELE
3. “Turn Me On (feat. Nicki Minaj)” Nicki Minaj, David Guetta
4. “Rack City” Tyga
5. “Young, Wild & Free (feat. Bruno Mars)” Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg
6. “Give Me All Your Luvin’ (feat. Nicki Minaj, M.I.A.)” Madonna
7. “Good Feeling” Flo Rida
8. “Smooth Criminal (Glee Cast Version) (feat. 2CELLOS)” Glee Cast
9. “Ass Back Home (feat. Nean Hitch)” Gym Class Heroes
10. “Domino” Jessie J

Top Albums:

1. “MDNA,” Madonna
2. “Born to Die” Lana Del Rey
3. “21″ ADELE
4. “Celebration” Madonna
5. “Take Care” Drake
6. “Making Mirrors” Gotye
7. “Old Ideas” Leonard Cohen
8. “Stronger” Kelly Clarkson
9. “Bangarang” Skrillex
10. “Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” Various Artists

The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live at 8 PM EST on CBS television this Sunday, February 12, from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. As MTV reports, it’s an unusual collection of acts competing for Best New Artist this year, including Nicki Minaj, Skrillex, Bon Iver, J. Cole and the Band Perry.

Whoever ends up staying in their seat when the Best New Artist trophy is handed out at Sunday’s Grammys shouldn’t feel so bad: They’re in pretty good company. Recent years have seen such multiplatinum stars as Justin Bieber, Drake, Lady Antebellum and Taylor Swift come out on the short end in the category.

Read More: Grammys Pit Nicki Minaj Vs. Skrillex For Best New Artist – Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV.

Earlier this month, Metallica.com confirmed rumors that a 3D movie of the band is in the works.

…the more astute of you may have noticed a couple of mentions in trade publications, and most recently in the new issue of Rolling Stone, that a Metallica 3D movie is in the works. We’re here to tell you that, yes, there is indeed a 3D project in the very early stages of production! We wish we could tell you more right now, but we don’t have all the finer points nailed down just yet. What we can tell you is that we are planning on being in a theatre near you sometime in 2013 and as you hear us say ever so often, this will be the space for all the details as we finalize them.

Now the site has a teaser video up, with a note saying that something big will be happening at 11 AM Pacific Time this morning.

We’ll update this post when more information’s available.

UPDATE: 11:33 AM – It turns out that the big news is not about the 3D movie, but about the Orion Music and More festival which will be held in Atlantic City on June 23rd and 24th. Metallica will “headline and curate” the festival, as they announced during the livestream this morning. Bands including Arctic Monkeys, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage The Elephant, The Black Angels and Liturgy are all scheduled to perform.

More info is at http://orionmusicandmore.com.

Jane’s Addiction recently announced tour dates for 2012. They’re playing at the Rolling Stone Tailgate in Indy on Super Bowl Sunday, then start the “Theatre of the Escapists” tour on  February 22nd in St. Louis. The setlist will include lots of material from their 2011 release The Great Escape Artist. Perry Farrell told Rolling Stone that the staging has been inspired by “Boardwalk Empire.”

“We’re starting to go over stage design and put together the stage, and I’m really happy that we’re underway,” he tells Rolling Stone, adding that video mapping will be a big part of the production. “The style of the show is what I’m calling Twenties surrealist with a Sixties, Warhol pop twist. I’m going through old archival films and finding some crazy stuff, like 1920s stag films.”

Read More [From Rolling Stone] : Perry Farrell: Jane’s Addiction Tour Inspired by ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Era

Neil Young wants to preserve the sound quality of current rock recordings – and he believes he had an ally in the late Steve Jobs.

From Rolling Stone:

“My goal is to try and rescue the art form that I’ve been practicing for the past 50 years,” Young said during a panel discussion at this week’s D: Dive Into Media conference in Southern California. “We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it.”

Young explained that “some rich guy” would ultimately offer a solution by creating new hardware to preserve more audio content in digital formats, and heralded Jobs as a like-minded soul. “Steve Jobs [was] a pioneer of digital music, and his legacy is tremendous,” Young said. “But when he went home, he listened to vinyl. And you’ve got to believe that if he’d lived long enough, he would have done what I’m trying to do.”

Young has also recently posted a 37-minute long collaboration with his band Crazy Horse online. The sequence is titled “Horse Back” and was recorded at Audio Casa Blanca studios on January 6 this month. Hear it streaming online at Neilyoung.com.

Adele to make live comeback at Grammy Awards. [NME.COM] - Adele has confirmed that she will make her live comeback at the 2012 Grammy Awards on February 12 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. She’ll also be appearing at the O2 Arena on February 21 for this year’s Brit Awards. The singer said she was “immensely proud” to be playing her first live performance since she went under the knife to have vocal chord microsurgery in last year, in order to stop recurrent bleeding from a benign polyp.

US Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich sued for using ‘Eye Of The Tiger’. [NME] - Newt Gingrich, who is among the frontrunners to become the Republican candidate for the US Presidency, is facing a lawsuit over his use of “Eye Of The Tiger” by Survivor at campaign events. The track was first released in 1982, but is perhaps best known for its appearance in the classic film Rocky III.

Fader Fort by Fiat held showcases on Friday and Saturday at CMJ, featuring bands like ASAP Rocky, Clams Casino, Danny Brown, Purity Ring, Grimes, Bleached, and of course, Wavves (who played Saturday night at 8:30).

For over a decade, The FADER FORT has established its place as a dedicated venue for music fans to discover new artists in a free location unlike any other of its kind. We’ve partnered with the CMJ music festival this year to bring some of our favorite FADER bands, in addition to some impressive fashion and art activations, to a space that easily caters to our audience.

Andy Cohn, President and Publisher of FADER Media, Inc.

Wavves is a Surf/Punk band out of San Diego, California. Fronted by Nathan Williams, the band has just released an EP titled “Life Sux.” Here’s the track listing.

• “Bug”
• “I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl”
• “Nodding Off”
• “Poor Lenore”
• “Destroy”
• “In The Sand”

Current Members:

• Nathan Williams
• Stephen Pope
• Jacob Cooper

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