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.

This time around from Mevio Underground it’s The Parlotones live from Studio B.

With a new album, Journey Through The Shadows, coming out in May (along with an extensive U.S. tour to support it) The Parlotones are one band you’re going to be hearing a lot more this year. The innovative South African Rockers dropped by Studio B recently and played a smokin’ acoustic set, including Should We Fight Back, Life Design and Push Me To The Floor from 2009′s Stardust Galaxies.

Their 27-city American blitz begins on May 17th at the Roxy in LA – after a stop at SXSW.

In addition to constant touring, winning numerous awards, releasing nine albums and three EPs over the past decade, the band has also managed to create its own wine label, with wines named after their songs (such as Giant Mistake, Push Me To The Floor and We Call This Dancing).

Band Members:

Glenn Hodgson – bass guitar, piano, backing vocals
Paul Hodgson – lead guitar, keyboard
Kahn Morbee – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Neil Pauw – drums

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See the entire performance from The Parlotones in Studio B here.

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 Red Hot Chili Peppers have released an interactive version of the music video for their new song Look Around. You can control various aspects of the video, zoom in and out, move from room to room and discover – we kid you not – hidden Easter eggs. It’s part music video, part video game, part omigod where will the march of technology end?

Check it out and let us know what you think!

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.