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The Killers’ bassist Mark Stoermer has announced that he will be giving away his debut solo album as a free download.

The album, which is titled ‘Another Life’ is available to download free from Stoermer’s official website Markstoermer.com. The album, which is only downloadable for free for a limited time, will also be available for purchase on CD and vinyl in the coming weeks. (read more via The Killers’ bassist Mark Stoermer gives away solo album as free download | News | NME.COM)

Cage the Elephant’s Jared Champion’s appendix burst Monday night. Luckily, Dave Grohl was nearby, available to help.

The always awesome Foo Fighters leader didn’t actually perform any medical procedures on the Kentucky rocker, but he offered to fill in for the drummer at the band’s show in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Maverick Center (Cage are currently the opening act on the Foos’ tour supporting Wasting Light). “He had an ulcer for a couple days, then at 1 A.M. it was just unbearable, so he went to the emergency room,” guitarist Lincoln Parish tells SPIN. “He was rushed straight into surgery.” Enter Grohl. “Dave somehow heard what had happened and called our tour manager. He said, ‘Hey, so do you think the guys would go for it?’ ” Parish says. “Our manager was like… ‘Um, yeah!!!’”

While he currently fronts the Foo Fighters, Grohl has never strayed far from the seat where he once made history, as you may recall, and he agreed to join Cage the Elephant on the songs he’s most familiar with, including “In One Ear,” “Shake Me Down,” “Sell Yourself,” and “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked.” Cage the Elephant kicked off their set with another fill-in drummer (the tour’s monitor engineer), and then Grohl came on for the set’s last five songs. The crowd, understandably, howled when he stormed the stage. (via Dave Grohl Fills in for Hospitalized Cage the Elephant Drummer | SPIN.com)

The Voodoo Music Experience released the performance schedule this morning! Visit their website to start planning your trip and don’t forget to listen to 95.7 FM to win a pair of 3 Day Passes! (via Voodoo Experience 2011)

REM have split up after 31 years. The band, considered one of the most influential groups of all time, as well as one of the most successful, announced their decision via their website REMhq.com.

Their joint statement read:

To all our fans and friends: as REM, and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening. (via REM split up after 31 years | News | NME.COM)

Garbage are set to make a return this autumn, when they will air the first single from their forthcoming new album.

The Shirley Manson fronted band have finished mixing the first track from the follow-up to 2006’s ‘Bleed Like Me’, and have made rough mixes of 24 songs. Working titles of some of the tracks involved include: ‘Time Will Destroy Everything’, ‘Blood For Poppies’, ‘Automatic Systematic Habit’, ‘Control’, ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’, ‘Sugar’, ‘Not Your Kind Of People’, ‘T.R.O.U.B.L.E’, ‘Felt’, ‘Big Brite World’, ‘Alone’ and ‘Animal’. (via Garbage to air comeback single in October | News | NME.COM)