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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)

This Labor Day Kick Back with KROK!

Monday, September 5th Channel 95.7 FM will be airing music specials to set the soundtrack of your Labor Day Holiday.

10am - Rave On Buddy Holly highlights tracks from the new tribute album, featuring covers of Buddy Holly’s classics by some of today’s top artists including The Black Keys, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Florence + The Machine, Julian Casablancas and more!

11am - Inside Tom Morello’s The Nightwatchman: World Wide Rebel Songs is a one-hour special featuring Morello being interviewed by Jane’s Addiction front man Perry Farrell.  For his third full length album as The Nightwatchman, Tom Morello switched up his style, assumed the role of front man for a band (The Freedom Fighter Orchestra) and picked up his electric guitar to convey his messages of resistance.

12pm - Why Pink Floyd? is produced and hosted by In The Studio’s Redbeard, featuring a new interview from the only member to have remained in the group for its entire existence, drummer Nick Mason. Why Pink Floyd? will feature never-before-heard demos, live cuts, rarities and Pink Floyd classics.

1pm - Inside Red Hot Chili Peppers: I’m With You is a one-hour radio program, hosted by Matt Pinfield, as he sits down with singer Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith, and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer for a conversation about the recording and making of I’m With You, the multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning band’s tenth studio album and first new album since the two-set Stadium Arcadium in 2006.

The specials will be replayed that evening from 6pm-10pm. So this Labor Day Kick Back with KROK on Channel 95.7 FM or stream online at http://www.krok.com

Remember Ann Kirsten Kennis, the former model who sued Vampire Weekend for $2 million for using her photo on the cover of last year’s Contra? Well, over a year later, Photo District News reports that the preppy-on-preppy litigation was settled after the band and XL Records agreed to pay Kennis an undisclosed sum, and the case was dismissed by court order last week. VW and XL maintain that the true fault lies photographer Tod Brody, who apparently did not take the picture but licensed the Polaroid of Kennis to Vampire Weekend for $5,000 and allegedly provided a forged model release. The band and their label are still pursuing a countersuit against Brody, who has been representing himself since June, when his lawyer quit over “lack of cooperation and failure to pay his bills.” Sounds like a character! (read more via Flavorwire » Vampire Weekend’s ‘Contra’ Cover Model Case Finally Settled)