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The KILLS will kick-off their North American tour in support of their second album No Wow with two shows in Austin on March 16th and 17th . . .

The COCTEAU TWINS reunion performance at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival on April 30th has been canceled. The trio's vocalist ELIZABETH FRASER has declined to participate due to personal reasons . . .

The SHINS will launch a spring tour April 11th in Minneapolis. The three-week trek wraps April 30th in Asheville, North Carolina . . .

The CHARLATANS will release The Charlatans -- Live At Last, a DVD filmed at London's Brixton Academy, on April 11th . . .

Industrial vets PSYCHIC TV have recorded a remix of YEAH YEAH YEAHS' "Y Control" for their as-yet-untitled upcoming album . . .

PEARL JAM are almost finished with their follow-up to 2002's Riot Act. The band plans to spend the next three weeks in the studio recording vocals and mixing. If all goes according to plan, the yet-to-be-titled disc could be released as early as May . . .

After a surprise show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles Friday night, COLDPLAY performed five new songs from their third album, X&Y (due June 7th), at the Sounds Eclectic Evening festival Saturday at the Universal Amphitheater . . .