I Read The News Today... For July 15, 2010

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Amy Winehouse's album will reportedly be out by January at the latest. Hey, have you also heard I'm the Queen Of England?! —Metro

Rush have released an iPhone and iPod Touch application. It'll cost you a mere $2.99 U.S. ($3.11 Canadian) —Blabbermouth

We Were So Turned On, a David Bowie tribute album featuring A Place To Bury Strangers, Vivian Girls, John Frusciante's new Swahili Blonde project and Devendra Banhart's Megapuss, is out Oct. 11. —NME

A tribute single for former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable, who died last month, will be released on July 25. —Spinner

Johnny Marr, who scored the new Leonardo DiCaprio film, Inception, performed his score with a 20-piece orchestra in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Poison The Well will scream no more... at least for a little while. They're going on a hiatus. (Fall Out Boy fans probably still do not know what "hiatus" means.) —Alternative Press

Rage Against The Machine will play their first show in Los Angeles in more than 10 years on July 23 with Conor Oberst. It's a gig that's being played to protest Arizona's new immigration law. —Spinner

BBC2 will air When Harvey Met Bob, a new TV movie about Live Aid, to mark the festival's 25th anniversary this fall. —Variety

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, Ryan Adams, Iggy Pop and Kele Okereke have contributed pieces to Five Dials online literary magazine. —Pitchfork

Avril Lavigne and Brody Jenner could get their own reality show. Couldn't they just both go on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! if they want to attempt to reignite their careers? —Perez Hilton

The RIAA apparently paid its lawyers $16 million to sue pirates in 2008 and got only $391,000 of that back. Something... isn't... working... here... —Prefix

Islands debuted a few new songs in New York recently. —Stereogum

Jimmy Eat World's new album, Invented, is out Sept. 28. —Twitter

The Vaselines are touring in support of their first album in 30 years this fall. —Consequence Of Sound

This one's for your mom: Enrique Iglesias promised to water ski naked if Spain won the World Cup... and he says he's going to honour that promise. —MSNBC

Pete Wentz has revealed that a woman named Bebe Rexha, who's an unknown singer/songwriter, is the vocalist for his new Black Cards project. —San Francisco Chronicle

Screaming Females' Castle Talk album is out Sept. 14. —The Music Slut

The Tallest Man On Earth has announced a massive fall tour. —Tiny Mix Tapes

An amusing look at Ozzy's genes. —The Onion

Wire have released a set of legal bootlegs and are working on new material. —Tiny Mix Tapes

Teenage Fanclub are coming your way this fall. —Consequence Of Sound

A new Rival Schools album will be out in October. —Indie Rock Reviews

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