Roger Waters is making plans to bring his highly successful Wall tour
back to America in 2012. The show will hit venues he missed the first
time around - as well as baseball stadiums in  a few big cities. "There
are quite a few markets we didn't cover last time, like Austin," he says
in an interview for the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands and available through Rolling Stone
All Access on September 30th. "But we want to base the tour around
Saturday nights in baseball stadiums. As we speak, I'm at my office
working on an outdoor version of the show."

Pink Floyd played live versions of The Wall in 1980 and
1981, and Waters spent the last year reviving it - but it's always been
an indoor show. "We're going to be projecting over 140 yards," he says.
"So now it's going to be 1,500 pixels wide. We've done light tests and
Fenway Park and Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium just to see what the
ambient light is like. And it's fine. It works. We've taken part of the
Wall and the

In the next few months, Sting
will celebrate his 25th anniversary as a solo artist (and his 60th
birthday) with a new box set and theater tour. The biggest party,
though, will be the October 1st benefit
he's throwing for the Robin Hood Foundation in New York, where he'll be
joined by Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Billy Joel and many more. For
Sting, the show is both a celebration and chance to give back. Rolling Stone spoke
with him backstage at the iHeartRadio festival last weekend about fame,
looking back, current music and the relationships in his life as he
turns 60.

You just released the box set, which meant a fair amount of revisiting your past.
I
was kind of forced to look back, and I was kind of pleasantly surprised
by what I heard. I thought the younger me made some reasonable musical
decisions, there's a reasonable level of musical sophistication and
harmonic knowledge displayed.

Were there any tracks in particular that stood out to you?
What
we did was we remixed a lot

Death Row Records co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight Jr. will be the subject of a new documentary to be produced by and broadcast on Showtime. The movie, tentatively titled simply Suge Knight, will be directed by Training Day filmmaker
Antoine Fuqua and feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chuck
Phillips as a co-producer. The documentary will tell Knight's story from
his youth in Compton, California to his role in the East Coast/West
Coast rap wars of the Nineties and beyond.

Photos: Random Notes
According
to Showtime, this documentary about Knight will be the first in a
series of films made for the premium network by prestigious talent about
"iconic and controversial figures." Knight has given his approval to
the project and his new music company, Black Kapital, will provide the
movie's soundtrack.

Photo by Isaac Brekken/WireImage

In Capitol Records' giant Studio A in Los Angeles this summer, the surviving Beach Boys - Brian Wilson,
Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston - gathered around a microphone
and, for the first time in two dec­ades, harmonized on a track. The
song was, appropriately enough, a rerecording of their stomping 1968 hit
"Do It Again." "Even the veteran sound engineers were moved," says
Jardine. "Not all of us are left, but there are still enough of us for
that vibration to come through."

"The song title has pretty firm implications, doesn't it?" says Love.
"Brian asked me, 'How does a 70-year-old sound that good?' "

After resolving decades of bitter legal battles, the band is
reuniting to celebrate its 50th anniversary in a major way, with
archival releases on the way, including the upcoming Smile Sessions
(out November 1st). And the "Do It Again" session was filmed as a
promotional video for a likely world tour next year. "We'll do maybe 50
amphitheaters here and 50 or 60 overseas,"

The Cure have announced plans to perform their first three albums - 1979's Three Imaginary Boys, 1980's Seventeen Seconds and 1981's Faith
- in their entirety at a series of concerts in London, Los Angeles and
New York City. The band previously played these albums in full at their
"Reflections" show at the Vivid Festival in Sydney earlier this year.
According to the band's website, these seven concerts will be the last times the records will be performed live.

Photos: Random Notes
The
dates for the Cure's shows, which are perfectly timed to celebrate the
band's nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are as follows:

11/15 London, England - Royal Albert Hall
11/21 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
11/22 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
11/23 Los Angeles - Pantages Theatre
11/25 New York City - Beacon Theatre
11/26 New York City - Beacon Theatre
11/27 New York City - Beacon Theatre

Photo by John Shearer/WireImage

Peter Gabriel is a man who does things on his own schedule. He's only released three studio albums of new material since 1982's Peter Gabriel IV, and he's resisted the immense pressure to reunite with Genesis
for a brief (and highly lucrative) reunion tour. He did call a band
meeting in 2005 to talk about it, but quickly changed his mind. Two
weeks ago we sat down with Gabriel to talk about his new LP New Blood, but we couldn't resist grilling him about Genesis. Later this week, we'll post the portions of the Q&A about New Blood,
future albums and tours, his love of Bruce Springsteen and the overuse
of "Solsbury Hill" in movie trailers. In the meantime, here's our
extended interrogation about Genesis. 

Is there part of you that thinks it might be fun to do a few
Genesis concerts? Wouldn't it be a great way to end the band and bring
your career full circle?
I did talk to those guys about it
on this last round. And then it was growing into this bigger thing and I
had all these other

In this week's slate of Rolling Stone album reviews, Jon Dolan raves about Wilco's new disc, The Whole Love,
which he says is musically all over the place but totally direct in its
lyrical sentiments. Also, Jody Rosen celebrates the "doorstopper
20th-anniversary box set" edition of Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind,
Chuck Eddy pans Chickenfoot's mostly plodding second record and Alan
Light gives high marks to the new comprehensive box set retrospective of
Sting's solo career.

Wilco - The Whole Love (stream one song)

Nirvana - Nevermind (20th Anniversary Edition) (stream one song)

Blink-182 - Neighborhoods (stream one song)

Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot III (stream one song)

J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story (stream one song)

Mastodon - The Hunter (stream one song)

Sting - 25 Years (stream one song)

Jason Derulo - Future History (stream one song)

Spank Rock - Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar (stream full album)

Anvil - Monument of Metal: The Very Best of Anvil

The last couple of years have been beyond turbulent for Aerosmith - but now, Steven Tyler tells Rolling Stone that the new album is almost done.

"Two months doing that and we're almost there," Tyler said backstage
at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas this past weekend. "We're gonna
spend another month in L.A." Is there a release date in mind? "March,
hopefully."

The frontman was in great spirits, and why not? He had just schooled
an audience of 20,000 fans in rock history with the help of guitar god
Jeff Beck. The two of them sounded so good together on songs like "You
Really Got Me" and Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" it seemed a shame to waste that magic pairing on only four songs.

Could there be more collaborations with Beck in the making? "The
rest is yet to reveal," Tyler said. "If I had my way, I'd say yes. We
did 'Cry Me A River' and an Etta James song," he says. "[We] went to
rehearsal to learn these four songs. Two we knew and we