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  • On his doctor's orders, Gregg Allman has cancelled all of his tour dates through September 14th. Allman -who received a successful liver transplant in 2010 - also yanked some dates on his European tour two months ago due to an upper respiratory condition. "His doctor hoped that with rest, he'd get better, but unfortunately the issue has persisted," his spokesperson said in a statement.  "Treatment is going to involve several days of hospitalization and four to six weeks of bed rest at home. Allman continues to recover  from his successful liver transplant and expects to return to touring in support of his highly acclaimed Low Country Blues album in the late fall."

    Photos: Allman Brothers and Friends Rock New York

    Just over a week ago, the Allman Brothers headlined a show at New York's Beacon Theater that raised over a quarter million dollars for the American Liver Foundation and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable. "After my operation, I'm really just happy to be out playing,"

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  • It had been 100 degrees all day when the Flaming Lips prepared to take the stage Sunday evening at Tulsa's Brady Block Party in their home state. When the sun abruptly gave way to rain torrents, and winds pummeled the stage at 70 to 80 miles per hour, the band and its roadies immediately cut off the electricity. A tarp blew off the top of the stage, and bassist Michael Ivins, like everybody else, began to cover his amplifier. Suddenly, the band's 15-foot video screen toppled over the back of the stage, prompting gasps from the audience and pushing Ivins to leap out of the way to avoid a catastrophic injury. (Watch below.)

    "We were all on stage thinking, 'What are we actually going to do, here?' It was just pouring down rain," Ivins told Rolling Stone this morning by phone from Oklahoma City. "Then the screen started moving. There wasn't a lot of space between the screen and an eight-foot drop. I basically had to leap over one of the legs [of the screen] to get out of the way. It was

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  • Noel Gallagher's new project Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds came together in large part because he was bored. "I was in a band, right?" the former Oasis guitarist says. "And I left. And then I wrote some songs. I had a lot of songs left over from the band. And then I wrote some other songs. And after a couple of years sitting 'round the house, I had a baby. Moved house. My wife decided it was time for me to do something because I was annoying her."

    The group's name was inspired by two 1960s rock bands. "I was listening to Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and I was going 'Oh, Noel Gallagher's something,'" he says. "And then I was rooting through CDs one day and there it was - 'High Flying Bird' by the Jefferson Airplane. And I was like, 'F**king hell, I'm a genius. I'm a f**king genius.'"

    Gallagher recruited many of his longtime friends to join the High Flying Birds, including guitarist David McDonnell and bassist Russell Pritchard. He says that the recording of their self-titled album -

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