Singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins came by the Rolling Stone office recently to play a few songs from her brand new album Mondo Amore, as well as a cover of the Roy Orbison classic "Crying." After her set, Atkins speculated on how her father's love of old blues and her mother's taste for soft rock resulted in her particular sound, and explained how she stole some stage moves from the Black Keys when she toured with them last year.

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This May Elvis Costello will finally answer his fan's prayers by reviving the "Spectacular Spinning Songbook" for an American theater tour. Originally staged in 1986, the tour will feature a large wheel of 40 songs that is spun between songs to randomly determine the setlist.

According to a press release, the original wheel now resides at the (possibly fictional) Hartlepool Museum of Showbusiness Machinery, but a new one has been rebuilt from the original blueprints. Costello will be backed for the gigs by The Imposters, which features keyboardist Steve Nieve, drummer Pete Thomas and bassist Davey Fargher.

Photo Gallery: Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint At The Beacon Theater

The songs on the wheel will include hits, rarities and covers. An partial image of the wheel revealed in a press release lists "God Give Me Strength," "Accidents Will Happen," "Alison," "Watching The Detectives," "Puppet Girl" and "Almost Blue." Select audience members will be asked to spin the wheel between

Janet Jackson opened her Numbers Ones: Up Close and Personal tour at the PICC Plenary Hall in Manila on Friday. As promised, her setlist was focused almost entirely on her classic hits from the Eighties, with six selections taken from Control and seven from Rhythm Nation 1814.

Photos: Janet Jackson Launches Rock Witchu Tour With a Bang

The opening night of the tour was soured somewhat by a protest outside the venue by PETA activists dressed as grim reapers. The activists were protesting Jackson for appearing in an ad campaign for Blackglama's link of mink fur items.

Photos: Michael Jackson Remembered

Jackson's tour will hit the United States in March with a concert at the State Farm Arean in Hidalgo, Texas. It is likely that PETA protesters will show up at other dates on the singer's tour.

Janet Jackson's Manila concert attracts 'Grim Reapers' [Manila Bulletin]

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LCD Soundsystem have announced that they will perform their final concert at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan on April 2nd. In a statement released on their website, band leader James Murphy promised a three-hour show featuring all their setlist staples plus some material they have never played live. Murphy also requested that all people attending the show arrive wearing all black, all white, or black and white. New York City punk funk legends Liquid Liquid are scheduled as the opening act.

Video: LCD Soundsystem Live at Lollapalooza 2007

News of LCD Soundsystem's imminent retirement shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has read any of the band's press in the past year. Since their most recent album This Is Happening was released in May, Murphy has made it very clear that he wanted to stop performing live after the group finished promoting the record. Also, a large chunk of the lyrics on This Is Happening are about the ways in which nonstop touring has damaged Murphy's personal