The Red Hot Chili Peppers will play their first gig together since taking an extended break in 2008. The band will perform at MusiCares 2010 on January 29th at the Los Angeles Convention Center, alongside such artists as James Taylor, Wilco, Sheryl Crow, Everest and Norah Jones. The show is part of a special tribute to Neil Young, who will be honored for his achievements in both music and philanthropy.

The Colorado ski town of Breckenridge has voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana. Early returns Tuesday night showed the proposal winning with 72 percent of the vote. The measure would allow adults over 21 to have up to 1 ounce of marijuana.

Steven Tyler made a surprise onstage appearance with the Joe Perry Project in New York at the Fillmore in Irving Plaza on Tuesday. The reunion of Aerosmith members Tyler and Perry comes just days after rumors of Tyler leaving the band began spreading. Tyler told the crowd at the show, "I just want New York to know, I am not leaving Aerosmith." Tyler added, "Joe Perry, you are a man of many colors, but I . . . am the rainbow!"

Morrissey brought the UK leg of his current tour to an abrupt halt in Liverpool Saturday when he walked offstage after being hit on the head by a drink thrown from the audience. The former Smiths singer said simply "goodbye" at the Liverpool Echo Arena following the incident, and left the stage in the middle of his second song. He had started with The Smiths classic 'This Charming Man' and was in the middle of 'Black Cloud' when the incident happened.

Top 5 Rock Songs for the week:
1: Wheels, Foo Fighters
2: Check My Brain, Alice In Chains
3: I Will Not Bow, Breaking Benjamin
4: Break, Three Days Grace
5: Jars, Chevelle

We may have lost Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and most of the Sun Records legends, but Jerry Lee Lewis is still going strong. The 74-year-old musician just released a new EP, Mean Old Man. (How's that for a title?) It includes more high-profile guest stars than songs: Eric Clapton, Slash, Sheryl Crow, Merle Haggard, Kid Rock and Kris Kristofferson appear on the five tracks. The EP is just a taste of Lewis' upcoming album, due next year.

James Taylor & Carole King are going to hit the road together. The tour begins in Australia in March and hits Los Angeles in May. They've only announced seven dates, but promise more will come.

Iggy Pop has confirmed that he will rejoin the Stooges for a tour sometime in 2010.

Them Crooked Vultures is streaming its new album online.

Pam Grier has signed to play a villain on Smallville.

Stephen King has a short story in the New Yorker.

Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake will be voicing characters in a new Yogi Bear movie.

American Idiot, the highly popular stage adaptation of Green Day's Grammy winning album of the same name, is headed to Broadway after a successful run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California. On Monday, the musical's producers put out a casting call in New York for the show and confirmed to Playbill that it would move to Broadway.

On Sale Now... Coming to the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ:

West, Bruce Jr & Laing with Special Guest Edgar Winter Band
Saturday, January 30

Doobie Brothers
Friday, April 30

The Who will perform at the Super Bowl. The veteran band will take the stage during the halftime show of the 2010 National Football League championship game, scheduled for February 7 in Miami.

Jaguars @ Jets 1PM / Pats @ Colts 8PM

Former football star Lawrence Taylor has been released on bond following his arrest in a Miami-area traffic accident. According to Miami-Dade County jail records, Taylor was charged Sunday with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, a second-degree misdemeanor. He was released on $500 bond later that night. It was not immediately clear if Taylor has an attorney.

NBA Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 62, currently a coach with the Lakers, announced early this week that he has cancer. Abdul-Jabbar was diagnosed with CML in December 2008 and is being treated with a medicine that targets the abnormal protein that causes his leukemia. With treatment Abdul-Jabbar is expected to live a full, active life.

Lou Reed said, "One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." Sometimes one needs to simplify. Lose one or two chords, and things get right to the point.

An Andy Warhol painting called "200 One Dollar Bills" fetched the mega sum at Sotheby's this week. It represented an incredible profit for the seller, who purchased the silkscreen for $385,000 in 1986. Sotheby's had estimated it would sell for $12 million. The 1962 work comes from a period when Warhol began to refine his technique. "It's truly the starting point of pop art," said Sotheby's Alex Rotter. It looks like it should be worth $200, but it sold for a whopping $43.7 million.

The History Channel recently announced that it will air a new documentary about the Beatles rise to stardom on Wednesday, November 25 at 10 PM Eastern Time. The film, titled The Beatles on Record, will trace the band's artistic growth from the early 1960s to the early 1970s.

ABC is close to giving a pilot order to a modern version of the classic 1970s TV "Charlie's Angels."

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