Roundup: War On Drugs On Fallon, Corgan on Newt, 2 Live Crew Back, Killers Seek Haiti Help

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The War on Drugs bring their Philadelphia indie rock stylings to Jimmy Fallon tonight. They’re on tour in support of their current release Slave Ambient.

Billy Corgan, of Smashing Pumpkins, weighing in on Newt Gingrich’s SC Primary win over the weekend with this tweet :man cheats on wife, marries his mistress, runs for president and gets an ovation for being insane…only in amerisicka…

90’s rappers 2 Live Crew are reuniting and touring this summer as reported by Pollstar

The Killers are asking for continued support of Haitian charity Aid Still Required, marking the recent second anniversary of the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit Port -Au- Prince in January of 2010.

Happy birthday to Robin Zander of Cheap Trick. He turns 59 today.

Mathew McConaughey has revisited his role as David Wooderson, from the stoner comedy Dazed and Confused, for Butch Walker’s new video for “Synthesizers,” off his album The Spade. Entertainment Weekly reports McConaughey and Walker are both fans of each others’ work

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Pat Ferrise grew up loving ”the punk rock” and “new wave.” His years at one of the nation’s top college radio stations ultimately led him to a 15-year run as music director of alternative music icon WHFS Washington/Baltimore. Rolling Stone magazine named him of the most influential programmers of the 90s. He’s recorded two albums under the moniker Trampoline for the now defunct SpinArt label. He lives in Baltimore and takes no credit for writing this bio.