U2 To End Their Career Soon?! (Rumor)

Oh NME. You've given us odd lists of the 150 greatest songs of the past 15 years (I do agree with your #1 though) as well as reason to believe that Peter Hook may one day hunt his former New Order bandmates down in a cabin. And as of this afternoon, you've floated out reason to believe an event I've vaguely anticipated for awhile might happen sooner than I thought. That event? The potential end of Irish rock legends U2.

I've made my opinions on U2 very clear in the past - to summarize, one of my first-ever favorite bands had in my eyes become very, very douchey, and I was understandably displeased with that. Which is why it's very weird that apparently the band itself has long been mulling over some of the precise reasons WHY I thought they'd become douchey. For example:

"The singer [Bono] has admitted the Irish four-piece, who are set to re-issue their 1991 album 'Achtung Baby' on Monday (October 31), have become irritated by him questioning the relevance of the rock veterans in the current musical climate. He told Rolling Stone magazine: 'I'm not so sure the future hasn't dried up. The band are like, 'Will you shut up about being irrelevant?' We'd be very pleased to end on [2009 studio album] 'No Line On The Horizon' [but] I doubt that.'"

The Stone Roses To Reunite In 2012?!

Image via Make Something Camp

In news that will likely seem like deja vu to pretty much everyone, Clash Music reports that Madchester rock pioneers The Stone Roses are rumored to be reuniting next year. How is this different from every other time they're rumored to reunite? Because there's supposedly going to be a full-on press conference next week about it.

Stay tuned next week for confirmation, and in case you don't remember why you should care, give their 1989 debut album another spin on Spotify. Yes, you want this to happen.

So Yeah, There Might Be A Pink Floyd Reunion Tour? (RUMOR)

Crazy week so far, why not throw a Pink Floyd reunion tour rumor into the mix? Yep, as the legendary British band begins to reissue all of their studio albums with unreleased material as the Why Pink Floyd  project and take over Late Night With Jimmy Fallon as part of Pink Floyd Week, Black Book Magazine reports that there is a possibility that such a tour might be in the works. At least, according to a "well-connected friend" of drummer Nick Mason. 

Take it with a grain of salt, but considering this spate of activity and the fact that a pig did, in fact, fly in London for Pink Floyd on Monday, you may want to keep a lookout...

Let's All Get Pissed Off About Not Getting Radiohead Tickets This Morning (But They Might Play ATP?) + TKOL RMX PART 7

The look on all of our faces at 10:45am ET. Image via Last.fm

YOU HAVE NO ITEMS IN YOUR BASKET
YOU HAVE NO ITEMS IN YOUR BASKET
YOU HAVE NO ITEMS IN YOUR BASKET
YOU HAVE NO ITEMS IN YOUR BASKET
PRE SALE ALLOCATION SOLD OUT

If you're a NYC-area Radiohead fan, chances are this is how a good part of your morning went. News spread quickly that a ticket presale for the band's upcoming September 28 and 29 shows at Roseland Ballroom began at 10am ET, and in under an hour a whooooole lot of frustrated fans were left without items in their baskets. Congrats if you DID get tickets, but the rest of us will be feverishly refreshing our browser windows for the General Sale on Monday at 10am.

There may even be another option - rumors have been flying that Radiohead will be playing All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror festival next weekend. Definitely not outside the realm of possibility since they'll be playing Roseland the night before, have no other announced shows coming up, and have surprised festival-goers at Glastonbury before. Keep those eyes open.

UPDATE: On a silver lining kind of note, Radiohead just posted the seventh and final installment of the TKOL RMX series, featuring that long-awaited Jamie xx remix of "Bloom." Rock it below while you wait to watch the band on SNL and The Colbert Report over the next few days.

OH SHIT: Radiohead Is Touring In 2012, According To Ed O'Brien

Image via Fuck Yeah Ed O'Brien

OH SHIT is right. While Jonny Greenwood is off in Poland hanging out with Aphex Twin, Radiohead's OTHER guitar virtuoso has just made some late-breaking news of his own. According to Gothamist, O'Brien mentioned in passing during an interview with Argentinian blog Al Tuntún that my favorite band in the world will get back on the road next year to rock songs from their latest release The King of Limbs live for many grateful (and impatient) fans. He's definitely a more reliable source than, say, Jay Electronica, so we're psyched.

In the meantime, we'll have to wait for Radiohead's Saturday Night Live appearance in a couple of weeks - or you can have a listen to the entire TKOL Live From The Basement performance in full and in order thanks to our friend and FN contributor Colin Fitzgerald.