Jason Bonham

Gov’t Mule’s Pink Floyd tribute sets and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin tribute sets will tour together this summer.

Plus: Robyn, Ty Segall, Built To Spill, Southern Culture on the Skids, Hot Snakes, PAWS, and more tour-related news.

Live Nation is once again offering $20 “all-in” (aka service fees included) tickets to over 2000 shows  happening this summer with a promotion they’re calling National Concert Week. Those include shows with such artists as Arcade Fire, Beck, Dead & Company, Paramore, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Bon Jovi, The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer/Pixies, Dwight Yoakam/Lucinda Williams, Janet Jackson, Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers, Alan Jackson, Bush/Stone Temple Pilots/The Cult, Counting Crows/Live, and lots more.

Mastodon at Roseland Ballroom in 2012 (more by Rebecca Reed) Georgia sludge bashers Mastodon have announced that they’ll follow 2011’s hard rock-oriented The Hunter with their sixth full length at some point this year…

Florida gets a new festival this year with the inaugural Big Guava Music Festival which goes down from May 2-4 across four stages in Tampa’s Florida State Fairgrounds and Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheater…

Tickets to see Rodriguez at Barclays Center go on presale today at 10 AM (code: “METRO”). Tickets for the Weezer Cruise go on sale today at noon…

Speaking of Led Zeppelin, they (Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and the late John Bonham’s son, Jason) were also in NYC yesterday (10/9) for a press conference at MoMA, hours before their new film, Celebration Day, made its world premiere in Manhattan’s Ziegfeld Theater…

Led Zeppelin are releasing their new concert film/album, Celebration Day, which documents their show at London’s O2 Arena (12/10/07) from their 2007 reunion tour…

words & While many designers tagged trendier (see younger) performers to appear at their Fashion Week soirees, many of which happened the day before for Fashion’s Night Out, John Varvatos and show curator/drummer Matt Sorum (Velvet Revolver, Guns N’ Roses) stayed true to the spirit of the Bowery store located where CBGB once stood, picking a lineup that would make Wayne and Garth tremble with a lack of self worth (Mike Meyers sitting on the side of the stage with a giddy grin would seem to confirm that)…

an Ahmet Ertegun Tribute…. continued below….