A Pink Floyd cruise will set sail for three nights in May 2009. Titled 'Great Gig in the Sea,' the cruise will include performances by Pink Floyd mimickers, trivia, parties and games.

A stroke has been cited as the cause of death for Isaac Hayes. The legendary soul singer was found unconscious on Sunday at his Tennessee home and died later that evening.

John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, was denied parole for the fifth time on Tuesday.

Death Cab for Cutie will kick off a U.S. fall tour on October 3 in Boston. The jaunt will wrap on October 26 with a performance at New Orleans' Voodoo Music Experience.

Aimee Mann will launch her third annual holiday tour on December 6 in Los Angeles. Mann is currently touring behind her latest album, '@#%&! Smilers.'

Tired of singing in the shower? Want to show your inner soft-rock-star to the world? Aimee Mann is currently hosting a contest on YouTube to encourage fans to sing her new music to the world. Her management came up with the idea, admits Mann, after watching fans cover her 'Magnolia' movie hit 'Save Me' on the internet. "They sat in the office and watched them all, then called me and said, 'They are actually kind of awesome! We should do a contest, and have people make videos for [the single] 'Freeway,'" Mann tells Spinner. "It was a good idea." Mann -- who releases her music independently on her own SuperEgo Records, including her latest album, '@#%&*! Smilers' -- put an instrumental mp3 of the track up on her website so that entrants who don't play instruments could sing along to her original backing track.

Truth is, the video announcing the competition is as entertaining as many of the entrants' videos, filled with clips of unbeknownst YouTubers who have previously covered Mann's music in their own bedrooms and home studios. The singer admits to being shocked that -- just weeks after the contest's kickoff -- her own video announcement has itself already been viewed 400,000 times.

• Scarlett Johansson and fellow actor Ryan Reynolds are engaged, the actress-turned-singer's publicist confirmed on Monday. The two have been dating since Spring 2007. Reynolds was previously engaged to Alanis Morissette.

• Las Vegas' Vegoose festival will not be held this year. Jonathan Mayers, president of Superfly Presents, the festival's co-producer, confirmed the news, saying the event may resurface in another form. Vegoose made its debut in 2005.
  

• Aimee Mann has added several dates to her North American summer tour in support of her forthcoming album, '@#%&! Smilers.' The jaunt kicks off on June 2 in L.A., and is currently scheduled to wrap on September 3 in Nashville. More dates are expected to be announced.

• The Offspring have made available the first single from their upcoming album available for free MP3 download. Fans can get the tune, titled 'Hammerhead,' at www.offspring.com.

• Kanye West has launched his own travel web site at KanyeTravel.com.

• The Hold Steady, Regina Spektor and Ingrid Michaelson are among the artists scheduled to perform during the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. The event runs April 23-May 4.

• Aimee Mann will release her new album, titled '@#%&! Smilers,' on June 3. The singer-songwriter will kick off a North American tour the day prior in L.A.
  

• My Morning Jacket have revealed the album cover for their forthcoming effort, 'Evil Urges,' which hits stores on June 10.

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It's not unusual for a musician to serve time in a cover band before making the big time, but -- with apologies to our flowerpot-hatted friends from Akron -- taking the De-evolutionary path is rather uncommon. That's not stopping the members of Cheap Trick from casting themselves as a de facto version of Beatlemania for a pull-out-the-stops re-creation of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' which they'll stage at the Hollywood Bowl next month.

The Illinoisemakers will be joined by a passel of like-minded Fab Four fans, including Joan Osborne and Aimee Mann -- not to mention the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Maybe we're just being persnickety, but we can't imagine Sgt. Pepper going forward without a star turn from Alice Cooper, who'll always be the Sun King in our book.