Coldplay were joined onstage by Alicia Keys, who played piano on the Brits' 'Clocks,' on Sunday at the Japanese festival Summer Sonic.

Stereophonics are releasing a 'Best of' album, featuring 20 songs spanning their career.

Cure songs will be remixed by band members from Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds to Mars for a new EP.

Tegan and Sara have lined up fall tour dates, including a solo performance by Tegan at a Housing Works benefit show in New York.

The Killers previewed two new album tracks called 'Spaceman' and 'Neon Tiger' at a gig in New York on Tuesday night.

My Chemical Romance are planning to record a cover of Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row' for the film adaptation of the graphic novel 'Watchmen.'

After challenging fans to submit videos for their single 'Hideaway,' the Weepies have chosen a winner. The winner won $10,000 from Nettwerk, and his entry will now be their official video.

Broken Social Scene will tour in support of the solo projects by band members Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning this summer and fall.

C'mon, why so glum? First there were the protests against sensational press coverage of a supposed emo suicide in the UK. Now, Russian legislators are considering a formal crackdown on unruly bangs, black nail polish and other stylistic badges of goth culture.

The music of bands such as My Chemical Romance and their Russian equivalents is being blamed in the State Duma for a "spiritual and ethical crisis" among Russian youth -- depression, "anti-social behavior" and yes, the glorification of suicide. Hey, their prime minister isn't exactly a bowl of sunshine, either.

"This is the first step in the public discourse," said Alexander Grishunin, an adviser to the lawmaker who is sponsoring the bill. If so, that's some discourse they've got there: One little whimper or woe-is-me, and they pass a law against it.

"Expressing psychological emotions is not forbidden by law," fumed Dmitry Gilevich, drummer for the Russian emo band MAIO. Oh, yes. In fact, they have ways of making you talk.

Marilyn Manson vs. My Chemical Romance

Fightin' Words: "Rebels without applause/ I sell my shadow to those who are standing in it" ('Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery,' Manson)

The aging shock rocker took shots at a younger generation, claiming that MCR owes him an unacknowledged debt. MCR frontman Gerard Way, astutely noting that many feuds occur when one of the offending parties has a new record to promote, dismissed Manson: "If Elvis Costello said we sucked we would think about it a bit ... We still haven't found someone that has knocked us down that we need to take seriously."

Judges' Decision: My Chemical Romance gets the last laugh

With their album 'The Black Parade' and subsequent tours, My Chemical Romance have emerged as one of the most theatrical and visually compelling bands in rock, hearkening back to a time when concerts were feats for the eyes as well as the ears. Backstage at Projekt Revolution, where the quintet continues to display its grand artistic style with pyrotechnics and an elaborate stage setup, frontman Gerard Way offered some insight into where the band might have gotten its ideas by listing his favorite visual rock acts.

1. The Smashing Pumpkins: Not only did each of their members embody a completely different feeling, but with each record they evolved and grew the hell up and really pushed it and tapped into things like Fritz Lang and 'Voyage to The Moon' and things like that. That's ballsy stuff, and it becomes art rock at that point. I really feel no matter what anybody says about what we do, we're doing art rock. It's on a grand scale, but it's art rock.

2. Queen: Another band that evolved -- you have Freddie [Mercury] as a harlequin, a greaser, wearing a parade jacket, and everybody in that band evolving with him in their own unique way.

Julien-K's Ryan Shuck has seen the faces of fans when his band takes the stage. "I know some of the kids recognize us. I can see them while I'm playing," he tells Spinner. "They're going, 'Is that Orgy?'" Not quite, but close. Shuck and Amir Derakh from Orgy did start Julien-K, and like Orgy, Julien-K is a dance/rock hybrid -- only with the emphasis this time 'round more on the dance.

"We're actually skewed more electronic, a little less rock," Derakh says. "Deep down inside we really felt that we had always wanted the band to go in the direction of what we're doing now."

"That was the initial thought behind Orgy," Shuck adds. "To become an electronic band that could play with the likes of the rock bands."

So that Liza Minnelli doll is looking a little lonely up there on the shelf? Well, these skeleton-suited fellas will be glad to keep her company. With settings that include "whine," "moan" and "convulse," they'll fill the drama-queen niche that's likely to be empty for any collector not privy to one of those 'Mamma Mia' prototypes.

Accessories: Coffin-shaped cases to house 'em between uses.

Great for: Depressing all the other figures nestled near 'em on the shelf.