I Read The News Today... For June 6, 2011

Here's the bad news: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are releasing another album. The good news is it's not titled Dr. Johnny Skinz's Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head.

Here's some more bad news: That long-threatened Limp Bizkit album is actually coming out. Gold Cobra's in stores June 28. Unfortunately, there's no "silver lining" to this one.

Apple's iCloud has been unveiled.

Check out Generation: Hardcore Punk In Toronto, a new documentary about... Toronto's hardcore punk scene, duh! It features interviews with Fucked Up, Career Suicide and more.

Speaking of docs, there's a new one about "indie rock," where it came from and its rise to the mainstream. Get more information about Just Gimme Indie Rock! here.

Joan Jett is on the side of those poor baby seals.

Boston's The Wandas will return with a new self-titled album on Aug. 30. You can grab a free download of the album's "Forever And Ever" over at SoundCloud.

If you're an unsigned Canadian musician and want to be discovered, record your favourite Canadian classic and submit it as an audition for CBC's new Cover Me Canada series. It'll air this fall on CBC TV. You've got a chance to win $100,000 and a recording contract for your first single to be released by Universal Music Canada.

British protesters plan to target U2 during their upcoming set at the Glastonbury Festival because they're upset with the band's tax practices. As for the band's last few albums... I think they have no comment.

Once, the 2006 film that starred The Swell Season and won an Academy Award for best original song, is being turned into a musical. Be honest: You're more likely to go see the Rocky musical, ain't ya?

The Roots are making an orchestral album. ... Did half of you just fall asleep reading that?

The Westboro Baptist Church are planning on protesting a Taking Back Sunday show on June 18. This shows how irrelevant the WBC is - if you really wanted to get angry about emo, 2004 was the time to be doing it.

Adele has cancelled her entire North American tour because she's got laryngitis. Sucks, right? Know what sucks even more? Not being able to sing on stage because germs are attacking your throat.

OMG!!! Radiohead are releasing a series of 12-inch remix EPs! OMG!!! Caribou are doing one of them!!! OMFG!!!!!

By Divine Right, Sister and Dilly Dally are playing a fundraiser for Girls Rock Camp, which is exactly what its name implies. It goes down June 12 at Toronto's Parts And Labour and is just five bones at the door.

BreakOut West 2012, which is an annual festival and celebration of western Canadian music, will be held Sept. 26 to 30, 2012 in Regina.

Broken Social Scene and TV On The Radio are touring together for a little bit in September.

Camping passes for the first weekend of Coachella 2012 are already sold out. What the fuck, right?!

Japandroids have just announced a pretty huge North American tour. What could this MEAAAAAAAAN?!

Stoners! Kyuss Lives! have just announced a fall headlining tour!

Leon Botha, a South African DJ, painter and musician who collaborated with weirdo rap duo Die Antwoord, died this weekend. He was 26 and had rare degenerative genetic condition Progeria, which usually carries a life expectancy in the teens.