Friday Music News Roundup

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American Idol "gives back" to charity. Now if it can only give me back the time I wasted listening to Adam Lambert's album.

Green Day play a surprise show. What's not so surprising is that their Broadway show sounds like it sucks hard.

Courtney Love revives her old group's name but not her old group's members for a new album. Why didn't she just call them Nirvana?

Apparently there's a big Christian-music awards show on this weekend. We won't be watching because we'll be too busy sacrificing lambs to the Dark Prince.—Michael Gallucci (follow me on Twitter @mgallucci)