Fiction Plane was not the only band at Camp Bisco this past weekend to come all the way from the U.K. The seventh incarnation of the three-day festival, now held in Mariaville, N.Y., featured a handful of British groups including the Egg and a cluster of acts from the revered electronic Twisted record label. However, Fiction Plane may have been the only band there who willingly admitted to being unfamiliar with Camp Bisco's host and headliner, the Disco Biscuits.

"I never heard of the Disco Biscuits until I read it on the sheet today," confessed bassist (and Sting's son) Joe Sumner. "You know what I'm going to do? We finished our gig; I'm now going to get slightly inebriated and discover the true nature of the festival."

Although he didn't sit in with the festival hosts, as rumored from inside sources, Snoop Dogg did take his second hippie festival in a row (following Rothbury) by storm, performing hits from the past 15 years for a crowd clad in Bisco-themed shirts, tie-dyes and patchworks at Camp Bisco (the Disco Biscuits' annual fest) this past weekend.

Not sure if more smoke emanated from the stage or the audience, however, and with his head obviously in the clouds (or, at least, some kind of fog), Snoop repeatedly told the audience to stay tuned because 311 were up next. (Snoop is currently on tour with 311, but the band was never on the bill at Camp Bisco. Whoops!)

On Wednesday, actress turned chanteuse Zooey Deschanel and musician/producer Matt Ward, known collectively as She & Him, set off on their first proper tour. "Yeah, we're going to get on the bus -- first time for this band," Ward tells Spinner during a coffee break.

Though Ward is a well-traveled man, thanks to his days promoting his five studio releases under the name M. Ward, the trek will be something new for Deschanel, who after spending the early part of the summer promoting her co-starring role in M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening,' will wrap up the season on a bus.

"It's definitely a different sort of thing to get used to living sort of on the bus, but I guess, by and large we're going to [spend a lot of time] living in hotels, which is something she's very accustomed to," Ward said. Their trek kicks off in Toronto and will make a total of 14 stops, wrapping up at the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore next month.

Last weekend brought not only a heat wave to New York City, but also its annual, carny-friendly music festival at historic Coney Island: Siren Festival. It was perhaps the last year for the event, as Brooklyn developers threaten to move in on the shores, thus ridding indie fans of a guaranteed day of rock romping and hot dog devouring.

But not this year. The lines at Nathan's were long and the lineup was simultaneously brimming with cred and fresh with new faces. Headliners Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and Broken Social Scene played to their adoring audiences, while bands like Helio Sequence, who covered the Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows,' got the chance to make new fans in the massive crowds. Other highlights included Islands' awesomely bizzarre performance, which included an upside down trash can and a dimunitive, red headed rapper from Queens, and a gorgeous atmospheric pop set from Beach House. Check out tons of photos from the sun-drenched day.

Last night Billy Joel said goodbye to New York's Shea Stadium, with a little help from his friends. The site of both the first-ever stadium concert in rock history, put on in 1965 by the Beatles, and myriad historical Mets moments, including their 1969 Miracle season, Shea Stadium is dear to many a music and sports fan's heart.

"They're gonna be tearing this place down," the Long Island native told the crowd, "but I want to thank you ... for letting me do the best job in the world." The baseball stadium will be demolished to make way for the new Citi Field. Throughout the night, Joel was joined on stage by the likes of Tony Bennett, Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey and Steven Tyler -- who each treated the sold-out crowd of more than 55,000 people to selections of their own songs. Read more.

When it comes to concerts, let's be honest: Unless your band rocks a double kick drum and has ch-ch-chunky power chords, bigger is rarely better. Many die-hard music fans love to play the game 'I saw Modest Mouse in a club this small,' but there's one place on the Net where you can witness amazing, brief moments of musical glory in the smallest venue of all.

Like it says on their Web site, "One song. One take. One cab" is the perfect description of the Black Cab Sessions' modus operandi, and there are moments of minimalist beauty throughout this unique London-based production company's mini-films. If the site feels like a labor of sincere musical love, that is because it is, explains Black Cab-ber/filmmaker Jonny Madderson. He says that they stay true to the one-shot rule for two basic reasons -- endorphins and money. "We're pretty militant about the 'one take' thing, because it adds so much to what is thrilling about the sessions -- watching an artist go for it as the cab weaves around corners and lurches over speed bumps. We're also hard core for financial reasons: We pay for this all ourselves, so doing any more than one take would mean the cab fares get expensive."

Queens of the Stone Age will hold a benefit concert in Los Angeles on Aug. 16 to celebrate the life of touring member Natasha Shneider, who passed away on July 2 of cancer. PJ Harvey, Tenacious D and Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron are among those who will perform at the event, scheduled for the city's Fonda Theatre.

Others slated to appear include former Distillers frontwoman Brody Dalle, Eagles of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes, ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons, producer and Masters of Reality vet Chris Goss, and Alain Johannes, who played with Shneider in the band Eleven. According to the benefit announcement, these guests "will help perform songs from the limits of the QOTSA catalog and beyond."

Proceeds from the event will help defray the costs associated with Shneider's medical treatment. Tickets are $100 and go on sale this Saturday, July 19, via Ticketmaster. Fans who cannot attend but wish to "donate to relieve the burden of Natasha's fight with cancer" can do so through www.natashashneider.org.

Carl Newman (a.k.a. A.C. Newman of the New Pornographers) isn't sure whether to be excited or intimidated about the studio in which he is currently recording his sophomore solo album. "When I got here," he recalls about the Carriage House studio in Stamford, Conn., "I realized that this is the place where the Pixies recorded 'Doolittle,' so it is kind of legendary. In a way, it is almost disheartening ... to know a record is so good that you couldn't even begin to approach it. I just think, 'Aaah, I'll just make my s---ty record and let the ghosts of Pixies lie here.'"

The self-deprecating musician is currently mixing his as-yet-untitled long-player – set for a January release – and is especially enthusiastic about the lineup of musicians who contribute to the new tunes. "My friend John Wurster, who drums with Superchunk and the Mountain Goats, did most of the drumming," he says. "A singer named Nicole Atkins did a lot of singing on it. She's a really killer singer; she kind of reminds me of a cross between Mama Cass and the Shangri-La's."

Twenty is a nice, round number. But isn't 21 the birthday where you really throw a party?

So it might be in 2009 for Sub Pop Records -- if it's up to label patriarch Bruce Pavitt. Asked to name one absent band he would have liked to see at this past weekend's SP20 two-day anniversary show, Pavitt replied, "Reverend Horton Heat, who I think is a national treasure -- a musical genius and an amazing performer. I would love to see him at next year's festival."

Yeah? You think that's gonna happen?

"I'm gonna make it happen. Jon [Jonathan Poneman, the label's other founder] doesn't know that yet."

("Yeah," Poneman responded the next day. "He can put it on all by himself.")

The 25-band charity concert at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Wash. turned out to be as satisfying for the newer artists -- Iron and Wine were clearly the top draw, and Fleet Foxes the most ascendant -- as its eagerly anticipated Class of '88 reunions: Les Thugs, the Fluid and, of course, Green River, the grunge band that began it all so long ago its first EP came out on Homestead Records. Its members then fractured into Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone ... and Mother Love Bone begat Mookie Blaylock, which soon changed their name to Pearl Jam. Frontman Mark Arm winked at Green River's supergroup pedigree by going even further back in time to introduce the band.

"Bruce Fairweather and Jeff Ament, from the Montana hardcore band Deranged Diction!

"Steve Turner and Stone Gossard, from the proto-grunge band the Ducky Boys!

"From Spluii Numa, Alex Shumway!

"Oh, and I'm the evil genius behind Mr. Epp."

Fleetwood Mac's Lindsay Buckingham will be joined by two of his primary bandmates for his fifth studio disc, the curiously titled 'Gift of Screws.' Fleetwood Mac's namesakes, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie, will appear on the follow up to 2006's 'Under The Skin,' which is set to be released on September 16.

The three worked together on a number of new songs, including the title track and 'Wait For You.' Other new titles – written in his home studio and in hotel rooms during his last tour – include 'Great Day,' 'Time Precious Time,' 'Love Runs Deeper,' 'Bel Air Rain' and 'The Right Place to Fade.'

"This album distills several periods of time," Buckingham explained. "It has false starts to make albums, songs that go back a number of years that took a while to find a home and brand-new songs. I wanted to bring it all together in one place. As an artist I'm still, for better or worse, clinging to my idealism and to my sense that there is still much to be said. This album is a culmination of that."

Buckingham, 58, will launch a six-week tour on Sept. 7 in Saratoga, Calif. As for the status of Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham told reporters of a 2009 tour earlier this year, although no additional details have surfaced.

In the "ouch-that-freakin'-hurts" department, Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson (a.k.a. #0) broke both of his heels last week after he jumped off a stage during the first-ever show of the Rockstar Mayhem Festival Tour. But instead of being sidelined by the incident, which occurred in Auburn, Wash., the now-wheelchair-bound Wilson -- sporting casts on both legs -- has vowed to carry on and perform all shows on the masked metal band's summer trek.

As evidenced by the group's Saturday performance in Mountain View, Calif., which indeed found the DJ rocking out in his chair, Wilson is a man of his word. Still, one suspects that #0 will rethink future stage acrobatics while he heals his heels.

This Week: Gnarls Barkley played a soulful set in London, the Verve's Richard Ashcroft wielded the mic in France, the Ting Tings continued their fruitful relationship with Apple at the iTunes festival, and much more. Flip through this week's set of live pics after the jump.

There were no gold watches or long speeches as the Who were feted by VH1 in Los Angeles. Fittingly for a band that, according to Jack Black, were the greatest ever "because they were the first to rock hard," the two-hour-plus tribute at UCLA featured a whole lot of loud rock, along with some stirring video tributes by the likes of Sting, Slash, Dave Navarro and more. Starting with the Foo Fighters, who delivered a scorching 'Young Man Blues,' then turned the lead vocals over to Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes for 'Bargain,' the show delivered highlight after highlight.

The Foos were then followed by the Flaming Lips. Introduced by actor Rainn Wilson, who was dressed as Elton John's character in the film version of the classic Who album 'Tommy,' the Lips began their rocking 'Tommy' medley with Wayne Coyne crowd-surfing in their now trademark plastic ball. Incubus performed 'I Can See for Miles' and 'I Can't Explain.' The former song was an apt selection for the band, as guitarist Mike Einziger told Spinner it was the first Who song he ever heard. "This sounds really funny, but I heard it on one of those greatest hits of the golden era of rock or something infomercial," he said.

Following an entertaining Tenacious D rendition of 'Squeeze Box' that ended with Black's pants down around his ankles, the de facto headliner of the first half of the night, Pearl Jam, rocked the crowd with a devastatingly powerful interpretation of 'Love Reign O'er Me' and an equally raucous 'The Real Me.'

Dave Grohl has been ordered to skip two Colorado performances this week by his doctor. As a result, the Foo Fighters' shows tonight and tomorrow night (July 14 and 15) at Morrison's Red Rocks Amphitheatre have been rescheduled for September 8 and 9.

"As much as it kills us to postpone shows, I'm in no shape to deliver the kind of balls-out performances that you guys deserve," Grohl said in a statement Sunday. "We're already looking forward to September when we can make it up to everyone ten times over. It's gonna be great."

While details of Grohl's medical situation are unclear, fans seeking refunds for the postponed gigs can obtain them at the original point of purchase until the new respective dates. The Foo Fighters' trek will resume Thursday night, July 17, in Oklahoma City.

Jon Bon Jovi is upset that tickets for his eponymous group's free New York concert, set for Saturday in Central Park, are being sold via online auction sites for up to $1,000. Some 60,000 tickets were originally handed out to fans at no cost. The singer is also steamed that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has refused to stop the third-party sales.

"We have always had the best interest in the fans at heart and repeatedly ... tried to educate [show sponsor] MLB [Major League Baseball] and New York City about the fairest and easiest distribution of tickets," Bon Jovi posted to his band's official Web site before the heated observations were later removed.

"As I said before, 'No good deed goes unpunished,'" the rocker added. "There are reports in the media about tickets being scalped for the free concert. I for one am not surprised, but our organization is disappointed."