Lady Gaga Rains On Lilith's Parade, New Music From Seu Jorge, Jack White Does the Beatles, and More Beach Boys Reunion Talk

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-- TwentyFourBit: Check out Jack White covering the Beatles' "Mother Natures' Son" in front of Barack Obama and Paul McCartney.

-- NPR Music's got the full album stream of Seu Jorge and Almaz, the new one from Seu Jorge, better known as the guy who played all those Bowie covers in The Life Aquatic.

-- NYT's "Girl Pop's Lady Gaga Makeover": "Lady Gaga has become successful by adhering to the belief that there's no inner truth to be advertised, or salvaged: all one can do is invent anew. It wasn't that long ago when artifice appeared to be on its last leg. In the mid-to-late-1990s female performers especially were in a confessional place, a movement captured and branded by Lilith Fair ..."

-- SPIN: Travis' Fran Healy has gone solo. Listen to "Buttercups," a new track off his forthcoming album, Wreckorder, out Oct. 5. Healy plays the Triple Door on August 18.

-- Rolling Stone: Beach Boy Al Jardine says the band will reunite -- with Brian Wilson on board -- next year to celebrate the Beach Boys' 50th anniversary, if only for one show. "I want to see a 100-date anniversary tour," Jardine says. "I want to go all around the world, but if this is the way it has to be, then so be it. We're going to have to rehearse one hell of a show."

-- NME: Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, reacting to his recent motorcycle accident: "I had visions of playing shows in a wheelchair."