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We here at JPP pride ourselves in not taking sides in political matters in our news stories. Though I'm sure all our staff members have a wealth of opinions on the subject, the last thing you need is another pro-liberal or pro-conservative news source shoving political opinions down your throat.

With that being said, when the soulful r&b singer John Legend took the stage last night in support of Barack Obama, this was a political news story I just had to share.

Las Vegas' controversial indie rockers, The Killers, have recently revealed the title of their upcoming third studio album. According to NME, the new album will be called Day and Age and should drop on Novemeber of this year.

According to an interview with frontman Brandon Flowers, the band is currently in the studio finishing up the disc.

Post-hardcore icon Geoff Rickly, of Thursday fame, has apparently been spending his time as of late on a side project band going by the name United Nations. According to a recent interview, United Nations consists of Rickly and a group of other, anonymous musicians who can not reveal their names due to being under contract with different record labels. Oddly enough, this is not even the strangest thing I'm about to share with you about this new band.

To help usher in the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games in London, UK musicians Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page performed in front of a packed Chinese arena to close out the 2008 Beijing games this morning.

The two performed a version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" with a minor adjustment to the lyrics. The line "I'm gonna give you every inch of my love" was switched to "every bit of my love" as to not offend the Chinese audience who probably couldn't understand what the hell they were saying anyway.

The XX Teens may sound a little, well dirty, if you judge the band by their name alone, but the Teens' sound is far from gritty or raunchy. Instead, the Teens, who were formerly known as the Xerox Teens before being forced to change their name, summon up a terrific indie rock sound full of welcome surprises.

The follow up to Coldplay's wildly successful 2008 album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, may hit store shelves much sooner than expected. According to NME, Coldplay already has enough healthy material stored up from the Viva la Vida sessions to put out a new album next year.

Viva la Vida was Coldplay's first time working with famed producer Brian Eno, and the change of personnel did wonders for the band's infamously tepid sound. The sessions with Eno were apparently so successful that the band recorded much more material than was needed for their 2008 album.

Arkansas may not seem like an ideal place to discover a beautifully ethereal and melodic rock band, but music fans across the globe should take notice of Russelville's Deas Vail. The band, which formed back in 2003, released the highly praised album All The Houses Look The Same through Brave New World Records in 2007 and have already set a concrete date for their new EP White Lights, which will hit stores next week on the 26th.

It's been three years since the release of French metal band Gojira's third album From Mars to Sirius, and fans of the unique head bangers have been eagerly awaiting the inevitable follow up.

Well that follow up, which will be titled The Way of All Flesh, has a confirmed release date and a streamable track available for all their adoring fans.
The new album will hit shelves October 14th through Prosthetic Records, the same label that their previous disc was released on.

In June LeRoi, the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, was involved in an ATV accident on his farm in Charlottesville, LeRoi was admitted to the hospital but released a little while later. While he was released, it was complications from this accident that sent him to the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center where he "died unexpectedly" on August 19, 2008.

Talk about a sad day. Anyone in their 20s or 30s can tell you DMB played a role, one way or another, in their current musical tastes. Even if you abandoned the jubilant band's sounds for harsher or softer ones - the DMB was a 90s musical staple.