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What to Watch for week of July 11 to July 17

Alphas Five people with heightened capabilities (superstrength, supersenses, etc.) band together to fight crime. The quintet are led by David Strathairn, who’s sort of Professor X to their X-Men (the premiere is co-written by X3 screenwriter Zak Penn). Strathairn helps the credibility of the melodrama a lot. Alphas may remind some viewers of Heroes, and is a dropped ABC pilot, but it’s not damaged goods. It’s fun and swift, and Callum Keith Rennie has a larger role than he did on The Killing, here playing the Alphas’ Pentagon contact. B —Ken Tucker

‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’: Linkin Park Performs Free Show for Moscow Premiere (Video)

Linkin Park at “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” premiere in Moscow. MOSCOW – The US alternative band Linkin Park played an outdoor show in Moscow, near Red Square, on Thursday in support of the world premiere of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The entrance to the show was free, but only to those who won tickets through the FM station Energy and men’s magazine Maxim, which has helped to keep attendance to figures acceptable in the city’s historic center. “Linkin Park have always been large Transformers fans,” the movie’s director Michael Bay states in a news conference a few hours ...

Sade in concert: On the scene

I’ve never seen so many people fill a venue so huge to see so little. But then again, Sade’s tiny is a lot. Last Friday (June 24) the band, led by veteran British Nigerian songstress Sade Adu, stopped at New Jersey’s Izod Center. She surfaced from beneath the stage just after 9pm, in a sheer black shirt, matching pants and heels, and bathed in purple lighting, to sing her last album’s title track, “Soldier of Love.” To pack a venue as massive as the Izod, one might think that there would be more to Sade than what the audience got ...

New Wilco Single Arrives; Album Title Revealed

Alt-country troubadours Wilco headlined their own Solid Sound Festival in North Adams Massachusetts this past weekend where they were selling the 7-inch vinyl version of a new single called “I Might.” The B-side: a cover of Nick Lowe’s “I Love My Label,” an apt choice considering the band recently severed ties with the major label system, forming their own record company, dBpm, with distribution by ANTI- (Tom Waits, Neko Case). “I Might” marks the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, revealed to be titled The Whole Love, which is due out in September.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Return With First Album in Five Years

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to return with their first album in five years this August. The band announced on its official website Sunday that it will release I’m With You, its tenth studio album, on Aug. 30. The set is produced by Rick Rubin, who is also working on upcoming albums by Metallica and Avett Brothers and most recently helmed Adele’s 21. I’m With You will be the Chilli Peppers’ first studio release since 2006′s Stadium Arcadium, a double album that sold 2.3 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

David Cook’s ‘Last Goodbye’: First Look!

David Cook’s second major-label album This Loud Morning hits stores on June 28; On Monday, Cook pulls back the curtain on the tongue-in-cheek video for lead single  “The Last Goodbye,” and the image above is the exclusive first look at the clip. In the video, which was directed by Nigel Dick (Britney Spears’ “Oops…I Did It Again,” Oasis’ “Wonderwall,” Nickelback’s “Photograph”), Cook goes AWOL from his band’s tour and loses his wallet on the beach. The band finds his stuff, and believes that he has gone missing and might have drowned.

KISS’ Gene Simmons And Paul Stanley In Fan Chat

TORONTO – KISS co-founder Paul Stanley is joining fellow band member and reality TV star Gene Simmons to pitch the social media language translator Ortsbo at a May 20 Beverly Hills Hotel promotional event for the Canadian interactive content producer Intertainment Media. Stanley and Simmons will participate in KISS Live & Global, an interactive fan chat in 53 languages. Simmons, who talks five languages, including English, Hebrew, Hungarian, and German, has become a business partner and official spokesman for Ortsbo.

Steven Tyler speaks drug use on ‘Dateline’

Image Credit: Paul Drinkwater/NBC Aerosmith frontman, American Idol judge, and wacky formulator of bon mots Steven Tyler joined Matt Lauer on Dateline tonight to discuss his history of drug use, fights with his band, and his new gig on primetime television. The most interesting tidbit of the interview was Tyler’s admission that he was taking drugs as recently as 2009; he was high on stage  during his infamous spill, and a subsequent trip to rehab contributed to the fracturing of Aerosmith.

TV on the Radio’s Gerard Smith dies

Only a month after announcing that he was taking time off from the band to get treatment for lung cancer, TV on the Radio bassist Gerard Smith passed away today, according to a statement on TVOTR’s official website. He was 34. “We are very sad to announce the death of our beloved friend and bandmate, Gerard Smith, following a courageous fight against lung cancer,” the announcement read. “Gerard passed away the morning of April 20th, 2011. We will miss him terribly. There will be more information as it becomes available.” The band has cancelled the next five shows on its ...

John Stamos + Low = New music video

Duluth, Minnesota band Low have spent the last two decades crafting moody, minimalist soundscapes that provide backdrops to their narratives of heartbreak and loss. John Stamos has spent those same decades raising the Olsen twins, hitting “Kokomo” sticks for the Beach Boys, carving out a Broadway career, and becoming a beloved component of Glee. Those two disparate forces have come together for Low’s new video “Try to Sleep,” which stars Stamos. You can check out the exclusive premiere of the clip after the jump.