PowerBlogs: Rumour Mills

Nickelback are once again a multiple nominee at the Juno Awards, Canada’s version of the Grammys. They’re up for the Fan Choice Award as well as Rock Album of the Year for Dark Horse.

Three Days Grace are also nominated for Rock Album of the Year.
Thousand Foot Krutch are up for Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year.
Rush and Iron Maiden are up for Music D-V-D of the Year.
Kings of Leon are nominated for International Album of the Year.
The Junos take place April 18th in St. Johns NL.

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Jon Bon Jovi is taking part in President Obama’s United We Serve initiative by debuting a video tonight at his band’s show in Los Angeles. In the video, Bon Jovi makes a call to service to millions of fans. He is also featured in a 60-second T-V P-S-A that includes images of the president and first lady serving.

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Train’s Pat Monahan will be among the performers at the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony March 15th, the Associated Press reports. Other performers announced include Chris Isaak, Faith Hill, Maroon Five’s Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael, Ronnie Spector, Fefe Dobson, Eric Burdon and Peter Wolf.

Among those slated for induction at the ceremony are ABBA, Genesis, The Stooges and Jimmy Cliff.

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Weezer fans, set your D-V-Rs for next week. Rivers Cuomo and company will appear on Nickelodeon’s Yo Gabba Gabba on Tuesday to perform an original track called “All My Friends Are Insects.” (The episode also features a special remix segment arranged by Blink 182’s Travis Barker.) And on Thursday the band will perform their medley of M-G-M-T’s “Kids” and Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” on Last Call With Carson Daly.

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Jeff Beck was one of the many guitarists who saw It Might Get Loud, a documentary in which Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White talk about their love of the guitar, their styles of playing and more. Beck tells us it was “a bit close to the Spinal Tap thing. A bit close.” He said he might have been interested in being featured in it but nobody asked him. Beck starts a tour of Australia at the end of the month.

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Though Abbey Road appears to have been saved, E-M-I is selling off another fabled London studio. Olympic Studios — where classic music by The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, Eric Clapton and U-2 was recorded — has been sold to a real estate developer, according the U-K’s Independent.

Not famous as Abbey Road, the Southwest London building closed last year. But even in its final years, top artists used Olympic — U-2 cut their album No Line on the Horizon there in 2008.

Here’s a partial list of Olympic’s greatest hits:

The Yardbirds’ “For Your Love”
Mille Small’s “My Boy Lollipop”
The Beatles’ “Baby You’re a Rich Man” and “All You Need Is Love”
The Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Honky Tonk Women”
Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”
The Eagles’ “Take It Easy” and “Best of My Love”
The Who’s “Who Are You”
Eric Clapton’s “Lay Down Sally,” “Wonderful Tonight” and “Promises”
London’s Telegraph reports that the unnamed buyer is considering building a multiplex movie theater on the site.

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Anberlin are in a Nashville studio working on the follow-up to 2008’s New Surrender. The band is recording with Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen), but will get only a couple of weeks in the studio this month. They’ve got a tour of Brazil that starts March 24th.

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Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen and his Raven Drum Foundation have created Resiliency Radio — an interactive show designed to empower, educate and inspire people who’ve experienced trauma. Allen is the host, interviewing celebrity guests as well as people working in healthcare, mental health and related fields. Check it out at BlogTalkRadio.com/Resiliency-Radio or listen in at 347-843-4903.

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Whitesnake singer David Coverdale says E-M-I may be planning a deluxe version of the album he cut with Jimmy Page in 1993, Coverdale-Page.

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The Allman Brothers Band will perform on N-B-C’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon next Tuesday, two days before their run of 13 shows at the United Palace Theater in New York.

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John Paul Jones guests on the new album from Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Propellor Time, which is due out April 6th. The Venus 3 includes R-E-M’s Peter Buck on guitar.

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Broken Bells’ James Mercer says his other band, The Shins, will start work on a new album next month.

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Motley Crue’s Tommy Lee has settled on A Public Disservice Announcement as the title for the second disc from his side project Methods of Mayhem. It’s due out in May.

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Rise Against have released an I-Phone app through I-Tunes.