The months in the planning 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief benefit concert is finally here. We’ll update this post with a setlist, photos, videos and our thoughts as the night goes along. The expected order of performances is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band > Roger Waters > Bon Jovi > Eric Clapton > Rolling Stones > Alicia Keys > The Who > Kanye West > Billy Joel > Chris Martin > Paul McCartnirvana.

Setlist:

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Land of Hope and Dreams, Wrecking Ball, My City of Ruins, Born To Run (w/ Jon Bon Jovi), Living On A Prayer

Roger Waters: In The Flesh, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2, The Ballad Of Jean Charles de Menezes, Money, Us and Them, Comfortably Numb (w/ Eddie Vedder)

Adam Sandler: Hallelujah (w/ Paul Shaffer)

Bon Jovi: It’s My Life, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Who Says You Can’t Go Home (w/ Bruce Springsteen), Living On A Prayer

Eric Clapton: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, Got To Get Better In A Little While, Crossroads

Rolling Stones: You Get Me Rocking, Jumping Jack Flash

Alicia Keys: Brand New Me, No One

The Who: Who Are You, Bell Boy, Pinball Wizard, See Me Feel Me/Listening To You, Baba O’Riley, Love Reign O’er Me, Tea and Theatre

Kanye West: Clique > Mercy > Power > Jesus Walks > All Of The Lights > Run This Town > Diamonds From Sierra Leone > Diamonds > Touch The Sky, Gold Digger, Good Life, Runaway, Stronger

Billy Joel: Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway), Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song), Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas > New York State Of Mind, River Of Dreams, You May Be Right, Only The Good Die Young

Chris Martin: Viva La Vida, Losing My Religion (w/ Michael Stipe), Us Against The World

Paul McCartney: Helter Skelter, Let Me Roll It, 1985, My Valentine (w/ Diana Krall), Blackbird, Cut Me Some Slack (w/ Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic), I’ve Got A Feeling, Live and Let Die

Alicia Keys: Empire State of Mind Pt. 2

All proceeds from tonight’s concert benefit the Robin Hood Relief Fund and will be used to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Please head to the organization’s website to donate to the cause.

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For those of you who don’t mind spoilers, we want to point you towards our friends at HyperVocal who have what seems to be a minute-by-minute breakdown of tonight’s 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief show. There are certainly a few surprises included within and it also looks like a much-hyped story will be a lot less of a deal than originally thought. If you want to look, head here.

As we reported yesterday, Roger Waters stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night for a chat with the host. Waters discussed his role in tonight’s 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief and shared a few spoilers about what to expect from him this evening.

Rog told Fallon that he will perform “a little bit of The Wall and a little bit of Dark Side of the Moon.” More specifically he said he’ll play Money, Us and Them and Comfortably Numb. Even more exciting, Waters revealed he’ll duet on Comfortably Numb with Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder.

In another big of exciting news, Waters confirmed that he is working on a new album. Fallon pressed him for details on the album title to which Roger offered “I’ve Been Saying This for 19 Years, So Don’t Hold Your Breath.”

[via Rolling Stone]

We’re expecting big collaborations tonight at Madison Square Garden for the 12-12-12: Concert For Sandy Relief, but if a report from The Guardian holds true we sure know what the biggest one will be. The Guardian reports that Paul McCartney will perform with the surviving members of Nirvana.

Apparently Dave Grohl phoned up Macca to “jam with some mates,” leading to a session that also included Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic. The Guardian goes into a bit more detail…

McCartney said: “I didn’t really know who they were. They are saying how good it is to be back together. I said: ‘Whoa? You guys haven’t played together for all that time?’

“And somebody whispered to me: ‘That’s Nirvana. You’re Kurt.’ I couldn’t believe it.”

If today was April Fool’s Day we’d think this was a joke. Macca and Cobain are on opposite ends of the anger spectrum, though Helter Skelter was as punk and grunge as it gets. Now we’re even more excited for tonight’s benefit which also features Bruce Springsteen, The Who, Roger Waters and more.

[via Ultimate Classic Rock]

UPDATE: Novoselic has confirmed the collaboration and shares details:

It is a new song that's kind of Helter Skelter meets Scentless Apprentice. It rocks with a heavy groove. St. Paul is powerful. @Pontifex

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This is expected to take place near the end of the show.

This afternoon organizers of next week’s 12-12-12: Concert For Sandy Relief benefit concert held a press conference at the Theater at MSG and revealed big news about the event. The Rolling Stones will indeed perform at the concert, making their return to Madison Square Garden.

12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief is set to take place on December 12th, 2012 at Madison Square Garden with all proceeds to benefit the Robin Hood Relief Fund. Eric Clapton, The Who, Paul McCartney, Alicia Keys, Dave Grohl, Roger Waters, Eddie Vedder, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are among the acts set to perform. Tickets are sold out, but There are plenty of options for those who want to watch from home.

In just one week, on December 12th, an impressive array of music superstars including Eric Clapton, The Who, Paul McCartney, Alicia Keys, Dave Grohl, Roger Waters, Eddie Vedder, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will take the stage at Madison Square Garden for 12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief. There are plenty of options for those who want to watch from home, but today promoters have also revealed another way you can watch – at select movie theaters.

Free tickets are available now at the theatre box offices of those New York, New Jersey and Connecticut theaters showing the event on a first-come, first-serve basis. Doors at the theaters will open at 7:30 PM local time for the simulcasts and are scheduled to run until about 11:30PM ET.

Here’s a full list of theaters showing the live 12-12-12 simulcast…

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Tickets for 12-12-12 – The Concert For Sandy Relief went on sale earlier today and sold out with a quickness. Thankfully, as we reported earlier, the concert will be broadcast live on a number of cable networks and websites. Following the on-sale, 12-12-12 organizers have announced that guitar legend Eric Clapton and Coldplay front man Chris Martin have been added to the bill.

12-12-12 – The Concert For Sandy Relief will take place on December 12th at Madison Square Garden boasting a lineup that includes Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Alicia Keys, The Who, Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney.

In less than two weeks Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dave Grohl, Roger Waters, Eddie Vedder, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys, The Who, Paul McCartney and other music superstars will play a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden called 12-12-12 – The Concert For Sandy Relief. Tickets go on sale this Monday at Noon ET and are expected to move quickly. For those who can’t see the once-in-a-lifetime event in person, there are plenty of options to follow the action.

Cable networks Showtime, HBO, the Sundance Channel and AMC will all air a live simulcast of the show. You can also stream the concert as it happens on Hulu, Yahoo and AOL.

As we’ve been telling you about for the past few weeks, an array of rock royalty will take the Madison Square Garden stage on December 12th, 2012 for a one-night-only fundraising concert called 12-12-12 to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Previously announced performers included Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Roger Waters, Kanye West and The Who. Today, organizers have added Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl, Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder and all of Bon Jovi to the bill.

Tickets for “12-12-12” will go on sale Monday, December 3 at 12:00 p.m. ET through Ticketmaster phones, outlets and via ticketmaster.com, www.thegarden.com and www.radiocity.com. Tickets will be available at a variety of price levels. Ticketmaster will waive its ticket service charges for 12-12-12. VIP packages will be made available through the Robin Hood Foundation.  Information on those packages is available by contacting The Robin Hood Foundation at 212-844-3564.

The concert will be streamed over the internet and televised. That information will follow soon.

Last week we told you about the “12-12-12” concert on December 12, 2012 at Madison Square Garden in NYC that will be put together by the team that organized the post-9/11 Concert For New York. Today we have our first artist announcement and it’s insane – Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Roger Waters, Kanye West and The Who have all signed on to perform with more artists to be announced soon.

Ticketing information will be revealed in the coming days. All proceeds from this special one night only live music event will help provide assistance to the millions of people throughout the tri-state area who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Following the terrorist attacks on 9/11 Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, The Madison Square Garden Company and The Weinstein Company came together to throw the amazing “Concert For New York City” that featured many of the biggest acts in rock history as a benefit for 9/11 victims. Those same companies will team up once again to raise funds for Hurricane Sandy relief on December 12th at Madison Square Garden.

Dubbed “12-12-12 (A Concert For Sandy Relief)” the lineup for the show has yet to be revealed, but is expected in the coming days. With those companies putting the concert together, you can trust it will feature plenty of top-drawing acts. Of particular note, both The Who and The Rolling Stones should be in town that week. The Robin Hood Relief Fund, which was established by the Robin Hood Foundation, will take care of distributing all money raised from the concert. An announcement claims, “Tickets for the concert will be available at a variety of price levels, ranging from individual tickets to special VIP packages.” We’ll keep you posted on lineup announcements.