• Grunge pioneers Green River gave the adoring crowd exactly what they were looking for last night at the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Party at Seattle’s Marymoor Park. The reunited sextet played classics such as Swallow My Pride and P.C.C. as well as a cover of the Dead Boys’ Ain’t Nothin’ To Do. According to Billboard’s report from the festie all of the musician’s eyes were focused squarely on Comets On Fire, who turned in a passionate performance. Here’s a clip from Green River’s set:

• It looks like we’re all gonna have to wait a little longer for the rumored Led Zeppelin reunion tour after Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced a number of fall tour dates for their Raising Sand revue. Their soon-to-be-completed summer tour rolls into Cleveland tomorrow night for a date at the Time Warner Cable Amphitheater at Tower City.

• In the surest sign yet that GNR’s Chinese Democracy may actually reach stores this fall, MTV has announced that September’s Rock Band sequel video game will include a new single from the album, Shackler’s Revenge. Other songs making the cut include the Grateful Dead’s Alabama Getaway, Beck’s E-Pro and Bob Dylan’s Tangled Up In Blue.

The writers over at Pitchfork usually play it really cool, but you can almost hear Amy Phillips orgasm as she lays out the lineup for the first All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in New York. ATP New York, which will be held at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello on September 19-21, features My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Low, The Drones and Fuck Buttons among an assorted cast of indie bands.

But what really set Phillips into convulsions was the news that the Meat Puppets (Meat Puppets II), Built To Spill (Perfect From Now On), Thurston Moore (Psychic Hearts) and Tortoise (Millions Now Living Will Never Die) will each play one of their classic albums from start to finish. It doesn’t get better than that for P4K.

As great as the hipster bloggerati thinks the music will be, we’re impressed with the setup of this festival. Concertgoers can choose to stay in a reasonably priced room on site at Kutshers. For instance, you can book a room with a double bed and a single bed for $450. That’s just $150 per person if you split it with two of your buddies. Plus you get to roam the expansive grounds, which are straight out of a scene in Dirty Dancing. No wonder Amy Phillips got so excited.

Let’s see what else is happening this week:

• The Weight fills us in on the story behind ZZ Top’s curious name
• A final delay?: Guns N’ Roses negotiates the release of Chinese Democracy
• Musicians pay tribute to Danny Federici tonight at the Stone Pony
• Austin’s Stubb’s BBQ, Asheville’s The Orange Peel and NYC’s Bowery Ballroom head Rolling Stone’s list of the best rock clubs in America
• Can I Kick It?: Rock The Bells gets A Tribe Called Quest to reunite
• moe. releases Warts & All Volume 6, and announces a new archival series
• Layla’s Classic Rock lists 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About U2

Finally, we’ve found detailed reports from two of the most anticipated tours of the Spring. The Raconteurs came, saw and owned the crowd in Seattle last night according to the folks at Reverb. Meanwhile, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss kicked off the Raising Sand tour with a chill-inducing set on Saturday night.

While any future Led Zeppelin tour dates are still lurking in the darkest depths of Mordor, former front man Robert Plant has announced a slew of dates with his current musical partner Alison Krauss. The duo will take their oddly beautiful harmonies on a worldwide tour beginning this April in support of their album Raising Sand - with a notable stop in Manchester, TN for a high profile appearance at Bonnaroo. Here’s a taste of what they’ll sound like live:

Tickets won’t come cheap for that tour, but here’s a few recently announced ones that won’t have you taking out a small loan:

• Hey hipsters: Spoon, The Walkmen and White Rabbit join forces for nine dates (begins: 04/02)
• Kate Nash brings her sassy, smart Brit-pop stateside (begins: 04/15)
• Psychedelic-blues revivalists Howlin’ Rain head out in support of their sophomore record (begins: 03/04)
• Marc Knopfler starts to line up North American dates (begins: 06/24)
• Untz, untz, untz, untz - Sasha & Digweed embark on their first extensive U.S. outing together in over six years - untz, untz, untz (begins: 03/26)
• Backpack hip-hopper El-P teams up with British rapper Dizzee Rascal for a month long tour (begins: 05/08)
• Chan Marshall aka Cat Power brings her Southern-gothic soul to more cities in April (begins: 04/10)

Finally after Billy Joel’s “Last Play At Shea” show sold out in 48 minutes - the fastest concert sellout in Shea Stadium history - a second night has been added for Friday, July 18th. Hmm, why do I have a feeling they’ll be show on the 17th too?

So apparently my elders tell me this Bob Plant character used to be dripping with sex appeal, with all kinds of smokin’ hot chicks and heterosexual men alike wishing to strip him of those unimaginatively tight pants. But doesn’t this raggedy current installment of 2007 Robert Plant look more like a subway beggar?

And so it goes that my colleague HPN pointed out to me that Plant now more closely resembles the title character on the cover of the Jethro Tull Aqualung album than his former seductive self. Genius! Take a gander at Plant’s twin:

The Aqualung cover is pretty dead-on-balls accurate, but I also have a special place in my heart for Plant as a Female Sammy Hagar But Still With A Goatee.

Led Zeppelin may not be headlining next year’s Bonnaroo, but last week’s hot rumor wasn’t too far off the mark. As it turns out Robert Plant will be performing in Manchester, but not with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones or even Jason Bonham. Nashville’s NBC affiliate broke the news that Plant will take the stage with Alison Krauss at Bonnaroo in 2008. Take that, Gillian Welch and JPJ.

Plant and Krauss made the successful Raising Sand album together earlier this year and plan to tour behind the album next year. The staff at Superfly must have been pretty amused with all the attention they received over the possibility of Zeppelin playing their festival, but now they need to produce a lineup capable of turning heads. We’ve doubted these guys before, yet they continue to top themselves each year. But if we find out that James Hetfield is playing the festival with Emmylou Harris instead of Metallica, we’re gonna be pretty pissed.

• Previously on HT: Rumor: Zeppelin/Metallica Headlining Bonnaroo