Timely Music News: Wilco, Green Day and Doves.

Posted at 11:19 AM on May 6, 2009 by Barb Abney

Bennett (formerly of Wilco) Jay is suing Jeff Tweedy for $50,000 in unpaid royalties. In other Wilco news, they'll be playing this year's 10,000 Lakes Festival in July.

Green Day will be the musical guests on the season finale of Saturday Night Live on May 16th. And according to Wikipedia, "VH1 and MTV announced they are going to leak 21st Century Breakdown on their website on the 8th of May."

Doves are giving away an alternate version of the tune "Birds Flew Backwards."

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