News in Brief: Lil Wayne, Marnie Stern, Franz Nicolay, the Crystal Method, Viva Voce

-- According to MTV, Lil Wayne has pushed back the release of his terrible-idea rock album Rebirth (which my Pitchfork News colleague Ryan Dombal inexplicably believes will be good) to May 19. Here's hoping he just goes ahead and pushes it back to Never.-- Next month, button-cute axe-wrecker Marnie Stern will tour the U.S., so here's your chance to chicken out of going up to her kissing booth and then kick yourself over it for weeks afterward.-- The Hold Steady tend to drink a lot, which me...

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