Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen and Neon Trees will be in Times Square for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, along with host Ryan Seacrest. The ABC countdown show will kick off at 10 p.m. on the east coast, and after midnight they will send things over to Fergie, who will handle the West Coast party with performances from Brandy, Karmin, Pitbull, OneRepublic and Flo Rida. More performances will be announced soon.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be touring this summer in Europe in support of this year's album Wrecking Ball.  The tour starts May 26 in Munich, Germany and continue for two months until the final show in Belfast, Northern Ireland on July 20.  Springsteen is set to headline Rock In Rio in Brazil on September 13th.  A little more locally, he will also be playing at the Hurricane Sandy benefit, 12-12-12, at New York's Madison Square Garden on December 12.  Tickets for that go on sale December 3 through Ticketmaster at noon.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse have announced that they will perform a special benefit concert on December 6 at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, NJ, with proceeds going to aid victims of Superstorm Sandy. Proceeds will go to the American Red Cross Hurricane Sandy relief effort, and tickets go on sale Friday, November 30.

Spotify has announced their top streamed songs for this year and Gotye's hit "Somebody I Use to Know" has taken the gold, being the service's most streamed song. Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and fun.'s "We Are Young" took second and third respectively. David Guetta's "Nothing But the Beat" was the most globally streamed album, and he took the title of most streamed male artist. Rihanna was the most streamed female artist, and Coldplay was the most streamed group.

The Beastie Boys are taking heat for their first two albums Licensned to Ill and Paul's Boutique. The plaintiff is the go-go band Trouble Funk, with their label TufAmerica that filed the lawsuit. Rolling Stone reported that "TufAmerica alleges copyright infringement, unjust enrichment and misappropriation; the label seeks punitive damages and a permanent injunction on the sale of the two records containing the samples." The Beastie Boys responded stating that there's no "substantial similarity" between the tracks, and questioned the twenty year gap between the release of the albums and the lawsuit. The Hollywood Reporter reports that TufAmerica argued the samples are "concealed . . . [to] the casual listener" and that the only way to notice a similarity is with "careful audio analysis." The Boys dismissed the claim, saying that "Because Plaintiff admits that the casual observer cannot identify Plaintiff's musical compositions and sound recordings ... there can be no substantial similarity."

For his second time, Conan O'Brien will be hosting TNT's Christmas in Washington special. The special will be benefiting the Children's National Medical Center. Each year the President and First Lady attend the concert; this year they will be seeing performers Diana Ross, Smash star Megan Hilty, Demi Lovato, Chris Mann from The Voice, and American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. And what would any large-scale concert be without a special closing performance of "Gangnam Style" by PSY? The concert will taped at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. on December 9.

Former Kyuss members Brant Bjork, John Garcia and Nick Oliveri have announced a new project called Vista Chino. The group, comprised of the three founding members of Kyuss plus guitarist Bruno Fevery, are currently recording new material in anticipation of a 2013 worldwide release that will coincide with major touring plans. Meanwhile, Oliveri also has been in the studio with his other former band, Queens of the Stone Age, to record vocals on one song for the band's next album.