The Who's Pete Townshend is readying the fall release of his debut rock novel about the tortured creative process, the 'Age of Anxiety' and plans to eventually put out a related rock opera and art installation, The Killers pay tribute to the late actor Luke Perry, who starred in one of their music videos, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie set for a Record Store Day release next month of a seven inch single featuring sessions with the late singer-songwriter/producer Richard Swift and Smithsonian Folkways is at it again, this time with a gargantuan, five-disc set of New Orleans music to mark the 50th anniversary of Jazz Fest.