POLICE: Summers Says They're Not Dead, Just Resting  

You'd think Andy Summers might be ready to put this Police thing behind him.

Nearly seven years after the band's reunion tour, the guitarist's documentary film on his own band, Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police was released on DVD and Blu-ray this week. We asked him at a screening of the movie at the Grammy Museum in L.A. on Wednesday if he looks at both the tour and movie as cathartic experiences.

So is he still in touch with the other two?

Summers also released a new instrumental album this week titled Metal Dog.

Meanwhile, Sting will bring his Symphonicities show to New York's Carnegie Hall on December 14th for a one-night-only gala benefit concert with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Proceeds will benefit Carnegie Hall’s artistic and music-education programs.

COURTNEY LOVE: "Over" Music, Loving Acting Again

Courtney Love says she's over it -- "it" being music.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter about her return to acting after about a dozen year absence, Love says she's "done it all in [music]," but hasn't done it all acting and "would really like to learn more." She claims she's "having more fun" acting.

Love's part in the super-successful music business drama Empire this year followed her return to acting with a four show part on Sons of Anarchy in 2014. She says got the bug again three years ago after watching Sean Penn in a movie at the Cannes Film Festival. "Sean was so good in it that I got this fire in my belly. I was like, ‘Dammit, I want that again. That is rock and roll, to be able to do what Sean does; it’s just a different kind of rock and roll.’”

U2: Time For a Garden Party  

U2 is down to the final eight North American shows on the Innocence + Experience tour and all of them are at New York's Madison Square Garden, starting Saturday night.

Bono tells us, "We never normally want to play that amount of shows in the same venue. [But] we're doing it, it's New York, and we're gonna tear the city up."

U2 will be camped out at the "World's Most Famous Arena" through July 31st, followed by a European tour, starting on September 4th in Turin, Italy.

WILCO: Get New Album for Free Now!

Surprise -- there's a new Wilco album! And you can get it for free for a short time.

The band sent out a message to its email list while band members John Stiratt and Mikael Jorgensen tweeted out links to Wilcoworld.net saying "Would you like to download a new, free (for a limited time) Wilco album called Star Wars?"

The band's frontman, Jeff Tweedy, posted a note on Facebook that said, "Why release an album this way and why make it free? Well, the biggest reason, and I'm not sure we even need any others, is that it felt like it would be fun. What's more fun than a surprise?”

Not much else is known about the 11-track album as of yet, but more details about the surprise release are expected later today.

Also-  Wilco are selling a book of their tour posters, called Beyond the Fleeting Moment, through their web store.

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND: Haynes Says Door Is Always Open for More

Fans of The Allman Brothers Band who still harbor hopes seeing the Georgia rockers again one day, well, here's a glimmer for you.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, guitarist Warren Haynes -- who had a stint in The Dead to go with 25 years in the Allmans and even longer in Gov't Mule -- is asked about the recent Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well shows. The interviewer wonders if he can see something similar happening with the Allmans in a few years –- them saying, "Let's do another show just for fun?"

Haynes replies that he "would never rule anything out." And while he cautions that "There's no talk of that," he says "the door's always open."

Haynes, who originally hails from Asheville, North Carolina, will be inducted into that state's Music Hall of Fame on October 15th.

KINKS: Ray Recording Americana

The Kinks' Ray Davies is turning his most recent book, Americana, into his next solo album.

In an interview Thursday with Britain's The Guardian, he says he's in the studio working on it. He adds that he's currently had "two or three projects come together all at once," but doesn't

say what the other ones are.

Among the other notable moments in the extensive chat:

He's asked about sometimes being referred to as the godfather of the '90s Brit-pop movement and responds, "I'm not a godfather...more a concerned uncle."

Asked about a quote from his brother Dave that described their relationship as being like Cain and Abel, he says, "It's more like Satan and Jesus."

When told that Dave has recently said that he's open to a Kinks reunion, Ray comes back with, "When he says he’s up for a reunion, does it say what he’s referring to? He can decorate my house if he wants.”

JOHN LENNON: Bad Vinyl

Universal Music has admitted there's a problem with recent vinyl pressings of John Lennon's Rock and Roll LP.

The 1975 covers collection, one of the eight titles in its John Lennon Vinyl Box Set, contains his version of "Sweet Little 16" on two separate tracks and leaves off "You Can't Catch Me." The label says it will exchange faulty discs for new ones -- as long as the owner can show proof of purchase.

The eight albums will be available as individual releases next month. (Billboard)

Finally- CONGRATS DAVE!

Foo Fighters' Sonic Highways picked up four Emmy nominations in the technical categories, while Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck grabbed seven nominations, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.