plus: VH1 Save the Music. Blink-182. The scene in Spain.

Courtney Love [ tickets ], who is currently in litigation against Universal Music Group, wants to put out previously unreleased Nirvana [ tickets ] material on the Epitaph label, JamShowbiz reported.

R.E.M.'s Peter Buck told Launch that--rather than a full-scale tour this year--the band will probably support its forthcoming album "Reveal" (due May 15 on Warner Bros.) with live promotional appearances

According to a VH1 press release, "VH1 Save The Music and its partners will be conducting special events in cities across the U.S. to mark national "Music In Our Schools Month'' in March, part of VH1 Save The Music's 2001 campaign to restore public school music education programs for children in 43 cities across America."

Click here for a list of events across the country.

Bubblegum punkers Blink-182 plan to release a new album--tentatively titled "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket--on June 12, according to the band's official website.

From a New Times Los Angeles interview with Scott McCaughey--of the Young Fresh Fellows and the Minus 5--on the scene in Spain:

[The Young Fresh Fellows] continue to play regularly at Seattle clubs and festivals, as well as in Spain, where they have their largest fan base. "I don't know what sells thousands and millions of copies over there -- it's probably crappy pop like everywhere else," he declares. "But there's this underground of people who drink and smoke and stay up all night and listen to rock 'n' roll. There's this one whole area in Madrid that's all these tiny streets, and on every block there's, like, five bars -- bars that have a door but no sign, and you go in and it's just people drinking whiskey and beer and smoking cigarettes. And they have DJs who crank out the Ramones and the Dictators and the Young Fresh Fellows. I mean, it's crazy. The people there somehow seem to be able to stay out till five or six in the morning every night listening to rock 'n' roll, and still somehow function in their daily lives. I don't know how they ever get anything done, to tell the truth. We figured out that every time we go there for a week, it costs a year off of our lives. So we have to really consider things before we go over there. But it's really fun."