Green Day [ tickets ] has announced that it will donate the royalties from the iTunes Music Store sales of its single "Blvd of Broken Dreams" to the American Red Cross International Response Funds. The money will aid victims of the earthquake and tsunami that affected areas of Eastern Africa and Southern Asia.

"This is the worst global disaster we've seen in our lifetimes," Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong said in a statement. "We felt it was important to take part in the relief efforts any way we could."

Tenor Andrea Bocelli [ tickets ]'s world tour will touch down in the U.S. in March, according to his publicist, who says the itinerary will be announced "shortly."

Bocelli is supporting his new album, "Andrea," which hit stores in November.

The talent lineup for the fourth annual Ponderosa Stomp Roots Romp, set for April 26-27 at New Orleans' Rock'N'Bowl Lanes, includes Archie Bell [ tickets ], Nokie Edwards (of The Ventures), Betty Harris (playing her first show in 30 years), Roy Head, Lazy Lester, Lil' Buck Senegal & the Top Cats with Stanley "Buckwheat Zydeco" Dural, Barbara Lynn, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Nathaniel Mayer, Scotty Moore, Ray Sharpe, Brenton Wood, Link Wray [ tickets ] and 30 others.

More details are available at the festival's website.