Alt-rock icons Foo Fighters [ tickets ] have nailed down a Sept. 25 release for their forthcoming studio album, which will bear the title "Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace."

The tracklisting for the album follows, though sequencing remains to be determined, according to a press release:

The Pretender
Let It Die
Erase/Replace
Long Road To Ruin
Come Alive
Stranger Things Have Happened
Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)
Summers End
Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners
Statues
But, Honestly
Home

Between now and the album's release, Foo Fighters [ tickets ] will play a series of late-summer headlining dates in Europe. Details are posted at the band's website.

Avril Lavigne [ tickets ], who last week was named in a lawsuit that claims she and her co-writer plagiarized a previously released song to craft the Lavigne hit "Girlfriend," has responded to the allegation in a message posted at her website.

"You may have heard some news that two guys who wrote for some band from the 1970s I have never in my life heard of called the 'Rubinoos' are trying to sue me," she wrote. "They have a song called 'I Want To Be Your Boyfriend' that has no musical similarities to the song 'Girlfriend' that Luke Gottwald and I wrote together. They claim that a small part of the lyrics are the same and are saying that I took these from them. I had never heard this song in my life and their claim is based on five words! All songs share similar lyrics and emotions. As humans we speak one language.

"Off the top of my head, two other songs that I can immediately think of with this type of lyric are 'Hey, hey, you, you get off of my cloud' by the Rolling Stones and 'Hey little girl I want to be your boyfriend' by the Ramones," she continued. "Simply put, I have been falsely accused of ripping their song off. [Co-writer Luke Gottwald] and I have done nothing wrong and there is no merit to their claim."

Minneapolis native Prince [ tickets ]--who, over this past weekend, played back-to-back shows at three venues in that city--was reportedly forced to cut the third concert short after police pulled the plug on the gig, which ran later than allowed by law.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Prince took the stage at around 2:45 a.m. before a sold-out crowd at the First Avenue nightclub, where the singer filmed much of his 1984 motion picture "Purple Rain." Police ended the party an hour later, 45 minutes after the club's required 3 a.m. closing time. At that point, Prince reportedly had nine songs left on his setlist.

Prior to the First Avenue gig, Prince had performed at the Target Center and at a local Macy's store.

Prog-metal act Queensryche [ tickets ] has announced an Aug. 28 release date for "Sign of the Times: The Best of Queensryche." The set will feature 17 singles and album tracks, including seven Top 10 Mainstream Rock hits, as well as a 16-page booklet containing custom artwork, a discography and liner notes from band frontman Geoff Tate.

The Collectors Edition will be packaged in a deluxe digipak, and will include a second disc featuring rare and previously unreleased demos, outtakes, remixes, live recordings, television-performance audio, soundtrack contributions and a new song titled "Justified," according to a press release.