Head on over to Morr Music to preview six tracks from the new Lali Puna album, Faking The Books, which was released today in the US. Also, check out the band's recently revamped website.

The Strokes are preparing to release a special edition version of Is This It that will include a DVD of the album's music videos, and the bands MTV2 $2 Bill spot. And if you didn't know their tour dates.. you can find out now...

Primus had so much fun on their last reunion tour that they decided to head out on the road again to the delight of fans everywhere. For this go-round, they will play one set consisting of songs from their whole catalogue and a second set that will be a live rendition of their entire debut album, Frizzle Fry. Check out the tour dates to see if they're coming your way.

Ben Kweller’s first video from On My Way is here. “The Rules” is BK’s first single, and you can watch it in Quicktime, Real Video, and Windows Media. Also be sure and check out Ben's E-Card, which is still being updated weekly with "live snippets from the new tracks, video of Ben being Ben and back stories to different tracks".

Alanis Morissette is set to release her new album, So-Called Chaos on May 18th. In the meantime she has posted online her first single, "Everything," and you can hear it here.

The Stills are headed out on tour with Sea Ray and (my new favorite) Metric on a slew of dates. If you are lucky enough to be in Boston or Providence, they will be playing with a band you may have heard of, The Strokes. Hurray for a great start to the summer.

If you live in LA, check out www.1iota.com to get a chance to attend the Pepsi Smash concert series, which includes certain bands that rhyme with Dim Kizkit and Loobastank, but also involved are the Black-Eyed Peas, Rooney, Maroon 5, Morrissey(!), and the Beastie Boys. Sign up quick, space is limited.

Details are final about the new album from the Thermals. Sup Pop will release Fuckin A on May 18. It was recorded in just 4 days in January. Check out the band on tour with Sleater Kinney and check out the more for the tracklisting.

They Might Be Giants are finished with work on their new album The Spine, due this summer. We'll keep you posted.

Three exclusive live video tracks by The Darkness will premiere on RealNetworks on Monday and be available through early May. The songs: "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," "Growing on Me" and "Get Your Hands Off My Woman." These songs were recorded for the Down the Alley concert series and can be heard at real.com.

Bjork is working on songs for her next record, tenatively titled Lake Experience with Japanese beatbox artist Dokska. The album, the follow-up to 2001's Vespertine, is due this fall. Read more here.

The Beastie Boys' new single "Ch-Check It Out" will be featured in the April 28th episode of "The O.C." (lame lame lame), the same day it premieres on radio. Said single will be available as a digital download on the iTunes Music Store starting April 28th also. The track is from To the 5 Boroughs, the Beasties' first album in six years, due this summer. The trio has shot a video for "Ch-Check," with Adam Yauch directing. The Beasties are also planning a world tour for later this year

A Kurt Cobain (weep with me people) television biopic is in the works. The film will be based on writer Charles Cross' nasty-strange 2001 biography Heavier Than Heaven. Money makin' money-money makin'.

Expanded reissues of Elvis Costello's Almost Blue, Goodbye Cruel World and Kojak Variety will be released in August, fyi.

New Line Records is set to release the new abum from Paris, Texas, “Like You Like an Arsonist,” on June 8th. Their sound is being described as “post punk-British” with a “new spin on the old classic style”...Whatever, just check out “One Hot Coma” in Windows Media.

Following their most successful tour to date, Norma Jean have announced they will be taking on MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball this weekend. The show, that will be taped this Friday, April 16th and air on Saturday night’s program will feature a Norma Jean interview along with their newest video for the song, “Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste.”

Gearing up for the release of their new album, My Chemical Romance have posted a clip of the first single from the album, I'm Not Okay, online here. Currently on the road with Avenged Sevenfold until May 15th, MCR has lined up a string of headlining dates with Boys Night Out, Nightmare Of You, and Drive By that will begin in June. After that, its Warped Tour.

The surviving members of the MC5 are planning a tour and DVD release. The band, which will take the moniker DKT/MC5 will begin that short tour in Toronto on June 9th and a number of rotating special guests, including Evan Dando, and Mark Arm (Mudhoney) have been recruited to join the group at their various tour stops. Furthermore, a DVD entitled Sonic Revolution: A Celebration Of The MC5 will be released in July. More details on the DVD below.

Vendetta Red is heading back out on the road to test some of the new songs they have been writing. The dates are below and be sure and check out some photos from the studio & live at Vera Project over at www.vendettared.com.

The first official visual release from Ween has arrived. Filmed over two nights at The Vic Theater in Chicago in November 2003, this disc features 2 hours of Ween classics and a cover of "All Of My Love". Available in Amray and CD packaging, the CD contains over 75 minutes of music, and the DVD includes 120 minutes of live concert footage.