According to NME.com, The Cure played a show this past weekend in Britain where singer Robert Smith revealed that 20 tracks had been completed for a forthcoming new CD. The as-of-yet untitled disc is being produced by Ross Robinson and will be out on his label. While it's a bit of a head scratcher, Smith said the band chose Robinson because of his work with At The Drive-In, and not some of the other artists Robinson has worked with. Smith said a tentative release date should be sometime this June.

Boards of Canada's debut album Music Has The Right To Children will be reissued on April 5th, featuring the extra track "Happy Cycling" (Previously available on their Peel Session and on the US version of Music...) The album will also be fully repackaged in a "lush foldout cardboard" (cardboard = lush, folks) Digipak sleeve. A new album from Boards of Canada will be released in 2004, if you've already got everything else.

System of a Down will host and headline the "Souls 2004" event on April 24th in Los Angeles. The show will be a benefit to raise money for the Armenian National Committee of America and other groups that serve to educate about and work against genocide. April 24 is the 89th anniversary of the genocide attempt by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians in World War I.

The Cooper Temple Clause have released a new e-card featuring audio streams of three tracks from their excellent new record. The tracks are “Promises Promises,” “Blind Pilots,” and “New Toys,” and ther are also video streams of “Promises Promises,” included. Check it out here.

The Yeah Yeah Yeah's are all over the place these days, and to help spread the word check out this new e-card. We will also be chatting with the band tomorrow, so look for an exclusive SU interview coming soon.

Head Automatica (featuring Daryl Palumbo from Glassjaw and Dan The Automator) will be playing in your town with fellow heads IMA Robot and Thursday. Check the dates below.

PJ Harvey will release her sixth, as-yet-untitled new album this summer, according to Rolling Stone. While an official release date has not yet been given, we do know some of the track titles, including "Who The Fuck?," "Shame," and "The Life And Death Of Mr. Badmouth." More details soon.

AFI has had to cancel that last nine dates of their current tour due to singer Davey Havok's strained vocal cords. He has been advised to rest his voice or could suffer serious damage. Click more for a statement from the band as well as cancelled dates.

Sonic Youth have completed work on their follow-up to 2002's Murray Street. The new album entitled Nurse will be released in June through DGC/Interscope, a tour will soon follow. Go below for the track listing.

Thursday`s video for "War All The Time" has been made available on their official site. Click here for a direct link to the video.

Bob Nanna's (Hey Mercedes/Braid) new solo project, The City on Film will be releasing a new EP entitled I'd Rather be Wine Drunk on June 29th. Meanwhile, it will be available during Bob's solo tour in May and pre-order on the Post436 Records online store.

Courtesy of FrankBlack.net and PixiesMusic.com, we have the release dates now for both Pixies upcoming releases, a best-of CD and their first DVD release. Wave Of Mutilation - Best Of The Pixies will be released 5/4/04, with 23 tracks that intends to replace the out of print Death To The Pixies double CD set. The same day, a DVD will be released featuring some great stuff on the band. Click the [more] for tracklistings, etc.

Two Lone Swordsmen have just completed a new album, From The Double Gone Chapel, so expect it at WarpMart very soon. In the meantime, you can read all about it here.

Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello and Coup frontman Boots Riley are joining Florida farm workers in protesting Taco Bell at the restaurant's Irvine, California, headquarters. Morello and Riley will reuniteat the inaugural date of Axis of Justice Concert Series, March 31st at the Troubadour in LA. Serj Tankian (System of a Down, co-founder of AOJ), will also play at the event along with former MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer.

Queens of the Stone Age redhead Josh Homme going behind the trapkit for his side project Eagles of Death Metal, who release their debut, Peace, Love, Death Metal, on March 23rd. Other bandmates include frontman Jesse "the Devil" Hughes and guitarist Tim "Tipover" Vanhamel (from Belgian rock outfit Millionaire). Homme will begin work on the next Queens of the Stone Age album this spring, sans anyone else. To read more about Eagles of Death Metal, check out this article at RollingStone.com.

Sonic Youth will release their followup to Murray Street in June on DGC/Interscope. The disc is entitled Sonic Youth Nurse and was produced by Jim O'Rourke.

Local H has released an e-card in which you can listen to a new song from the CD each week until the release date. The disc, Whatever Happened To PJ Soles? is in stores on April 6th. Also be sure and check those tour dates.

The first video off of South's new record, With the Tides has now surfaced online. The video for "Colours in Waves" was directed by UK director Caswell Coggins and "captures the band at their most intense and expressive moments as they blast out the their second single." Check it out below.

Cave-In have spent the past few weeks in Boston demoing tracks for their second RCA album. Working with producer Andrew Schneider, who worked with the band on their 2002 Tides Of Tomorrow EP, the band have cranked out seven new songs. Cave-In will play a few gigs beginning March 13 in Cleveland at Pirate's Cove and continuing to the Fireside Bowl in Chicago and the Bottleneck in Lawrence, KA, on consecutive days.

A band that you are going to hear a lot about in the coming months, Snow Patrol, is coming to the US to rock your world. The quartet will play a one-off gig at South By Southwest on March 19 and then will return on Tax Day for a proper tour. To tide you over in the meantime, the band’s excellent third album, and Interscope debut, Final Straw, is out March 30th.