To help promote the release of their self-ttled debut album, Lo-Pro is giving away an X-box and an Ibanez guitar over here. Whether you like the band or not, free shit = hotness.

Method: Fail, Repeat, the forthcoming debut release from Silverlake, California’s, The Kite-Eating Tree is set to be co-released on March 23rd by the band’s newly-launched imprint, Cowboy Versus Sailor and Suburban Home Records. Check below for some show dates.

Yellowcard will embark on a co-headlining U.S. tour with Something Corporate beginning March 18th in San Francisco, hitting markets across the US. A full list of confirmed tour dates is below. Yellowcard has also been confirmed as a headliner for this summer's Vans Warped Tour. Supporting the tour on certain dates are New Zealand guitar-rockers Steriogram, whose debut album, Schmack!, will be released on April 20. The Michel Gondy-directed video for lead single "Walkie Talkie Man" can be viewed here.

The Mars Volta have releases the video for their new single, “Televators," online. The video has been added to MTV2's Subterranean with rotations officially starting Sunday March 29th, but who cares because you can see it right now in Windows Media and Real Video.

Scotland’s summer outdoor party known as T In The Park just keeps getting better. Already on board for the July 10 & 11 festival were The Pixies, David Bowie, The Darkness, Muse, and The Chemical Brothers. Now add to that mix The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, N.E.R.D., Snow Patrol, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, and Scissor Sisters and you have an event I am really pissed I am going to miss.

Dischord darlings Q And Not U are helping you through midterms by doing a brief US tour, mostly on college campuses. Tickets are also gonna be pretty cheap, so blow off class for this.

We already told you that Sparta is working on a new record, but now we can tell you that it will be called Porcelain and it will be out in June. They will also be doing a couple of dates with some other of you favorites...

Be on the lookout when The Coachwhips play in your town supporting their most recent, Bangers vs. Fuckers. Some of the venues are not confirmed yet, but the cities are...

The next White Stripes single, "There's No Home For You Here" will only be released on 7", so you may have some trouble getting it on to your ipods. Released on March 15, it will include previously unavailable medley of 'I Fought Piranhas' from the band's debut album and 'Let's Build A Home' from 'De Stijl', recorded in front of a live audience at New York's famous Electric Lady Studios.

So Rufus Wainwright is getting ready to release Want Two, the follow-up to (what else?) Want One. According to NME.com, He wants to have it out sometime before the presidential elections or else it will "sound weird" if the Democrats win because the album "turns around and tries to tackle some of the earthly troubles that we're in right now". Whatever, it's just an album.

If you haven't seen it in awhile, The Vines official website has been overhauled with new content; including the video for "Ride With Me" and more info about the new album Winning Days. Here is the cover, and the links to listen to the first single are below or you can stream the entire album here.

If you're in a caring mood, the musical bits of the Oscars begat winners Annie Lennox (with Fran Walsh and Howard Shore via Lord of the Rings: Return of the King) for original song for "Into the West," beating out Sting and Elvis Costello, among others, and Howard Shore for the score of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Outkast's Andre 3000 is in final negotiations to play Jimi Hendrix in a new biopic by the Hughes Brothers, so hopefully a good film will be had.

Junkie XL kicks off an eleven-date tour behind latest album Radio JXL starting at the Winter Music Conference in Miami on March 6th.

Songs by Bonnie Raitt, David Crosby and Graham Nash, and Dave Alvin will be included on Parkinsong, Vol. One, which will benefit research to find a cure for Parkinson's Disease. Michael J. Fox will be tapping his toes for certain, so why not join in?

Songs (new and unreleased!) by Cex, onelinedrawing, Jets To Brazil and Pedro The Lion will be included on a Jade Tree Records sampler, Location Is Everything Vol. 2, due April 20, 2004. Tracklisting at the more.

So, you're anxiously awaiting Squarepusher's new album, Ultravisitor, due out on March 9th (March 8th in the UK). You've streamed or gotten the vinyl promo EP with the three new songs, but somehow you're still missing something. How about live dates on this side of the pond? Aw yeah, right on!

The Neptunes, have revealed that they have decided to end the relationship between their StarTrak imprint and Arista Records. The duo is in negotiations with the label to hammer out the details of their split and the label roster is expected to be broken up. More details on who goes where...later.

Incubus are on tour. Aside from the ridiculous amount of tour dates, the band also plans to release a bootleg from each country they visit to be available at incubusbootlegs.com.

This April, Thursday, Poison The Well, Engine Down and Spitalfield are taking a litte road trip together across the northern US and Canada. Want the dates?