The new Nelly Furtado single, "Powerless (Say What You Want)" has been posted over at her official website. Like we said, look for the full set, Folklore, on November 25th.

Just to prove they're still chugging away, the Apex Theory have posted an instrumental demo of a new track over on their official website. And, yes, they're still looking for a new vocalist.

Jump back a few weeks and re-listen to the new Phantom Planet single, "Big Brat". And then mark your calendars, because their new album, Forever, is due January 6th.

Cave In bassist Caleb Scofield recently talked to the Las Vegas Weekly about the direction for the band's follow-up to Antenna. He stated, and I quote: "The next time around we're definitely just going to let go of a lot of the inhibitions we had when we were recording Antenna, and we're just going to have a lot more fun. It's definitely going to be a lot heavier and a lot weirder." He said, you read it. Now deliver, fools! We liked Antenna, but we longed for Jupiter.

Hey! Detachment Kit have finsihed their new album, but we don't have any information. Why not? Well, because they don't know when it will be released. Bummer, huh? To tide the fans over, the Kit are in the process of assembling an EP, almost entirely self-recorded, produced and mixed, to sell at upcoming shows in November. There's also news of another EP, but details on it are pretty shady. Well, go read it for yourself and let me know what you decipher. Lastly, watch for the band to appear on some random MTV commerical in the near future. Your guess is as good as mine on that one.

The final Dismemberment Plan LP, A People's History of The Dismemberment Plan, was released yesterday. It compiles twelve fan remixes of D-Plan classics. You can stream the entire album over at their website. Yep, pretty nice of them.

Jimmie's Chicken Shack are wasting no time and are currently in the studio with producer Frank Marchand recording tracks for their follow-up to Bring Your Own Stereo, which will be titled Re-Present. The album is going to be an interesting one, consisting of 6 co-writes from the likes of Aaron Lewis of Staind, Art Alexakis of Everclear, Butch Walker of Marvelous 3, John Wozniak of Marcy Playground, Mark Tremonti of Creed and Benji & Joel from Good Charlotte. The studio session will produce 15 tracks, but the final set will trimmed down to include 11 new songs. Here's the tracks in order of priority from Mr. Haha himself...

Cracker will release Countrysides, an album of country-music covers, on October 14. Rolling Stone reports that the album is an “exploration of the counter-culture part of country music. The long-hair, hippie, pot-smoking part of country music that [we] never realized Cracker had been so influenced by.” Apparently, I am not the only one baffled and slightly annoyed with this new effort. Virgin records has dropped the band from the label because of disagreement over the direction of this album. A highlight of the album is the track, “Ain’t Gonna Suck Itself”, dedicated to Virgin Records.

If you live in the midwest or west coast, I hate you because you get to see Dance Disaster Movement on tour with the Ex-Models. Dance Disaster Movement just recently released their full-length debut, We Are From Nowhere on Dim Mak Records.

Sub Pop wonders The Thermals are embarking on a U.S. tour with Mates of State. Check out our review of More Parts Per Million and then head out to…

A brave fan made his way onstage during Bright Eyes ' performance Sunday night at the Shortlist Music Awards and promptly spat on frontman Conor Oberst. This was in response to disparaging remarks Oberst made about mega-promotion and marketing company Clear Channel; click more for for Oberst’s words.

You already know that Travis will be releasing 12 Memories on October 14, but to hold you over for the next week, you can stream the first single, "Re-Offender", from the official site. Click the more for the full tracklisting on the single.

Southern fried rockers Kings Of Leon will be the supporting act on their tour with The Strokes this October and November. Following this US jaunt, the band will head over to Europe for a two week European tour followed by 8 dates in the UK. Be sure and check out this KOL eCard, and check more for those tour dates.

Blink-182 will release their new self titled CD on November 18th, and for now we have a stream of the first single, "Feeling This'". Check it out in Real Audio and Windows Media.

Looks like Damien Rice had the luck of the Irish with him last night, as he walked away with the top honors at the third annual Shortlist Music Prize concert. The event was taped for MTV2 and will premiere October 25th at 6pm ET. To read more about the night's events, head over to the Shortlist website. And, just in case you're interested, here's our review of Rice's US debut, O.

A long time ago we told you that there would be a new Blinker The Star album entitled Still In Rome. Now we can tell you that the album is slated for an October 28th release on French Kiss / MapleNationwide. The album was produced by frontman Jordon Zadorozny and is described as "a refocused drive to produce uncompromised, relentless, God-like rock music." Judge for yourself over at the fully revamped (and actually informative) new Blinker The Star official website. Snag some mp3 outtakes from several albums, and stream the clips from the forthcoming Still In Rome.

Courtney Love is not having the best of luck lately. Late this past week, the authorities were called after Ms. Love was found breaking the windows of an LA home and was under the influence of a quite potent controlled substance. Shortly after she was freed on $2500 bail, she was rushed to the emergency room for treatment of an “unexplained medical emergency”. More details and juicy gossip are expected to be released soon.

The White Stripes and the Flaming Lips are playing a very special New Year’s Eve show together at the Chicago Aragon Ballroom. Interestingly, the White Stripes will be headlining. Expect coordinated outfits, peculiar props, and animal costumes to be present.

Fatboy Slim has completed a good chunk of the recording of his new album, which will feature guest vocals from Damon Albarn of Blur, as well as Blackalicious’ Lateef and Bootsy Collins. No release date has yet been set in the US, but if you’re craving some Fatboy, he has a new single, “Don’t Let The Man Get You Down,” which can be found on the SSX3 video game soundtrack.

The artwork for Anti-Flag's new album, The Terror State, has gotten major music retailers’ panties in a bunch. You can view the artwork here as well as a statement from the band regarding the controversy. An alternate cover has been produced proclaiming, “Choices has been made for you by persons other than Anti-Flag and Fat Wreck Chords regarding the artwork of this release.” Click more for the band’s statement.