As you know, Kraftwerk are set to release their first album in 17 years. Though, now the album, Tour De France Soundtracks, has been pushed back until on August 5th. You can check the snippets of the first single, "Tour De France 03," via this ecard. More information can be accessed through their official website.

Q-Tip is recording his third solo album with plans for an early 2004 on the Dreamworks label. The vivrant tip will also rejoin A Tribe Called Quest, who have reunited and recorded several songs, though no release plans are set.

The Six Part Seven will release a split EP with the Black Keys this fall. The group is also recruiting acts including Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock and Pedro the Lion's David Bazan to record their tunes for Lost Notes From Forgotten Songs, due later this year.

Mark Ronson of NY DJ fame is putting out his first album, Here Comes the Fuzz, which hits record stores August 26th. Guests to the cluster-shupp of a debut include Mos Def, Jack White of the White Stripes, ?uestlove, Nikka Costa, Nappy Roots and Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. Read more about it here.

Tenacious D's HBO series, music videos and a ninety-minute concert have been compiled onto The Masterworks, a DVD due September 9th. We'll get on that more later.

You can head over to MP3.com and check out the new side project from Glassjaw frontman Daryl Palumbo. It's been rumored that the project, named Head Automatica (or just "HA"), will put out a proper release sometime this year, but nothing has been confirmed.

Taking Back Sunday have just announced a few tour dates, including the final three Warped Tour dates and their headling date at Furnace Fest. Expect a full tour announcement sometime next week, but here's the dates for now...

Blur will appear on Last Call with Carson Daly on July 16th. If you'd like tickets, email the show with your full name, age, and number of tickets you'd like (limit 4). For the rest of us, tune into NBC next Wednesday.

Fresh off of a 5-week US tour, Beauty Pill are headed back into the studio to finish their new album, The Unsustainable Lifestyle. For a taste of what's to come, check out their new EP, You Are Right To Be Afraid, over at Dischord.

The Damnwells have assemble some dates for July and August. Selected dates will feature solo, acoustic performances from frontman Alex Dezen, opening for Rhett Miller. In other news, the band is almost finished with their follow-up to PMR and expect to release the full-length in September. The band is also currently working on a video for the song "Sleepsinging" with video artists The Haus. MP3 samples and a track listing for the new LP are coming up soon, but for now, see them live...

Coldplay have released the song "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" as the next, international single from A Rush Of Blood To The Head. The song won't see a release in the US or UK, but you can at least go check out the video for the song at the "In My Place" fan's area of coldplay.com.

Kathleen Edwards will be in Toronto on July 30th at Downsview Park with The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, The Guess Who, Sam Roberts, The Flaming Lips, and more. Tickets are onsale.

Sheath, the newest album from LFO (the Warp band, not the boy band) will be released on September 22nd preceded by the single "Freak" in August. This is the first LFO record since 1996's Advance, and you'll probably be able to preorder soon.

Tori Amos is, according to Neil Gaimen's online journal and thedent.com currently rehearsing with her band for the Summer 2003 tour AND for the new song(s) on her upcoming Greatest Hits CD. "Snow Cherries From France" is said to be on the set list on her upcoming tour, which will be Tori's last time on the road until at least 2005.

Squarepusher tours the USA in July with Luke Vibert (who releases a new album on Warp in October), and then returns for a 6-date mini tour of the UK in August. We have the new dates at the more.

Aphex Twin is one of the contributors to a Longlife/Surfers Against Sewage touring exhibition/auction of custom surfboards. Other people to contribute designs include Damien Hirst, Jamie Hewlett, and Paul Kaye. You can bid online for the custom-painted boards, all profits go towards supporting Surfers against Sewage. The tour culminates in a big party in Newquay, Cornwall, on 16th August 2003.

Onlinedrawing is currently on tour for the full month of July. You like to know the dates, wouldn't ya?

Grandaddy is releasing "El Caminos In The West" as a single on August 25th. As with the "Now It's On" single, the track will be released as two CD's and a DVD. Check the more to find out what you'll be importing.

If you've got your copy of the latest Liz Phair release (entitled Liz Phair) you are eligible to download an Internet only EP entitled Comeandgetit. The five track EP is available as one 13-minute ASF file from Capitol Records. Oh, and if you happen to have iTunes you can download the outtake track "Insanity" from the Apple Music Store. If neither of these apply, you'll just have to go see her on tour and scream out the song titles incessantly until she agrees to play them.

Tool is now on the back-burner again as MJK and A Perfect Circle have set, as we told you, the release date for APC's second album, Thirteenth Step, on September 16th. Guitarist Billy Howerdel and drummer Josh Freese are still in the band (not, thank bejesus, James Iha) and Jeordie White (Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson) has joined. Tracklisting and limited tour dates at the mo' fo' shizzle, yo.