Red Hot Chili Peppers are heading out on the road once again and are bringing along Queens Of The Stone Age. Wait, that sounds familiar. Anyway, dates in the...

Broken Social Scene will embark on a 15-date tour of the US beginning July 9th in Burlington, VT to support their latest album, You Forgot It In People, which is mad good. The band is also currently working on videos for "Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl" and "Lover's Spit." See em here...

MxPx will release Before Everything and After, their first album in three years, on August 19th. The album has been delayed twice before due to mastering and sequencing issues. We have tracklisting and tour dates at the more.

Forever Is Forgotten have issued the following statement: "We have parted ways with singer Chris Lopez. Mean while CJ Krueger from A Shroud Cast Over will be filling in until we find a more permanent replacement. If you are interested please scott@foreverisforgotten.com. The band's new album The Architecture Is Still Burning hits streets July 29th on Thorp Records.

Jack Johnson, the mastermind behind The September Sessions soundtrack, is the subject of a great article up at RollingStone.com. You can also preview his video for "The Horizon Has Been Defeated" here.

The Allman Brothers Band and James Brown will perform at the Gathering of the Vibes festival in Mariaville, New York, July 10-13.

Starsailor will release their second album, Silence Is Easy, in September. The record features production by Phil Spector and John Leckie. Tracklisting and more to come.

Mudhoney (haven't heard that name in awhile, eh?) guitarist Steve Turner will release his solo debut, Searching for Melody, featuring a guest appearance by Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard, later this summer on Rosalyn Recordings.

KRS-One won an injunction against Koch Records that pulled is new album, Kristyles, off of record store shelves this week. The rapper claims the recording is incomplete, and he's still hoping to secure guest appearances by Ol' Dirty Bastard and others.

Remember when your teachers warned you of plagarism? Apparently, even tiny similarities count: The Flaming Lips will split royalties for the song "Fight Test" with Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) according to the terms of an agreement between the two artists' publishing companies. The settlement stems from the similarity between the Lips' new single and Stevens' 1970 song "Father and Son," which the Lips did admit similarities.

A new imprint label Pompano Basic, being run by Chad Neptune of Further Seems Forever, has found a home at Undecided Records. As the inaugural release, Undecided and Pompano Basic will be releasing a retrospective of out of print and rare tracks from the Further Seems Forever vaults. More information will be available soon.

Highroller Studios will have their newest effort, the Hellfest 2002 DVD, available for the first time at this year's Hellfest. If you can't pick it up in person, don't start worrying because for the entire month of July, it will be available from the Ferret webstore. The double DVD is "packed with barrier free chaos, tons of bands, head walking, and finger crunching madness." Full list of bands in the...

According to this article over at Billboard.com, Dido is set to release her follow up to No Angel, titled Life for Rent, on September 30th. The first single from the album, "White Flag," will hit radio on July 7th. The full track listing for the album, which also includes "Sand in My Shoes," "This Land Is Mine" and "Mary's in India," has not yet been decided, but it should be in the coming weeks.

Denali is wrapping up the work on their sophomore album, which will be called The Instinct, and will drop later this year on Jade Tree (track listing in the more). The band will also be playing an informal free show in New Haven, CT on June 29th at BAR at 9pm. Be sure to check out their Silent Uproar sponsored studio journal for more info on the new album.

The Heavy Metal Fantasy Weekend Contest gives one lucky winner the chance to spend a weekend in New York City this summer with Killswitch Engage and Uranium's Juliya. You'll also get a lifetime subscription to Revolver Magazine and the entire Roadrunner Records CD catalog. Click here to enter the contest, and here are the prizes...

Evanescence, Cold and Revis will strike out together on the upcoming Nintendo Fusion Tour. The trek, which will also feature Cauterize and Finger Eleven, will boast live music as well as a host of Nintendo games. While the exact schedule for the tour is still being laid out, it looks set to kick off August 4th in Los Angeles, CA and end in late September in the Pacific Northwest.

The Scaries will be going on tour with Small Brown Bike and The Casket Lottery for a couple shows this month. Well actually, yesterday, today, and tomorrow....

As you know, Béla Fleck & the Flecktones will release, not a 2-disc set, but a 3-disc set, entitled Little Worlds, on August 12th. This will be the group's 10th studio album and will feature The Chieftians, Sam Bush, Nickel Creek, Dereck Trucks, Bobby McFerrin, and Branford Marsalis, among many others. If 3 CDs is not your thing, the guys will also release a single CD of the best material from the 3-disc set. And here's all the track listing information...

As I expected, the new Andrew W.K. album will not carry the title Blow Your Bone. However, according a mailing list message, will be called The Wolf and will hit stores on September 9th. W.K. reported he'd been working on the disc since January and just finished up in time to head out on the 2003 Warped Tour. Though, if September is too long for you to wait, Andrew W.K. will have a CD/DVD single out on July 15th, titled Tear It Up. It will feature two songs, "Tear It Up" and "Your Rules", from The Wolf and a mini-DVD with all of the group's music videos thus far, as well as live footage. If you'd like more information on either release or a sneak preview of the CD/DVD, head over to the band's newly renovated official website.

Thursday have posted the track "For The Workforce, Drowning," from their new album War All The Time in stores on September 16th. The same track will be released on a limited-edition. clear vinyl 7" split with Thrice on July 1st. The song was recorded during the sessions for War All The Time and the Thrice track, “Under a Killing Moon,” will be included on their new album, The Artist In The Ambulance. Visit Thursday's website to sign-up to listen to the new song.