May 10th will mark the return of of Headbanger's Ball. It will run at 10 PM on MTV2 (since MTV1 doesn't play music anymore). This would have seemed extremely appropriate ten years ago, but now it's only moderately appropriate that Metallica will be hosting the first show.
Pearl Jam have done a really cool thing. They plan to counter the estimated 5,700 tons of greenhouse gas emissions generated by the trucks, buses, airplanes and their fans' 1 million cars on their current world tour by purchasing 5,700 tons of carbon produced by the Makira Rainforest Conservation project in Madagascar. Makira helped the band estimate the direct emissions of its tour's 30,000 mile route. Pearl Jam then purchased the carbon to conserve it, offsetting the warming potential of the emissions. Cool deal.
Are you among the small amount of Radiohead fans, like myself, that have yet to hear anything from Hail To The Theif? Well, suffer no more! Capitol Records is hosting two Windows Media streams of the first single, "There There." So, here here you go: 56K / 100K. Hopefully this will appease you until June 10th. Be strong!
Blur will appear on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn on April 25th - yeah, after Dave. Also, if you've yet to check out the next Blur smash-hit "Crazy Beat," why not just watch the video too? They've got it exclusively over at MTV.com for the next couple days. Did you hear about the contest?
Jackson, featuring Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters as well as members of Saves The Day and Face To Face, have launched their website today. Be sure to check out the online player for a chance to hear material from their upcoming, self-titled debut EP.
Blinker The Star has a new album entitled Still In Rome. What label is releasing it? When is it coming out? That's anyones guess for now, but you can check the song "Got To Go Through It" by clicking right here.
Calla have announced a few more tourdates (you can check out the old ones here) and details for a new CD single. "Televised" (not to be confused with the album from which it came, Televise) will be released on May 12th through Ryko -- you can check out the tracklisting and those new tourdates down at the more. Oh, and there's a new stream of their "Strangler" video here.
According to NME.com, Rage Against The Machine will release a live album soon. No release date has been set. The live material will be taken from some of the band's final shows.
Courtney Love now has twenty-eight songs (half of which are collaborations with Linda Perry of 4-Non Blondes, Pink and Agulerica fame. Bwhahaha.) for her upcoming solo debut, America's Sweetheart, including a cover of Kim Carnes' 1981 hit "Bette Davis Eyes." She is recording the album, due out in September, in a thirteen-century chateau in the South of France... But I know you knew that. Anyway, Among the songs Love is prepping for possible inclusion are the tentatively titled "Julian (But I'm A Little Older Than You)," "Mono," "Sunset Strip" and "Hold On To Me." She's playing Leeds and Reading and looking for a bassist and guitarist, hopefully female. Maybe she'll do some Durst-esque auditions.
Irish q-ball Sinead O'Connor plans to retire after the release of the live DVD Goodnight, Thank You. You've Been a Lovely Audience in July. In May, O'Connor will complete her final recordings: a song for the upcoming Dolly Parton tribute album, Just Because I'm a Woman, and a track for Celtic artist Sharon Shannon.
Okay, you know that the Queens of the Stone Age have been busy bees, but don't you want some super cool art... even if they're not coming near your town on Lollapalooza (2 hours is close enough for me). Check out the posters- I'm a little late with the heads up, but you can still get 'em or look at 'em or whatever you want.
Wilco have decided to just give away their upcoming EP (yeah, that EP) via their website. All you have to do is visit this page, insert your copy of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot into your computer, and then you'll have access to high resolution artwork, streaming media and high-quality MP3 downloads of the EP tracks. Wilco calls it "[their] way of saying thanks for supporting the band over the last year." And, don't forget they're playing some shows with Sonic Youth soon too.
The Dismemberment Plan have announced the first few dates of their farewell tour. They'll be hitting up DC, TX, and the left coast first (with some great openers, I might add). More June dates are expected for the midwest, and July dates for the east coast. Thanks to Pitchfork for the heads-up. Click [more] for the dates.
Elektra's website is reporting that the self-titled Year Of The Rabbit album will be released on July 1st. The album will be preceeded by a single for the song "Rabbit Hole" and will arrive at radio stations on June 9th. They're out on tour with Pete Yorn and Grandaddy soon, but you already knew that.
Aside from their upcoming 5-month tour with Björk, Matmos have already completed writing, mixing and mastering their fifth (or sixth), as of yet untitled album. The duo also reported the album will be release on September 23rd via Matador Records. As they posted on their website: "That's such an awfully long time from now that we aren't going to say much more about it at this time. Nobody likes a tease." Well, boys, that's exactly what you've done. So, to make up for it, they will be releasing a live recording of the collaborative project they partcipated in last year at the San Fransisco Art Institute. The album, entitled Wide Open Spaces, will be released sometime this summer via Tigerbeat6.
In preparation for their European release of Open Up and Say Awesome, Ultimate Fakebook have a new e-card for your viewing pleasure, also featuring downloads and updated tour dates.
Cave In has been added to the Center City Fest outdoor concert in Charlotte, NC this Saturday, April 26th. The band was also recently confirmed to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman for Monday, June 16th. For a full list of US tour dates with the Foo Fighters, as well as their summer tour schedule for UK/Europe and Japan, you know what to do...
Relient K will drop their third release, Two Lefts Don't Make a Right, But Three Do, on Gotee Records on March 11th. The band has now made an e-card which you can check out here, as well as streams of the tracks “Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry” in Real Audio and Windows Media and “In Love with the 80’s” in Real Audio and Windows Media.
Bob Marley's family has found some cassette recordings of unreleased material, with plans to release it by next year, so until then you'll be lyin' like a lion in... waiting.
George Clinton will release Six Degrees of P-Funk, a new compilation spanning 1979 to 1996, on May 13th. Tracklisting? Coming soon.
