According to the band's official website, it seems Incubus have parted ways with bass player Alex Katunich, aka Dirk Lance. Despite the somewhat bad news, frontman Brandon Boyd reported a "warning," because "the music [the band is] currently composing for the next record will be like melted chocolate on your chests and necks!" Oh joy. I can only imagine the next radio smash-hits with their gummy, pop sing-a-long choruses. Maybe Dirk Lance is the smart one?

Poison The Well will release their new album, You Come Before You, on July 1st via Trustkill Records. According the band's website, most of the dozen tracks recorded are mixed and ready to be sent off to mastering. The band also reported that Jacob Bannon, who created the artwork for The Opposite of December, will be working on the art for this release. In touring news, Poison The well are currently in the middle of the UK tour, check here for dates.

According to several reports across the Internet, it seems that several fans walked out of a recent Pearl Jam show in Denver, CO, after frontman Eddie Vedder impailed a George W Bush mask with a mic stand. He showed support for the troops, lambasted makers of foreign policy and showed disgust for the current war in Iraq, which seemed to be too much for a few fans. However, after reading a couple other sites' take on this event, it seems that reports are being grossingly exaggerated. Yes, "dozens" of fans left the show. But, according to Pearl Jam's fan-based website, only about two dozen of the 12,000 people there walked out. Everyone else was "loudly applauding" and enjoying the show. Even a hometown reporter failed to mention the minor walkouts. Who you going to believe?

In our continuing coverage of The Dandy Warhols upcoming album Welcome to the Monkey House we bring you several tidbits of entertaining information. You can watch the video for the first single "We Used To Be Friends" right here, as well as view what I am assuming is the cover of the album right here. The full tracklisting for the album is in the always informative [more] section and I would share the tour dates but they are all overseas. More dates will likely follow stateside once the album hit shelves sometime in July.

According to At Ease, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead has written that the leaked tracks of their new album, Hail To The Thief, are actually stolen recordings of early work. In other news, Radiohead have announced they will perform at this year's Summersonic Festival in Japan on August 2nd and 3rd. But, to see what Mr. Greenwood had to say...

Looks like the new Deftones will be self-titled, as previously thought. You can head over to deftonesworld.com and check out the album art (no title on the front equals self-titled, we assume). Look for that menacing cover in stores on May 20th! And for the obsessive in all of us, here's a link to the Deftones' online team.

As promised, Björk has announced her first US appearance this year, with "the rest of this concert series will be announced very shortly." The show will take place at Cyclone Stadium in Brooklyn, NY on August 22nd. We can only assume that she'll premiere new material from her upcoming album, tentatively titled LakeExperience.

After a quick rest following their recent stint on the Sno-Core Tour together, Glassjaw and Dredg will be heading out for a UK/Ireland/Euoropean tour. All the dates are in the more.

Well here's one that will take more than a few by surprise... the Russian, teenage, lesbian, and exploitation pop sensation that is T.A.T.U. is set to collaborate on a project with Rammstein. You remember them, they're those German industro-whatever guys with a stage show involving a more fire than a MOAB. It remains to be seen what form the project will take, but I wouldn't expect it to be as interesting as it sounds like it could be.

Guess where Ol' Dirty Bastard is now!? If you said "in prison", you'd be wrong. After recently completing his stint in the slammer, ODB has been swiftly transferred to a mental institution where he'll stay until at least July because he's 'unsafe to return to the general public'. No actual diagnosis, but I'd feel pretty confident in guessing that he falls somewhere into the schizo area of mental disorders. Poor guy. He obviously won't be joining the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan in their tour of Israel next month.

REM have finally announced US tour dates. Click the magic button for when and where.

The Offspring, who recently said goodbye to longtime drummer Ron Welty, have decided to plow on and have announced that they'll call their new album Chinese Democracy. Yes, it's a reference to that Chinese Democracy. Says Offspring frontman Dexter Holland about the title, "You snooze, you lose. Axl ripped-off my braids, so I ripped-off his album title."

"War! Uh! What is it good for? Absolutely nonthin!" -- I'm sure you've heard the song and it's perhaps just as relevant now as it was when it came out during the Vietnam conflict in 1970. Unfortunately, the man who sang the song, Edwin Starr, has passed away. Starr had a long career as an R&B and soul star, mostly overseas, but he was best known for "War". People may not know the man, but his song will always be remembered. Starr was 61.

The Beastie Boys, who recently released an anti-war protest song and are working on a new album, will play at a tribute concert for slain Run DMC DJ Jam Master Jay at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. The gig takes place on April 25th, one day before they're scheduled to perform at this year's Coachella fest.

Fischerspooner are giving young filmmakers and designers an outlet to create and expose their visual interpretations of the song "Emerge," by asking people to submit a body of work that expresses your creative skills. The winning entry will be prominently featured on IFILM.com, Fischerspooner.com, The Cornerstone Player CD/DVD compilation, and will receive an Apple eMac SuperDrive, a year-long subscription to The Fader magazine, and a selection of CDs from the Capitol Records catalog. Check it out here .

Denali is going on a quick East Coast tour before heading back into the studio to work on a new record (with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse at the helm). The dates are in the more. The band also plans to head to Europe and the UK at the beginning of June for a month-long tour with Pedro the Lion. We will post tour dates on the site as soon as we have them.

54 40' or Fight! is will be releasing the debut EP from Allen Epley's (of Shiner fame) new band The Life and Times. Copies will be available for sale by mid-May, with the official release date being July 1st. The band is also touring this summer, and will be doing a show with Dropsonic in Atlanta in late-April. More on that as the date draws near. (Thanks to Jon for the tip)

Bluebird is back at it again. The band is in the middle of recording a 6 song EP to be released this summer on in the UK, Europe, and Japan, as well as a Fall release in the US. The EP will also feature the video for "Falling Back To Earth" from their album Hot Blood. In other news, the re-issue of The Two has been pushed back a bit due to their busy schedules, but should be out in late summer with new art and bonus tracks. The band is also on tour again, with all the dates in the more.

The vinyl format of Bleed American from Jimmy Eat World is now available again, after being released by Western Tread Recordings, an independent label started by Jim Adkins. This vinyl-only release will be pressed on marble wax and will include the bonus song "Splash, Turn, Twist".

Good golly, Miss Molly! It's been a long time since our last Doug Martsch update. Regardless, we've got nothing but good news! Built To Spill have schedule some tour dates and are heading out in May. Think they've written anything since Ancient Melodies of the Future? You know you're curious...