Smart Went Crazy offspring, Beauty Pill, hope to release their work in progress, The Unsustainable Lifestyle, sometime later this year. The band does, however, intend to have an EP together for the summer and in time for their impending tour in May.

Black Eyes -- who we know little about, but have the Ian MacKaye seal of approval -- will release their debut full-length through Dischord Records on April 14th. Check out the Dischord tour dates page to see if and when the band is playing your town.

Last night at a concert in Germany members of Snapcase we're injured in a fight. Drummer Ben Lythberg was knocked unconscious and taken to a hospital overnight and their tour manager suffered a broken jaw. Apparently some kids in the crowd were getting pretty violent during the show and during Snapcase's second song they stopped playing in order to get things straightened out and thats when it all went down.

Pat Wilson of Weezer fame's side project The Special Goodness are releasing their new full length entitled "Land Air Sea" on march 4th. For more information visit TheSpecialGoodness.com. The band has also posted some live mp3's here.

There were rumors last year of it's return, but now it's official, the festival that started it all will be returning this summer with a pretty rockin lineup. Lollapalooza 2003 promises to include the likes of Jane's Addiction, Queens Of The Stone Age, Audioslave, Incubus, and Jurassic 5 among many others. While no official dates have been confirmed there is a lengthy list of cities planning to be hit. Loads more on this one as details emerge.

Verve guitarist Simon Tong is now a touring member of Blur. He's not a "full-time band member" but will take departing guitarist Graham Coxon's place for the live shows.

Have we mentioned that Rilo Kiley is going on the road with Mayday and The Good Life? Maybe not.. you know you wanna go, now just find out if you can.

Icelandic wonder, Bjork, apparently has a new album in the works and is considering a release for the summer of 2003. The enigmatic Bjork.com webmaster "Meester Fly" reports that she has been recording a "song a day. song a day. for how many days. I do not know. but some days." Aside from being tenatively titled LakeExperience, there's not a whole lot else to tell. However, there are two strange "flys eye view" clips on her website that reveal some very very basic sounds from the forthcoming works.

Earlier in 2002, Ween was hired by the largest advertising firm in the country to write a jingle for Pizza Hut's "The Insider" pizza. After months of rewrites they were eventually dropped from the project as the firm (nor Pizza Hut) never felt the music worked appropriately. Fortunately for all us the band has posted some of the jingles on their site. You can check it out here.

Just a reminder since we've been reporting on this for quite awhile now, The Ramones tribute album, We're a Happy Family will be out this week. The album drops this Tuesday February 11th and features such artists as The Red Hot Chili Peppers,Eddie Vedder, Green Day, Garbage and many more. For full tracklist clock more.

The Damnwells have expanded their upcoming February tour. Previously, they had only announced a few shows as support for Cheap Trick, but now there are shows throughout February and into March. See if they're coming to your town...

As we continue to grow, we have found that we have need for another reviewer. If interested, please send me an email to hireme@silentuproar.com along with some examples of your work and what genres you prefer covering. Thanks and I look forward to seeing what you all have to offer.

The Movielife now have an e-card online which you can preview some songs from their upcoming new album 40 Hour Train back to Penn. The album drops february 25th, Click here to listen.

Gold Standard Labs will release their first ever compilation of new material titles "Our Birthday, Your Present" in the March issue of the very excellent Skyscraper Magazine. The CD-only compilation features 19 songs - 14 of which are previously unavailable and it will only be available with the magazine. For the list of bands, click...

The Walkmen (who recently had the track “We’ve Been Had” featured on new Saturn Ion commercial) have now made their debut single available online. Check it here in Real Audio and here in Windows Media. The track comes from their debut album Everybody Who Pretended To Like Me is Gone.

Fischerspooner has been scheduled tp perform on the Last Call with Carson Daly on February 18th. The show tapes Tuesday at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York and you can get tickets by emailing lastcallaudience@nbc.com with "FISCHERSPOONER" in the subject line along with your full name, phone number and number of tickets you need to reserve. In other news, plans have been announced for a series of listening parties for the Fischerspooner album around the US. More details to follow.

Godsmack are set to release their third album, Faceless on Republic/Universal Records on 4/8/03. The album was produced by David Bottrill (Tool) and you can hear the first single, "Straight Out of Line", here.

The new album from The Dandy Warhols is set to be named after the Kurt Vonnegut Jr collection of short stories Welcome To The Monkey House. The album is slated for a July release here in the States and sometime in May internationally. Strangely enough, the band collaborated with Evan Dando, Chic, and Nile Rodgers for several portions of the album - including the already determined second single "The Last High" (co-written by Dando). If you're dying to hear the new stuff, go pick up a copy of Spin that includes the Capitol Records sampler featuring the alternate mix of.. "The Last High." Full tracklisting and supporting tour dates forthcoming...

Scottish indie rockers Mogwai (whose "Summer" was used as the music in that new Levi's ad with the buffalo stampeding) have entered the world of charity rock auctions in a very unique way. The band is putting drummer Martin Bulloch's old pacemaker up for sale on EBay. The proceeds are going to (surprisingly enough) the British Heart Foundation. The winner also gets all kinds of Mogwai rarities and stuff too.

From their official site, it has been reported that Dredg have finished editing their DVD with Mr. Jono Kane (jonokane.com). The disc is titled Crickets' and will be available for free on their Sno Core dates. Do me a favor and get me one - thanks in advance.