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Xavier Rudd – the acclaimed Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist – will release the follow up to his acclaimed Anti- debut, Food In The Belly on June 19th. Titled White Moth, the disc finds Rudd speaking out against his country’s Aboriginal land right policies which have led to the wholesale displacement and mis treatment of […]

The Flaming Lips  have lined up a run of US dates in April that will take them along the East Coast. The band will start off April 11 in Athens, GA, and hit cities in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Rhode Island through April 21. Fellow Oklahoma City alt-rock outfit Stardeath and White […]

In a press release dated 28th February 2007, Lost Highway Records confirmed that Adams has completed a new album, Easy Tiger, for release on June 5th (June 4th in the UK). The track order is not yet finalised but will comprise: "Goodnight Rose," "Everybody Knows," "The Sun Also Sets," "Halloween Head," "Off Broadway," "Two Hearts," […]

The White Stripes are expected to release their sixth full-length album, "Icky Thump," this year. The garage rock duo revealed on its Web site that it has finished recording and mixing the set, which will be its first since 2005’s "Get Behind Me Satan." There is no official word of a release date, though the […]

Kristoffer Ragnstam, “Sweet Bills” (Bluhammock Records)Admirers of Spoon and Sufjan alike may find common ground in this collection of alt-rock-ified sketches of violent genre collisions tabled by an artist with a suspicious amount of consonants in his name.  The melting pot is so vast but quirkily accessible here that the easiest comparison that comes to […]

In celebration of their new album, THE CONCH, moe. has invited fans to create a music video using any song off the album. After posting entries on YouTube, entrants can send the link to moe.tube@gmail.com.  Videos will be displayed on the gotmoe channel as well. Rules note that the video must be an original creation and CANNOT feature […]

The major headliner for year three of the retooled Lollapalooza concert will be none other than the band that became the breakout superstar of the old Lollapalooza back in 1992: Seattle’s godfathers of grunge, Pearl Jam. The three-day concert will take place in Grant Park from Aug. 3-5, and Lollapalooza promoters don’t plan on announcing […]

Reprising their aborted, controversial 1997 tour pairing, Rage Against The Machine and the Wu-Tang Clan will play three shows together this summer. The reunited acts will appear Aug. 11 and 18 at the Rock the Bells Festival in San Bernardino, Calif., and San Francisco, respectively, and are also on the bill for the event’s East […]

The new Queens of the Stone Age album wlll be called Era Vulgaris and it’s coming out in June.  The new release, the first since 2005’s Lullabies to Paralyze, will feature guest spots from Julian Casablancas, Trent Reznor, Mark Lanegan, and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons. Here’s some new video from the QOTSA in-studio recording.

The sixth annual edition of KCRW’s "A Sounds Eclectic Evening" is set for April 14 with appearances by The Shins, Lily Allen, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cold War Kids, Bitter: Sweet and more. The event will once again take place at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif. More artists are still to be added to the […]

As reported on Tool’s official web site, the band is rescheduling its North American tour due to an injury in the band.  Drummer Danny Carey tore a bicep last weekend and underwent surgery February 21.  The band said he is recovering well and the rescheduled tour dates will be announced shortly.  The group, which has […]

Billy Martin and John Medeski celebrate their near twenty year long musical relationship by releasing a duets album entitled, MAGO ( May, 2007). The album, which was produced by Martin and recorded over a span of two days in July, 2006 features Martin on drums & Medeski on Hammond B3 organ. Mago’s highlights include expansive free-flowing […]

As expected, initial on-sales for the upcoming Police reunion tour sold out in minutes and more shows were quickly added. The band will also soon announce shows for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 23, and McAfee Stadium in Oakland on June 13. On Saturday, two dates were sold out for the Air Canada […]

Tori Amos’ first studio album in more than two years, "American Doll Posse," will arrive May 1 via Epic. Recorded in her homebase of Cornwall, England, it’s the follow-up to 2005’s "The Beekeeper," which has sold 287,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Last year, the artist revisited her back catalog with […]

More than two years of merger rumors came to fruition Monday (Feb. 19) as Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio announced that the two FCC-licensed companies have entered into a definitive agreement, under which the companies will be combined in a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a combined enterprise value of approximately $13 […]

Sasquatch! Music Festival has announced the official line up for their 6th annual event to be held over Memorial Day Weekend on Saturday, May 26th and Sunday, May 27th at the breathtaking Gorge Amphitheatre. The Festival features over 50 artists on 3 stages. Tickets for the festival go on-sale Saturday, March 3rd at 10:00 am. […]

Chris Cornell has split Audioslave, the band he formed with three former members of Rage Against The Machine, due to unspecified "irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences," according to a statement. "This is something I don’t want to do anymore," Cornell tells Billboard.com of Audioslave. "There were problems from the very beginning and […]

Wilco has finalized the track list for its upcoming album, "Sky Blue Sky," which, as previously reported, is due May 15 via Nonesuch. The 12-track set includes several tunes that have already been played live, including the title cut, "Walken" and "On and On and On." "I think people may have an idea in their […]

A collection of unreleased music from late singer/songwriter Elliott Smith will be released this spring. "New Moon" rounds up 24 tracks recorded between 1994-1997. The project is due May 8 via Kill Rock Stars and will also be available as a double vinyl set. Some of the material is understood to have been produced by […]

Tool, the White Stripes and Widespread Panic will join the reunited Policd at the 2007 Bonnaroo festival, to be held June 14-17 in Manchester, Tenn. An official announcement is expected tomorrow (Feb. 14), but the full list of performers was briefly available earlier today on the event’s Web site and captured by eagle-eyed fans on the Inforoo […]