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Stage dive into spring with the Jägermeister Music Tour! Jägermeister is teaming up with legendary American punk band, Pennywise and dub rock trio, Pepper for this year’s spring Jägermeister Music Tour. The tour kicks off on April 13th in Seattle, Washington.

Today is the day that’s been circled on your calendar for weeks. Today is the day that Mastodon’s Crack The Skye is released upon the Earth!
CRACK THE SKYE is available in two packages from iTunes. The Standard Version and a Deluxe Version, which includes the CRACK THE SKYE digital album, plus the entire album presented [...]

Chicago alt-rock troupe, MADINA LAKE just premiered the video for “Never Take Us Alive” on MySpace today. The clip was directed by Shane Drake who has also worked with Paramore, Fall Out Boy, and Timbaland among others. The song comes off Madina Lake’s sophomore album, Attics to Eden, [...]

16 Frames’ new album, Where It Ends, is available today!  The Los Angeles based band teamed up with producer Matt Serletic (Matchbox 20, Santana) for their major label debut.   Tracks from Where It Ends have been featured on MTV’s The Hills and recently appeared in the promos for ABC’s Private [...]

Florida metal quartet Black Tide takes a break from the road this Wednesday to the delight of eager fans, as they chat live on Stickam.com 3/18 at 1pm PST.
No time to chat? Not to worry, Black Tide won’t fade out all summer long as they finish off an aggressive Spring campaign and [...]

Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd announce they will join forces again to provide the best show of the summer, reprising last year’s highly successful “Rock and Rebels” tour.  The Live Nation produced tour kicks off in West Palm Beach, FL at the Cruzan Amphitheatre with a 22 market trek [...]

Atlantic recording group Death Cab for Cutie has announced the upcoming release of an all-new EP, titled “THE OPEN DOOR.”  The five-track set will be released online via all digital retailers – including the band’s own www.deathcabforcutie.com – on March 31st.  Physical CDs will first be available at venues on DCFC’s [...]

Which band was called “Majestic” (NME), “Exhilarating” (Q) and the “Epic British indie reborn” (Mojo) and named one of Blender’s Artists to Watch in 2009 and one of the Hottest Bands at CMJ in 2008 by Spin? WHITE LIES! White Lies’ album To Lose My Life hits stores this week.

Cult of Static is Static-X’s sixth studio album and was produced by Static and John Travis (Social Distortion, Suicide Silence, Buckcherry). The album also features Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine who adorns “Lunatic” with legendary guitar work. Fans who pick up the album on Amazon.com will be treated with Static-X’s version of [...]

These Green Eyes “Sucker Punch”-ed their way to a win this week on mtvU’s The Freshmen. The post-hardcore outfit from Connecticut crowns their win with a sweet reward, their video added to rotation on mtvU.
Things are looking up for These Green Eyes, who not long ago lost a friend to suicide and journied through the [...]