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Metallica’s concert at AT&T Park on Saturday, Feb. 6 will be live streamed, a representative for the band announced on Wednesday. The sold-out show is part of CBS Radio’s annual “The Night Before” series of Super Bowl concerts, which in the past has featured artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jason Aldean and Dierks Bentley. Tickets for this year’s set were snatched up in under 10 minutes. The concert, which also features opening act Cage the Elephant, will...

!!! Set To Release Their Third Full-length, Myth Takes, March 6th On Warp Records: The Brooklyn-by-way-of-California rock collective known by the unmistakable three exclamation points !!! or the tri-syllabic ChkChkChk are set to release their third full-length, Myth Takes, March 6th on Warp Records. !!!’s ability to transcend traditional indie slings and bring down the house everywhere from Red Hot Chili Peppers stadium tours to underground loft parties is renowned. Myth Takes is the funkiest, catchiest and most unconventional album...

Time to start airing out that beanie! The bearded British troubadour will be undertaking a tour of the States in 2007. Note to his more odoriferous fans: please wash before attending. Thanks. Sincerely, everyone else. Mar 03 Philadelphia PA @ Theatre of Living Arts Mar 05 Somerville MA @ Somerville Theatre Mar 06 Washington DC @ 9.30 Club Mar 07 New York NY @ Webster Hall Mar 09 Detroit MI @ Majestic Theatre Mar 10 Chicago IL @ Metro Mar...

New York, NY– California’s DevilDriver are hard at work recording their third album for Roadrunner Records at the Sonic Ranch studio outside El Paso, Texas. Producing and mixing the album is Jason Suecof, known for his great work with Trivium, Chimaira, God Forbid, and Bury Your Dead.  Engineer Mark Lewis is helping the band in the studio as well.  Their recording is almost done, and their last day in the studio is December 17th. Known for their uniquely sinister sound...

I rode the buzz out to the Troubadour to catch the first of three nights What Made Made Milwaukee Famous would be performing in Los Angeles and quickly found it all to be true. The quartet from Austin opened their set with “Idecide,” the first song from their Barsuk Records release Trying To Never Catch Up.With very little knowledge of what the band would sound like, I was a bit apprehensive when the electro track started as they took the...

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke is posting a few remixes from this year’s solo effort The Eraser on the official website for the record, www.theeraser.net . The remixes will be available for the next seven days, so hurry up and don’t wait. The man has even posted a handy-dandy blog about it, to share his thoughts with all the fawning fanboys (ourselves most definitely included). Thom’s full blog reads: “For anyone who has heard The Eraser, there are some remixes coming. Yes....

World Waits is damn right, Mr. Enigk. It’s been ten years since the indie pioneer (we refuse to use the now-bastardized term “emo”) has released a solo recording. His 1996 solo effort was a gorgeous, whimsical dark album. World Waits shows off Enigk’s flair for grandeur in production, sweeping strings and organs along with that unique sandpaper voice that conjures up nods to a frenetic Peter Gabriel (hello reverb) or Sting before he lost his mojo. Fans of Enigk (and...