The Music Tank

With many tracks already on YouTube, Children of Bodom announce the release of a cover album entitled “Skeletons In The Closet”, scheduled to be released worldwide this fall.

Here are the tracklists of the different worldwide editions:
USA

01 “Lookin’ Out My Back Door” (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
02 “Hell Is For Children” (Pat Benatar)*
03 “Somebody Put Something In My Drink” (Ramones)
04 “Mass Hypnosis” (Sepultura)
05 “Don´t Stop At The Top” (Scorpions)
06 “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” (Kenny Rogers)
07 “Hellion” (W.A.S.P.)
08 “Aces High” (Iron Maiden)
09 “Rebel Yell” (Billy Idol)
10 “No Commands” (Stone)
11 “Antisocial” (Trust/Anthrax)
12 “Talk Dirty To Me” (Poison)

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We were sent a link to a streaming video of “Brianstorm” (QT || WMP) performed live by Arctic Monkey. The video footage could originally be found on their new live DVD titled “Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo”.

Here is the brand new video for Jay-Z’s single D.O.A. off the upcoming Blueprint 3 album.

In a blog post, the Deftones say the tracks recorded for their upcoming release, supposed to be titled “Eros” will not be released soon. This decision is not directly related to Chi’s condition, though it does have something to do with it:

Although those songs will see the light of day at some point, we collectively made the decision that we needed to take a new approach, and with Chi’s condition heavy on our minds while doing so. We needed to return to the studio to do what we felt was right artistically. Our inspiration and unity as a band is stronger than it has ever been before and we needed to channel that energy into our music, and deliver to our fans what you rightly deserve: the best Deftones record that we can make.

Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park will be on Xbox Live playing fans in the Transformers game this Friday.

Speaking of these robots in disguise, you can stream the new Transformers soundtrack — featuring Linkin Park among many other pop rock acts — on ShockHound.com.

Lamb of God have been added as direct support for Metallica’s during a period spanning from September to November.

I can’t wait for this show.

Dream Theater are next in line to play on Xbox Live with fans. Learn how to join them for some Call of Duty: World at War action tomorrow on Xbox.com.

Producers/rappers Alchemist & Oh No are set to release a co-op album as Gangrene after Alchemist’s Chemical Warfare drops on July 7th. Here is the video for the track Under Siege.

ShockHound have posted a four part series of video interviews.

Manson talks about his identity issues, the rawness of his new album and the meaning behind its lead-off track, “Devour.”

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Finally, the official version of one of the better tracks of 2008, MGMT’s Kids is online. Just to let you know, the video doesn’t really kick in until 1 minute into it.

Here is the video to the new single from Wale. The Washington representative is set to release his debut album soon. Check the tour dates to catch him near you this summer.

Confirmed Dates For Wale Tour:
June 16th – San Diego, CA [Sway Nightclub @ The Keating]
June 17th – Scottsdale, AZ [The Venue]
June 18th – Las Vegas, NV [Tao Beach]
June 22 – San Francisco, CA [The Independent]
June 26th – Norfolk, VA [The Norva]
June 27th – Edison, NJ [Funkmaster Flex Car Show & Sneaker Battle - New Jersey Convention & Expo Center]
June 28th – Philadelphia, PA [TLA]
July 1st – Providence, RI [Lupos]
July 2nd – Boston, MA [Showcase Live]
July 4th – Montreal, Quebec [Montreal Jazz Festival]

Don’t even try to tell me you aren’t at least remotely curious. You may have heard Limp Bizkit’s original lineup are back together for a tour called “Unicorns N’ Rainbows” and a new album.

Today we were sent news that in addition to the dates already on the website, the band will be playing in Mandalay Bay Beach on Friday, July 10th as a part of the UFC 100 weekend.

Peter Rosenberg did the usual; stumble upon celbrities, annoy the shit out of people all while taking you backstage at the biggest Hip-Hop Festival.

Jay-Z never hid his disgust of the Auto-Tune trend that has been going on for way too long. He even asked Kanye West, who is producing most of his upcoming album The Blueprint 3, to leave out any form of use of the Auto-Tune plug-in. This past weekend was Hot97’s annual SummerJam and Jigga made sure to pass his message across when he performed his newest track titled D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune). We have footage of Jay performing alongside a confused auto-tune bred-winner T-Pain. Oh, and a download link to the No I.D.-produced track below.

Jay-Z – D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) | via zShare

Here is the video for the first single So Damn Down from Tanya Morgan’s second LP Brooklynati