The Music Tank

Well, after 2 free singles, head on over to the NIN site to download a new album titled "The Slip".  For free.

RCRDLBL.com are offering a free download of the Santogold song "Your Voice".

You also received a roundup of online videos of Santogold :

• Santogold Backstage Pass mtvU video
• "LES Artistes" video
• Santogold's performance at The FADER 51 video
• "Creator" audio streams

Against Me! have uploaded a new version of their "Stop!" Single on YouTube :

Drive By have set up a tour blog with Fuse.tv. Band member Todd urges you to check it out :

Our tour photo blog up now at Fuse.tv! Tons of pictures taken by Chris of us doing behind the scenes band type things. We've thrown you in the van and stuck you in the dressing room......Check it out!

In celebration of Mother's Day, Zune Arts has released a new video called "Mother Like No Other." The new work is a short film created by French animator, Yves Geleyn, set to the delicate music of The Bird And The Bee's track "Come As You Were".

Available since May 1st at Zune-Arts.net, the film "Mother Like No Other" also comes with a unique downloadable Mother's Day card that fans can print out to give to their moms for Mother's Day.

Nine Inch Nails has put up yet another single at their website, dubbed "Echoplex".

Nine Inch Nails are hitting the road this summer along with White Williams, Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, A Place To Bury Strangers and Does It Offend You, Yeah? taking turns at opening the show.

July 25th Pemberton, BC - Pemberton Festival
July 26th Seattle, WA - Key Arena at Seattle Center (feat. Crystal Castles)
July 28th Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place (feat. Crystal Castles)
July 29th Calgary, AB - Pengrowth Saddledome (feat. Crystal Castles)
July 31st Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre (feat. Crystal Castles)
August 02nd Minneapolis, MN - Target Center (feat. Crystal Castles)
August 03rd Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza Festival
August 05th Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre (feat. Deerhunter)
August 07th Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena (feat. Deerhunter)
August 08th Worcester, MA - DCU Center (feat. Deerhunter)
August 12th Knoxville, TN - Knoxville Civic Coliseum (feat. Deerhunter)
August 13th Duluth, GA - Gwinnett Arena (feat. Deerhunter)
August 15th Oklahoma City, OK - Ford Center (feat. A Place To Bury Strangers)
August 16th Houston, TX - Toyota Center (feat. A Place To Bury Strangers)
August 18th Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center (feat. A Place To Bury Strangers)
August 20th Saint Louis, MO - Scottrade Center (feat. A Place To Bury Strangers)
August 22nd Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena (feat. Does It Offend You, Yeah?)
August 23rd Auburn Hills, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills (feat. Does It Offend You, Yeah?)
August 27th East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center (feat. Does It Offend You, Yeah?)
August 29th Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center (feat. Does It Offend You, Yeah?)
August 31st Lexington, KY - Rupp Arena (feat. White Williams)
September 02nd Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheater (feat. Deerhunter)
September 03rd Salt Lake City, UT - The E Center Of West Valley (feat. Deerhunter)
September 05th Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena (formerly Oakland Arena) (feat. Deerhunter)
September 06th Inglewood, CA - The Forum (feat. Deerhunter)

Air Traffic sent us their latest tour itinerary :

5/2 Denver Bluebird Theatre w/ Elbow
5/3 Salt Lake City The Depot w/ Elbow
5/5 Seattle Showbox w/ Elbow
5/6 Vancouver St. Andrews Wesley w/ Elbow
5/ 8 San Francisco Bimbo's 365 w/ Elbow
5/9 Los Angeles Avalon w/ Elbow
5/10 Los Angeles Spaceland
5/11 San Diego Soma
5/12 Phoenix Brickhouse
5/14 Dallas House of Blues
5/15 Tulsa Bob at Cain's
5/17 Kansas City Record Bar
5/18 Chicago The Bottom Lounge
5/19 Columbus The Basement
5/20 Detroit Shelter
5/22 Cambridge TT The Bears
5/23 Philadelphia Johnny Brenda's
5/24 New York Knitting Factory

South sent us a mp3 of the track "Wasted" off their newly released their new album "You are Here."

Welsh quintet People In Planes have announced the twelve song track listing of their upcoming Wind-up Records release "Beyond the Horizon". The list of producers who worked on the album includes Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida, Queens of The Stone Age collaborators 'Eleven,' Panic At The Disco producer Matt Squire and Doves / Massive Attack producer Dan Austin, who they had worked with on the early demos for their debut "As far as the eye can see".

Last Man Standing
Mayday (M'aidez)
Get on the Flaw
Pretty Buildings
Better Than Life
Flesh and Blood
Beyond the Horizon
Know by Now
Tonight the Sun Will Rise
I Wish You'd Fall Apart
Vampire
Evil With You

Gorjira, In Flames, Volbeat and Sonic Syndicate have scheduled the following dates:

October 03rd Luxembourg, LUX - Dan Atelier
October 04th Cologne, GER - Palladium
October 05th Wiesbaden, GER - Schlachthof
October 08th Paris, FRA - Zenith
October 09th Tilburg, NET - O13
October 10th Nancy, FRA - L'escale
October 11th Lyon, FRA - Tranbordeur
October 13th Barcelona, SPA - Razzamatazz 1
October 14th Granada, SPA - La Copera
October 15th Madrid, SPA - La Riviera
October 16th Bilbao, SPA - Rock Star Live
October 19th Munich, GER - Zenith
October 24th Dresden, GER - Alter Schlachthof
October 25th Berlin, GER - Columbiahalle

Lordi have begun recorded a new album and is looking at a release later this year.

In other Lordi news, The End Records will re-release 2002 debut "Get Heavy" with a bonus track "Don't Let My Mother Know" on May 13th.

In the early to mid 90's, a group out of California changed up the rap game. This group was The Pharcyde. From their breakout hit "Passin' Me By" (1992's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde) to "Drop" (1995's Labcabincalifornia), they established themselves in the left field of hip-hop. This crew of breakdancers heavily relied on on sung-out raps (that's right, way before Nelly), jazzy loops and absolute chemistry that transpired through the songs. The group consisting of Imani, Bootie Brown, Fat Lip & Slim Kid Tre went on to collaborate, on their second album, with a young producer out of Detroit, namely Jay Dee aka J Dilla.

A few records were released afterwards (Plain Rap) and several b-sides were released but so seemed the heydays of the group were behind them. In the late 90's, Fat Lip left the group to focus on solo projects and a few months afterwards, Slim Kid left the ship as well, leaving Imani & Bootie Brown loners of The Pharcyde. They went on the release 2004's "Humboldt Beginnings" which was poorly received by fans.

Now a reunion is in full effect as the group is scheduled to play at this summer's Rock the Bells festival in NYC. Fader magazine had the chance to hook up with all four members of the group for a session of Q&A. You can check out the interview over here and be sure to look for Fader's new issue online.

The title says it all, truly. The festival takes place on June 15th in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Pitch Black Forecast's album "Absentee" has seen it release date pushed back to May 20th.

There is a video of featured artist Story of the Year on Hurley.com performing and acoustic set in the Hurley Studio. The band's new album "Black Swan" is in stores right now.

Also on Hurley.com is their coverage of the Rockstar Taste Of Chaos.

The latest Zune Arts video podcast takes you behind-the-scenes with Parisian art director Yves Geleyn during the production of the next Zune Arts film "Mother Like No Other."

Inspired by Mother's Day, the film showcases Yves' innovative use of various fabric, textured papers and photographs to animate his story.

The podcast features commentary from Yves where he walks the viewer through his ideas, tools, and inspiration behind "Mother Like No Other." He explains that the style of the film reflects the story narrative, and features a cut-and-paste look and feel that is reminiscent of an elementary school art project that one might make for Mom.

Yves also describes how the music in the film, which features LA-based duo The Bird and The Bee's track "Come As You Were," helps drive the creative process.

Set Your Goals is heading out on a pre-Warped mini-tour in May which they are calling the "TM Pumps!" tour. Most dates will feature Set Your Goals, Hit the Lights, I Am The Avalanche, The Years Gone By, and 2*Sweet.

Two international shows with Vinnie Caruana and Set Your Goals (performing Movielife songs) have been added to Kingston, England @ The Peel on May 14th and 15th, following the "Give It A Name" UK Festival Weekend on May 9th and 10th.

In other Set Your Goals news, the band recently debuted their new video for "Echoes" off their latest release "Mutiny".

Our friend Jeremy Fisher added a video of him performing "Sula" live on YouTube.

I recently came across news about a movie documenting the Chess Records label that bolted rock and r&b acts into fame back in the 50's. The movie title "Cadillac Records" is driven from the way founder Leonard Chess went around Mississippi selling records through the back of his Cadillac. The Storyline will focus on Chess and the rise and fall of Chess Records and will also feature characters representing the label's musicians.

Amongst those, Mos Def will interpretate one of rock 'n roll's pioneers, Chuck Berry. Leonard Chess will be played by Academy Award winner Adrian Brody while Beyonce will be portraying the great Etta James and Jeffrey Wright will become Muddy Waters.

The movie should be released by the end of the year.