The Music Tank

Gaming news websites have started reported this morning Guitar Hero World Tour would feature 3 Tool tracks as well as a specially-created Tool venue, made with the help of the band and said to highlight the “art style that has become a staple in their music videos, live shows and album artwork.”
The 3 tracks are [...]

Around this time of the year back in 2004, Phonte of Little Brother put out an album alongside a relatively unknown producer from the Netherlands named Nicolay. The collaboration that first grew in some virtual chat rooms translated into the Foreign Exchange album. The album garnered a pretty strong fan base and was reviewed as [...]

The heir of the Detroit sound that J Dilla helped shape, Black Milk, will be releasing his second official solo album. Producing Elzhi’s “The Preface” album (see upcoming review), Black Milk is now set to release his album on October 28th. The album will be boasted with collabos from Sean Price to the legendary DJ [...]

Santogold is announcing her first headlining US tour, the Goldrush Tour presented by MySpace Music. She will be performing with a full live band and dj, which she recently debuted on MTV ’s “F’NMTV Premieres“. Having just finished a string of North American arena dates with Coldplay, this new tour will keep her occupied ’til [...]

Unkle’s “End Titles…Stories for Film” is out today, September 2 on Surrender All Records. The release comes after the band’s four-stage .mp3 giveaway of tracks off the new record and full-album digital release earlier this summer. Four tracks from the album are available below as well as an .mp3 from Unkle’s September 8 Remix Stories [...]

Pennywise gave away their latest record, “Reason To Believe” for free to their MySpace friends. A total of 400,000 downloads of were recorded during their two week promotion. Pennywise had signed with Myspace Records earlier this year.
“Die For You” was announced to be the follow-up track to the record’s first single “The Western World”. It [...]

88-Keys is putting the final touches to his upcoming debut solo album titled “The Death of Adam”. Meanwhile, the first single “Stay Up! (Viagra)” featuring Kanye West has been made available for download (see picture above).
You can check out snippets to the album, due out October 28th. The album will feature collaborations by Kanye West, [...]

While Kanye West is taking a break from his Glow in the Dark tour, he continues to put out videos to the critically acclaimed Graduation album he released a year ago.
You can see Kanye win the 100 m sprint in the video to “Champion”

Enjoy the amazing anime video for “Good Morning”

We just received a link to Q-Tip’s website via his mailing list. The site features the full screen video for the first single to his upcoming album “The Renaissance”.
Follow the link in the image below and check it out.

Since “Getting Up” is one of my favorite records of the summer, I’ve decided to bless you [...]

It seems like yet another multi-national company is striving on the artistry of up-and-coming musicians to boost their product image. Mountain Dew is introducing “Green Label Sound”, a label dedicated to put out free mp3 downloads of exclusive single tracks. So far, the artists that have teamed up with the Dew are lo-fi rockers Mike [...]

Here’s a video ( .Mov | .Wma )of the People in Planes performing their song “Mayday (M’aidez)”. Their album, Beyond The Horizon, is due out in a few weeks on September 9th.

On 8TH September, UNKLE will release ‘Remix Stories (Volume One)’ - released as a 12″ and digitally, exclusively via Beatport for the first four weeks after the release. The 12″ features four previously unreleased remixes of tracks taken from the last two albums (’War Stories’ and the recently released ‘End Titles… Stories for Film’).
The deliberate [...]

Avenged Sevenfold were on-hand to accept Kerrang’s prestigious “Album of the Year” award in the UK yesterday. The band’s latest self titled album “Avenged Sevenfold” beat out such artists as Bullet for My Valentine and In Flames.
A7X frontman M. Shadows had this to say to the band’s fans following the ceremony-
“Wanted you guys to hear [...]

Here’s the official trailer for Avenged Sevenfold’s first concert film - “Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough” shot in HD & 5.1 Audio including a full album of unreleased music from original recording sessions, rare covers and more. This will hit the streets September 16th, 2008.

Official streams of the new single “Shock of the Lightning” from Oasis’ upcoming album were sent to us.
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“Dig Out Your Soul”, Oasis’ seventh studio album, is the first new music from the band since 2006’s “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down” the single from the Baillie Walsh directed road [...]