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 [...]

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 [...]

Opeth released “Watershed” in June 2008, but what makes it so special?

Sit back and enjoy as Fake cleans up his mailbox to dig up content only fit for a Friday.

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 [...]

After having played on the Hurley Stage at the Vans Warped Tour during the summer, Greeley Estates announce fall tour with August Burns Red and A Skylit Drive:
Warped Tour Dates:
Aug 14 2008 12:00P San Diego, California
Aug 15 2008 12:00P San Fransisco, California
Aug 16 2008 12:00P Sacramento, California
Aug 17 2008 12:00P Los Angeles, California
Dates with August [...]

We were sent the new Santogold video for the track “Lights Out” :

Sub Pop Records (notable for artists such as Nirvana, the Afghan Whigs, the Shins, and Band of Horses) is currently being featured on Zune Marketplace in conjunction with their 20th Anniversary.

This focus on Sub Pop includes exclusive video podcasts, special Guestlist picks by Sub Pop staff, and a collection of Sub Pop tunes that stretch [...]

Kings of Leon and We Are Scientists will be touring across North America for the next few weeks :
Sat-Oct-11 Las Vegas, NV The Joint /Hard Rock Hotel
Sun-Oct-12 San Diego, CA House Of Blues
Wed-Oct-15 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre
Fri-Oct-17 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Sat-Oct-18 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Mon-Oct-20 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
Tue-Oct-21 Portland, OR Arlene Schnitzer [...]