411 Mania — Plus tour dates with Totimoshi and ISIS... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jon Spencer @ South Street Seaport in 2009 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is playing Brooklyn Bowl on April 16th. Tickets are on sale. Tickets are on AmEx presale for the Mumford & Sons / Middle East... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — After a hectic day of updating the constaly updating Bonnaroo lineup page, the entire thing has been announced. Gwar, Norah Jones, and the rest of the lineup below...... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Bonnaroo is just dying to be a trending topic today, or maybe they're scared their website is going to explode (again) when they unveil their lineup. They've been revealing "#BonnarooClues" the past week or so via Twitter as to who some of the acts ... more info

Metal Injection — ISIS guitarist Bryant Clifford Meyer's other band, RED SPAROWES are set to release a new LP titled The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer via Sargent House on April 6th. To hype it up, they have released the above video teaser. I&... more info

Altsounds — **BARONESS** will join ISIS for a handful of off-dates in Australia during the Soundwave Festival. The Soundwave Festival is a five-city traveling festival that also includes FAITH NO MORE, JANES ADDICTION, AFI, ANTHRAX, MESHUGGAH and many more. A li... more info

Altsounds — Monumental/DEP/Universal announces artist Empire ISIS (http://fburls.com/63-3oS17ThX/t/cid/580425/sid/111103537) and Smashbox (http://fburls.com/42-csmO7M1m/t/cid/580425/sid/111103537)Cosmetics Canada partnership. Smashbox Cosmetics is well known fo... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this week we took a magnifying glass to Pitchfork's Top 100 Songs Of 2009. Most of those songs appeared on albums, which leads us to the site's Top 50 Albums Of 2009. For starters, metal creeps in via Baroness and Sunn O))), but not Mastod... more info

Stereogum — I enjoy Decibel. It's a magazine I happily subscribe to and read from cover to cover each month. In general they're not as into weirdo black metal as I am, and they like Mastodon more than I do, but all said it's a great publication. So, yeah, I l... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 11-24 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick #11-25 Chicago, IL - Reggie’s Rock Club #$11-27 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock #11-28 Kansas City, MO The Riot Room #11-29 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater %11-30 Salt Lake City , UT Club Vegas %12-02 San Francisco, CA ... more info