Brooklyn Vegan — losers: half of Mastodon w/ Charlie Benate of Anthrax on red carpet (via Charlie) View image | gettyimages.com Since the induction of the category in 1988 when Jethro Tull beat Metallica and AC/DC (and Iggy Pop and Jane's Addiction), Metal... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the six Bjork 1/bjorks_new_albu.html">shows at Carnegie Hall and City Center go on sale today at 11AM. Tickets for the Rush shows at Prudential Center and MSG go on VIP presale today at 10AM. Tickets for David Byrne's... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Mastodon / Clutch / Graveyard show at Central Park Summerstage on May 19 go on Invisible Oranges/BrooklynVegan presale at noon today (1/22). Get yours using the PASSWORD: clutchoranges. If you miss out on getting tickets, the... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Mastodon in Austin in 2014 (more by Tim Griffin) Two bands that toe the line between hard rock and metal, Mastodon and Clutch, will be heading out on a co-headlining tour this spring, and fellow riff-bringers Graveyard and Big... more info

Stereogum — Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Festival is back again this year with a pretty exciting lineup. Headliners include the Strokes, the Avett Brothers, and Wilco, and some other big-font names are Pixies, Social Distortion, and Ryan Adams. The rest of the roster... more info

Stereogum — Usually, prominent face tattoos make it hard to get major movie roles. When you’re playing one of the Jackass guys, though, all bets are apparently off. Loudwire reports that Brent Hinds, the red-bearded Mastodon guitar hero will play Ryan Dunn, th... more info

Stereogum — Last night, Atlanta metal monsters Mastodon were the musical guests on the Late Show With David Letterman, and it is still weird to see these grimy motherfuckers on network TV. They played “The Motherload,” the single from their recent album Once... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Tim Griffin, words by Rob Sperry-Fromm "Mastodon killed it last night. I'm still feeling the repercussions at work today." - @ARodzATX Mastodon, Gojira and Kvelertak have spent a fairly staggering amount of time on the road together this... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — It's not every rock band that can be comfortable and accepted at both the Mayhem and Coachella music festivals, playing for metalheads at one, and new music connoisseurs at the other. more info