Metal Injection — Record Store day is always a treat for anyone with a set of eardrums. With rare and ultra exclusive albums being released in limited quantity, its surprising there aren't more record store day related deaths. The highly anticipated split bet... more info

Metalsucks — I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Mastodon and Feist’s special Feistodon Record Store Day split, on which each artist covers a song by the other. Would Feist’s decidedly non-rock tones render Mastodon’s “Black Tongue” too weak to ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Says the record label:Feist will release her much anticipated collaboration with Mastodon exclusively for Record Store Day on April 21st on Cherrytree/Interscope/Reprise. The split single, being touted as Feistodon, will be released as a limited edit... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Rebecca Reed Mastodon @ Roseland Ballroom From the opening wails of "Black Tongue" (accompanied by some adorable tongue-wagging by guitarist Brent Hinds) to the soaring peaks of "Octopus Has No Friends," [Mastodon] deftly wove its way throu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mastodon @ Bowery Ballroom in 2005 (more) Pulp @ Radio City Music Hall last night (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Kraftwerk @MoMA last night (more by Ryan Muir) today in NYC * Schoolboy Q @ SOB's * Bile, Lock Down... more info

KEXP Seattle — The Dirty Projectors — sans vocalist Angel Deradoorian (pictured above), who is on hiatus — have just announced a huge summer tour with openers Wye Oak and Purity Ring to follow suit.  A full track list, as well as tour dates and presale informa... more info

Metal Injection — We've told you about the forthcoming split 7" that Mastodon are doing with pop artist Feist, where each artist will cover the other's. Mastodon will cover “A Commotion," while Feist will take a stab at "Black Tongue." I really dig the col... more info

Metalsucks — In case ya hadn’t heard, for this year’s Record Store Day, Mastodon and Feist will be releasing a split 7″ on which the Mastodudes will cover Feist’s “A Commotion,” while the Canadian chanteuse will cover Mastodon’s “Black Tongue.�... more info

Metalsucks — I’m a self-professed whore for ultra-niche reality TV, but I’ve somehow let The Science Channel’s Oddities series, which follows New York City’s Obscura Antiques & Oddities shop, pass under my radar… until now. One Mr. Brent Hinds of a li... more info

Guardian Music — Knebworth event falls victim to 'a weak economy and some bad luck', meaning no Queen or Kiss for British rock fansThe 2012 Sonisphere festival at Knebworth has been cancelled. The roaming European festival, which was to by headlined in the UK by Kiss... more info