Brooklyn Vegan — Jay-Z @ Gramercy Theatre on 9.9.09 (more by Brian Ach/WireImage) The Melvins @ Webster Hall in May (more by Ryan Muir) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Jay-Z @ Madison Square Garden * Ben & Vesper, Ortolan @ Sycamore... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Paul Birman As we made kind of obvious and then confirmed yesterday, Weedeater were the special guest at last night's Laptop of Satan / Naam show at The Charleston in Brooklyn (9/10). Weedeater are currently ona tour with... more info

Rolling Stone — AFI embark on a jaunt in support of their September 29th new album Crash Love, the original lineup of the Butthole Surfers reunite for a trek featuring shows with the Melvins, Built to Spill and Peaches, and Dead Man’s Bones, the duo featuring acto... more info

Live Daily — The Butthole Surfers [ tickets ] have reunited their '80s-era lineup--Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey and Teresa Taylor--for a September/October tour that will culminate in a pair of Halloween shows in Texas that will also feature ... more info

Mercury News, California — The Melvins have gone from punk to grunge to something completely different. more info

Allmusic Blog — The Melvins have prepared a remix album entitled Chicken Switch. Rather than enlist remixers to tackle one song apiece, the Melvins gave a full album to each collaborator and asked them to create a remix using songs from the entire disc. “We knew t... more info

Rolling Stone — Music video games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero have become the new stars of American culture. But fans of cult or indie music like, say, the Melvins, can’t exactly inhabit their inner Buzz because rhythm game music catalogs offer a tiny fraction ... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Alt-metal veterans The Melvins [ tickets ] will head out on the road later this summer for an outing alongside another experienced metal crew.... continued more info

411 Mania — KISS, Lynyrd Skynyrd to release new albums this fall. Cornell talks Soundgarden reunion, b-side releases. Linkin Park frontman finishes work on new album. Track list for Metallica DVD. The Melvins get unique remix CD. Creed confirm release title. The... more info

JamBase — Lou Barlow Readies His Solo Release And Preps For Tour Lou Barlow On October 6, Merge Records will release Lou Barlow's new album, Goodnight Unknown. In the four years since his career-redefining, mostly acoustic record Emoh, Lou Barlow has reu... more info