Guardian Music — Donington Park, Castle DoningtonNow into its 10th year, attracting close to 100,000 fans and sprouting more stages, Download is becoming the heavy metal Glastonbury. The elements conspired in this process this year, with torrential rain on the openin... more info

Guardian Music — Brixton Academy; Camp Basement, LondonTwo men in hooded cloaks, their armed crossed like monks, walk on to a huge, spotlit stage. The capes are removed by a female roadie, revealing T-shirts pulled tightly across ample stomachs. Then they start singi... more info

melophobe — Leave it to Jack Black and Kyle Gass to have provided the best stage prop of Sasquatch! 2012. In honor of their recent album “Rize of the Fenix,” and a symbol of the duo’s return to musical comedy rising back up from the ashes, a gigantic phoen... more info

melophobe — The end of Sasquatch! is always the most bittersweet. 2012 had seen some flat-out phenomenal performances, and it felt more difficult than ever to trudge back to the campground after Beck closed up the festival. Apparently there had been some outst... more info

Impose Magazine — Hey guys! Did any of you happen to notice that Tenacious D put out a new record? Dave Grohl played the drums. Isn't that great? I'm sure that the joke they had about how they are just like "TOTALLY AWESOME" didn't fall flat for the 25th t... more info

Totally Fuzzy — I'm starting to get cross-eyed having to look at so many things at the same time :grin: Here's the full set of Tenacious D yesterday Live at Rock am Ring 2012. It's only in 360p so you might want to use the smaller on page player below ... more info

Metalsucks — Olds dominated the big debuts last week: Slash and The Cult. Six Feet Under, Sonata Arctica, Kill Devil Hill, Saint Vitus, Firewind and more also broke into the Top 100 of the Current Hard Music chart while Tenacious D and Shadows Fall maintained in... more info

Mercury News, California — It's amazing to think how long Tenacious D has been telling the same joke. It's even more astounding, however, to realize how many fans still find that 18-year-old joke funny. more info

Chorus.fm — Adam Lambert topped the charts (http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi) this week, selling just under 78,000 units of Trespassing. Adele came in second, with Carrie Underwood, Norah Jones and Tenacious D rounding out the top 5. Best Coast ... more info

Metalsucks — There weren’t a whole lot of metal debuts last week, but the few new records that did come out all landed with a splash. After the jump, sales numbers from Tenacious D, Godsmack, Hot Water Music and Shadows Fall. As always, the rankings are from t... more info