Undercover, Australia — Billy Corgan and his all-new Smashing Pumpkins band are inviting a select group of fans to their soundcheck. more info

Guardian Music — Alt-rock's ultimate odd couple take another trip to the dark heart of country on their third LP as a duoMark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell are to release their third album as a duo. The new LP, Hawk, is due in August, and will feature cameos by singer-... more info

Allmusic Blog — The Smashing Pumpkins are offering a new mini-album as a download on the band’s website. Titled Teargarden By Kaleidyscope 1: Songs for a Sailor, the album collects four tracks previously released on the internet by frontman Billy Corgan. It also m... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Stone Temple Pilots never earned the respect showered upon fellow grunge-era acts such as Pearl Jam and Nirvana. But thanks to a deep understanding of rock-radio principles (and to frontman Scott Weiland's bad-boy tabloid appeal), they did earn somet... more info

411 Mania — The first full EP in Billy Corgan's sprawling net-release project is out now. The question is, is it any good? more info

DrownedInSound — Corgan seems to be now devoting himself to the penning of pop songs in an overtly retro Seventies mode. This is better than the last record, when he was trying to sound like Linkin Park, and worse than the Nineties, when he was trying to sound like t... more info

Chorus.fm — Stream and/or download four new *Smashing Pumpkins* (http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/) songs here (http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/). more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sir Charlie Palmer said... Songs Of Protest And Anti-Protest – Chris Lucey 23 – Blonde Redhead http://sircharliepalmer.blogspot.com Amd said... GERMAN HITPARADE 1930-37 Hits from Germany with the background to some of the performers, including... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Q + AIt's taken Melissa Auf der Maur five days to reach London. The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland nearly saw her stranded in Finland. "We eventually got a boat," she tells Spinner. "The trip across the Baltic was amazing. It was o... more info

MTV.com News — 'His talent was beyond inspirational to so many of us,' Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx says.By Kara Warner Ronnie James Dio Photo: Steve Thorne/ Getty Images In the wake of heavy-metal singer Ronnie James Dio's death on Sunday, tributes have be... more info