Pitchfork - Tours — 11-18 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues * 11-19 Los Angeles, CA - Palladium *11-20 Hollywood, CA - Hollywood Palladium *11-21 San Jose, CA - Event Center *01-17 Gold Coast, Australia - Big Day Out Festival01-22 Sydney, Australia - Big Day Out Festival01... more info

411 Mania — More on the Aerosmith drama. Mudvayne's track listing for new album. Updates from Godsmack, Avenged Sevenfold, As I Lay Dying, Oasis, more. Days Of The New will release a new album. Blink-182 member goes solo. Mastodon to re-release Crack the Skye. T... more info

Chorus.fm — My review of Adult Swim Presents: *Dethklok* (http://www.myspace.com/dethklok) and *Mastodon* (http://www.myspace.com/mastodon) Tour can be seen here (http://absolutepunk.net/journal.php?do=showentry&e=237541). *Converge* (http://www.myspace.com/conv... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words by BBG, photos by Paul Birman Jacob Bannon of Converge speaks softly Gene Simmons is fond of saying some bands get it and some don't. Dethklok, the death metal band based on the popular Adult Swim "Metalocalypse" cartoon, definitely... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words by BBG, photos by Ryan Muir Matt Pike of High On Fire Mastodon, Dethklok, Converge and High On Fire are on tour. Last night (10/29) they played the first show of two night stint at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC.... more info

411 Mania — Metallica announces DVD release date, track listing. Sublime engaged in legal battle with dead frontman's estate. Mastodon talks movie score for "Jonah Hex". Them Crooked Vulture track listing. Gwar to be re-released. Mustaine talks about Metallica/M... more info

Chorus.fm — *Mastodon* (http://www.myspace.com/mastodon) talk about the score to Jonah Hex here (http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/10/mastodon-talks-about-recording-jonah-hex-score-swi.html). more info

NME - Notes From The Underground — So the tour with Mastodon, High on Fire and Dethklok has been nothing short of amazing so far. But enough of that, let's talk about this year’s main event in the world series of poker. I just caught up on the last few episodes on ESPN in the van to... more info

The Quietus — To celebrate the start of Mastodon's US tour, Mark Eglinton catches up with Brann Dailor, drummist extraordinaire, to shoot the sheeeeeeit . . . more info

Rolling Stone — Photograph by Jimmy Hubbard With Saturday night’s Seattle performance, the second of their latest assault on the U.S., Mastodon furthered their claim as kings of wormhole-tearing, time-traveling meta-metal. The Atlanta quartet devoted most of thei... more info