For those of you excited (yet a little confused) at the inclusion of Tenacious D on this years Sasquatch bill, we’ve got great news.

Jack Black and Kyle Gass have announced plans to release their first new record in 6+ years. “Rize of the Fenix” will be the bands 3 full length

If you wanna see ‘em live at Sasquatch you’re gonna fast as the show is expected to sell out quickly (last year took less than a week) Pre-sale info and a full lineup are available here

Can’t wait to see the Arctic Monkeys with The Black Keys in May at the Key Arena? You’re in luck as the band is live streaming their SOLD OUT Paris show tonight (or this afternoon at 12:15p for us)

Catch the whole thing right here

Everyone dreams of hanging out, shooting the s#@& and having a beer with their favorite punk rock bands. Well, once again that can become a reality at Punk Rock Bowling in Las Vegas.

May 25th – 28th Rancid, NoFx, Pennywise a reunited Briefs and over 60 other bands will be in downtown Las Vegas for 3 days of club shows, outdoor shows, poker, partying and of course BOWLING!

All the details on tickets, venues and game registration can be found here

Here’s a video that previewed the 2011 gathering

The Shins just posted some cool behind The scenes footage of the making of their new track “Simple Song”. Not sure if this is the “official” video for the track or just a nice peek behind the curtain. Either way…we’ll take it

Don’t forget, you can still win passes today/tomorrow to see James Mercer play an exclusive End Session at the Red Hook Brewery. He’ll bust out acoustic versions of a couple new Shins songs (as well as some old ones) next week

The bands new record “Port of Morrow” will be available everywhere 3.20.12.

Everyone remembers our introduction to Portlandia! last year with the brilliant “Dream of the 90’s” music video

Well it turns out the team of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have updated the idea with “Dream of the 90′” – 1890’s

“a world full of mutton chops and pickling and knitting”

It’ll be featured in this weeks episode

Original

Gorillaz have given us a little more info about the new song they’re making for Converse at the end of the month. Murdoc (who does most of the bands interviews) has released a 6 minute statement talking about the track.

According to him:
“this track is going to knock everything else Gorillaz have done out of the park.”

We like that idea.
Here’s what he had to say

From Jack White to Radiohead, it seems as if every time Stephen Colbert has musical guests on the show it’s must watch television

Last night with Björk was no exception

In NYC for a string of shows the pride of Iceland answered Colbert questions like: “Why sullly something as beautiful as music with science?”

See it go down here:

Interview

Thanks for the link Audio Perv

WOW. Is it weird that you’re allowed to watch porn in the library?

Recently a woman at the Lake City Library complained when she encountered a man watching hard-core porn on a screen in full view of library patrons

When she asked the librarian to do something…the librarian refused:

From Komo News:

“She could see the screen from the information desk where we were standing and was sympathetic, but said that the library doesn’t censor content,”

“And they can’t be in the business of monitoring what their patrons are doing at any given computer.”

The woman then asked the man to move. He refused.

Andra Addison, a spokesperson for Seattle libraries told Komo News:

“We don’t tell people what they can view and check out … Filters compromise freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment. We’re not in the business of censoring information.”

Even though, according to The Supreme Court libraries ARE allowed to filter info saying:

“A public library has never been required to include all constitutionally protected speech in its collection and has traditionally had the authority, for example, to legitimately decline to include adult-oriented material such as pornography in its collection. This same discretion continues to exist with respect to Internet materials.“

Despite this, Seattle Public Libraries stand by keeping the info non-filtered and frankly…that’s awesome. Way to stick to your guns in the face of an awkward situation

Wanna see what you can do with some music from Trent Reznor

The Academy Award winning Nine Inch Nails frontman has made the stems of 5 different tracks of his Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sdtrk available for download.

He inviting anyone/everyone to remix their own versions of the tracks.
The only catch: whatever you create can’t be used for commercial gain (fair)

The stems will be available through March 31st right here

Last night, Nada Surf performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon which is awesome, cool AND a nice preview of thier Tractor show on Thursday night. That’s happening in addition to frontman Matthew Caws playing the Sasquatch Launch Party on at the Neptune the same night.

Their new record “The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy” is out now on Seattle label Barsuk Records

“Hi-Speed Soul”