Tegan and Sara! - Tiny but mighty! They just completed a new video for the track "Call It Off," from their Sire album THE CON. It's awesome - can't wait for you to see it! For now, check out a live version
from ...somewhere. Their final tour behind this album begins Sep 20 in San Diego and winds up with a 4-night stand here in LA. Tour dates:

Sat Sep 20 San Diego Street Scene San Diego, CA
Sun Sep 21 Treasure Island Festival San Francisco, CA
Sun Sep 28 Austin City Limits Festival Austin, TX
Tue Sep 30 Tabernacle Atlanta, GA
Thur Oct 2 Rams Head Live Baltimore, D
ri Oct 3 Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA
Sat Oct 4 The Palladium Worcester, MA
Sun Oct 5 Terminal 5 NYC
Mon Oct 6 Terminal 5 NYC
Wed Oct 8 Lifestyle Pavilion w/ Death Cab For Cutie Columbus, OH
Just Confirmed
Thur Oct 9 Riviera Theater Chicago, IL
Fri Oct 10 Sokol Auditorium Omaha, NE
Just Confirmed
Sat Oct 11 State Theater Minneapolis, MN
Mon Oct 13 Paramount Theater Denver, CO
Thur Oct 16 Henry Fonda Theater Los Angeles, CA
Fri Oct 17 Henry Fonda Theater Los Angeles, CA
Sat Oct 18 Henry Fonda Theater Los Angeles, CA
Sun Oct 19 Henry Fonda Theater Los Angeles, CA
Tue Dec 30 The Falls Festival Lorne, Victoria AUS
Wed Dec 31 The Falls Festival Marion Bay, Tasmania AUS
Sat Jan 3 Southbound Festival Busselton, W. Aus
Wed Jan 7 Byron Bay Arts and Music Festival Byron Bay, NSW AUS

New LP sessions w/ Chris Walls to begin shortly thereafter!

MASTODON speaks...about things that are importnat tho them, mushc as: cat urine...
Their next LP, produced by Brendan O'Brien (Springsteen, Foos, othing big names's wholse records youi've purchased, etc), is nearly complete! Brace yourselves! Listen to Troy & Brann from somewhere on the recetnly completed Mayhem tour...

Er, sorry about my mysterious posting of Billy Lunn playing "Lostboy" acousticially live from the WBR NY office last week for Alloy.Com - the link didn't fuction properly and neither did i - so while we fix that, have a look at their first UK siongel/video from the new album ALL OT NOTHING, out in the US on Sep 9. 2008. More new soon!

Metallica has won this year’s “Inspiration” Award, given by British hard-rock weekly magazine, Kerrang!. The band were present at the ceremony in London on August 21st to receive the award, which “honors the band that is still setting the standard by which all heavy metal bands aspire to.”

A7X won "Best Album" at the Kerrang! Awards in London on August 21st for their self-titled, self-produced album.

While in New York, Blake Shelton stopped by to visit the lovely ladies of People Magazine. He promised to give them the exclusive shots of his visit in exchange for them posting an interview with him on their site. I think Blake got the better end of the deal. Click on http://www.people.com/people/videos/0,,20219943,00.html to watch Blake give his opinions on cocktails, ringtones and Miranda Lambert.

Billy Lunn of sexy UK trio, THE SUBWAYS plays "Lostboy" acoustically just for you, live from our mid-town office....

Watch The Veronicas as they perform “Untouched” — the first single from Hook Me Up —on MTV’s TRL, airing August 20th at 11am EST.

The video, which debuted at No. 10 on TRL’s Top 10 Video Countdown on July 16th, is currently on MTV Hits in medium rotation and on the N Network in “really like” rotation. The Veronicas will also be featured as an ‘Incoming Artist’ on the Fuse Network for the month of August.

www.theveronicas.com

Join Taking Back Sunday at www.takingbacksunday.com or www.myspace.com/takingbacksunday on August 12th @6pm EST for a live video broadcast with your favorite five band members. TBS have partnered with Ustream to set up a place on their websites to go whenever the band wants to hop online and say hello. TBS can’t wait to fill you in on everything that is going on in the studio as they work on songs for their new album.

The band has been known to be slightly funny in the past so you should probably watch.