Umm, the new Goblin Cock video for "Stumped" (from their forthcoming Bagged and Boarded album) is pretty much the best thing I've seen in awhile. Watch it / download it here.

Aberdeen City is releasing their first full length The Freezing Atlantic on October 25. The album was produced by Nic Hard (The Bravery, The Church, Jesse Malin) and you can now download two songs from it over in the downloads.

The Elliott Smith tribute album we told you about will be titled To: Elliott From: Portland, and will hit stores on February 7th, 2005. Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Elliott Smith Foundation's charity, "Free Arts for Abused Children". Song details are below.

The My Morning Jacket tour we told you about has had quite a few dates tacked on to it. So check out the old dates and the new dates combined together into one gloriously informative list.

The Magic Numbers’ self-titled debut will hit U.S. stores October 4th; however, the group is already off to a nice start with a Mercury Prize nomination, Platinum certification in the U.K., and a spot in Rolling Stone’s recent “10 Artists To Watch” feature. The band will open 12 shows on Bright Eyes’ upcoming U.S. tour and that they’ll make their U.S. television debut on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” on November 30th. The band will also headline a series of U.S. club dates this fall. Check out some music here.

We Are Scientists ave lined up a string of Eaat Coast dates with Ambulance LTD. The band's full-length doesn't drop until next year, but keep an eye on them because they are set to get quite a bit of well-deserved buzz.

The Soundtrack for the upcoming movie Dandelion will feature covers of old tunes by the likes of Sparklehorse, Cat Power, Doves, and others as well as some new music. More details below.

The Filter Magazine/Urban Outfitters Hurricane Benefit Compilation double CD, due next month in eighty Urban Outfitters stores and at urbanoutfitters.com, is a doozy for some music fans. The CD will feature Tom Waits' previously unreleased "Little Drop of Poison," on where he plays with the Kronos Quartet, as well as unreleased tracks from Death Cab For Cutie, TV On The Radio and BRMC (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club), and remixed versions of Beck's "Broken Drum" and Gang of Four's "Natural's Not In It." The purpose of the CD? To raise $150,000 to donate to the American Red Cross for Katrina, ya'll.

Remember Presidents of the United States of America? Well, they've innovated again, creating the first music video shot entirely on a mobile phone camera for the track "Some Postman," off their latest CD Love Everybody. Cool, eh?

Mike Park, along with a group of musicians including Randy Strohmeyer of Finch and others, have been trekking down the West Coast via bicycle for somehting dubbed the "Bike For Peace" tour. The traveling group of musicians is camping near the beach on most nights and perform impromptu acoustic sets for fans. The goal is to raise $250,000 to build a youth center in San Jose, CA. A handful of shows will be at clubs along the West Coast, and those dates are below.

On the heels of the Sept. 13th release of their 3rd full-length album Not Them, You, Lake Trout have hit the road. Their appearance at "Across the Narrows" festival will kick off their Northeast tour run, which also includes a handful of dates opening up for the Pixies. A national tour is planned for January of 2006.

Rev Run, of Run DMC fame, not only has a new album entitled Distortion hitting streets on October 18th, but his new show on MTV, "Run's House", debuts on October 13th as well. To learn more about both, check out our interview with Run here, and then head here, to stream the entire album.

Just as I'm hearing about Troubled Hubble, they go and break up! So forget that post about their tour, this thursday in Chicago is their last live show.

Apparently ole Babyshambles has their act together enough to announce that their debut album will be called Down in Albion and will be available in the UK on Nov 14 (via Rough Trade).

I don't even want to think about the number of times we've said that the debut from ENEMY (Troy Van Leeuwen) was going to be released. But now we're hearing that The Control Group will put it out on October 11th (but maybe it's still on 5KB as well, who knows). We even got a tracklist this time...

We got a few more John Vanderslice dates in support of Pixel Revolt so we're just going to re-post them all in case you missed it the first time.

Catbird Records will be releasing a limited edition run of a split disc from Michael Holt and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Yea, we hadn't heard of them either but we know quality ingenuity when we see it - and we see it here. So check it out.

We told you about a collab between Calexico and Iron & Wine released via Overcoat Recordings and we all agreed it was great. Now how about a collaboration between Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy? How about the disc comes out on Overcoat Recordings in 2006 and features 10 cover songs? Done deal.

Super Furry Animals will be touring North America in support of Love Kraft and they'll be bringing Caribou along with them. Both fine bands worth checking out, especially if you love a good Yeti outfit.

Harvey Danger want you to hear their new record Little By Little. In fact, they want you to hear it so badly they are offering it for free on their site. If you hate it, delete it. If you enjoy it, tell a friend (and buy the retail version that comes with bonus materials). The reasons why they are doing it are pretty fascinating too. So, hey, free sanctioned album! Download It.