Our Lady Peace is finally set to release Healthy in Paranoid Times, the follow-up to 2002's Gravity, on August 30th. Unfortunately, the band once again solicited the help of producer Bob Rock for Healthy. One can only hope they've receded slightly back into their Arnold Lanni sound, instead of forging on into modern-rock radio triteness. I suppose we'll see any day now, since "Where Are You," the album's first single, should be currently or will be added to all payola-dominated playlists across the US. There's nothing wrong with being popular, just slowly, painfully fading into mediocrity. Oh, here's the cover art.

California's Film School has now signed with Beggars Banquet. The first order of business will be a single for the track "On and On" (backed with "Plus One") followed by a new full-length sometime this Fall. Tour dates are being assembled and will be released soon. For those unfamiliar with Film School, you can download a track from their alwaysnever EP over at Amazing Grease.

Battle For Ozzfest winners A Dozen Furies are about to embark, as promised, on the entirety of this year's Ozzfest. In preparation for the tour, the band with producer D. Brax recorded a new album, A Concept From Fire, due out September 13th on Sanctuary Records. For those who can't wait that long, an exclusive EP will be sold at all Ozzfest dates.

T-shirt makers turned millionares Threadless are running a special Shout Out Louds t-shirt design contest. There are some pretty serious prizes if you win including an iPod, backstage passes to a SOL show, $750 cash, etc. and all you have to do is send in a t-shirt design.

It was announced last week that Head Automatica has cancelled a handful of shows due to illness of lead singer Daryl Palumbo. Daryl, who suffered from a relapse of Crohn's Disease, is currently taking a few days off of the band's current US tour to recuperate.

Does anyone remember ENEMY? The band fronted by ex-Failure guitarist, ex-Perfect Circle guitarist, and current Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen? Their debut album, Hooray For Dark Matter, was available at a handful of live shows but was never official released. After countless false starts, there are new rumors that the band will release the disc through 5KB Records sometime relatively soon.. but if you're wise, you won't hold your breath waiting for it.

Michael Andrews (the man responsible for the Donnie Darko score) has scored the music for the highly entertaining indie film Me and You and Everyone We Know. The music for the Miranda July film is quite a bit different than the Darko score but every bit as interesting. You can hear samples, read about the collaboration, and even purchase the disc over at CDBaby or Everloving Records.

Spiritualized & Spacemen 3 frontman Jason Pierce is recovering from an illness that left him close to death two times within the last week. It is reported that he is in a fragile and weak state from an unspecified illness, although is expected to be able to go home within the next few weeks.

The release date for 30 Seconds to Mars sophomore release A Beautiful Lie has been pushed back to August 30th.

If you haven't yet, you can watch the video for "All These Things That I've Done" from The Killers directed by Anton Corbin right here.

The first leg of the Team Sleep tour (with Idiot Pilot) is drawing to a close but the band is offering up quite a deal. If you manage to mash up Team Sleep with Idiot Pilot you can win an Apple iBook, or just judge the entries and possibly win an iPod. Not a bad deal. Enter to win here.

If you didn't know it, Spoon is out on tour (as always). They are ending the first leg of their US tour relatively soon and then heading to Australia and the UK. If you missed them don't be too upset, they are known for relentless touring.

The Olympia, WA based LadyFest is coming up on July 28th - 31st. Head on over to the official site to get your tickets to see the likes of Mary Timony, The Gossip, C.O.C.O., and a bunch more.

Touring non-stop apparently isn't enough for Bloc Party, so they will be re-releasing Silent Alarm with every track remixed by a different artist, calling it Silent Alarm Remixed. And if you aren't into remixes, you should know that the first pressing of the remix disc will feature a bonus disc with non-remixed b-sides. So now you have to get it. Look for it on September 13th.

Finally, a use for podcasting that isn't some random person DJ'ing from their bedroom or a mix CD that is more frustrating than useful. Indie-rock stalward KCRW has begun offering a podcast of their "Morning Becomes Eclectic" radio show (hosted by Nic Harcourt). You can read more about the details here and find out that Goldspot is the first featured artist. Don't fret, the names will get more notable as time goes on.

No official release date for their upcoming "Fall `05" release but Built To Spill have announced more tour dates and I doubt it will stop anytime soon.

Though they promise to be recording a followup to The Meadowlands soon, The Wrens are still out and about on tour. Last year at their CMJ show they literally broke the ceiling of the Knitting Factory (yes, literally). Let's hope they do it again.

How else can I present tour dates in a witty way? It's not possible. The Frames are on tour playing lots of old songs and plenty from their most recent release Burn The Maps (a highly recommended album if you ask me). I hear their live show is even better than they are recorded, hard to believe...

In support of their forthcoming collaboration, Iron & Wine and Calexico will be touring parts of the west coast. Look for that In The Reins EP in stores on Sept. 20th.

Everyone seems to love the debut from De Novo Dahl, Cats & Kittens, so why not go catch them on the road playing songs from it? They put on a good show, promise.