Student Artist Contest For $12,500; Under Byen Orchestrates EP; Spinto Band Finishes 'Moonwink;' CRB Says FU; Free Dead Meadow MP3

ARTISTS: WIN $12,500, ENDS FEB. 17 CMJ has teamed up with the Collegiate Nationals Music Championship to give two acts... (more) BEASTIE BOYS ROCK FOR NEUROLOGICAL HEALTH The rappers who famously organized the wildly... (more) PIANO MAN GIVES SHEA LAST RITES Billy Joel will be the last among musicians and athletes alike to play Shea Stadium... (more) SPINTO BAND SHOOTS THE 'MOON' Spinto Band have just finished recording their eighth full-length, Moonwink... (more) MASTODON TO TOUR LIKE A 'ROCK STAR' Mastodon has been on the road nearly non-stop since releasing 2006's... (more) UNDER BYEN'S ORCHESTRAL EP Under Byen may not be exactly mainstream, but Henriette Sennenvaldt's Danish cooing... (more) DEERHUNTER, BLACK LIPS ERECT GHETTO CROSSES Atlanta-based cronies Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and Cole... (more) DEAD MEADOW Old Growth Old Growth, the new album from L.A.-by-way-of-DC power trio Dead Meadow, sounds so fuzzed-out and blissfully murky that one imagines it took an act of immense personal willpower for the group to put down their bongs and enter a recording studio. It also may have been the only act of self-control shown by Dead Meadow during the recording process, as Old Growth sees the group unafraid to stretch themselves out in whatever directions crossed their hazy minds, including extended groove rock and gentle acoustic ballads... (more) DOWNLOAD "What Needs Must Be"

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