Did you know Broken Social Scene hasn’t released a proper album since their self-titled endeavor in 2005? Perhaps the release of both Kevin Drew’s and Brendan Canning’s individual releases helped facilitate the band’s extended leave of absence, but Kevin Drew assures fans in a recent interview conducted with Pitchforkmedia.com that the album’s work is well underway, and can expect a release on May 4th of this year, through Arts & Crafts.
What of course adds to the band’s allure and mystery is their revolving door policy towards the group. …

After seven years of ass-kickage, These Arms Are Snakes are disbanding.  From their Myspace:
“It’s with a heavy heart we tell you that These Arms Are Snakes is no more. It’s been a great run and we’d like to send out a very hearty “Thank You” to everyone that we’ve worked with or anyone that we’ve toured with; anyone that lent us a floor, towed our van and/or trailer, lent a van, given us a listen, downloaded our records prior to their coming out, bought our shit, or asked us …

Melissa Auf der Maur has released the official music video for the title track to her forthcoming solo album Out of Our Minds.  It is immensely compelling with it’s rich and thought out visuals, and seems to hint at strong potential for the album as a whole.  The video can be viewed at Auf der Maur’s website HERE, where a link for an official download of the MP3 may also be discovered.

Sad news: Memphis garage rocker Jay Reatard was found dead in his house at 3:30 am this morning.
There is no apparent cause for his death right now, but for a more complete report, you can click here.

Toronto’s favorite two-pronged producers of garage metal, Lullabye Arkestra, have released a video for their second single “Icy Hands” off of their latest album Threats/Worship.  Enjoy the bootstomping fun below:

Threats/Worship and their debut record Ampgrave can be previewed here.
Check out more on their Myspace site, or their Facebook page

There has been some controversy lately over the real identity of Andrew WK.  In a confusing mix of little tidbits of information making their way to the surface, it doesn’t seem like there is an issue with what his name really is, but rather that there have been multiple people playing the role of Andrew WK.  Moreover, it has been speculated that Andrew WK is not a person at all, but a marketing idea.
For those not introduced: Andrew WK is the person/idea/artist responsible for the party rock anthems “Party Hard” …

As I am sure you know, The Dillinger Escape Plan are gearing up for the March release of their highly anticipated Option Paralysis.  As a result, a snippet of their new track “Farewell, Mona Lisa” can be checked out here.  The awesome artwork for the single is above.
Option Paralysis is due out on March 23 through the band’s own Party Smasher Inc. label, in partnership with Season of Mist.

The Armed are currently recording their new EP, and as part of it, are asking for you to download an MP3 and contribute some vocals along with it, in hopes of building the greatest gang vocal of all time.  Instead of reiterating everything on their site, how about you just go there instead.

The Dillinger Escape Plan are currently on tour with Thursday on a partial promotional tour for their upcoming full-length Option Paralysis, which is due out in March.  If you don’t recall, I reviewed the show, and marveled at how awesome the new Dillinger songs were.  Live footage of “Farewell, Mona Lisa” has been around for awhile, but there hasn’t been any good quality video of set opener “Good Neighbor”…until now.  Check it:

Intronaut have been busy working on their follow-up to last year’s masterpiece Prehistoricisms.  However, that hasn’t stopped most of the band from getting involved in numerous other projects as well.  The band posted the following update:
“So yeah, the new record is coming along. We are planning to be in the studio recording by April at the latest. Details on all that will be coming soon. I supposed I could give you more of a detailed update on the band, too. We have all been busy with other musical projects in …

The Dillinger Escape Plan are currently on tour with Thursday on a stint to partially promote their upcoming full-length Option Paralysis, which is due out in March.  Fortunately for fans, they are playing two new tracks, one of which is entitled “Farewell, Mona Lisa”.  Someone took the opportunity to film them playing it, and here is that video:

This is a good news, bad news situation.
Good news: Them Crooked Vultures are hard at work on album number two (yes, album number one just came out a couple weeks ago, read our review here).
Bad news: Josh Homme was arrested.  He hasn’t revealed why, other than saying that he was embarrassed to have to let his bandmates (Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones) know about the incident.
But hey, album number two!

Thrashy death metallers Arsis have posted “Beyond Forlorn”, a track from their upcoming Nuclear Blast release Starve for the Devil online here. The artwork can be seen above.
Starve for the Devil is due out February 9th, and the tracklisting is as follows:
1. Forced To Rock
2. A March For The Sick
3. From Soulless To Shattered (Art In Dying)
4. Beyond Forlorn
5. The Ten Of Swords
6. Closer To Cold
7. Sick Perfection
8. Half Past Corpse O’Clock
9. Escape Artist
10. Sable Rising

While The Great Misdirect didn’t thrill as much as I had hoped, Between the Buried and Me still has their fair share of classic metal tracks.  “Mordecai”, certainly one of their biggest hits, was filmed live recently (in pretty good multi-cam quality too).  You can check it out here:

More of the show is said to be making its way online as well.

One of Harvey Milk’s early efforts, entitled Bob Weston Sessions, is seeing a remastered release through Hydra Head on January 26th.  The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Blueberry Dookie
2. Plastic Eggs
3. Merlin Is Magic
4. Dating Pressures
5. My Father’s Life’s Work
6. Probölkoc
7. Smile
8. Jim’s Polish
9. F.S.T.P.
10. Anthem