The Dillinger Escape Plan are headed back out on tour in June with new drummer Billy Rhymer.  The North American leg will include two excellent opening acts The Number Twelve Looks Like You and Knife The Glitter.  The band will then head to Europe in July for a number of festivals and return July 20th to begin recording a new record.  Read More for dates.

For a turgid interview filled with stock questions and generalities about indie music, check out CNN's interview with Death Cab For Cutie.

Modest Mouse will release the Satellite Skin 7" on May 26th. The 7" will be on limited edition orange vinyl with an embossed sleeve and individually numbered to 4000. The tracks include an unreleased released track 'Satellite Skin' and a new track, 'Guilty Cocker Spaniels.' It will be available through retail and iTunes.

Thursday, Rise Against, and Poison The Well are headed to the UK for 5 dates.  Read More for the dates.

Rancid's has a new video for the song "Last One to Die."

Lambgoat reports that Doomriders have completed their new album, Darkness Come Alive, which they expect to release this summer through Deathwish Inc.

Pre-order Dredg's new album, The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion.  It's really good. The band has a new video as well.

The Honorary Title will be headed into the studio next week to record a new album with Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley / The Elected) producing.

Gaza cancelled their May tour, but still plan to play Dudefest in July.

Baroness are headed to the studio.

John Nolan from Straylight Run has an interesting idea.  He's got some free time so send him stuff you'd like him to collaborate with you on and he'll pick certain things and actually do it.  Check out the blog post.

Saddle Creek Records signed The Rural Alberta Advantage and UUVVWWZ.

Trent Reznor laid into Rivers Cuomo and Prince in a fan interview posted below.

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This is literally ALL of the important music news from the past week.  I just sifted through so many pointless articles to save you, the loyal reader, some time. Enjoy!

By hitting Read More, you the reader will be taken down memory lane through reviews of the discography of Fear Before (The March of Flames).  Loud Hawk does what many music fans do on summer nights out on the back porch.  We stated what we felt to be the ranking of a band's discography, in this case the four full lengths of the band formerly known as Fear Before The March of Flames. No one can ever accuse this band of not trying something new, unique and creative with each release.  Many, even those favorite bands we cherish, choose not to change much from album to album and sacrifice creativity, not wanting to risk even the marginal success they have had thus far.  Fear Before truly sees their work as art and it is reflected in the creativity and uniqueness of each record.  Our scores are only opinion, and we welcome debate in the comments, but one thing is for sure: with Fear Before, you will always get something new.

As if you didn't have enough reason to be excited for Green Day's newest disc 21st Century Breakdown, Loud Hawk and Total Assault have teamed up to bring you an extra special contest that will finally give the bassist their due (no, Flea and Les Claypool do not make up for Fieldy's solo album).  Mike Dirnt has been a bass idol since he was first released on record but tracks like "When I Come Around" and "Longview" solidified him as a major influence to any budding fat-stringer in the 90s.  Now you have the chance to win his signature bass free from Loud Hawk and Total Assault.  It's simple, head over to the contest entry page HERE or click the image and enter to win.  Good luck and hopefully you'll be cover Victor Wooten in no time.

Torche have posted a new video for their song, "Across The Shields."  The band also begins touring tonight with Dredg, then head to Europe with Kylesa, and return to the US in July with Harvey Milk.  Read More for the dates and the video is below.

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New York City's indie staple A Brief Smile will release three EPs in three months. After a long period in the works, Be Mine, Restaurant Airport, and Sunshine State are now ready to be unleashed upon the masses.  The EPs will be released on the first Friday of May, June, and July, and offered as free downloads at ABriefSmile.com for the first week of their respective release.

“We're now releasing a dance record, a dark chugging synth record, and what I feel is a return to our pop roots. These albums are all different from one another sonically but I think if you really listen to the lyrics, you'll find commonalities - a kind of narrative that goes from creation to destruction to creation,” says bassist John Carnes of the band's upcoming releases. All three EPs were produced and recorded by the band in some unusual places, ranging from their Crown Heights rehearsal studio to an empty house in Martha's Vineyard. Six mixing engineers also worked on the EPs including Jeff Curtin (Vampire Weekend) and with the entire sequence mastered by Emily Lazar (David Bowie, Morrissey, The Shins) and Joe LaPorta (Garbage, The Stills), these tracks are sure to leave more than a lingering grin on the face of audiophiles everywhere.

Two tracks from Be Mine, the band's May 1st release, are now available for exclusive download and you can also stream all three EPs now.  Read More for some dates, more information, and tracklisting.