U2 have premiered the music video for the band’s latest single ‘Magnificent‘.

The track is the second single from the band’s latest album ‘No Line On The Horizon‘.

The video was directed by Alex Courtes who also directed the band’s previous music video for ‘Get On Your Boots‘.

Both ‘Magnificent‘ and ‘No Line On The Horizon‘ are out now.

Move over Detroit, look out AIG, it looks like the U.S. is now going to try to save music.

In an amendment hidden deep inside the bailout bill, a U.S. senator, whom has yet to be revealed, added an amendment to save troubled music festivals.

The amendment would open a fund that would allow small and medium sized music festivals throughout the U.S. who are on the verge of canceling their events, as well as those who already canceled, from continuing.

A part of the amendment reads:

“In these troubled times one of the greatest gifts to states are large events (i.e. festival) which have a great positive impact to the local economy, including creating short term jobs as well as raising money from the fees organizers pay to the city to hold these events. Allowing these events to die out would further hurt local economies”

No word on how much money would be set up to help out these festival organizers.

More info as we receive it.

TV On The Radio have been added to the line-up for Scotland’s forthcoming T In The Park Festival.

Also added for the three-day event, which is set to take place July 10-12 near Kinross in Scotland, are Of Montreal and Lady GaGa.

The new additions join previously confirmed acts Kings of Leon, The Killers, Blur, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Kings of Leon have announced dates for a forthcoming North American tour.

The lengthy jaunt is set to kick off April 19 in Boston, MA and will run through several major cities including Toronto, Miami, and San Francisco.

The tour is set to take place at several large arenas and will be the boys biggest tour of North America to date.

The Followill boys will continue to support their latest album, ‘Only By The Night‘, on their upcoming jaunt.

With CMJ less than a week away the full schedule for the five day music marathon has finally been released.

The complete 08′ schedule is now online at CMJ.com and it is packed full of great bands you just have to see.

CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2008 kicks-off Tuesday, October 21st in New York.

On July 2nd, Buckcherry’s new single off of their ‘Black Butterfly‘ album was leaked through BitTorrent. A few days following the online leak the band issued a press release condemning the pirates and saying “Honestly, we hate it when this shit happens, because we want our FANS to have any new songs first.” The group was pissed off by the incident, which isn’t the first time a band show anger after their album is leaked online. What makes this story interesting is who exactly leaked the tracks through BitTorrent. Shortly after the band issued the statement, the site TorrentFreak began an investigation to determine who leaked the music. The site, with the help of a “BitTorrent site insider”, confirmed that the IP address of the person who uploaded the torrent file belonged to none other than their band manager, Josh Klemme. It turns out it was all a publicity stunt clearly out of desperation to get some attention for the band and their new album. As TorrentFreak points out, wouldn’t it be “more constructive if bands embraced the technology and admitted it, instead of playing the injured party and giving the protocol a bad image, just to boost their own?” Read the whole story on how they tracked down the seeder at TorrentFreak.

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Vampire Weekend are gearing up for a tour of the UK this October. Coming off playing several festivals including T In The Park and Oxygen the band is ready for some headlining shows. They will kick off their tour at the Birmingham Academy on October 20.

The Rascals have mapped out a UK tour to set for September. Miles Kane and co. are set to begin their expedition with consecutive performances at The Picket in their hometown of Liverpool on September 17 and 18. The band will then head out across the country playing dates in Glasgow, Newcastle and Cambridge among other places.