[Listen] Cage The Elephant - "Come A Little Closer"

Cage the Elephant are preparing to return to our ears and eyes later in 2013 and with that they are preparing  to release their new album, Melophobia. With that set for release later in the year, we now have a taste of what we can expect from the record. Yesterday they premiered a brand new track from it titled "Come A Little Closer" via Zane Lowe's 7pm slot on BBC Radio One. You can stream it below.

According to iHeartRadio, the album is tentatively set for release on October 8th.

[Watch] Sleeper Agent - "Get Burned" (Video)

Sleeper Agent have a cracked out tea party complete with creepy painted dolls, bunnies, and (appropriately included) fire in their latest video, "Get Burned", which is off their debut release Celabrasion. The video was directed by Cage The Elephant frontman Matt Shultz. Next week the band will be heading out on tour in support of fun. until mid-March before joining Ben Kweller to support him on his tour. Make sure you check out the dates after the jump.

Sleeper Agent Live Dates
2/25 - afterHOURS at Northeastern University - Boston, MA
2/26 - The Haunt - Ithaca, NY
2/29 - Higher Ground - Burlington, VT^
3/1 - The Met - Pawtucket, RI^
3/2 - Recher Theatre - Townson, MD^
3/3 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC^
3/7 - State Theatre - St. Petersburg, FL^
3/8 - Beacham Theatre - Orlando, FL^
3/9 - Center Stage - Atlanta, GA^
3/10 - Workplay Theater - Birmingham, AL^
3/12 - Juanita's - Little Rock, AR ^
3/20 - Wadsworth Atheneum, Museum of Art - Hartford, CT*
3/21 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA*
3/23 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA*
3/24 - Irving Plaza - New York, NY*
3/26 - The Basement - Columbus, OH*
3/27 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI*
3/28 - Fine Line Music Café - Minneapolis, MN*
3/30 - Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO*
3/31 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL*
4/1 - Mercury Lounge - Nashville, TN*
4/15 - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival - Indio, CA
4/19 - Fitzgerald's - Houston, TX*
4/20 - Granada Theatre - Dallas, TV*
4/22 - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival - Indio, CA
4/26 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA*
4/27 - Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR*
4/28 - Neumo's - Seattle, WA*
4/30 - In The Venue - Salt Lake City, UT*
5/1 - Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO*
5/18 - Hangout Music Fest - Gulf Shore PublicBeach - Gulf Shores, AL
 
^Support dates w/ Fun.
*Support dates w/ Ben Kweller

[News] Metallica Announces Orion Music Festival On June 23-24 In Atlantic City

Earlier today Metallica announced that they are launching a two-day festival in Atlantic City,NJ called Orion Music Festival. The festival will take place on June 23 - 24 2012 with the band headlining both nights of the event. The band also revealed that they will perform The Black Album in its entirety during one of the two nights. Tickets for fan club members go on sale tomorrow (2/8) at 10am ET and tickets for the general public go on sale on Saturday (2/11) at 11am ET.

Other artists included in the lineup for the two-day event include: Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage The Elephant, Fucked Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes, Titus Andronicus, Gary Clark Jr., Lucero, Roky Erickson, The Black Angels, The Sword, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Liturgy. There will also be a lifestyle element included in the festival that will showcase each member of Metallica's interests - allowing fan to interact directly with each of the band members.

More details about the event are expected to unfold in the coming months. For more information head over to http://orionmusicandmore.com.

[Watch] Cage The Elephant - "Aberdeen" Feat. Dave Grohl Live in LA

We saw some grainy footage last year from Cage The Elephant featuring Dave Grohl on drums, but today courtesy of the band themselves we get a live video with HQ sound. It features some footage from on stage and in the crowd at a recent LA date. For the track "Aberdeen", Cage have Dave doing his impeccable thing behind the kit. I always feel like Dave's about to do one of his crazy drum fills like in Them Crooked Vulture's "Nobody Loves Me and Neither Do I". (Un)Fortunately for Cage The Elephant he puts in a to be expected great beat for them and now we can enjoy it too. 

Rumour has it that at the show they also performed a nice sounding rendition of Talking Heads' classic "Psycho Killer". That's yet to surface though. Sad face.

[Listen] Cage The Elephant - "Dr. Dr. Dr."

Since their debut in 2008, Kentucky rockers Cage The Elephant have been playing a song, which has now been titled "Dr. Dr. Dr." or "Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Help Me, Help Me, Help Me," during their live sets, despite it not being on any of their albums or EPs. Now, that song has been given a proper name and proper studio time, and a cut of the studio recording made its way onto YouTube, so check out the 2-minutes of CTE splendour below.

Cage The Elephant - "Dr. Dr. Dr."

[Listen] Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International

It wasn't too long ago that we posted about this monster Bob Dylan tribute album featuring some awesome covers from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Silversun Pickups, The Gaslight Anthem, Bryan Ferry, Pete Townshend, Sinéad O’Connor, Elvis Costello, Fistful of Mercy, Bad Religion and Cage the Elephant to literally name just 10 of them! Today though, you can stream Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International in full, including a cover from Ke$ha. In case you're wondering she takes on a personal favourite of mine, "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" from Bobby D's 1962 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. 

Give the 70+ unheard gems a listen by simply jumping over to the official Amnesty International Facebook page, give it a like and voila, music in your ear holes. While you're here be sure to go pre-order a copy for yourself over here.

[News] Bob Dylan Tribute Album: 'Chimes of Freedom' Tracklist Feat. QOTSA, My Morning Jacket, Pete Townshend & More

In celebration of Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary, a collection of Bob Dylan covers has been put together and is set for release in January on the 24th to be precise. The full tracklist has appeared and it's frikkin' crazy! Like good crazy and absurd crazy, you know?! It'll be a 72 track monster compiling 4 discs and a host of talent from the world of music. It also throws a few weird number sin but hey, you gotta take the good with the bad. 

Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International will include covers from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age who take on "Outlaw Blues" from 1965's Bringing It All Back Home. My Morning Jacket tackle "You’re A Big Girl Now", Mariachi El Bronx add their fine acoustic goodness to "Love Sick". The Who’s Pete Townshend tackles the crooner number "Corrina, Corrina" and Cage the Elephant do "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". Now, thrown into the mix we have Miley Cyrus covering Blood on the Tracks' "You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go". The one I really don't want to see covered in glitter and crap is "Don't Think Twice it's Alright" but that's been taken up by none other than Ke$ha. KE$SHA!? But still, this compilation will definitely be worth a listen. The full track listing of pure awesome can be found after the jump via CoS.

Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International Tracklist:
Disc 1
01. Raphael Saadiq – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
02. Patti Smith – Drifter’s Escape
03. Rise Against – Ballad of Hollis Brown
04. Tom Morello The Nightwatchman – Blind Willie McTell
05. Pete Townshend – Corrina, Corrina
06. Bettye LaVette – Most of the Time
07. Charlie Winston – This Wheel’s On Fire
08. Diana Krall – Simple Twist of Fate
09. Brett Dennen – You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
10. Mariachi El Bronx – Love Sick
11. Ziggy Marley – Blowin’ in the Wind
12. The Gaslight Anthem – Changing of the Guards
13. Silversun Pickups – Not Dark Yet
14. My Morning Jacket – You’re A Big Girl Now
15. The Airborne Toxic Event – Boots of Spanish Leather
16. Sting – Girl from the North Country
17. Mark Knopfler – Restless Farewell

Disc 2
01. Queens Of The Stone Age – Outlaw Blues
02. Lenny Kravitz – Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35
03. Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli – One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
04. Blake Mills – Heart Of Mine
05. Miley Cyrus – You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
06. Billy Bragg – Lay Down Your Weary Tune
07. Elvis Costello – License to Kill
08. Angelique Kidjo – Lay, Lady, Lay
09. Natasha Bedingfield – Ring Them Bells
10. Jackson Browne – Love Minus Zero/No Limit
11. Joan Baez – Seven Curses (Live)
12. The Belle Brigade – No Time To Think
13. Sugarland – Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You (Live)
14. Jack’s Mannequin – Mr. Tambourine Man
15. Oren Lavie – 4th Time Around
16. Sussan Deyhim – All I Really Want To Do
17. Adele – Make You Feel My Love (Recorded Live at WXPN)

Disc 3
01. K’NAAN – With God On Our Side
02. Ximena Sariñana – I Want You
03. Neil Finn with Pajama Club – She Belongs to Me
04. Bryan Ferry – Bob Dylan’s Dream
05. Zee Avi – Tomorrow Is A Long Time
06. Carly Simon – Just Like a Woman
07. Flogging Molly – The Times They Are A-Changin’
08. Fistful Of Mercy – Buckets Of Rain
09. Joe Perry – Man Of Peace
10. Bad Religion – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
11. My Chemical Romance – Desolation Row (Live)
12. RedOne featuring Nabil Khayat – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
13. Paul Rodgers & Nils Lofgren – Abandoned Love
14. Darren Criss featuring Chuck Criss and Freelance Whales – New Morning
15. Cage the Elephant – The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
16. Band of Skulls – It Ain’t Me, Babe
17. Sinéad O’Connor – Property of Jesus
18. Ed Roland and The Sweet Tea Project – Shelter From The Storm
19. Ke$ha – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
20. Kronos Quartet – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Disc 4
01. Maroon 5 – I Shall Be Released
02. Carolina Chocolate Drops – Political World
03. Seal & Jeff Beck – Like A Rolling Stone
04. Taj Mahal – Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
05. Dierks Bentley – Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (Live)
06. Mick Hucknall – One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
07. Thea Gilmore – I’ll Remember You
08. State Radio – John Brown
09. Dave Matthews Band – All Along the Watchtower (Live)
10. Michael Franti – Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. We Are Augustines – Mama, You Been On My Mind
12. Lucinda Williams – Tryin’ To Get To Heaven
13. Kris Kristofferson – Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
14. Eric Burdon – Gotta Serve Somebody
15. Evan Rachel Wood – I’d Have You Anytime
16. Marianne Faithfull – Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Live)
17. Pete Seeger – Forever Young
18. Bob Dylan – Chimes Of Freedom

[Watch] Cage the Elephant - "Aberdeen" (Official Video)

Check out the new visual from Cage the Elephant for their single "Aberdeen" which uses the art of clay moulding and some monsters and beast that may not give you nightmares, but they will indeed entertain you. Check out the video at the top via MTV.

Cage The Elephant's album Thank You, Happy Birthday is out now in case you missed it go pick it up.