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  Crossfade Feist and Mastodon With the 'Feistodon' Video App

  July 31, 2012 – After putting out a highly coveted split 7-inch for Record Store Day this year, singer-songwriter Feist and proggy hard rockers Mastodon are releasing a digital version of the record, titled Feistodon, today. …
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  Feistodon Cometh! Hear Feist and Mastodon Cover Each Other

  April 20, 2012 – Feistodon is here, and as you might have guessed, it's a beast. Feist and Mastodon's covers of each others' songs, available as a 7" single for Record Store Day this Saturday (and featuring some thoroughly badass cover art), have surfaced online, via Listen Before You Buy. …
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  Look at the Amazing Cover Art for Feist and Mastodon's Single

  April 9, 2012 – Arguably the most surprising Record Store collaboration (next to Ke$ha's team-up with Flaming Lips) now has equally surprising cover art. In an effort to match the majesty of their forthcoming split 7" Feistodon, for which Feist and Mastodon came together to cover one another for a good cause, the two acts have combined for a photo collage that uses bits of their faces and hair and a graffiti'd tongue too perfect to be real. …
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  SPIN's 20 Best Metal Albums of 2011: Plus Download Free 19-Song Mixtape!

  December 19, 2011 – Five Brooklyn bands, a few members of the Big 4, two albums named Path of Totality, and one sinister minister in a rubber skull mask. Watch the throne room. Plus, click below to download our Metal List Mixtape, a two-hour zipfile tour through our best-of list featuring tracks from every artist on our rundown (except Mastodon -- thanks, bros!). …
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  Feistodon Lives! Feist, Mastodon Prepping Split 7" Single

  November 30, 2011 – In October, Feist and Mastodon both performed on an episode of the BBC's chat show Later.... With Jools Holland, part of a pretty remarkable bill of American music that also included Bon Iver. …
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  The Touching Tale of When Mastodon Met Barney

  November 22, 2011 – If there's one thing Mastodon endorse, it's trying new things. Since 1999, they have evolved from grunty sludge-metal Neanderthals into taut melodic heavy-rock assassins on their latest, The Hunter. Compared to their last LP, Crack the Skye — an intricate progressive-metal exercise, complete with a storyline involving Rasputin and astral projection — the new record is chock-full of (gasp!) accessible songs you could hum to. …
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  Voodoo Music Experience Hypnotizes New Orleans

  October 31, 2011 –  …
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  See Mastodon, Feist, Bon Iver Swarm 'Jools Holland'

  October 19, 2011 – The BBC's acclaimed chat show Later... With Jools Holland was packed with first-class American music last night. Fresh off a gig on The Late Show With David Letterman, Atlanta metal overlords Mastodon performed the bleakly pummeling "Black Tongue" from new non-concept album The Hunter, even cracking a smile or two at their own ferocious riffage. …
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  Mastodon, Portishead, J. Cole Hit Late Night

  October 6, 2011 – Late-night TV played host to a wide range of musical acts on Wednesday night. Metal giants Mastodon rocked The Late Show With David Letterman. Trip-hop pioneers Portishead descended upon Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Black Star, the duo of rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli, visited The Colbert Report. And hip-hop up-and-comer J. Cole stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live. …
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  Mastodon, 'The Hunter' (Reprise)

  September 27, 2011 – Mastodon do after 2009's well-regarded but overbaked prog slab Crack the Skye? They do the tighten up, cranking out their most thrillingly straightforward hard rock ever on The Hunter. Songs like "Curl of the Burl," the galloping "Specterlight," and the kinetic, catchy "Blasteroid" keep the riffs simple without lapsing into banality. …
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