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  Mastodon Cover ZZ Top, Flaming Lips Sing Madonna

  January 13, 2009 – Mastodon interpreting ZZ Top? The Black Keys playing Captain Beefheart? The Flaming Lips covering Madonna's "Borderline"? Covered, A Revolution in Sound: Warner Bros. Records, a new compilation out Feb. 24, includes these and other contemporary versions of legendary Warner Brothers songs, including tunes by Talking Heads, Van Morrison, Roxy Music, and Tom Petty. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week, November 10-16

  November 15, 2008 – It was a baffling week, one filled with plenty of love and hate. …
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  Mastodon Guitarist Bill Kelliher Hospitalized

  November 11, 2008 – Bill Kelliher, guitarist for metal titans Mastodon, is currently being treated in London for an unidentified illness. He was admitted to the hospital November 3. …
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  Mastodon Unveil New Album Details

  October 29, 2008 – It appears frontman Brent Hinds' injured head has healed just fine, as his heavy metal band Mastodon have finally emerged from the studio and unveiled details for their fourth album, Crack The Skye, which will be released early next year. As the follow-up to 2006's Blood Mountain, Crack The Skye will run 50 minutes but feature only seven tracks, built around four-part centerpiece "The Czar," which explores the album's lyrical theme, Cz …
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  Exclusive: New These Arms Are Snakes Album Due Oct. 7

  July 31, 2008 – SPIN.com has confirmed the release of These Arms Are Snakes' Tail Swallower & Dove, the band's ambitious follow-up to 2006's Easter. The record is scheduled to slither out Oct. …
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  Backstage at Bonnaroo: Mastodon

  June 17, 2008 – Absolute metal monsters Mastodon were unleashed on the Tennessee campgrounds of this year's Bonnaroo festival.Check out video of our own William Goodman talking to Mastodon's Brann Dailor and Troy Sanders about their hotly anticipated follow-up to 2005's punishing Blood Mountain, Bonnaroo's embracing of metal, and Metallica's 'face-melting' set. More on SPIN.com:It Happened Last Night: Mastodon, Against Me! …
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  Bonnaroo Reviewed: Against Me! and Mastodon

  June 17, 2008 – Despite the fact that the band used only 45 minutes of their allotted 75 minute timeslot, the energy and propulsion the Gainesville, FL punk band put behind their raucous performance was undeniable to everyone one the crowd -- even those who had clearly never heard of the sweat-drenched four-piece. Charging through a rapid-fire list of songs off last year's major label debut New Wave like opener "Up the Cuts" and "White People for Peac …
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