July 19, 2011 – The Beastie Boys are reviving the art of the must-see music video. After releasing their epic, star-studded "Make Some Noise," from their latest album, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, the New York rap trio are back with a clip for "Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win" and, as promised, it's an "explicit action adventure spectacular." Well, sort of. Watch below (via Funny or Die). PHOTOS: Check out rare photos of the Beastie Boys Through the Years With a "screenplay" by Adam Yauch and direction by the Boys' longtime collaborator Spike Jonze, The Continuingly Ill Adventures of the Beastie Boys stars action figure versions of MCA, Mike D, and Ad-Rock, as well as Santigold (who does guest vocals on the track). And the resulting piece is an awesome parody of everything from G.I. Joe to The A-Team.

July 19, 2011 – It's barely been a minute since the Flaming Lips released music in their ongoing singles series, which has included housing songs in edible gummy skulls. But Wayne Coye and Co. have just announced their next edition: Three sprawling new songs that will be put out via... a gummy fetus. Check out the tracks below and peep the pictures of the actual fetuses here (via Psych Explorations of the Future Heart). "Enthusiasm" is an absolute blast of psychedelic drone, with an almost-bluegrass guitar lick from Steven Drozd. "Squishy Glass" is even weirder - it starts as a three-minute instrumental of organ fuzz before gliding into a deranged Pink Floyd-ish groove. "Steven's Moonbow" is a gorgeous one-and-a-half minute experiment that comes on like the most deranged children's lullaby ever. More of these awesomely bizarre releases are on the way, too.

July 18, 2011 – Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon announced earlier this year that he was stepping out with a new side-project dubbed the Horrible Crowes, whose debut album Elsie is due out this fall. Now, he's debuted the first track, titled "Behold the Hurricane," which you can hear here. The 31-year-old singer-songwriter told SPIN earlier this year that the record was a "radical" departure from Gaslight's stuff, but fans of the blue-collar punks (and Springsteen) will find plenty to like on "Hurricane." It's an anthemic, mid-tempo rocker, powered by chiming guitars, a heavy pulse, and Fallon's stadium-ready ooh ooh oohs. Expect the rest of Elsie, which features Gaslight roadie Ian Perkins on guitar, to explore far more experimental terrain.

July 18, 2011 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers will end their five-year hiatus on August 30 when their 10th album I'm With You hits stores. But the first track from the album, "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie," has hit the web now; hear it below. Touring member Josh Klinghoffer has joined the band full-time - he replaced longtime guitarist John Frusciante - and his soaring solo on this tune is reminiscent of George Harrison on the Beatles' classic "Something." The chorus of the song - "Heeeeey, now, you've got to make it rain somehow!" Anthony Kiedis croons over Chad Smith's propulsive, scissor step beat - proves the Chili Peppers are still masters of funk-rock. Also: cowbell! PHOTOS: Check out rare and candid pictures of the Red Hot Chili Peppers through the years. Last month, bassist Flea told SPIN that the band's hiatus helped reignite their approach to music.

July 15, 2011 – St. Vincent's Annie Clark is no stranger to reinventing classic rock songs. The singer-guitarist brought down the house at the recent Our Band Could Be Your Life concert with a blistering reworking of Big Black's "Kerosene." And at a show honoring Tom Waits' 1985 album Rain Dogs in London on July 13, Clark delivered a jaw-dropping cover of "Big Black Mariah," which you can watch here (via Pitchfork). Waits' original is a stomping, tough-as-leather blues number, but Clark and her band turn it into a noise-rocking beast by adding torrents of noise: horn squawks, amp feedback, guttural guitar riffage, drum thwacks, and more. Even cooler: watching Clark's petite frame pummeling her guitar with more force than Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo combined. St. Vincent's next album, Strange Mercy, will be released on September 13. Watch It: St. Vincent, "Big Black Mariah"

July 15, 2011 – Eight years since Blink-182 released their last album, the pop-punkers are back with their first new song, "Up All Night," the lead single from their fall LP. Check it out below. Frontman Mark Hoppus has said the band are expanding beyond their radio friendly punk sound for the album, and "Up All Night" kicks off with some experimental (well, for Blink-182) guitar riffage and a quasi-ska drum beat. The lyrics are fairly dark, too: Hoppus and DeLonge confess about the "demons that keep [them] up all night." Blink-182 are hitting the road for a 40-date summer tour with My Chemical Romance, beginning August 5 in Holmdel, NJ, and ending October 15 in San Diego. "These are our biggest shows yet," DeLonge told SPIN. Hear It: Blink-182, "Up All Night"

July 14, 2011 – On his third solo album, the Beck-produced Demolished Thoughts, Thurston Moore tones down the Sonic Youth-style amp death in favor of buttery, string-soaked acoustic tunes. That doesn't mean the noise-rock guru has lost any of his weirdness, as his wild new video for "Circulation" will attest. Check it out here. Directed by visual artist Rose Mackey, Moore says he wanted "to capture the magic touch of dance and music" and "ritualistic love energy" of the arty girls who live in his Northampton, MA, home. And he does just that: "Circulation" features young ladies wigging out in a warehouse space, and the footage gets tweaked with all sorts of kaleidoscopic, psychedelic effects. It almost makes you forget that Moore's lyrics attempt to unlock the mysteries of...female menstruation?

July 14, 2011 – The Avett Brothers have spent the year recording their follow-up to 2009 major label debut I and Love and You with producer Rick Rubin. And while no release date has been announced for the disc, the boys are jonesing to debut their new material. On an episode of CMT's Unplugged, the North Carolina trio unveiled the strummy new track "The Once and Future Carpenter," which you can watch here. The ballad is a stark, Steinbeck-ian travelogue of a blue-collar worker who faces the twilight of his years. "If I live the light I'm given, I won't be scared to die," Seth Avett sings, over laid-back acoustic drums and mournful cello lines. Could the new record take on a similarly dark vibe? "We feel like we need to present a current example of where we are, who we are," Seth said before the performance.

July 13, 2011 – Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV has had multiple delays, so the MC has been promising to release a mixtape to tide fans over until Carter's now official August 29 street date. Sorry 4 the Wait, his thank you to fans, just hit the web. Download it here or stream below (via DatPiff). Wayne's last album I Am Not a Human Being found him going in a rock direction, with mixed results.

July 13, 2011 – The White Stripes may have called it quits, but their vault continues on. Two previously unreleased tracks from Jack and Meg White have been released via Jack's Third Man Records Vault subscription service, which you can hear below (via Antiquiet). The two unearthed gems are covers of Love's track "Signed D.C." and Otis Redding's "I've Been Loving You." Arthur Lee, the late leader of the proto-psychedelic sixties group Love, originally recorded the tune for the group's 1969 album Out Here, and Jack and Meg offer a faithful rendition of Lee's wailing ballad. For the Redding cover, however, the duo add their bluesy scuzz to Redding's classic from his 1965 album Otis Blue.