May 28, 2010 – Trent Reznor likes you. He really, really likes you. How to Destroy Angels, the Nine Inch Nails mastermind's new project with his wife Mariqueen Maandig, are releasing their self-titled debut EP for free on June 1. The album will arrive as a 320 kbps download, but for an extra$2 fans can score a higher quality, HD version (the CD will be in stores July 6). Pre-order the six-track EP at the band's website now and get "The Believers," a track to ease your jones over the holiday weekend, until the five other songs arrive on Tuesday. Hear the song and pre-order the album in the widget below. Reznor and Co. previewed How To Destroy Angels with "A Drowning" and "The Space In Between, which arrived with a gruesome video featuring Reznor and his wifey lying face down in a pool of their own blood.

May 24, 2010 – After Eddie Vedder hopped on stage last week with Band of Horses to help cover Ron Wood's "Act Together," BOH singer Ben Bridwell returned the favor Friday in New York City, joining Pearl Jam to romp through Temple of the Dog's "Hunger Strike."Check out the video below! The 1991 album version of "Hunger Strike" featured a vocal duet between Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell, so Friday night Bridwell took over Cornell's part as crowd freaked out -- it's a relative rarity in Pearl Jam's live repertoire. As the performance ended, a beaming Bridwell gushed: "Pearl Jam's the best band!" Up next for BOH will be the Sasquatch festival in Washington State this weekend and two UK opening slots for Snow Patrol in June.Pearl Jam will be taking their tour overseas -- dates can be found here.

May 21, 2010 – "Dancing On My Own," the second single off Swedish electro popstress Robyn's upcoming, SPIN-approved new album Body Talk Pt.1 gets the visual treatment. Check it out below! In fact, the song title dictates the action in the video: Robyn breaks it down on an empty soundstage and also by herself, alongside a packed dance floor, strobes flashing and couples kissing around her. In concert with her video release (and in support of the new album, her first since 2005's self-titled affair), Robyn announced yesterday that she'll be touring the U.S. with edgy R&B singer Kelis via a series of cutesy Twitter exchanges. Sample exchange: Robyn: Hey mama, I'm bored. U feel like doing something?Kelis: Love to.

May 21, 2010 – Metal fans of the world rejoice: The June 22 date of this summer's Big Four Tour -- the seven date European jaunt starring heavy hitting heavyweights Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax -- will be broadcast via satellite in high definition to movie theaters around the world. More than 800 theaters -- including 450 in the U.S. -- will carry the telecast of the tour's stop in Sofia, Bulgaria. There's a full listing of participating theaters on the tour's official site. Tickets for U.S. screenings went on sale today and can be snapped up here. "Who would have thought that more than 25 years after its inception, thrash metal's big four would not only still be around and more popular than ever, but will now play together for the first time," Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich gushed about the tour. "What a mindfuck!

May 20, 2010 – Prolific singer-songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, a.k.a. "E," and his band the Eels -- the guys behind alt-radio hit with "Novocaine for the Soul" -- will return August 24 with Tomorrow Morning, their third album in a year and a half. Tomorrow Morning is the final act in a trilogy of albums, which started with 2009's Hombre Lobo and continued with 2010's acclaimed End Times, Everett's "most universal work," wrote SPIN, which finds the rocker "rasping as if a lead weight hangs from his soul." Tomorrow Morning will arrive via E's own label, E Works Records. Eels -- whose music is featured in film soundtracks, including Shrek the Third and Yes Man -- will hit the road this summer for a lengthy world tour, which hits Europe, Australia, and Japan, before returning to the U.S. in August. Check out the complete U.S. tour itinerary below.

May 7, 2010 – Jeff Mangum, the singer/songwriter behind Athens, GA, folk outfit Neutral Milk Hotel, played his first show in years Thursday night at New York City's Le Poisson Rouge. Below, watch video of Mangum strumming tracks from his band's adored 1998 release, In the Aeroplane over the Sea, including "Two-Headed Boy" and "Oh, Comely." Mangum's rare live performance was part of a benefit show for New Zealand musician Chris Knox (Tall Dwarfs, the Enemy, Toy Love, Flying Nun Records), who had a stroke last year. 400 or so fans snatched up $75 tickets for the show, which also featured performances from TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone, Yo La Tango, and more. Fans captured indie rock's J.D. Salinger playing his five-song solo set. Watch video below, then tell us what you think in the comment section. Setlist:"Oh Comely" "A Baby for Pree" "Two Headed Boy Pt.

May 7, 2010 – Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel fought the law and the law won. Or did they? The Floridian punk band just released a new video for "I Was A Teenage Anarchist," the lead single from their June 8 release White Crosses, and it shows Gabel running from the cops on a palm tree-lined boardwalk, getting apprehended, and then finding himself on the wrong end of a cop's baton. Luckily for Gabel, bystanders eventually step-in to stop the officer's excessive force, and Gabel makes a second get-away, only to be caught once again and thrown into the back of a cop's cruiser.

May 7, 2010 – Adam Young, the Minnesota-based mastermind behind chart-topping electro-pop project Owl City, is going back in time. The 23-year-old musician is reviving his former moniker, Sky Sailing, to release an album -- called An Airplane Carried Me to Bed -- of pre-Owl City songs on June 13. Young explains: "These recordings are a step into the past, the documented account of a shy boy from Minnesota with more hopes and dreams than he knew what to do with." Young's first order of business with his return to Sky Sailing was to post a MySpace page, complete with two tracks. The songs -- called "Brielle" and "I Live Alone" -- suggest the poignant sound of Owl City, yet focus more on acoustic guitar and piano than synth and ambient blips and bleeps. Excited for Young's return to Sky Sailing? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

May 6, 2010 – 21-year-old Atlanta rapper B.o.B.'s debut album The Adventures of Bobby Ray delivered on the promise of its chart-topping single, "Nothin' On You," selling 84,000 copies to capture the No. 1 spot on the album chart this week, reports Billboard. And that's not all: Bobby Ray leads Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums, Top Rap Albums, and Top Digital Albums charts as well. No doubt about it -- they got nothin' on you, Mr. B.o.B. Lady Antebellum's Need You Now sits in the No. 2 spot, Bullet for My Valentine achieved a career-high No. 3 with Fever, and Justin Bieber's My World 2.0 fell from No. 3 to the No. 4 slot. In addition to B.o.B.'s hit single, which features crooner Bruno Mars, Bobby Ray's success was aided by other high-profile collabos with T.I. (B.o.B.

April 12, 2010 – Many of music's most talented ladies are ready to invade a town near you. As previously reported, Lilith Fair will be making its way across North American this summer for the first time in a decade. Dates for the entire trek have just been announced, complete with a one-night-only performance from Rihanna in Salt Lake City! The outing will celebrate women in music during its 36-city trek with over 80 performing artists, including festival founder Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Indigo Girls, and Nelly Furtado, plus SPIN faves Cat Power, Norah Jones, Metric, Erykah Badu, Tegan & Sara, and Janelle Monae. Lilith Fair kicks off June 27 in Calgary and hits cities across the U.S. before closing out in Dallas on Aug. 16.