Music

System of a Down’s Shavo Odadjian will direct the first video from Build a Nation, Bad Brains’ first studio album in more than a decade.

Following the release of the group’s first full-length disc, Battles will return from Europe and travel the United States and parts of Canada.

Your Kisses are Wasted on Me, the band’s short release, will be issued before a full-length album later in the summer.

The 7th Annual Bash, celebrating what would have been Joey Ramone‘s 56th birthday, will be on Saturday, May 19th at The Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza. The New York Dolls will perform along with many other artists.

The London band will begin their tour on the east coast this Sunday in Hoboken, NJ before heading across the country and back again for shows in the south, southwest, northwest, and midwest. The Clientele will also make a few stops north of the border.

The Montreal-based rock band Mobile will release their U.S. debut Tomorrow Starts Today on July 24th.

Hydrahead’s drum-and-bass duo, featured in ALARM’s spring issue, will perform across the United States in June.

Based on listeners’ feedback, Bono of U2 makes the BBC’s 6 Music list of the ten worst lyrical creations.

On August 28, Definitive Jux will release None Shall Pass, the first full-length album from distinct hip hopper Aesop Rock in four years.

After two years of touring to promote their 2005 album, Live It Out, Metric is working on their fourth album. Frontwoman Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton are also releasing a follow-up EP to her solo record Knives Don’t Have Your Back. Her new EP is called What is Free to a Good Home? Also, Metric’s first album, Grow Up and Blow Away, will be officially released by Last Gang Records.

The activist MC and Danny Glover will no longer address the graduating class at University of California, Berkeley.

Everyone involved in the creation and composition of music dreams of creating an anthem, a song fraught with power and potency, that enthralls the masses and flings them into ecstatic and inescapable bouts of fist pumping and shouting along with the chorus. Such songs literally hit all the right notes, and exert a magical force over listeners, turning them into lifelong devotees of your music.