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As Matador Records reaches it’s 21st Anniversary (and celebrating it in style in Las Vegas) the preperations for the 6CD boxset are causing quite a stir in the perpetually awake hype machine.

The boxset features 5CDs documenting the history of the label and one CD of previously unreleased live material. The tracklisting and promo shots are below. This, I think you’ll agree, looks incredible.

For all you could possibly need to know head over to the Matablog.

DISC 1 – THE PRE-DAWN (1989-1992)

1. Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows
2. H.P. Zinker – Dancing Days
3. Superchunk – Slack Motherfucker
4. Dustdevils – Throw the Bottle Full
5. Railroad Jerk – These Streets
6. Come – Fast Piss Blues
7. Bettie Serveert – Kid’s Alright
8. Chain Gang – Cut Off The Drug Czar’s Head
9. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – More Glee
10. Unsane – This Town
11. Circle X – Compression of the Species
12. Toiling Midgets – Mr. Foster’s Shoes
13. Bailter Space – The Today Song
14. Pavement – Perfume-V

DISC TWO – THE YEARS OF MILK AND HONEY (1993-1995)

1. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Afro
2. Yo La Tengo – Big Day Coming
3. Railroad Jerk – The Ballad of Railroad Jerk
4. Helium – Superball
5. Pizzicato Five – Baby Love Child
6. Liz Phair – Mesmerizing
7. Pavement – Silence Kit
8. Guided By Voices – Game Of Pricks
9. 18th Dye – Whole Wide World
10. Chavez – Peeled Out Too Late
11. Come – String
12. Moonshake – Secondhand Clothes
13. Guitar Wolf – Midnight Violence Rock’n Roll
14. San Francisco Seals – Back Again
15. Bardo Pond – Rumination

DISC 3: DAYS OF WHISKEY AND TEARS (1996-2001)

1. Boards Of Canada – Telephasic Workshop
2. Spoon – Waiting For The Kid To Come Out
3. Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
4. Chavez – You Must Be Stopped
5. Silkworm – Tarnished Angel
6. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Flavor Part 1 (Beck)
7. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Flavor Part 2 (Mike D)
8. Pole – Fliegen
9. Cat Power – American Flag
10. Belle & Sebastian – We Rule The School
11. Mogwai – Helps Both Ways
12. Arsonists – Backdraft
13. Large Professor – ‘Bout That Time
14. Cornelius – Tone Twilight Zone
15. burger/ink – Flesh & Blood
16. Pavement – You Are A Light
17. Arab Strap – Blood
18. Matmos – L.A.S.I.K

DISC FOUR: DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK (2002-2007)

1. Interpol – Hands Away
2. Cat Power – He War
3. Yo La Tengo – Today Is The Day
4. The New Pornographers – From Blown Speakers
5. Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
6. Dead Meadow – Good Moanin’
7. Mogwai – Kids Will Be Skeletons
8. Mission Of Burma – The Setup
9. Early Man – Death Is The Answer
10. Belle & Sebastian – Dress Up In You
11. Pretty Girls Make Graves – All Medicated Geniuses
12. Cat Power – Love & Communication
13. Shearwater – Johnny Viola
14. Brightblack Morning Light – Everybody Daylight
15. Lavender Diamond – You Broke My Heart
16. Jennifer O’Connor – Tonight We Ride
16. Earles & Jensen – Just Farr A Laugh: The Yogurt Machine
17. Stephen Malkmus – Discretion Grove

DISC FIVE: MATADOR TODAY (2008 – )

1. Fucked Up – Son The Father
2. Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
3. Kurt Vile – Amplifier
4. Yo La Tengo – Nothing to Hide
5. Jay Reatard – There Is No Sun
6. Times New Viking – Move To California
7. Harlem – Friendly Ghost
8. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Bottled In Cork
9. The New Pornographers – My Shepherd
10. Cold Cave – Youth and Lust
11. Interpol – Summer Well
12. Shearwater – Castaways
13. Esben and the Witch – Marching Song
14. Girls – Lust For Life
15. Magic Kids – Superball
16. Delorean – Stay Close
17. Cat Power – Metal Heart
18. Perfume Genius – Learning
19. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash

DISC SIX: UNRELEASED LIVE RECORDINGS FROM THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERTS, NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 1999

1. Pavement – Here (Live 1999)
2. Pavement – Trigger Cut (Live 1999)
3. Pavement – The Hexx (Live 1999)
4. Pavement – She Believes (Live 1999)
5. Pavement – Unfair (Live 1999)
6. Pavement – Zurich Is Stained (Live 1999)
7. Pavement – Debris Slide (Live 1999)
8. Pavement – Spit On A Stranger (Live 1999)
9. Come – New Coats (Live 1999)
10. Bardo Pond – Walking Stick Man (Live 1999)
11. Bardo Pond – Tommy Gun Angel (Live 1999)
12. Cat Power – Good Woman (Live 1999)
13. Cat Power – Naked, If I Want To (Live 1999)
14. Cat Power – You May Know Him / Sea Of Love (Live 1999)
15. Mogwai – Ex-Cowboy (Live 1999)

Ben Cook of Toronto punk group Fucked Up recently wound up in the strangest musical competition to ever be released on DVD.

In Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, Cook battles Nick Jonas of Jonas Brothers and the thrilling ‘battle’ scene can be seen below.

Commenting on the film, Ben Cook unashamedly says ‘extra work can be very funny.’ That it can.

Frank Turner apparently spends his spare time making awesome covers of some of his favourite bands. This week his cover of ‘ADT‘ by Fake Problems is doing the blogotwittersphere rounds.

Watch his cover below. ‘ADT‘ will be appearing on Fake Blood’s ‘Real Ghosts Caught On Tape‘ due September 21st.

We hope you have already caught sight of the wonderfully insane video for Heathen Child that came out last month. Things just keep getting better for fans of Nick Cave’s eccentric garage rock side-project Grinderman, as one week before release, their band’s second album can be streamed in full over at the band’s myspace.

Click here to jump straight in and hear the amazing record, and if you need some visual stimulation then just look below. Our ears are hard already…

Dubbed as the ‘Big Four’ for good reason, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth sharing one stage is no small occasion. So it comes as fantastic news for metal fans that their performance on June 22nd at Sonisphere Festival in Bulgaria will be available on DVD on October 15th.

A limited edition super deluxe boxset will also be released, featuring the DVD set, five CDs with all the music, a 24 page booklet, a poster, photos of each band and a Big Four guitar pick. Very nice.

For more information, visit metallica.com

Deftones, fresh from releasing their critically acclaimed ‘Diamond Eyes‘ earlier this year, have unleashed the new video for ‘Sextape‘ on the interwebs. You can see it below after all that lovely live show information.

The band will indeed be embarking on a tour of the UK in November. Supported by Coheed and Cambria you can catch them at the following dates:

12^th Glasgow, Academy
13^th Leeds, Academy
14^th Manchester, Apollo
15^th Southampton, Guildhall
17^th London, Brixton Academy
19^th Nottingham, Rock City
20^th Birmingham, Academy

Black Mountain will be releasing what could potentially be one of our favourite albums this year (definitely our favourite artwork) with Wilderness Heart on September 13th. The trip begins with The Hair Song, a stroll through gently warming vintage indie rock that’s made all the more enjoyable with the freshly released music video.

The video features everything needed to make this song perfect, a little sunshine, some skateboarding, some beards, wilderness and bars. Check it out below.

The rocking brothers known as Tweak Bird have posted their video for ‘Lights In Lines‘.

The track is taken from their debut self-titled album, which is currently making a racket buzzing away in the Buzz Chart. Head over there for Sleekly’s take on the album and see below for the music video. It’s good shit.

Tweak Bird – Lights In Lines (Official Video) from Souterrain Transmissions on Vimeo.

Though it would be incredible for a bedroom indie record label called Big Scary Monsters to have been in the game since September, 1910, it’s very admirable to see them turn 100 releases old today.

The DIY label brings in its hundredth release in the form of ‘Partied Hard‘, a DVD/CD double pack celebrating the acts they have represented since they began in 2001.

The release will be available to buy from bsmrocks.com with an exclusive gold-printed BSM tee. It will be limited to however many copies they sell between now and October 24th, when it will then be deleted.

The DVD features promo videos and live performances from the likes of Pulled Apart By Horses, Adebisi Shank, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Meet Me In St Louis and many more.