Loma Prieta recently released a video for Fly by Night from their Deathwish Inc. debut and appropriately-titled fourth record, I.V. It was shot by Evan Henkel of The Waiting Room in and around the Bay Area.

The hardworking quartet is currently on the road with Birds in Row, followed by a short tour with Converge, then finishing up the run with some solo dates.

Chris Evans, keyboardist for The Sleeping, recently posted his take on Converge’s Jane Doe. “This was all played in a few live takes,” Evans said. “No midi programming at all just me and my fat little fingers.”

:: Maiden fans rejoice as Iron Maiden is gearing up for some touring in 2012!

:: Converge fanatics listen up! Drum tracking is finished for a new album.

:: Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter) announce tour dates for Japan and North America for February and March.

:: More new releases are in the works. Bring Me the Horizon will begin to write a new record next month, while Trivium is set to hit the studio in 2013 to record a new album.

:: Anthrax‘s Joey Belladonna is pretty amped up about touring with Slayer and Megadeth.

:: Nas doesn’t seem too happy with Def Jam. Or maybe he is, and someone else isn’t too happy with Def Jam. But chances are Nas isn’t too happy with Def Jam. Or shamrock shakes, but that’s complete conjecture on my part. Damn you, Uncle O’Grimacey.

:: You can buy Kurt Cobain’s unsent letter to MTV. I know I’m gonna get shit for this, but as much as he talked about how he didn’t want attention, dude seemed starved for attention.

:: Justin Foley of The Austerity Program and Kurt Ballou of Converge talk tacos — and taco riffs.

:: Jonsi has some more tour dates lined up.

:: Duff McKagan says he wanted Velvet Revolver to be awesome. The simple fact that Velvet Revolver ever existed seems to imply otherwise.

:: As usual, NPR is behind the times. This go-round, peepaw’s favorite radiotrola presentation show is discussing the return of cassettes. It’s like 2008 all over again.

:: It’s NaGraNoWriMo. Get at it!

I was recently challenged to create a list of 10 bands you can’t ignore this summer. However, since you can always just ignore them — but you better not ignore them! — and because this will serve as the first of many lists celebrating Buzzgrinder’s upcoming ninth birthday, we’ve brought you nine bands you shouldn’t ignore in the coming months.

And instead of raving about normal Buzzgrinder touchstones (which I could do, since J. Roddy Walston and the Business, These United States, Rodeo Ruby Love and a bunch of others have new albums coming out, not to mention all the folks who are just always awesome), this list will focus on up-and-coming bands we’ve barely talked about, if at all.

See which nine bands you shouldn’t ignore this summer.

:: Weird Al is Nostradamus, eh? I always felt like he was more of an Edward Cayce or Wolf Messing.

:: Poor Dolly Parton. Or should I say, poor Dolly Parton’s plastic surgeon. She doesn’t even look as much like Dolly Parton as a man impersonating her…

:: If you enjoy clubbing baby seals, you should reconsider your pastimes. Because if you don’t, I’m assuming Dillinger Escape Plan‘s Greg Puciato will end up breaking your clubbing hand. And your clubbing arm. And your clubbing leg. And your clubbing ribs.

:: Elijah Thomson of Everest discusses the music of, and his history with, Richard Swift. As he was reflecting on Swifty, the bizarre scope of his relationships and collaborations hit me. Jason Martin, Jeff Tweedy, Damien Jurado, Sean Lennon, Mark Ronson. Dude is all over the map. Oh yeah, also he’s good.

:: Limp Bizkit canceled a tour because “Limp is not an amphitheatre band,” says Fred Durst. Good call. I guess they’re busy getting on the frat boy date rape party scene, then.

:: Nothing like former editors of a lackluster magazine “writing” an oral history (i.e. recording people talking, then having their assistants transcribe it) of a lackluster TV channel to get you all excited. Amirite?

:: The insanely large metal death toll of the last year and some change keeps rising. One of Slipknot‘s few remaining founders, bassist Paul Gray, has died at the age of 38.

:: Random tracks that don’t suck:

:: That sneaky Trent Reznor and his porny little mustache. On the subject of Nine Inch Nails supposed death, Snape had this to say: “NIN is not dead.”

:: David Cross gives us the story (albeit the fake story) behind the phrase “douche chill.”

:: The “most famous musician who is a thieving bastard,” according to Cracked, is Andrew Lloyd Webber. But hey, they also give props to Led Zeppelin and Metallica.

:: Go get that new Norma Jean track and tell us what you think. Chug chug wee or chug wee wee?

:: Go take a gander at the new Sage Francis album.

:: Converge. I think that says it all.

:: Random tracks that don’t suck:

:: Where do I get this shirt? Answers, now!

:: Some folks are calling Bonnaroo’s 2010 lineup amazing. I’m calling it a-meh-zing. Some good stuff, way too much garbage.

:: Looks like Converge and Thursday are teaming up for a week.

:: Got any Bikini Kill stories? Give them to Kill Rock Stars.

:: As if it wasn’t obvious over a decade ago, MTV is no longer about music. Thus saith their logo.

:: Random tracks that don’t suck:
Superdrag – Bastards of Young
The Replacements – Someone Take the Wheel (demo)
The Soft Pack – Answer to Yourself

:: Have questions for Fun? Well, you can ask them in a couple of days.

:: It looks like Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire laid waste to the Hammerstein Ballroom. That’s figuratively speaking, of course.

:: Former Stones Roses frontman Ian Brown was arrested for allegedly attacking his wife. In related news, Brown looks like a 27-year-old heroin chic female model with those cheek bones. Work it, girlfriend.

:: Forgot to mention this the other day when I saw it, but Aquarium Drunkard discusses the merits (yes, the merits) of Charles Manson’s album Lie: The Terror and Love Cult.

:: It seems that Propagandhi is working on a new album. I feel like I’m back in high school whenever I hear news like this.

:: We’ve got some legislative drama surrounding a performance rights act that Congress is trying to get all sorted out.

Bahhh, far too much to filter through this week. Do it yourself, lazy.

Just make sure you throw Converge, Sufjan Stevens and the new Maps in there for good measure.

:: 60 Watt Kid, We Come From the Bright Side (Absolutely Kosher)

:: Abolish, Beyond Redemption (Stillborn)

:: Alasdair Roberts, The Wyrd Meme EP (Drag City)

:: Alec Ounsworth, Mo Beauty (Anti-)

:: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Fruit (!K7)

:: Atlas Sound, Logos (Kranky)

:: Beak>, Beak> (Ipecac)

:: Belphegor, Walpurgis Rites : Hexenwahn (Nuclear Blast)

:: Cartel, Cycles (Wind-up)

:: Chll Pll, Aggressively Humble (Porter)

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