In an exclusive e-mail to Pitchfork, Decemberists' ringleader Colin Meloy and his merry bandmates revealed that they aren't going to take this Colbert business sitting down.

Email to Pitchfork

In a particularly saucy move, our folk-prog monsterpiecers have issued not one, but two Colbert counterchallenges!! Read it and weep, Stevie:

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Click here to read All Music Guide's fantastic review of the new Brand New album. 4.5/5 stars and the first review I've read that is intelligent enough to realize that Brand New are no longer a band that can be classified as "emo." Cheers to All Music, who rarely disappoint!

Fresh off their killer set on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Brooklyn, NY's The Hold Steady is now featured on "Who's Next?" over at Yahoo! Music. If you want to witness them perform the best drunken set you've ever seen, give them your vote.

We've always stood behind the notion that if content is available, it's our duty, as reporters, to provide our readers with everything we can. Thus, in continuation of our ongoing, ABSOLUTExclusive series with Less Than Jake, we have even more to offer you. If you visit the band's AP profile, you can watch a live video of the group performing "Overrated (Everything Is)" on-stage in Philadelphia, PA. Stay locked to AbsolutePunk.net as we...[read more]

Rick from Never Heard of It has a new "potty-pop" side project titled Racisms Gay.

Check out a behind the scenes clip from the new +44 video right here.

Travis Barker and Paris Hilton kissing?

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Have you seen the NEW tour line up for the Amber Pacific tour? It looks as though there may have been a switch in one of the opening bands. Check out the AP.net tour page for all the information on this tour - and start spreading the word - we want this AP.net sponsored tour to be huge.

We had a ton of news posted on the main page today (I posted 36 things alone), so if you missed some of the earlier posts, be sure to check out page 2 by clicking the "next" button on the bottom of this page. We wouldn't want you guys to be stuck out of the loop or anything crazy like that...

For the Bloc Party tour dates announced earlier, The Secret Machines will be opening for the first half, and Broken Social Scene will be opening for the second half.

Check out The Higher's nifty little music video for "Rock My Body" at YouTube.com. Also, Tom told me to say this: "Tell them tour starts Monday with Meg And Dia and Autumn Rhodes and its going to be hotter than a hot day (exact words). Also tell them our next record is only Sade influenced".

Four new Hit the Lights songs can now be streamed on the band's AP.net profile. Check those out, and tell a few friends if you think they'd like the music.

Mae, Bayside, The Matches, The Working Title, Forgive Durden, Whole Wheat Bread, Adam Richman and Rookie of the Year have all been added to this years Flipside Festival. The complete list of bands that are performing is below:

Flipside 06'

Relient K
Motion City Soundtrack
Sugarcult
Hidden In Plain View
Cartel
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The only thing better than rocking out to Kevin Federline's kickass songs, is watching him rock out to them.

Note: One of our users (nizzlefoshizzle) just posted this video in the forums; it's hysterical.

Bamboozle recently added a slew of bands to the festival. Check the Bamboozle Myspace.com page for specifics.

Kid Rock and Scott Stapp have sex tapes.

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