Calling all maggots! Calling all maggots! Point your browser to www.slipknot1.com for a special message from Slipknot. You'll need QuickTime, version 6, to see the message in its full scope. This exclusive message from the band marks the soft launch of the site, www.slipknot1.com. The site is currently under construction, but by clicking on the "S", the band delivers a message for its fans, otherwise known as "MAGGOTS."

Slipknot is currently holed up in the studio, working on the follow up to 2001's Platinum album Iowa with master producer Rick Rubin, who has lent his magic touch to everyone from Slayer to Johnny Cash to the Beastie Boys and L.L. Cool J. Given Rubin's vision and Slipknot's pure, unbridled metal fury, this is a pairing who'll make an album that will undoubtedly send shockwaves through the hard rock scene. The album is tentatively set for release Spring, 2004.

In the meantime, the band's home video, Welcome To Our Neighborhood, will be released in DVD format Nov. 18. This DVD features never before seen live and behind-the-scenes footage from the early stages of the band's industrious career. Point your mouse to: www.roadrunnerrecords.com/welcome for a sneak preview of the never before seen footage.

Go-Kart Records Offering Free Album Downloads!
Go-Kart Records has released "a revolution in a jewel case" -- 150 bands, 300 songs on two CDs all as CD quality MP3s all for $9.99. Go-Kart Records has been putting out some of the best in punk for years - bands like Anti-Flag, Buzzcocks, The Lunachicks and more. They're also on a crusade to tell folks not everyone agrees with the RIAA and they offer a bunch of entire albums for free download to prove it. To learn more, check this amazing label out.

Famous Friends Fire Up Pearl Jam Show
Launch reports Pearl Jam welcomed a host of famous musical friends on stage Tuesday night, including Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante and Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, during a charity concert in Santa Barbara, CA.

Other guests included its former drummer, Jack Irons, singer/songwriter Jack Johnson , and veteran guitarist Lyle Workman. The event, at the Santa Barbara Bowl, was a benefit for the Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

"We didn't invite any of the shittyy friends," Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder joked during the first portion of the show, which featured acoustic renditions of the Ramones' "I Believe in Miracles" alongside the group's own "Immortality," the unreleased "Fatal" and the new song "Man of the Hour."

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