Dope frontman Edsel Dope has released a statement regarding the band's non-participation in the "Pedal To The Metal Tour"

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Your track-by-track guide to the new Clutch album, 'Strange Cousins From The West'. Come in to check it out!Motherless ChildOpening with a bayou-inspired slide guitar line and featuring off-kilter drum syncopations, it's a strange bluesy opener from the men from Maryland. The groove can be described as awkward yet captivating. ...

30 Seconds To Mars are rumoured to be working with hip-hop star Kayne West on their upcoming new album, This Is War. West recently uploaded a photo of himself and frontman Jared Leto online to his own site. "I was working on this dope-ass song with Jared," says West. "Shit was dope." Word!

Is this not the triumvirate of wiseass blog commenters' dreams? The genre-bending trio is not as unlikely as it seems. Leto and Gayfish go way back, with 30 Seconds To Mars covering "Stronger" a few years ago only to incur Yeezy's wrath by beating out the rapper at the following year's VMAs. (Kanye later apologized to "Jeret.") As for the Killer...