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G.T.O will slobber all over you. Giraffe Tongue Orchestra — the new supergroup featuring members of Mastodon, Jane’s Addiction, and Dillenger Escape Plan — just announced the addition of ex-Mars Volta and current One Day As a Lion drummer Jon Theodore to the roster. The group of talented, yet stylistically different musicians boasts Dillenger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman, guitarist/vocalist...

Charley Rogulewski for AOL "We're the Arctic Monkeys from High Green, Sheffield, Australia," frontman Alex Turner announced from the Lollapalooza main stage Sunday evening. No, the Arctic Monkeys are not from Australia, and on Sunday the four-piece brought their native, bleak British weather to Lollapalooza 2011. A torrential downpour blew over the festival grounds just before sunset flooding fields and...

From the Guitarchive over at Fender comes a history lesson on the Telecaster Deluxe: Fender’s third and final late-’60s/early-’70s experiment with redesigned Telecaster models was the Telecaster Deluxe, developed in 1972 and introduced in 1973. Along with its predecessors, the Telecaster Thinline (1968) and the Telecaster Custom (1972), the Deluxe represented Fender’s first forays into the world of humbucking pickups...

A Perfect Circle warmed up for next week’s tour start with an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel. The reunited crew performed “Weak and Powerless” from 2003 album Thirteenth Step.

A brand-new supergroup consisting of Ben Harper, Joseph Arthur and Dhani Harrison has hit the scene. This is one to follow! Fistful of Mercy from Fistful of Mercy on Vimeo.