The hard-working, hard-rocking dudes of My Goodness.

Before we shove off into the weekend, here's your weekly wrap-up of Seattle music miscellany:

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Slipknot

Ah yes, Mayhem Festival. The traveling summer metal fest marked annually by two phenomena: thousands upon thousands of sweaty hesher dudes; and reliably well-known heavy rock bands. The one Mayhem Festival I've attended over the years was its inaugural 2008 run which also happened to feature Slipknot, and it was quite the thrilling spectacle. White River Amphitheater was packed that day with the kind of shirtless people that made me feel okay about my questionable eighteen-year-old tattoo decisions, and performances bounced between incredible (Mastodon, Slipknot), surprisingly underwhelming (DragonForce), embarrassing (Disturbed), and uninteresting (everyone else). I'd say my mixed experience was pretty level with what I would have encountered other years, but this year's lot of bands (who will be swinging through Auburn Tuesday, July 3rd) looks pretty solid. Aside from the aforementioned Slipknot, you have probably the greatest metal band of all time in Slayer, legendary rockers Motörhead, and stoner-metal torch-bearers High On Fire. Full list of performers is here.

Live Nation just announced an online pre-sale (click here) that runs twelve hours from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today only, so I might jump on that if you want to lock-in your spot. The password is, ironically, "melody". Rock on.

Record Store Day has yielded some cool exclusives over the last couple of years, and this year is shaping up to deliver no different. Local providers of cool Sub Pop just announced this morning that they have teamed up with KEXP, and will be pressing 2,000 copies of Shabazz Palaces' summer 2011 in-studio performance (which you can watch below) at the station on glossy purple 12" vinyl. The label has also promised new music from Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House (!) and Portland folkies Blitzen Trapper on limited edition 7" blue and yellow vinyl format respectively. A free sixteen-track Sub Pop sampler packed with rarities and new gems called Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts will also be floating around RSD.

It all goes down April 21st at participating stores nation-wide. Needless to say, Seattle's indie record stores will be absolutely packed on this day, so set your alarm early if you hope to grab anything good. Check out Shabazz's in-studio performance, as well as all the vinyl specs after the jump.

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Lucy Johnston

More like Bleach House! Sorry, that was too easy. The fact that the text accompanying the Baltimore Sub Pop representatives' new single (released yesterday on their website) called "Myth" looks a ton like the font from Nirvana's Bleach cover, and that the band happens to be signed to Sub Pop is probably sheer coincidence. The real story here is that the dream-pop duo have a new song out, and it's awesome. It's the first peek at their new album, Bloom, which SP has confirmed will be released May 15th.

"Myth" expands upon the band's waxy sound from 2010's Teen Dream, and further pushes the boundaries of what two people can do within a limited framework. Co-produced by previous collaborator Chris Coady (as was the rest of the album), the sound is pro-grade, and bodes extremely well for things to come. Listen to "Myth" after the cut.

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By now you're familiar with the latest internet meme--six loosely related images tied together under one "theme." So far, "Gay Man" and "Political Science" have scrolled through my Facebook feed, but "Musicians," pictured above, is one I just had to share with you Reverbers. Seems about right to me!

We assume Mr. Ticketmaster will look something like this when he arrives in court in May

*Did we say "massive"? We meant "depressing".
**Did we say "exciting"? we meant "boooooorrriiiinnnnnggg".

If you bought tickets on Ticketmaster's website between October 21, 1999 and October 19, you've probably received an email that looked something like this recently. The email was sent out after a class action settlement was proposed in the case of Curt Schlesinger et al. v. Ticketmaster--a case that was brought on in 2003 when two dudes, Curt Schlesinger of Illinois and Peter LoRe of New York claimed that the convenience fee and the UPS delivery fee charged by Ticketmaster on ticket orders violated California's False Advertising Law (FAL) and Unfair Competition Law (UCL). The email laid out--in the typically romantic language of law--the exciting** news that, unless you object, you will probably be sent a redeemable discount code for $1.50 per transaction you made (up to seventeen!) that can be applied to...wait for it...future Ticketmaster transactions. If you paid that pesky UPS fee, you could be in line to receive a whopping, $5 discount on such deliveries in the future.

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The Cloud Nice-affiliated MC with the grisly voice and a dozen killer tag names, Nacho Picasso aka The Tat In The Hat aka Young Henry Rollins (ect.), earned a couple of favorable looks from influential national sources Pitchfork and Stereogum recently (here, and here), increasing his visibility on the national level if not locally.

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Jack White with a couple of clowns.

So . . . didn't see this one coming.

With last month's surprise one-off (well, two if you count the B-side) collaboration with Detroit hip-hop producer Black Milk, Jack White (The Dead Weather, Raconteurs), in the midst of what appears to be a rather volatile portion of his career, incited a flurry of speculation as to whom he would pair with next. As unexpected as the Milk session was, today's release of of his Insane Clown Posse-featured, Mozart-reimagined track "Leck Mich Im Arsch" ("Lick me in the arse") was a bit of a curve ball.

Broken down stylistically, who better/worse to trash-up Mozart's trashy side than ICP? I suppose somebody had to do it. So here we have it, with one of the most prolific guitarists of all time handling production, the face-painted Juggalo demi-gods Shaggy and Violent J (wish I didn't know that) bring novelty to a whole new level:

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-- Facebook: Check out Avi Buffalo performing a cover of Neil Young's "Look Out For My Love" with Jeff Tweedy at last week's Solid Sound Festival. According to Young's Facebook page, his new record, Le Noise, is complete and will be released on September 28.

-- NPR: Stream Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice's entire I'm Having Fun Now album before you see them live at Bumbershoot.

-- Twitter: Kanye West is promising to release a new song every weekend from now until Christmas. "It's about the fans. No more holding back," says 'Ye of his "Good Fridays" initiative.

-- Rolling Stone: The Haitian government isn't letting Wyclef Jean run for president.

Bandcamp: Sufjan Stevens is unexpectedly streaming his brand new EP, All Delighted People, today. Both Pitchfork and Stereogum are super effing excited about it. You can listen to it right here or download it for $5.

NYTimes: Best quote from this New York Times profile of Katy Perry: "I wanted to be Amy Grant." (Honestly, what formerly Evangelical girl born in the 1980s didn't?)

Rolling Stone: No need to visit Denmark to see Bob Dylan's paintings when you can view this slideshow.

SF Weekly: This is super sad. A man apparently planned his suicide at a Bay Area Swell Season concert by jumping off the stage's roof. Witnesses say the man "seemed melancholy and removed from the show."

Ptichfork: Here's something happier: A new Thermals video! Carrie Brownstein is in it.