"Sometime back, Punknews.org posted a MP3 of the week from the Iowa based band Faultlines. They have now signed with a small label out of Chicago called Action Heights Records. The band will enter the studio in December with Mike Lust (Ten Grand, Will Whitemore) to release their still to be titled debut. Suspect to see it out in late winter of 2004."

Pitchfork is reporting that Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett has formed a new band called The Elected. The Elected also contains Rilo Kiley drummer Jason Boesel and Ozma's Daniel Brummel on bass. The band's debut album, Me First, was recorded by Mike Mogis with help from Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel/The Postal Service. Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley) and Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Now It's Overhead) also appear on the disc, which is slated to come out via Sub Pop Records on February 3rd, 2004. If you're interested in seeing the tracklisting, you can do so by clicking READ MORE.

12/1 - Iggy Pop with Sum 41 on David Letterman [CBS; R]
12/1 - Tori Amos on Jay Leno [NBC]
12/1 - The Black Keys on Conan O'Brien [NBC; R]
12/1 - The Ataris on Craig Kilborn [CBS; R]
12/2 - Merle Haggard on David Letterman [CBS; R]
12/2 - The Dandy Warhols on Conan O'Brien [NBC; T]
12/2 - Rooney on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
12/3 - Taking Back Sunday on IMX [FUSE]
12/3 - Jet on Conan O'Brien [NBC; R]
12/4 - Joe Jackson on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC]
12/4 - Fountains Of Wayne on Conan O'Brien [NBC; R]
12/4 - Pete Yorn on Carson Daly [NBC; R]
Click READ MORE for the week's full listings, and check your local listings for times.

Armor For Sleep. Kooky, huh? We're giving away the following stuff to four of you:

and shares with us that Rolling Stone has taken it upon themselves the great task of rating the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which can be seen at their website (and in the print magazine). The #1 spot goes to the Beatles for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The Beatles also have 3 other albums in the top ten.

Concerning punk rock, "London Calling" by the Clash takes the #8 spot, the "Velvet Underground and Nico" ranks at #13, and the Ramones self-titled debut hits at #33. Also on the list are albums from the Replacements, Husker Du, Suicide, Wire, The Sex Pistols, Green Day, Nirvana, Black Flag, Minutemen, Buzzcocks, Johnny Cash, X, Pixies, The Cure, The Stooges and others. Check out the full list (which is quite a read) at Rolling Stone's site.

Update: Because we love you, our team of scientists have extracted the punk / new wave and related placings from the list and posted them below.

"Wisconsin's finest ska band I voted For Kodos are going on a little winter tour. They've posted the dates for their All Up On Tour in January on www.IV4K.com. So if you live on the east coast, look for them to come your way. If you live on the east coast and you'd like to help them set up a show for one of their open dates, or even if you can just recommend some cool places to play or cool bands to play with, please e-mail them at info@iv4k.com. And don't forget to hurry and check out some songs here before the site is gone."
CLick READ MORE for all tourdates.

"For the first time in a while, those crazy-grunge-punkers Mudhoney are touring, in thier own limited way, playing exactly 3 east-coast dates, in Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia."
Mudhoney recently contributed a song to Gimme Skelter, a complilation which Adam happened to have reviewed right here. Click READ MORE to find out where you can get away with yelling "Hard-on for waaaaaar!" in public.