Listen: West End Motel - "Burn it Down"

Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds is gearing up for the release of his sophomore album with side-project West End Motel, due October 30 on Warner Bros. Records. Only Time Can Tell is the follow-up to the bands 2011 debut, Don't Shiver, You're A Winner and Rolling Stone is streaming the album's first single "Burn It Down" right now. West End Motel began in 1993 under a bridge in Atlanta, where Hinds first met longtime friend Tom Cheshire. Describing themselves as a "conglomerate of losers, poets and hobo-sexuals," the due write acoustic-guitar driven songs layered with horns and keys, with the end result sounding something like Nick Cave fronting GOGOL BORDELLO. The project pre-dates Hinds more well-known band, Mastodon,  and offers a peak into Hinds' musical influences.  Listen to “Burn It Down” HERE and check out the track listing below…

01. Burn It Down
02. El Myr
03. Witch Is Dead
04. If I Only Had Tomorrow (Second Chances)
05. Forgiveness
06. Only Time Can Tell
07. Valentine
08. Bite

Mastadon likes Burritos....

Atlanta based production house New America made an ad for a local badass burrito spot, El Myr featuring Brent Hind from Mastadon. Good stuff.

Members of Mastodon, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mars Volta and Janes Addiction form supergroup

A new supergroup has been formed worth getting excited about. The currently un-named project includes Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds, Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman, former Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen and ex-Jane's Addiction bassist Eric Avery.

Since the members of the project live on opposite sides of the country, progress been a bit slow. "We tried to get together and do an album, but there's been no time," Hinds recently told Noisecreep. "We want to record crazy stuff and Ben is working on that, but it's been hard to get together."

Even though the project is officially nameless, Hinds wants to call it Giraffe Tongue "because they look sick." Yes, he's speaking about the actual tongue of a giraffe.