Altsounds - MYSPACE MUSIC ANNOUNCES SECRET SHOW FEATURING MASTODON

MySpace Music is pleased to announce an upcoming Secret Show featuring Mastodon at LaunchPad on Wednesday, April 15. The Secret Show performance will be held exclusively for MySpace users, who were notified via MySpace Music’s Secret Show profile (http://www.myspace.com/secretshows). Doors for the concert will open at 8:00 PM. Special guests Kylesa and Intronaut will be opening the show.

MySpace Music recently premiered, "Crack the Skye", the fourth full-length album from the Grammy-nominated band. Continuing to employ a conceptual framework to their songwriting, Mastodon's new album is an apt successor to its widely-received, genre-crossing "Blood Mountain" album of 2006, marrying mythology with mathematical Metal to stunning results. “Crack the Skye” was produced by Brendan O'Brien (Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, AC/DC). In addition to the band’s charting success, Mastodon will also be performing this year as part of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA, on Saturday, April 18, 2009. For more information about Mastodon, visit their official MySpace Music profile page at: http://www.myspace.com/mastodon.

MySpace Music has organized nearly 200 Secret Shows since the franchise launched in February 2006 with artists like The Cure, Lily Allen, Fall Out Boy, Gnarls Barkley, The Offspring, Neil Diamond, Slayer, Franz Ferdinand, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing in cities around the world. Users must friend the Secret Shows profile page in order to receive advanced notice of the special, free concerts. From there, they will find more information about the artists and upcoming schedule. Visit the MySpace Secret Shows profile at for all show details: http://www.myspace.com/secretshows.

Secret Shows are coordinated in partnership with Citi Forward by MySpace, a credit card that rewards cardmembers for both financial and social responsibility. Specially built to help consumers maintain healthy credit, Citi Forward by MySpace is the only credit card that lowers the purchase interest rate by a quarter percent when cardmembers use credit wisely and rewards them with ThankYou Points each billing period for paying on time and staying under the credit line. Citi Forward by MySpace cardmembers also have the opportunity to earn additional ThankYou Points for completing socially responsible acts such as donating to a local food drive, going paperless, switching to energy efficient light bulbs, volunteering and more. For more information, visit: http://www.myspace.com/citiforward.

About MySpace Music:
MySpace Music is a landmark joint venture among MySpace, The EMI Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony ATV, and whose independent music partners include Alternative Distribution Alliance, Caroline, Fontana, RED, The Orchard, IODA, Nettwerk Music Group, INgrooves, IRIS Distribution, Royalty Share and Wind-up Records. MySpace Music offers an ever-growing catalog of freely streamable audio and video content, user-friendly e-commerce solutions, personal music players, and user and artist playlisting. MySpace Music aims to empower major, independent, and unsigned artists to monetize their content through multiple revenue streams by allowing the MySpace community to freely stream premium content in an ad-supported environment, purchase MP3s and ringtones, create and share playlists, and ultimately buy merchandise, concert tickets, and other digital and physical goods. MySpace Music also connects artists and fans in the offline arena through various concert series and live events including Secret Shows, MySpaceLIVE!, Transmissions, The Release, Front to Back and The List.