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Deftones has added three Texas headline dates to their touring schedule:

April 27 – El Paso, TX – Club 101
April 29 – Corpus Christi, TX – Concrete Street
April 30 – Mission, TX – Las Palmas Race Park

All shows are now on sale.

The video for “Rocket Skates” is now live! Check it out and tweet for a free version of the video in HD at deftones.com!

Diamond Eyes available everywhere May 18.

“Rocket Skates” is now available for purchase at iTunes. Click here to buy now!

Diamond Eyes available everywhere May 18.

Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz have contributed original music to the soundtrack of the documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. The film by Tamra Davis, Mike Diamond's wife, offers a portrait of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died at age 27 from a heroin overdose. (Read a bio on Basquiat HERE.) The film had its premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival and will have its theatrical release later this year.

See the trailer at the film's official web site.

The Hellfest Festival on June 18th has now been added to Deftones’ European summer tour. Go here to buy tickets and look for MANY more dates to be announced very soon.

Diamond Eyes available everywhere May 18.

Mic_to_Mic [Post] Beastie Boys track on benefit CD gets leaked after 15 years on the shelf. http://bit.ly/9UOiRD

A nameless former A&R assistant for Columbia Records has posted an unreleased 1995 planned benefit CD for Leonard Peltier, an American activist and member of the American Indian Movement who was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to life imprisonment for the murder of two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. During Peltier's trial and following his conviction, there was debate over his guilt and the fairness of his trial.

The benefit CD was planned to help raise awareness of Peltier's situation and help pay for his legal fees. Beastie Boys were among the artists who supported Peltier and contributed a song to the album. The Beastie Boys also supported Peltier by performing at the Leonard Peltier benefit concert in April 1994, which was organized by Rage Against the Machine.

The album is available to download in full HERE, where you can read more about Peltier's case. Alternatively, you may download or listen to an mp3 of just the Beastie Boys song, titled "(R)Evolution Time," HERE. The song is an early, unmastered version of "Resolution Time."

Please note that the songs on the album have not been mastered.

Exiled in the Land of the Free - A Benefit Album for Leonard Peltier
Tracklist:

"Leonard Peltier In a Cage" - The Goats
"Stick It Out" - New Bomb Turks
"Wake Up (Live)" - Rage Against the Machine
"Land of the Free Disease" - Corrosion of Conformity
"I Saw it Move" - Chavez
"If Only (demo)" - Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age)
"Long Ago" - Beaver Chef
"I Can Still Feed Myself Thanks" - Superchunk
"Just a Patsy" - Helmet
"Atomic Garden" - Bad Religion
"Punishment" - Silica Gel
"Spirits" - Giant Sand
"¿Do The Digs Dug?" - The Goats
"Clean Slate (Live)" - Quicksand
"(R)Evolution Time" - Beastie Boys
"Scumbag" - Biohazard
"Redman" - Brother Sun
"Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing (Live)" - Mike Watt
"The Punchline" - Zack De La Rocha and Corrosion of Conformity
"Greetings from Leonard Peltier" - Leonard Peltier

Mic_to_Mic [Photo] Adam Yauch at the Oscars (extreme close-up!) http://bit.ly/dl8eLV

Mic_to_Mic [Photo] Adam Yauch at the Oscars (with The Messenger posse) http://bit.ly/cbhBfE

Mic_to_Mic [Photo] Adam Yauch at the Oscars http://bit.ly/9PD3DL