• Call him the Anti-John Rich: Country star and Beer For My Horses actor Toby Keith is a Democrat and says Barack Obama is the best candidate he’s seen since Bill Clinton. “I thought it was beautiful the other day when Obama went to Afghanistan and got educated about Afghanistan and Iraq. He came back and said some really nice things,” said Keith.

• Another day, another 10 seconds of heavy riffing courtesy of a Death Magnetic snippet posted on the Metallica Website. If you’re keeping track, we now have a total of 20 seconds of new music, with the rest of the album due out September 12th.
• Scars On Broadway has recruited a big-time Hollywood director to helm their video “World Long Gone,” hiring The Lost Boys director and Batman movie franchise killer Joel Schumacher. Schumacher has also directed videos by Bush and Seal.
• Check out “Golden Age,” the surprisingly danceable first track from TV on the Radio’s upcoming Dear Science, out September 23rd. For our TVOTR album preview, click here.

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