Here are some suggested MP3′s courtesy of our good friends at Filter Magazine. There’s some good stuff here, so check it out.

Magnet: “Hold On”
from “The Tourniquet” in stores February 14th.

The Sounds: “Painted By Numbers”
from “Dying To Say This To You” in stores March 21st.

Devics: “Come Up”
From “Push the Heart” in stores March 7th.

The Subways: “Rock and Roll Queen”
from “Young For Eternity” in stores Feb 14th.
plus bonus Tv On the Radio cover of “Staring at the Sun”

Mellowdrone: “Oh My”
from “BOX” in stores March 7th.

The Sword: “Winter’s Wolves”
from “Age of Winters” in stores February 14th.

Nine Black Alps: “Cosmopolitan”
Real and Win
from “Everything Is” . . . → Read More: MP3 Dump

If you’re a fan of heavy metal, you’re in luck tonight. The Finnish prog metal quartet Sonata Arctica play Star Central tonight for an 18+ show.

Local metal group Visideon and Omaha metalists Cellador open. Music starts at 7:30 p.m.

Here’s a brief description from AllMusic.com:

Sonata Arctica specializes in a soaring, orchestral variation on European heavy metal, fusing the sweeping, romantic bombast of bands like Europe with the over-the-top instrumental chops of Dream Theater.

The group’s third album, “Winterheart’s Guild”, has been certified gold in Finland for sales in excess of 15,000 copies, and is currently touring North American to promote their new album, . . . → Read More: Sonata Arctica – Heavy Metal Tuesday!

From Digital Music News today:

The Polish division of the Universal Music Group has recently adopted a new method for defeating piracy. The company is drastically dropping the price of its CDs, by 30 percent in many cases. “It was the natural thing to do, because CDs aren’t selling and clients aren’t accepting the price,” said Universal Music Polska president Andrzej Puczynski in comments to the Warsaw Business Journal. “It took us a year and a half of negotiations with the head office to finally get them to accept our idea.” The Ludzka Cena (Fair Price) initiative is largely experimental, and other . . . → Read More: Universal Music Poland Combats Piracy With Cut-Rate Discs

From e-mails this week:

Death Cab for Cutie has just released the first video from “DIRECTIONS,” an innovative anthology of 12 short films inspired by each song on the band’s acclaimed album PLANS. Every song, including the hit single “Soul Meets Body” and the upcoming follow-up “Crooked Teeth,” will be delivered by a different director.

You can view the first video from the collection, “Marching Bands of Manhattan”, directed by video director and designer P.R. Brown, on the band’s website today. P.R. Brown has directed videos for Billy Corgan, Matisyahu and Motley Crue, as well as designed over 350 album covers, several . . . → Read More: Death Cab and Darkness news