In advance of the upcoming Anti- benefit CD Healing The Divide, a track by Tom Waits and the Kronos Quartet , featuring Greg Cohen, Philip Glass and none other than Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate the Dalai Lama will be released as a digital single. “Diamond In Your Mind,” a Waits / Brennan penned song that was originally written for soul artist Solomon Burke’s 2002 LP Don’t Give Up On Me, will be released as a digital single on June 26th. It’s one of four Waits tracks on the disc.

Healing The Divide: A Concert For Peace And Reconciliation hits stores on July 10th. It’s the result of a live show recorded on September 21, 2003 concert at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, part of the Dalai Lama’s 20 day tour of the US that year. The label describes the event as a “a musical meeting of East and West, transcending cultural boundaries through music.” All proceeds from the release will go to the Tibetan Health Initiative, a program that provides health insurance and medical care to Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns living in refugee settlements. Each CD purchase will reportedly provide one year of health insurance.
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Indie/punk act The Cribs have announced the US release of their recent full length. The record is titled Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever and is due out July 17, 2007. The band, who hail from Wakefield in the United Kingdom, released The New Fellas in 2005.

The band will be appearing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien that same night and have also confirmed a full US tour set for July and August 2007. Dates and venues will be announced next week.

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Murrieta, CA’s Cosmonaut, which features former Finch member Nate Barcalow, has posted new music to their MySpace page.

Pop-punk act Made In Canada, who were as a matter of fact made in Youngstown, OH, have a number of songs online via PureVolume and MySpace, or so a die hard fan of theirs tells us. Personally I think they’re named after the late 90s Rick Mercer sitcom.

Washington DC’s Supreme Commander and New Jersey’s Alive At Last have released a split full-length CD on NJ’s Bishop19 Records. Music from the 12 song collection can be found on the label’s MySpace page.
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