Bitte Orca, the highly anticipated new album from Brooklyn experimental collective Dirty Projectors, hit the internet today. It's already been pulled from most outlets, though, so we can't even offer any coy suggestions of where you might find it. We haven't even formed much by way of coherent thoughts on the matter; it will take a few listens before we really wrap our heads around Dave Longstreth's intricate arrangements.

Man Man has a new album out this very week entitled Rabbit Habits, and if its title track is more straightforward than we've come to expect from Philadelphia gypsy-punk experimentalists, they've balanced it out with a video about werewolf romance, featuring appearances by SNL cast member Fred Armisen, rising comedic star (and Michael Cera's girlfriend) Charlene Yi, and all-around awesome dude Martin Starr, who is suddenly Mr.

Eminem has a new video from a song from his new album, The Relapse, his first since 2004. And oh boy, is it horrible. We were prepared to discuss all of the dated references, but the rest of the internet already beat us to it. Simply put, there was a time when Eminem was actually hitting moving targets; now he's aiming for the same barrel of fish as the Jay Lenos and Jeff Foxworthys of the world.

Without a doubt, the most fun we've ever had shooting video? No contest: CONVERGE, at the end of March, kicking off a short small-venue tour before hitting the studio to record their next album, throwing down at the International Community Church in Allston. We stopped trying to come up with words for them a long time ago, which is why we're so psyched to present this audio/visual record: just fucking look at it, for fuck's sake. Above, they rip through a ten-year-old epic, "The Saddest Day" -- but wait for the part where they sneak in the riff from the new Metallica record. Two more insane clips and links to new songs after the jump . . .

Faraone, Brodeur, and Thompson are just now plowing through SXSW's final night -- but we're just getting started with the weekend wrap up. We've got new videos going up hourly, Faraone is still Twittering his face off (and we don't expect him to shut up anytime soon), and there are some epic blog updates coming tomorrow morning. In the meantime, we bring you some of what's been going up on the site over the last 24 hours. First up, THE MAE SHI get it done under a parachute. Make sure you join us AFTER THE JUMP for Japanese punks PEELANDER-Z risking life, limb, and traffic accidents by setting up their instruments (and crazy-ass alien costumes) in the middle of a busy Austin street; Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek performing as REFLECTION ETERNAL; the first performance by Fugees producer JOHN FORTE since his release from prison; and a bone-rattling assault by the DEATH SET. That's just the beginning -- there's already more video up live at thephoenix.com/sxsw. 

As foreshadowed by Brodeur yesterday, Metallica did indeed show up for a semi-secret gig at Stubbs BBQ. Below: video from PHX HQ, overlooking the mayhem. After the jump: video from inside Stubbs. 

ThePhoenix.com/SXSW: Daily video, Twittering, blog overload

A busy Wednesday by our three correspondents found 'em club-hopping from old-school indie to new-school crust punk. Here's the Wednesday video dump, with more pouring in as fast as their shitty hotel wireless can upload it. You can keep tabs on Brodeur, Faraone, and Thompson -- not to mention all your hometown faves -- at our ultra-ridiculous SXSW Headquarters page, with daily blog posts, hourly video, and moment-by-moment twitter retorts, only at ThePhoenix.com/SXSW. First up: chiptune mayhem with Anamanaguchi at the DataPop show, then tons more after the jump . . . 

VIDEO: Gaslight Anthem, "Left of the Dial" (Replacements cover)

As promised, we come to you now with some better-quality video from Gaslight Anthem's set on St. Patrick's Day at Hurricane O'Reilly's. And yeah, we should get over it, but there is still something inherently weird about seeing a band we like a place like that. What's next? No Age and Titus Andronicus playing the Kells? Anyway, above you can watch them covering the Replacements' "Left of the Dial," in which lead singer Brian Fallon sounds almost indistinguishable from Paul Westerberg if you close your eyes. After the jump, watch "The '59 Sound," which likely needs no introduction.

No, not the typical joint for a punk gig. But judging from down-the-block lines outside Hurricane O'Reilly's -- and from the raucous sing-alongs inside -- WFNX's invite-only GASLIGHT ANTHEM gig drew far more fans than yahoos. Jersey's Bosscore heroes brought the full band and played for an hour, then stuck around to hang out for at least that long afterwards. And security didn't kick out the stage divers, so there's that. The big surprise was a Replacements cover, which we'll be posting some quality video of later in the week. For now we've got the Flipcam take of "Patient Ferris Wheel" and a bunch more photos, all after the jump. 

MORE PHOTOS:  Dropkick Murphys | House of Blue, Boston, MA | March 12, 2009

To judge by their merchandising, their popularity, and the position they occupy in Boston's civic identity, the Dropkicks are in essence the city's fifth major professional sports team -- with the added bonus that they always win. They are greeted with a hero's welcome even before they present themselves publicly. At the House of Blues, services commence with a traditional Irish hymn (piped in) and a kilted bagpipe player (live) and then, with room to spare and Celtic church-window tapestries unfurled behind them, they arrive onstage blaring a three-chord fanfare. The crowd tight enough in front for a rolling, stadium-like pogo. Crowd surfers helpfully chuted off to the sides and delivered back into the throng -- not summarily kicked to the curb. Good form. (Video after the jump.)

If you'd asked us back in 1989, the year Metallica lost the first-ever metal Grammy to Jethro Tull -- we're not sure which we would've identified as the more unlikely event 20 years hence: a black president or Metallica getting into the rock n roll hall of fame.

Then again, if you told us that in the future, Metallica would be photographed wearing mandals while shopping at Armani, we'd have laughed and said something dismissive.

Since you'll likely still be recovering from your first official brain-melting hangover of 2009, we'd like to spare you any additional paralyzing shocks on New Year's Day. So prepare yourself: if you happen to catch the halftime show at the Rose Bowl on January 1, that really will be the USC Marching Band performing "Almost Easy," by so-cal emo-speedmetal titans Avenged Sevenfold