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Artist Robert Vargas has been painting the mural -- titled ”Long Live The King” -- all month, and it got officially unveiled today at the Guitar Center in Hollywood for what would have been Eddie Van Halen's 66th birthday...

”We want to pay tribute to this monumental character with an equally monumental mural to celebrate the life, music and electricity of our hometown hero.”

Check out photos of the mural, which was finished this weekend.

Tributes to the late Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison continue to pour in.

Also: watch Havoc and Nas perform (separate) Prodigy tributes from this past weekend.

The National & Sufjan Stevens, Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker, Moby, Julia Holter, and more are also playing TBA Montreal concerts in conjunction with the Leonard Cohen exhibit.

It's VANS' 50th anniversary and Henry Rollins is part of their campaign celebrating the classic SK8-Hi shoe. A picture of him wearing the shoes at a 1981 Black Flag gig in Austin, TX is being used in magazine ads, as well as murals -- like the one currently being erected at Kent …

In case you forgot that 'Funeral' is turning 10 this month, Merge Records posted a reminder on a Brooklyn wall at N. 10th and Driggs in Williamsburg...

We mentioned on Friday (7/25) that a Beastie Boys mural was being painted over the weekend at the LES corner of Ludrow and Rivington where the Paul's Boutique cover art was shot, in honor of that album's 25th anniversary...

Notice any new art near McCarren Park recently? This press release explains:Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo's stirring soundtrack for David Gordon Green's meditative new film, Prince Avalanche, was released last week...