Rush's entire catalog (minus their most recent album) has been remastered and reissued on iTunes. Rush: The Complete Mercury Years and Rush: The Studio Albums 1989-2007 are available now. Read More »
Well, that didn't take long. Nine Inch Nails bassist Eric Avery announced that he was leaving the reunited band on Wednesday. Today, Trent Reznor announced via Facebook that he is replacing Avery with former NIN collaborator Robin Finck. Read More »
Though the album has been streaming via iTunes for a few days now, fans of Daft Punk flocked to Wee Waa, Australia (pop. 2,000) for the official album release party of Random Access Memories. Read More »
Queens of the Stone Age continue their rapid rollout of new material from ...Like Clockwork with a creepy, Heavy Metal style music video for "My God Is The Sun." Read More »
Well, that was fast. It appears that the Lion wasn't Reincarnated for long because Snoop's back to his old moniker/ways with a new, original track for This is the End, the eloquently titled Craig Robinson collabo "Take Yo Panties Off." Read More »
This...this I can get behind. Lana Del Rey's "Queen of Disaster" leaked onto the interwebs today, and it sounds decidedly un-LDR-like. While her compositions are usually dark and stormy, the backing track on "Queen" could be lifted from a Smoky Robinson B-side. And with her voice coming in somewhere between The Shirelles and Katy Perry, this 60s pastiche sounds destined for pop radio greatness. Read More »
Miley Cyrus' announcement of her new single 'We Can't Stop' (which will be premiering at the Billboard Awards on Sunday) has caused quite the stir among Mileybird lovers. In fact, many fans are taking to creating their own fan art, inspired by the poster that Miley used to declare her new single to the world at large (above). Miley has responded by retweeting some of her favorites. Read More »
Lil Wayne has refused to be deterred from his quest to be an honest to goodness skateboarder. And as this montage that he posted on Twitter shows, he's actually getting kind of good. Watch Weezy skate to his song "Tapout" below: Read More »
It's a good time to be Giorgio Moroder. The legendary producer just came off a critically acclaimed collaboration with Daft Punk on their highly anticipated Random Access Memories, he's featured prominently in this month's Dazed and Confused magazine and now, he's been tapped by Google to soundtrack their new Racer that was demoed at Google's I/O yesterday. Read More »
The American Idol season finale is tonight and it appears that the troubled FOX singing competition will stay the course and continue on in its "promote our own product at any cost" ways. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the season finale will feature performances from Mariah Carey (an American Idol judge), Keith Urban (samesies) and Adam Lambert (a guy who once lost on American Idol). The only non-AI chum who will perform during tonight's season finale is K-Pop novelty rapper PSY (which just solidifies the image of American Idol as a program that's lagging behind in the pop culture pantheon). Read More »
Today on Facepalm News, Rapper Future claims that the controversy Lil Wayne's Emmett Till Lyric on the remix of "Karate Chop" brought awareness to the suffering of the slain teenager in a positive way. In case you missed it, Future thinks saying "beat the p**sy up like Emmett Till," referencing the brutal murder of an African-American teenager in 1955, is a learning experience. Read More »
The trouble just keeps on coming for Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta star Lil' Scrappy. First, Lil' Scrappy and fiancée Erica Dixon had it out in front of VH1 cameras. Then, the news came out that the Prince of The South was walking around with ex Shay Johnson on his arm. Now, he's facing down a probation hearing that could put Scrap back in jail, for allegedly turning in someone else's urine during a mandatory drug screening. Read More »
Philly bred MC Eve has just released her new album Lip Lock, the first album from the First Lady of Ruff Ryders in 11 years. As if that wasn't enough good news, the entire album is available to stream at DJ Booth. Read More »