In case you didn't catch her ArtRave, her constant barrage of new tracks or her Glee episode, Lady Gaga's ARTPOP promotional campaign got a little more ubiquitous today via a crossover with nationwide newspaper USA Today. Read More »
To celebrate their return to Australia (apparently they couldn't land the cover of Cosmo), indie rock royalty/business giants Superchunk have released the seventh volume of their Clambake series of live recordings. Read More »
Our more senior readers may want to look away from this next fact but...it's been 40 years since ABBA first charged into the world's collective pop consciousness with "Waterloo" and that has the earworm-loving foursome considering a reunion. Read More »
Ersher Baby is becoming a bit of a mainstay in intellectual property cases this year. Yet another group has stood up to prolaim that "Usher Raymond is legally a biter," and this time it involves his smash-hit "Caught Up." Read More »
The most unbelievable, uncomfortable and all around strange love-making song of 2013 just got a little bit stranger (albeit more listenable). For the G-mix of his hit song "Gorilla", Bruno Mars brought in musical Midas Pharrell and R&B god R. Kelly to add a bit of actual sexiness to his song that is supposed to be about sex. Read More »
Hoping to eke the last bit of ARTPOP publicity that she could that wasn't served up to her by Ryan Murphy, Lady Gaga appeared on the cover of UK gay mag Attitude and used the space to distance herself from a former beef. Read More »
As if we all needed one more reason to dislike The Killers (though Brandon Flowers' honesty kind of makes me like him more? Weird), lead singer Flowers admitted in a track-by-track breakdown of their upcoming greatest hits album Direct Hits that the Vegas band stole the bassline for "All These Things That I've Done" from glam-pop godfather David Bowie. Read More »
Not to be outdone by Kimmel's Nine Inch Nails performance, Jimmy Fallon called in controversial world-rap figure M.I.A. to perform "Come Walk With Me," a breakneck track off of her new album Matangi. Maya, who rarely performs with a live band, wasn't as animated as the schizo track would suggest (probably because she needed to stay close to her mic) but the off-the-rails album cut was pulled off beautifully by the most over-qualified house band of all time. Read More »
Eminem's childhood home - the one that was pictured on his breakout debut The Marshall Mathers LP and new album MMLP2 - was badly damaged by a fire last night, according to TMZ. Read More »
Nine Inch Given the decidedly weird acts that make their way onto late night television these days, it might be hard to wrap your head around the fact that Trent Reznor's largely accepted industrial act Nine Inch Nails has never appeared on a network television's witching hour offerings despite making music for two-plus decades. Read More »
True facts: I was at a They Might Be Giants show last month, quite possibly the nerdiest place in existence -and the crowd still lost their mind when the pre-show DJ dropped Bell Biv DeVoe's 1990 New Jack Swing classic "Poison." BBD has that power over people. Read More »
Sky Ferreira has made fans wait quite some time for her debut release Night Time, My Time and now that it has dropped she's putting everything out there (quite literally). The "Everything is Embarrassing" singer is set to drop an EP of B-sides called Night Time, My Time: B-Sides // Part 1 on November 25, according to an Amoeba Music listing that was uncovered by ONTD. Read More »
According to Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, the collaborative album between his band and Ke$ha, Lip$ha, is no more. Read More »