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  1. Q&A: Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla on the Obama Campaign, New Solo Album

    Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla first got involved in politics as a teenager trying to repeal Seattle's Teen Dance Ordinance in the early Nineties and he has remained active ever since At this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte North Carolina you could have found...
  2. Julian Koster Talks New Music Tapes Album and Carnivalesque Tour

    For Julian Koster – Music Tapes leader singing saw-playing catalyst of the Elephant 6 collective Neutral Milk Hotel member – everything is "amazing and kind of terrible" these days Koster recently returned from Athens perennial home of the tightly-knit and long-running Elephant 6...
  3. Larry Flynt offering $1 million for Romney's financial records

    Hustler magazine publisher, and self-described free speech activist, Larry Flynt is offering $1 million for anyone who will provide him with Mitt Romney's financial records. Flynt, 69, has purchased full-page ads in Sunday's Washington Post and Tuesday's, September 11 issue of USA Today. "What...
  4. Taylor Swift Debuts 'Ronan' at Stand Up To Cancer Benefit

    Taylor Swift first learned about Ronan Thompson through a blog that the young boy's mother kept about his battle against neuroblastoma a cancerous tumor of the nerve tissue Ronan died at the age of three in 2011 and Swift credits Maya Thompson with co-writing the song in which the 22-year-old...
  5. Turbo Fruits Talk New Album, Strange Influences and Vinyl

    Lil Wayne ‘70s soul and Enya this is the "weird shit" Jonas Stein of Turbo Fruits was listening to while writing and recording Butter their forthcoming record and the latest release on Serpents and Snakes the label founded and maintained by Kings of Leon "Rock and roll is our first love"...
  6. Paul McCartney Awarded French Legion of Honour

    Paul McCartney became an officer of France's Legion of Honour on Saturday the Guardian reports In a private ceremony at the Élysée Palace in Paris French president Francois Hollande presented the former Beatle with the award in appreciation for his contribution to music "It is...
  7. Mariah Carey Dazzles as BMI Awards Icon

    Mariah Carey was awarded the BMI Icon accolade during the publishing association’s annual Urban Awards last night at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills The chart-topping songbird accepted the honor following a DJ set by producer and longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri and stellar cover...
  8. Bruce Springsteen Performs 'Atlantic City' With Eddie Vedder

    Bruce Springsteen brought Eddie Vedder out onto the stage at Wrigley Field on Friday night to join in a duet of "Atlantic City" on the Chicago stop of his Wrecking Ball world tour Vedder took the stage relatively early into the marathon three-and-a-half-hour set and later joined Springsteen...
  9. Guns N' Roses, Jack White and Flaming Lips to Play Bridge School Benefit

    This year's Bridge School Benefit will feature performances by Neil Young & Crazy Horse Jack White Guns N' Roses The Flaming Lips Sarah McLachlan Foster The People Lucinda Williams Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Ranger Band kd lang and the Siss Boom Bang and Gary Clark Jr The annual...
  10. Stewart Copeland Documents All-Star Jams on YouTube

    Since the Police's mega-successful reunion tour wrapped up in 2008 drummer Stewart Copeland has been keeping busy penning percussion pieces ("Gamelan D’Drum") touring with others (Stanley Clarke) and even making the odd television appearance (Late Show with David Letterman and Storage...
  11. True romance: photo of couple kissing as they are handcuffed by police

    One man's timely photograph of a couple kissing just as they are being handcuffed by the police could end up being the basis for a film. That's the good news for amateur photographer Mo Gelber, 42. The bad news is that Gelber's "Last Kiss" snapshot will be eligible to win this year's "Project...
  12. Canadian couple trading in family home for tiny house on wheels

    Kirsten Shaw and Michael Hunt are trading in their 2,200-square-foot home for a makeshift 300-square-foot dwelling that rests on wheels. And the Canadian couple plan to take their home on the road, driving with their son through the U.S. for a year. "Honestly I am not a homemaker," Shaw told the...
  13. Nicki Minaj: 'I Don't Know' If I'm Judging 'American Idol'

    While on the MTV VMAs red carpet last night a Donatella Versace-clad Nicki Minaj told E! News that she'll be releasing Pink Friday Roman Re-loaded The Re-Up – an expanded version of her just recently released second LP – in November The rapper promised "lots of new songs on there" and...
  14. Weekend Rock Question: What Is Bob Dylan's Best Album?

    This week Bob Dylan releases Tempest It's the 35th album he's made during his 50-year recording career That's a remarkable achievement and it makes picking his single best album a huge challenge – but we think you guys are up for it What's your single favorite Bob Dylan album? Don't be...
  15. Skrillex and Damian Marley Fight Injustice in 'Make It Bun Dem'

    Skrillex and Damian Marley team up for a monster mashup of dubstep and dancehall in "Make It Bun Dem" and in their video for the track the pair make a statement against oppressive authorities and poverty's injustice As an overzealous sheriff leads his cops in foreclosures and evictions a young...
  16. Mother shaves numbers on heads of identical quadruplets (VIDEO)

    A Chinese mother of identical quadruplets has taken an unusual step to help people avoid confusing her children with one another: giving them numerically shaped haircuts. "My sons are identical, even to me," their mother, Tan Chaoyun, told the Chinese language paper News Now. "Even now, their...
  17. Mary J. Blige Sings for President Obama

    Mary J Blige stood onstage last night at the Democratic National Convention and took a moment to reflect on a week of speeches in support of President Barack Obama "I am so thankful that the message has been that we are in this together" she said at the beginning of...
  18. R.E.M. Issue Cease and Desist to Fox News

    REM have issued a cease and desist order against Fox News after the right-wing cable news network played "Losing My Religion" during its coverage of the Democratic National Convention "We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage Our music does not belong there" said...
  19. Calvin Harris Lands the 'Unattainable' Florence Welch

    Talk to any EDM artist and they'll tell you artists who previously seemed unreachable are now within grasp That should be even more so the case for Calvin Harris who's enjoyed considerable top 40 success teaming with Rihanna Ne-Yo and more Yet Harris didn't think he had any chance of...
  20. Eastwood defends RNC speech, calls Obama ‘greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the Ameri

    In a lengthy interview with his hometown paper, Clint Eastwood defended his speech at the Republican National Convention, saying his unconventional performance was a spontaneous decision. The former mayor of Carmel, Calif., gave an interview to The Pine Cone; the story was published Friday...