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We were really amused by Pitchfork's list for the year's Worst Album Covers; great picks, pithy quips! Apparently they Forkers are just as awed by Gangsta Rap as we were, but they were more observant than us. Here are a...

The Guardian, which you might have heard hates Q, has given Shane MacGowan a blog. And he's taken the opportunity to FU Scotland's smoking ban:I can't believe how severely the smoking ban is enforced up here in Scotland, where I've...

Michael losing himself to James Blunt's "Goodbye My Lover" was painfully awesome and just the beginning of a sing-along spectacular holiday episode of The Office last night. There's a two minute recap here, but it unfortunately omits those priceless karaoke...

Variety reports that a biopic is officially in the works about the kinky life and times of drug-addled freakazoid-funker Rick James, predictably titled Super Freak. The film will be based on the unpublished, 400 page memoir penned by the Rick...

You guys have been stuffing the ballot boxes in record numbers, but we wanted to remind you of your civic duty to cast your vote in the 17th Annual Gummy Awards! Album of the year? Best blog? Ryan Adams's suggested...

We know that the holiday season brings out the benefactor in everyone, so we present to you two causes more than worthy of your thoughts, prayers, and charitable impulses. The first plea comes from Jawbox's J. Robbins, whose January-born baby...

The game that we liked to call "Tuesdays With Rose-y", wherein the gullible continuously updated their guesses as to which of the year's remaining Tuesdays would see the release of Chinese Democracy, has come to close -- with a new...

We've been sooo patient. Finally! So you might have heard that if you call 1-866-NEON-BIBLE ext. 7777 you can hear the new Arcade Fire song "Intervention." But we realize a lot of you guys have shitty cellphones! And who really...

Coolfer points us to EMI and Last.fm's new experiment in music discovery: map making! They're calling their new system "tuneglue-audiomap," and here's how it works: Head here, type in an artist, and click the circle that pops up representing that...

Watching this fiery clip, all we're thinking is: At this point, those marching band outfits they wear onstage must smell like worse than Big Foot's dick. Rolling Stone's Austin Scaggs is on the case:GERARD WAY: It's the weirdest thing. They...