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The new Kings Of Leon record is a really great listen, and three albums in, the band is mostly making the right moves. But the tight shots on Caleb's penetratingly cheesy camera stares just ain't one of 'em. Don't look...

In Business Week's profile of Karlheinz Brandenburg (often cited as the inventor of the MP3) the mag traces the history and development of Microsoft's favorite audio file format and reveals that the reproduction of Suzanne Vega's deviously simple "Tom's Diner"...

Whenever a hotly-anticipated record leaks, you guys are great about emailing us to let us know about it and give us your thoughts. Of course all of us need more than a listen and a day to form solid opinions,...

You've heard that "a picture is worth a thousand words," and so has indie hip-hop guru El-P. The Def Jux CEO is embroiled in a bitter exchange of words and ideologies with his former label, and it's all because of...

Much as we love Ben Kweller -- tampon-gauzed bloody nose and all -- we're thinking Marilyn "Bubbie" Kweller may be the family star. Oh Ben may have written the song, played every instrument, and filmed the vid, but this 82-year-old...

Last month we conducted a punny examination of Morrissey's statement of intent to be buried at the LA celebrity cemetery Hollywood Forever, and we've been thinking about rock star grave sites ever since. And about death in general, but that's...

More blasts from the past! Of all the new wave bands that have been pillaged for substance over the past few years, we've been expecting some band -- any band -- to start taking notes from the oft under-appreciated sounds...

It's been over three years since you've heard from The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan, but that's only if you didn't see her mellow take on Linger in the Adam Sandler comedy Click. So yeah, it's been over three years since...

Taking a cue from Joss Stone, macho man John McClane has come clean with a list of movies he wishes he’d never made. Via Monsters & Critics:'There are some films I would love to go back and delete. There is...

The first vid from Friend And Foe is just as cheeky as you'd expect from a band that named their first album I Am The Fun Blame Monster!, an anagram of ("The First Menomena Album!"), but credit director Lance Bangs...