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Reader Kyle alerts us that the trailer for Fox Atomic's The Hills Have Eyes 2 features a familiar voice: We will almost certainly skip this movie, but c'mon -- that's a great trailer! The tune's "Insect Eyes" (from Rejoicing In...

Joss Stone, of all people, has us thinking about the albums that musicians wish they never released. In this Rolling Stone interview, Joss talks up Introducing Joss Stone by telling us how much better it is than her previous effort,...

Word from Drag City is that folk faerie Joanna Newsom delivers a new EP on 4/24. It's got one new track, "Colleen," and reworks of "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie" and "Cosmia." (Three songs that begin with the letter C!) We'll...

What do Pussycat Dolls, Depeche Mode, Black Eyed Peas and Lily Allen have in common? That's right, they've all recorded a song in Simlish. You know, the native language used by characters in The Sims? (It was news to us,...

The blogosphere's collective enthusiasm for Conor Oberst seems to have dampened in the past few months. (Save your ticket allowance, kids.) But Stereogum still holds out hope that Cassadaga will be, like, totally important. New Dylan's got something to say,...

AP reports that John Popper was arrested Tuesday afternoon after he was caught blues traveling (sorry) 111 mph on I-90 in Spokane, WA. He wasn't the driver, but it gets better...Inside the black Mercedes SUV, officers found a cache of...

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 The film will be based on the unpublished, 400 page memoir penned by the Rick...