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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...

Here are a few choice selections from the list of what rocked Oh My Rockness this year. They're representing with a group of Stereo-faves and perfectly articulate those tough-to-pinpoint things that make us love these bands so.Best Rock Band Full...

Cartoons! The kids in TBS took this and turned it into the animated clip for the Xmas classic you see below. Yeah, Taking Back Sunday ain't our thing, but as Rufus said last night at Carnegie (btw -- Lou Reed...

Imagine your ideal list of artists to feature on a cover album in tribute to The Band. Now get real, 'cause that's never gonna happen. Instead, take a look at the set of folks taking turns on Band tunes for...

List season is in full swing, and we fully acknowledge how difficult it is to put one together without everyone shitting all over it. Hell we revel in it. But Rolling Stone ... Stadium Arcadium at #2?! Umm. Well Rolling...