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  • This Was Pop May 26, 2012

    A visit to the rock chart includes Linkin Park, The Offspring, Slash and others.

    May 25, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Newswire Bobby Womack is now cancer free

    This is the kind of news we love reporting: R&B legend Bobby Womack has successfully undergone treatment for colon cancer, according to a post on his Facebook page.

    May 24, 2012 | 11:23am -

  • Newswire Hear "Speed The Collapse" from Metric's new album Synthetica

    On June 12, Metric will release its new album, Synthetica. We already posted a stream of the track "Youth Without Youth"; now we have another new song from the record, "Speed The Collapse." Check it out below.

    May 23, 2012 | 9:11am -

  • Newswire Britt Daniel and Dan Boeckner are in a new band together

    Now that Dan Boeckner currently is free of his obligations to Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs, and Britt Daniel is between albums with Spoon, these two cool indie-rock fellas have decided to form a new band with Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks.

    May 22, 2012 | 11:10am -

  • Newswire New Yeasayer album, Fragrant World, due August 21

    On August 21, Yeasayer will release its third album, Fragrant World. The follow-up to 2010's critically acclaimed Odd Blood (which landed at No.

    May 22, 2012 | 10:54am -

  • Newswire Hear "Make It Known" from Foxygen's debut EP, Take The Kids Off Broadway, out July 24 on Jagjaguwar

    One of the interesting debut releases of the year is Take The Kids Off Broadway, the first EP by bi-coastal rock duo Foxygen.

    May 22, 2012 | 10:02am -

  • Music Review Paul and Linda McCartney: Ram

    Derided at the time, Ram gets a reissue and another chance at a second chance. 

    May 22, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Perfect Circle: An REM Story Part 5: Feeling Gravity’s Pull (Fables Of The Reconstruction) 

    Embracing R.E.M.’s least-embraceable album. 

    May 22, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Newswire The Rock And Roll Of Fame expresses remorse for not inducting Donna Summer

    While the value of the honor remains dubious, some people are upset that Donna Summer, who died Thursday after a long battle with breast cancer, is not a member of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

    May 18, 2012 | 12:23pm -

  • Newswire Bono is now flush with $1.5 billion in Facebook cash

    For more than 30 years, Paul Hewson of Dublin has been fiddling around with a rock band instead of settling down and getting a real job.

    May 18, 2012 | 12:06pm -

  • Newswire R.I.P. Donna Summer

    Donna Summer lived with a lot of contradictions in her life: She was a disco queen raised on rock, a religious woman who became the reigning sex symbol of late ’70s pop, a dominant singles artist who specialized in expansive concept records, a singe...

    May 17, 2012 | 12:09pm -

  • Newswire Bret Michaels settles lawsuit with the Tony Awards and CBS over that one time he got hit in the head on national television

    Think back to 2009—or roughly five score and several years ago in award-show years—when Poison was invited to perform at the Tony Awards for some reason, and lead singer Bret Michaels was hit in the head by a lowered set piece.

    May 15, 2012 | 11:18am -

  • Music Review Tenacious D: Rize Of The Fenix

    The comedy-metal duo rises from the ashes. 

    May 15, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Newswire Scott Weiland re-joins Velvet Revolver, but not really

    In an interview with ABC News Radio, Scott Weiland announced that he was returning to the band he was kicked out of in 2008, Velvet Revolver,  which seemed credible only for its sheer implausibility.

    May 14, 2012 | 2:37pm -

  • Stream JBM's Stray Ashes

    Canadian singer-songwriter Jesse Merchant, who goes under the name JBM, will release his haunted and very moving second album, Stray Ashes, next week.

    May 14, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Newswire R.I.P. Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T. And The MGs

    As a member of Booker T. And The MGs, Donald "Duck" Dunn played with one of the best bands in rock, soul, and plain old human history.

    May 14, 2012 | 10:48am -

  • Newswire Now there will be a Freddie Mercury hologram after all

    Last month, Queen was among the bands with an inconveniently deceased lead singer that was asked the "to hologram or not hologram" question in the wake of Faux-pac's historic appearance at Coachella.

    May 14, 2012 | 9:09am -

  • Newswire New Animal Collective album, Centipede Hz, due Sept. 4

    Animal Collective has announced its first album in three years, Centipede Hz, in an appropriately alienating way, via a screechy, fuzzy video that appears to flash song titles amid a mostly incomprehensible din.

    May 14, 2012 | 8:37am -

  • Newswire Hear "Don't Let Me Fall Behind," a song from Jukebox The Ghost's new album, Safe Travels

    On June 12, peppy Philadelphia trio Jukebox The Ghost will release its third LP, Safe Travels. We called the group's previous album, 2010's Everything Under The Sun, "remarkably addictive pop," and the new song "Don't...

    May 11, 2012 | 10:11am -

  • Newswire Arcade Fire and Foo Fighters will back up Mick Jagger on Saturday Night Live

    As we reported last week, Mick Jagger is going to be pulling double duty on May 19 as the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live.

    May 11, 2012 | 9:59am -

  • Playlisted New music we like: Nick Waterhouse

    A 25-year-old singer-songwriter returns to a time when rock and R&B were synonymous.

    May 10, 2012 | 11:55pm -

  • Newswire Licensed To Ill returns to the Billboard Top 20 as Beastie Boys sales skyrocket in the wake of Adam Yauch's death

    Ever since the untimely death of Adam Yauch last week, tributes of all kinds have been poring in from all corners of the media and Internet.

    May 9, 2012 | 11:27am -

  • Newswire Tom Gabel of Against Me! comes out as transgender, will eventually be known as Laura Jane Grace

    The Florida punk band Against Me! has been defined by its politically and socially charged songs and lead singer Tom Gabel's gruff vocals.

    May 9, 2012 | 9:19am -

  • Perfect Circle: An REM Story Part four: Who threw the crushing blow? (Up to Around The Sun)

    A fan’s history of R.E.M. hits the lean years. 

    May 8, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • We're No. 1 Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

    For a while, Lauryn Hill had it all. Or seemed to. 

    May 8, 2012 | 10:00am -

  • Music Review Aaron Freeman: Marvelous Clouds

    Gene Ween goes solo with help from a forgotten cult hero. 

    May 8, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Stream Here We Go Magic's A Different Ship

    The band's fourth album was recorded by Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich.

    May 7, 2012 | 9:00am -

  • Inventory One bad apple… we can live with that: 31 rotten parts of otherwise fantastic wholes 

    The A.V. Club's weekly list.

    May 7, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Playlisted Neal Casal

    The former Ryan Adams sideman steps out with a Ryan Adams-sounding solo effort.

    May 6, 2012 | 11:55pm -

  • Newswire Frances Bean Cobain assumes legal control of her father's likeness from Courtney Love

    A few weeks after Frances Bean Cobain called on Twitter to "ban my mother" Courtney Love after some unflattering statements Love made about her daughter and long-time nemesis Dave Grohl comes news that Frances Bean has taken over control of the ...

    May 3, 2012 | 9:30am -

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