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Song Premiere: Harry Shearer's 'Celebrity Booze Endorser' feat. Fountains of Wayne | ARTICLE

Click to listen to Harry Shearer's 'Celebrity Booze Endorser feat. Fountains of Wayne' For his new album of satirical music, Harry Shearer took the...
June 4, 2012 8:00 AM ET
Donald Fagen's Dukes of September Ready Second Tour of R&B Covers | ARTICLE

In 2010, while touring with the supergroup the Dukes of September Rhythm Revue alongside Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and iconic blue-eyed soul man Boz Scaggs, singer Michael McDonald performed "Don't Mess Up a Good Thing," a...
May 31, 2012 12:15 PM ET
David Guetta, Skrillex and More Kick Off EDM High Season in Vegas | ARTICLE

In just over a week's time, thousands of dance-hungry revelers will descend upon Las Vegas' Motor Speedway for the Electric Daisy Carnival, one of the world's largest electronic dance music festivals. A host of star DJs –...
May 29, 2012 4:45 PM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: Hate Myself for Loving You | ARTICLE

Monday night's America's Got Talent, the first of two days of auditions in New York, broke an unspoken code of conduct for reality-based talent competitions: the obscenely bad acts were largely ignored. Was it a smart move...
May 23, 2012 10:30 AM ET
Reggie Watts: 'I Feel That I Need to Make Something More Substantial' | ARTICLE

It's soundcheck time at the Vic Theater in Chicago and Reggie Watts is making weird, gurgling noises into the microphone. Suddenly, he busts into the Motown hit "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" – a typically unorthodox moment...
May 22, 2012 4:45 PM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: Whatcha Gonna Do? | ARTICLE

With NBC's recent primetime shakeup, isn't it comforting to know that some of your favorite programming – like, say, America's Got Talent, the show where average Joes can translate their ability to withstand multiple kicks to the...
May 22, 2012 9:55 AM ET
'Celebrity Apprentice' Recap: Nice Guys Finish Second | ARTICLE

For the past three months, viewers have borne witness to what has become a winning formula in reality TV: loudmouthed, oftentimes obnoxious people bickering with one another. That it happens to be celebrities – and b-list ones,...
May 21, 2012 9:55 AM ET
Bonnie Raitt Captivates in Chicago | ARTICLE

"I should go away more often," Bonnie Raitt told the hooting-and-hollering crowd at the Chicago Theatre on Saturday evening before unspooling a multi-song encore highlighted by the heart-wrenching 1991 ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." ...
May 20, 2012 3:10 PM ET
Tom Morello Gets Fired Up at Chicago Nurses Rally | ARTICLE

"I'd like to make a suggestion to President Obama, " Tom Morello bellowed to the capacity crowd gathered for the National Nurses United rally at Chicago's Daley Plaza on Friday afternoon. "If he doesn't have the courage...
May 18, 2012 7:05 PM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: The Voice Within | ARTICLE

If Monday's season premiere of America's Got Talent taught us anything, it's that network TV can tame even the most outlandish of characters. Howard Stern, this season's new addition to the AGT judging panel (and clearly the...
May 16, 2012 9:40 AM ET
'America's Got Talent' Recap: Could We See Death Here? | ARTICLE

With The Voice now officially in NBC's rear view mirror for this season, last night the network of the peacock debuted its first episode of America's Got Talent, our nation's most bizarrely entertaining TV talent show. For...
May 15, 2012 10:45 AM ET
MP3 Download: The Tallest Man on Earth, '1904' | ARTICLE

Click to listen to The Tallest Man On Earth's '1904' During a manic five-week recording period for his last album, The Wild Hunt, Kristian Matsson,...
May 15, 2012 10:30 AM ET
Tom Morello on National Nurses United Rally: 'They Couldn't Shut Us Down' | ARTICLE

When Tom Morello performs at Chicago's Daley Plaza on Friday as part of the National Nurses United (NNU) rally, it will cap off a week that has demonstrated the power of the people. After the Rage Against...
May 14, 2012 5:55 PM ET
MP3 Download: Kelly Hogan, 'Plant White Roses' | ARTICLE

Click to listen to Kelly Hogan's 'Plant White Roses' For her first album in over a decade, Kelly Hogan called in some favors. The Wisconsin-based...
May 14, 2012 11:00 AM ET
'Celebrity Apprentice' Recap: Transparency | ARTICLE

"There are no losers in this room," Donald Trump tells the three remaining Celebrity Apprentice contestants, Clay Aiken, Aubrey O'Day and Arsenio Hall, as they await their fate in the boardroom. When last week's episode concluded, the...
May 14, 2012 9:00 AM ET
Twin Shadow on His New Album and an Escape to L.A. | ARTICLE

"I wanted to be alive," George Lewis Jr., who performs as Twin Shadow, tells Rolling Stone of his motivation to leave his Brooklyn home and spend two months recording in Los Angeles. The result of that westward...
May 13, 2012 2:55 PM ET
Jermaine Paul Wins Season Two of 'The Voice' | ARTICLE

Jermaine Paul was crowned winner of The Voice on tonight's season two finale. The 32-year-old native of Spring Valley, New York, and member of country star Blake Shelton's team on the show, beat out runner-up Juliet Simms...
May 8, 2012 11:40 PM ET
'Celebrity Apprentice' Recap: The Hair Model Wars | ARTICLE

Entering this week's episode of Celebrity Apprentice, with model Dayana Mendoza at last departed, there's a palpable sense that the remaining contestants – Lisa Lampanelli, Arsenio Hall, Aubrey O'Day, Clay Aiken and Teresa Giudice – are the...
May 7, 2012 10:10 AM ET
Soundgarden Eyeing October Release for New LP | ARTICLE

Chris Cornell estimates that Soundgarden's forthcoming studio album, their first with new material since 1996's Down on the Upside, was 75 percent done when the recently-reunited Seattle grunge heroes were first asked to help contribute to the...
May 6, 2012 11:55 AM ET
Flo Rida on Chart Domination and His Recipe for Success | ARTICLE

In the five years since dropping his debut album, Mail on Sunday, Flo Rida has amassed seven Top 10 singles, two of which ("Low" and "Right Round") reached Number One. "We've definitely got the recipe down pat,"...
May 5, 2012 1:55 PM ET