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Fitz and the Tantrums Set to Record Again | ARTICLE

Over the past three years, L.A.-based soul-pop outfit Fitz and the Tantrums have toured relentlessly behind their breakthrough 2010 debut album, Pickin' Up the Pieces. But as frontman Michael "Fitz" Fitzpatrick told Rolling Stone backstage at the...
April 20, 2012 5:40 PM ET
Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus 'Not Putting Pressure on Myself' | ARTICLE

Before her set last weekend at Coachella, during which she would flail away with sticks at a pair of hand drums, her face painted with warrior stripes, Merrill Garbus, the multi-instrumentalist who performs as Tune-Yards, was ready...
April 20, 2012 5:10 PM ET
'Touch' Recap: Show's Days Are Numbered | ARTICLE

TV shows require patience. Even the best of them won't necessarily strike you as strokes of genius from the outset. Yes, we know, there's an inherent handshake when you first watch a show – you must commit...
April 19, 2012 10:05 PM ET
Ryan Seacrest: Dick Clark 'Will Be Missed Greatly' | ARTICLE

At the outset of tonight's broadcast of American Idol, a noticeably shaken Ryan Seacrest paid his respects to Dick Clark, the longtime host of American Bandstand and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve who passed away today at the age...
April 18, 2012 8:15 PM ET
Childish Gambino to Release New Mixtape 'Extremely Soon' | ARTICLE

Relaxing before his Saturday mid-afternoon set at Coachella, Donald Glover, a.k.a. Childish Gambino, revisits a debate that he had earlier with his team about when to put out his new mixtape. "We were discussing on the bus...
April 16, 2012 5:10 PM ET
St. Vincent, David Byrne Album Collaboration Due in the Fall | ARTICLE

"Go bigger with everything you do onstage," St. Vincent's Annie Clark tells Rolling Stone of the motto she brought to her band's Saturday evening set at Coachella. "Subtlety goes out the door. You just have to be...
April 15, 2012 10:15 AM ET
Noel Gallagher on Headlining Coachella 10 Years After Oasis | ARTICLE

In 2002, Noel Gallagher and his former band, Oasis, headlined the Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival. As Gallagher tells Rolling Stone in his backstage trailer on Saturday at this year's fest, things were wildly different back...
April 15, 2012 9:50 AM ET
Afrojack: 'I Want My Grandma to Understand' My Music | ARTICLE

An hour before performing to a jam-packed crowd in the Sahara tent at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Afrojack is still deciding which songs he should play. "I was thinking about it today. What should...
April 14, 2012 1:55 PM ET
'Touch' Recap: The Circle of Life | ARTICLE

The best TV shows make you think, analyze and ultimately find a deeper meaning. Just the other day I found myself trying to rationalize the existence of a show such as Touch. Could I find something deeper...
April 13, 2012 8:45 AM ET
Feist: Mastodon Covering My Song Is Like a 'Wet Dream' | ARTICLE

Minutes before Mastodon performed "Black Tongue" on the U.K. talk show Later… with Jools Holland last October, the sludge rockers were marveling at Leslie Feist from behind the scenes, as the singer-songwriter charged through two tunes from...
April 10, 2012 3:00 PM ET
Record Store Day Preview: Feist, Mastodon, Flaming Lips and More Offer Exclusive Releases | ARTICLE

Over the past two decades, with consumers increasingly choosing to purchase their music via digital outlets, countless independent records stores across the globe have been forced to throw up their shutters. Leslie Feist however, has a plan...
April 10, 2012 10:00 AM ET
'Celebrity Apprentice' Recap: Extreme Couponing | ARTICLE

Remember a few weeks back when we unequivocally believed that both teams loved the hell out of each other? Yeah, well, how quickly things can change, especially when you're dealing with self-obsessed semi-celebs. When we left off,...
April 9, 2012 9:35 AM ET
'Touch' Recap: Nine and a Half | ARTICLE

By the third episode of a new show (or fourth, in Touch's case, if you want to count the preview episode back in January), for better or worse, it's generally clear what you're in for. By now,...
April 5, 2012 10:05 PM ET
Slaughterhouse Ready to Drop Shady Records Debut | ARTICLE

In a backstage dressing room at Chicago's Metro, the four members of rap supergroup Slaughterhouse – Royce da 5'9", Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Crooked I – are spread out on plush couches. Recently signed to
April 4, 2012 10:30 AM ET
Mastodon Prepping U.S. Tour Behind 'The Hunter' | ARTICLE

After releasing their 2009 LP Crack the Skye – a dark, ethereal collection of songs drawing upon medieval themes and containing a four-part epic, "The Czar" – Atlanta sludge rockers Mastodon have dialed it back, opting for...
April 3, 2012 11:35 AM ET
Michael Kiwanuka Readies U.S. Tour | ARTICLE

After opening for Adele on her European tour last spring and releasing a celebrated debut LP, Home Again, in his native U.K. in March, singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka is gearing up to introduce his music to U.S. audiences....
April 2, 2012 10:00 AM ET
'Celebrity Apprentice' Recap: Take a Walk | ARTICLE

What's that you say? Two hours of B-level reality TV just won't suffice? Yes, Celebrity Apprentice was on for THREE hours last night. What, besides watching this show, could you do in three hours time? Well, a...
April 2, 2012 9:50 AM ET
'Touch' Recap: Tell Me a Bedtime Story | ARTICLE

Fox's new Kiefer Sutherland drama Touch is a smash hit! Or so say the ratings gods: The world premiere of the show starring Sutherland as Martin Bohm, a father desperately trying to piece together the mysterious, people-connecting,...
March 29, 2012 10:05 PM ET
Pauly D Ready to Put DJ Career in the Spotlight | ARTICLE

Paul Delvecchio is living his fantasy – and for once, it doesn’t involve excessive drinking and one-night stands. Late last year, the the Jersey Shore cast member known as Pauly D signed a recording contract with...
March 29, 2012 5:15 PM ET
Wayne Coyne in Talks to Collaborate on Ke$ha's New LP | ARTICLE

After joining forces with Ke$ha for the Flaming Lips' upcoming collaborative LP, Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – due out on April 21st for Record Store Day – frontman Wayne Coyne says he may return the favor...
March 28, 2012 12:55 PM ET