This next issue of Rolling Stone magazine will include sheets of dead trees stacked and creased at a spine-like center with many words printed on them. (It's a whole thing, ask your parents.)…   Read Story »

NME has just revealed its annual Cool List -- the 50 people in music that the magazine deems, for whatever reason, cool. And this thing is crazy! The largely unknown 20-year-old Harlem rapper Azealia…   Read Story »

In time for Thanksgiving, famed Lester Bangs acolyte Jim DeRogatis has tapped his inner crank (aka his crank) to kick off list-season with 2011's Top 10 Turkeys. (That is, records that are dry and…   Read Story »

Another Halloween and you're going as Sexy Butch Vig again? If you'd just planned ahead you could've went as the ghost of Kurt Cobain. It's a very difficult costume to pull off, but there are…   Read Story »

Did you know Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto came out this week? The band played Letterman and Colbert and Today and Jools and Ellen and we threw a party in their honor. The launch celebration continues…   Read Story »

The xx's music is fertile ground for imaginative covers, thanks to the space that the band creates and maintains within its own songs. Inspired by yesterday's Tracey Thorn w/ Ben Watt cover of "Night…   Read Story »

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon doesn't exactly carry himself like a rap nerd, and it's not like he found space for a Cormega verse on "Calgary." But over the past year, the man has participated in the…   Read Story »

Time is a valuable thing, and the musicians who can make a quick point in a short amount of time deserve their props. We've put together a quick list of ten excellent songs from indie's past (and…   Read Story »

It's going to be impossible to claim that Beyoncé Knowles has "quietly" put together a vicious song catalog, stocked with everything from heart-wrenching ballads to shamelessly fun bangers, but she…   Read Story »

In the buildup to the 10th anniversary of the William J. Clinton foundation and its accompanying celebration tomorrow night in L.A., Bill himself cobbled together a playlist of his favorite songs.…   Read Story »