The venerable folks at TMZ are reporting that Susan Boyle "dissolved into tears" when she found out Lou Reed wasn't going to give her permission to offer "Perfect Day" a subtle operatic touch on…   Read Story »

Wyclef Jean announced that he was running for president of Haiti at the beginning of the month. Since then a few problems have come up: there are questions about his Haitian residency (you have to…   Read Story »

According to multiple sources (including a concert promoter and a canceled Neumo's show) King Khan & BBQ have broken up. The pair (Mark Sultan is the BBQ half) had run into problems in Australia…   Read Story »

Less than a year after Jackson Brown successfully sued John McCain for using "Running On Empty" without permission, David Byrne is suing Florida Governor Charlie Crist for using Talking Heads' "Road…   Read Story »

Roger Waters hired street artists to wheat-paste or project images and an anti-war quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower around NYC and L.A. to promote his upcoming The Wall tour. But the street team picked…   Read Story »

Yesterday Stars Tweeted about Arizona's new immigration/anti-illegal immigrant law, the one that requires legal immigrants to carry their alien registration papers with them/gives AZ police the right…   Read Story »

According to Antiquiet, Courtney Love was on the Howard Stern show this morning, complaining about how an old friend was treating her. She didn't name names, but it seems like she was referring to…   Read Story »

Two fundamental rules for Twitter: First, remember that anyone can read your Tweets (unless you've made them private). And lastly, don't criticize Ice-T's acting skills. That's pretty much it. Aimee…   Read Story »

M.I.A. is on the April 7 cover of the NME (to be fair, there are nine other covers this week) as part of their special "The State Of Music Today" issue. Inside she discusses politics in music, what…   Read Story »

If you hadn't heard, UK electro-sculptor, theorist, remixer, and manifesto writer Matthew Herbert (he of the Big Band) is working on an album One Pig that, in his words, "will be made up entirely of…   Read Story »