On Friday, James Murphy dedicated "Losing My Edge" to Gil Scott-Heron. For the rest of the weekend, everyone should be covering "Communication Breakdown" and dedicating it to AT&T. Not being able…   Read Story »

The first single from The Dead Weather's Sea Of Cowards is kind of a monster, as is its new video. Jack White and Alison Mosshart echo each other's taunts over the song's lurching, massive guitar…   Read Story »

When MTV's college-obsessed little sister station mtvU announced the nominations for this year's Woodie Awards, we had some fun trying to make sense of the logic underlying the way in which they had…   Read Story »

There was dust, rain, then mud. There was Eddie Vedder, sitting in with Kings Of Leon and calling Perry Farrell up onstage with Pearl Jam during a reportedly monstrous, festival headlining two-hour…   Read Story »

The Dead Weather can be a mixed bag between their principals' ineffable charisma and their lesser songs' paint-by-numbers posturing -- but the project's certainly carved a niche in turning out some…   Read Story »

Some 30,000 people over two days crammed into the six-block area in San Diego's East Village that hosted the 25th annual Street Scene this past weekend. That's a strong number, albeit down from last…   Read Story »

Last year, San Fran's inaugural Outside Lands festival featured Radiohead, but also power outage issues. This year: No Radiohead, but abundant electricity. Trade-offs! While Thom was twisting words…   Read Story »

As record stores shutter across the country, Jack White's delightfully retro Third Man Records & Novelties is thriving. It's a simple strategy for retail success: keep the store open for only three…   Read Story »

Jack and Alison's "Treat Me Like Your Mother" seemed to have seen its most radical redressing when the mercurial pair shot the shit out of each other in a desert, but then somehow Diplo got…   Read Story »

Eminem's gruesome "3 A.M." premiered on Cinemax a few weeks back, so that's why the Dead Weather asked the channel to show its new video before Wanted on Saturday night. Because Jack White and Eminem…   Read Story »