Lou Reed was both an avant-rock forefather and a legendary crank, and I sincerely recommend that you spend some time with this Lester Bangs piece about a contentious Reed interview. PBS recently animated an interview that Joe Smith conducted with Reed in 1987, and it has a lot of interesting stuff about what Reed was [...]

At the Grammys on Sunday night, Kanye made a joke out of threatening to snatch Beck’s mic when he won the Album Of The Year trophy for Morning Phase. After the show, Kanye went on the E! Network and said that he really wasn’t joking: “Beck needs to respect artistry, and he should’ve given his [...]

Singer slammed West for interrupting Beck at the Grammy awards

Johns was unhappy with the involvement of producer Phil Spector

Wish I Was Here, director Zach Braff’s long-in-the-works Garden State follow-up, looks like molten garbage, but perhaps Braff deserves credit for lining up some musical big dogs for the movie’s soundtrack. We’ve already heard the Shins’ “So Now What” and Bon Iver’s “...