On the eve of a trip to Australia, Dean and Randy from No Age threw a matinee house party at scene institution the Smell, inviting six bands and a sold-out crowd to come over for some blissed out punk and noise and pancakes. Figuring this lineup was too good to miss -- including Smell stalwarts Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko, and the rising Wavves -- we ...

On Monday we heard "The Fear," from Lily Allen's forthcoming It's Not Me, It's You. As mentioned, it was an updated, retouched version of an April demo, a song that pokes fun at losing touch with reality, rich people. For the video Lily's gone back to being a brunette and from her powder blue and pink trailer (teddy bears on the line) to a mansi...

Lo and behold, Billy Corgan found time apart from his 20th anniversary staged exorcisms to make a video. It's for "G.L.O.W," which still isn't sung by the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. There are some fairly impressive get ups, though (see Billy's Sunn O)))/Lawrence Of Arabia/Jawa threads, etc.), plus flashing lights and smeary cupcakes. Remember...

Photos by Karin Dreijer AnderssonI'll bake the cake, you round up the candles: November 2009 marks the 150th birthday of Charles Darwin's epochal evolution text On the Origin of Species. And who better to commemorate the occasion than, okay, the Knife! With an opera?? Next thing you'll tell me Adam and Eve aren't actually my great-great-great-gr...

Reuters - Holding a red velvet cupcake with white frosting and colored sprinkles, Akon stands atop an extended conference room table at Universal Records' New York headquarters. He's ecstatic.